#it's also kind of a mermaid au?

[vieramars]

TMA/subnautica au where the archives team (except Jon) are alterra researchers trying to crack architect tech and Jon is the Archivist, an architect collective al-an style whose sole purpose is to seek out and store as much information as possible about any lifeforms he encounters

[mossy-paws]

they’ve been cooked…. (PHIGHTING!)

Yea Twitter really liked these ones lmao, anyways the first one was for a trend and the second one is just a silly follow up to it LMAO

[ribbononline]

Howdy just wanted to let you know how much I love your fantasy AI and how cute the designs are!

Assuming you meant Fantasy AU haha- Thank you! Ive admittedly been playing with their design a little in the background (And it hink I posted some sketches before? though im unsure if I tagged them) since some of them looked. a little too human ((sorry archie i LOVE selkies but untransformed it truly is just a fur coat. which. isnt great for a more tropical setting)) but the core of it has never changed lol I love modern fantasy

The designs are half inspired by Pokémon now, though not tooooo intensly.

Max is still mosty faun, but leant a little more into full furry for him I guess. Cope old man.

Archie has been changed from selkie which HORTS but alas i lacked the skills to draw him cool. He's just a general mercreature now. He has legs but he's half fish in design he can breathe underwater. You get it

Others I've had thoughts on:

May gets to be torchic in harpy form. She's a rare case, as she can naturally do some magic! She can Breathe Fire. Very fun for her parents. She can't fly, but she can kind of flutter- which is great for parkouring around! Active kid. Due to lacking arms/hands she uses her legs/talons for most things instead

I want Courtney to be Meowstic inspired, probably with some/devil/demon inspo for the monster part? But I admittedly haven't thought of a design Im happy with yet. She also has some natural magic! Again, not supposed to be very common. She can levitate stuff and throw around psychic shockwaves if she's mad. She tried studying to be a witch for a little while, but she didn't really like it.

Lisia is Mostly Just Regular Lisia except the cloud fluff on her outfit is part of her lol. She's a combination of Swablu inspired and a full on wind spirit. She looks normal most of the time but if a strong wind catches on her physical form literally temporarily blows away into clouds. She can control the condensation in the air around her- which is almost entirely useless, except she can use it to create rainbows behind her. Great idol trick

Zinnia gets some fun dragon traits, and also lives up to her Lorekeeper title. While there's plenty of common spells written down and going around, Zinnia has access to and protects a lot of more powerfull forgotten stuff. Most imporantly Delta Magic, which... Functions via Totally Not Mega Stones, and allows the user unlimited access to type magic for as long as it's active. It's pretty draining, but it's the only time that actual world changing magic can be made to happen, rather then more mundane or minor stuff

[lunarharp]

revamped looong mermaid orufrey au :')

[kitkat-the-muffin]

JUST BEFORE THE END OF MERMAY I RETURN WITH A FINISHED COLLAB!!!!

Sketch, lineart, and character design by @420penisdelirious69

Background, flat colors, and shading by @kitkat-the-muffin (me)

[Click for higher quality]

This is the context for when my friend asked me to color all my favorite characters drowning

He told me this AU has more stuff to it and that it’s a Sorikai Little Mermaid AU where Riku is kind of sort of Ursula but all three of them end up together in the end

Anyway I just think this is SO CUTE and I put a lot of effort into the background and stuff so I hope ya’ll like it too

Alternate versions below the read-more!

He called this the “censored version” lmbo

The following two are the same but without the top layers, so the colors pop out more

Please do NOT repost anywhere. We barely trust Tumblr to not convert our collabs into AI and we do NOT trust any other site at all

[inbox-to-the-void]

ENTRY 001 THE HUMAN DIDN'T REACT BADLY AT ME IT OFFERED ME THE SHELL IT HAD IT FREAKED OUT WHEN I REACHED FOR ITS FACE I'LL BRING IT A PRETTY SHELL IF IT COMES BACK …IF

Skeppy: -I mean, you look pretty freaked out Techno: I'M FINE

Art for @simplepotatofarmer (my main motivation for making rivals duo fanart)

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of Technoblade and Dream. Dream is in the foreground, Technoblade in the background. Technoblade is a human with pink hair, a black diving suit, a red shirt, and red fins. Dream looks semi-human, with finned ears, dirty blonde hair, pale skin, and the start of a green tail. Dream is looking at Technoblade, while Technoblade looks at a rainbow-coloured shell. There's text in a black font that reads "ENTRY 001" near the top left on the screen, directly below the water. END ID]

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of Technoblade. He's wearing swimming goggles, a black diving suit, and a red shirt. His pink hair floats above him, and he appears to be holding his breath. Text in a black font reads "THE HUMAN DIDN'T REACT BADLY AT ME". END ID]

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of Dream. Dream is a mermaid with finned ears, dirty blonde hair, green tail scales starting at the top of his chest, and four-fingered clawed hands. His thumb isn't visible. He has wide eyes and a wide smile, reaching for a rainbow shell that Technoblade's hand has an index finger on. Text in a black font reads "IT OFFERED ME THE SHELL IT HAD". END ID]

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of Technoblade and Dream. Dream is in the foreground, Technoblade in the background. Technoblade is a human with pink hair, a black diving suit, a red shirt, and red fins. Dream looks semi-human, with finned ears, dirty blonde hair, pale skin, and the start of a green tail. Technoblade is clearly panicked, kicking his feet to swim away from Dream. Text in a black font reads "IT FREAKED OUT WHEN I REACHED FOR ITS FACE", explaining Technoblade's panic. END ID]

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of the water, the main focus of the image being the text "I'LL BRING IT A PRETTY SHELL IF IT COMES BACK". A boat is visible at the top of the screen, Dream's hair at the bottom. END ID]

[IMAGE ID: A digital drawing of over the edge of a boat. Technoblade is to the right, while a coral reef is visible to the left. Dream's smile is highlighted in screen in a dark area of the coral reef. Skeppy's speech bubble, on the boat, reads "-I mean, you look pretty freaked out" in a cyan font with a black background. Technoblade's speech bubble, a red background with white font, reads "I'M FINE" and is placed slightly over Skeppy's speech bubble. Text in a black font reads "…IF" in the water. END ID]

[softquietsteadylove]

hey! I have a request! now this might sound a little crazy and really far fetched…..but let me cook for a sec.

is there any way for the Mermaid AU you could make Gil into a Mermaid? Maybe thena finds a plant for him to eat that either lets him breathe underwater, turns him into a mermaid or both! I was watching Barbie mermaidia today, and I could help but think of these two ( I got the idea from when Barbie and bibble ate seaweed to breathe underwater)! I feel like thena is always learning new things about the human world, so it is Gil’s turn to explore Thena’s world!

as always I love your work! 🖤🖤

"Are you sure about this, Angelfish?" Gil asked, but Thena just nodded so eagerly he wondered if her scales would fly off. She beamed up at him, her fangs shining in all their glory. He sighed. "Okay."

Thena watched from the water as he took a bite of the horrific looking plant she had brought to him. She refused to say what it was, just handing it to him and insisting that he eat the whole thing.

He groaned; it tasted awful, and the texture felt the way algae looked. His toes curled, his feet dipped into the water up to his ankles dangling over the edge of the dock. He gulped it down, though.

"It'll start working any second, just hang onto me!"

And with that, she dragged him underwater.

Usually, Thena was careful about him being underwater. She got nervous about how small human lungs were and what water pressure could do to them. They had only just got his held breath record up to a minute and a half last time they practised.

But Thena sped downward, his hand in hers, her tail propelling them. Gil had his hand over his mouth as she dragged him. He was going to drown down here, they were descending so fast.

But then it got a little easier. He started moving through the water a little faster. He looked down and his jeans were gone, no longer rolled up to the ankles--he didn't have ankles.

He had gills, taking up the work of breathing for him as they sped through the water. His ears changed shape and his eyes adapted to the dark the deeper they went. Scales erupted over his skin and when he looked down at himself, his midriff was exposed and he had a long, thick tail covered in shimmering black scales.

He was a mer!

Thena turned, not even having to slow down as she swam without looking. Seeing her in her element - literally - truly was an amazing sight to behold. "Isn't it wonderful, Gil?"

"Slow down, sweetheart," he chuckled, and she did. Just as naturally as he would slow down from running, his tail was able to slow their speed, moving automatically. He had long fins, too, which both helped cut through the water and assist the power of his swimming. "Wow."

Thena circled him again and again, too excited to float idly. "It's a dream! That herb is almost never found anymore--used far beyond its means, it's all but impossible to unearth."

Good to know the ocean was also capable of overharvesting and causing extinction, just like the surface.

"But Makkari said she had seen something like it and we went digging for treasures," Thena sighed, staring at him with eyes so starry they were glittering--perhaps it was her bioluminescence. "She said I could use it on you."

He looked at his arms, also dotted with scales, although it was different from Thena's scale pattern. "You've always had a magical plant that could turn humans into a mer?"

"Temporarily," she excused, as if what he had said wasn't abnormal sounding in the least. She circled him again before rising in the water in sheer delight. The end of her tail was flapping like a puppy's. "And look at you! I knew you'd be perfect!"

He laughed, accepting it as she threw herself at him, wrapping her arms around his back - the small trail of dorsal spines would take some getting used to- and kissing him.

His gills breathed for him as he kissed her back.

"Thank you, Angelfish," he nuzzled the tip of her nose with his, "for sharing this with me. It's...incredible."

She took his hand again, at least swimming at a lighter pace now. "We don't have long, unfortunately. But I want you to see some of what it's like down here."

It was beautiful. Of all the nature documentaries and marine biology live streams and deep sea cam feeds he'd watched, it could never compare to seeing it with his own eyes. Fish were everywhere, among other sea life. And the number of mers wasn't overwhelming, but he had almost thought in his head that Thena and Makkari were some of the only ones. And Ikaris, he supposed.

But he could see other mers swimming together, some of them speeding along, some of them happily swimming around each other in a lazy little dance. Their tails were different shapes and sizes, colours and textures. It was beautiful.

Thena purred as he kissed her cheek.

He didn't really want to experiment to see if he could purr too. But he took it in with her from above the reef spanning below them. "It's amazing--I had no idea this was so close to the house."

"Well, it's not that close," she assured, beginning to swim circles around him again. "You can travel several naughts faster with a tail than even in some boats."

He didn't doubt that. He looked down at his tail again. It was larger than Thena's, and something about her still being small and delicate even when they were in the same state endeared her to him further.

"It is a very striking tail."

He felt embarrassed, although blood didn't rush to his face like it would in his human state. He felt flustered, though, as if he should curl his tail up and try to hide it modestly. "Th-Thanks--I guess this is why you get all shy when I compliment yours?"

"I do not-!" she hissed at him. Her natural habits came out so much more when she had her tail on.

He took her hand and kissed the scales on her shoulder. "Show me more."

She was happy to receive the affection--she seemed to relish it even more than usual in this form. Her tail was better for speed, he presumed. Even with a longer, stronger tail of his own, he could feel the pull of her moving ahead of him. He was happy if she was faster than thim--it meant he didn't have to worry about her as much when she was out swimming alone.

Gil watched some of the other mers looking at him, surely trying to size up where he was from and how he had infiltrated their world. Most of them were in pairs, and while they weren't holding hands or anything outwardly romantic, those he assumed were couples had other signs.

They swam more closely, so closely their tails would collide sometimes, or their fins would brush together smoothly. They didn't hold hands, but their hands did move freely, brushing over and even more deliberately running over their partners.

"We can't go all the way out there," Thena mused, "but this is almost where we first met."

"Really?" he blinked. It all looked the same, just never ending ocean sprawling as far as he could see (which was significantly farther as a mer than as a human).

She nodded, pointing out over the end of the reef. "If you swam out that way another ten minutes, you would find where I first saw you sinking."

A very ungraceful introduction, unfortunately.

He gave her hand a squeeze, "I'm glad I could see it from your side of things."

She tipped his chin to give him another kiss. "We should start swimming back."

"So," he began as they made their way back towards the dock more leisurely. "This stuff really doesn't last that long, huh?"

She shook her head, paddling beside him. "It would be too dangers if it did. Humans could learn a little too much about us."

That was true, and also not a risk that was worth taking. He looked around them, "what if--won't they be angry with you if they find out-"

Thena cut him off, "there's nothing to find out. I'm showing my mate my home territory, nothing more."

He smiled; he could understand a little better what the term 'mate' really meant to her. It wasn't just their word for girlfriend or partner or anything. Seeing the mers swimming around together, he could see that mate meant something a little deeper to them. "Is there anything else I should do as your mate?--while I'm down here, I mean."

Thena seemed to really think about it, at least for a second. But she ultimately just smiled and shook her head, her beautiful mane of hair floating around her in the water. "We have no such formalities. And besides, I prefer our mating traditions back home."

"What mating traditions are those?" he asked with a chuckle. The act of mating wasn't itself a ritual ( he had learned). But she did like rituals such as 'falling asleep in front of the tv together', and 'calling him while he was at the store to tell him they were out of eggs'.

Human domestic life had really grown on her.

"Hm," she purred as they started their ascent to the surface. "I think my new favourite is eating between mating sessions."

He felt as if he could blush again. There were some nights when they were both feeling particularly needy and could go several rounds. And sometimes, in the middle of those rounds, they would get hungry and retrieve some dried sardines (for her) and shrimp chips (for him) to keep their strength up.

Gil kissed her cheek again as the light of the surface started warming them again. "Let's come up with some more when we get home."

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: an illustration of Delores as a mermaid swimming in a pool and looking at Five. It is a distant overhead shot in 3 point perspective. They are in the ruins of what might be a courtyard or a bathhouse. The color palette is made of teals, oranges, pinks, and yellows. Also in the ruins are a handful of trees and plants, a stone bench, and a frieze of a mermaid. End ID.]

i dont really know what this is. why is delores a mermaid? what is this building? why is there a mermaid in it? what does this have to do with the umbrella academy? where did five find a mermaid? all of these questions and more are completely unanswered and you can decide for yourself. i just wanted to draw a mermaid, and tile, and five and delores, and a statue, all at the same time. enjoy!

[carneflower13]

some (almost) late contributions to mermay with my lsoh little mermaid au!!

seymour just wants to be part of that world.....

[searsage]

Only then did the mermaid's survival instincts kick in, but instead of jerking back a in a panic, the fins along her body flared, standing erect, the poor mermaid was unable to stifle the warning hiss excasping her gills as the leviathen's lips pulled back even further.

It knew she was there, and yet the beast made no move to pursue the aggressively bristling mermaid, instead a terrifyingly familiar groan echoed from the hole, a precautionary warning, an echo to reach and locate the prey in the area..

Or predators, Al-an for the most part was unhelpful, instead choosing to lurk about his fragile mermaid curiously, watching the stand off between his little aggressive companion and the cowering leviathen.

He cares vary little for it, such a creature would not dare attack in his presence, but he also feels its important to the mermaid to stand her own ground even in the face of what would be her imminent death in any other circumstance.

It's only when the venomous barb in her tail started extending her shadow decides to easily tow her away from her prey, despite her best efforts she could not fight against the tenticle wrapped around her scale dusted waist and eventually was forced to give up the hunt as Al-an dragged her deeper into the decaying city

[floralstorms]

tehe I have. An au. For The Characters

[weather-mood]

That article below is why Louis’s scales in Part of Your World are golden bronze btw because he’s in his element in the ocean. Also why his eyes start as golden bronze as well but go green as the transformation completes because it parallels how there’s still that element of distress and betrayal about it all (on a narrative/metaphorical level! the colour isn’t technically connected within in the world to Lestat’s betrayal and Louis’s grief, it’s just a piece of imagery that I thought worked well + imitating how the sea eats away at everything, it’s also oxidising Louis’s eyes until he belongs to it- think also that quote that Louis thinks about bearing the form of the thing (the sea) eating at you as if it wouldn’t cannibalise itself and he’s partially wrong because the sea does stop eating him once he capitulates to it. There’s that ongoing image about Louis letting the sea draw out everything that doesn’t serve him, letting the sea eat it/have it/take it away and in going to the sea he gets it all back, he gets to be that version of himself, everything he thought the sea had eaten, and I’ve gotten off topic, anyway- that article? Background to how I chose the scale colour and why I eventually went with the bronze to green eyes option).

[dbphantom]

maybe i should have gone into practical effects instead of computer science...

[right-there-ride-on]

Poor Unfortunate Souls would be valentine’s disney villain songs

[monstrsball]

pspspsps kennedy as it is mermay what kind of mertails do you think your faves would have

oh my... what a good question omg. gonna draw inspiration from real animals.

suga: neon rainbowfish tail!!! he deserves a pretty tail and i think it would really suit his hair? and aside from the pretty colors, it looks relatively simple which fits suga. in my opinion. (his setting style yknow??)

EDIT: i am changing this cause i am silly and didn't realize i assigned him a freshwater fish lol. idk what i'm going to change it to yet so... stay tuned?

iwaizumi: whale shark? originally i was leaning towards maybe something green but a whale shark tail would be sick. and would really suit him imo. i like the idea of like... him having some of the spots on his face too so they kinda look like freckles almost?

lev: OARFISH!!! OARFISH TAIL!! long boy. do you see my vision

lev is not one of my faves but the idea hit me and i have to share!!! and i didn't want to just do two but i was having trouble picking tails for my other faves :// incredibly indecisive.

[poltergeist-coffee]

kicking my feet thinking about 4bit :))