forgottentales_ooc | The Little Merform Meme!

Hey guys! Very pleased to see that our latest campaign’s been such a splash hit and ushered in a flood of amazing ideas for mer-forms, a tidal wave even–OKAY, OKAY, I’ll stop now!

Anyway, here’s a meme for you guys to display for how your characters are going to look in the upcoming campaign! Show off your designs for your mers-to-be, ooh and aw over others, maybe ask for inspiration if you’re still stuck! To keep things orderly (and help guide those who may want to participate), here's a form for you to use! Images are definitely allowed, especially if you have some awesome art to show off! Just make sure to credit artists and keep the pics to a reasonable size, or link if they’ll take up the whole page.

Character: Character and Essence
Mer Type: Are you going for a classic mer ala Disney, drawing inspiration from real marine species, mixing and matching features, playing with colors, tell us everything!
Outerwear: Everyone will be starting out with SOME clothing on their person, but this can be as simple, ornate, modest, or revealing as you’d like! Also tell us if you have any fancy jewelry or hair ornaments (or if you’re going full mermaid chic and having shellfish clamp onto your tail).
Extra Features: Does your character’s mer-form feature shark teeth, or venomous spines or tentacles? Electroreceptors for seeing things more clearly underwater? Do they have a bit of a harder time moving around for some reason, or are they super fast? Is there a new fishy instinct or two they’ll have to fight off, like going for shiny objects or feeding frenzies?
Looking For: Still undecided on a species, or a color scheme if you’re going Disney classic? Trying to figure out just how many fishy traits you should add on? Feel free to ask the for suggestions here!
Photos or Art: If you’re more of the visual type, feel free to show off references here!

Post away and have fun!

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Character: Kotori Iida | Sweet Porridge Girl
Mer Type: Kotori will be half skipjack tuna by popular vote, a stripey and delicious tuna that's also the basis for katsuobushi- or bonito flakes- which can be used for dashi broth, one of the backbones of Japanese cuisine!
Outerwear: At the start Kotori will be wearing a simple, dark red bikini top, which she won't be TOO shy about unless ~~a crush swims by~~ someone points it out.
Extra Features: No outrageous features beyond a small bit of webbing between the first joints of her fingers, but tuna are like the Ferraris of the sea, so she might be pretty speedy once she gets the hang of her tail!
Looking For: Pretty satisfied at the moment, but if you guys think of any tuna-like traits that might be cool, feel free to let me know!
Photos or Art: Actually, I had this lovely piece commissioned from our own VG a couple days ago, and she finished it this morning! Isn't it gorgeous?

Character: Della Duck, Icarus (Greek Mythology)
Mer Type: Seahorse-style merduck, drawing a mix of inspration from cartoon-style seahorses and the great seahorse. She will still be her usual 3 foot size, if not a bit "taller" with her seahorse lower half being pretty long!
Outerwear: She'll be wearing a white top in the style of the upper half of a doric chiton, along with a replacement for her usual scarf, made of kelp!
Extra Features: As an Essence thing, she won't be as bouyant as her fellow Aspects! And swimming will be harder/slower. Also, the fin along the back of her seahorse half will be tattered.
Looking For: If anyone has beneficial extra features ideas, I'm not too worried if she doesn't have any, but I'd like to hear them! Also input on color schemes would be great, because I'm torn between something pretty and typical yellow/reddish-brown I'm seeing on a lot of Great Seahorses.
Photos or Art: She's like, the one Duck family character I couldn't find mer-form art for, much less seahorse mer-form art for.

Edited 2019-07-06 00:20 (UTC)

Aaah that'll look so nice! And actually...~ Regarding the color, seahorses actually have chromatophores- pigment cells- that allow them to change color and even texture like octopuses can, which they use for camouflage and even courtship displays. So there's definitely a precedent if Della wants to go for a more unique pattern on her mer half!

Thanks! And ohhh, that’s so cool, I didn’t know that! I’ll have to think about what direction to take!

Character: Naomi Kimishima | The Sea Witch (The Little Mermaid)
Mer Type: Mix and match of real species, all of them jellyfish like a moon jellyfish bell.
Outerwear: Just her necklaces she normally wears really.
Extra Features: Her whole body takes on a translucent-like form, but remains cloudy over all things internal. Ten tentacles to sting, webbed fingers and a single, long frilled 'fin'.
Looking For: Nothing really. Since this is her Essence already and all.
Photos or Art: Rough Idea of what she looks like. But I'm planning to update.

Ugh, I'm just... in love with how beautiful Naomi's design looks, you're such a great artist! And thank you so much again for designing Kotori's form, she looks amazing!

You're welcome!

I still need to spruce up Naomi's design... once I catch up on some other things.

Character: Evora | The Swan Princess
Mer Type: I'm thinking the kind where the fish part starts to fade in from the breasts down? is that classic? idk
Outerwear: I like the idea of not needing an outerwear piece, because the scales come up enough to keep her decent.
Extra Features: Fin wings! (it goes with the fish type xD) and some scarring down her spine, like what happens when large fish get too close to fishing boats, to reflect her actual scars.
Looking For: Already decided on Flying Fish!
Photos or Art:

Aaaah this is so beautiful!

Character: Keith | Little Red Riding Hood
Mer Type: Kind of a mix and match, I guess?
Outerwear: The pendant in the image won't be there, but no other changes.
Extra Features: You can't see it in the image because his mouth is closed, but he'll be sporting fangs in addition to those claws, a tie in with his Galra heritage to match the purple markings he has in this form. His facial scar is still there, but the facial marking is underneath it, marred by the scar. Also, his other scars are still present, so you'll get a full on view of the large one on his right shoulder that comes down and bisects his collar bone, and a small one on his left side, right about his waist (just above the top of his tail).
Looking For: Ideas for items and whatnot, as he's pretty new, so he won't really have a lot of equipment. Also, not sure if half-breeds are a thing, but I think the ability to turn human if needed would be interesting for him.
Photos or Art: The Red Paladin on Tumblr did a design I really like. There are so many to choose from. Mermaids were a popular AU for this series thanks to a water planet episode with mermaid aliens. LOL (There are so many AUs for this series, OMG... fandom...)

Aaaah he's so beautiful~ As for transformation, everyone will already be able to transform back into their original species for about an hour max on land, and them back into merforms instantly upon completely submerging.

Awesome, awesome. ^_^ Good to know.

And, yeah... TRP did a great job with the design.

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