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The rather angry Mer-Medusa Crosshair
Crosshair was enjoying his underwater shower in peace and quiet, when said peace was disturbed by a loud banging at the underwater refresher door.
“Never a quiet moment in here!” Crosshair hissed. The shampoo covering all of his body at the moment, even his face and well, heaving his eyes closed it wasn’t easy to see anything. “WOT???” He hissed rather loudly to whomever it was daring the disturb his moment.
“You’ve been there long enough, Cross! Others want to use the facilities too!” Hunter growled from the other side of the door, while benign on it.
“Come any closer and I will kill you, Hunt!” The Medusa DNA within Crosshair kicking in, the anger seething through his sharp mer-teeth and guess, his, well, tentacles.
“No ya won’t.” Hunter knew better of course, but the threat was quite real as there was a queue forming behind the refresher door for sure, the family there waiting their turn.
(Yes, they were underwater, with water being key here, but they did have manners after all, and refreshers were a thing even in the mer-world.)
“Yeah? Well why don’t you just go dive into the waves like you usually do to get cleaned up!”
Crosshair teasing Hunter of his habit of usually not bothering to shower thoroughly, not like Crosshair did. The merman always taking the quick and easy way out even when it came to self-grooming.
“I…heh, guess I was ordered to wash more properly… ‘cause apparently. I smell?”
Hunter’s admittance causing Crosshair to smirk. It was true though. And thankfully, it was most likely Echo having had enough of the smelly Mer-Hunter.
The others too having made several comments on Hunter’s casual take on self-grooming. And Crosshair could not agree more with them. So guess, Crosshairs really could let this one go for a more fresher smell of his brother inside their mer-home.
“Fine! Fine! Gimme a few and the refresher is all yours.”
Crosshair washed away the soap quickly enough, his translucent skin glistening in the pale of the underwater glow of the moon light from above.
Checking himself in the mirror one last time, feeling all fresh and clean, sprinkling on some flowery perfume as well before he swam out and let Hunter in.
“Hope you can appreciate this gesture Hunt and take some time to make yourself smell nice too in there. Just like I did. It’s the consideration of others around you, Hunt!” Crosshairs reminded Hunter of the same.
Hunter smelled the water around Crosshair, only to be scrunching his nose in, disgust?
The strong orders usually making Hunter nauseated enough, but without a comment in edgewise, Hunter swan into the refresher taking the long over due shower to get rid of the ripe odour he had developed.
Crosshair though, was smiling all the way to the common area of their house, only glad to be clean and that the smells of his smelly brother soon to be gone as soon as Hunter had been having a decent cleanup for once!