One of the advantages Petina has over any of my other characters is the fact that she knows she's product of my subconscious, and she effectively gets to sit on my shoulder and read all the comments, suggestions and ideas you guys come up for her and my other characters.

A while back I posted some sketches of Petina floating around in bowl of water in a Betta fish costume. Betta Fish Petina Some of my watchers on DA wondered whether her and Jackie had tried using Perfluorcarbon liquids for fluid breathing with Petina? I replied that they'd experimented with them but hadn't been completely satisfied.

Well apparently Petina decided they needed to reexamine the possibilities of liquid breathing, because recently a bunch of new equipment arrived at our safe house in San Jose, and Jackie went into mad scientist mood. Eventually she had assembled a self-contained chamber, with filtration systems, internal power supply, and temperature control. Then it was just a matter of getting Petina to get in and closing it up. Once that was done Jackie started pumping the liquid.

Now Petina knows how the liquid works but that doesn't make it that much easier to overcome your instinctive urge to desperately hold one's breath. Then one initially experiences what feels like drowning only you don't. Once she got past that point Petina found the experience fascinating and then spent the next few hour floating in her own little liquid filled world, with Jackie monitoring her progress.

Of course coming out of the liquid has its own drama because now you need to expel the Perfluorcarbon from you lungs. They are examining possible solutions to that problem. Of course Jackie thinks she has a simple answer. Create an environment where Petina can remain the liquid for longer periods of time so she doesn't have to go the acclimation process as often.

Also it means that Jackie can do more mad scientist experiments on Petina, and that would make Jackie very happy.

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