The merpeople have two kingdoms, one on the north and one on the south, it's a matriarchal society, that is to say women rule, in this case mermaids

11. Back stories: Benedict Doe

Jade turned out to be really good at studying once he started using nature as example, he explained that space had to do with room and size, and that it also had to do with quantity and lack, it was a rare aspect because of its mystery, little was known about the actual thing, when Jade asked what he was talking about he claimed that was exactly it, they didn't know space was even a thing

Kanaya joined them later, adding her own input, Jade had forgotten the rainbow drinker also had space as an aspect, mainly because she was a normal troll, not marine side at all, but trolls worked weirdly for her, latter the two females asked on the story of how Benedict had met Robin, though Kanaya was more curious as to whether it was true that she was as old as she claimed to be, which received an affirmative

It all started with a game of hide and seek with Casidy, she was too young to notice when she entered the royal gardens and when Benedict found her the game turned into hide from the guards, they were found out by young looking merman who helped them get into the castle without being noticed and finally they got to meet the queen, to be completely honest, Robin had looked basically the same as she did then, a bit shorter only, she received them in the castle and asked for their names and how they got there, Robin seemed to find it amusing that her guards hadn't seen Casidy get in and made a few jabs at the younger merman who happened to be named Gregory and was related to her by blood, he raised his hand in defense

"If you'd let me bring my mates to the castle maybe the security could be improved"

Robin let out a loud laugh and told him that maybe once they all hit mating age, to which Gregory smiled widely before swimming away saying something about telling them

The rest of the day was spent with Robin showing them the entirety of the castle and it's garden, when they got to the room of the kingdom's sorcerer the merman was working there was convinced by the queen to let them try their hand at one of the spells the merman had failed to cast so far, it was an invoking spell that should make a simple goldfish appear, Casidy managed to make a few clown fish swim around her, but they had been there before so they didn't count, Benedict tried and managed to create a very small goldfish but a goldfish nonetheless and the sorcerer was impressed, insisting on having him as his apprentice, after that things got blurry, he just know he somehow became pretty close to the queen, great with magic, met a bunch of merfolk who were good at handling their aspects, except this one merman named Jake who didn't quite grasp the concept of hope, and latter became the kingdom's bane as the old sorcerer left to serve the queen's older sister. Somewhere along the way Casidy got in the kingdom's army and somehow got them to train them in fighting, sometimes she said they were lucky she had decided to hide in the castle all those years before but once she hit age for mating it was obvious that she was destined to go to the place, she was tied to Gregory who was a blushing mess when he found out, it was nice really, he was glad, latter Robin put Casidy in charge of international relations arguing that it'd be good with her aspect and that was when Benedict knew she had planned it all out

"That was when I learned that there are no coincidences when one works with Robin Aresta"

"And you zhould never forget that"

Benedict turned unimpressed to the redhead while the other two looked somewhat surprised but no worse for wear, Benedict had to hand it to them

"But dezpite what you may believe I only had a zuzpission firzt, but magic reactz ssertain wayz to different azpect uzerz so my doubtz dezappeared when I zaw you perform tha zpell, clazzez are even more telling"

With a finishing wink she went away, Benedict rolled his eyes and stood up

"If you two excuse me, I have some maps and stars to read"