Nymphlopedia

Entry 66: Soap Nymphs

Beginning AN:

Oh shit a new Nintendo presentation is coming tomorrow. (I said that here and not in Entry 65's opening notes because I didn't know about it until after publishing 65.) If Pikmin 4 is announced I'll... figure out something to do by the time Entry 68 rolls by. And use finishing up this and 67 as time-passers for me to come up with that. So, two-chapter cliffhanger on one day here.

"BLAH I hate showering with you!" Sonata complained. "And that! That is why!"

Reminder: those red spots on her are not blood, they're just brownish-colored patches on her skin. Even though the Naked Empire had (at Vince's request, and Tania was not 100% on board with the idea when she found out) its own proper shower with cleaning products, their Soap Nymph ally insisted after their really fucking disgusting rematch with the Old One's Army (those damn Ogres. Shreks as Sonata liked calling them) that they return to her home Soap Lake and wash off there. In a waterfall. ...Having a waterfall shower and going 'Okay that's enough' was the exact kind of crap Vince was trying to avoid.

And yes, the entire fighting force was there. All the sixty-something Nymphs, the various town residents... and the main trio, all together. Fighting against the Old One's Army was a group effort. Those guys sucked, but with that dragon taken care of and Ted back home, they had nothing else to worry about.

"Alright!" Sonata said, soaping up her hair. Again, actually. "Vince! Vince! I just thought of something!"

Vince sighed. "I don't want our Soap Lake part of our base to replace the main shower."

He still didn't know what it was with Nymphs and waterfall showers.

"No it's not that... not again, at least." She rinsed off her hair quickly, then took a soap bar in her hands. She tried lathering it up with her boobs. Vince rolled his eyes. "I thought, what if we make our own biome-mixing pool? You know how Tania has one?"

"You should ask me about biome-mixing if that is your plan." Tania said, moving over to them. She was actually cleaned up - Soap Nymph Verified, in fact - and was about to towel herself off and leave, but she was brought up. "It's a delicate process. I like that you want to start your own multi-biome pool, but don't throw sand and mud together wrecklessly."

"Yeah sure! You're getting out? Lemme just follow you-"

And of course a light cyan Nymph stepped in-between them.

"You... should probably clean yourself more." She said.

"What, huh? These brown spots-"

"No, not that, I know that! You told me when we met!"

"...For a damn good reason."

"I meant you just washed your hair, armpits, crotch and breasts."

"Half of those were to tease Vince. The other half was because my armpits stink and my hair has a lot stuck in it, good golly."

She drew a finger around Sonata, picked one up after touching her side, and brought that finger near her eye.

"See? An entire speck of dirt."

Sonata rolled her eyes. "Urgh! How is that even - this is roaring rushing water!"

"Dirt is tougher than you may think."

"Fine! I'll stick back and wash more! With Vince at least-"

"Vince is clean." Those three words brought a large smile to his face.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! The tough and gritty adventure dude cleaned up better than me?!"

The Soap Nymph shrugged. "He has better hygene habits than you."

Sonata looked up. "Okay! Well, if it'll shut you up, I'll wash myself the 'proper' way!"

Soap Nymphs.

Rub a dub dub. These Nymphs generally like being really clean. They also like to clean their meals before cooking them, redundant as that sounds.

Preferred Environment: Soap Lakes.

Environment Threat Level: Calm.

Environment Stats: Very wet around the water, dry about the land. Warm. Fantastic. Uncommon. Large, light blue-green fields and lakes of a "soapy" material, with waters usually bubbling with suds. (They, of course, have sources of pure water for rinsing.)

Other Names: Shampoo Nymphs, Clean Nymphs, Hygine Nymphs.

Affinity: Fire.

Color: Light Cyan.

Traditional Costume Weapon: Patches of bubbles abound their bodies. In addition to the usual environment-manipulation, this can also let them control various soaps and many other "cleaning products." This has a slight overlap with the power of Toxic Nymphs.

Vince's Comment: They make the ground really slippery. That's not their most powerful move, but it is their most common and, in my opinion, most devastating.

Sonata's Comment: Whenever I step foot in this biome after not doing that in a while, the last time that happened being on my Zenith-forging journey, the Nymphs here almost immediately insist that I be washed and they volunteer to help clean me off. I mean, I love bathing with them. But it almost seems insulting. And they don't do the same with Vince or Tania... do I actually smell really bad or am I really unhygenic, and they're the only ones with the actual guts to tell me? Or is this just some weird me-only bias? Hm... you know what, I think I'm mature enough to have figured out that yeah, I'm going for the first option there. Final answer.

Tania's Comment: Soap Nymphs.
Nymphae Sapo.
Most of the Nymphs of this region tend to have a strong feeling towards a culture of "cleanliness" and "purity," by their standards. (Definitely not mine.) They are some of the stronger "basic ability" (in the sense of acids vs bases, not in the sense of "simplicity") Nymphs, using their cleaning powers even on their enemies as a sort of "baseline standard," that no matter how foul a person's personality is, to try to clean them up. Both literally and figuratively. Soap Nymphs also have fairly durable bodies and, in mixed-Nymph groups, tend to be assigned for roles as shielders.

Closing AN:

"Soap, the lost element." Ah, disregard that, that's a... well, that title is pretty much a scrapped one, but some ideas for the story that was going to be named that might show up in the distant future of my Fictionpress stuff.

I was thinking about having this being about the characters just kinda soaping each other up and whatnot but... I couldn't find a way to go with that in the rather short time - shorter than usual thanks to, again, getting RG finished up - I'm giving myself for these at the moment. And again, I haven't been writing the stories ahead of time much. I liked the whole thing about the Soap Nymph criticising Sonata's self-washing skills so I kinda went with that, I'm picking that for now. Maybe the rewrite will have more of characters "helping each other wash." With the Soap Nymph being the only one who genuinely wanted them to get clean.

And I'm not sure if I've said this before, here or even otherwise, but yeah it won't have any dumb groping crap in it regardless. I like my fanservice consensual and with agency (and if you see me liking/favoriting/whatever something that seems to look otherwise, that's not me being a hypocrite, that's just the Internet being so dry in content fitting that description that I'm like "Oh fuck it, at least this is drawn well enough") and not sexual harassment just being passed off as a joke. I don't like the whole "Oh your boobs are bigger than mine I'm gonna just have no personal space whatsoever and grab them and play with them while you complain" like. I'm positive that that's not a normal thing that happens in everyday regular life. And it makes the characters seem obsessed with breasts. Like. If you think about breasts all the time, okay whatever, that's on you, but I'd rather have my characters not be thinking about breasts all the time and being mature and stuff. Nobody freaking out over nudity. Nobody acting like they've never seen a naked woman or naked man before. And I'm really not a fan of contrived scenarios so that such-and-such character actually never saw a naked man/woman before. Especially if that's just brushed off as some cute character quirk instead of a sign of a super creepy fucked up prudish living condition. Like, if I ever have someone with that sort of thing, I'm playing that for pure horror.

Wait, shoot, way back in Entry 24 I said that one was the last of the .GIFocalypse based Nymph types...

Well, this is another weird case where I basically "split" two biomes, the whole "soap/bath theme" and the "hot spring theme..." and actually, I might split the whole "healing" theme from the hot springs one to a third type after some edits... again, I don't know.

By the way I am tempted to move the whole "bathers" thing from the Hot Springs Nymphs over to here but I just already did a quick edit to a past chapter, again the Soul Nymphs to change the Affinity, and I just finished pounding out a shitpost chapter... not really in the mood to go back and edit. (And flip the Affinity with this and Soap Nymphs, also making two Fires in a row back in Part 1.)

Jeez I really wish FFN had a cleaner and more direct way to upload and update stories.