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Temperance

@moderationadrift.bsky.social

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Like a leaf in summer dreams🎶 I'm floating back to you🎶 [RP account for an OC from an original universe.] |LEWD/NSFW DNI|

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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Oh, lay with me in melodies🎶
All humming back for you🎶

[As written by Joe]

#MVRP #OCRP

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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

"...I miss Humility."

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Pray, if I may ask...

"What are those rectangular things I see in everyone's hands all the time? I've never seen their like!"

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Longer than that, about 10 minutes, and you will risk death.

Only those immune to poisons are completely safe.

Good news is that the poison goes inert and harmless the moment it leaves her body, so no worries about decontaminating the couch if she sits on it.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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It has only been vaguely mentioned but! Watch out for her eel-like mermaid tail. It secretes a poisonous thin film of mucus on the exterior at all times.

Brief physical contact is okay, will just burn for a moment. However, prolonged exposure for a few minutes will cause a paralytic effect.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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The most entertaining one to her would be The Little Mermaid, the original version and especially the disneyified version that came later.

Oh she would laugh...

Because she knows the truth of it.

Because she was both the maiden AND the sea witch.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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To tragic love stories made by those smitten by her and the separation of land and sea.

To tell her of them would entertain her greatly as she attempts to recall what events may have inspired them, mischievously making the more morbid stories unclear on their accuracy.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Speaking of tales...She definitely has many of them. And being the First Mermaid of her world, has spawned many about her and that of all considered mermaids.

From merry legends about being benevolent guides on the waves...

To terrifying fables of mermaids being flesh-eating monsters...
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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She also knows how to play most instruments, though only ones that existed up to the late 13th century.

She has a preference towards stringed instruments.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Being the songstress that she is, and her long lived life, she is quite skilled in the musical arts. Her singing voice is absolutely beautiful, to the point that mortals in her age and world claim that it has hypnotic powers.

It does not. Tales like that have a tendency to be overblown.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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However, she cannot chain the maneuver back to back and it will exhaust her to do it too often.

Moreover, turning herself into water makes her very vulnerable to her weakness to electricity and certainly makes being boiled by high heat much more painful.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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She also cannot control impure water as well as she can with pure water or sea water. Non-water based liquids she can't control at all.

She IS able to turn her entire body into water, briefly. Unlike her next incarnation, she is quite good at it, able to weave it into battle for dodging.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Her mastery of water is incredibly powerful, though it has some limitations.

She does run off of waterbending rules, she cannot just MAKE water out of nothing, there must be water nearby. However, she can, with concentration, condense humidity in the air into usable water.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Never too much, never too little. Always just right.

However, due to other factors, she is highly resistant to creating overly lavish or extravagant dishes. She knows she cannot make outright bland foods, as good taste is good for morale, she also will not make anything unique in taste.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Due to her nature as the physical embodiment of Temperance, she has a heightened sense of measurement and proportion in all things.

This most especially is evident with cooking. Even without a recipe, she will never under/over season or burn the food. Even measuring flour is a non-effort.
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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 26

sentaijoe

Is it really a headcanon in this case? Probably not

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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 28

[That particular nature to this Damsel has yet to set in for the mermaid, so she just giggles in return.]

"Very easygoing, are you not? I believe quite a few would be envious of that!"

The Razor. @shiftingmound.bsky.social · Aug 28

"It doesn't!"

Specifically because she said she hoped it doesn't. Just how it works.

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 28

"How truly mysterious, dear maiden! I hope such vagueness does not worry you overmuch."

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 28

"How truly mysterious, dear maiden! I hope such vagueness does not worry you overmuch."

The Razor. @shiftingmound.bsky.social · Aug 28

We're talking about sleep? I've been told I'm "waking up to my true nature," whatever that means!

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 28

"I myself have slept once for...Oh...4 years, I believe it was?

"Twas a shame, really, to miss so long. I hardly can recall the incredible wound that was inflicted upon me!"

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Are you aware that electric eels are not true eels? Tis true!

"They're a knifefish and are in much closer relation to the catfish.

"Their shocks still sting quite a lot, as a matter of course!"

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Eels are so very cute..."

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 26

sentaijoe

Is it really a headcanon in this case? Probably not

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Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 21

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[She shifts to sit on the edge of the bed, reaches forward...]

[And pinches him REALLY hard right on the arm, like getting gripped by a very angry crab.]

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 21

"My tail? Oh, it is poisonous, a thin layer of toxic mucus...But so long as you kept contact short, it should have only burned. Longer, and it would have been a paralytic."

[She mentions that as casually as one would talk about a new shampoo. At his request though...]

"...? Very well."
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Ragathiel Lufft @sportsycarrot03.bsky.social · Aug 21

🥕Did I get poisoned by her tail? No, no it didn't sting... Just felt.. odd.. did /I/ hit my head? Mhno.. no I don't feel dizzy... Hey, quick, would you mind pinching me? This /has/ to be some sorta dream?

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 21

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"Ah, it is no wonder I recognize none of these things nor your clothes. It has been...600 years? A lot can change, can it not?"

[She clenches her hand...Then spreads it open, making the water burst into a gentle mist all over herself.]

"Mmm! Much better...!"

Temperance @moderationadrift.bsky.social · Aug 21

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"I will explain as best I can then...It seems I have been very displaced in time. For me, last I remember, it was...Oh, I think about the end of the 13th century? Just starting the 14th?"

[As she speaks, she curls her finger at the cup and...Makes the water flow and fly gently out.]
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