#lionfish can get fucked

[bennydwight]

What is the worst animal in existence and why is it mosquitoes (Hate those worthless fuckers)

Because Lion Fish haven't learned to fly yet

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

run honey run by morcheeba giving me emotion paralysis

[hauntingmiser]

Mermay time bois!!!!

Today I have cabbage man but fish

[all-purpose-dish-soap]

48 / 1.1k / shark mermen Ghost and Soap + lionfish mermaid reader, courtesy of @porcelainpot :)

...

The moment you and Soap lock eyes, you push yourself up off the soft sea floor. Tendrils of sand, gold in the sun, trail after your tailfin all the way back into the tangle of reef coral you’ve claimed as your home.

Soap laughs behind you.

Why is he so obsessed with this? This stupid game he plays. Ghost—who rolls over near the sunny patch where you were just lazing together—doesn’t care when you’re around. You don’t bother him; he doesn’t bother you. But Soap won’t leave you alone. He all but ignores the clear warning signs all over your body—the auburn striping your tail; your bright, fanlike fins; the enormous fuckoff venom-coated spines running the length of your dorsal line, arms, and ear fins.  

You scowl. Every time you think he won’t find you when you venture out into the reef, every time you let yourself relax after the day’s hunting is done, he turns up. Watching you the same way he’s looking at you right now: too fucking closely. His eyes flash with mischief and lock onto your fins through the sparse gaps in your coral cave.

“Think she bites?” he asks Ghost.

Ghost grunts. “Most things do.”

“Saw her lookin’ at you like she might want to take a piece home.”

“Doubt it.”

“Doubt you’d feel it if she did. Could hardly kill a minnow with those wee teeth. Don’t know how she hunts with ‘em.”

You duck down back into the entrance of your cave with a flick of your lacy tail. He’s talking loudly enough for you to hear on purpose. “You’re never getting close enough to find out,” you snap.

Soap’s smirk stretches into a grin. You took the bait. “Can’t hide in your cage forever, can ya?”

Ghost rolls back over. “She’s got more sense than the ones who swim toward you.”

“Oh, piss off. Fleein’ from a predator is what prey fish do. It’s a natural response.”

You lurk a little further outside your cave. “I’m not prey. I’m just as much a predator as you sharks.”

This time, Ghost is the one who scoffs. “Sure you are.”

Soap swims up closer to your hiding spot, eyes roaming over your form. You bristle instinctively and raise your spines in warning as he drifts closer. But it doesn’t drive him away. If anything, it seems to draw his interest even more.

“Ya’ve got an impressive display, I’ll give it that,” he says. “But you’re a scrap compared to us.”

“So? I don’t need size to defend myself.” You fan your fins up higher, emboldened as you rise with the current.

Soap grins even wider at the threat display. You’re all barbed fins, colorful scales, and angry pout. His gaze reflects the challenge you’re issuing him. “Careful sayin’ that. I’ll chase you if you tease me.”

Ghost lets out an irritated growl at Soap’s flirtation, knowing very well Soap only says these things to get a rise out of you. “Those spines aren’t just for show, Soap. You know what lionfish venom feels like. Bet hers is worse. Might kill you. You think it's worth dying just to prove a point?"

“I think spines break as easy as they sting.”

Anger surges through your chest. “Brute,” you snap.

Soap laughs. You don’t seem to notice you’ve drifted some distance away from your hiding spot, but he has. Ghost shifts, side-eying both of you more closely.

“I’m just curious, gorgeous.” His senses sharpen with the thrill of your threat display and your anger. Of course he thinks it’s sexy. The more you insult him, the more he wants to see what it takes to earn more than just that sharp tongue of yours. “Think touchin’ you might be worth the sting.”

“You’d be wrong.”

“You’re cute when you’ve got a problem with me. Gnashin’ like a miniature barracuda.”

You puff up a little more, daring to swim closer. You’re smugly satisfied when he backs away a little in response.

“Try it,” you bluff.

Soap’s eyes drop down, tracing the length of your fins, and he grins. He’s just as aware of the lethality of any lionfish's wicked barbs as he is of their beauty, but he doesn’t seem particularly deterred by the threats of this particular mer wielding them. “Bet you wouldn’t bite me too hard.”

“Soap.” Ghost’s voice is calm, but a warning lurks in his tone. “Don’t provoke her.”

“Where’s the fun in that?” Soap replies without looking away from you. “Bet those spines are brittle.” He reaches forward to touch one.

You hiss and whip your tail away on instinct, darting back. Your spines are still raised in defense. But your rational mind doesn’t want to risk him getting any closer. You don’t want him to know what happens if he's stung--that your venom is a faulty mimic of a true lionfish. He needs to think you're dangerous and keep his distance. And you need to keep your pride intact.

Soap hardly notices how upset you are. He’s thrilled to provoke an interesting new reaction out of you. Before he can reach out again, though, Ghost grabs his wrist and jerks him back, forcing him out of your personal space.

“Don’t be an idiot. You’re not fast enough to avoid a sting.”

“You’re no fun, Ghost.”

“Fuck off,” you snap. Your heart is pounding. He got too close, way too close.

You retreat while Ghost has ahold of him, slipping down into your small den and out of sight. Soap calls after you, but he’s not surprised when you don’t come back out.

Soap rips his wrist out of Ghost’s claws with a muttered curse. At Ghost’s hard look, he snaps, “Like you wouldn’t do it too.”

“That’s not the problem. She’s a pincushion. You go pissing her off too much, you’re going to wind up full of poison.

“Aye.”

“And it'll probably kill you. Hurt the whole time doing it. It’s all fun and games until you’re dying because you just couldn’t help but poke a pretty fish.”

Soap scoffs. “You’re exaggerating. No sting can kill me. It'll hurt a little an’ I’ll be fine.”

Ghost gives Soap an unimpressed glance. “And if you're wrong? You think you’re strong enough to fight off a neurotoxin.” He snorts. “You want to test that hypothesis?”

Soap glances back at your den with a frown.

“Keep your bloody distance,” Ghost mutters, giving Soap a shove back toward the center of the reef. “She’s no prize.”

Soap gives in and turns back toward the reef, turning a restless corkscrew in the water. Still, the smirk reappears on his face. “Aye. Little nightmare, isn’t she?” He sighs. “All bite and no kiss.”

...

[part 1 ] / part 2 by porcelainpot here!! <3

more mer au / more Soap / masterlist

[fionnaskyborn]

shoving this under a readmore so that my rancid rants don't end up accidentally reaching the crowd whose feelings this might hurt. i'd hate that. let's get to it

something that really pisses me off about the whole "nine year devotion" talk is that. it wasn't exactly what you would call devotion. can you really call it devotion if it was out of necessity? can you really do that if there were no other options?

but of course this is the main thing where my opinions diverge from the entire rest of the fanbase because when you exclude the 95% who think this is a story about a love gone wrong gone south then down the fucking shitter the remaining 5% are. also. talking about that. how there was love even if they /do/ acknowledge the absolutely horrifying circumstances under which that love emerged. and i swear that i am the only person in the entire world at this point who thinks that, if there was any love in all that whatsoever, it was all but entirely negligible and superficial and to be honest not important in the grand scheme of things even if it /was/ there. i dunno. hard for me to imagine a circumstance under which you could develop genuine feelings, not stockholm syndrome, for someone who turned your allies into an opposing force and then went on to describe how said opposing force was going to torture you if you refused to cooperate with him in excruciating detail and then laughed at your face. but i don't know that's just meeeeee and we allllll know that i'm a crazy bastard whose words you shouldn't listen to or pay any mind at any point whatsoever. ha ha ha!

okay but seriously, getting back to the topic at hand. the nine year long wait was an act of devotion, or so they say. but like. have you considered that maybe... there was just no other option for him at that point? what's he gonna do, say no? run? to where? he is back at square zero he is twenty-six years old again with nobody else in the whole wide world without his mother without his father just a gun in hands and the desperate need to take it out on anyone who comes across him. if he abandons this, he is back to having no one. so he /has/ to try and rebuild, he /has/ to try because otherwise this is just another gigantic loss tacked onto a life full of gigantic losses already. he has nowhere else to go, he's worse off than he was back when he was twenty-six because at least then he was free, free to do whatever he wanted free to fight for whoever or whatever he deemed it was worth fighting for the freedom to choose a way of life but no this bitch sealed off every choice and threw him under his boot and his command so viciously that even when he departed the chains were still left around his neck. cause that's what he does best, right. he sees your options for a way out and he kills them off one by one until he is left as the only choice. i hate him so much.

people are saying it's devotion. it's not devotion if you joined the organization under the literal threat of death. this is being conditioned to believe that there is no way out so much that, by the time the opportunity presents itself, there really appears to be nothing else left for you but this fate. there is only nothing without this. you look for any other option and all you find is a black void stretching out in every direction. THAT'S what makes this whole thing sting even more than it does on a baseline.

i need to rant about fiction in a way that isn't exactly nice or friendly

[merakiui]

hiii mera!!

imagining azul as a type of cannibalistic octopus, on your first night together he’s spent so long hyping himself up and grueling over whether or not he’s content giving himself to you, eventually coming to terms with it and deciding to make the event as romantic & easy to clean as possible. when the deed is done, he’s so anxious and pathetic and practically withers away as he looks at you,,, he knows what comes now… but when your teeth don’t tear at his flesh, he looks at you with confusion, a bit disappointed by the lack of development, but far more relieved. He asks and you explain that humans don’t cannibalize their partners,,, and it clicks. so many others can come back and brag about their partners and he’s a bit embarrassed by the revelation, but SO relieved. it’s a cute thing, he’s so excited to continue living with you

random thought though,, not very thought out LOL he knows not of porn in this situation

wet dreams consist of getting it on and him jumping awake as you lurch towards him with a hungry maw,,, imagining on the first night he just brings a bunch of snacks in hopes that it’ll save him, chip bags littered about like rose petals

thank you for reading,

lionfish anon :]

AAAAAA YES YES. OTL Azul who is only familiar with mer courtship and sex customs, so he's fully prepared to give himself to you after he spends so much time mulling it over. Aaaaa he's so cute, preparing so many snacks to make sure you're well-fed and too distracted to think about eating him after the fact. Azul being too worried to do anything face to face, so he fucks you from behind instead. Later, when he learns you won't be devouring him after sex, he becomes more confident holding you closer and fucking you in intimate positions that allow him to look at you. <3

I think he'd have some of the best snacks as well. orz all of your favorites along with some of his favorites, too. The snacks being scattered like rose petals is so silly to imagine, and he'd probably look so proud about it as well. Something like,,,, look at what a good mate he is, providing you with an abundance of food (please don't eat him) and he'll take good care of you when you've eaten your fill of snacks (please PLEASE don't eat him).

Unintentional tako rizz (which was really just Azul trying to ensure you wouldn't cannibalize him afterwards lol). He's just too cute!!!!!

[rs-hawk]

I’m a sucker for mermaid varieties based on fish. Like lionfish mermaids having to be wary of hurting their partners with their spines. Or eel mermaids that electrify the water when they orgasm

Okay but cute and I get to nerd out about my favorite fish

Happy Earth Day: Post Three

You work at a conservation for merfolk, and you are by far the favorite employee of a large portion of the females. They love how warm your hands are on their cold skin, and how hot your fingers feel inside of them as you slide them in. Who needs a sunning rock when they can just press themselves against you and grind against your fingers?

Your favorite is a Gorgeous Swallowtail mermaid named Jala. Her top half is one of the most stunning women you’ve ever seen. She’s nearly bald with her short pink hair shaved closely to her head. Her dark skin is unblemished aside from the occasional pink or yellow scale that had crept higher up on her body than her waist. And those eyes… fuck. Her bright yellow eyes shine like the sun. You feel truly seen the first time she looks at you. When she smiles, showing off those four rows of sharp, needle teeth, you know that you can never go without seeing her again.

Soon enough you’re coming in early, staying late, just to spend more time with Jala. It’s taken awhile, but slowly over the last several months, maybe a year by now, you’ve been able to acclimate her to her tank. Being a deep water mermaid, it was hard moving to the conservation at first. Now though, she gets to see you more often since she’s been fully acclimated to the conservation’s tank. So to her, it was definitely worth it.

After a few months in her new tank, thanks to her obvious affection for you, your boss comes up with an excellent idea. They order you a specialized oxygen tank so you can stay in the water longer. Now her yellow rimmed fins are twitching and fluttering up and down as you pump your fingers in and out of her uro, basically a human cunt thanks to her merfolk anatomy.

With every orgasm, more of her eggs are released. With no male around to fertilize them, you just scoop them up in your special container for storage and future fertilization. A job where you get to finger your pretty Gorgeous Swallowtail mermaid girlfriend and feed her? There’s nothing better. Your boss however is now floating the idea of adding your “egg collection” to the events at the conservation. Surely that would bring in so many more donations.

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[archiepelago]

Getting pet on its own is a maybe; it feels nice but not really something she’d necessarily be cool with from strangers. Though she can be swayed if someone offers to help with caring for spots she can’t reach (her mutated shape fucked a lot with her shoulder girdle, so she can’t really reach most of her back/neck anymore.) Expendables can make for some decent, fresh conversation, which she appreciates despite not being great at small talk.

As for the second; if someone’s really dedicated to pestering her she has 0 issue with just biting them as a consequence lmao

(As a result of her testing, she’s got lionfish venom glands connected to her teeth; good news is it’s generally not lethal! bad news is it still Fucking Hurts Real Bad)

[aquarion135]

A New Poseidon Design - Aquaseidon

I actually created this Poseidon design wayyyy back in 2021 and he has been my PFP ever since then. Y'all can call him Aquaseidon!

Side Profile: Sept 2021 - When creating him, I was inspired by a few other sea-adjacent characters and Poseidon depictions. One of the biggest ones was Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, especially his beard of tentacles. My idea was rather than a beard, his hair is tentacles. I was also inspired by lionfish for the spines below his fins, giving them that pattern of light and dark that many venomous species often have.

Body: Oct 2021 - This was certainly a work in progress. I had no idea how to draw his face at that angle at the time without it looking completely wrong so I just gave up and finished the body.

April 2024 - I didn't draw him for a while as I improved my art skills in other areas. I mostly spent this time RPing with him on Discord.

Sept 2024 - I love Epic the Musical! Neal Illustrator's Poseidon design still has a chokehold on me. Aquaseidon's not growing any facial hair/tentacles anytime soon though lol

Oct 2024 - Aquaseidon would willingly indulge in Odysseus in the manwhore AU hehe. I initially added the rock in his forehead to help make his forehead not look too big due to his skin and his tentacles matching colors.

So, here is my headcanon for the origin of the rock. After his rebellion against Zeus, Zeus stabbed him in the forehead with his lightning bolt and let him heal just enough to not die. Then, he turned him mortal so that he had to heal the rest of the way slowly. Poseidon was forced to build the walls of Troy as blood trickled down his face from the hole in it, his eyes being blinded by the red. Eventually, the wound did mostly heal over, but a scar remained, in the center of his forehead.

The king of Troy refused to pay him for his work. So, as a petty farewell, he stole the largest stone from the king's treasury and used it to cover the scar from his brother. Now, even after being able to heal his head to be good as new, he keeps the stone there as a way to always remind his brother that he fucking hates him.

So, many centuries later, Odysseus comes along and stabs his own son in the eye, almost exactly the same spot where Zeus had stabbed him all those years ago. He is absolutely triggered, not only by this mortal man hurting his son and then giving a bullshit apology, but also by the fact that his son was hurt in the same way that he was. This is another layer of why he is so ruthless towards Odysseus. No one stood up for him and sought vengeance for him when he was essentially shot in the head by his brother. So, he wanted to do for his son that no one ever did for him. Mic drop

So these are the drawings I've done of Aquaseidon so far! Y'all are more than welcome to draw him if you want!! Just credit me in the post and tag me so I get to see it!

[sleepyfan-blog]

I VERY DESPERATELY NEED/Want Baby Primarch Mers. So Badly. PLEASE!

Ok! I"ll go down the list

1 - Lion - So, the temptation to make him part lionfish is incredible here. There's also the fact that IRL Lionfish are a huge problem in certain parts of the world because they are an invasive species in those areas, as well as incredibly deadly because of their poisonous spines. And considering how deadly Lion and his sons can be... Yeah, I think he's part lionfish. Specifically he has a deep green tail with silver stripes. His spines are black and gold and hold incredibly potent poisons.

2- ??? [REDACTED BY THE ORDER OF THE EMPEROR]]

3- Fulgrim - He is part Coral Beauty Angelfish, and has a beautiful purple tail that fades into a vibrant yellow color. Coral beauties (at least according to the quick google search I did about them) are an incredibly hardy salt water fish, and known for their vibrant colorations.

4 - Perturabo - is part Cabezon - which are known for being Stubborn Bastard Fish who Refuse To Move until they get their next meal, willing to wait days and even weeks before they get their next meal. Which is often other fish, which I feel fits Peter turbo pretty well. He has a pleated tail and fins that are a mottled steel and black color, with the occasional yellow stripe.

5 - Jaghatai - is part Sailfish - which are allegedly one of the fastest fish in the world IRL. He has a bright white tail with red stripes. His fins are also white with red stripes.

6 - Leman - is part Piranha. Not only are Piranhas highly predatory, they also are species of fish that school together. Like how Space Wolves almost always stick together in packs. Also, he still has fangs in this AU. His tail and fins are a lovely slate grey color with an iridescent shine to them.

7 - Rogal - part greenland shark! Cold adapted predator of the sea. Doesn't look like much but is an apex predator in the seas it lives in. He has gorgeous golden fins and tails with black spots.

8 - Konrad - part goblin shark. I didn't pick it just because of the name, but because it is a deep water shark (lives in darkness, just like a certain edgy primarch) that is rarely seen by humans. And. Well. Most humans who saw Konrad didn't exactly live to tell about it, did they? He has a deep blue tail and fins that are surprisingly slender. But powerful and he has a hell of a bite and many, many pointy teeth.

9 - Sanguinius - He has a beautiful silver tail and fin-like wings, as his mer-half is flying fish! Although I was super tempted to make him part-lamprey because of the blood-sucking aspect of him.

10 -  Ferrus - as per the suggestions of @angronsjewelbeetle @c-u-c-koo-4-40k and @i-am-a-dragon34 Ferrus is now part Dunkleostous, with dark grey fins and tail on his dorsal side and a silvery ventral side.

11 - ?? [REDACTED BY THE ORDER OF THE EMPEROR]

12 - Angron - part betta fish. He has striking red and gold fins and tail and will square the fuck up if the mood strikes.

13 - Roboute - there is a big temptation to go for the Ultramarlin pun, but I won't give in. What I am going with is part Ribbon Eel, as they have this really lovely blue body with bright yellow dorsal and ventral stripes that go all the way down their bodies. That and G-Man having a long tail to thwap his brothers with makes me giggle.

14 - Mortarion - part pufferfish. Prickly, defensive and poisonous. Can and will puff up. Has grey fins and tail with dark green spots. Spiny.

15 - Magnus: I am torn between making him part carp - because of the Japanese (I think?) myth about a carp jumping up a waterfall in order to become a dragon - which hints at Magnus' incredibly powerful warp abilities or an Abtu, which is a mythical ancient Egyptian fish, because Space Egypt. Thoughts? Opinions?

16 - Horus: Is part dolphin. Known for being very charismatic and charming, but can and will bully other kinds of sea life. Baby-Horus has a deep green tail with gold markings.

17 - Lorgar - I love the Parrot Fish pun suggestion by @c-u-c-koo-4-40k so that is what I am going with. His fins and tail are a deep red color with a silver shimmer to them.

18 - Vulcan - another excellent suggestion by @c-u-c-koo-4-40k for making one of the primarchs part barracuda! I have decided on Vulcan, rather than Magnus. Vulcan’s dorsal fins and tail are a deep green color, the ventral side is black. Along the middle where the two colors meet, he had gold spots.

19 - Corvus: Part of me wants to make Corvus either some kind of shark, or angler fish bc of his whole "sworn vengeance and eternally hunting after Lorgar post-heresy" thing but. Big E is also a being who loves himself some aesthetics and I don't think a part-angler fish boy would fit that. Perhaps part black-tipped shark bc of their stealthiness. Thoughts?

20 - Alpharius and Omegon: are color-pallet changed blue-ring octopi. Instead of a yellow body with bright blue rings, they have vibrant teal tentacles with bright silver ring-patterns across their tentacles and up the fishy parts of their bodies.

@egrets-not-regrets @the-pure-angel

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Misc. vs Faunus Misc.

Penny: *Curtsy's* Is there any particular reason you were built like that?

Firefly!faunus Penny: *Unfurling Floating Array* Father had personal reasons, though the one he gave the Miliary was to excuse any Eccentricities.

Penny: That sounds rather discriminatory.

Penny: It is.

~~~~~

Penny: *Flaring Wings* I am sorry you did not get to experience Life as an organic person for very long.

Penny: *Summoning Swords* I appreciate your condolences. I hope you live your life to the fullest.

Penny: I will. Thank you.

~~~~~

Oscar: *Extends Long Memory* How does it feel when the Velvet comes off your Antlers?

Deer!faunus Oscar: *Rubbing the base of his antlers* A little pinchy, But mostly I just have to make sure no blood get in my eyes. Or on others.

Oscar: I take it the bandages look bad?

~~~~~

Oscar: *Pulls Long Memory from his antlers* I envy you. I can't wear normal shirts most of the year, only button ups.

Oscar: *Fixing belts* Yeah, that sounds annoying.

Oscar: You don't know the half of it.

~~~~~

Emerald: *Twirls Thieve's respite* So ... I'm guessing you have sticky fingers as well?

Octopus!Faunus Emerald: *Flicks tentacle out of face* Hardy Har har. Do you ask all the pretty girls that?

Emerald: Am I like this with everyone?

~~~~~

Emerald: *Holding jewelry in Tentacles, inspecting it* How's your Mercury doing.

Emerald: *Repeatedly Folding and Unfolding Thieve's respite* He's getting his own legs to stand- dear gods I've been infected.

Emerald: Yeesh. Sounds like you're one foot in the grave- Oh fuck I'm infected to!

~~~~~

Neo: *Draws Hush, Signing* Now what have we here? A fish out of Water?

Lionfish!Faunus Neo: *Flares Spines, Signing* You think you can Handle me? I'm a hazardous Gem.

Neo: Not unless you're all cut up~

~~~~~

Neo: *Coating Hush in Venom* We don't need to fight. I have enough Venom for both of us.

Neo: *Bows, tipping Roman's hat* Venom? Such poor form. Do you even know the Thrill of a fight, or do you curl up and let things stomp on you till they die?

Neo: Okay, now it's personal.

~~~~~

Coco: *Cracks neck* Lookin' good Girlie.

Spider!Faunus Coco: *Adjusts Sunglasses* I don't need all my eyes to see the Gorgeous demon ahead of me.

Coco: Aw, You make me Blush.

~~~~~

Coco: *Peeks over Glasses* I'm Gonna *Hic* Wreck yer face!

Coco: *Aims Gianduja* Are you Drunk?!?!

Coco: Oh, I shouldn't have had Coffee before this ...

[war-siren-au]

War Siren Au info dump

Hey so I'm making an Undertale Au because of fucking course I am, this is basically a post for me to dump all the info I made for it so far

Basically an Undertale siren au but with MY idea of sirens

Sorta

Sans and Papyrus are siren skeletons

All monsters are sirens

Weren’t originally sirens

Mages trapped them in undersea cave instead of Mt Ebott

Being made of magic, their magic helped/forced them to adapt

Monsters look more “beastly”

Can switch between tails and legs

Except for those without legs to begin with, they just kinda vibe

Hole in a mountain leads to underwater cave

Gained souls when people would fall in

Monsters can manipulate water to a degree

Since, ya know, magical adaptation or some shit

Monsters adapted to sea living and took after different sea creatures

Sans and Papyrus have shark-like tails

But bone

YES I KNOW SHARKS DON’T HAVE BONES OKAY IT’S MAGIC SHUSH

Undyne mostly took after swordfish

Alphys took after marine iguana’s

All monsters gained gills for obvious reasons

How? Magic adaptation, we’ve been over this

Grillby took after lionfish

Don’t ask me how his flames work underwater okay it’s fucking magic

Asgore and Toriel took after seals or walrus’s or something idfk

Alphys made waterproof robot body for Mettaton

They aren’t big in the story though

Would probably only be mentioned in the beginning

Why?

Because it’s gonna be AU house fic okay I don’t make the rules

Frisk freed monsters, obviously

“OMG how’d they survive underwater?” Remember when I said monsters can manipulate water to some degree?

Air bubble over their head next question

Okay okay anyways

Monsters are freed, and like I said, they can switch between tail, legs or both so YES THEY CAN TRAVERSE THE SURFACE

Anyways, they get to the surface and it’s war torn

Some fuck shit happened and now it’s kinda every man for himself

Maybe it’s war, maybe it’s a zombie apocalypse, I haven’t decided yet but the surface is FUCKED

Humans hardly trust each other, and now a bunch of monsters crawl out of the ocean?

Fuck that shit

Monsters gotta adapt to this harsh new world

Having adapted to the ocean kinda helps I mean ya gotta be strong and tough to lie in the crushing depths of the sea

Okay look man this is all I've got so far, I'm still working on it

Will it actually become a fic? Maybe, I'll see where this takes me

Kinda depends on how long the hyperfixation lasts tbh

Anyways, feel free to ask questions as it will help me decide things and flush things out!!

[lilliancdoodles]

FINAL designs for Life is like the Ocean, It goes up and down by @tastytoastz

Click for better quality, notes below the cut

Master post of all designs for this fic

So ummmm.... Yeah I redesigned Leo and third time and Roier a second.... Final designs for them I promise. I like these ones and don't plan on changing them.

I got really caught up on making them looking like an actual lionfish tail. They're mermaids. They aren't real, i can do whatever the fuck i want. These were so much easier to draw and will be easier to draw if I want to draw them again.

I was inspired by this character in the webtoon Realta (very good, I really like it ^^) for the tail, as well as this tail i found online

Don't really have any notes for Q and Mouse, but I do have a brush for drawing pearls so that was really helpful :D.

But thats it!! Drawn all the (main) characters we've seen in Life is like the Ocean. might get possessed to draw the Fed workers in this fic, but absolutely no guarantees.

[dustcrumbs]

Sorry I was sleeping, anyways, mermaid time:

When Cross joined he was cocky about being the fastest, because dolphins are fast, so Dust challenged him to a race to get him to stfu

Anglerfish est anything that can fit in their mouths, poisonous fish aren't really in the midnight zone. Ever since he tried to eat a lionfish, Dust started choosing Horror's meals

Killer's goop flows in the water so he can't see at all. Nightmare's goop is more firm and stays on his body better

The star sanses exist: Swap is part axolotl so he can breathe air and survive longer than the others. Dream is the same as Nightmare (because siblings) so he's a blue ringed octopus. And Ink is a vampire squid (those guys are the smallest squid)

When Cross does those dolphin jumps, Killer and Dust try to as well, to impress Nightmare and Horror, but they both fail

Killer is one of the few sharks that CAN stop moving. But does he? No.

Because Killer is an apex predator, he has sharp teeth, and he bites the others to tease them "lol, I could kill you if I wanted :3" ass behavior

Not so fun fact about dolphins, they have a high sex drive and are the animal that has sex outside of their species the most. Cross doesn't express this outwardly, tho he is a freak (whos more 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂? Dust or Cross /silly)

Nightmare gives all of them the otter treatment, aka, he ties them up using kelp, if no kelp, he uses his tentacles

- @largefoundation

Oh no, dust has some competition with the freak-o-meter contest.

Horror just eating whatever fits in his mouth is so goofy. Like, no, don't try to swallow the shark in one gulp dude. It is NOT gonna fit no matter how hard you try to squeeze it in. . .

Killer just randomly chomps on someone and pulls away with a smirk as if he didn't just scare the flip outta them.

"What the fuck"

"It's a love bite!"

"There was nothing 'lovely' in that bite."

And swap, oh my beloved axolotl, come to me. My arms are wide open for u

Dust and Cross racing one another until one rams into a boat on accident.

[kingprinceleo]

HI LEO!!! FnW shadow constantly rotates in my brain i literally cannot get this fish out of there << guy who is obsessed with creatures

do you have any fun little snippets of info abt him? like maybe something abt his biology or habits RAGHH SORRY I JUST THINK HE IS SO COOL ABSJHD!!!!!

HIIIIIIII RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH FISH MENTION !!!!!!!!!! lord hes swimming in my brain all the time... everytime i drink water its for Him actually, it goes up into my fishbowl skull i said it before a while ago ! but his biology is a gene splice of a bunch of marine life gerald thought would make a good lifeform ! so hes got traits of a bunch of critters, nautilus/squid propulsion via his quills and tail (though his quills dont snap shut *as* fast as his tail), flying fish back fins, jellyfish chest patch, lionfish poison in his mandibles and his 3rd 'eye' this is from a barrel eye fish and his color and feathers, and the fact that his body can become jelly enough to morph his legs into his tail comes from the blood belly comb jelly !!!

as for habits ! hes a weirdo as always dfshjbshf. he doesnt like land people bc they try to claim the sea, he especially hates things that harms the ocean. mass fishing operations, oil rigs, he'll tear them to shreds and has no problem with eating the people who were there. hes only around 100 years old but hes become infamous incredibly fast for being a ruthless creature that cannot be reasoned with! he also speaks solely with his mind, no one is sure if he can speak with his voice, or if he has one at all !

he lives very deep in the ocean almost entirely isolated, having some kind of setup i havent thought through fully ! but hes got a chaos emerald at all times with him :]! and while he is intelligent, he tends to just let himself Be Creature because he wants to! marine mobians have sophisticated methods of hunting, farming and cooking ! but he just swims around and swallows fish like a whale dfjhjhdg he bothers knuckles down in angel island regularly !! knuckles can punch so hard bc shadow used to let knuckles just punch him all the time out of annoyance, shadow used to never feel it, but now knuckles can hit hard enough to move shadow slightly ! hes also just a prick as ever sdfhhj, but hes so large that very few people ever pick a fight with him, so when he does meet a challenge hes so ready to fuck shit up >:]]]] sadly for him it never lasts long, until sonic and co i regularly think of a race scene between him and sonic, sonic on land and shadow in the water. hes so sure hes gonna win but sonic pushes thru and beats him and i . scream. he also is a very special boy and gets to communicate with Chaos regularly! he is unironically one of my most well adjusted shadows and it makes me laugh you prob know a lot of this stuff already but i hope i said something new for you !!!

[terrah-lee]

So part of me wanted to wait to post this until I was willing to do more than the most basic of shading ever on Mikey and Donnie’s tails… but I wanna talk about my boys so fuck that lmao.

The boys!! You can probably guess which ones are Mikey and Donnie, but for the other two: left is Leo, right is Raph.

I had so much fun trying to design these guys while trying to combine a couple of *very* heavily patterned animals. Raph in particular was difficult, because most Lionfish are red. You’d think that would be great since he’s the red guy, but every time I tried to think about going that route it just… didn’t look great. The current design does have red in it, but it’s not so in your face.

Now random facts Time!

Raph:

he’s a 22 year old, 6’4” tank of a mutant who loses like 80% of his intimidation factor when he lets his brother cling to him like geckos

He has two partners: Sol and Mona; Mona is pretty self explanatory, but Sol is a male OC that was created by complete accident and wouldn’t leave

If not already obvious, the guy is bi

He tends to act as both an older brother and a bit of a parent to his younger siblings since he is not only seven years older than them, but was only found by Splinter when he was 17

Raph isn’t actually a ninja and does not have the usual color-coded bandana or his sais

He can do a bunch of knife tricks though

This also means he doesn’t patrol, but for certain reasons this… isn’t really a bad thing

Leo:

He’s the second oldest at 15 and 5’6”; he’s probably hiding behind Raph anytime they’re in public

Yes, he does have a crush on a certain rabbit that he goes to school with

He has some pretty bad social anxiety, so while he’s great at planning and does “lead” on patrols it’s usually Donnie and Mikey doing most of the talking when necessary

Plays a lot of video games— he has every high score in that household

He also spends a lot of time taking care of plants with Raph and Splinter

Mikey:

14 years old and 5’4”; do not leave him and his twin Donnie unsupervised for too long or something *will* blow up

The fastest out of all of them even if only by a tiny margin over Donnie

Loves chemistry— yes, he and Donnie have made bombs

Very outgoing, but being nice and a menace are possible at the same time

Actually a very capable ninja and he’s most likely to split off on his own from the others

Donnie:

14 and 5’4” just like Mikey; probably the one you actually want to talk to if you like living

Quiet but confident; he might not approach you first but can and will talk your ears off if you get him going

Works with Mikey on a lot of his inventions, which leads to a lot of ah… hidden features

Has modified his bo partially out of necessity because while Raph is by far the strongest they all have a tendency to break normal weapons

Just do not piss this kid off he will hunt you and your family down for sport