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Aaand with this we have all the apprentices re-introduced!

So! Shell is the apprentice that has actually had some significant changes here since their first introduction. So let's look at that!

The most obvious is probably her familiar, Leel, which was previously a ferret but has recently been changed to a cat. The ferret was really cute, and I initially liked the idea, but it never really clicked. Almost thought maybe Shell wasn't meant to have a familiar until I realized that it's not the familiar that didn't fit, just the species. Would probably have realized sooner if I wasn't so set on giving everyone familiars of a species not used in canon, lol.

The second change, and something that I did announce during Apprenticember even if not in a proper post, is that Shell uses hearing aids! I didn't include this in her first introduction because I didn't feel like I knew enough about deafness at the time to properly include it, but I've tried my best to be better informed since then, so it's now official ^^

I'll make a proper post about how Shell lost her hearing and developed her aids in a future post, but long story short: when Shell was in her middle 20s an alchemy experiment went wrong and caused a small explosion, giving Shell partial but permanent hearing loss. Because she specializes in enchanted items, she made her aids mostly out of professional curiosity about if it was something even possible to make. She also knows sign language (if I ever depict it, it will be LSC (catalan sign language) because that's the one I'm learning).

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Aaand with this we have all the apprentices re-introduced!

So! Shell is the apprentice that has actually had some significant changes here since their first introduction. So let's look at that!

The most obvious is probably her familiar, Leel, which was previously a ferret but has recently been changed to a cat. The ferret was really cute, and I initially liked the idea, but it never really clicked. Almost thought maybe Shell wasn't meant to have a familiar until I realized that it's not the familiar that didn't fit, just the species. Would probably have realized sooner if I wasn't so set on giving everyone familiars of a species not used in canon, lol.

The second change, and something that I did announce during Apprenticember even if not in a proper post, is that Shell uses hearing aids! I didn't include this in her first introduction because I didn't feel like I knew enough about deafness at the time to properly include it, but I've tried my best to be better informed since then, so it's now official ^^

I'll make a proper post about how Shell lost her hearing and developed her aids in a future post, but long story short: when Shell was in her middle 20s an alchemy experiment went wrong and caused a small explosion, giving Shell partial but permanent hearing loss. Because she specializes in enchanted items, she made her aids mostly out of professional curiosity about if it was something even possible to make. She also knows sign language (if I ever depict it, it will be LSC (catalan sign language) because that's the one I'm learning).