LEARN 2 SWIM WITH SORA

[destiny_key]

Who: Sora and YOU!
What: Sora teaches people to swim with their fabulous new mer-bodies and shenanigans happen.
Where: Inside the carnival
When: The day after everyone becomes mer-people

It started out unofficial. Sora didn't even post a sign, really. He started with just one person who had marveled at his skills, and then the number grew until he had a small class of people. He supposed he did have a bit of a benefit, having had fins multiple times before, and he was absolutely happy to help anyone who needed it.

Yes, that's right, Sora is teaching people how to swim with their new bodies. Anyone is welcome, whether he knows them or not, and he'll teach them all about the ways of being a sea creature; it's really not that hard at all!

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[empty_vessel]

"Jimmy. Jimmy Novak." Apart from the hat, Jimmy's pretty unremarkable. Gold chain with a coin pendant, black octopus from the waist down and a black stripe up his spine. He turns enough to keep Sora in view as he gives Jimmy a look over.

"I'm hoping I can get a few pointers, at least. Although, I think I'm the only octopus I've seen." Which, granted, does make Jimmy a bit uncertain about how much help there is to be had.

[destiny_key]

"Nice to meet you, Jimmy," Sora chuckles. "I've seen a few around. You're not the only one."

Sora floats to a stop directly in front of Jimmy, and settles so that they're eye-level.

"Is there anything you need help with in particular, or just in general?"

[empty_vessel]

"Just in general, I think. Trying to learn by watching other people swim only gets you so far when you don't have fins or a tail." He shrugs helplessly. "And I still don't have a whole lot of ideas about what's going on with these either." Jimmy holds up his hand and spreads his fingers, showing the translucent webbing between the digits.

"It's made work a bit more interesting, that's for sure."

[destiny_key]

Well the webbed fingers are definitely new, but they shouldn't reflect on your swimming. Sora looks at them carefully, curious, but he's pretty sure they'd actually help.

"Yeah. I think everyone's been kinda shoving work off a bit today."

Himself included, actually, but the carnival's not even open today anyway.

"But, yeah, tentacles are definitely harder than a tail, I think. But, it shouldn't be too hard."

[empty_vessel]

"Well, that's good to hear. I'd hate to think I was the only one taking the day off." Although, as excuses for calling in sick went 'Sorry, I got turned into a fish.' was pretty high up there.

"Yeah. Eight arms and none of the arms seem to know what the others are doing." Speaking of, while Jimmy was talking, the tentacles seem to have found a rather interesting rock and are investigating it.

[destiny_key]

Sora watches the tentacles pick up a rock off the ground, and... that was something he'd never seen before. It's pretty funny, actually.

"Yeah, that, uh, seems like a problem," he says, muffling a laugh. "They're kinda like arms, I think. So you just kinda gotta... move them all at once."

[empty_vessel]

Jimmy nods. "Yeah, that and find someplace to practice that isn't in front of everyone." And after he's given it a good cleaning. Inking yourself out of house and home isn't something he thought he'd say he'd done, but he'd done it.

And the tentacles continue to be very picky in their rock selection, scooping up one rock, patting it all over and passing it up and down a row of suckers before discarding it and picking up another.

[destiny_key]

"Oh, I don't think that'll be an issue. No one's gonna laugh. Pretty much everyone is starting from square one, here," Sora says nicely.

[empty_vessel]

"That's good to hear." Jimmy still seems blissfully unaware that the tentacles are sorting the rocks into different piles according to some esoteric scheme.

"I don't know. Everyone else seems to have the basic 'fins and tail' setup for the most part, and I... don't. But I think someplace a little more private, and probably well padded, would be the best bet."

[destiny_key]

"Well, I mean, if you'd rather do a private lesson, I don't have a problem with that. Just, you'd have to wait a bit. I don't wanna leave everyone else in the dust."

Sora gestures vaguely behind him at the other people learning to swim, all at varying stages between 'moving at a decent pace' and 'barely moving, in the wrong direction'.

[empty_vessel]

Jimmy nods, watching one of the aforementioned backwards swimmers, trying desperately to go the other way. ".... Not that there's a lot of dust to leave people in, sometimes." Maybe Jimmy's lucky in that he only has to worry about which way the forward propulsion is pointing. (And not thinking about what everything probably was last week.)

"If you wanna go get that, I'll stay here and practice?" Which mostly means 'Small thrusts forward and dragging his tentacles in the sand as makeshift brakes' but it's a start.

[destiny_key]

"Sure! I'll come back as soon as I can, okay?"

Sora looks behind him, finally, and notices them going backwards. He should probably. Help them.

"...It, uh, might be a bit."

[empty_vessel]

"That's okay. I can wait." Jimmy watches Sora head off after the drifter. "And thanks for the talk. Good luck with the other guy."