(WIP) Ask VA mermen

(JJBA Mer AU) Mer Prosciutto taking on an intruder. His tail eyes only open to intimidate, often scaring off would be attackers or at least stunning them. Risotto makes the spears and weapons for his pod to use, seen here. Prosciutto is also a formidable opponent on his own, despite being smaller than Risotto. He’s ruthless.

Redrew the first drawing of it, with Fugo and Narancia. The original below the cut but also here’s the link to the original post. I got a bit better at anatomy and lighting I think.

And for newer people: In my Mer AU only some of the characters are mers, and the humans are supposed to be unaware of their existence according to the King (Diavolo). Fugo found an injured, sickly merman in the netting on a beach, and decided to help him. He brought him back to town to get assistance on a whim. It turned out Narancia, looking for food with food being scarce in the ocean and being very sick with an eye infection, decided to attempt to get food caught in netting floating around and became trapped. He was too weak at that point to get himself out. And now he and his pod have to try to make sure the  King doesn’t find out about this, as this will mean death to them all.

Mer Risotto doodles

“…A FAT SEAGULL?? CHICKENS CANT EVEN FLY!! HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT LIONS ARE BUT NOT F*CKING CHICKENS!”

“The meat they have at those food stores?”

“YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT ANIMAL IT CAME FROM??? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A F*CKING COW IS?!”

“…….” Silly comic with the Mer AU. Merlone knows many human things. Even how to work their technology. It’s gonna be hard to catch him off guard. Chickens? Well those aren’t that common. Obviously. That’s why he doesn’t know what that bird is. Yes. He’s heard of the meat.

Ghiaccio can’t believe this dumbass noodle. Melone now knows what that bird is.

A DTIYS for 8.5k+ followers on Instagram. I asked on there what people suggested and people seemed to want the mer AU a lot. And a few of La Squadra. So I went with Risotto’s pod.

And I mean if people want to participate on here that’s fine, although I don’t have that many followers on here.

Rules: - no deadline. Another fun one. - you can draw 2-7 of the characters here (since there’s a lot), either the whole thing or zoomed in focus on two or three - you can change the angle of it, adjust their positions, just keep the same vibe - tag me 

Giorno’s reference redraw. His hair is a nightmare.

Giorno is very much on the fae side of things. Loves toying with humans, being polite with ulterior motives, introducing humans to a watery grave. However he’s pod-less, which is something you’re supposed to avoid but he grew up like that after being abandoned. He had random mers feel sorry for him when he was younger, and give him food, but resources were depleted and he was left to provide for himself. Recently he got caught on Leaky Eye Luca’s pod’s territory and caused a bit of a stir with a few neighbouring pods. He moved on though. To make a deal with Narancia and the assassins pod to take care of the King.

Redrew mer Narancia’s reference (link to old one). Original also included thoughts on the rest of the pod, which was originally supposed to be a thing for the others but never got done. But I included Narancia’s with the redraw.

Also Narancia speaks positively about the rest of his pod but he’s pulled a knife at least once on all of them. Yes including Risotto. And he’ll pull it on Fugo too.

Illuso’s reference redraw. Also changed his pose.

Illuso. A merman who both loves stealing from humans but also is terrified of them and calls them “disease riddled sacks of meat”. But denies the “terrified” part because he’s a tough guy and is an assassin, see-

His muscles are all show. He’s pretty weak and rather slow in comparison to some in his pod. He makes up for it in his mind games and tricking people. Not the one you want to make a deal with though (and still rather strong by human standards) because he’ll make it so it’s impossible to fulfill your end, and will sabotage any chance of it.

Redrew Abbacchio and Risotto’s references because I’ve always hated Risotto’s (link to old one). And Abbacchio’s was in the same post plus it included him disguised as Risotto-

Abbacchio. Part of Risotto’s pod but only on papers as they say. He keeps to himself off to the side, even his best isn’t part of the pod’s den. He speaks only to Narancia (and Risotto on the odd occasion). Which is why he went on land when he realized Narancia was there. And might’ve fallen in love with the adult human caring for Narancia. Shit happens. He knows this will make the situation a hundred times worse.

I got a tablet pen so I’m drawing on Procreate and I tried drawing Merlone and you guys get two doodles of him and an annoyed Ghiaccio. Merman won’t leave him alone.

Melone annoys the human by singing him a love note. It works.

Not 100% pleased with it but I tried watercolour brush here.

Risotto is sharpening a blade to protect his pod and Prosciutto came over to tell him something. Maybe that Ris’s titties are looking especially fat today- (Pros is such a romantic 😘).

“Well why the F*CK would they put a sticker of an edible thing on a not edible thing huh!”

He took one sip of it and spat it out. It didn’t taste like orange or orange juice and his disappointment is immeasurable and his day is ruined. Humans are horrible-

Bit of exposition for this mer AU comic. Narancia’s eye doesn’t get fully healed despite him being a bit better. Narancia ends up falling for a deal with Giorno after this to get his eye healed up so that he’s no longer a burden to anyone.

Before Narancia was caught, the pod were attempting to sneak past tight restrictions of going on land by the King in order to get Nara medicine. They don’t want to admit they were giving up hope on Nara pulling through, but at least they were trying their best to get assistance in the ways they knew/could. Melone goes on land the most and found a loophole of going up there thanks to a hit. Unfortunately he didn’t get back in time to deliver the antibiotics he had managed to get, as Narancia had already been caught.

Drew mer RisoPro and to switch it up, I have them sleeping and cuddling. I know. Real game changer from all the others I drew.

I was gonna have Risotto’s head shoved more into Prosciutto’s chest/stomach but it didn’t look right. Anyway.

Also bonus Melone wanting in on this but might get glared at by Prosciutto (in the mer AU, it’s really only RisoPro):