██the water is alive.
once you dive in,
it will immediately
bare its fangs and
attack. but there's
nothing to fear...
after all, this water
has been tamed...
defanged and neutered.
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#123.
for me, it wasn't really a hard choice. I liked all of the floc's designs, but #123 just leapt out. I like his dark deep sea theme because the deep sea really interests me- it's full of weird and wonderful marine animals. I love how the deep blue is kind of veiled in mystery, too; we haven't explored half of the world's oceans yet, who knows what could be lurking down there? the colour and few fish on this floc's design just reminded me of the unknown and undiscovered.
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Odysseus.
Odysseus was the name of an intelligent Greek ruler, but this is not the reason why I chose to name #123 Odysseus.
it's very similar to the word 'odyssey', meaning 'long journey'. as I said above, #123 reminds me of mystery and adventure so I thought it'd fit.
I also like how the word sounds. with the way it's pronounced, it sounds like 'ody-SEA-us', which of course links with this litter's theme.
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Odysseus yawned. He wanted to adventure, not sleep. Odysseus could never stay still at night. Night was so much more interesting. Things came out at night that you couldn't see in the day. Nobody was there at night. Nobody came to the beach at night. At night, when dark swathes of midnight took over the sky, when the stars came out to talk to eachother, the beach was all his.
Scrambling out from his dank lair of rocks, Odysseus made his way towards the sea. Stopping just before the shore, the small floc felt the wet sand with a paw. Grains of it stuck in his fur, but Odysseus didn't mind. The course, damp matter felt strangely soothing against his paw pad.
Raising his gaze towards the horizon, Odysseus saw life in the sea. The way it moved and rushed against anything in it's path was mesmerising and the floc wished he could feel that rush against his fur. But he couldn't swim. Levitation made it hard anyway and Odysseus knew that if he tried to be one with the water; it'd just end in disaster.
Caught up in his own thoughts, Odysseus looked to the side and saw a light in the corner of his eye. This was strange. Though the moon and stars hung bright against the dark skies, the beach was blanketed in a heavy veil of darkness. The light seemed to come from a kind of pillar; and Odysseus could just make out the faint traces of fat, red stripes along it. The light stood on top of this structure, spreading golden rays generously across the ocean. Why was it there?
Odysseus couldn't think of an explanation, so he set his mind on getting to higher ground to get a closer glimpse of the thing. It was rather peculiar. The thought of something new to explore painted the floc's eyes in a bright gloss. With the fresh smell of seasalt in his head, Odysseus took his eyes away from the light, to kind of crawl-slide (with his tail, this was the most efficient method of travel) back up the shore onto a raised bank further up the beach. The dry sand felt rough against his smooth scales, but it didn't really matter now.
The golden light was fully visible now, the bright tendrils of yellow cutting into the ocean. Odysseus had never liked bright things that much, preferring the comforting shades of night to the stark sunlight of day. But this light was different. It was bright, but was rather soothing as it moved across the waves. The floc felt safe looking at it. Being an adventurer, Odysseus had always flung himself in the jaws of danger, but feeling safe was a nice feeling after his past journeys. Though he was rather young, Odysseus had been to many places. He just couldn't sit still. He had to be moving, had to be doing something. But right here, sitting on the beach, Odysseus felt at home.
ok. I am guessing here, but I'm hoping that locked flox can see? I know they do not open their eyes, but, I was unsure over writing something about an animal that couldn't see.