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// THIS IDEA WAS LONG OVERDUE BUT I DON'T CARE PLS BEAR WITH ME I AM BREATHING LIFE INTO MY CHILD

The summer solstice brought new beginnings to the land; celebrations erupted the grounds of the earth as the world celebrated the longest day of the year. The heat was immense today in Tanglewood as the relentless sun had stood in place longer than usual, its brightness beating upon the earth's inhabitants without prejudice. Iota had been preparing for the solstice in her greenhouse, preparing her plants to absorb as much of the sun's rays as possible on this rather generously given day. Each of the sun's rays blasted through the glass walls of the greenhouse, illuminating each speck of dust that'd been kicked up since her time at the once-abandoned conservatory. "I suppose there's not much left I can do here..."

Walking out unto the clan grounds, something seemed... different about the feline. She supposed it was perhaps her mood, that something was in the air that made her feel strange. No, it was much different than that.

She tread past a puddle of water from where it had rained a day prior, somehow not having been absorbed by the unrelenting ball of fire in the sky. Peering into it, she did indeed notice something different about her... her fur color changed from pink to blue.

"A-ah... Well, this is quite the change..." She didn't quite know how to process this new information about herself. On one hand, she did look quite attractive in blue. On the other hand... it reminded her of Oni. But he was gone, so why did it matter to her?

She paced around the grounds, quietly pondering how such a phenomenon could have occurred — and in such a small length of time. Maybe Nayru knew something? Considering it was something to do with Iota's biology, she doubted it. Maybe she'd find an answer in somebody though.

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But Heed this lesson well,
When the weak court death, They find it -

"you didn't happen to fall into a vat of dye Iota?" a slightly bemused voice called over from where Fenris emerged from his home - looking slightly tired and scented faintly of metal and fire but then he had been working lately on his own projects much like Iota's preparations.

Padding closer, he inclined his head with a hum "certainly a change from pink to blue - are you alright?" he knew it was her like he knew if it was any of his clanmates, aura's didn't lie even if the hibiscus and unchanged form didn't already give it away - but the follow up question was raised with concern after all, some didn't like change or found it frightening and ever the overly concerned mother hen he'd felt complete to ask.

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"would you look at that. clan funnyman. what a comedian." malphas said flatly, looking at fenris while he made his way over to the two. iota was an alright person... but why the fuck was she blue? "you looked better in pink," he coughed out, but in reality he didn't care what pastel color iota decided she would be. was he envious? he was a boring grey, and in an attempt to look cool, he had even glued little horns to his head. unlike iota, who used to have actual real horns.

"are you a flamingo or some shit? stop eating blue food," he recommended seriously, flicking his tail.

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Iota found that Fenris noticed her quite obvious change first, him approaching her asking about dyes. She smiled. Always the lighthearted war god, he was. "Not that I can remember." Emerald eyes flashed towards the puddle she'd spotted herself in, and then back at Fenris. "I certainly don't feel any different, although..."

Looking behind her, she noticed an obvious change. The flowers that would sprout at her footsteps hadn't been present today. Could it be that her newfound powers were already... dormant? What a strange incident it was. Perhaps it had something to do with the seasons? Autumn-time was already approaching rapidly, although summer had just begun. Why hadn't the flowers on her body wilted, or even disappeared? There were too many questions to answer.

She did have one, though. "Bear with me, Fenris ... I gotta try something." Unsheathing a single claw, she nicked her other paw lightly in an attempt to drain a bit of blood. Wincing as the pain had been more than she could previously endure, the blood began to trickle out from her pinprick. It was... red? Now this was a rather strange development. She didn't quite think they knew about her oddly-colored blood from previous times, so she decided to hide it from her clanmates. "Just as I'd suspected ..." She turned around and faced Fenris as Malphas came into view as well, the recluse being the usual jerkass. She smirked, firing back at the other feline jokingly. "And you'd look better in literally any other color." Did she mean that? Of course not; she hoped Malphas would play along. She gave a soft smile so as to not seem ill with her intentions. "T' be honest, I'm not quite sure what's going on." She tilted her head at Malphas, genuinely concerned at his question. "I hadn't eaten anything blue lately, though."

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”Oh, my goodness! Iota! Look how beautiful you are!”

From the newly promoted Firebrand’s words, it was obvious she wasn’t too upset about the color changing. Happily, the young goddess scurried over, observing her friend from head to toe. A gigantic smile plastered itself upon her face as she stood back a few feet to survey it all. ”I can’t believe how pretty you look! And don’t listen to Malphas, he’s just jealous,” she laughed in jest before turning to look at Fenris for backup. ”Right?” Her goofy smile just grew.

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Out of all of the things she should've expected, she did not expect Freyja's joyous response to her changing in hue, even being called "beautiful" by the winged fae. Perhaps she had just been trying to be nice to her about her new color, it had to have been quite the weird change to be on the opposite side of the color spectrum one sudden day.

Iota blushed as the tabby came to her, observing her from head to toe. No, she realized, she wasn't just being nice — she genuinely enjoyed her new look, even calling her "pretty" again after already saying she was beautiful. She might have been going on an ego trip, but she did want to hear more compliments from the firebrand — she felt validated when the words came from her. Freyja herself was just as beautiful as her sister; it seemed it ran in the family. No wonder she was so flustered to hear her speak of her in such a way. Slightly embarrassed and very flattered, she began to spoke to her friend. "Hah ... I'm so glad you think so, Freyja. Always a delight to hear such words come from you." She gave her a light smile, lips curling up in delight and tilting her head as her face glowed a darker hue of blue from the embarrassment of it all. "As for Malphas, I don't really care what he has to say either way." She chuckled. "Thank you, though, it really does mean a lot. I just fear what your sister'd have to say about it."

She thought about that for a moment. She knew Nayru had quite the attraction for her for a while now; Iota could read her like a book. However... why? Was it her odd-yet-strangely-alluring coloring? Her pink fur was no longer, so the thought of that sent a chill down her spine. She hoped that she'd be accepted into the sawbone's heart after turning a frosty blue.