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Published: 2020-01-27 12:07:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2305; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Description Many merpeople dreamed of visiting the surface someday, but he was the opposite. It started as a curiosity, now a borderline obsession, with the deep. Sharks and orcas could be fended off, nobody knew how to deal with the things down there. 

He swam deeper as the days went on. Down into the trenches. Saw and recorded creatures and monsters no one else had ever seen, perhaps bar only the rare surface machines which the pod avoided like death. He couldn't comprehend them -- these were animals, creatures like them. Fish. The next generation should be taught about them. He considered himself a researcher. 

He first spotted them on a rock formation, crawling around like sea slugs. Little white cotton balls, dotted with black. Weird-looking, but cute. The ocean hid little guys like these all throughout herself, covering them with waves and torrents like layers and layers of blankets. Little secrets. 

He was studying them, already formulating a report to the rest of the pod. But the ocean doesn't get lost, she has more secrets to share. 

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Hi hello i am liahldaadklsadjlldadlh and this is my self-indulgence. I love mermen so much.
Started as an entry for 's merman competition (fav.me/ddnckb8 ) and ended with what I'm pretty sure is a new OC (assuming he's not dead)???
I haven't written creatively in one thousand years so it was a good practice at least haha
ps i am a bad marine biologist and sea bunnies are definitely not deep sea creatures (unless whatshisname's pod swims on dolphin levels) but I love them and I really wanted to draw them maybe they're fake bunnies that lure prey to cthulu over there I dunno man.
  
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Comments: 8

AnaxErik4ever [2020-01-28 03:28:47 +0000 UTC]

Sea bunnies!  I too have a fascination with the deep sea and darker zones of the ocean.  Sea bunnies are more coral reef/twilit ocean creatures, but you covered the discrepancy in your description.  Thank you for that.

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Liauditore In reply to AnaxErik4ever [2020-01-28 03:47:49 +0000 UTC]

I love these little guys~~
My first plan was to actually use baby dumbo octopi (also cute, recognisable and definitely more realistic) but the yellow colour scheme just didn't agree with me for some reason? Usually I'm cool with yellow/blue stuff but this time all I could see was this weird spongebob aesthetic so I kinda went out on a whim and added the bunnies haha

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Hellzweire [2020-01-27 23:37:04 +0000 UTC]

Man, this a great deconstruction of the "merfolk interested in other life" trope. I'm all for it.

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Liauditore In reply to Hellzweire [2020-01-28 02:13:40 +0000 UTC]

I'm a sucker for trope inversions, it's an ongoing thing in everything I make haha
Thankyou so much~!! 

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Ubiquitor [2020-01-27 19:59:23 +0000 UTC]

Uh oh, I've seen enough anime to know where this scene is going

Brilliant work, good luck with the contest!

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Liauditore In reply to Ubiquitor [2020-01-28 02:12:18 +0000 UTC]

A veteran in the business, I see. ;D
Thankyou!!

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EraOfThirteen [2020-01-27 16:10:37 +0000 UTC]

ooo I love this design!!!

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Liauditore In reply to EraOfThirteen [2020-01-28 02:10:50 +0000 UTC]

aaa thankyou!!
had so much fun with the anti-gravity hair on him

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