Updated Azul Facts Part 5: Being a Mermaid (pt1)
We receive a lot of information about mermaids and the Coral Sea in general from Azul, who says that, while they have “quite a bit of diversity in (their) natures and backgrounds,” possibly not as much as can be found amongst Sunset Savanna’s beast people.
During the Nightmare Before Christmas event Leona, Jade and Azul discover that Sunset Savanna and the Coral Sea have a children’s song in common. Azul is surprised, saying that he had assumed that their cultures were “wildly different,” and Leona responds, “Part of the Savanna is coastal. It’d make sense if the song came from that area.”
Azul is not amused by Leona making the “sweeping generalization” that all mermaids have the same tastes (“Some merfolk can’t sing, while others just don’t like to”), but Jade responds, “Though technically speaking, Leona’s not wrong. I’ve hardly ever seen merfolk who actively dislike music,” and says, “music is the most popular form of entertainment under the sea.”
In another scene Azul explains, “In the sea we call home, music is an essential part of crafting a proper atmosphere. Whether it’s relishing the sea itself, conveying love between paramours, or enjoying an event…We all express things through the songs we sing.”
Azul says that he never used pillows in the Coral Sea, saying, “Much of the time l’d settle into the hollows of large seashells and conches. After all, soft mattresses and pillows aren’t a thing under the sea,” and comments on the convenience of public transit on land.
Azul says that children don’t use building blocks under the sea, as “wood doesn’t tend to last long underwater.” He explains, “We do have study aids made from shells, though.”
In Book 4 Azul says that, as mermaids, he, Jade and Floyd “have some innate cold resistance.” He observes that he does not require the hood of his Vargas Camp outfit, as it is for cold or rainy weather (“As someone who grew up in an extremely frigid part of the ocean, I hardly need that kind of protection”), but he is willing to “abide by land customs.”
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