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[shikosuki]

Merchoro PSL

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[karappo]

[.....he is silent, for a time. He doesn't say anything else until he's gotten one of the deepest gashes completely covered, tying it tight enough so it won't come off.]

......do you...know someone?

[Like, okay he understands wanting something like that in the far far off future, but...why else would he bring it up...]

[shikosuki]

[ URK.

Choromatsu goes tense, freezing in place.

UHHHH...

His voice is higher pitched and his face is red ]

Wh-Wh-Why do y-you ask...?

[karappo]

[Rule number one for not seeming suspicious: don't do what you just did.]

...You know someone.

[shikosuki]

[ OH GOD ] N-N-N-No, I don't...!!

[karappo]

[Poseidon puts down the seaweed for the moment and hooks his fingertips on the edge of the reef Choromatsu's perched on, getting as close as he can even though at this proximit only one eye can really look at him at a time.]

You do, you do! That wistful expression...the stammer in your voice...who are they? Where did you meet them?!

[ARE YOU USING PROTECTION]

[shikosuki]

[ INTERNAL SCREAMING ]

I-IT'S NOTHING, IT'S N-N-NO ONE!!

[ and then he just

quickly darts into the coral to hide ]

[karappo]

[Oh. Bye...

Poseidon stiffens when his son suddenly disappears, but unfortunately for him he's much too large to pursue. All he can do is peer through the coral and try to see where he went.]

Choromatsu? Choromatsu, come back!

[shikosuki]

[ He's not far and he's in view, but he's curled up and covering his head. He is clearly embarrassed and not responding. ]

[karappo]

[Okay...as concerned as he is, now he feels a little bad. Did he push him too much? Oh god, he's a bad parent.

His fins lower a little as he watches the space Choromatsu fit himself into, tapping his tail against the sandy ocean floor as he tries to think of what to do, or say.]

L-Look, I was just going to say...if you do have someone you know, and...perhaps have taken a shine to, then I am happy for you! Really! But if you intend to....leave home...and maybe...stay with them...

[You're TOO YOUNG]

[shikosuki]

[ He lowers his arms and stares at Poseidon, still embarrassed and pouting. ] I-It's nothing serious anyway. ...Th-They probably don't even think of me like that. [ ah,,, ]

[karappo]

[...]

Come out and talk with me, son.

[shikosuki]

[ ......

He uncurls himself and swims back out of his hideaway, without saying a word ]

[karappo]

[Poseidon wants to reach for him again, but he doesn't. Instead he just watches his son carefully, concerned.]

What is the matter, Choromatsu?

[shikosuki]

[ he perches himself on the coral just outside where he'd been hiding and keeps looking down ]

...A boy helped me when I got stuck.

[ and well hey with the rest of how this story's gone there's no reason to suspect he doesn't mean a merboy right? ]

[karappo]

A boy...

[He's definitely going to assume it was, his brain cannot process it possibly being anything but a mer.

But...also a boy........hm.....................

HM]

Did you know him?

[shikosuki]

[ he shakes his head ]

No, that was my first time meeting him. But we... talked and stuff. He protected me until I felt safe enough to go home.

It was... nice.

[karappo]

[So is this...love at first sight?? Or maybe simple infatuation...Choromatsu is still young for a mer, even if he's technically reached adult age. Poseidon obviously still doesn't know how to take this right away, though, mostly because Choromatsu most of all seemed like the type to want to find a nice mermaid to settle with...

But Poseidon is ever determined to support his children, even if he personally doesn't understand or really know how to react, initially. He almost would rather he just forgot about all that and went back to being his little guppy in the reef, but...he's probably not going to.

So instead, he leans his arms against the reef's edge, moving to settle a bit more comfortably forward so it seems less like he's looming over him.]

I wish I knew who he was. I would have thanked him personally for helping you.

[shikosuki]

[ URK...

HA...HAHAHA....

again. good thing fish don't sweat. ]

M-Mmm...

...Th-That's not the only thing though. Because a few days ago... I also met a girl.

[ yeah topic change time ]

[karappo]

[Son are you trying to kill your father.]

.........................eh?

[shikosuki]

[ look he's just a young man. a horny young man. ]

I-I-I met her while she was singing and i-it was so pretty!! A-And she was really pretty too! And she got mad when she thought I was p-peeping on her but then we talked it out and s-spent t-time together a-and...

[ he covers his red face with both of his hands ]

Aaaaah, I can't stop thinking about them both now! What do I do?! I don't even know if I'll meet them again...!

[ oh god this poor lovesick baby ]

[karappo]

Eh? You...both? Eh??

[He doesn't...even sound upset so much as very, very confused by this revelation. Like, it's one thing for your son to have a crush, on a boy no less...but then he has one on a girl, but also both of them?

He blinks and shakes his head hard enough to cause his earrings to jingle softly.]

W-wait, slow down a bit, son! First of all...what makes you say you do not think you will see them again? I know the ocean is a large place, but...if you found them at all to begin with, you should run into them again...

[After all, all merfolk- at least those that Poseidon oversees- live in the same community of sorts.]

[shikosuki]

I-I don't know... I don't know if they'd be there again... this was my first time meeting them... I don't think they live here... [ because you know... humans... but like hell he'll let dad know that he curls himself up, pulling his tail up close to his chest, and looks forlorn ] Besides, other merfolk don't really... talk to us. [ THEY DON'T HAVE FRIENDS DAD ]

[karappo]

Oh come now, that is not true! Lots of merfolk like you, all of you!

[At least, that's what they say to Poseidon's face...the God of the Sea. You aren't exactly going to tell him that you think his kids are weird, or rude.]

And if they some how happen to not live here, you know it would be a simple task for me to find them, if you really wanted me to.

[He'd do anything for his children...even get them into polyfriendships.]

[shikosuki]

Of course they say that to you.

[ but shit. Poseidon's offering to find them. Except there is no way to. Because they're human.

so he just. keeps his head down. and shakes it. ]

You can't do everything for me, dad. Besides, it seems kinda creepy... having your god dad track down your crushes for you.

[karappo]

Not just crushes...they are friends, non?

[Friends that he just met, but friends regardless. And of course he wants Choromatsu to have friends...he doesn't want him to feel like he should just give up on them so easily, either.]

Are you sure there is not some other thing bothering you about this?