leires | IT'S A BEAN

You also have siblings?

Did you all hatch from the same egg, too?

[ choro............. ]

...egg?

[It takes him a moment to figure out what he means:]

Oh! No, no we're not twins. I'm the third oldest.

[Not counting Corrin and Azura]

Oh.

...Huh, I'm the third eldest too. But we're uh...

[ he taps his chin, looking upwards ]

What's that word again...? When you're twins but there's six of you.

Sextuplets? Wow... I've only ever read of anyone having more then three- but I guess it might be easier from an egg...

[He can't help but be fasinated]

Yeah! That's it!

I don't think it's normal for merfolk either, but it's not like there was anything normal about our birth to begin with.

Due to your dad being a god, right?

Yeah, I guess.

I mean... most merfolk at least have mothers too...

[He frowns slightly at that. Both his own mothers' were gone too, but at least he HAD them]

...did... did your dad lay the egg?!

[Yes, very good and tactful question]

I don't... think so? I think it was given to him.

Like a "take this and take care of it and you won't be lonely anymore" thing.

Weird... but I guess I've heard stories kinda like that before. Where someone wishes for a child and is given one by the gods.

Mm.

..So how many siblings do you have?

Three by blood, two by marriage and adoption. So there's six of us all together- but if you count those two then I'm the second youngest instead.

Adoption?

[He chews his lips, seeming to not like this course of conversation- Azura had no interest in returning to Nohr, but after his mention of kidnapping earlier... he certainly didn't want Choromatsu to think badly of his family]

They don't have that where you're from?

...Maybe?

I don't... really get to talk to anyone. Outside of my brothers.

[ they leave their reef to play all the time but they still didn't live by many other mer, and being the sea god's child can be reason enough to avoid you sometimes

(also let's be honest these mers are probably sheltered as heck) ]

Hmm... well, it's when a family takes in a child that doesn't have one.

[Which... wasn't exactly untrue for Azura either. But also isn't exactly the truth either]

...though, is that why you're so close to land?