#off day 2

Gosh romantic relationship day. Romance is surprisingly infrequent for my series considering I usually love that stuff. The only romantic relationship I can really talk about right now is Extrava-Gent, God of Candy, and his husband Mah-Lady, God of Ails. There have this really cool healthy rivalry-based marriage.

Oh no I know what I can talk about! Let’s talk about mermaids.

I have a problem with stopping being creative so I’m always working new legends and mythical creatures and fantasy races into my work. But mermaids have actually been planned from the beginning.

In Chaos Corp mermaids are this fearsome race of woman that come in all different shapes and sizes. To give you an idea of their defining features let me give you the introduction of one of my main gals, River.

She had cyan skin that bordered on being called grey and a lower torso reminiscent of a sharks, covered in small transparent scales that caught the light from the sun and gave them a rainbow-like sheen. Her flat chest and stomach were covered by a slim hide vest, offering both protection and maximum manoeuvrability. Her hands were webbed and her fingernails were long and sharp. She had gills around her collarbone and her face was a thin heart shape with a wide forehead and thin chin with a defined jawline. Her long unsaturated light-green hair was curly and had the appearance of thin seaweed. She gasped for oxygen revealing a maw of razor-sharp fangs.

They’re awesome, badass, and beautiful in the same way that one might consider a tiger.

So why am I talking about merfolk on romantic relationship day?

Well that’s simple. In my world mermaids can be compared to something like gems from the Steven Universe series. They’re a race of all female (though with no true concept of gender) badasses whose relationships and reproductive methods are unconventional to us as observers of the animal kingdom.

To mermaids romance is this dance of polyamorous courtship, an underwater tango of magic and elegance, constantly jumping back and forth between leading and following. These wondrous events often consist of entire schools of mermaids who are usually all romantically involved in some way. They’re just this big family of love and happiness, connected by what is referred to as a Love Bond. An emphathic link connecting their thoughts and emotions into one. 

Now that I think about it this is very similar to gem fusion except A) without the fusion part, and B) I think I came up with this race before the pilot even aired so a cool coincidence.

Anyway, when Love Bonds are incredibly strong during these ocean waltzes the sheer emotion interweaves and forms a merchild. These children are raised by their army of moms and aunts and eventually grow forming their own bonds and dances.

So yeah! That’s Day 2 of @originalficfest! I think this is a really cool event that allows me to talk about all these things I love and I look forward to future days. Been a less meta and more rambly one today. Tomorrow is non-romantic relationship day and that gives me plenty to talk about, so I’ll see you then.