#lemon shark mer

[mossypidder]

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This is prompt one through six. I finally finished them and I’m honestly pretty happy with most of them. Page four is a little chaotic though, hopefully it reads okay. The next part is only four pages, so hopefully it won’t take as long to finish.

[amazeingartist]

Shark & His Diver

read mer!soap thread on twitter and was inspired

[inkstainedheartbeats]

Steve rams against the invisible barrier of the cage he’s been put in. His shoulder hurts and around him other mers tell him to stop. But they don’t understand. Those two legged bastards stole his kids. They’re his and he had made promises. SNAP! He ignores the pain. Ignores the scent of blood that is his wounds reopening. They took his fry. His babies. They took them. He pounds on the barrier, wailing warbles coming from his mouth. Two legged beings gather. They point and their odd language is muffled. He just wants his fry. Please. Please he can’t lose anymore pod members. He can’t be alone.

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Eddie watches as the newest “rescue” beats himself against the glass. Listens to his wailing. Flinching at each thud. No on goes up to the Alpha and it’s not just because he’s an Alpha. He’s a Lionfish. Sharp barbs fanned out and dangerous. His tan skin, what isn’t covered in bandages tell a story of pain. Eddie was born in this tank, one of the few fins folded in such a way that if he were released like his father was he’d be dead. Wayne had fought like hell- oh shit.

Hesitantly, slowly, he approaches. A raging Alpha doesn’t typically like it when another one approaches. Especially if the other Alpha is a shark.

“Please. Please, I can’t lose them too. Please.”

Eddie hadn’t seen his arrival. Adult mers were dumped into the enclosure, wounds and temperament be damned, pups usually went to the smaller pool up front until the humans were comfortable they wouldn’t be eaten alive.

“If you keep doing that the humans are going to think you’re dangerous,” he says softly.

The mer turns, teeth flashing in threat, head held high like Poseidon before his court.

“I am.”

“If you’re dangerous they won’t introduce any pups.”

The Alpha shrinks on himself. Like he’s approaching one of the actual sharks in the tank, ones he can see hovering held back by other mers, Eddie reaches out. Places a hand on the other Alpha’s shoulder. Draws him in for a hug.

“If they aren’t returned to you by tomorrow, I’ll bug my favorite human.”

He doesn’t know this mers name. Just knows that he smells of the ocean, of salt and freedom and things Eddie has only dreamed of. He knows that despite being dangerous and deadly he curls up in Eddie’s embrace. Mate. Eddie’s never been good at this. Tends to run when he can, not that he’s fast. Amphitrite don’t let him mess this up.

[aylish91]

I need someone to stand over me and whack me with a ruler every time I try to stray to youtube or other writing projects. I'm trying to focus on finishing this chapter but my crazy brain keeps wanting to get distracted.

[devilishdelights]

some mermay dateables + trio (what do we call them?) and what i think they’d be !! :]

diavolo i’m thinking a big ass grand octopus

barbatos is that alien looking squid at the bottom of the ocean. it suits him

luke is a clown fish LMAO or a sea angel (hoihoi)

i’m thinking simeon as a white + black koi fish!! i just thought up of that today and i really like the idea

thirteen vampire squid (ty lex)

mephisto. seahorse. like what else would he be

idk about solomon or raphael though!!

[remadra]

incredibly hyper-specific mer au design time for Six and RK that only a few people have the context for

[all-purpose-dish-soap]

how do you picture merman gas and soaps tails? i know they are sharks, but you do mention their tail wrapping around the reader’s legs. thanks!

in my mind, it's something like this.

when Gaz or Soap wrap their tails around your leg (and drag you into their lap), it feels smooth one way and rough the other. if you've never touched sharkskin, you can run your fingers toward the shark's tail and feel something like suede; run your fingers back the opposite way and it feels like rough-grit sandpaper. technically shark skin is composed of scales--ribbed, dragonesque scales layered like shingles on a roof. more like teeth than skin, which helps is one reason they can glide through the water so fast.

i personally like the idea of the 141 shark mer with 100% shark skin rather than human skin/scales/disneyesque hip petals. also love the idea of each one having unique coloration and marking based on the types of sharks they mimic! perhaps consider a tiger shark, a pretty whale shark, a lemon shark, or a sandy zebra shark.

in terms of their size versus remora reader (shout out to @kaysav608), remora reader is much smaller. maybe it's not as extreme a size difference as a remora and its host in real life, but similar principle--the host is built like a murdertank, and the remora is pocket-sized for easy transport.

in my mind, remora reader is maybe half the size of her hosts. could range from 2/3s to 1/3 as long. also, it's not that they're super tall and she's short. she is proportionally built smaller. i see something like this or this.

but also, how you envision them in your mind's eye is up to you :)

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more mer au / masterlist tag

[salty-rey]

Zebra Shark | Potion Mishap

Yup! I am doing the trope of "a potion gone wrong, causing our Prefect to become a mer-person!"

I was conflicted between a lemon shark and a zebra shark. But I liked the patterns of the zebra shark during their transition from pup to adult shark.

Also, the way I colored water; it's giving 2000s aquarium core.

Anyways, full body ref and Floyd's reaction below!

[mochinomnoms]

shark reader and Floyd would be so cute. Opposites attract is my fav troupe. Shark s/o is like a calm reserved mer and Floyd is just…. A menace 💀💀

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A cute lemon shark s/o would be a great fit for Floyd “The Menace™” Leach. They're highly social and calm, especially for a predator, wild lemon sharks will sometimes approach divers for pets! Over all, lemon shark s/o is chill, slightly bigger than Floyd, and will allow Floyd to bite, scratch, and squeeze them to his heart's content as long as he follows up with a kiss.

Floyd, on the other hand, wants to try to find their weak spot that will eventually break them until they toss him with their tail 50ft into the nearest current. Then it's a game of “who can throw the other one farther”? Hint: it's not Floyd.

It's a good match though, as Floyd, believe it or not, can actually mellow out if he has someone that will go with the flow and indulge him occasionally, as long as they aren't a doormat and can be firm on when certain behaviors have a time or place.

[buttery-art]

Yippee made it in time for mermay. Finally designed mer sanford, hes a lemon shark!

[mychlapci]

Lemon shark TFA bumblebee getting put into a tank with big flying fish/great white shark hybrid Blitzwing because the researchers think bee is too small for blitz to breed (he's been managing to screw every mer that's been stored with him) only to find out they're wrong a few months later.

Bee being super enamored with the big mer he's sharing a tank with and Blitz being apprehensive, he's never had a mer actually desire to court him rather than just a quick breeding frag, especially not one as tiny as him. Eventually he finds himself catching feelings for his tank mate too (especially because he isn't bothered by his faces) and finally accepting Bumblebee's desires. They have the rowdiest breeding to the point that the tank gets foggy because of the sand and the staff thinks that they're fighting, only to have Blitz in random mode begin to frag bee against the glass as a show of dominance. Once he's nice and definitely knocked up, the staff try to take him out and Blitzwing ends up severely injuring one member before they just decide "well he likes this one, well let him keep it"

And soon there's a bunch of cute baby mers swimming around their tank <3

YEAH, tfa merformers. Large horny fucked up sea monster Blitzwing getting to breed tiny little Bumblebee <333 The little fish was never safe from getting bred, he was just humouring the facility staff for a while... After a while the staff finds the tank fully obscured by sand and everyone panics so hard until there's a violent thud against the glass, and Blitzwing is pounding away into Bumblebee like his life depends on it. And Bumblebee is gladly bucking right back against him...

Bee’s gonna be so fat with pups it’ll be hard to swim… The staff is worried about the size difference, but Blitzwing is so territorial they can't really do anything about it, just watch as the little mer gets fatter and fatter, until eventually, Blitzwing has to agree to help him move around the tank....

[mossypidder]

MERMAY 2024 MAIN CAST- look at my stupid, idiot little children, I love them so much. If I can keep up, this year is gonna be fun; I have angsty plots >:3

MerMay 2024 Masterpost

Relative size reference and anatomical ramblings below cut.

Here’s a vague size comparison thing for all of them. And a human for perspective

I really, desperately want to make an illustrated guide to my merfolk lore, because it’s extensive and I’m really proud of it. But that sounds slightly overwhelming, so idk, but here are some random scraps that pertain to these four. My fish mers aren’t allowed to have hair; they have a variety of different fins on their head to mimic it instead. Oviparous fish (e.g. remora) lay their eggs and their mer counterparts do likewise, and therefore don’t have nipples and/or breasts. Eggs of ovoviviparous fish (e.g. manta ray) hatch shortly before giving birth and do not consume anything resembling milk, so their mer counterparts do not have nipples and/or breasts. Viviparous fish (e.g. lemon shark) essentially nurse when in the womb, so their mer counterparts nurse after having given birth and have nipples and/or breasts. Mammals (e.g. monk seal) are self explanatory.

Also most animals hatch or are born with navels, because even in eggs, there’s a cord from the embryo to the yolk sack. Oviparous and ovoviviparous creatures just tend to be better at healing the scar. However, I’ve decided that mers are not as good at healing the scar, and thus, have bellybuttons.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[spacexseven]

Fun fact! Lemon sharks are prone to a lot of jealousy and are known to chase off tigers sharks that get close to the divers they’ve bonded with. Aku the lemon shark and Atsushi the tiger shark ☺️

cw: yandere themes

akutagawa was under the impression that you liked spending time with him—at least, that's what you told him before when you boldly claimed that you weren't scared of him. so why were you spending so much time with someone else now?

atsushi, from his research, was a newer mer to the area. someone must have found him wandering around and allowed him to stay. was that why he didn't understand that you were his human companion? akutagawa didn't consider himself a possessive person, but something akin to dark, vile jealousy bubbled inside him when he saw atsushi bashfully giggling when you stroked his hair, happily obliging your requests to see him spin, admiring the way his scales shone under the moonlight. akutagawa stared down at his own dark, boring tail, a bitter taste in his mouth. humans always did have a liking for pretty things, didn't they?

if you wanted to explore underwater caves, he knew them better than atsushi did, and he was a much better guide, wasn't he? not constantly yapping your ears off as you dove. but maybe you liked the more social aspect of atsushi, something he didn't have. so once again, he felt sidelined by this stupid tiger. he felt like he had been replaced.

obviously, he couldn't express these feelings to you. humans were kinder than mers, weren't they? you wouldn't understand his feelings of selfishness and envy, his natural hatred for the other shark mer. but what he could do was scare off atsushi—as long as he didn't run off to complain to you about it. so he does exactly that, swimming too close to the other mer, glaring at him every time they cross paths, making an obvious show of his longer friendship with you—visiting you right before he knew atsushi would, bringing you rare and precious treasures that he knew you liked, all to prove that he was obviously the stronger and more suited mate for you.

it's not like atsushi would fight back, anyway.

[sunsartblog]

Behold, the silly

This Mer!Lloyd belongs to @angeldrawsstuffs !!

He's a lemon shark :] and has better hair than me

[moonlight-tmd]

Mermay blitzbee headcanons or story please?

Oh gee, you folks are really into these mermay stuff, huh?

Unfortunatelly I don't have much to offer since I was never interested but I'll try-

Somehow these big sea monsters ended up together in Detroit- I suppose they adapted to be in both sweet and salt water so yeh. One day a little girl is hanging out with her dad at the shore and she runs off and tadah, she meets a funky lemon shark!Bee. Then the rest; orca!Optimus, puffer fish!Ratchet, marilin fish!Prowl and sea turtle!Bulkhead.

Then there's others- the mean ones; great white shark!Megatron, anglerfish!Lugnut, hammerhead shark!Shockwave, mimich octopus!Soundwave catfish!Blackarachnia and finally... flying fish/tiger shark!Blitzwing- an odd combo thought of as ugly but sturdy.

I think the two would separate and occupy the two nearest bodies of water- Autobot tribe is occupying Lake Erie while the Decepticon Tribe inhabits lake Huron.

The two tribes generally try to stay out of each other's ways with with a limited supply of fish it's rather hard not to stay out of conflicts- the con tribe has begun to be aggressive to the bots and certain boats that hunt the remaining fish in the water. That being said the bot tribe is actively trying to keep the cons busy so they both don't get discovered.

One day when Bee was looking around the bridge and the shores for fun human stuff that might have fell in he saw a shadow lurking behind some rocks- upon closer look it was Blitzwing, who literally jumped him in attempt to eat him. Of course Bee was swift to dodge. He started talking/bantering and it was revealed that the odd fish mix was left to starve because the other tribe members thought he was fat enough to get by on lower amount of food. Bee decided to take Blitz for a meal- ever since they met Sari the kid has been bringing them shockingly huge amounts of food at the docks. The feeder was there still and it wasn't much issue getting it open- Blitz ate the whole supply. He thanked the little shark and apologised for trying to eat him and swam off. From then on every other day Blitz would sneak into autobot waters and look for Bee to take him to the feeder.

Over time they started to take liking to one another- one may even spot signs of courting happening if they looked closely. Truth be told, Bee was interested in Blitzwing ever since he saw him- he was a sucked for all the odd and unique things and Blitzwing was all that, although the fact he was trying to eat few of the bots on multiple occasions was a bit alarming. Blitzwing on the other- fin? has been charmed by the tiny yellow sharkie- the curiosity, fun nature and hte kindness he offered made him Blitz's favorite mer soon. The two would meet up outside of the feeding times too, the small Lake St Clair and the rivers that connected it made a great place to hang out without being spotted by either tribe.

It was all going fine until the con tribe noticed Blitz has been putting on weight despite not eating- and it was not starvation swelling. They decided to spy on him and found out he was getting stuffed with the help of the teensy weensy lemon shark. Autobots had ways to get food so of course they invaded into their waters and tried to get it for themselves. Idk what else, there might have been a huge fight over it and then Sari got hurt in the water and yadda yadda the conflict was resolved in a peace agreement to not harm anyone and share food- oh and Sari's half mer thanks to her mother (who died when she was tiny) so she can go hang out w/ the mers in the lake.

I would guess Bee and Blitz have made their courtship public after the agreement and the cons have let him go; while the cons did nothing to better their relationship with him, he's been oddly welcome with the bots. He and Bee are quite a cute oddity.

And yes, he promised to not eat any of them nor the humans.

[ofsunnydays-and-moonlitnights]

Ray (of sunshine) the lemon shark!

Nickname: Ray. Species: Celestial Mer. (Common name Sea monster.) Class: Solar. Mimic fish: Lemon shark. Status: Rescue. Release date: NA Health: full recovery not expected Current habitat: Aqua Clinic tank. Tank mates: NA

To read Ray's story check out chapter 1 of Another great day of saving the sharks.