Azure’s Search for Normal People

Never content with just one world, Azure had long ago mastered the skill of landwalking. The first shifting had been awkward, her new-shaped limbs as useless as a baby fish tail, shuddering on reflex instead of control. But she had learned since. She had learned well.

She taught the craft now to the other curious mermaids, how to control two narrower, more angular tails, how to balance upright on them, how to survive in thin non-supporting air instead of the stronger embrace of water. How to transmute sea shells and coral into human body ornaments and wrappings.

It was perhaps the biggest challenge of them all, to learn which parts of the body should be wrapped in decor and which not, but after the initial mistakes and a lot of landwalker observation, Azure was now confident she had it right. If she could just find landwalkers with a normal skin colour instead of this one endless tribe of sand tones, she’d be happy. 

But no matter how far she had searched she could find no blues and the sand-skins kept raising strange structures wherever she had visited and burning small fires in them. Kneeling was also commonplace, but Azure assumed it was to show off their superior limb control. If she could only find normal people things would be easier: they would explain the landwalker oddities to their mer-cousin, those normal blue people.

The Draco Odyssey/Laguna skin by Fallen Gods Inc. is available in We Love Roleplay event. Azure’s skin was the scaled version underwater and smooth when rising to the surface. The mask by Senzafine, octobra by ieQED, fishnet dress by FDD and the Nereid dress by lassitude & ennui are all from the current round of The Fantasy Collective, conveniently themed around mermaids. The hair by Exile is available in Collabor88.

Scene: Cerridwen’s Cauldron – Jellyfish Weed Crownleaf, Hydra Anemone Indigo 20 Tentacles | Fantasy Flora – Fantasy Sea Grass Light Blue & Fantasy Bubble Plant Blue | Chair: 22769 ~ [bauwerk] Tentacle Chair

Body: Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Draco Odyssey/Laguna Scaled Marks Awake & Smooth* | Eyes: ~*By Snow*~ Midnight Eyes II Indigo* | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hair: Exile – Windsong | Tail: !deviousMind – Undine Electric Blue | Hands & Feet: Slink

Outfit 1: Mask: Senzafine – Morgazh Mask* | Bra: ieQED – Octobra Gold | Collar & Bracers: Luas – Revenge Set

Outfit 2: Dress: FDD – GS Mareena Fishnet Tunic Silver | Face Chains: . aisling . – Xanthe N1 Gold

Outfit 3: Dress: lassitude & ennui – Nereid Dress* | Jewelry: House of Rain – Bring On the Dancing Horses Jet/Gold* (rings not available anymore)

Poses: Part of the tentacle chair. | Exposeur – Underwater 7M | {Imeka} – Lulu-Pose 3

The White Lady of Warm Whispers

The eldest of the Dream Guardians is the one we meet the most and never remember. She’s the Hazebringer, the Mist-Dweller, the Feather Fall in the Fog.

She sends out her summons every eve, the call for the exhausted to come and join her in rest, to whisper their burdens, their worries, their secrets to her.

We have all been there, with the White Lady of Warm Whispers. Been there and told her everything. That is why we feel better when we wake up, why the weight has lifted off our shoulders, why things feel clearer for a moment.

She knows us all, she knows our secrets and she keeps them within her chamber of falling feathers, soft mist and silent echoes of our own whispers.

I created a sister-entity for the Blue Lady of Gentle Waves to tie my characters better together, just to shape a more comprehensive lore of ideas and concepts. As for what the White Lady is wearing, a few notes: Senzafine’s Celestine gown is available in The Fantasy Collective and the shoes by lassitude & ennui in Geeks’N’Nerds.

Scene: Anc Ltd. – Eden. chapel old | Kalopsia – Le Lit de la Marquise white | Scarlet Creative – Meribel Comfort Rug Light | Studio Skye – Enchanted Woods v2 

Body: Skin: Kooqla – Bisquit Pure 04 db | Hair: Clawtooth – Angeles Black Beauty | Eyes: IKON – Lucid Eyes Optimism L | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hands & Feet: Slink – Casual & High

Outfit: Dress: Senzafine – Celestine Gown Mithril* | Shoes: lassitude & ennui – Nanobots ate my mules white/silver (slink high)* | Hand Jewelry: . aisling . – Darshana Hands | Ear Jewelry: . aisling . – Yrs I | Tiara: Bliensen + MaiTai – Moonchild Tiara Dark Silver

Birdies: Infiniti – Paper Birds | Zibska – Xiang |  HPMD* Little Birds White 

Poses: Infiniti – Paper Birds (x2) | Kirin – Athena Pose 5

Sign of Water

The world outside the safe embrace of water seems strange to the one accustomed to its strength. Air seems too thin to be supportive, the ground is too hard, fire a brightly tempting risk.

Things are clearer in the water, where every stream can be fully felt and understood, where eyesight is unnecessary because what you sense defines your reality.

It is natural to flow with the currents and turn to head upstream only if the call is strong enough. Only if the call is so impossible to resist that any journey, any challenge is worth the struggle in the end.

The Zodiac face tattoos that have several different components — the signs, the elements and the filigrees so you can compose your own version to reflect your signs — are by Fallen Gods Inc. and are currently available in a gacha at the 30L Gacha Fling Fair. The Edera jewelry by Zibska is available in The Fantasy Collective.

Body: Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Eyes: Poetic Colors – Classic Frozen Silver Bright | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Liner: Pin Me Down – Liner 1 | Hair: Exile – Dream of Paradise | Tattoos: Fallen Gods Inc. – Zodiac Pisces Left, Water Top, Silver Filigree Complete*

Outfit: Jewelry: Zibska – Edera* | Scales: Evie’s Closet – Modesty Scales

Poses: N/A | aDORKable Poses – Sunny 5