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!

Comments

[otokogi]

Mitsuki... is failing as a merman. It's a good thing his life doesn't seem to depend on his ability to stay moving in the water because he would be belly up pretty much immediately. Sure, he's a dancer in his regular body but even getting to the skill level he's at took him years of exhausting work. Trying to learn how to move in a brand new body? What did he do to deserve this?

This is why his main form of locomotion is a combination of tail swishing and dragging, using whatever objects are nearby to stabilize himself as he gets used to how swimming with a tail works. He's using this to attempt to get to the cookhouse when he sees a small group of people watching another person. He recognizes him a little, having seen him around the games when he goes to hang out with Chiaki, but he doesn't really know him. That's not going to stop him from scooting up to the side of the group to see what he can learn, however. The teacher--Sora? He thinks so--clearly has some confidence in what he's doing, and that alone tells Mitsuki he's probably worth listening to.

His own practice isn't going as well, though. He can't seem to stay straight. Every time he picks up even the slightest bit of speed, he ends up aiming downward again. Sighing, Mitsuki rights himself and tries again.

[musicinmotion]

Yuuri had tried. He had tried extremely hard and while Sora was definitely a very good teacher it just wasn't as easy to move with his cuddlefish half as the other moved with his more streamline and fish-like tail.

Still, he gave it his best shot and managed to at least use some of the tips the other had given in order to shift through the water easier. It was the whole propulsion thing that Yuuri wasn't grasping well.

Sinking down to the floor again, tentacles spreading out as he rested for a moment, Yuuri let out a bubbly sigh as he crossed his arms over his chest. What was he missing? Why wasn't this working for him? Maybe he was thinking too hard? Maybe the movements were more of a natural thing rather than something he needed to force. But how exactly was one suppose to just naturally propel themselves? He'd seen videos of squids and cuddlefish swimming before and...yeah.

Why couldn't he have just been a seahorse or something?

[waitingforplayer2]

"You're used to this?"

Chiaki's transformation was one of the stranger ones; rather than just having a tail, nearly her entire body had been turned into a manta's. She was currently attempting to flap her fins like wings, and it wasn't really helping her move very far.

[empty_vessel]

After a lovely day of drifting around and making his way around by grabbing onto everything and pulling himself around, Jimmy figured it was time that he followed up on Joker's mention of swimming lessons.

He doesn't know if Sora can actually help, given that Sora's got a fish tail and Jimmy.... doesn't. But even just commiserating over how much this all sucks is a good start.