#mefolk

[celestdraws]

Valentines has come and gone and lepiras still a lonely girl

[maplesamurai]

Okay, second goal if we get out of this: help Bob get out of this toxic friend group.

At Sea Without a Map Pt. 41

As she opens the compass, Calibani regards it at first with fascination, then with a revulsion that grows into horror when she feels it talking in her head with her own voice.

"Those aren't my words. That's my voice, but those aren't my words!" Calibani shouts at the trinket. "How are you doing that? What are you?"

The compass, of course, says nothing. If you were there, you'd be able to tell her that a compass doesn't answer questions - that's what magic eight balls and smart phones do. A compass simply gives you direction on where to go and what to do. It can't do anything more than that. The four pairs of eyes in your compass look at each other, then at Calibani, each at a loss before they mutually decide to repeat their advice, which only makes Calibani shout her questions at them louder.

This goes on for a little while.

~ ~ ~

As Calibani argues with your compass, you remain in the clutches of the three mermaids. "Come with me, little human," the blonde one, Helyne, says as she grabs your shoulders and lifts you higher into the cavernous main chamber of their lair. You look up and see a big cage made of twisting coral. "We've got the perfect place to keep you, where you'll be nice and safe!"

Her two minions follow after you, giggling as Helyne forces you into the cage and twists the door closed around you. "There now, isn't that comfy?" the blonde mermaid says with a swish of her long pony tail. "Now we'll always know where you are so we can give you a kiss to keep you from drowning!"

She swims back to join her two henchmen, and for a moment the three mermaids sit and regard you silently. They're smiling at you in an adoring way, but specifically the way one would smile at a nice painting or a fancy vase, like you're just some rare decoration on display.

The brunette, Bob, speaks up. "Should we introduce ourselves?"

"Oh, right!" Helyne says before swimming above her two peers.

"I'm Helyne, of course," the blonde says with another swish of her long ponytail. "I'm the most beautiful and intelligent mermaid here, which is why I'm in charge. I'm also something of a human expert, which is good for you, because that means you'll live a long and happy life!"

The redhead pipes up, "She's really good at taking care of humans. That's why she gets to give the most kisses."

"It's true, it's true!" Helyne says while bowing her head in feigned modesty. "My red-headed friend here is Clio. She's quite a beauty herself, but a bit dim."

"Guilty as charged!" the redhead says as she swims up to nearly but not quite reach Helyne's level. The brunette begins to rise to join them, but Clio quietly places a hand on her head and pushes her down. "But it's fine, Helyne's smart enough for all of us."

"Well, almost," Helyne says, looking down at the brunette mermaid. "The third member of our troop here is named Bobbulynne, but we just call her Bob. She's neither pretty nor talented, but she's good for a laugh so we keep her around."

"It's true!" bob says as she allows Clio to push her down. "I'm pretty much useless!"

"And then there's you," Helyne says as she swims around your cage. "What should we name our new human? How about... Johnny?"

Clio frowns. "You got to name the last one, Helyne. I want to call this one Orlando!"

"I got to name it because I'm the leader and the human expert!" Helyne snaps.

"But it's not fair!" Clio shouts. "I should get a turn! Let me name him!"

"We could just as them what their real name is," Bob suggests.

"SHUT UP, BOB!" Clio and Helyne shout before going right back to bickering with each other. Their argument goes from screams to shrieks as they begin slapping at each other and pulling each other's hair, all while Bob stealthily swims up to your cage.

"Hey, human," Bob whispers, "If you need a kiss, just motion to me, ok? I don't get to give the kisses very often, but I'd really be glad to. We can do it real quick so the others don't see." She stops and glances at her friends to see if they're still fighting before adding, "Even if you don't need one, if you just, say, want to be topped off a bit on air, or just... um... want a kiss for fun, just let me-"

"Bob!" The brunette mermaid freezes and turns to see Helyne bearing down on her. "Are you trying to cozy up to the human while I'm distracted?"

"Of course not!" Bob says as she darts away from Helyne and cowers behind you. "I was just reassuring them-"

"What have I told you, Bob?" Helyne glares daggers at the brunette as she swims up to you and grabs your face in her cold, slender hands. "I get first dibs on kisses." To prove the point, she reaches into the cage, grabs your head, and plants a big wet one on your lips. "Then it's Clio, and then it's you. Pecking orders must be preserved, Bob."

The brunette lowers her eyes and nods. "Yes, Helyne."

Clio, meanwhile, is staring at you in dreamy sort of way. "How young is this one, do you think?" she asks Helyne.

"Oh, no more than a few months old at most," Helyne replies. "Probably just emerged from his boat, poor thing."

"Is that what boats are?" Bob asks. "Human eggs?"

"No, no, they're animals in their own right," Helyne explains. "Humans just parasitize them."

"That's how it works?" Clio asks.

"Yep! Humans tear open a boat's chest cabin and lay their eggs inside. Depending on the size of the boat, they can lay anywhere between one and a couple thousand eggs!"

"Wow!" the other two mermaids say in unison.

Helyne nods sagely at their amazement. "Yes, nature is beautiful, isn't it? Of course, it's a flawed survival strategy. Boats may be large and capable of feeding a human for a few months, maybe a year if they're lucky, but they're fairly weak animals, and easy prey for others." She looks at you sweetly and kisses you again. "That's why these sweet little parasites need our help. They need a mutually beneficial symbiosis, and a mermaid is such a better host than a boat."

Clio scrunches her nose up in disgust. "It's not going to lay eggs in us, is it?"

"Cool!" Bob says with a demented grin.

"Oh no, don't worry," Helyne says. "They can only lay eggs in boats. Trying it with other hosts makes the egg dissolve into a sticky paste." She pinches your cheek. "Our new pet is quite harmless, I assure you!" Once again she swims up to your cage, grabs your head, and forces you to kiss her. "Aren't you, pet? Besides, if he weren't - if he misbehaved - why, he's miles below the surface of the ocean! All we have to do is leave him alone and he'll drown in minutes!" She smiles sweetly, but it doesn't reach her eyes as she stares you down. "And we wouldn't want that, right?"

"Course not, Helyne," Clio says.

"They seem like a nice human, we'll be sure to give them plenty of air!" Bob adds.

"If he behaves," Helyne says.

"That's right, Helyne!" affirms Clio. "So long as he behaves!"

As you sit in your cave, you realize that you really, deeply miss Calibani.

~ ~ ~

After a few minutes of fruitless arguing, Calibani tosses the compass to the ground in frustration. "Wait, shit, that's Sailor's!" she shouts before scrambling to pick it up. After looking it over to make sure there are no scratches, she sighs and opens the trinket again. "You told me to save Sailor," she says to the compass. "How? Do you know where he is?"

And like that, she consults your compass once again.

[safk-art]

comic of Billy finding Steve's Coin (junk)

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[littlemissskuld]

Okay I'm curious;

I'd have a Beluga tail

[homebrew-fishery]

In your universe setting do merfolk routinely spend lots of time out of water? Do landfolk establishments have any special accomodations for them?

depends on the type:

Coastal Merfolk often venture onto boats and land to trade and work, due to this coastal towns are some of the most wheelchair accessible places around

Tropical Merfolk prefer to stay in the water, and are generally rendered immobile when on land, they are also one of the few types of merfolk with any innate magical talent spread across the subspecies, so levitation and conjured mounts aren't too out of the question

Arctic Merfolk don't spend much time near civilization, but they do spend a lot of time crawling across ice, they're very used to navigating the surface without any help, and due to being the largest subspecies of merfolk, are difficult for bipedal folks to carry

Swamp Merfolk are used to moving in and out of water as well as climbing mangrove trees. Lots of the sentient species that live in the swamp don't really make any accommodations for them, but they're pretty powerfully built, so they manage

Deep Merfolk find the surface to be borderline inhospitable despite being able to survive perfectly fine on land. Most land-living species and even some merfolk find them to be scary, so they usually stay pretty deep in the water

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As for land species relations:

Humans get along with merfolk pretty well, they have a mutual respect for each other

Dwarves LOVE merfolk, They're both strong, non-magical people. Dwarves won't even attempt any submerged projects without a merfolk workforce, they also introduced them to alcohol and are the main manufacturers of the wheelchairs that merfolk commonly use

Elves usually don't bother with mefolk, with the exception being the tropical ones, who may have been the result of elf/merfolk hybridization at some point in the past

Tribal Orcs will almost always prefer to trade with Merfolk who don't live in surface cities. They believe that Merfolk are master anglers, and able to provide them with large, fresh fish, in turn they trade them boar meat and furs, Swamp Merfolk will occasionally join Orc clans as crafters or butchers, Orcs, being no strangers to helping clan members who have acquired disabilities through battle, will carry their merfolk clan mates around wherever they need

[brinefathomcaves]

Jun 13: The Salvage

Tyna (Mefolk, f)—or, more accurately, the creepy doll possessing her body (see 3.47)—swims around a 3’ tall skull of stone and crystal in this submerged chamber, examining it. She’s overseeing the diggings on behalf of the hags, and she’s arrogant and taunting toward newcomers, confident in her ability to get the bathyans in 3.65 (whom she has nothing but contempt for) to do her bidding. However, she’ll flee if a fight isn’t going her way or if presented with her doll body.

The table (really just slabs of stone arranged tablewise) holds more intact bones as well as some stone disks with toothed edges.

[sonicasura]

Its safe to say Kafka is between a hard rock and a hard place in this sort of situation. He wants to protect his boy but at the same time he is aware the truth has to come out at somepoint.

And this was not the only time Kafka had to make such a difficult choice either. From the time Jet was able to understand words and speak them, the boy has been curious about everything. Like any child. And like any child he would ask the hard questions so innocently Kafka felt like it would have been better to be stabbed in the heart with a rusted knife instead.

How was he supposed to explain why there was no other kaijufied merfolks his age that he could make friends and paly with? What about how the two of them has to avoid the other mefolk pods that they find or hidding away from them. How there are pods out there thats literally hunting them down due wrong understandings and more? In someways, Kafka wish dearly that Jet could just have a normal childhood that Kafka once had, with less blood fights mind you. But he knows deep down that is not possible or a card dealt to their hands.

It hurt for certain when Kafka discovered that Jet was no longer at the nest anymore. Which did not come as a surprise to him given Kafka had suspected for some time that it would happened. Kafka have had years to 'prepare' himself for such a thing, even if it did littel to lessen the pain that came from it. But Jet did not leave without a goodbye though. The weeks spend preparing to leave was also spend writing down a few stone tablets for Kafka to find and keep.

It spoke of the family love and bond that Jet still felt between them. How is someways he was happy that Kafka finally told him the truth of the many things that was never explained to him when he was younger. But it also told him that Jet needed to leave and how the place no longer felt much like a home anymore. How he hoped to once again talk with Kafka when he feels he is ready for more. Along with how hurt he also felt for long it took for Kafka to tell him.

Jet also left some tablets for his birth parents as well. Kafka never read those, even when the tablets are still in his possession given said parents can't keep them for obvious reasons. But he knows with the looks of their faces they held a similare message that he got from his own.

Jet left with a heart filled with all various emotions. Good and bad alike. But guilt of leaving the only place and family he could call home, never left until the day he returned.

Now Jet has a proper bond with both sides of his family. He loves his birth parents as much as he loves Kafka as his dad. Often joking with the few friends he can trust on this about his mixed family without much hint of regret or anger.

When Reno came into the picture, Jet found himself a sibling he never got. It took a while for the two to bond, specially since Jet like to travle a lot. But their brotherly bond is a ture as it can get, and Reno has found there are perks having a kaijfied merman as a older sibling. Specially when both wants to prank their himbo dad.

Rip Kafka when Jet and Reno start pranking him. Eventually the students have to prank the master.

[maximuswolf]

Theory of a Deadman Song - I Hate My Life

Theory of a Deadman Song - I Hate My Life Tyler Connolly is PITCH perfect on this very difficult song to sing. It reminds me of Hoobastank's "The Reason" or Bon Jovi "Always" as far as 10 out of 10 for difficulty. The lyrics are fantastic BUT...I'm trying to be more positive in my life. It matters ok! I can't go around singing this super negative song and expect great things. So, my new lyrics:I'm grateful for the peopleAlways spreading their cheerI love how I get to workAnd enjoy my days without fearI appreciate the driversWho share the roads with careSmile, you brighten up my dayAs we, head everywhereI love how my partnerIs always by my sideThey inspire me to chase my dreamsWith love and with prideWell, I love my job, all of my good friendsI love everyone until the very endEverything feels right, there's joy in sightI love my lifeHow come I always feel great?Good vibes never loseFeeling blessed and full of wonderThere's always some good newsI still love my jobMy boss is a gemI get paid fairly enoughTo handle all of my tasks with themWell, I love my job, all of my good friendsI love everyone until the very endEverything feels right, there's joy in sightI love my lifeI love that I can tellWhen someone's feeling greatAnd when I tell them they’re amazingWe share a smile, it's never too lateSo if you're happy like meFolks, here's what you've gotta doPut your hands up in the airGo on and say "thank you"Well, I love my job, all of my good friendsI love everyone until the very endEverything feels right, there's joy in sightI love my lifeSo much to gainI can't complainI love my lifeNow there's something newAnd it's awesome for youI freaking love my life Submitted July 22, 2024 at 01:29PM by andrewfromx https://ift.tt/wLIPBRi via /r/Music

[thetruequeenoftheabyss]

Prompt for mermay day 15: Horror

Couldn't decide if I liked the yellow or green version better so yall get both. Enjoy <3

[hyperactiveparanoid]

If I did Percy, I couldn't not do Ryder in fish boy form

[crippledgiraff]

YARRRRRR! It be MerMar Day 10! prepare to be boarded!

[madcat-world]

Lava Mermaid -  sandara

[destron23]

Happy New Years Eve! Anyways here`s my little art summary for 2021. Some things are a bit out of order in order to accommodate some slots, but pretty happy with some of the pieces this year! Here`s to a more productive 2022!

[simplykitts]

It wasn't all bad that I fell behind-- gave me an excuse to make a very interactive bit to cover monsters March 6th (kappa), 7th (selkie), 8th (merfolk) and 9th (genie/djinn)!! Swipe for some details. :) starting to get nervous I'm going to run out of space!! @monstermarchchallenge #monstermarch2018 #monstermarch #mermaid #mefolk #kappa #selkie #djinn #genie #seal #simplykitts

[flowercrowncrip]

[ID: a photo of my carer kneeling on the floor drawing a giant clam shell on a large piece of cardboard/end ID]

Onto the second stage of my mefolk pride outfit – making a giant clamshell to attach to my wheelchair!

[thecornwall]

Cornwall’s Random Card of the Day #493: Master of the Pearl Trident

Featuring Yet Another Merfolk Lord.

Master of the Pearl Trident is a rare from Magic 2013, seen here in its Duel Deck: Mefolk vs Goblins printing. This card is kind of a mix of the two merfolk from Alpha: Merfolk of the Pearl Trident(thus the name) and Lord of Atlantis, which boosted all Merfolk by +1/+1 and gave them islandwalk(not just yours, everyone’s, they made cards DIFFERENT back then). This is just another merfolk lord, and as I have mentioned above, there are quite a few. I this one was like the fifth. It helped that merfolk was blue’s characteristic race, but I think they had more lords at 2 mana than fucking GOBLINS, red’s characteristic race, and one much more prone to weenie decks.

So, what gives? Well, I think the fact that the merfolk deck was well performing and remembered from Alpha times did a lot, plus WotC’s bias towards blue in general, especially in the earlier years. Despite it, to my knowledge, never being a tournament-viable deck, some folk just love to go wide and fast with dudes from below the waves. It helps that merfolk is blue’s most enduring characteristic race, even surviving a dark period where the creative team tried to kill them all off. Magic players just like em.

Oh, and to answer the question as to why this was printed instead of Lord of Atlantis, well, I don’t know if he was on the reserve list or not, but by this time they’d decided to have most cards only boost your own cards, so this almost-but-not-quite-functional-reprint was required.