#but i got overwhelmed with the visual struggle peacock mantis shrimps put me through

[axvwriter]

Not sure if this really counts for MerMay since according to my computer, I made this on April 8th. Drawing sea life is really fun. I wanted to share this since it has all these different fishies.

The big one in the middle is one I basically gave up on as Peacock Mantis Shrimps are so colorful that I can't really tell what I'm looking at. Though like a week or two ago I came to the realization that I was a bit confused. I thought Peacock Mantis Shrimps were the only kind of Mantis Shrimp out there. Since I have a better understanding of that now, I will be redrawing Mantis Shrimp form.

Above I've drawn my oc, Bobo, in merforms based on several different fishes. Some were drawn just because I wanted to draw them while some were drawn as potentially what Bobo would look like if she was turned into a merperson.

The list of fishes are listed under the keep reading.

-Ribbon Eel (If you haven't seen their noses, you should look them up.)

-Purple Striped Jellyfish (I'm not really sure how to do a jellyfish merperson as it feels more like I drew an entire jellyfish and attached it to the upper body of a human.)

-Reaper Cuttlefish

-Black Spotted Moray Eel

-Satomi's Pygmy Seahorse (Very tiny.)

-Eagle Ray

-Holocentridae Squirrelfish (They have some sorta big eyes.)

-Watonai Goldfish

-Peacock Mantis Shrimp

-Devil's Hole Pupfish (They live in only one place in the world.)

-Blackfin Pearl Killifish

-Artic Char (Which I used to just draw the more typical mermaid look.)

I have decided if Bobo were to turn into a merperson, she would be a Mantis Shrimp of the smasher category. I won't base it off any one specific Mantis Shrimp but sort of combine some into her own. Mantis Shrimps are apparently either smashers or spearers, depending on the type of claws they have. Due to Bobo having some video-game-cartoony strength, it seems fitting to have her be a Mantis Shrimp, a small little marine crustacean that can break aquarium glass.

I will also be drawing Bobo as the more typical mermaid look too since I want to.

These are both related to Twisted Wonderland though since in that game Floyd calls MC "Shrimpy" and I've been playing the game with Bobo in my mind in place of the MC. It's a bit of a fun way to build a character, imagining them in worlds or canons that they'd never actually be a part of. Mantis Shrimp aren't actually shrimp, but since no one's really any of the nicknames that Floyd gives, I don't see why not. Plus it could be debatable about how human Bobo is?

She is human, but she has some evolutionary differences to common humans due to coming from a kingdom that's purely underground. She can't see as far out in the distance as most people, but she can see in the dark along with having a bit better hearing than most people.