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Oh... okay.

Well, you don't have to worry about dad cursing you. I think he's more for just straight up killing when he's mad.

[ CHOROMATSU THAT DOESN'T HELP ]

Th-that's not much better!!

[He huffs and puffs]

Whatever- let's see if I can draw a bow with these]

[ He sits himself up when he says that. He wants to watch!!! ]

[He trots over and picks his bow back up, swapping it from hand to hand- the gauntlets don't seem to block his range of movement or his fingers at all- that's good.

Just like before he takes stance, his fingers calling the string into being- but when he pulls it he puts a bit more oompth into the weapon. Too worked up from Choromatsu asking about the curse, and maybe a little bit wanting to impress his friend. And that bit of extra force makes the string glow bright emerald green, and as the arrow appears the wind kicks up from the weapon, making the sand billow around him, and catching hos ponytail and causing it to whip about behind him. The light catches the gauntlets and his own similarly colored eyes, shimmering gold, the silver tint of his hair and the gilded weapon all together make quite the image.

He pulls, eyes narrowed with his intense focus, taming the winds with his will. Release-

And accidentally takes out the post completely]

... oops.

[ holy shit

........hot ]

......is that what those things do?

I... I don't know. I've made shots like that before, but not usually that easily...

What's it for anyway?

[ he lives underwater remember ]

Oh, I guess you wouldn't have bows underwater, huh? Hmm... you know what a spear is?

Um... I'm not sure? [ The merfolk might use weapons for defending themselves from predators and to catch food but aside from being a spoiled sheltered prince people didn't talk to, there's not much way to make what humans have in the same fashion. He has to fall back on what his father's weapons are. ]

Is that... anything like a trident?

Yeah!

[He makes a gesture like stabbing someone with a trident]

Well, a bow let's you send arrows, which are like tiny tridents, flying at things to attack them. Further then you could throw with your arms alone.

Oh! I see...!

...What would you need to use that for?

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Hunt food. Fight. Things like that.

...Oh.

So it kills.

...yeah.

[He's never had need to really think about it much- war and killing are just a part of his life. Bandits, invaders, monsters and wild beasts... all are things he's had to kill before]

I found one underwater once.

I thought it like. Maybe played music.

[ He motions like he's holding up an invisible "bow" and plucking the "string" ]

Oh, like a harp or a koto?

[He mimes plucking strings, though like it was something across his lap instead]

Yeah! Like a harp!

[ he knows that one because he can actually play one ]

...What's a koto?

It's a little like a harp- it uses strings like one. My mother... she played one, and my little sister has been learning it.

Ohhhh, I see. Does it sound the same?

[ what does a harp even sound like to you underwater choromatsu ]

It's a deeper sound... I wish I could show you, but I never really learned to play. I used to listen to Mother play for hours and hours while I played, but... I didn't have time to learn with all the training I was doing.

[Mikoto taught him the bow, but... he always kinda regretted not learning more things from her]

Ohh... maybe I can get to hear one, one day. It'd be neat to see how it compares to a harp.

You play? I wouldn't mind hearing that.

Yeah! I started learning it when I was younger after my brothers made fun of my singing.

[ his singing is fine his brothers are just Dicks ]

Though... I'm self taught and mostly only played for my dad, so I don't know if my playing's actually any good.

I won't tell you if it IS bad, how about that?

...I don't know if that's THAT much better.

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