#pirate and mer au

[thestarminstrel]

There are more dangerous things at sea than a few beasties, Nicholas. Some calls from the sea and her waters are meant to be ignored.

[ominouspuff]

Gift-piece for @ghosts-of-rishi for some ideas we were playing around with. Fives discovering Echo is alive but possibly even more cursed than they already were.

They say there’s no good that can come from making deals with the Piper, but what Jango’s after is hardly what most people’d call ‘good’.

(Featuring Cursed!Jango, who went looking for a son in the wrong places, made a deal with a sea-god, double-crossed said sea-god, and now has three million cursed children.)

“Flesh and blood, you said,” the sea-witch taunted, gloated, condemned. And they are, they are — Jango’s split up, every bit of him, flesh and blood he never even had, divided between every blessed child — but no amount of clever carving of meat can account for a soul, and that’s the real curse. It is not Jango, not Jango alone, who is caged within the unnatural ribs and skull and pounding veins. “Watch them grow, fool; nurture them.” The sea-witch sentenced, and Jango does, he does; silently screaming, unable to separate himself from a single one, unable to sleep even when they sleep, too split up in too many inhuman ways to speak or think beyond wishing it was over… but they know he’s there, and speak to him sometimes. He can hear them cursing, over three million souls better left dead at the bottom of the seas, plucked and borrowed and wiped clean with new flesh sewn together. Why didn’t you leave us be? One is sobbing because he knows he should be dead and they say that’s as good as being at peace, and he is neither of those things.

His children are his spitting image, but they have old, old eyes and no memories of how they came to be that way, and there are three million of them — and not a soul that ever knew Jango Fett before — before — before — can explain it. He watches them all try through six million eyes.

[skizabaa]

Magma Doodles of Mer AU Sun! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

[oobbbear]

Silly au idea of them being pirates and can turn into mer, there’s probably gonna be more

I did it, I gave in and made the au😔 it’s so fun tho

I mixed the book design with the show design a lil bit just pick and choose what I like from each part :]✨

[staticstarsss]

Vat7k Pirate / Mer AU

Both of these drawings took me about 8 hours all together and I hope there’s a little bit of appreciation for them somewhere .

I’m currently working on Nuru and I’ll post her when I’m done but here’s these two goofballs .

[rockybloo]

Nana being a seal for mermay is so good and makes me think about selkies and how they need to guard their shapeshifting enabling skins, lest someone steal it and force them to be their betrothed. Makes sense with nana’s guarded nature before Jack came along…

Whoops. Rocky went overboard with a Red Beans focused ask again because of the pirate AU.

(When the girl you've been crushing on and hanging out in secret away from the rest of the pirate crew you are the cabin boy for is showing big neon signs she wants to marry you)

[mmothfia]

Mermaids!!!!! Wahoo!!!

and also pirates

honestly wip

[neonlazycat]

* throws another au at you *

this has been sitting on my wips folder for way too long so I decided to post it . Basically mermaid au fused with pirate au

I had the designs for mermaid au and somewhat a plot for the pirate one so I merged them together

[creating-leviathan]

IVE RETURNED TO MY BSD MER!AU ROOTS!!!

[emry-stars-art]

We may branch off into separate masterposts as we keep going, but for now, here’s this ✨ there may be some overlap or ambiguity with various posts, but I’ll do my best to organize!

mermay 2023 pdf/zine (free download)

mermay 2024 pdf/zine

oops all mers au 🦈🪼🐋

brainstorming pg1 mermay 2023 piece head pats for jellyneil whalemack

mer cuddles

squid jean take 1

hybrid mer Kevin

jellyneil’s gender

Neil tries to catch food for Andrew

How Neil sleeps sometimes (and harbor seals being cute)

Tiny baby squean?

When sharkdrew surprises jellyneil

Jellyneil and its stingers

Whalemack taking sharkdrew to Abby & Bee

Squean angst

Whalemack babysits

Jeremy & Jean designs (jeremer and squean?)

Killer whales (Allison, Renee, Riko)

Kefin and jellyNeil bicker

sharkdrew au 🦈🏴‍☠️

brainstorming pg2 sleepy baby sharks/some lore sharkdrew and whalemack

Neil meets the shark (evernote scene)

sharkdrew finds a washed up pirate

Mer Kevin and human Jean&Jeremy

Maybe another first meeting

jellyneil au 🪼🎣

first mini comic pt1 / pt2 jelly life cycle/baby jelly neil little Andrew finds a baby jelly

harpoon fisher Andrew

baby jelly sounds

bubble rings snippet

jellyNeil in a bucket

[silliemop]

moon in the background: WHAT ABOUT ME!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

[thestarminstrel]

timelapse to this

as always: scribbled text bc i was streaming to my friends and random little refs

program: clip studio paint

time spent: ~7 hours

[finsnsins]

It’s MERMAY!!!! Here’s some horny mer! Lance and pirate! Keith :3

(part one)

[beeshoesometimesdraws]

So Bloodmoon-centric au yes?

Hear me out: pirate + siren/mer au (kinda based off the og concept of death’s keepers au cuz it was originally a pirate au-)

(Gonna color this one tomorrow and put in some of the details I forgot to add like their damaged eye- I added too many details to this design hhnnnhggg)

+ lil comic I doodled for story stuff✨

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Imma let yall figure out what’s happening cuz it’s funner that way hehe >;) and im also in class so I can’t take too much time on this-

[seiya-starsniper]

Ooh ooh, mer-Dream/pirate-Hob 2?

Hi TJ! I added a small snippet of Part 2 over here but have another one 😄

“Poseidon would understand my plight,” Dream says. “I have not swum freely in ages, and to be so close to the sea and yet unable to touch it, even for my own safety is…maddening.” “Ah,” Hob replies, understanding creeping into his voice. “You want to take a swim then, should’ve said so earlier,” he adds with a laugh. “Do not mock me,” Dream growls, feeling anger rise within him. Had he been wrong in his assessment of Hob after all? Was he just another foolish human, immortal as he was, that did not understand the thoughts and feelings of those not like him? “I’m not, I promise,” Hob replies, holding his hands up placatingly, an apologetic smile crossing his face. “I only meant that it's no trouble for us. In fact, we're running low on meat, so I'll need to fish tomorrow anyways. Would you like to join me?”

✨WIP File Tag Game✨

[princenotsocharming]

Some merfolk WIPS (let's pretend I didn't miss the entire MerMay...)