09. The discovery of the science age

A bunch of different products were tested on his face, after safely testing his skin for allergies by the wrist, and Raphaēl had never felt more disgruntled yet amazed.

The different things were called lotion, and other things such as eyeliner, or eyeshadow which made your face look cool with all these great colours! He had heard the employees talk about models which he was unfamiliar with. "My favourite star… uses… natural… curl…" so many unfamiliar terms. He soon found his face as a free landscape.

"I don't use makeup but you should." The sea prince commented while taking shining lights of him from a distance. He could not tell whether that was an honest advice or insult given by a friend.

He had washed his face in river water but that was not enough. He had to moisturize and use lotion according to these people. The jar they used was filled to the brim with thick white cream which he would simply dip a few fingers in, and when he had enough put on his face. He would have to rub it in deep, massaging gently under the eyes, the bridge of his nose to around his lips before washing.

He was also told to wipe off makeup, and not to do anything heavy. "His eyes aren't too small, with how thick their lashes are, they mainly need a clean face." The woman said to another.

He was handed a few things which the iridescent prince bought. Lip gloss, moisturizer, lotion, apparently different despite being both white and a bottle, one for this so called acne primarily.

The clerks had to simplify things heavily. He had no clue the body worked in so many different ways. "I'd thought he was an elf but they normally don't have green eyes." He heard them talk about what a confusing customer he was.

He apologised as the prince came back to them after somehow disappearing with even more products only saying, "Your hair is a mess and I want to leave him speechless." Which confused him.

Just who are they referring to? He had new clothes, a clean face, and now his hair also had to go. Was the standard of beauty that high in society? His village was happy with their attire?!

"This will get you trending, thanks to my help, but you will so trend." The prince said hurrying the middle as a lower tone then going up and using confusing lingo once more.

Pulling out his box he took something he shouted out "selfie" throwing two fingers and slinging himself by him.

#GlowUp #MyRoommateWasUgly #LMFAO #BrotherAxulToTheRescue #Cutie #Via #Merman #Mermaid #IridescentPrince #FutureKing #Adorable #LookHowGoodMyOutfitGoes #OOTD #Roomate #Friend #FriendGoals #Human #ViperfortInterspeciesAcademy #College #CollegeLife

and more weird phrasing's with no space… man he needed to reteach the poor boy the entire language again. "Do you need help with grammar?" He innocently asked as the sea creature tilted his head.

"No but what's your label?" He asked confusing him. The two stared in silence for a minute or two before the thought went off.

The small boy practically shouted as he immediately ran with the human barely following and sprinted at a far beyond inhuman speed for someone just learning the basics of walking and tiny toddler legs. "You don't have a phone!" He shouted.

He had no clue what that was but the prince stopped for a second to click a button for the "picture". He was taught the basics before the prince tried his very best to search for a store with electronics as he was questioned like a grandpa to his teen.

"Nooo!" The prince cried out having enough of all the questions and finally shoved him to staff. He was officially their problem.

The customer service was impeccable as they didn't bat an eye presumably doing this all day. "We have had elves, dwarves, and nocturnal werewolves." They sighed so low you couldn't hear and did their best.

From tv… something he had basic knowledge on… to remotes and computers and phones to the different types of tablets and touches and screens to even how things like advance appliances. This all in all took nearly three hours.

By the time he set a phone up the merman woke up, and like the excellent sea creature he was picked out a phone case. "Mine is the coral sea so your's can be of a seahorse!" He said pulling out a pop socket that looked like a tail as the human was just happy to gain insight on the world.

"Theres this thing called schedule apps! He told me they can be used to write on this block!" The human explained as his roommate only eye twitched. He was just not in the mood to get his roommate and his weird behavior.

As the human explained his scientific inquires from the trip his roommate made him a social media presence. "Oh my king you poor creature." He muttered.

Tilting his head the human asked what he meant. "Living without technology is awful you see my phone is waterproof." He dropped his phone in a fountain.

Shaking his head the boy picked up the phone, rolling up his sleeve, and handed the device over to his roommate. "No, the king?" He asked.

Shoving his phone in his back pocket the iridescent boy explained. "Thanks. King? Hmm well normally we say praise King InsertName but my future reign as king will be better.." he explained bragging.

The boy had a deadpan. Did he just call his dad that out loud? He was beyond confident that his win for the throne was secure.

"Ah I would be much better than my old man. Even he is rivaled with Inserblahbleh who was the first but my rule…" he continued as the ravennette stared.

Bewildered by the fact he had no clue about his history, he decided to trust a library. Never ask him for advice.

"Can we get…" the ravennette tried to ask for notebooks but was handed his phone back which would not stop 'alerting'.

Followers according to 'InterModel', 'Intlr" "InSTARz", and "IMeschief." He had no clue what any of those were but they began to violently appear.

"Mischief is spelled…" he began to correct the spelling mistake of these so called people. Their 'profiles'.

"Oh my heart," the pink haired boy muttered and begun to explain the functions. InterModel allowed people of all species to post pictures! Cute captions with dms which led him to IMeschief.

Originally by mermen they changed the official name. Globalchat rooms to ones with just friends added. Apparently a person with this profile can talk to their friends any time!

Intlr was filled with 'shitposters' or people he should avoid and only use when he needed to rant about things InSTARz would not let him post due to filter. Example a word limit and not feeling a thread or talking about anatomy…

Saying nothing the boy pulled up a page on his roommate's phone. He giggled softly. "Or you can write fanfics like a thirteen year old without supervision." He meant no harm but ended up having to explain the Interspecies website slang. The sea general reminded himself to have someone else explain the work.

Opening 'InterModel' he saw what seemed to be his profile. 173 followers within fifteen minutes of being tagged. 'Undxrwood_Rael☆' which was definitely not his name right. Apparently a display name.

"That's what people use to tag, while Rael♡ works as your shorter version. That's your bio!" The smaller peach-eyes boy pointed.

His body pressed against the taller boy's as he leaned over with his bangs brushing down and falling paying no mind as he opened his mouth, a small smile while saying. "Your first post should be our selfie." he grinned.

And that was how he, Rael, he/him future author♪ and tyrant of the humans with a love for coffee 'Undxrwood_Rael☆' debuted for social media.

His first post with no filters much to his roommate's dismay was the smaller boy shining brightly with his smile eyes closed and arms around the ravennettes neck jumping up so they were in frame clicking the photo as the boy tried to carrying him without them falling forward while his green eyes were open with panic at him made for a good photo and memory of his first ever campus life shopping trip with his roommate who just so happened to be a famous and beautiful little iridescent sea prince.