Making the Best of a Bad SItuation: A Practical Guide for Damselling in Distress
Nano progress: 6522

Being sick is making everything take about twice as long as it should, both school and writing. Stuff is getting done but I'd hoped to be building up some padding for later in the month when I'm going to be busy.

However, Davis's alter ego The Mussel is quite possibly the most awesome superhero ever (okay probably not but he's certainly very punny). I have to give props to Holly for giving me the name for a strength-oriented Atlantic superhero - the rest fell out from the name. Originally he was going to be a small skinny guy who just had super-strength, but The Mussel...

Really demands a 'Thing' kind of appearance, except shell plating rather than rock. He also uses byssus to plant himself and improve grip - that's a sort of filament that mollusks use to latch onto rocks or whatever that keeps them in clumps.

It's... well it's quite fun to write about him and his partner Selkie. Probably a little too fun since their side story's already growing. Oh well. Nano's for running with what you're getting, I guess. :D

Excerpt:
He couldn’t catch the door handle, with his massive hands, it just required too much dexterity. The key pad on the wall beside the door was similarly beyond him. Maybe somebody would hear him on the other side? Banging on the door, he shouted through. “Hey, lemme out!!”
BANG.
BANG.
CRUNCH.
Oops.