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Matsuno Choromatsu ([personal profile] shikosuki) wrote in [community profile] leires2017-08-22 06:46 pm

mers oh my



Merchoro PSL

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh that takes him aback ]

Choromatsu's...? Oh!

...You mean the one that was...
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karappo: <user name=bureiku> (I take it you're not on your way over)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

[He gives a soft noise of agreement, unsure if Megami could see him nodding.]

It was a bit larger still than your lake, but...it was full of objects...mainly human things.

He would have liked to have seen this.

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ The attention turns solely to the pile of things now and Megami stays quiet for a while ]

...Perhaps one day, if he wishes, he may have all these.

They are ah... tokens of gratitude from the people I helped. And things people dropped into the lake to summon me. It may do me good to pass them on to someone else.
karappo: (it's cold out)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[That...gets Poseidon to laugh, actually.]

I would be careful doing that...the others would probably complain that they did not receive a gift too.

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! [ he hadn't considered... that... ]

Sh-Should I find gifts for them as well then?!

[ he doesn't wanna show favoritism O_O ]
karappo: <user name=bureiku> (I bought a CD)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I-I am not saying you have to...but they tend to be very, how shall I put this...particular about this sort of thing. If one gets something, it is only fair that they all get it.

I have had to break up quite a few squabbles over trivialities like this.

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I-I see... I never grew up with my siblings... or met them... ever... so things like this are out of my expertise...

[ he's dealt with some of the village children but those are not his children and he never dared step in for their parents ]
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karappo: but completely the opposite (it's like)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. That's...]

You...have siblings?

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes!

5999 of them!

[ .......what ]
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karappo: (please dont explain)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! 5999-

[...]

Eeeehh!?

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[ and then the image changes again, without Megami even realizing it, as he thinks back to the only memory he still has from before he came to his lake.

It's hazy. A large man appears to be holding memory-Megami in a massive hand, and either Megami was much smaller than a normal baby or the man is much larger than even Poseidon, because at least 50 other children surround Megami in that same hand. Boys, girls... some of them have mer tails like the sextuplets do, others snake tails like Megami, some even have human legs... and then a good few have bull heads??? Weird. There's a similarly large woman beside the man and even more babies... in their hands, on their laps...

Babies everywhere.

The scene is bathed in light, but it's hard to tell if it originally was or if that's just the way Megami's mind fills in what he can't remember, and beyond fond smiles the faces of the parents are obscured in the haze. ]


3000 sisters, [ the few shifts to a pretty baby girl with a mer tail on one side of Megami ] and 2999 brothers. [ and then to his other side, with one of the snake tailed ones. ]
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karappo: (id settle for living inside)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[...never in his life has he seen this many babies at once. It's kindof overwhelming...and he thought just raising six was difficult. The variety of children is interesting too, to say the least.]

Wow...have...have you seen any of them since you grew, if you do not mind me asking?

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[ The image shifts again, and that same large figure is lowering his hand. The Megami in this one is alone but surrounded with a handful of water. Him and the water are deposited in a clearing and it becomes clear that this is the creation of his lake (and that the hand's owner IS bigger than Poseidon, as the entire lake fits in his palm). ]

We are Oceanids and Potamoi... we make up the lakes and rivers of the world... so we weren't with our parents for long.

[ And then the large figure is just. Gone. And Megami is alone. ]

The others may have met each other but... I never have. Because I've always been here.
karappo: (you can jump from the roof to the pool)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-01 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...I see.

[Much like himself, Megami has been around since nearly the creation of this world. It's hard to fathom that so many siblings exist, but...thinking about how many bodies of water there must be all over the earth, it makes sense.]

Does that mean...you are permanently duty bound to live with your lake? Regardless of the fact that it makes up your very heart...it sounds like your sole purpose was to be here. On this island.

tmw you accidentally show your future husband your baby photos

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The image shifts again to outside the lake and it's clear some time has passed, as the lake has started to grow some life. The lotus flowers Megami was so proud to grow are there but not as plentiful, so this was probably not long after he began growing them. ]

I... I don't know.

[ And then suddenly, Poseidon will see reflected in the lake the face of what appears to be one of his children when they were small.

...Except it's not one of the sextuplets. It's a small Megami, looking exactly like their children. A little guppy.

He can't be no older than five. His cheeks are rosy, his toga small but loose, and instead of a leaf laurel he seems to have decorated his hair with several lotus blossoms.

Megami in the present still doesn't seem to be aware that he's showing Poseidon this though, and continues to speak ]


It'd make sense if I were, wouldn't it? But I wonder... I may not have met them but I know a few of my siblings have done things beyond their lakes and rivers...

And... there's something else I've always wondered...
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[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-02 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...sorry Megami, were you saying something? Because at some point, whatever you were saying there got clouded by the image you presented to Poseidon. Namely, of yourself when you were a child. He's struck by what he sees, particularly because he looks so much like their children that it's almost uncanny.

Plus he's fucking adorable.]


Ah...uhh...what is that...

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-02 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well...

[ The reflection of the child Megami pulls his tail up from beneath him. It's nowhere near as long as it is now, as he can barely get it to his chest but regardless he's soon looking at his reflection holding the tip close. He looks curious. ]

Oceanids... are my sisters. They're the ones who are supposed to be lakes and springs and such, though I believe some cross into rivers as well. My brothers however... as far as I know, all of them have rivers... except me.

[ Child Megami peers at the tail again. The long serpentine shape sure is more akin to a river ]

I wondered why I was different...

[ ...I mean your "name" literally comes from the fact everyone mistook you for a woman, Megami, your dad probably did too... ]
karappo: (bouncer from the strip club informed me)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-02 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Oceanids? Poseidon thinks to himself, his heart aching as he looks on at the little Megami in the reflection. Now that doesn't seem right to him, somehow...why would every single one of his sisters be ocean spirits, and his brothers river spirits...while he's been sequestered to a lake? He knows from personal experience that gods can be cruel, but to single out one child out of so many...something about that doesn't add up.

It's something he'll be thinking about for a while.]


That is rather peculiar...and I suppose without your parents around, you cannot ask them why.

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-02 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. And since they were Titans, well...

[ Poseidon and his siblings are also children of Titans so Megami is sure he knows what he means.

Suddenly however the images stop and Poseidon will find it's no different than when he first closed his eyes. When he reopens his eyes he'll see Megami has let go of him and... looks pretty red in the face ]
karappo: (so sad)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-02 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah...he does.

He's surprised when the images suddenly fade away, and it prompts him to open his eyes once more. He looks down to Megami quizzically, noticing how flushed he is suddenly.]


Megami?
matteimasu: (It's a cold & it's a broken Hallelujah)

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-02 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
...D-Did you see things other than the lake...?

[ ah... so he realized ]
karappo: <user name=bureiku> (I bought a CD)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-02 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[AH...now it's Poseidon's turn to look sheepish.]

...was I not meant to?

[Cause he did.]
matteimasu: (I used to live alone before I knew you)

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I... didn't mean to show... whatever else you saw......

[ he sits back down and curls up with his tail around himself ]

I-I hope it was nothing e-embarrasing...
karappo: (good news)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)


Oh...oh non non...

[He smiles warmly, his fins lowering a touch.]

I saw you...it must have been when you were very young. You were so cute, then. And you looked just like our sons did at that age.

[personal profile] matteimasu 2017-10-02 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh god. He showed his future(?) husband(??) what he looked like as a BABY and he's calling him cute FUCK

he turns redder ]


W-W-Well I wish I had done that on p-purpose...!! It's e-embarrassing that my mind wandered as such...!

[ the dangers of memory showing apparently ]

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