Hello
i just read your emberfish au and it's very cool and i love it :3
If I may ask about Scott's backstory because he is an interesting character. How come he's half human and half mer, was he taken from the ocean too? I just have so many questions :]
Okay, so. The short version of the story is that Scott ended up half-human and half-mer because EVO (the company that ended up with their hands on Jimmy) decided that they wanted to put Jimmy on display like someone would a dolphin or an orca. Hence they needed another mer, because people would get upset if there was only one on it's own yadda yadda yadda but in the years they had Jimmy they weren't able to find another one, so they decided to make one.
they had already been testing and doing experiments with genetic material and studying Jimmy, and a lot of what they found was nothing short of like. miraculous because of how adaptable mer are. If a mer who was born in the tropics grew up in the arctic, they would end up with adaptations to the arctic in only like, one or two generations. It's part of the reason they survive so well and why they are like. literally everywhere in the ocean.
so. after a lot of testing and stuff they 'kidnapped' Scott (he'd been working for them as an intern) and tried to turn him into a mer. It didn't work, not completely, and basically left Scott as a mer without a tail, and with a suite of health complications. so it was back to the drawing board.
in the meanwhile, Martyn had gotten pulled in from a different part of the company after their last animal handler quit, and the three of them became friends and Martyn jailbreaked Scott and Jimmy before another attempt could be made at making another mer.
It hasn't been replicated since, mostly because Martyn took all of their information and research on his way out.
