Tàcharan

a changling from the South Blue. where they come from is uncertain, appearing wihtout warning in place of newborns in their own cradles  
debating instead of 'changling' on maybe a mermaid whose half human baby doesnt' have gills so she can't go home. maybe human father crashed and died trying to cross reverse mountain and she's stranded there. she's fully prepared to switch babies out of desperation, but then when she sneaks into killer's quarters - and finds fellow mom with dead baby... maybe at that point, baby swap wasn't an act of survival by all means, and more one of two women across species comforting each other. mermaid mom can go lay killer's baby to rest with her human crew; and dive grows up around a crew that adore her - telegram 11:36
But oh.... Mermama kissing her baby last goodbye and Killer does the same with her baby and both of them promise to take care of eachother's babies (in Killer's case she's promising to keep Dive alive at all costs) -dolf 11:45
killer refuses to let her crew take her dead baby away - that is a rotting corpse she's carrying around - and she's likely been mostly unwashed since labor so crew have opened the windows to try and air the room out - keep it from getting too rank while they try and figure out the next plan. Mermama (love this btw) was already traveling with humans, so she's probably gotten good and sneaking in and out of portholes. killer refuses to let her crew take her dead baby away - that is a rotting corpse she's carrying around - and she's likely been mostly unwashed since labor so crew have opened the windows to try and air the room out - keep it from getting too rank while they try and figure out the next plan. Mermama (love this btw) was already traveling with humans, so she's probably gotten good and sneaking in and out of portholes. -11:53

Referances

  • In Scottish Gaelic tradition, the changeling was called tàcharan or umaidh. In Irish folklore, it was corpán sidhe, síodhbradh or síofra; and in Manx it was Ihianoo shee. The Welsh called them plentyn a neidiwyd am arall.
  • tàcharan m (genitive singular tàcharain, plural tàcharanan) (Noun)
    • changeling
    • (dated) orphan
    • (dated) weak, helpless, cowardly, feeble person
    • (obsolete) yelling of ghosts
  • In Irish legend, a fairy child may appear sickly and will not grow in size like a normal child, and may have notable physical characteristics such as a beard or long teeth. They may also display intelligence far beyond their apparent years and possess uncanny insight. A common way that a changeling could identify itself is through displaying unusual behaviour when it thinks it is alone, such as jumping about, dancing or playing an instrument – though this last example is found only within Irish and Scottish legend. - Mac Philib, Séamas (1991). "The Changeling (ML 5058) Irish Versions of a Migratory Legend in Their International Context". Béaloideas. 59: 121–131. doi:10.2307/20522381. JSTOR 20522381.
  • Other folklore says that human milk is necessary for fairy children to survive. In these cases, the newborn human child would be switched with a fairy baby to be suckled by the human mother. - Briggs (1979)
  • In Wales, the changeling child (plentyn newid (sing.), plant newid (pl.)) initially resembles the human child for which it has been substituted, but gradually grows uglier in appearance and behaviour: ill-featured, malformed, ill-tempered, given to screaming and biting. It may be of less than usual intelligence but may equally well be identifiable because of its more-than-childlike wisdom and cunning. - Wirt Sikes. British Goblins: The Realm of Faerie. Felinfach: Llanerch, 1991.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling

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