Skalamander had always had an eye for the sparkly when he was a mer, so it was perhaps fate that he was turned into….well, whatever kind of crystal creature he was now.
In fact, he was something of a reputable jeweler in his swath of the ocean before his livelihood got ruined and he was forced to join Van Kleiss's pack. Every day, he'd pay careful attention to each jewel, crystal, and bit of metal work that came across his hands, trying to bring out the best qualities of each trinket. He enjoyed getting lost in the routine and somehow ending up with a small work of art on his hands.
But after the Event happened, despite being made of never ending crystals his hands could no longer hold his tools and his customers all but abandoned him, fearful of his new appearance.
AN: hi sorry its been a long time! i havent really been updating my account with new chapters so check to make sure you aren't missing out on the other chapters! (im copying and pasting this AN on all the latest chapters for each fic!).
some life updates: ill be attending college in the fall and managed to get a dorm room! officially i am majoring in korean and minoring in chinese (didn't have a major option for this one :/) and hopefully later on i can also major in animation but thats on the table rn. havent been writing because ive been running around america catching up on a bunch of appointments and my family visited me.
thats given me a pause on my stories and coming back i want to focus on rewriting metal bones for a bit. it started out as a short story and i took a radically different turn for a longer story with a different ending and i feel like the beginning is now too over the top and strong for what i now want to do. once ive completed the rewrite, i'll make a "graveyard fic" to put chapters in and replace them with the new ones so you can still read the old ones.