Mermay is coming up any mermaid imps au ideas?
Thanks for the ask! :3
I'm late as always, but I didn't want to drop this idea, so here's my little contribution for the mermay.
Even last year when I binged "H2O. Just add water" I thought main characters had an interesting dynamic which is somewhat something I see in my fav trio: Pain, Panic and Meg (I rarely post all three of them but in my head they are best buddies (or, in human au, Pain and Meg are half-siblings, but that's mostly my weird craving, might elaborate on it later)). And it was perfect for this mermay, but I unfortunately got to it too late.
Didn't think it through much, so I just put the Hades trio on according places: Pain as Rikky (because both are my favs, no big surprise here I guess) with the rebellious character and fire/heating powers, and then Panic and Meg were a tough choice because they can fit both roles (Emma is more reserved and often considered "emotionless" which could've fit Meg, and Cleo is emotional and sentimental which I see in Panic a lot) but my Pain-Panic duo dynamic and color assignment won, so Panic took Emma's place with ice powers and Meg took Cleo's with, I guess she has levitation or water manipulation powers??
I made some changes with the look of them transformed into mermaids (and mermen). The original has all girls in same goldfish tail "outfit", but I wanted to assign them different sea creatures (which I also had received an ask message long time ago). So Pain is a shark, Meg is a lionfish, and I wanted to make Panic an eel but then thought his imp form reminds me of a swordfish/marlin more.
And I just had to draw one of my favorite scenes with Rikki, I just love her sarcastic moments and like to imagine Pain as such a guy in the group. Does it make sense? Probably not. But I receive great joy from it. So yeah, since Meg here is Cleo, Hercules would be Lewis accordingly.
