Merpeople - Blog Posts
tired: mermaids are all women
wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty
That means so much to hear from you—thank you!!
I adore merpeople AUs too, and I'm thrilled you're enjoying this one! I can’t get enough of imagining Gi-hun with his striking red hair and a deep green tail—like the same shade as the Squid Game tracksuits, which feels so poetically fitting. And oh wow, I hadn’t thought of In-ho as a Prince Eric parallel until you mentioned it, but now I can’t unsee it and I’m obsessed. It fits him so well!
Poor Gi-hun, truly. In my headcanon, he’s the child of two merfolk himself but was abandoned young—left near the ocean floor to fend for himself, hunt, survive. So like you said, he knows nothing about raising a child, specially not one with a human parent, which is completely unheard of in mer society. I imagine Gi-hun was genuinely heartbroken to leave the baby with In-ho—he just didn’t know he had a choice. No one taught him otherwise.
Because the baby is half-mer, he can breathe underwater, but Gi-hun, being used to the way merchildren are, handles him with a kind of reckless affection that would horrify a human parent. Merbabies develop fast and are tough, so Gi-hun will just casually drop him in the water or even toss him in the air and bop him gently with his tail like a dolphin playing with a ball. The baby’s completely fine (maybe even giggles), because in mer culture, that’s considered normal caregiving—for the two whole days they do keep their kids 😅
Looking ahead, I love the idea of Gi-hun eventually finding a way to gain legs so he can be with his baby and his eventual husband-slash-co-parent-slash-accidental soulmate. And once he learns how to really care for a child, he takes to it like he was made for it. He adores that baby with his whole heart—and mourns, quietly, that he never knew love like that himself. But he’s so grateful to In-ho and Jun-ho for showing him that there’s another way.
Thank you again for letting me ramble—it means the world! I’m definitely going to keep building this story out. I’ve got so many ideas!
Also, just imagine Gi-hun doing this with zero context and In-ho having a minor heart attack.
I need someone to rant to about a potential story idea for In-ho x Gi-hun inspired by fanart on Pinterest, which I have included below, so I hope you do not mind. To begin, In-ho and Jun-ho live on an island and work as police officers but do a lot of fishing together in their spare time. One time while out, they witness another fisherman heartlessly throw a kitten in a sack into the water, and when they go to rescue it and plan on going after the fisherman, a massive green tail emerges from the sack with the kitten in it, and they think it is a big fish trying to eat it, so they net it and drag it in with the sack. Only to find it is what appears to be a merman with bright red hair who takes the kitten and resuscitates it and tries to keep it away from the brothers, thinking they were planning on harming it too.
This merman cannot speak but does understand human language, having watched them from afar for so long, so they communicate and eventually become friends. In-ho names the merman Gi-hun since his actual name is a series of unreplicable screeches. Well, In-ho, Jun-ho, and Gi-hun develop a deep friendship, though In-ho and Jun-ho only get to see GI-hun a couple of months of the year since he moves based on the seasons. Well, eventually Gi-hun and In-ho catch feelings for one another, and one thing leads to another, in a cave specifically, but Gi-hun has to leave for the winter afterward. But In-ho waits patiently for him to come back.
Gi-hun comes back months later with In-ho and Jun-ho waiting for him eagerly; only he has a basket he obviously scavenged from the water, and in it, a newborn baby with human legs and dark hair. Of course, In-ho, who had no idea mermen could carry, nearly faints into the water while Jun-ho loses his mind. “You fucked a merman???” When both finally calm down and turn back to the water, they find Gi-hun gone.
Turns out merpeople are absentee parents, so they mate with other merpeople or humans and then dump their offspring on them, thinking it is like a gift. Well, next time In-ho sees Gi-hun, he patiently explains how humans are expected to raise their children together and not just dump them on one another 😂😂😂 So they learn to co-parent their half human half merperson baby with Uncle Jun-ho.
Sorry for the rant but as soon as I saw the fanart below this whole story came to me. I obviously want to finish other things first but what do you think?
please never apologize for ranting at me!!! i love it 💞🙌
i love merman aus so much!!! 💖 i'm also loving that between the green tail and the red hair, gihun is looking exactly like ariel... plus his love interest is a dark-haired charming man with a four-letter name....
i absolutely love the story!! it has a lot of potential going forward since u can expand on the fact that gihun, due to merpeople being absentee parents, would have no idea how to raise a child. nor would he have any idea on how to raise a child with humans.
since the baby is half-merperson, im assuming it can breathe underwater but imagine inho and junho's shock when gihun grabs their tiny baby and just dunks it into the water 😭
also - totally get if u haven't thought that far end - but would gihun ever, little mermaid style, make a deal with a witch and get legs so that he can walk with inho, junho and their baby?
AND OMG I LOVE THAT GIHUN LOVES CATS IN EVERY UNIVERSE!!! HE SAID CAT PERSON 4 LIFE 😩🙏🤧
BNHA Spring Break Day 2 || Merpeople
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Got bored
Well, Mermay is almost done buuut, Aquatic batfam is always lovely. So which would you be fine hearing me ramble about-slash-work on the Oneshots lol
Eel Mer- Eeels. Long wriggly friends. Now with apposable thumbs! And Bruce's growing adoption problem- and a slight family curse but shhh.
Merfolk- I mean, fish! A mixture of modern and fantasy with the merfolk of Gotham waters being cryptids compared to the rest of the seas. The bats think it's hilarious.
Octopus Mer- Octopi are fun. And you ever see the videos of octopus continuously escaping their tanks? Imagine if the octopi were vigilantes with weapons. Yeaah...
Crabtaur- Lazarus crabs? Lazarus crabs! And a curse to them all that they have to work around in their day to day lives.
Nudibranch- Sea Slugs? Indeed. And a lot of them poisonous and using the poisons in their work- along with messing with each other.
Mershark- Sharks! Includes Flashpoint-esque Thomas being a murder grandpa and past AlfredxMarthaxThomas, along with Bruce being less murderous
Kraken- Squids. Think giant merfolk but well, giant squids. Fantasy-esque AU with Gotham being the largest population of pirates & crime on the seas.
Sea Dragon- Sea serpents mixed with seahorses and a bit more. Includes the kids being bio-kids via blood ritual and a couple galas. Also some shapeshifting.
Qui-Gon and Tahl of merpeople! Hope she will not eat him on some dark day... cause oceant is wast and there is a lot of fish and other things.
Pirate AU! wither storm!
Name: wither storm (or just wither/storm)
Pronouns:they/them
Info: This is wither storm! They are (kinda) a siren! A mix of a blacktip shark and a tiger shark! They enjoy shiny things, they have a sea glass and seaweed necklace, and the thing around their waist is an old belt from a sunken sailors ship, they took the belt and the pouch they found on it. They use they/them! And can't speak English very well as they were in and out of water nearly their entire life but barely ran into humans!
Of course immediately after I plan to draw a whole bunch I get burnt out
Anyways here’s a verrry quick and low effort finger doodle of fish Max
Still gonna try to draw the rest of the campers+ but my motivation is down the drainnn
(Watch me immediately start working on it after I say I have no motivation)
In honor of mermay I have drawn the main trio of Camp Camp!
Max is a betta fish, Nikki is a leopard shark, and Neil is a harbor porpoise :D
(Let’s say that this is magical merperson water that both salt and fresh water creatures can live in)
This was supposed to be a silly low effort doodle but I found a new brush and chaos ensued
Because the creativity demons have taken me, I plan to hopefully draw the rest of the Camp Camp characters and maybe some others this month!
(Let’s see how long I last lmao)
Here’s the full list of the species everyone is:
Max- betta fish
Neil- harbor porpoise
Nikki- leopard shark
Harrison- mimic octopus (✨illusion✨)
Nerris- narwhal
Preston- koi (taisho sanke)
Space kid- harp seal
Nurf- Maine lobster (calico mutation)
Dolph- mudskipper (periophthalmus malaccensis)
Ered- yellow lipped sea krait (sea snake)
Jasper- ghost shrimp
David- North American river otter
Gwen- Galapagos sea lion
Quartermaster- electric eel (electrophorus varii)
Campbell- saltwater crocodile
CJ- marine iguana
Daniel- giant river otter
Pikeman- pacific spiny dogfish (sometimes called the piked dogfish lol)
Billy/snake- king snake eel (ophichthus rex)
Petrol- redtail catfish
Jermy- sargassum fish (frogfish)
Penelope Priss (garden mother/flower scouts leader)- zebra lionfish
Sasha- Randall’s pistol shrimp
Erin- dumbo ear guppy
Tabii- lined seahorse (yellow)
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I have never spent so much time researching aquatic life, I’m going insane. Why can’t I ever get involved in things a normal amount.
(trick question, the answer is ✨neurodivergence✨)
Got to play with water, scales, metal, anatomy, and smaller lines with this one!
got lazy when it came time to do the wall, so it’s literally just a warped png of a real stone wall
also this guy started out as just a “why not?” sketch, but has turned into a full on oc complete with a world and other characters over night
I wanted to render it but art itself said ‘no’
he fell out of his tank
It is also worth mentioning that I share this au with Anonymous_Angst_Monster over on ao3
I finished it and i don’t even like it. Ugh whyyy
Btw, here is my mermaid!Victuuri piece. The second one is transparent. I hope you like it i guess
Open for better quality. Please do not repost without asking me first.
Got a comm to do a stingray/manga ray mermaid girl! She gave me creative freedom aside from the prompt and this is what she got! More pics of this later as I am also doing a version with legs for her
So this is what I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks, it’s intended to be a sculpture in the environment I’m making for my fmp. Might still tweak the octopus legs and crocodile tail a liiittle more but I’m basically done with the forms. I wanted it to be more obvious that the boobs of the octo character are kind of the ‘eyes’ of the octopus, but... I didnt really manage to make that happen. Once I’ve finished, I’ll upload it on sketchfab.
Merpeople
So I made this piece with my friends' in mind who all come in different shapes and forms. And I thought we could all do with some body positivity.
Because no matter if you are heavier or more light weight, at the end of the day we are all beautiful.