NOTES :: So on the eve of my birthday, Ruri darlin' goes "I'm going to buy you a RL Matope breeding. 8D" My response basically ran 'oh no no no no I couldn't no no no you shouldn't no no no no - you sure? Yesplz." The next day, Maxx springs Rising from Moon Ashes bbys on me. YES. EVERYBODY HAS FIGURED OUT THERE IS ONLY ONE THING JUN DESIRES. Fueled by contentment over Moon Ashes bbys, we could afford to leisurely take the next few weeks figuring out some compelling pairs, absurdly and excitedly deciding on the polar opposites Nose and Strike, and writing out a fun (ahahahah sorry Nose) little meeting RP for them, before submitting the form. They had nothing in common, colours, markings, and I pondered what blue could possibly do - but then, I had pondered the same for Rise and Grey and - well, we know how that turned out. Indeed, for a few weeks later, Ruri sprang 'EXCITEMENT' on me in my Inbox, and - WOW. I won't lie - I lingered over each one covetously. No Mercy, with his mama's poison colours - and his dad's edits. >D The little bubbles too, so subtly played across his flank and jaw, and that blazing orange/red so judiciously splashed. Under Pressure - and oh, how much indecision I lavished over him - everyone knows that, uh, *looks up and down my line-up*, I have a thing for monochromatic, pale, naturalistic, gradienty bucks... His colours, gradients, and subtle stripes were so beautiful - and his pale green eye! - they took my breath away. But it was almost inevitable that my eyes would be pulled instant to the sole doe and my mind would reel: "Just a little poison." And so it is. Only later did I realise I must've had this bit of To the Lighthouse in my head that I was talking to Maxx about the other day: "'Nature has but little clay,' said Mr. Bankes once, hearing her voice on the telephone, and much moved by it though she was only telling him a fact about a train, 'like that of which she moulded you.'" How apt. If I had realised it sooner, I wouldn't have spent days agonising over whether or not I should call her Little Poison - the other considerations numbered many, but she never really let me turn away. Except for one thing - when Maxx decisively scooped up Under Pressure (when I was deciding on my pick of the kids, I was well torn between the poisonous doe and the beautiful buck, and the whole time he was going 'TAKE THE DOE - TAKE THE DOE'. I'd assumed it was because he wanted Under Pressure for himself, hathat. Later, after my Christmas surprise, I realised he was partly panicking over the similar tonality between him and Who - partly, because I still suspect he just wanted Pressure for himself.), he told he would make his character the longsuffering-looking-out-for-his-siblings-with-exasperation sort - "like Leo. You know. From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." I told him I would call my girl, uh, 'Dawn Teller', then. Obviously I didn't, but parts of the character have stuck, anyway. XD;;
PETS :: As soon as I learnt that blue was doing a mass froggy giveaway, I set up alarm for the time. I'd said Little Poison reminded me of a poisonous frog the first day I saw her, and a frog I would get her somehow. I had two hazy hours of constant time-checking in bed, dreaming fitfully of catching pixel frogs, but there I was, having dragged Maxx up from the depths for a go. Maxx caught one of the twenty in four tries. Me...well, you know that Peanuts Halloween special where Charlie Brown keeps getting a rock? I have it on good word (from Syr) that he never got that candy after all. Yes. This is pretty much how I fare with chance games all the time (save that once I got Little Poison's mom!). I think I may have rolled more times than anyone else. XD;; Honestly though, it was tons of fun, and even if blue hadn't offered to pick up all froggie bribes after that... But of course she did. >D I'd originally asked for a glass frog to complement her naming dream, not realising that transparency was considered an edit, but quickly changed it after blue's note. The result is just perfect, pale stripes and all, for Little Poison, and a sight prettier than a glass frog would've been, I think! In a strange twist, Little Poison now has a frog that's essentially her colours in inverse - the way Maxx's lucky-dip frog turned out to be essentially his girl Summer Fades' colours in inverse. What are the odds?! I just adore the frogs, and I adore mine beyond reason - thank you so much for being so ridiculously kind about things, blue! (Technically male.)