#the males are very small and lack the mimicking ability. they fuse into the large females like in certain deep sea anglerfish

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Hey, thanks! I quite like my anglerfish siren too :) I don’t really have a “use” for her but she’s fun to doodle and imagine how a mermaid species like this would come about. I think this surface water anglerfish evolved in tandem with hominids and early humans, originally luring them to water by pretending to be a drowning person, but some pods have now figured out that another way to lure in prey is to take advantage of lonely seamen who haven’t seen a single woman for several months — that is, to lure the sailors in with the looks of a beautiful woman yo-hooing in the playful waves with sparkling doe eyes and a sweet smile. They actually have a very highly developed language processing capabilities (comes in handy for social animals that hunt in pods) and can pick up on human languages with ease, naturally to make very convincing screams for help or to slyly convince people at the edge of the water to take the plunge into their loving arms. Their lure has working second eyes adapted to bright daylight and an air sac that can be used to make humanlike sounds by vibrating muscles around the “airway” (so, essentially like lungs and vocal cords)

Why hunt humans, I’m still not quite sure. Humans must have something the sirens need to live, perhaps lots of innate magic if this is a magical fantasy universe? The sirens do use their lures to hunt other sort of prey too, many animals won’t pass on the opportunity of a whole fresh corpse innocently floating in the shallows — step on the closest rock to you and it suddenly opens its jaws and sucks you in a tooth-filled mouth!

Fish don’t even have tiddies.