[OH LORD, YOU'VE DONE IT NOW. Fortunately, there's still Jolie to pay attention to while Jotaro launches off on the world's nerdiest impromptu marine biology lecture; she transitions easily from batting at Jotaro's fingers to trying to grab Polnareff's, still making her eerily humanlike giggling noises.]
Appearance, for one thing. She's longer and sleeker than a sea otter, who's fatter and with a stubbier tail. Sea otters tend to live their whole lives at sea, for another — they're purely aquatic. River otters are land mammals that just spend a lot of time in the water. She doesn't know how to swim yet; I need to take her out and teach her one of these days, the way that one of her parents would if she had them. She's already been in the bathtub a few times, but that's just to get her used to the feeling of water, it's not the same as getting her to learn to swim and dive properly.
[HE LOVES HIS OTTER OH MY GOD.]
What she's doing right now is trying to juggle your fingers. Her favorite toy is around here somewhere, an emerald Kakyoin made for her. She'll lie on her back and toss it around from hand to hand, it's a game that otters play naturally with stones or other objects of that approximate size and shape, and no one really knows how they learn it. It's to help them develop their motor skills, I think.
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Appearance, for one thing. She's longer and sleeker than a sea otter, who's fatter and with a stubbier tail. Sea otters tend to live their whole lives at sea, for another — they're purely aquatic. River otters are land mammals that just spend a lot of time in the water. She doesn't know how to swim yet; I need to take her out and teach her one of these days, the way that one of her parents would if she had them. She's already been in the bathtub a few times, but that's just to get her used to the feeling of water, it's not the same as getting her to learn to swim and dive properly.
[HE LOVES HIS OTTER OH MY GOD.]
What she's doing right now is trying to juggle your fingers. Her favorite toy is around here somewhere, an emerald Kakyoin made for her. She'll lie on her back and toss it around from hand to hand, it's a game that otters play naturally with stones or other objects of that approximate size and shape, and no one really knows how they learn it. It's to help them develop their motor skills, I think.