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something something old man yaoi

thinking about them getting to grow older makes me emo 🥺❤️

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fem lulawlu doodle 🖤🤍

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sorry

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crossposting from instagram bc i'm proud of this!! might post the art itself sometime who knows

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minda & dante 🥹 i really don't draw them enough for OCs i've had for over half my life 🩷🖤

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responding to the last lot of mermay anons!! yes i know it's the middle of june, so sorry!! there was flash flooding in my area so i was preoccupied with moving all my office stuff. it didn't flood thankfully, but there was a lot of water damage!

anyways, written explanations of my doodles are under the readmore

asks 1 and 2: which merfolk in my AU wear clothes/how do they react to human garments?

i imagine that for merfolk, clothes just aren't necessary for evolutionary or social reasons like they are for humans, meaning it's about adornment more than modesty or warmth. so going au naturale is honestly the norm! merms that do like salvaging human clothes for ~fashion~ (like trish) are absolutely restricted by things like their fins and lack of legs lol

ask 3: re: the DIODIODIO pattern on diego's tail

this specific diego is the weird dino-person hybrid diego we see at the end of SBR! his pre-scary monsters form is probably much more tame, and i thought i'd sketch it for this ask! as for diego's dino form, i went with a megalodon bc it was the first prehistoric sea predator i could think of 💀

ask 4: about anemones and mer!fugo

you really got me thinking!! i didn't know how to get anemones to work on a humanoid design, so i looked at other spiny/venomous fish! like fugu... haha ..ha... i know it's not exactly what you suggested but i hope it's okay!

thanks for the asks everybody!! ❤️

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a robin i forgot to post 😭 i love my wife,,,

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mer johnny's prosthetic fin though! interesting take, kind of reminds me of Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon ^_^

that was the inspiration - good observation! my first thought when I got that request was how to translate johnny's paraplegia across to a tail and the mobility aids he would need, and toothless' prosthetic came to mind 🩵

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Mer johnny is still disabled? I guess he can't swim on his own :(

why would i erase a character's disability?

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Yooo the idea of merpeople stealing human clothes is so funny 🤣 I mean they can't exactly *make* the outfits themselves underwater. Plus it would explain why all the Part 5 mer gang look like fashion disasters, they just grabbed mismatched articles of clothing off the beach and have no understanding of human fashion standards 😂😂😂

Also: imagine mer! Mista using cut-up pieces of a fishing net as his attire and his hat.

the bucci gang are fashion icons take that back right now 🔫🔫🔫 /j

tbh a fishing net sweater would go hard on mermista, you're right

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Since jojo part 7 is confirmed and it's mermay: what if: merman Johnny? 🧜🏻‍♂️

what if merman everyone! sorry this took so long 😩

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YESSS MER NARA LOOKS AMAZING AND THE WAY HIS TAIL IS MOSTLY BLACK? PEAK DESIGN

also he's wearing his usual outfit tho lol. i imagine mers usually don't bother with clothes but he crawled up on the beach one night and stole some human beachgoers' stuff and made himself a new outfit 🤣

thank you! and yeah, I alternate between giving merms full outfits and reduced versions - i don't really have a reason for why I gave him so much clothing 😅 i love the idea of him stealing it HAHA he so would

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What if Mer Narancia looked like a clownfish?

such an inspired idea nonny (also happy birthday narancia!!)

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I love your mer designs! Which other Vento Aureo characters have you drawn as merpeople? 🧜🏻‍♂️

Thanks so much! I don't believe I've drawn any other part 5 characters as merpeople (except for this quick Mista comic) - I kept imagining the Bucci gang as a group of human sailors. And it's not part 5, but I drew Jolyne and co. last year!

That being said, I have a couple anon asks in my inbox asking for Narancia and Johnny, and I'm working on sketching these! They won't be very polished but I figured I'd use this post to let everyone know I'm working on it 🩵🩵🩵

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this mermay i decided to redo my giorno and trish merm designs! they were inconsistent and a little plain tbh 😅

my past mergiorno + mertrish - x x x x

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based on something that really happened to my momo in-game 😩

long live the king

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some merlaw for mermay 🧜‍♂️ i couldn't pick a tail style so have two!!