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Hi, I love your original character Ahti II very much he has such a cool design. Does he live in fresh or salt water?

Thank you very much!! Ahti II is very special to me :D

Funny story, he is a brackish water dweller! His home is the Baltic Sea, which on average has a salinity of about 7‰ or 0,7%. By contrast, oceans on average have 35‰ or 3,5%! The salt content of the water is even lower the further you go from the ocean, and Ahtola, Ahti II's home city (and the capital of his country) is located pretty deep in the Baltic, it's somewhere between Sweden and Finland and south of Åland. There isn't very much salt ^^'

As he is away from home a lot as a teen (learning to be like the average person and whatnot) he enjoys the joys of swimming in pure freshwater too, in Finnish Lakeland in the summer!

#merfolk's bodies are more flexible than fishes' when it comes to salinity changes. ahti II could even manage swimming in saltwater #of course theres a limit to how much salt the human body can handle but a real pike would probably dehydrate to death in saltwater you know #it takes some acclimating to get used to waters with salinity you arent accustomed to though!#jumping into saltwater cold turkey at the beach would leave a freshwater merm ill and vice versa #beaches often have small pools (well. big enough for a long tail) that let you get adjusted if youre not from around there #im going to write this down somewhere in a comprehensive little post eventually haha #asks #anon #anonymous #anonymous asks #merfolk #ahti II

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