Tag: mer

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a merm design from over on patreon. This strikingly patterned lady belongs to a race of merms that function kind of like siphonophorae. Their bodies are actual communities of smaller creatures, each one with a function so specific that it would die on its own.

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this is such a gorgeous concept and i’m in a writing mood, here’s some mini-fiction:

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Laurie and I stared dumbstruck through the submersible’s bubble window. A translucent paw caressed the plastic dome with tender curiosity, her-their delicate face leaning close to watch us in return. Every deep sea horror story I’ve ever read or watched on a screen had told me that an experience like this would be one of mind-bending fear; it hadn’t prepared me for the possibility that I’d be taken with instantaneous love, the same awe-mixed adoration that had struck Saint Teresa in her cell.

I see you, we see you, said a voice that I did not hear, and beside me I felt Laurie tremble.

There was a question. You are each only one?

“Yes,” I said aloud, and I didn’t dare take my eyes away from her-their serene expression. The mermaid’s body billowed behind her-them in the soft current, brightly-colored organs wrapped in a transparent robe of flesh.

You must be lonely, said the voice in sweet intimacy with my thoughts, If only you were like me, like us. You would never be lonely again.

an excellent addition, thank you so much! i like the hyphenated pronouns and the slightly unsettling implications of the last sentence.

i wonder what she-they thinks the submersible is? a shell? this crew must seem like the most interesting giant mollusc in the world.