This is my Siamese fighting fish Bela, and what a beautiful, charming creature he was—a turquoise crowntail. (Turquoise crowntails, as you will see if you ask the internet for pictures of them, look like small peacock plumes.) I lost him in 2012, but he lives on through the surprising number of comics I drew about him, in which he always talks like this—with no capital letters or terminal punctuation. (I think I was influenced by Roast Beef from Achewood.) He called me “shape,” which seems to me like the obvious thing for a fish to call a human.
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