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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

[thedarkbond]

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

[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 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...

[dereban]

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

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

[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.]

[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.]

[dereban]

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

[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.

[thedarkbond]

Mmm, I work with a few, but they're mostly a bit younger than me, and most of them aren't really into history...

[The classic STEM and humanities rivalry strikes again, since most of his employees are in programming and gaming.]

[dereban]

Well, even if people aren't into history, you don't need to talk about it in order to figure things out.

[thedarkbond]

Right, I've picked up some things off them, but other things don't tend to come up as much.

[Like childhood, because Ren honestly doesn't tend to talk about the past all that much himself.]