#Celestis Luminaeri

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IT'S FINALLY MAY! Meaning I can finally post my take on some mer designs for the boys.

I've been developing them as a species for some time and I have quite a bit of lore on them now. They are officially known as Celestis Luminaeri (also the name of this AU) but are more commonly referred to as Celestial Mers, and they come in two types; solamers and the semi-nocturnal lunamers.

Because they're still part of the same species I wanted them to have some obvious similarities (body and face shape, placement of the fins with the exception of their head and tail fins, as well as the ribbon on their back fin.

Solamers have two horizontally placed tail fins and are more flowy in design, while lunamers have a single vertical tail fin and are a bit spikier.

Both have a shiny almost metallic sheen to their scales as a nod to their canonical animatronic selves (also why I added a glittery effect to Sun's fins lol, because ✨glitter✨).

I will be writing a story with them at some point in the future.

Very happy with how they came out, gonna have a lot of fun drawing shenanigans with these two :D