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Bryo is a good ocean nerd who gets very excited to get to be nerdy about sea creatures and it's very good and pure. yes.

What's their favorite part of the ocean? Bryo loves how weird the life that persists in the sea can be, and how amazing it is what that life can survive! She's especially impressed by life around the southern ocean, with fierce storms that go uninterrupted around the entire earth, continuously building up, and how animals can survive that. How the colder, saltier water around ice flows sinks straight down and freezes, causing a layer of ice on the ocean floor... ANd how deadly that can be is fascinating. How there are animals that are so perserverant in the face of adversity to choose to stay around Antarctica in the Winter - Emperor penguins having to stand out in the cold in the harshest storms the planet has just to help provide the best food for their little babies is adorable and there are seals that have to scrape away the ice constantly from their air holes or they freeze over and they have the sheer resolve to stay at the poles anyway! And look at whales, pushing past how tiny their food is and keeping their focus on what they like eating, rather than on what anyone else would push them to...
Isn't what life can push through amazing?
And there are so many ways to geek out about how animals have adapted to survive these things! There are fish with antifreeze in their blood, and fish that glow all different colours so their friends can see them, and fish that change sexes to make sure there's always enough of each sex, and fish that live and such high pressure that they can't even retain their normal shapes when removed from that! Isn't that all absolutely fascinating?!

Whats their favourite seashell? Nautilus Shells. Nautilus' are fascinating because of what they represent - and those dark russet browns on that cream shell are beautiful. And what a lovely smooth curve! And the segments inside are all neat sizes apart from each other, and all the same shape, and it's shiny!
Nautiluses are the only cephalapods that have retained an external shell, and the only branch of cephalopods that survived from ancestors with a curved shell. Nautiluses (to her) represent a lack of fear in being unique or weird or different, a perseverance with the things you value, even if other people no longer like them, and a resourcefulness with being able to use things in new ways no one else would think of or try.
But the prettiness does not hurt.

Edits: Uncommon Pearl jewel

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