Silly questions

[kengr]

Just got to thinking about some of the "fun" when you dump supers/mutants/whatever into a "normal" world.

In particular, clothing for folks who don't have legs. Snake-girls, mermaids, etc.

For a swimming class, what will either one wear? They can't use one-piece suits. and if they go for a 2 piece, what will they use for the bottom?

For merfolk, you also have issues such as, what do you do about the water in the pool. Chlorine is likely to be *very* bad for anyone with gills. And you also have issues with fresh vs salt water. A saltwater mermaid is going to fairly unhappy (at best) swimming in fresh water and vice versa.

Shop class is apt to be a problem for Fae. All those steel tools.

Ooo! Someone who turns into a dryad and their tree is on someone else's property? Lawyers could fight that one out for *years*.

Or it is on their property, but the HOA says the tree has to go.

Someone trying to evict a were because of a "no pets" rule.

Feel free to use these yourself, or post other situations.

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[fayanora]

In particular, clothing for folks who don't have legs. Snake-girls, mermaids, etc.

For a swimming class, what will either one wear? They can't use one-piece suits. and if they go for a 2 piece, what will they use for the bottom?

In my Ravenstone stuff, the "shallows" Merrow, who can switch between legs and a fluke, wear a skirt that works in either mode, regardless of gender. Said skirt is of course waterproof, maybe leviathan skin or dragon hide or something, IDK. They also wear a lot of their possessions in locking bags hanging from a belt or strapped to their arms or whatever. Also jewelry. They don't wear tops because they don't have breasts or nipples, seeing as they're something akin to amphibians. (But not exactly. They may or may not be warm blooded.)

The "deep sea" Merrow species doesn't wear clothes. Well, apart from the bags, jewelry, and strapping possessions to themselves.

The Fir Baite wear hats or jewelry sometimes, and will also strap things to themselves, but otherwise they don't have any need for clothing, as there's no way to see their genitals or the opening for them. If they did feel like covering up, though, and it wasn't for warmth, they'd probably just use a glamour.

For the Merrow, you could probably see their cloaca without the skirt, so they cover up around other species. I don't see any reason for them to care about covering up when it's just other Merrow around, though.

We've already discussed the Vodnik over at my blog. Though I thought I'd mention them here because of an interesting quirk of their evolution: the adults are very wide, so they look fat but it's all muscle. But that doesn't happen until they hit puberty in their twenties. Before that, their kids/teens look a lot more like humans, enough so that they can just throw on a very simple glamour to look fully human and not have to deal with people judging them for their kids being fat. So apart from both sexes having flat chests as kids, as kids they grow to look and sound like human kids/teens apart from their skin and eyes. So they can wear regular human clothes for their age group. Though the chlorine in pools probably bothers them. They have lungs, but they're amphibians. So their skin and eyes would probably be very irritated by chlorine.

For merfolk, you also have issues such as, what do you do about the water in the pool. Chlorine is likely to be *very* bad for anyone with gills. And you also have issues with fresh vs salt water. A saltwater mermaid is going to fairly unhappy (at best) swimming in fresh water and vice versa.

So far I haven't had the Fir Ghobhar or Merrow show up on other worlds, but that's always a possibility even though travel between Fomor and the nearest Realm of Annwn takes two weeks for reasons nobody can quite figure out. Plenty of other Realms' inhabitants visit or even move to Fomor, so why not vice versa? The only Fomorian species to show up in other places so far have been the Fir Baite (once, in book 5) and the Aeventyrichor (but they don't really count since they moved away from Fomor.)

Anyway, the "shallows" Merrow can be in either saltwater or fresh water, bt they prefer salt water. As to chlorine, their gills are retractable, and they have lungs in addition to gills. Not sure how a deep sea Merrow would even get to a pool to begin with. But if they could, I imagine there'd have to be separate pools for them, like the enclosures at SeaWorld.

Shop class is apt to be a problem for Fae. All those steel tools.

Why would that be a problem for them? Most tools have wooden or plastic handles. Iron is only a problem for them if they touch the metal itself. And there's a lot of aluminum tools as well.

Ooo! Someone who turns into a dryad and their tree is on someone else's property? Lawyers could fight that one out for *years*.

Or it is on their property, but the HOA says the tree has to go.

Oooh, I might actually use this one. Acorn Bonewits is a dryad whose tree died in one of the PNW forest fires. She's still in mourning, and so hasn't gone to the trouble yet of making a new one. Part of that is because it'd be kind of like a child making a replacement for a deceased parent. I mean sure, dryads and other tree nymphs do merge with the consciousness of their tree, then they diverge for a while, and then re-merge over and over and over again... but the tree still came first, and their relationship is somewhere between hive mind and identical twins.

Someone trying to evict a were because of a "no pets" rule.

Okay, this is another one I could see possibly using. Maybe not in the way you would think though... in my Ravenstone series, there is a list of like five or six ways to become something mundanes would call a werewolf. I won't list them all here now, but the relevant one is the one a character of mine has. See, he's a Varg. Which means he can generate a wolf construct from solidified magic (called ectoplasm) and control it. Usually Vargs have to be lying down to control this construct, but Orcus has figured out how to control the construct and his own body at the same time. So he kinda treats his wolf form like a Familiar that can disappear at will.

So yeah, I could see a possibility of someone seeing his wolf form and mistaking it for a real wolf. I think if he was renting from a witch, he'd be fine; too many witches have Familiars to be too bothered about Familiars or pets. But he's a criminal, so I could see him renting from a mundane.

[mdlbear]

You should maybe follow ellenmillion

[siliconshaman]

Pretty sure trying to evict a were due to 'no pets' rules would count as discrimination and the lawyers would be all over that!

[kengr]

Yeah, but in the meantime, the tenant may have to find a different place to live.

[stickmaker]

In my Gifted Saga stories several thousand people around the world suddenly have their secret wishes and desires fulfilled. One of the points made in these stories is that most people's wishes and desires are distressingly mundane.

However! There are also people like Marian Holst, who is now a half-tonne centauress. She drives a custom-modified van, and has access problems. A lot of 'em.

See: http://www.dcr.net/~stickmak/Art/LARGERSZ.JPG

The title of that is "Do You Have it in a Larger Size?"

[kengr]

I've enjoyed all your stories I could find. And yes, she *does* need a larger size. :-)

I'm reminded of the tale of an SCA fighter (decades back) who was flying somewhere and (probably due to weight restrictions on luggage) had decided to wear his chainmail under his suit.

He pulled up his shirt and showed them. He offered to go thru a private search, but they insisted he walk thru the metal detector.

The results were not pretty.

[we_are_spc]

Shop class is apt to be a problem for Fae. All those steel tools.

Does steel have iron in it then? Cold iron is mostly the problem for us-at least my species. If your talking about pother species...yaah, sometimes metal in general can be an issue-especially after prolonged exposure.

-T~

[kengr]

Yes, steel is mostly iron with some carbon and other elements.