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lazy mermaid hitching a ride

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Line work done by my sister. Coloring by me, which took place slowly over a year - going from innocent and happy and floating through air, hit a dead wall, and then almost a year later picked up again with mysterious, vampy and strangely organic. This was a commission piece, meant to trade for a pair of custom knitted socks. It arrived late, but well loved.

It's my personal speculation that mermaids with human breasts are 'created' with the intention for the creature to either end up on land eventually, or just serve as..err.. titilation. *cough*

I would think that any sort of humanistic sea creature hybrid will likely be flat chested, have leathery skin, and some sort of tactical use for their hair. Electroshock maybe? Or contact toxins. Maybe they use it to capture their meals. Otherwise, if there's no use for all those long, flowing locks of water-drag-doom, (or the buxom boobs of omg-I-just-took-off-a-nipple-on-that-coral-reef) I believe they'd be bald. Leathery skin, because, if that's just regular human skin down there... they're going to look more like raisin-fish than human-fish.

If they have live births, it'd be much like whales-- they'd feed their babies with these weird little nipple-holes somewhere on their torsos. I rather like to think that they'd be large like whales as well. With a taste for raw meat.

If not, then they'd be really small egg-layers living happily in sea anemone like clownfish. No comment about genderswitching. (but hey, if they're all bald and flat chested, not like anyone can tell anyway, right?)
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Wow!! Such exotic looking mermaids! I love their fins, gills, & fingerwebs!!