Furia and Mimma Artblog! Yay! (Merfolk Era)

✨ Merfolk Spa ✨

Certain wrasses really do put up cleaning stations in which they work for clients of all species, even as unusal as moray eels or sharks! Let's focus a little on how these amazing little fish fit into and influence merfolk culture ;)

(Another illustration for the Fish don't Cry Project)

New lil' episode of Fish Don't Cry!

What a proper boy.

This black lady is Vixenleap, a Riverclan cat. 

Colored simple digital commission for shadowphil666.

Seras Alkahest is a powerful magician, and if there's something to know about her, is that she will do her best to get what she wants, with kindness or with force. Is she offering her hand or taking yours?

(Another illustration for the Fish don't Cry Project)

We're proud to say that this year we participated in the @seaunseenzine project, with two illustrations: one dedicated to Artemia salina (the famous "sea monkeys!") created by Mimma and, (of course, we couldn't leave it out), one dedicated to the longest bony fish, the majestic oarfish (Regalecus glesne).

These are just small previews, but stay tuned to find out when the zine will finally be available! And we assure you that the drawings by our other fellow artists who worked on this thing are absolutely AMAZING.

Sangreal and Rosas have both been chosen by Seras to play the role of her very own "moray eels" but... not only they are very different from each other, but also neither are exactly Muraenidae, aaand they might also belong to species that usually don't get along. At all.

What's her deal? 👀

Just wanted to draw the fishmen colleagues together, they both have such fun textures to color!

(Another illustration for the Fish don't Cry Project)

Title drop.

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He started as a fish, then got legs... and now, looks like he discovered that, even in his new human body, he didn't lose all his natural elasticity! (It's about the composition of his bones, hehe).

Just a sketch of Sangreal. 

I am inexperienced in these things XD

Oh, the ARG!

Well, usually explaining what to do in an ARG takes the magic out of it a bit… and maybe we shouldn't have even mentioned there was an ARG XD

Usually, when it comes to these things, people stumble upon a "mysterious" page online and try to figure out what's behind it. (Luckily, not many people visit our blog, so there's still a chance that some random player might find themselves on the blog thanks to the weird clues we've left on social media, or even in person, thanks to some special stickers!). 

But now the beans have been spilled, and it's time for… some hints? Some explanations? At least to you, anon, who explicitly requested it! 

(Damn, we would have liked to take better care of the blog, but we've been so busy we haven't been able to update it as much as we'd have liked… but maybe it's better this way, since no one was playing anyway, so it's better to take it easy, hehe). 

So, when there's an ARG, there's some mystery to solve, some plot to understand. 

ARG stands for "alternate reality game," a type of game that employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions. The form is defined by player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players' responses. 

In the case of the blog, for example, people's comments on Nana's blog entries could receive replies! And those replies could contain extra clues! But that's certainly not the only way to interact with the game… for example, hidden within the blog are secret images and even… documents, secrets! 

Some pages are easy to find, but the content is protected by a… password! And the password is also on the site, but finding it isn't easy (or maybe it is… hmm… you have to think a little laterally for these things). In short, there are things to discover on the site! Secret information! 

And at the end of it all, the story will lead to a reveal of an event that will take place… in the real world! 

Oh my, yes! Of course we do accept fanarts of our characters, and we're always super-duper happy of receiving them... and we're even double-happy when the fanarts are about the characters we're obsessed with at the moment, and guess what? Sangreal is that character right now!

So, for anyone who wants to try their hands at drawing him: feel free to do so, and we'll be super happy to boost your drawing by reblogging it everywhere (in our main blog and all the related sideblogs!), show it to all our friends (well, we don't have many friends, but we'll do what we can), do a little dance (you can't see that one, but you can know that we did it! A little happy dance), if you want even to add it in Sangreal's "official" gallery with a link to the artist page, so it can be displayed to all the people that go there! 

We even received already a fanart of him (not counting art trades, this is the only spontaneous one)! Look at this amazing sketch of him, created by  @zavalas-toes.bsky.social:

How do you think Sang would react to high temps (heat waves and such)? I don't see him reacting well.

Hey, Anon! It's really hot here today… which means outdoor guppy season has arrived, yay! We'll be able to move some of our guppies outside to allow them to breed during the warmer months.

But while this is certainly a wonderful time for small tropical fish, it's a bit tougher for us… even sitting down to write this question is making us sweat!

But back to our Sangreal…

In the depths of the ocean, temperatures are often very low, almost freezing. The temperature range between one season and the next is minimal, beyond 2,000 meters of depth: in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, the temperature varies between 0°C and 2.5°C, while in the polar seas it varies between 0° and -2°C.

It goes without saying that pistrix require very low temperatures to survive.

Before becoming a human, Sangreal didn't even know that temperatures as high as those found outside of water existed! From his point of view, humans manage to survive in a truly hostile and barbaric way: he looks at all of us as we look at those creatures living in the most inhospitable deserts in the world, managing to make do with a few drops of water.

If Sangreal were to suffer a heatwave in his natural body, as a pistrix, he would die very quickly. Unfortunately, fish (especially those from the deep!) are very sensitive to sudden temperature changes.

When he's in a human body, Sangreal has no problem with the heat, and is almost proud of his ability to tolerate it. He feels like a superhero!

Although if the temperatures are too high, combined with a dry climate, he'd probably prefer to get back into the water… again!

Thanks for asking!