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[thedarkbond]

[The first thing visible in this video is some kind of very bright surface obscuring the lens. Then it rearranges itself, and it becomes obvious that someone with a colossal mess of red tentacles for hair that are also glowing luminescent pink in areas is holding his phone at an appropriate distance with said tentacles. Ren looks a bit chaotic, between that and the purplish-white patches glowing on his skin, the purple nails and lips, but he seems cheerful enough, waving at the screen and then waving one of the two additional tentacles trailing from his shoulder blades.]

Hello everyone...I saw a couple of people with this new moonblessing already, and I'm starting to get kind of curious now. We've had that dragon moonblessing, the kitsune, and now this, right? Weird ones that just showed up once and then never again so far. But I'm wondering how many people actually got each of them - I got all three, but I think a lot of people might've only gotten one or two or only been around for one or two, right? Since I think they might've been caused by different things...

[He taps his chin a in a dramatic sort of thoughtful motion.] So I guess what I'm asking is, how many of those weird moonblessings did everyone get? And which ones? Even if you didn't get any of those three, it'd be interesting to know who managed to avoid all of them too...also, if you got pictures of yourself with them, you should definitely show me pictures. I want to see what everyone ended up looking like.

[He claps his hands together to one side of his face in a cutesy, inviting sort of manner. He mostly wants to see if there's a pattern (and potentially confirm his theories on what caused each of them, because he's a lot more sure than he's letting on), but he's not going to act like he's not just curious to see what changes people ended up going through and if they were as radically different as normal moonblessings could be.]

Comments

[dereban]

It does matter to me. Even if I dislike them, that doesn't mean that there aren't ones worse than some others.

[thedarkbond]

Doesn't it get tiring only finding the bad things in it every month, though? Surely there's some good points you can find in it to make things more fun.

[It's kind of hard to get Ren to dislike something that much.]

[dereban]

No.

I want to be normal.

[thedarkbond]

Not transforming here isn't "normal", though, so it's not really possible to be normal here, is it? Besides, normal is boring.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Yeah, I bet! I'm sure they're all connected in some way!

[ Konoka's excitement gave way to thoughtfulness. ]

...though what does it mean if they're connected like that though...

[bratworth]

I've found that aspect of the moonblessing to be inconsistent between months, myself.

[dereban]

Maybe for Moonblessed, but there are plenty of non-Moonblessed that don't.

And I'd like to be 'normal', even if it is boring.

[thedarkbond]

i get it pretty much all the time ༼∗ღ۝ღ∗༽
but then i don't have a problem with the whole thing like a bunch of people seem to...
so that's the only hard part of it, really ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

[thedarkbond]

I think that's mostly because they're permanently transformed...I haven't really seen a lot of Prismals who look like humans.

[They mostly tend to have fur or feathers or weird ears or something that makes them stand out, in his experience.]

I guess there's no accounting for taste, though...

[thedarkbond]

We'll probably find out eventually, if things keep going the way they have been...I wouldn't worry about it too much right now, since we might not be able to find out yet.

[Ren's more the type to let things unfold naturally, but in this case, the information they have on the planet's history is limited. He feels there's a good chance it might not actually be possible to work out exactly what it means yet.]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Yeah, I think you've got a point.

I'll just file those thoughts away for now. I wonder what else we have to look forward to this month.

[dereban]

I wouldn't call them 'permanently transformed', though--

Rather that they were born that way. There's a difference.

[thedarkbond]

I guess we'll have to find out. We've had a busy few months with the kidnappings and then the robot suits and that angry octopus lady...

[It's probably been the most action-packed few months since he got here, honestly.]

[thedarkbond]

I don't know, they are still blessed by the moons like we are...so even if the transformation happens really early for them, I'd think it would still be a transformation.

[It's kind of confusing, considering they call the newcomers Moonblessed despite being affected by the moons themselves as well, but he does keep an eye on the information other people post around, and ask the Prismals he works with.]

[bratworth]

The hard part is that other people struggle to cope with the changes?

[thedarkbond]

no, the hunger thing is the hard part, silly (´꒳`∗)
though listening to people complain a bunch is pretty tough too, you're right~

[bratworth]

The hunger for food or for physical contact or both?

( You know what, he's going to resolutely ignore that second part. )

[thedarkbond]

mostly the food ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌
though i guess how quick the burning through chroma happens is kind of troublesome even if i can do free hugs or something

[dereban]

That's only 'if' they do transform early on?

[ She actually doesn't have much in the way of information on this front, so she can't say one way or another but she doesn't want to assume. ]

[thedarkbond]

Mmm, I haven't done too much reading about this sort of thing myself, and most people I talk to obviously don't remember stuff really far back...I guess it'd be easier to ask someone with kids.

[Childhood memories are notoriously unreliable, but a parent might be helpful on that front.]

[unhappy]

No thanks. I'm just saying, if I have to, I'd rather it be something cool. I just keep getting scales and fangs.

[ She's getting emerald tree boa features any time Sanguis rolls around. ]

[dereban]

I guess that's just something I'll have to win dup researching, then.

[thedarkbond]

Oh, the snake stuff? So you're Sanguis, then...I haven't seen that many Sanguis people during their cycles, honestly.

[He does have a few Sanguis friends, he just keeps missing them during that time of the month.]

[thedarkbond]

Probably. I know some people are looking into things, but most people seem to be focusing on history more than the locals...

[And he's pretty sure there's a chunk of people trying to research any way they might be able to avoid moonlacing.]

[dereban]

Sometimes knowing more about the locals is how you can learn more about the history.