~ // Fish tank // ~ Fish Seaweed Tank DTAE // ~

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Hi! I loved Fish Seaweed Tank's design, (it's so detailed :0) So I decided to enter! I'm publishing this on the due date so hopefully it still counts- Anyways, hope you like it! :DDD ~Bio~ Name: Luminous Nickname: Lumi (Preferred :D) Gender: Female (She/her) Personality: Charming, friendly, sweet, gullible, paranoid, brittle Likes: Making toys, fish, cold drinks, bubbles, Dislikes: Dark spaces, experiments, being sick Other: Lumi is a cat, although some of her limbs have been replaced with fish tanks. The fish inside her tanks are plastic :0 Backstory: (Warning: Long, and quite possibly sad and/or disturbing :)) Lumi was sort of an experiment. She was just a regular, ordinary cat. Except she was born in a lab. Why? She didn't really know. As far as she was concerned, she didn't have real parents. She had materialized out of thin air, due to a tragic mistake. She was much too weak to do anything, and would probably end up dying. The people in charge of taking care of her didn't really care. She was merely born by mistake, and didn't really have a purpose. It didn't matter what happened to her. However, there was a specific person who saw potential in her. A cat that had materialized out of thin air by mistake? They could probably make a lot of money out of her. So instead of trying to help Lumi become stronger, they started running tests on her. Lumi was just a kit at the moment, and wasn't really sure why she was constantly in pain. About 4 months of experimenting on Lumi later, they had finished. What they gathered was that Lumi could glow in the dark, breathe underwater, had some sort of telekinesis and- that was basically it. They renamed her from "EM230" to "Luminous" after her ability to glow. But this was amazing! If they could make an exhibit for her, they were sure to make tons of money! So they placed Lumi in a tank made just for her. It was a pretty boring tank. There was nothing to do. No decorations, no anything. Just people who would pay extravagant amounts of money just to see her. A purple kit with white and orange patterns, and some white cubes on her cheeks and forehead. Lumi wouldn't even swim around, she was too weak for that. She would lay at the bottom of the tank, wondering when she could breathe fresh air again. Everyone seemed pretty disappointed that the cat that had materialized out of thin air was- lazy. That's right, they thought Lumi was lazy. Too lazy to swim, even though she was in constant pain. Lumi would barely even open her eyes, and when she did, she liked to look at the people. Everyone seemed different and unique to her. She never got bored of studying the different types of people. Lumi never forgot anyone she saw. She could see every single individual person she'd met if she just tried hard enough. Pretty soon, everyone got bored of Lumi. She wasn't doing anything except laying down at the bottom of the tank. People stopped coming. Occasionally there was a tourist or two, but that was basically it. Everyone at the lab was furious that she had stopped making money. They scolded her told her she had to be more interesting. Lumi understood what they were saying, but they weren't understanding her. She kept trying to tell them she was in pain. Everything breathe hurt. She needed help. They ignored all her strange behavior and instead started training her to do tricks underwater. Lumi was in no shape to do backflips in the water. But she always did what they asked. Otherwise they would stop feeding her. She had figured that out the hard way. But no matter what Lumi did, the tourists never came back. She couldn't make enough money. So they only saw one solution. Selling her for a lot of money. They put her up for auction, and she was sold within a week. She had been sold for 25,000$ to a well-known toymaker who went by the identity of "Golden Needle" He never revealed his real name to anyone, and nobody knew why. Golden Needle decided to keep the name Luminous, except he shortened it to give her the nickname "Lumi". Nobody at the lab every shortened her name, so it took some adjusting too. Golden Needle soon saw that Lumi was very sick. He wasn't sure what to do. The vet said that Lumi had been on the verge of death for the last year of her life, and that Lumi was probably going to die at any moment. The reason she was alive was because Lumi's body was made out of particles and she didn't have blood. If she was a real cat, she would have died long ago. Golden Needle had contacted the lab that made Lumi, and asked them what to do. They said that Lumi actually needed to have her limbs replaced with water to live, but that they had never had the budget to do so. The less body Lumi had, the more chance she had at surviving. So Golden Needle got to work. He managed to replace all of Lumi's legs and tails with water tanks. It didn't hurt Lumi because she had no real blood or body.