#merjune

[plankton-in-space]

Merjuly 07 - Capital 🎆 The jewel of the seven seas is a giant city of many suburbs and the blue palace of the Queens in the middle, inside the most beautiful botanical gardens. The suburbs are organized by guild and they are surrounded by seaweed crops and coral reefs. As it's the central hub of all merfolk trade and where most governmental bodies are, its population is estimated in the millions. Its location is top secret, never shown on any maps and merfolk can locate it like whales do, following the memories of their ancestors in a long-forgotten journey…

[makkuromurasaki]

starting a new trend called merjune! it's for everyone who failed to finish their mermay piece in actual May :D

may I present my OC Valerie and the infamous John Hancock, ghoul mayor of Goodneighbor :3

[avegool]

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Five Nights at Freddy's Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sun/Reader, moon/reader, Sun - Relationship Characters: Sun (Five Nights at Freddy's), Moon (Five Nights at Freddy's) Additional Tags: MerMay, MerMay 2023, Mermaids Summary:

You're researching tidepools and shallow ocean water for your thesis. And you stumble upon a creature you've never seen before. Turns out there's two, and they're obsessed with you.

[beethereal-knight]

I was too busy to participate as much as I wanted to in MerMay, so I'm making it June's problem feat. Mer!Kurze, Mer!Dorn, and Merturabo

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Kenzo Koi for this Tenma Tuesday

[weekend-whip]

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Source Prompt

wELL for starters there's ironically the lack of plot for the mermaid au that's been giving me brainrot since last year (in which that's still the technically bare-bones plot I've got lol), and only this snippet has made it to the internet, with everything else just being a general blob of barely connected bleh...on top of the fact that I changed up/expanded some of the concepts:

Zane and Pixal and now fully human (for irony), not just Zane, and they run a bakery/coffee shop together! On the side they work as volunteer beach conservationists, as they are of the belief that merpeople walk among them (also they somehow know Cole's secret but don't confront him about it until he's ready), but it's also this open comfort and concern for merpeople that draws Cole to them in the first place

Cole's still a hobbyist artist and dj by night, but in the day he helps out around Zane's shop (working extra for free cake) and assists with beach clean-up every now and then too (along with Sunni, who is a very vocal advocate for the environment in this scenario). He's always stuck watching how perfect Zane and Pixal are for/with each other and starts to desire something like that for himself. (i've also debated him on making him a pirate-without-being-a-pirate for the aesthetic, but maybe I'll just give him a hot adventurous sea-outfit instead)

The reason Miranda has her disability in this au is due to a fisherman attack, which translates to her mermaid form missing one arm and half of her tailfin. It's still easier for her to move around in water than it ever would be on land, so she's somewhat confined to the ocean, and Jesse feels obligated to stay with her because of it (despite how much she knows he wants to explore/live more of his life on land) and keeps trying to push him into joining Cole's adventures in the city

Harleigh actually gets to be kind of an antagonist–as its via her boat that Jesse and Miranda get caught up in when Cole makes his daring rescue, but I'm still chiseling out some of her motivations. Just know she gets to be a full pirate here hfgdfgd

Kai and Nya are now the children of two half-mers, resulting in their genes getting a little...weird. Neither of them are able to transform like their parents (or if they are able, it causes them a lot of pain), and as a result, Nya has a full mermaid form with more humanoid features, while Kai is a human stranded on land but has a lot of fishy features.

Jay, an octopus, thinks he's a full-blooded fish, but turns out he actually has a human dad. Might not be able to transform though, because eight underwater legs don't translate well to two human legs (okay just got the hilarious image of him trying to pull something off like that one octodad video game shgfdgfd), but again, still workshopping this

Lloyd and Skylor are powerful full-mers who can still transform regardless, but they still look remarkably non-human/fishy even when on land. Skylor spends more time on land, while Lloyd spends more time in the ocean. And I know we've deliberated on it in the past, but I still haven't nailed down what kind of fish I want Lloyd (and Skylor) to be just yet either. I don't even know if they're even going to have a big enough role in the story to warrant a full-on backstory—I just wanted them to be included xD

[noughticalcrossings]

Black Dragonfish

Fox living her best life as a terrifying monster of the deeps, with bioluminescence instead of fire magic. She’s also got elements of glass catfish in her, as the scaleless depigmented patches may well allow light through, sending flashes of shimmering rainbow in the darkness

[plankton-in-space]

Merjune 02 - Wedding Knots 👩‍❤️‍👩

Cassiopeia trying out her wedding dress. For its decorations, each member of her weaving clan made a knot to show their support and share a memory. She and her wife belong to separate clans, so their attire will look very different... Her tail is based on the flying fish, as she’s small, bubbly and fast!

[meeguu]

mermaid sketch!

[yandere-sins]

Before reading: R18+, Mature Content Warning, Violence/Gore Warning, Yandere Warning

Oh, my, look what the wave swept in!

Yet another misplaced human in these wondrous waters, a… poor unfortunate soul, as my sister would say. It hasn’t been that long since another tribe—who was it? The sharks?—had been… blessed with an unusual mate. And now there’s you! How exciting! The orcas are a little temperamental, but I’m sure they’ll treat you lovingly– 

Oh… so you want to leave? Already?

Ambitious, are we? Escape the creatures and get back to land. Well, don’t you look determined? Think you can handle these three strong orcas all by yourself? I’d love to see it. I delight in everything happening around these depths of the ocean, as they are so dark and deep, with barely anything transpiring all day. But as of late, love, freedom, and misery swim hand in hand down here. Intelligence and instincts fight battles that are beyond your little human comprehension. I could not be more pleased with the beautiful bonds that are being woven under the sea.

But I will cheer you on, I promise! I might even have some tips for you, seeing how I’ve been around these sandy lands and great reefs longer than you have!

I don’t think you can trust anyone besides me, really, but you’ll need an ally if you want to get back home. But be careful choosing who you trust. Sometimes you have to take drastic actions to get out of a situation, but there are also times when you need to sit back, stay calm, and let someone else handle it for you. And as badly as I know you want to get out… don’t do anything rash.

These orcas have a fickle disposition, and you wouldn’t want them to decide you’re no fun or tastier than they initially thought. In fact, you don’t want them to think about you at all! Otherwise —ey w—t l— —u ——!

You wake up before the voice can finish. Open your eyes?

Welcome, welcome to Mermay ( & Merjune) 2023!

I think most of you have already understood what will happen, but I thought I'd give a small heads-up about the how, so we're all on the same page:

This will be an interactive story, which means you guys will have to work together to figure out how to continue onwards by choosing the right poll option. Every chapter comes with a decision at the end, and three possible choices. But only one will continue the story while the other two lead to 'Bad Ends' aka not continue the story. Your goal is to escape the three orcas because they won't always like your decision, unfortunately.

I can already tell you that if the majority votes for a Bad End, you'll be able to choose again at the end of it, hopefully picking the right option this time. The story will not stop just because the right option wasn't picked. But who knows? Maybe choosing wrong is actually the better option sometimes (;

To clarify, there are 5 main chapters (the right choices) in total, 10 possible Bad Ends and 1 True End. This is not a video game so there are no secret routes. Nothing will change if you choose certain options after another. Your goal ultimately is to finish this story. But... some interactions and information may or may not be hidden in Bad Ends that could be enjoyable to you as well. (After finishing the main story I'll let you guys pick some other options you would have liked to see if you're interested in that ^-^)

One more exciting thing! I was able to commission a good friend of mine to actually do references for the orcas! We're still working on them but I hope you guys will enjoy some visuals of the new bois ♥

And for good measure: Please read the warnings on the individual posts, as some of the stories contain disturbing content not suited for everyone. Don't read what you don't like.

Thank you for participating and I hope you guys will be able to enjoy the story as much as I do ♥ (If you have questions, please ask away any time! ♥)

[nefastidies]

Is it too late to request a mermaid!Phasma for MerMay?

I think it is So... merjune?

PS: I remind you guys that requests are closed. I won't take any until further notice about open slots

[stuckatmyhouse12]

*comes out of MerMay in June (MerJune) sweating and haggard and bleeding*

[evydraws]

Mermay is over, but work had to take priority over this mermaid painting.

... so, how are we feeling about Merjune? Possibly Merjuly? Mergust?

[smallbrooke1998]

A very very last minute thing I decided to do, so late that I posted it on June 1st, oops. But it was meant for Mermay, but more MerJune now.

My persona as a mermaid and is looking at the surface.

And yes, as a mermaid, I'm a bottlenose dolphin merfolk.

For a bonus, have the one from last year;

[chertick13]

I think, it will be mermay, merjune, merjuly and maybe meraugust XD

[a-whispering-echo]

lmao, i know mermay is literally almost over, but i kinda started some mermaid/siren designs for some of my blorbos, sooo... late mermay? Merjune?