🪸 thalassic 🪸

"What attracts your character to another person?" For Arthur, someone who has a personality close to his. He enjoys the company of people who speak their mind when needed, have intriguing arguments and overall someone who he has a chance to know slowly; Eleanor likes to have lots of conversations so whoever has an interesting topic is on her list, however she's mostly attracted to anyone who inspires her confidence or shows to be gentle and amiable underneath their public image; Although Sorel might give off a stoic appearance, he has a soft heart and finds shelter within people who share his same character trait. Strangers who secretly hide their fiery nature under their benevolent and good-natured appearance fascinate him, although he acknowledges how worthless they can be.

Sorel's father has been begging him to marry but his son has never answered his pleading. He drastically surprised Sorel with someone of his choosing.

Cyril used to hate when Sorel would leave the palace for a week or two because he knew he had to spend time with Arthur, which meant they'd have political lessons and occasionally attend formal meetings together more than usual. Now it has become part of his life.

Arthur doesn't have any plans to arrange a marriage for the prince, however he does have some pressure from remarkable dukes and his brother, offering the hands of their daughters to the prince.

Eleanor's brother blamed Arthur for his sister's death. He thought the sire didn't take good care of her when she was sick, that's why he has refused, all those years, to see him or be associated with him; Despite the troubling relationship, he'll eventually decide to visit his brother-in-law many years later mainly to see how he and his nephew were doing. He'll still hold resentment towards Arthur but he'll have since moved on. Cyril hasn't been told what happened to his uncle from mother side so when the duke will invite him to his estate, he won't think much of it. After this short visit, Eleanor's brother will not be heard from again.

Before his mother died, Cyril was closer to her than his father. It took him quite some time to get used to live with his dad alone.

Hansjörg steals biscuits from the royal kitchen when everyone is sleeping.

The prince used to be scared of things like crabs or hermit crabs when he was young but Arthur showed him there was nothing to be scared of. Now his father has to pay the price due to the many times Cyril picks up weird critters to show him.

Arthur is from the old generation (1700s) so he sometimes takes his walking cane with him when visiting people or when he's walking in the woods.

Arthur suffers from mild depression and sometimes too much pressure makes him fall into despair. Cyril grew up very close to him so he knows when his father is at the verge of collapsing mentally. He tries as best as he can to support him.

Arthur was and still is the sickliest among the characters. That's a reason why his father didn't like the him.

Eleanor was supposed to marry an older man. Once Arthur entered her life, her father hurried to have her marriage plans suspended in hopes for his daughter to be the grand duke's wife.

While his father sensitive nature has had some kind of influence in Cyril, he enjoys going hunting for sport nonetheless.

Sorel's tail might have scars due to FrouFrou constant pinching.

Hansjörg ear cut was self-inflicted: he lost a bet.

Cyril grew up with his dad alone, which means he has become very attached to the time they would spend together and this had a sort of negative influence on the young lad. MORE

Arthur often says words of affection in French when he's with Cyril.

René may or may not have a slight infatuation with Arthur. He doesn't often indulge in getting close but he also doesn't let the chances fly by. MORE

Cyril had curly hairs when he was a child.

Arthur likely took drugs before laying in bed with his wife. MORE

Despite his - at times - rebellious attitude, Cyril is very obedient. He rarely goes against his father wishes unless their ideas clash with each other.

Humanoids don't have our typical weather. Yet, there are conditions that can resemble storms, snow or other events. (Not all of these events are fictional).

Arthur's servants are mostly humanoid remora remora.

All humanoids in this universe only resemble medium/large creatures. Smallest animals don't have a human counterpart.

Humanoids care a lot about hygiene so they clean themselves a lot. Shrimps, cleaner fish and sometimes remora too help the humans to get rid of dead skin, smaller parasites etc.

Under Arthur's power, the death penalty was abolished.

In Arthur's grand duchy, same sex relationships are protected and not punished. Not everyone agrees with this law and more often than not they may do as they please.

You won't see sharks, dolphins or other large animals swimming around cities everyday but you can still find underwater counterparts of birds, pigeons and rats. There are also a lot of cleaner fish and parasites too.

In some fish, their fins open and close mostly for swimming purposes but in humanoids it usually opens when they experience strong emotions such as surprise, anger, fear etc. (this can be applied to any fish who can control their dorsal fin).

Humanoids can present face markings other than simple pale skin.

All humanoids have a negative buoyancy, which means they are likely to sink if they aren't actively swimming. Reason why all of them walk on the ocean floor instead of swimming.

Ocean humanoids use replica sand dollars as coins.

If it wasn't clear already, not all law of physics apply to Thalassic; For example, fire can still be created underwater.

In the world of Thalassic, different domains are home to specific kind of humans: the Coastal domain is home to humanoids whose species of fish live near reefs; the Open Ocean domain usually bears animal descendents who spend most of the time in the deep blue; the Polar Cap domain contains those who can bear the cold temperatures.

Melanopterus royal family tree: