#neon tetra mermaid

[shirecorn]

Many fish species make excellent pets, given proper enrichment and attention to water parameters. Acquire a sounding vessel from your local alchemist to see if there are any demons or angels haunting your water. You can add demons to angelic water to balance it back out and vise versa. Each species has an ideal water alignment, and after letting the entities fight it out and settle, you can safely add inhabitants to your pond or tank. I recommend a small school of neon tetras, with plenty of plants in which they can hide. You will enjoy watching this species school around, as they do quite well in captivity with the proper care.

There is no proper care for mermaids.

There is no proper tank size, or water parameters, or enrichment or plants or anything.

Mermaids cannot be kept as pets. But some people do keep them confined, and traded like livestock. This, of course, is slavery. Just as we are descended from apes and mermaids are descended from fish; we are both still people.

Of course there are those who disagree with this categorization; and there are those who do believe, but do not care.

The black market is a lucrative and deadly operation, crawling in the underbelly of most major human cities. They trade in mundane humans on occasion, but usually it is creatures and artifacts with some magical component: mermaids, fairies, even magic-touched humans such as werewolves, selkies, and ogres. The latter being very difficult to contain as a live specimen, so often their pelts are sold instead. These are marketed alongside unicorn horns, kelpie manes, basilisk fangs, and all else forbidden from trade by anyone with a heart.

Apologies.

These topics often distract me from the professionalism of my calling. Suffice it to say, if this series has inspired you to fantasize about pet mermaids, do not. Consider a mundane fish, and seek friendship with mermaids at your local outreach dock.

Mermaids rescued from market and the homes of decadent aristocrats have a long journey of healing ahead of them. Many cannot speak their own species' language, but pick up the language of their captors instead. For this reason, rehabilitation is a joint effort between humans and mermaids, before returning them fully to seas and waterways.

Success is difficult, but rewarding. Much moreso than any value they could possibly hold as "pets." Please be careful, and respectful of your fellow sentient creature.

Remember, you don't have to be human to be a person. And no person wants to be be a pet.

[lumintsu]

my piece for @mermayzine! she's based on a neon tetra :3

[kelpo-cereal]

I was determined to get *something* out for mermay, so take this guy who’s loosely based on a neon tetra

[nobleatomcats]

Washington is a Nuka Quantum Glowing One, so the perfect fish for him to be is clearly a neon tetra.

He also looks just a little bit like an eldritch abomination.

[bumble-t3a]

The prompt for 31 was the artist’s favorite fish, and I love neon tetras!

[faerieorgremlin]

Neon tetra mer🐟

[ravenstargames]

Hey yo I have a tiny question, we got mermaid Gael, what would the other LI be as mermaids. (Like would Amon be like a whale shark, etc.) hopefully this makes since also bye I love yall 🥺

✦ The LIs as mermaids!

✦ Amon: Tiger shark

✦ Raeya: Leopard eel

✦ Gael: Lionfish

✦ Envy: Sea slug (Not joking, they're cool as fuck)

✦ Ara: Betta fish (a pink one)

✦ Xal: Neon tetra

✦ Father Pride: Blue whale

✦ Lázaro: Mandarinfish

✦ Cécile: Orca

[snivyartjpeg]

it's still mermay if you squint!

fish choices below the cut:

Kurumi: Piranha

Yakou: Gar

Yuma: Neon Tetra (with Shinigami as his suckerfish parasite)

Desuhiko: Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Fubuki: Discus Fish

Halara: Sebae Clownfish

Vivia: Black Dragonfish

most of these were just aesthetic choices but i did wanna give vivia bioluminescence and halara is a clownfish for gender reasons. also piranha kurumi feels... correct

Edit: CANNOT believe i forgot shinigami. when she transforms into her labyrinth form, she turns into a full blown mermaid with an orca tail!

[qwakadoodle]

Click on the image for higher quality!!!

This is another ninjago mermaid design for mermay! I thought neon tetra would work great for Jay, cause neon signs/electricity?

Kai mermaid design

[aileetoilee]

Mermay day 18th! Small!

Today's little mermaid is based on the Neon Tetra fish!

[malliya]

if you were a mermaid, what fish would your bottom half be? (regardless of original species size) i would be a neon tetra! :)

[factorialsfandoms]

[Image 1: chibi form of Heart from Chonny Jash’s music, as a mermaid. He has a purple tail styles like a Betta fish, with a paler tone of purple around the edges. His blindfold is a darker purple. He is sat hugging his tail, like a person might with their knees up.

Image 2: chibi form of Mind from Chonny Jash’s music, as a mermaid. He has a red, blue, and grey tail in the style of a Neon Tetra. He has his arms folded on the floor and is resting his head on them, while his tail sways upwards. He is hiding in some green squiggles denoting seaweed.

Image 3: chibi form of Soul from Chonny Jash’s music, as a mermaid. He has a red and orange tail, styled after a guppy. The main bodyu is orange with red flecks, while fins and tail are red with black ones, and a tinge of orange at the edges. He is wearing a sleeveless silver top with fur trim, and holding a trident in his left hand.

Image 4: chibi form of Whole from Chonny Jash’s music. His arms are folded on the floor and his head is hiding in them, so that you cannot see his face. He is lying down with his tail wrapped around him. His tail is a traditional mermaid shape, though the main part is brown and the fins grey. A much darker grey blanket has been draped over his torso.]

MerMay? MerMay.

And I made too much lore to fit so... just a ficlet of the worst of it, I guess. Blood, etc, you know what this tends towards.

TBH ficlet and lore I made would work better with Whole as a human but merman too cute so yk never mind.

On the plus side, guns don’t work as well underwater...? Also merfolk mostly talk in clocks and whistles.

TW: blood, injury, eye squick, humans hunting merfolk for body parts

Soul kept the bag of fish slung over his shoulder as he swam back towards their cave. Mind, hesitant to leave Heart and Whole alone overnight, had swum back earlier with their first bag of catch. However, the more they brought back, the longer before anyone went out again.

Going out was dangerous - it was said that the heart of a merman could cure any ill, and each other part had their uses, and, as ridiculous as the notion was, humans seemed more than happy to believe in it. The rest of the school had already been pulled from the sea, leaving the four of them huddled together. Whole was the eldest, and Heart fought the best, but it was Mind who knew how to shut up, and Soul with an instinct for actually finding fish.

And other things; there had been a lovely sealskin blanket in one of the abandoned grottos, and he was sure they could make use of it themselves.

As he came close he smelt... Blood. Blood on the water. Direction was always a little tricky to tell, but he shoved the bag of supplies under a rock. He gripped the trident tighter, and charged towards their cave.

Outside Mind, grasping at a bleeding throat, swam on a sluggish patrol. The smallest of the four, and least inclined to physical acts, for him to be on patrol...

Soul charged over, heedless of any danger. There were some seaweed bandages in his belt pouch - always brought with whenever they hunted. He grabbed them, quickly pressing them up to Mind’s hands. It seemed to take a moment for him to process before he took them, slowly bandaging around his own neck.

“Mind?” Soul waited just long enough see the bandages secured before he began his interrogation. “What happened?”

“Heart mistook me for a poacher,” Mind seemed to struggle a little forming the words. “Be careful. He’s-”

Soul waited a moment, swishing his tail anxiously, before asking, “he’s what?”

Mind merely shook his head.

Well that was even more concerning. Why would Heart possibly....

“Take this,” Soul pushed the trident into Mind’s hands. The tetra nearly sank from the weight, but gripped it tight. “I’ll check on them.”

“Announce yourself,” was all Mind added, floating up towards a rock and perching himself there.

Soul really, really hoped that was the worst of it. But Mind seemed... Whatever he seemed, Soul needed to check on the others. Right now.

“Heart?” he called as he entered the cave. “Whole? It’s just me, Soul. Does anyone want to tell me what the fuck is going on?!”

His answer is nothing but dim gloom for a few moments, before he hears a scared /wail/ that could only be Heart. Regretting leaving the trident with Mind, Soul nonetheless charged in, ready to at least try and tail whip any threats.

Inside the dim cave he found... none. Just Heart bundled wailing in a corner, and Whole lying listlessly on the floor.

Heart was at least wailing; Soul went first to Whole, finding deep gouges in both of his sides. The bleeding had at least stopped, though they were... Reminiscent of the claws the humans used to grab their kind from the sea. Plenty of corpses around their colony had had the same wounds. They overlay with Whole for a moment, before he notices the slow blinking, and the distant - rather than blank - glassy gaze.

“Whole?” he asks. “Can you hear me?”

There is no response at all.

Soul drags Whole along with him as he moves to Heart, hushing him with each vague noise of distress. As soon as he lets go Whole curls up in a tight ball, dropping to the sand as though to rest.

That... Fuck. Keeping him safe long enough for him to come back to them would be difficult in ideal circumstances. With Mind injured... And Heart...

Initially Heart looks... fine. Then Soul notices the blood-stained rips in his hoodie - a similar pattern to Whole’s cuts - and the way Heart’s face is buried into his tail.

“Heart?” he calls. “I have bandages.”

The wailing hitches in a way that Soul does not have time to unpick. With dread in his heart he reaches up, and peels Heart’s hands away.

There are no eyes in his skull, not any more. Bloody voids are all that remain, smeared all over his face.

Soul mutters every curse word he knows as he attempts to convince Heart to let him attend to the wounds, and again with the closer examination. There’s nothing he can do for his vision, but he can at least get it tidy around the last few bandages. Soul uses every single one of them; he had heard somewhere that the weeds were good at preventing infection.

Heart does not respond to questions, but Soul thinks he can make a guess. Rather pushing too hard now, he tugs Whole and presses him against Heart’s side.

“Look after him,” Soul says, making sure the grip is secure before swimming back outside.

Perched atop the cave entrance, Mind looks unsteady. Soul frowns, but knows how it will be taken; he leaves him be to return to his bag of supplies, then swims up and offers a hand.

“We need to move in the morning.”

Mind does not take the offered hand, instead relying heavily on the water as he descends. The trident is hesitantly returned; Soul also steals Mind’s hand, dragging him inside.

Mind he forces down on the other side of Whole, not caring for the bubbling objection as he fishes that new blanket from the bag. It is just - just - big enough for the three. He drapes it around them, and tucks them in tight.

“Sleep,” he says. “I’ll keep watch.”

Even deep in their cave where the claw cannot reach, he knows it is a useless order.

Nobody will sleep tonight.

[mizumi-kahago-art]

Chibi Mermay - Taichi

Since making Artworks for all the side characters would take me another 2-3 years I decided to take a shortcut and release their designs as Chibis instead. This way I can finish up the Mermaid series this year and start a new series afterwards!

I hope that’s still fine with everyone.

Taichi’s fins are based of a Blue Neon Tetra (just like their child’s Chihiro).

I’m thinking about making these Stickers or Acrylic Charms in the future. I’d love to get some feedback from you guys, if anyone would be interested in that.

[cartoonsagainstcatastrophe]

Mermay Day 7 - Neon Tetra

[vestal-spirit]

27 Aoi

[tmnt-raph-fan-art]

Shiny

MerMay 2021 - Day 26 Inspiration: Neon Tetra