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Summer Festival Follies

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After gorging herself on eggs only hours into the morning of the Turtle Festival, Rakhamat somehow found herself lounging by the tide and getting her feathers painted by a rather chipper Berraluth.

"There, now," Berraluth clucked as she put the finishing touches on Rakhamat's feathers, "I can finally stand to be seen with you in public." It was a joke, and Berraluth was one of the few gryphons Rakhamat would take good-natured jibing from.

Rakhamat turned her head to examine her feathers before hunching over irritably and giving Berraluth a stern look.

"Pointless vanity," she grumbled, her large ears pushing back.

"Oh, come on, it looks so lovely on you. I'm sure the males over there wouldn't think it pointless," Berraluth retorted. A smirk passed over her face when Rakhamat had no response to that save for further hunching.

"You know," she continued, fanning her own painted feathers slightly as she moved to the tidefall to clean the mud off her delicate paws, "some other gryphs have got it into their heads that they can ride polished turtle shells in the water."

Rakhamat's ears perked at this.

"That should be amusing," she muttered as she slowly lifted herself out of her cozy spot by the water.

"My thoughts, exactly. Shall we?"

Rakhamat chuckled and moved to nip at her "cousin's" ear. There may have been no actual blood relation between them-- and she honestly didn't care to find out-- but Berraluth was family, as far as Rakhamat was concerned.

"Of course. Let's go watch those Grandesque idiots fall all over themselves," the Madadh replied. Perhaps it was a good thing that Berraluth had prodded her into coming. A laugh at Grandesque's expense was always appreciated.

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SO I started working on this like the day of the partner announcements because it just sounded like fun. Originally I was going to have Rak and Berra go for a nice turtle-skimboarding themselves, but then decided that THEY ARE FAR TOO CLASSY FOR THAT.

So instead Berraluth used her silver tongue into convincing Rakhamat to be prettified by the light-colored mud. Then they're going to go rofl at the expense of all the silly gryphs attempting to skimboard, and make hilariously biting commentary the entire time.

FOR ONCE, I PAINTED EVERYTHING AND DID NOT CHEAT (much). Though I did use some textures to keep everything from feeling too "flat." I know I spent somewhere over 12 hours on this, but part of that was because I was fiddling a lot and doing some stuff really inefficiently.

BLAH BLAH WHATEVER THIS WAS FUN AND I HOPE I DID NOT BUTCHER BERRALUTH BEYOND RECOGNITION

Feedback always appreciated!

Berraluth belongs to the lovely ~rydicanubis
Rakhamat is mine, of course.
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hehe they're... to sexy for this beach!

love their feathers and faces :aww: