#shrimplore shrimme’s aetherotransformer is customized especially for her. mostly because she is a bit technologically incompetent a lot of the features have been adjusted to be… shrimp friendly. also it has a compartment for keeping food warm using the heat generated during use
the reason shrimpy cant eat refined sugar is because her gut bacteria immediately turns it into ethanol… and its known that shrimps cant handle alcohol… but she can eat fruit because fermentation of fructose is slower than glucose so she can actually digest the fruit
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#shrimplore i do dandelion symbolism for shrimps a lot but dandelions actually are special to them because when they’d do performances on the road and people who couldn’t afford to give them money or buy flowers for them would throw them dandelions instead. it was mostly children who did so
Plot twist: shrimp didn’t descend from bugs. Bugs are shrimp that rage-quit the ocean 480 million years ago.
Basically, every ant is just a shrimp in Witness Protection.
Great read we missed in April by the always excellent @restingdinoface.bsky.social!
#ShrimpLore #OceanOriginStory #OceanHoptimism
trying to canonize hiheat (their chocobo) into #shrimplore… shrimpy met hiheat while camping out near tailfeather. he was attracted to the campfire they lit and the song they were singing to themself.. curious chocobo…. they became fast friends after shrimpy fed him some snacks
Neuroscientist and author V.S. Ramachandran studied the case of a grapheme–color synesthete who was also color blind. While he couldn't see certain colors with his eyes, he could still "see" those colors when looking at certain letters. Because he didn't have a name for those colors, he called them "Martian colors." Martian colors is highlighted
nature article by jessica morrison “Mantis shrimp's super colour vision debunked”
wait i actually do want to talk about the #shrimplore about shrimp colors…. shrimpy has colorblindness (sorry but irl shrimp colors are worse) though she can see colors that are unusual to her when listening to music thanks to her synesthesia (martian colors)
its #shrimplore that theyre a chimera.. they have chimerism from eating their twin in the womb its bundled with their intersex condition leads to the fact that maisy isnt technically their biological child because the DNA in their blood (which was used to make maisy) belongs to the twin
#shrimplore whenever maintenance happens i set shrimly in the manufactory bc she is going to get maintenance done on her mch arms this is also why mch skills get buffs and nerfs in her canon.. they are tweaks to compensate for her compromised upper body and chronic pain + general weapon improvements
video upload length increased post shrimpy singing voice claim #shrimplore
shrimpy with a stupid expression on their face. the redbill scarf is around their neck. it is a red triangular scarf with darker red vertical stripes
the #shrimplore i have literally never talked about is that the scarf around their neck in their one mch glam actually IS a redbill scarf and not just a random one. they met the redbills by chance on their travels and amused them enough to befriend them :)
tbh now idk why i was making a big deal out of this lore bc its kinda straight forward but the #shrimplore is that theyre not great at manipulating aether which is why they dont have any canon magical jobs. they do however have the ability to gather dynamis which they inherited from dionysus' soul
#shrimplore shrimme was an early bloomer they hit their growth spurt way sooner than the usual elezen (in shrimpverse this is around 22 years too!) they hit their full height at age 19. it was extra stressful for them because they had to deal with it on their own also poor shrimpy
#shrimplore shrimpy can speak nagxian! she remembers enough from her childhood to have light conversation but her accent leaves much to be desired… her most vivid memories of the language are the lullabies her family would sing to her which she would also sing to her own children.. eventually :)
my cat, an idiot: those ornaments look exactly like my toys. why can't i play with them? me, pinnacle of animals: that felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Merry #crustmas This inch long #bumblebeeshrimp (Gnathophyllum americanum) hitches a ride on a three-rowed #seacucumber (Isostichopus badionotus). Not unlike the Fremen of Dune riding the sand worms, Hitching rides on enchinoderms provides safety for these little shrimp. #shrimplore #marinelife 🦑
a colorless sketch of shrimme with longer hair. it is pulled back into a half ponytail
chibi shrimpy with the current short choppy hair
#shrimplore before she started spending time in ishgard shrimps had longer hair that was pulled into a half ponytail.. she switched to the current shorter style after she singed it while fooling around in the manufactory
#shrimplore i think shrimpy gets aether sickness really easily as an echoed consequence of dionysus' overindulgence(s)
#shrimplore i guess im always showing ppl this but i havent posted it here yet so ghkjdhgkhfg shrimpy singing voice in my head.
heres some #shrimplore i never decided if i wanted to keep... a question that is gnawing at nobodys mind: why does shrimme have a feminine name and why does nobody ever question it even when they are perceived as masculine? its a mix-up
uncolored doodle of shrimpy showing off one of their snaggleteeth by pulling their lip back with an index finger. it is protruding irregularly from the rest of their teeth. two little doodles of shrimme and their theoretical son maisy are on the left to show that maisy got inherited a snaggletooth from shrimme (ONE)
oh yeah #shrimplore i kind of draw all characters with the same little fangs that can be visible at any time as a part of my style but shrimps canonically has two snaggleteeth (their canines on both sides). they protrude a bit from the rest of their teeth and are prominent when they smile
shrimps is a homeowner! kind of.... she "owns" a cottage in the lavender beds but its secretly for jehantel. because she never stays in one place for long, she has asked jehantel to take care of it for her like as a solid. but really she just wants him out of that drafty log
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i kinda wanna keep think separate from for some reason but #shrimplore a few important people in shrimpys life knows about her issues sleeping and its very nice because those people know about it like outside the context of her usual sleeping with people to help cope with the startling
the #shrimplore on shrimpys unfortunate sleep issues is that she came out of the Clown Car incident with a fear of falling that unexpectedly makes it difficult for her to go to sleep. we know about hypnic jerks irl right i talk about them a lot in regards to shrimpy.
oh yeah shrimpys mother is from nagxia but her father is coerthan. as the troupe grew, i like to think they picked up folks from all over the continent and subsequently started frequenting these to give their fellow clowns regular chances to visit friends/family/old hides/etc #shrimplore
about shrimpys family and the Clown Car Incident: shrimpys family was a traveling troupe of entertainers in a loose sense. they had like folks with all sorts of skills like you can get a piercing at the circus… you can get therapy at the circus… #shrimplore
whats up with shrim being a bard but shrimme being a machinist? as a child, shrimpy suffered several muscle and skeletal injuries (Clown Carriage Incident) that resulted in chronic weakness and pain in her upper body, after being left untreated for too long
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about shrimpys name: the two shrimps in the two shrimpverses do have different names! (shrim phrydrice for the cat and shrimme phrydrice for the elf), both are lore compliant and are pronounced the same way… im very lucky it worked out like this
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