most of our selkiebugs stuff is just on tumblr so a quick summary for the tiny crowd here: this is, as the name implies, a bug fables selkie au. "selkie" here means the general category of bugs that have the pelt of another animal that they can use to take on that animal's form, not limited to seals like in the original myth. the explorer's association is a certain wing of a larger selkie's association, so every explorer and several other important characters are all selkies. it's not a rare condition but they are a minority and there are some Social Implications. vi's animal form is a magpie, kabbu's is an alligator, and leif's is a hare
