Days after her banishment to a new world, Adagio Dazzle stands at the edge of the ocean, hungry. She seeks a morsel not merely of the sea's bounty, but of the power her siren body once wielded, of the knowledge that her days as a dominant force of nature are not yet over.
She has a lot to learn about the human body.
A recipient of an Honorable Mention at the 2023 Iron Author contest at Everfree Northwest, revised and slightly expanded for Fimfiction.
Original cover art by The Sleepless Beholder, who pre-read the final version of the story alongside Dewdrops on the Grass.
Featured on 8/20/23-8/22/23!
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Loved everything about this, especially the digs against Starswirl. That guy's a total douchenozzle.
Oof, wouldn't want to be in their place
And thus begins Sonata's long love affair with Taco Tuesday.
If I had a nickle for every time in the past month I've read a story where a fantasy creature is transformed into a human and takes a moment to lament the loss of their tail... I'd have a clichéd saying.
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A bit of a common experience between Sunset and Adagio, yes. That was how I interpreted the “Vibrant Vestigial” part of the Iron Author prompt.
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Fair. I mean, don't get me wrong. Opposable thumbs are great, but I'd kill to have a tail.
I had a lot of fun here, from the on point siren infighting, to the casual descriptions of murderous hand to hand combat occurring in the background.
I love the implication that the hippogriffs/seaponies slowly oscillated between land and sea every few centuries, each time fleeing from some cataclysmic threat and waiting for it to die before getting driven back to their old homeland by some new menace on the other side.
So much urea...
As I noted with the original entry, a fantastic fish-out-of-water story in a very literal sense. Adagio's barely contained wizardmurder bloodfury, her longing memories for better days, and the casually abandoned angry fistfights make for a fantastic alien perspective, and the inevitable outcome of the sirens' attempts to feed doesn't make their dynamic any less fun. Thank you for this, and for bringing it to Fimfic. Congrats again on your honorable mention!
You were saying Adagio?
Damn, talk about lucky that Sonata caught a shark!
She seriously shouldn't have used salt water to wash her mouth out.
Are those even safe to eat whole?
Saw it coming.
All it takes is a good meal to get over a rough day. Or week. You get my point.
This was a hilarious read. Adafio and crew trying and mostly failing to catch ocean fish made my evening.
Thanks for writing for Iron Author 2023! Yet another example of how we're impressed by the entries we see every year.
They should of just made a fire. Those fish catching skills were out of this world. Someone give aria a lighter
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NOOO don't give Aria a lighter😱
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hold on - hang on a second, they've got a point. Do do that actually. it'll be entertaining, I wanna see what happens
life is always WAY more fun with everything on fire, I think Aria really deserves a lighter