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“CAPTAIN PHILZA YOU MOTHER FUCKER.”
Phil could only laugh, bending over himself wheezing.
Wilbur was trying his hardest to hold a sugar high Tommy in place while Techno held up a mini basket filled with Siren friendly candy smugly hanging it to Tommy’s line of sight. Wilbur squawked and yelled out, “YOU'RE NOT HELPING TECHNO!!”
When the captain glanced up and saw Tommy’s expression of pure wonder reaching out and making grabby hands towards the little floating basket. Just as Phil started to calm down his laughing fit it started all over again.
Unbeknownst to Wilbur there was a figure right behind him with distinct scales. She pokes once at his under-scales with her claws rapidly and-
“Bao! (Boo!)”
“Æ”
He yelps loud and high pitched. Letting go of Tommy as he flinches harshly. Tommy doesn’t go for the candy anymore but instead faces Wilbur to laugh loudly. Sally’s laugh joined with every other person in the room when Wilbur realized the noise he made. Ear fins were pressed firmly to his head, curling up his body in slight shame.
The laughter promptly brings two hybrid boys into the room with the glass tank. Tubbo is the first one to pipe in.
“What’s all this laughing about?”
This promptly causes Philza to laugh even harder if that was possible.
“NOTHING, NOTHING HAPPENED.” Wilbur shouts.
Techno is busy playing keep away from Tommy with the basket of candy so Sally tries to talk with her laughter.
“So, hah-, I scared Wilbur and he made this really high-pitched-.”
Speak of the blue finned devil, Wilbur grabbed Sally from behind and started tickling her. She lets out a playful shriek, starts laughing and starts trying to bat Wilbur’s hands away for him to stop.
“How dare you destroy my dignity like that!”
Tommy grins mischievously and comments, “Wha dignaity?”
Wilbur stopped tickling Sally and directed his attention to the child as he darted across the tank for Tommy.
“QA VACKLI’E BNIOL?! (WHAT DID YOU SAY?)
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Later in the evening Tubbo and Ranboo are sitting in the room with the tank. It's silent, save for Wilbur starting to talk.
“Tubbo, Ranboo? How much do you know about Baodiflite?
Tubbo and Ranboo both tilted their heads at the same time, which Wilbur thought was adorable but he continued.
“Yeah, I think it’s similar to a human holiday. I believe it’s pronounced Howl-low-weighn?
Ranboos' ears perked, “Oh! You mean Halloween, so Bo-de-fe-light-y is like Halloween?!” Their posture straightens and eyes widen again.
Sally with her claws messages through Tommy’s hair as he slept peacefully (He did that a lot.) And adds on.
“Mhm, this tradition is one of the few closest to a human holiday. Another would be Noeil fym, and Jove Hue. But I personally think Baodifilite is the most popular and most well known for being like Halloween.
Ranboo blurted out questions,
“How do you celebrate it?”
“What are some legends if you have any?”
“What’s the origin?”
“Wh-“
Tubbo slapped a hand over Ranboos mouth and shushed him. This made Ranboo go red despite him having black skin. Tubbo pulled his hand away and Ranboo pouted.
Techno was doing the equivalent of pacing in the tank before coming to a stop in front of the two teens. “You two wanna talk about it? He gestures to Sally and Wilbur “I honestly don’t remember much from my original pod.”
Sally smiled sadly and then looked to Wilbur with a mischievous smile, “I never had a pod nor had ever been to the ocean before 9 months ago.”
And so Wilbur sighed dramatically and said “Fine.”
Wilbur sank himself to the bottom of the tank and clapped his hands together.
“Let’s start with Coda ti’li’li Javan Fu’tä.”
Tubbo and Ranboo sat up straight both their ears perked and listening intently.
Wilbur started with a low voice. “Coda ti’li’li was a Siren from eons and eons ago that was the result of jealousy.”
“He was the Crown of the original Kä pod. And brought prosperity and riches to the sea. All praised him for his looks, intelligence, boldness, and kindness.”
Codä ti’li’li was nothing short but of a god, he drove giant squid and killer whales away with his voice. The sea was at peace for decades, but of course, nothing gold can stay. Not every siren thought highly of him.
Javan Fu’tä was jealous, jealous of his friend's power so much so he became greedy and wanted it for himself. One day he would try to take the sacred moon pendant for himself.
He was caught doing so, the pod took his voice and let him drift into the deep. Never to be seen again, only in legends and stories.
From then on and beyond the day Coda ti’li’li returned to mother moon, many believed that if you didn’t ward off the Javan Fu’tä curse, Baodiflite it would infect your head making you greedy and eventually drench you in pure hatred.
“Woah…” Tubbo said at the end of the story.
Wilbur grinned, “The day he drifted is when the holiday is celebrated. What Siren used to do to ward off his curse was by sacrificing the voice of a whale and allowing it to drift.”
Ranboos' eyes blew wide. “Oh-“
“But! That’s an old tradition, nowadays, we celebrate it similarly to your holiday of Halloween, isn't it?”
“Everyone in the pod or family gathers and exchanges the best gifts and sweets and tells other stories surrounding Baodiflite.”
The smile was brought back to Ranboos face. “That’s nice!”
“More more!” Tubbo shouted out.
Wilbur barked a laugh and started speaking again.