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Call centers are tbe wrost. I feel so drained. Not even happiness from being paid can alliviate the constan turmoil it's to be on one.

People are so rude.

I'm so done

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I AIN'T JOBLESS ANYMORE FAM

That means nothing for this blog I'm still gonna post in hopes to work up my courage and want to bring sbr to ligth.

But I have funds now!

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Eulani and Calalú(names after Walter Ferguson's song Calaloo which is limon style calypso!) Are the childhood friends of Mar. Mar's is Ilu's 'godmother' and before the story begins she's been the one training and helping take care of the tiny guppy.

Marella keeps missing baddies left and rigth :C

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This but in sbr it's made with scales :@D(yes I just wanted to show my mermaid scrub)

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rant but with pics! sorry ajaja

Keep in mind i started this project around 2022. When i frist started it was with the help of Jelly who is canadian. At the time i asked Jelly to help with Thomas Etok as a charcter,(since they live on the country i assumed they would know more than me!) It was a hard draft for the character but they asked for the character to be named Muktuk. I didn't mind much since how they got the name made sense story wise, given that he is not human but a selkie and their parents with very close with the Etok family ,later even being adopted by them .Muktuk or Maqtaq for those who don't know is a tradional inuit dish which is whale blubber.

Since then i tried to find anything census, websites or any related media that could confirn the ussage of the term as someone's name but to no avail have i find proof of it Soo i decided to change the character's guppy name. Same as i would not name any my characters as food Thomas is the same.

Thomas is the name that was given to him after a young familiar of the Etok's sadly took their live by circumstances sorrounding their life and as i read its accostumed to give names of deaceased familiar to carry on with their spirit.

and for now they will remain as Thomas until i find a name that i feel that connect with the character.

Kind of a long rant sorry but as a historian and from latin america the importance of showing realness or at least truthness in my works is important to me!

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This is my frist artfigth and i'ms so nervous. like what if i accidentally do something dumb???? the horror.

this look cute doe.

anyway wish me luck

and mercy on whoever gets stuck with me drawing their stuff

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There's also a whole playlist!

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This song is so her

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I rarely talk about the main characters so here is some info!

Marella hali

Hali meant either water or fountain in Greek and then while i was reading king in yellow i saw it potrayed as a mythical river belonging to Carcosa. A good homenage to both the origin of sirens and a nod to Marella's nature being otherwordly.

Mar is she/They but it's not talked about until later in the story.

Has a pet ray, Erebos.

Enjoys the sound of people talking

Is not that she can't read. But growing up the human written languague was not something anyone tougth she would need so it was never taugth. Now she struggles greatly in her work.

Marella lives in Icaria, knows as the "inner isles" of Bahia Arrecife. Not much is known about the poblation there and is strictly forbidden to make trips there without a special goverment permit.

She doesn't mention in much but she has traveled from Icaria to Arrecife to family parties with her father at least 4 times a year.

Prefers seafood over red meats but really likes meat buns or meat seasoned sauce. Not a skilled cooked so mostly learn to order.

Roxanne cayahag

Loves usahana. Complains there isn't enough merch. Forced Marella to vote for it in the most recent sanrio character ranking (VOTE POMPURIN OR USAHANA FOLKS)

Altough seemingly shy once Rox is in her element she's actually quite versed with words!

Honestly loves marinebiology, obsessed with zooplankton and had just settled for marine biology that would be her study focus.

Complains about skincare but barely does it, Has a natural clean face.

Good with money! Has a budget for everything, she's also nervous so she likes to plan before hand. Aka if she goes out she looks at the menu online to know her order.

Rox was created to help Marella understad humanity on a social and cultural level. Her stance as a trans woman has helped her have a more discerning criteria about the world and the power structure embedded into our day to day life.

Chandradatt Mukhopadhyay

i'm kinda dislexic,kinda dumb and with english not being my native toungue his and Rox's last name i always mix up the letters.

Chandradatt is a nepobaby but he did study and specialized advanced aquatic fauna(merfolk) because of his own interest.

The Mukhopadhyay built their fortune from a treaty with the Rowans,currently they own the Coral Dreams Resort and Brisa del Mar living complex.

For each gen a member of his family works in the aquarium to keep amicability amongst both families.

Has ptsd from the "accident". and while he's thankfull he's alive he hates the prove that he survived,his scars.

He's modeled after that weirdly hot fish from nemo.

Atlan Tau(Caine Crane)

Atlan whom i rarely mention as part of the main crew due to him not constantly being there unlike most characters, is similar to Marella in many things.

He lived alonsige Marella's human family which meant,yes this two are childhood friends. He grew up to work alonside her fathers boat.

great at being a fisherman.

He kinda sucks with human interaction as well but since he's handsome and kinda funny people see it as "bad boy attitude"

He knows what happened to Sovvikken.

Really likes to mango! His order is : salt,lime,spicy sauce,vinegar,pepper,chicken condiment(i hate this.) and pepper flakes.

Hair grows long incredibly fast,has to constanly pay visists to the local salon.(Tia Ruth,as the block knows her. She gives him cofffee and insits to get with his daugther. He has fun there)

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Long Lore post ,yet again

In SBR there are a ton different types of mermaids(wihtout taking into acounnt the ecotypes-this more genes/dna structure relevant)

Mermaids:

Maybe the most popular or abundant seafolk, they are mammals that have a secondary set of lungs designated to breathe underwater. But they do have to resourface every now and then to get air and filter out the water on their secondary logs.

They are typically known for a more "Human appearance" and depending on the tribe(ecotypes) their coloring and structure varies.

Mermaids are able to go around 4,000 feet . it still hurts but a mix of old techniques and training can be used to force a merfolk down the trench.

Why?

we are not quite sure.

Sirens:

From the midnigth zone to below, Sirens are the main seafolk that scurries where the ligth is not able to reach.This is pressumed to be thanks to a few centuries bag the hunting,climate conditions and other factors changing so drastically they had to go deep below.

Merfolk aren't like humans, if a change or adaptation needs to be made for survival in about 3 generations you can see the shift. The ocean is one of the most hostile envioroments in earth and accordingly so ,a strong survival instict is needed if you want to see another day.

They lean more towards fish. having no secondary gills and being oviparous. They in theory,could come up to the surface but just like a they have to soften their organs bit by bit. Think of it as reverse decrompression where their body needs to adjust to the less sufocating envioroment of the depths as for their organs not to implode. This is a sacred ritual and it can take a about a month to complete.

In merfolk culture they are seem to be considered sacred,maybe even predescersos of the the common mer.

Oceanids:

The ancient greekmythos of featheared women who sang sailor to their death is not a lie! it's just...not entirely correct.

See Oceanids are believed to be the connecting link between humans and merfolk. A bipedal beast that with frills and gillls so similar to feather sang their heart away a tune so tantalizing humans couldn't help but drown their boats.

Oceanids are extict, their dissapearance is believed to be the next evolutionary step-sirens. They hopped off of those rocky cliffs and caves into the depths of the ocean.

Abysall:

All abyssals are sirens but not all sirens are abyssals.

Due an unkown mutation and deep sea gigantism these are the largest and biggest mer ever found. Only younglins are capable of being studied in the surface. Dagon one out of the amazing subjects in Ecomarine is presumed to be around 18-20 young which makes him relatively managable being as being around as big as a teenage orca. Eventually he will be moved to Blue Horizon where much more adecuate accomodaations can be made for him.

Sluggi and Armored:

Merfolk seem to believe all merfolk sprout out of this so called "Children of the sea" whom represent each represented variation of merfolk ,ones not even being present anymore. But we know it has some truth to it as Sluggi and Armored merfolk exist. Sluggi are similar to sea slugs or snails in that they share similar dna,mating practices and feeding. They are however,considerably larger. Your average slugmer can grow around to a poddle size slimy buddy.

Armored as even rarer, it seems their reproduction was slowed. The only ever example of this as seen by the human eyes was Sovvikken. an armored merfolk resembling ironically a mantis shrimp. It is important to point out just how docile and gentle he was for a creature his size and capabilty.

Naiads:

The prized Jellyfish merfolk, funny enough even if they are important to seafolk culture there is no resgistry of them being amongst the frist children of the water. That may be because according to them they just spawn from tears of the sea.

Hold high spiritual value in all merfolk cultures it may seem. However their exact function seems to be still unkwon. Still, Melinoe is able to "predict" a certain show of events.

Which we aren't sure how it works, it is speculated she just has a higher razionalitazion of events and can quickly deter which one is more probable to happen depending on the person.

Seaqueens:

Legendary creatures of the deep. The actual word unnpronouncable to the human toungue- so ofc we translated the clossets meaning. These are the gods of the merfolk, mythicals beings of great power that according to legend rest on the deepest part of earth taking care of the sea and all it's creatures.

They seem to be the merfolk equivalent to a religion if there's such thing but thankfully for humanity these mythical titans are just that. A myth.

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As ordered, a deep water mer inspired by a sea dragon slug that is photosensitivity!. Seems like a friendly buddy if you ask me.

Ty @fenrinmellon for dropping the idea!

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Jelly's art

I will constantly remind in this blogthat a lot of sbr it's thanks to Jelly. I do not talk to them much anymore and they do not longer have social media that i can link them too but just know they did TON of work for the lore. from reading the base script to ACTUAL illustrations for the characters. and most of all helping me create one of the important characters of the cast, Muktuk.

If you get to see this sometime Jelly ty so much for believing in me and doing so much for the story.

Rox, Chandra and Cora all very amazingly done!.

(accidentally refenreced old art that had Cora with seemingly glass eyes so that's why they are blue,my fault!)

(original outfit design that was discarded!)

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pa pa paaa

Thank you to @sunn-fl0w3r for dropping on my dms and letting me do their character (i knew nothing of them so i just went with what felt rigth)

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Melinoe!

An ancient primordial?! IN AMPHIRITE?!

yes you heard that rigth. Melinoe is one of the ONLY EVER Naiad found as far as we have records of. Naiads named after the mythological spirit that keepsakes bodies of waters are made mostly out of water(they are jellyfish mer) given such fact their connection to the water and the primordial ocean located in antartica is stronger than any mer ever-even than selkies.

Naiad's were given the gift of foresigth by the all mother. These days instead of making sure a pod doesn't stumble upon underwater danger Melinoe is forced to give visions and presages to those who are able to affords such privelge.

They can't really 'feel' for themselves, most emotions are due to them being empaths and connecting with individuals.

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Say hi to...

Dagon!

the famous voiceless abyssal from Amphirite. Spends his days listening to the battery Tiago(without permission) brings to work. Locals thinks he's the devil so a popular dare is to go into his exhibition Alone and reciting a dark lullaby.

He speaks Lesco(Lenguaje de Señas Costarricense) as taugth to him by the staff.

Dagon likes this as the vibrations are pleasant. he will slowly show himself as to not scare them but will fail in the process.

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Aquarium's Princess Khione

"you're as pure as driven snow"

Youngest and the only pup ever born in amphirite to much dismay of some of the higher ups. Khione is the golden mine she's pretty,cheerful and loves to spend time in the petting area.

However lately she's been hiding away in her tank.... which is not prefered of course less mone- for her safety!

Marella is her assigned trainer.

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i need to draw more mermaids anyone wants to lend me their oc-

IM SORRY IM DESPERATE AND LONELY

I WILL DRAW THEM GOOD I PROMISE