so start by saving me, itadori

@itafushi-week day three: healing | grief

I love making up mermaid biology. Some of my favorite ones are the lung and gill dynamics, where gills are used to hold their breath for longer, but they can't survive of gills alone since they're 100% mammals

Another one is that they actually have 2 thigh muscles, gluts, and a pelvis (that's in 2 pieces, so not like a normal human pelvis). The thigh muscles blend into the tail/spine muscles where they would normally attach to the knees on a human

There's also a very defined muscle that runs the length of the spine, and it controls/flexes the spines that make up Megumi's back fin and the fins on the tip of his tail

And mermaids mainly move around like snakes, even in the water they mostly do a side to side motion when swimming. On the bottom side of their tails, they have plated scales like snakes do, which helps them with friction and stuff. The one chaper where Megumi "stood" or got up off the ground, he was rearing up on his tail like a cobra or something lol

Megumi is inspired by a black dragonfish, which is where the bioluminescent spots, the spines and tail, and the whiskers/long things on his hips come from

恵 ; "blessing"

恵 ; "blessing"