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[waxflowerwoes]

i don't know how i was obsessed with whales as a child and now my parents think that there's nothing wrong with me

[naffeclipse]

I am living for all these mafia orca siren asks, so here's another! How would the boys react if they caught one of their underlings trying to court y/n? Maybe y/n hasn't officially been declared their mate, but others can read the room with how much the bosses favor them.

I'm just imagining how quickly Sun, Moon, or Eclipse would shut down another siren singing to their dolphin mate. XD

They would not take kindly to an insubordinate looking at their (soon-to-be) mate with the intention of courtship. Eclipse does not take threats very well to what is his and would starkly inform the offender that they are not pursuing the dolphin siren any further. Or else. Moon takes it upon himself to be with Y/N at all times possible, leaving little room for anyone who would want to court the dolphin siren to be alone with them. Sun is subtle but sharper in his jealousy, speaking to the attempted courter that singing to a siren already taken is indeed very foolish.

[thelien-art]

Celegorm-Orca!! 😍

(if it inspires you 😊)

It does inspire me!

Fun fact! Orcas have a higher chance than most other whales and dolphins for being albino or having leucism!

Leucism is the lack of melanin pigment in most of the body because of the absence, or small amount, of melanin-producing cells whereas albinism is the complete lack of it

@elentarial you requested him too but with a different fish but I´m going to tag you just to be sure <3

[goobersplat]

I’m trying to document as much of Sqwishland “history” (???) as I can by finding photos of them. I loved these things as a kid and the thought of other people remembering them too makes me happy : )

Sources: 1/2/3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8

Image ID under cut its long lol

(Image ID: Eight photos of Sqwishland squishy animal vending machine toys on backing cards.

1) A lion, a penguin, an elephant, a pig, and a cow squishy on a backing card that says “Zoo Mania.”

2) A lobster, a clam, a seal, a crab, and a puffer fish on a backing card that says “sea mania 2”

3) A koala, a panda, a lion, a hippo, and a panda on a backing card that says “jungle mania.

4) A goat, an otter, an alligator, a sheep, and a snake squishy on a backing card that says “squishland swamp.”

5) A toad, a lizard, a turtle, an otter, a chameleon, a snake, a platypus, and a possum on a backing card that says “Squishland giant swamp”

6) A clownfish, an octopus, a dolphin, a sea horse, and an orca on a backing card with text that says “sea mania giant.”

7) A penguin, a snow fox, a polar bear, a moose, and a narwhal on a backing card that says “Squishland polar collection.)

8) Four Sqwishland backing cards. 1. “Forest” with a Fox, a beaver, a rabbit, a raccoon, and a deer. 2. “Jungle: glow in the dark.” with a parrot, a monkey, a panda, a koala, and an elephant. 3. “Jungle: glow in the dark” again with an elephant, a cow, a panda, a horse, a hippo, a monkey, a koala, and a lion. 4. “Farm” with a pig, a bull, a rooster, a cow, and a sheep.

End ID)

[daycarefriendpickup]

Well, Well... whale 🐋? If it isn't that time of year!

Hello you lovely ballpit goers! We here at DCFP have been hard at work behind the scenes on events to make sure you have tons of entertainment this mermay to draw with!

Presenting you with... The official Daycare Friend Pickup Mermay Prompt List for 2024!

We've got quite a variety up here for you all to choose and draw from this year! And for us to see it all, you'll have to make sure you tag it as #dcfpmermay or #dcfpmermay2024 !

Here's the prompt list broken down in more order!

Weekly

1. Tardigrade

2. Pinnipeds (Seals, Walruses, Sea Lions etc)

3. Cetaceans (Dolphins, Whales, Orcas, etc)

4. Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Urchins, etc)

5. Anthozoa (That's right folks, coral is a sea creature too! Time to pump out the creativity on this week!)

Biweekly Prompts (That means one every half a week!)

•Week One

1. Medusozoa (Jellyfish)

2. Cephalopoda (Octos, Squids, Cuttles, and Nautilus!)

•Week Two

1. Limulidae (Horseshoe Crabs)

2. Nephropidae (Lobster time babes! 🦞)

•Week Three

1. Pantapoda (Sea Spiders) [Istiophoridae AKA Marlins this week if spider things freak you out]

2. Neritidae Aka Freshwater Snails/Nerites [Tetraodontidae AKA Pufferfish if Snails freak you out]

•Week Four

1. Rhincodon (Whale Shark)

2. Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)

•Week Five

1. Muranidae (Moray Eels)

2. Torpediniformes (Electric Rays ⚡)

Bonus week of The Deep

(For if you finished everything else but want to do a little more!)

1. Chaulios (Viperfish)

2. Halosauridae (Halosaurs)

The event will go on from April 28th to June 2nd to give everyone who wants to pump out those mermaid drawings all that extra time to put love and attention into these prompts!

And remember, you do NOT have to do all of them! Just do what you feel comfortable with and draw to your fishy daycare's freedom ❤️.

Get ready folks, because it's going to be a splashing Mermay here at the pickup! 🌊

[icypenguin]

★~ Aquarium date ft. Wriothesley!

HELLOOOOO I know u guys like wrio so much im gonna make another one hehe :p also im not sure if anyone has made something like this before? but if so, please lmk! this will take in modern au, please enjoyyy!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

- aquarium date with wrio wont be that often, it is a pretty big date and he’s often busy with work! but ofcourse he lets his darling pick any date for the weekend.

- you both love admiring and talking about opinions on the sea creature. he would always have his arm around your waist or shoulder.

- i feel like he would LOVE stringrays! he would definitely love xingu river ray (or you could say polkadot ray hehe) and perhaps he would love tiger shark too!

- you both will get those matching crab, octopus or sea turtle headbands! he would be a bit shy wearing it at first but whenever he does anything with you, he’s always full of joy.

- you would definitely watch sea animal shows together! i’d say his favourite is the orca one, he even took a picture with them! most people will take the front seat but wrio prefers the middle row seat, he doesn’t want to get wet by the splashing..

- at the touch pool area, i would say he loves touching the starfish and stingray! he secretly wants a stingray but.. yeah…

- you both will eat at the penguin restaurant! you can feed penguins there and eat with them! (wrio thinks if you’ll have a date here, the penguin will steal your attention).

bonus!!!

- you will also buy those matching sea turtle/shark/dolphin/seahorse/stingray bracelet! he’s still wearing it until now.

- he keeps the pictures he got from the date and display it at his office. his favourite is the one where you were holding an otter while he was feeding it when a pelican got on top of his head. he always grins at the thought of it again.

~ smal drabble ~

a squeak from the otter was heard, you were holding it in your arms as wrio was giving it some fish. “it wants more, wrio!” you chuckled seeing the otter eats its fish with joy. the staff got ready to take a picture of the cute scene in front. “look at the camera! 1, 2, 3 cheese!” “cheeeseeeee!” “chee-ow!” a click from the camera was heard before you could do anything else. after a click of flash, you looked wriothesley confusingly “what’s wrong, darling?”, the otter in your arms were also cofused. “T-THERES SOMETHING ON MY HEAD!” you failed to notice the pelican on his head, but as you did you giggled while watching wrio getting all tensed up. “maybe he likes you!” you continued giggling. “y/nnn this is not funnyy!” the otter in your arms looked as confusing as ever as the pelican sets foot on the bench you were sitting on and sniffed wrio’s hand. just then you understand what was happening “oh! the pelican wants some fish too!” “o-oh..”. he looks at the pelican oddly and gives him a fish. the pelican flew away after so, and you both giggled at it. the staff watching this feels no worry as long as their tourists are happy.

~~~

thankyou so much for reading this! i hope this all makes sense and im so sorry if theres any mistakes hehe. i hope you enjoyed it and advices are accepted, thankyou!

[senqv]

FOLK OF THE GREY WAVES.

blue lock ! mermaid au featuring : alexis ness , michael kaiser , kurona ranze x gn! reader

warning(s) : kaiser tries to kill you once purposefully and once accidentally ( what’s new ) , biting , dead fish rip , lmk if there are more !

a/n : can you tell i was an ocean loving child

alexis ness !

prolly a dolphin mercreature … you know how the media portrays dolphins to be cute little angels but actually they are wild. yea

he has a curious nature as a dolphin, but also, as we know, incredibly intelligent

he can’t speak too much, but communicates with little thrills and chirps <3

you learn his name after he draws it out onto the sand, he really likes how you say his name !!

alexis also likes to ‘study’ you, as you say, and he is extremely fond of wrapping his tail around your legs — he doesn’t have them, after all, so he’s really curious on how they work !

he always leaves some gifts for you by rocks for you, like shells and clams with pearls in them <3 sometimes he finds some weird human contraption that was dropped into the sea and brings them to you as well

you bring your own gifts for him too ! he’s quite fond of flowers; especially lavenders, the sweet smell really appeals to him. he’s kinda sad that he can’t bring them underwater though :(

a regular bottlenose dolphin is about 2-4 m ( around 6.7 - 13.1 feet ) in length, so he’s quite big — bigger than you at least.

despite his large size, he’s very gentle with you, brushing his face over your palms and examining your legs with apt fascination. his fingers are nearly floating above your skin, because you’re so small compared to him that he really doesn’t wanna hurt you (*⁰▿⁰*)

he’s always mimicking you smiling. it’s his favourite expression !! it gets a little unsettling sometimes because you can tell that something has angered him but he’s still like :)

and then suddenly some people who have bothered you have develop a fear of the sea and refuse to go near it and you hm

splashes water on you to express his displeasure. and then he nudges you down when you try to tackle him as revenge … and somehow he is surprised you went down so easily ??? like huh have you not seen the size difference

overall really cute 10/10

michael kaiser !

if dolphins are bad this guy is an orca. the worse subspecies of dolphin fr they r such menaces ( but also my favourite ocean species LAWL they r too cute )

probably tried to kill you the first time y’all met ??

orca LOVE to play around with their prey. he definitely tried to flick you into the air but then decided that he was quite fond of you and now you’re his human. like um .ok ?????

really likes shiny things ! tinkers around with the bracelets and rings you wear, it’s cute how his pupils dilate a little when a glass bead reflects against the sunlight just right

he would really like for you to swim with him, but the sea is horrendously cold during the winter …

he doesn’t really understand that concept, so he tried tugging you into the water once, and you could barely submerge half your body you froze up and had to get out :(

kaiser refused to let you go afterwards for a long time, wrapping his arms and tail around you, a grumbling sound from his throat and warm breath against your neck <3

his fins twitching and his huge tail slamming on the deck nervously as he massages your arms to get the blood flowing again

he can’t let his favourite human die too fast yknow :( but the asshole attitude returns after he knows you’re fine. mf

he brings you his catches; huge fish, turtles, sometimes even smaller dolphin species as ? gifts ?? and lowkey gets offended when you explain how you can’t haul all those back to your house

again — he is huge. male killer whales are about 6 - 8 m ( 19.6 - 26.3 ft ) in length !! sits you on his lap as he marvels at how tiny you are compared to him

after thorough observation, he mlems at you face and you can’t tell if the grin he sports is him telling you that you’re going to be his next meal or something else

really likes it when you trace the patterns on his tail <3 he hides his face in his arms so you can’t see his expression but his tail is thrashing really wildly !!

possibly a 10 when he’s not trying to kill you

kurona ranze (黒名 蘭世) !

do i even need to say it ??? shark boy <3 i’d say hes a lemon shark mercreature !! omg i love lemon sharks they r the cutest

just putting it out here that lemon sharks are possessive of their humans and get jealous when they give other sharks too much attention LOL

kurona wraps his tail around you when he wants your attention and just in general when you’re near him !!

like ness, he is really curious of your legs. tried biting them once or twice — it doesnt hurt, but the occasional bite marks on your calves and thighs are hard to explain to your friends

his teeth are really cute to look at tho !! very spiky, and he grabs your hand so you can feel the groves of his triangular teeth and his tongue licking at your finger-pads

really likes swimming with you — you don’t even have to tread water cause he’ll just hold you by the waist and swim like that !! strong boy

kurona knows a lot about the ocean (since he practically lives in it ..), he brings you to see tiny glowing jellyfish at night and little bioluminescence plankton in underwater caves !! he gets really happy when he sees you excited over them

his eyes dilate … like a lot. they get huge when he sees you cause he loves you <3

really enjoys getting pets ! he’s not too expressive but you can always hear some gentle purring when you run your fingers through his hair

brings you small coral and pearls as gifts <3 sometimes he feels mischievous and just spits out some kind of fish at your feet just to scare you _:(´ཀ`」 ∠): wtf kurona !!

loves laying his head on your lap to hear you muse about the stars and constellations at night <3

deadass tries to lean his near 3 m ( 11 ft ) self on you like . hello

really likes stars a lot, his tail was practically wagging when you gave him a bracelet strung of star-shaped beads !!

he brought you a really pretty starfish afterwards as thanks

kurona automatically starts licking at your wounds if you have any, and he’s really careful not to get saltwater on them

doesnt like it when you’re hurt in any form :(

10/10 sea puppy bf

now i lowkey wanna sketch mermaid au blue lock adjdjhsjasjsj

[oliver-crow]

hii i really liked your tags on the OM fishie boys, can you talk more about them? or maybe which aquatic animal you would personally headcanon each? no pressure =w=bb <3

Hi thank you ! I’m just a ocean nerd who looks too deep on mermaid designs

So for these guys I’m going to give them a shark and a different sea creature , mainly because I love sharks so much know more about them but also I have ideas for other creatures.

Obey me cast as sea creatures!

Lucifer:

• so for a shark I think he would be best as a bull shark

•bill sharks are territorial and can kill (even if accidentally)

•other animal wise he would be a vampire squid

•mainly for aesthetics but also since vampire squids are seen as not actually squids and of their own genus . Like how Lucifer was a demon but not anymore and is something different

•idk it’s hard to write for him T-T

Mammon:

• I know what you all are thinking for shark mams, ‘he’s obviously going to be a mako’

• NO. mammon is a lemon shark through and through .

• why? Well lemon sharks sometimes form bonds with certain divers and get incredibly possessive and greedy for the divers attention to the point they will actively drive away other sharks .

• who else is possessive and greedy but also sweeter than most other shark demons well mammon of course

• he could also be a bluefin tuna cuz really fast but idk

Leviathan:

my bias will show here lmao

• Levi is absolutely a thresher shark I mean he has the same energy as one !

• thresher sharks attack schools of fish ..schools of normies maybe?

• noooo it’s not just because thresher sharks are my fav and Levi is also my fav whattttt/s

•as for marine creatures Levi is an octopus

•they hide away and can change colors when scared

•Levi hides away in his room and changes colors when embarrassed!/hj

Satan:

• Satan gives off big oceanic white tip shark vibes

•Both are incredibly territorial and can act aggressive.

•for marine animal I’m just kinda throwing stuff at a wall here and hoping it sticks

• he’s a dolphin . I’m debating making him an orca but I have a specific sleepy demon I have that idea for.

•dolphins can be aggressive but sadistic when hunting things

•dolphins are also incredibly smart .

Asmodeus:

• ok to be honest I do not know what shark to throw at this guy so this will be vague

•he gets a leopard shark since they are considered one of the prettiest shark species

•and of course for sea creature he is a jellyfish , specially a sea nettle jellyfish!

•sea nettles may not be deadly but they can cause painful stings while also being incredibly pretty

Beelzebub:

•there’s no doubt in my mind that this guy is a tiger shark!

•tiger sharks are big strong and beautiful but they will eat literally anything

•like. Anything. Some have been found with license plates in their stomachs

•as for another creature he’s like a giant grouper

•they also eat anything they can fit in their mouths but also get huge .

Belphagor:

• so shark wise he is a pacific sleeper shark

•they are supposedly known for their sluggish and dozy nature

•for a sea creature he is absolutely an orca !

•orcas are intelligent and methodical.

•they also have never hurt a human in the wild and only in captivity

•belphie was in captivity and then hurt a human so he’s an orca to me.

Holy crap I’m sorry this took so long I’ve been busy and I also wanted to make this as perfect as I could lol .

Hope it’s okay , I might make this an au , maybe . If y’all want that lmk lol

[one-vivid-judgment]

Hi hi! An aquarium date h/cs with Joongi and Tomi pls! Thx! <3

My baby boy and my wife whom I love dearly 💙💙 (and want to see get destroyed in a sexy way)

Joongi Han

- He probably has never been to an aquarium himself. Only ever seen it in movies and thought it looked pretty, but never actually gone to one because work always comes first. He doesn't even take that many days off to begin with. 

- His face visibly lights up when you ask if he wants to come to the aquarium with you. "Oh, of course, I'd love to" he says, but you can tell he is vibrating from excitement when you hand him the ticket. 

- Get ready for him to start infodumping if he sees a fish he has eaten before. He can go on and on about nutritional value and health benefits for hours if you let him, and even if he has never eaten a specific kind, he can always start speculating. You'll have to beg him not to ask for clownfish next time he goes to the fish market. That is NOT food, Joongi. 

- Absolutely fascinated by the sea creatures. He never had a proper childhood, never did any activities like this ever and only really started doing fun things when he met Kasuga. Needless to say, he LOVES it. Expect him to ask to come to the aquarium again. He probably loves the dolphins—they are beautiful, but also very fucking unhinged. Sounds like someone you know, actually. 

Eric Tomizawa

- He knows his way around Hawaii like the back of his hand, so you bet he knows an aquarium or two. He used to go with Marie all the time, since she loved it so much, but to be honest, he always paid more attention to her reactions than he did the animals, the lovesick fool. 

- It doesn't go any differently with you, honestly. He knows he is supposed to be watching the jellyfish show, but he'd always end up looking at you instead. You're so fascinated by the little guys, and really, if he wants to see jellyfish, he can swing by Aloha Beach whenever, so why not get his fill of your beautiful face? 

- The type to get super offended if you point at a random fish and say "This you". Like, okay, a putterfish is cute, kinda? But also, just why? Does he have bug eyes too? Or is it the 'small but deadly' part? Then again, he's probably gonna join in on the "Hey, this fish looks like someone we know" game. That orca is Yamai, that clownfish is Ichiban. You? An angelfish. But only after jokingly saying you were an aggressive ass piranha. 

- Take him to an animal encounter experience and feed penguins or stingrays. He'd be extra cautious at first, because hey, it won't kill him but that stingray over there may not like his face, and that could get dangerous. After that though? He has the time of his life. Those little guys are so cute. You still have a pic you took without Tomi knowing of him petting a penguin with the biggest grin on his face.

[florgenborgen]

Wings of Fire SeaWing Headcanons!

omg guys im so close to finishing these yippy!!!!

guys animus magic works different you guys can have albatross' death scene as a treat

Eagle watched as the strange structure grew larger and larger, like cancerous tendrils reaching for the endless sky. He was a guard for the Princess Sunset, who was visiting the Island Palace to oversee negotiations regarding new Sea Kingdom settlements on Sky Kingdom territory. However, Queen Lagoon seemed to be taking this as an opportunity to show off her animus dragon by regrowing a new island palace in place of the old one, which had previously gotten wrecked by a hurricane. The spiral twisted unnaturally, glowing and pulsing with animus magic. He took a look at the dragon performing the spell-- Albatross was his name, if Eagle remembered correctly. The magic continued pulsing from the grey animus' body, in slow, steady movements.

The music began rising, as the structure's spires got to an altitude around the middle of the room. Two royals, Eagle recognized as the animus dragon's daughter and her husband, looked frantic as they searched for someone, probably the animus dragonet, who was supposed to be watching the ceremony with the other royals. They sent their other dragonet outside to look for the animus.

When he turned to look back at the structure, he saw that its glow was pulsing strangely and irregularly. The geriatric animus began to shake, then toppled over. All the glow left his body, and entered all into the palace's structure. Eagle watched as the spiral grew and grew, in erratic, random directions. Then, the stone burst out, like a pile of spears exploding. The tendrils were growing so fast, there could be no escape. Queen Lagoon was the first to die, becoming trapped in the huge stone thorns and stabbed to death. Other dragons tried running away, but it was no use. The magic was too fast for anyone to outrun. Eagle watched in horror as he saw about a dozen dragons, including his princess, meet the same fate as the queen.

Eagle accepted his fate as a tendril of stone came hurtling toward him.

anyway, back to other things! i'll explain animus magic more in-depth in another post, so yeah :))

the seawings are the largest tribe! i just wanted them to have an advantage on land, so one seawing could probably take on 2-3 skywings without fire (with fire is ofc a different story)

seawing snouts are a bit longer, like spinosauruses!! i just thought it would help them hunt a lil better.

the current dynasty actually has a lot of pink accents in them!! they claim descent from a dragon named dolphin who survived the Animus Incident, but nobody knows if they're really real!!

the seawings are a lot like imperial china government-wise, and have a centralized, autocratic government with the empress at the top.

seawing court drama goes CRAZYYYY. like queen coral's thirty two sons? you BET they're gonna poison each others kids (or just. each other) like its a competition. like orca doesn't even have to try to kill off their girlfriends or anything they just do it themselves.

orca DEFINITELY killed whirlpool after she became queen. is that even a question

when orca killed coral (which is later in this au), gill took anemone's egg and whisked her away,, somewhere.

orca and anemone are NOT animi anymore! sorry guys i just dont want an animus queen + itd lowk fuck up my plans for book 2

despite its super centralized government, there have been some historically uncontrollable populations of seawings that the current dynasty has just opted to. turn into a tributary state and stop caring.

moray is totally hiding in one of those tributaries.

[snailsagere]

Please read my dni in my bio before interacting

All about my requests! :3

🌸You can of course still request things not related to shows or games too, like animal related outfits etc! :3

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What can you request?

🌸I accept requests for storygames, outfits and agere bags!

🌸If you want to request something else feel free to! Keep in mind, no guarantee I'll accept the request though!

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What games and shows do I accept requests for?

Games-

🌸Omori 🌸Undertale 🌸Deltarune 🌸Stardew valley 🌸Animal crossing 🌸Pokemon 🌸Littlewood 🌸Slime rancher 1 and 2 🌸Minecraft (not dsmp)

Shows-

🌸My little pony gen 4 🌸Most disney movies 🌸Bojack horseman 🌸In the night garden 🌸Winnie the pooh 🌸Hey duggee 🌸Angels of death 🌸Sanrio (the more popular stuff)

What do I not accept requests for?

🌸Dragons because they're really tricky to do

🌸Anything to do with real people because that makes me uncomfy

🌸Diapers, there's nothing wrong with wearing diapers, it's super valid I just unfortunately have a problem with nsfw people interacting with me and it may make the problem worse (I make sure to block all nsfw accounts btw)

🌸Anything m*d*c*l, I have ptsd so I find that kind of stuff very triggering

🌸Dolphin or orca requests, I have already done one of each but I don't really want to do any more of them because I really don't like them

🌸Zoos, I don't agree with zoos so I don't feel comfy doing anything to do with them

[faekishi]

This was... suppose to be chibis. In the end it did not became that or got into this hybrid thing. This was still fun to draw if not difficult as whale anatomy is a bit tricky even though it looked simple. But, still had a lot of fun cause I love merfolk. <3 Going to attempt this again and also do different kind of merfolk forms. Cause seriously, out of all the mystical creatures, merfolk are indeed my biggest favorite. Idea Time!

So I made Hizashi into a blue whale. Which is a very large and very fast whale. I was thinking of doing humpback. But, while they do sing very beautifully. I was like big fast whale that will smash into enemies. Shouta is the homicidal oreo of the sea. Otherwise known as the Orca. Great hunters with a high intelligence. Which is why ithought perfect for Shouta. Izuku is a spotted dolphin! Also intelligent and show off the the freckles that Izuku has. I have thoughts that even if merfolk look a lot like whales. They can breath through their gills in water or air through their noses/blow holes.

Also, baby mers will cling to the back of their parents when they get too tired swimming. Just like how baby whales or dolphins will go on their parents backs whenever they get tired of swimming. But, I had a few ideas when I was drawing this. One idea I had was that being very abnormal orca merman. He hates other merfolk of his nature and is mated with a very much larger whale that his kind would honestly hunted down. Even stranger was the fact he took in a baby dolphin mer. (if yall ever seen documentaries of orcas you know that them plus dolphins usually doesn't end well for the dolphin.)

So Shouta and Hizashi trying to figure out how to parent. With Shouta literally trying to murder anything that breathes around his kid. While Izuku keeps getting himself into trouble cause he's curious. When they 'sleep' out in the open ocean Shouta and Hizashi take shifts to ensure predators don't try to get the upper hand on them. But, if they're closer to sand beds. Then Hizashi will start digging into the sand to make a whole that can fit Shouta and Izuku. He'll then proceed to lay over them. Many predators don't tend to bother merfolk of Hizashi's size unless in groups or in dire hunger. But, any sight of Izuku and they will risk it. The three a very much a migratory group. Hizashi is too large to realistically stay in one place for too long. But, sometimes they are able to spend time in spot for a few months before heading on. I also thought of Izuku have a hurt fin. Just like his arms in the anime. His fins were hurt due a predator hunting Izuku when he found himself lost and alone. Izuku can only swim a certain amount of time before becoming exhausted and in pain. Which makes Shouta even more protective of little one. Shouta is vicious while he is attacking and is the best hunter of the group. Hizashi though has bodily slammed someone hard enough they died. So when it's time to hunt Shouta goes off to get food and Hizashi takes care of Izuku. But, if there are large schools of fish Hisashi will use his massive size to bulldoze and stun the fish. Allowing Shouta and even Izuku to easily pick them off.

That's all I have for now. I will definitely have more down the road. I been really wanting to make mer stuff for MHA. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed!

[thatcatbasil]

so, first impressions with endless ocean luminous

there are a lot of changes i absolutely Do Not Like but i would be lying if i said i wasn't having a good time with it so far

unfortunately i'm not gonna have screenshots in here since my phone quit letting me download pics from the switch and i don't feel like going through the hassle of tryna figure out getting the microsd into my computer right now

so first, stuff i don't like just to get it out of the way

yeah elephant in the room is the randomly generated maps. when the first trailer came out i did a lot of mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion that the veiled sea was just one map that was randomly generated and we would get other maps that were not but Nope you're only in the veiled sea and it's all randomly generated. makes you really miss the established locations from the first couple games. it feels really ephemeral now and the locations don't really stick with you as much

really miss the hayley westenra/celtic woman tracks. the ambient music's okay but i think the appeal of endless ocean's soundtrack has always been the licensed music to me. 30 mins in i unplugged my earbuds from my switch and put em in my laptop so that i could put on carrickfergus. then i put on jenny nicholson's evermore park video and had that playing for the entire rest of the time i was diving

the main menu's UI is kinda plain compared to the previous games. i miss the marine encyclopedia being an actual book you could flip through. this UI's a lot more sleek and modern but it doesn't have the same charm

no zoom mode makes me a little sad. i miss the little detailed environments! i miss looking for the coins in them! i like that the coins made a comeback as salvage though.

haven't played too much of the story mode cause i was mainly drawn to the solo dives buuut yeah hasn't really gotten hooked me yet. i've only done the first 3 parts of it so far so we'll see if i end up liking it more down the line. i think since it's just the first chapter(?) they're treating it more like a tutorial. i like david though he's silly

there are. a lot of legendaries huh? i do very much like the fact that they brought back the ones from the first two games (ran into ancient mother on my first solo dive and i was like !!!!! there she is!!!!!) but you see them so frequently it kinda takes away the feeling of them being "legendary" in a way? ive done three solo dives and cacao maharaja has shown up in every single one. on my third one i saw three grave diggers all in the same location. i've seen five different apollos. feels like there should be more of a distinction between the new "rare" creatures (the ones that just have funny patterns like the white orca i've seen several times) and the more unique named legendaries where the legendaries spawn a lot less often. but then again i could see that being an RNG nightmare for completion when it's combined with the randomly generated maps.

text to speech lady. i muted her as soon as i had the opportunity LMAOOO. maybe i'm just too used to the previous games not having any voices at all. oh shoot maybe that's why there's no licensed music tracks? cause text to speech lady would distract from them? damn.

not really into the customization. looks like you can only change the colors of your equipment and there's no unique gear

but excluding all that the creature models and most of the environments have been absolutely fantastic. i say most of the environments cause there's been a few situations where the map would have these decently big areas of empty sand with nothing in them (reminds me of manoa lai f-5 and e-4 that kinda area leading out of deep valley around where the pirate ship can spawn where it's a lot of empty sand and no critters except for the pacific white-sided dolphins) and i didn't find it as interesting as the actual coral reefs wrecks etc.

but the creature models! they're really awesome! they look great! i guess it's to be expected since it's on better hardware but it's still so cool to see the improvement.

also on my third dive something that was actually pretty cool happened. so i came up with a system for exploring the maps where i would just go around the perimeter and then go in like a spiral so that i could get a general sense of everything. when i reached the bottom right corner of the map the water turned green and i was like Oh this is the water color from the prehistoric areas in the trailers. so i go down a little deeper and run into an icthyosaur (forgot the specific name. could've just been icthyosaurus). and i felt like this

then i turned around to see a GIANT icthyosaur (shonisaurus) and i felt like this

the prehistoric critters in this game are COOL AS HELL. since we only got three of them total in the previous games (and couldn't even see em up close since they swam outside the boundaries of their respective maps!) it's really awesome to get to see them up close. and so many of them, too! excited to find anomalocaris later on. i love anomalocaris

miscellaneous other observations/comments/etc

honestly i don't really mind that the animals attacking you from the second game was omitted. it does feel a little weird to run into thanatos and not get attacked though (especially since he was doing the exact attack animations from the second game. side note i always thought it was a lil funny that all the creatures would slap you with their tails instead of biting you)

on my third dive i ran into the okeanos's guardian in a cave and i really like the glowing eyes effect it has now. thanatos was chilling down there too. shark party

i'm guessing that you can have creatures follow you? haven't gotten the chance to do it yet though cause i don't have enough points to get the creatures i want to follow me haha. i need to make friends with the orcas

oh yeah this game does have its own unique named legendaries! i found the seal that likes to wear jewelry that i unfortunately can't remember the name of right now. that was cool. trying to find all of those critters to get it to appear is a bit of a hassle but i guess that's why there's so much emphasis on the multiplayer.

but yeah. tl;dr it's absolutely no blue world but luminous does have some good things in its own right. maybe i've just been starved for endless ocean content for the past 14 years though

i think i'll do a proper full write-up for this game that i'll put on the neocities site at some point after i finish up the story mode and do some more solo dives and really let everything soak in. might be some time before that though since it's finals season and i need to work on stuff. see ya

[captawesomesauce]

Thoughts at 6pm...

Today was a long day but a very good day!

We made it to sea world and by a stroke of luck, our special sea turtle feeding session turned into a private event!!!!

I cannot even begin to tell you the absolute joy she had kneeling there and interacting with each one, seeing their personalities and their antics as we fed them behind the scenes.

Totally worth it.

It was a hard drive going there with the sun in my eyes and the traffic, but we made it safe and sound and right on time!

Walking around was enhanced by my new seat cane, so I could sit anywhere/everywhere I needed to! Just kick the legs out and fold down the seat and bam... take the weight off my injured spine!

The dolphins, pilot whales, and orcas were gorgeous, and the beluga whales are always awesome to see. The new (to me) shark area was neat as well but they're leaning way too far into being a theme park and we need more fish exhibits!

I'm so glad we have an aquarium just down the street... if only they had more sea turtles for W :) 3 isn't enough.. 24 was a good amount!

We'll go again... even with the traffic and everything, it's worth it. We had a blast. We fell in love with the turtles. It was awesome :)

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Sorry if u get this a lot but do u have a favorite type of fish or aquatic animal!!? Also if u have any funky abyssal or midnight zone animals/fish I’m super interested :))

My favourite fish are sturgeons! I have a lot of love for them, here’s a post I’ve made about them before, lest I go on a tangent about how perfect they are <3

But! I have other aquatic friends I love too! I love pikes, I love whale sharks, I love salmon and I love perches! I love pufferfish and I love rays like mantas and I love angel sharks and epaulette sharks and other bamboo sharks! And I love gars and I love eels like morays and the European eel and ribbon eels too! And I love wrasses like the cleaner wrasse, and I love parrotfish, and I love anglerfish, and I love kois and goldfish and it is my fantasy to one day own one very very big aquarium with goldfish or perhaps neon tetras or cardinal tetras because I love them too….

I also like non-fish aquatic animals though I discuss them less! I love whales and dolphins, I was a massive bottlenose dolphin fan when I was a tween and I still love all whales but baleen whales and orcas take the cake for me now! I love deep sea giant isopods, and I love diving beetles and diving bell spiders because they’re the most metal creatures ever, I love crayfish so so much and I love shrimp — I keep some Neocaridina davidii -shrimp! I love arthropods greatly and the reason I don’t specify “insects” or “crustaceans” or some other type even though some arthropods creep me out (it’s not their fault though <3) is because I just really like arthropods in general! Aquatic arthropods especially. Besides those I really love octopuses and squids and clams and I love aquatic birds like penguins and… aaahhh!!!! There’s just so many different little and big guys to love, you feel me? It’s hard to express how excited aquatic fauna makes me. I’m probably forgetting some notable ones as we speak!

I will try to make some deep sea fish facts anon! I can see they’re a big favourite among the crowd :)

[vivianquill]

Hello

i just read your emberfish au and it's very cool and i love it :3

If I may ask about Scott's backstory because he is an interesting character. How come he's half human and half mer, was he taken from the ocean too? I just have so many questions :]

Okay, so. The short version of the story is that Scott ended up half-human and half-mer because EVO (the company that ended up with their hands on Jimmy) decided that they wanted to put Jimmy on display like someone would a dolphin or an orca. Hence they needed another mer, because people would get upset if there was only one on it's own yadda yadda yadda but in the years they had Jimmy they weren't able to find another one, so they decided to make one.

they had already been testing and doing experiments with genetic material and studying Jimmy, and a lot of what they found was nothing short of like. miraculous because of how adaptable mer are. If a mer who was born in the tropics grew up in the arctic, they would end up with adaptations to the arctic in only like, one or two generations. It's part of the reason they survive so well and why they are like. literally everywhere in the ocean.

so. after a lot of testing and stuff they 'kidnapped' Scott (he'd been working for them as an intern) and tried to turn him into a mer. It didn't work, not completely, and basically left Scott as a mer without a tail, and with a suite of health complications. so it was back to the drawing board.

in the meanwhile, Martyn had gotten pulled in from a different part of the company after their last animal handler quit, and the three of them became friends and Martyn jailbreaked Scott and Jimmy before another attempt could be made at making another mer.

It hasn't been replicated since, mostly because Martyn took all of their information and research on his way out.