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royalreef · 1 year ago

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“So they have... Some slim upper body, with the white meat of some token prey item. Large mouth, likely, bulbous eyes, flexing gills, shiny and overlaying scales, the works... And some lower body like that of something fast and nimble...

I assume they would be benthic, then? Anything like such should not be able to swim very fast, not with so much longer legs and an absence of streamlining... I do not know how such a thing would manage to drown anyone, I would think they should be more of a sessile feeder.”

Ah, right. She’s the only one here who doesn’t think humans look very appetizing, let alone like that of prey. She does think they are particularly velveteen and luxurious to the touch, but that’s a different type of delicious.

“Anyhow! The far more confounding thing is what kind of creature would breathe through the water but not have lungs?”

#Glory and Gore || IC #The rumor mill || Dash Commentary #(( miri vc: humans have a lot of bones and very little fat :( unless theyre rotting they taste Bad #(( ....... also fun fact #(( apparently the ability to breathe air is basal to vertebrates #(( as in. fish with gills that cannot breathe air have *lost* that ability ancestrally.#(( true it wouldnt be through *lungs* and would be a simpler gas exchange #(( but 1. im paraphrasing for the sake of miri #(( and 2. lungs are just specialized air bladders anyways so its fine #(( merfolk lungs are adapted for both types of use but theyre more air bladder than what were used to anyways #(( ....... and yes this is having health consequences for miri #(( this is why she gets such bad cabin fever in her moncamp setting

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