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[moemoetentacles]

[Squid Girl's looking pretty proud of herself today.  Much squid.  Many tentacle.  Very self-satisfy.  Wow.]

Humans of Union!  A new era has dawned!  The Age of the Malamar!

[She'll just give that a moment to sink in.]

That's right - look and be amazed at my ink-credible evolution!

[She waves her tentacles around at the camera.  She looks... pretty much exactly the same as she did before.]

Hu hu hu... impressed, aren't you?  Well, I'm not done jet, because there's a new member of the inkvasion force to introduce, too!  This... is the Clam!

[Reaching down with two of her tentacles, she picks up a fishbowl with a Shellder inside.  It's wearing a tiny little sea captain's hat and also an eyepatch over one of its eyes, looking a bit like the charming fellow on the left.  It lets out a somewhat disturbing sounding little burbling laugh before gurgling its name a few times and laughing again.  Squid Girl blinks over at him, tilting her head and looking confused.]

...Huh?  You gilly want to flood the city?

[There's a short back and forth before she sets the fishbowl down again.]

W-well, anyway, the Clam is my new lieutenant, so everybody better treat him with the same respect you'd show me!  ...That is all!

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[thedivinevoice]

There is a story - a folklore surrounding my people as well. They tell tales of a young dragon who yearned to fly... so much so that it threw itself off cliffs in its effort to grow wings.

[moemoetentacles]

...Did it work or did it just splat?

[thedivinevoice]

...Er.

The story goes that he built up his strength and his endurance with the constant... head injuries. But after years and years of this... when he had almost forgotten why he was leaping off cliffs at all...

One day, he leapt and never fell.

[moemoetentacles]

That's one tough dragon.

[thedivinevoice]

If he existed, our people owe our ancestor a debt of gratitude for his actions.

But I think it likely a story to be learned from - nothing is impossible if you continue to strive for it.

[moemoetentacles]

Oh... that's what that means?

[thedivinevoice]

Although... I should not leap off any cliffs if I were you. Not everyone is as hard-headed as a Bagon.

[moemoetentacles]

Malamar can't fly anyway, so that would be reely stupid.

[thedivinevoice]

[The point of the story seems to have gone unabsorbed so Tiki will continue on lightly for now.]

Regardless... I shall wish you congratulations again.

((This seems like a good place to end!))