As with Mel and Marie and Annette, every good carnival has a seal-boy. Or seal-girl. Whatever. People love people with deformities because it makes us feel better about ourselves. Well, I suppose that's the reason some people do, I think others just want the shock value of a guy with a
huge hole in his face.
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Thomas W. Kavanagh |
Enter Thomas W. Kavanagh. He was born with webbed feet and big flipper arms. His father, a modestly successful day-trader with a huge degree of curiosity and acceptance, decided this was unusual and worth looking into. He eventually discovered his quiet wife was actually a selkie and his own great grandmother was ALSO a selkie. Now, common mythos says selkies are always female water spirits who wear a seal skin and can be tricked into living as a human if their skin is taken from them when they come onto the land. Who's to say that a selkie might actually desire to live on land and take a human husband and have little seal-pup babies? In my world, the combination of selkies within the family tree caused a short circuit. Thomas wasn't born as human or selkie but a literal mix. Because I like the idea of curses and what happens down the line if someone IS cursed.
Oh, and his middle name is Waits. Because his father has a TERRIBLE sense of humor. Also, he hates that joke.
And I realize I skipped a day in the posts. But 26 is such a bad number!
Mythology is my dark mistress.
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