A Conversation In Three Parts: Part 1 : Alligators and Fireflies

So, this morning I was talking to The Parents (2/3rds of them, my mother & stepfather) about fireflies. I'd found this really cool light that imitates fireflies, and I was very excited. A firefly light would be just the thing I would use if I were hosting a cocktail party outside in a fancy garden. If, you know, I could host cocktail parties and wasn't a high school student and had a really fancy garden.


But nonetheless, I found (and still find) the light beautiful and captivating and so I rambled on about how I love fireflies.
Then Parent was like, You find fireflies in swampy areas. Like Georgia. Where there are fireflies there are gators.
Which we all realized was rather a bad combination. A person would be mindlessly chasing fireflies and then get eaten by an alligator. Or maybe that would just be me.

So I came up with the marvelous idea that we should cross-breed fireflies with alligators so that alligators will light up when they get excited.

So imagine an alligator is hiding in a shrubbery

As it turns out my idea to draw an alligator hiding in shrubbery to avoid having to draw an actual alligator was a bad one because 1) I'm not much more capable of drawing shrubbery then I am of drawing alligators and 2) there is really no evidence alligators hide in shrubbery.

It's difficult to see when one is focusing with their entire heart and soul on capturing fireflies. But with an alligator-firefly cross breed, when the alligator got excited, it would look more like:

It still does not look like a shrubbery. It doesn't even look like it wants to be a shrubbery.

The Parents were skeptical, but I am positive this could be a thing.