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[ketita]

Writing about them for so long made my pencil restless, so I present to you some of the disturbed imaginings of my mind random drawings I've done, some of which bear attempts at photoshopping.  All worksafe.

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[kalikamaxwell]

Hee, the first one. I wonder, is there a merwinry to complain about the 'weird things' merfons brings home? Will they find a bigger rock to keep their pet human on?

[ketita]

XD oh dear. Now you bunnied me. That would be so adorable.

[kalikamaxwell]

It would! I can imagine merfons trying to find a 'house' for Ed and turning up with a giant shell. And then being sad when Ed prefers to make his own house with wood. Not to mention food issues. I don't think merfolks cook their food. XD;

[ketita]

Geez. writing and drawing out something like that would probably be ridiculously fun.
Ed would probably try to run away if they put him on an island with actual wood, though. Cue Merfons "rescuing" him a bunch more times...
And not just houses... how do merpeople reproduce? And how potentially traumatizing to Ed could that be? XD as you can see, I've played with this too much already

[kalikamaxwell]

I think all cetaceans have a retractable penis, sooo. Something could be done with that.

A lot could be done with this really. Maybe Ed and Merfons go swimming sometime, a shark attacks them. Merfons can outswim a shark but Ed can't so Merfons tries to fend off the shark and gets hurt, cue Ed dragging him out of the water to bandage him up.

And you know, stuff.

[ketita]

If they laid eggs, though, that would be too funny. And since merpeople don't seem to be quite mammalian anyway, it wouldn't be so ridiculous (...though, when talking about merpeople it's hard to believe I can make a statement like that). And btw, looking at some of the reproductive organs of some cetaceans can be scary. or even (not cetaceans but) snake junk - that would be pretty freaky.

Well, it's just one of those ideas that could have endless amusing permutations.
What if Ed kicked the shark's ass, which made Merfons even more certain that Ed was his Prince Charming?

Heck, you could draw all these weird parallels with the Little Mermaid story and the movie, like Merfons trading in his tail for legs, and getting crappy lungs in exchange (instead of the walking-on-knives bit)

[kalikamaxwell]

Mmm. Is this a universe with alchemy? It'd be quite possible to do a bit of human transmutation. But maybe a little something went wrong with the lungs.

[ketita]

Well, I drew Ed with scars around where his automail ports would have been, so yeah, it probably is a universe with alchemy.
Using some sort of human (merman?) transmutation to turn Merfons human would be brilliant, though.

[kalikamaxwell]

Oh, yes. I can see Merfons trying to transmute himself and not getting it quite right.

Of course, for all we know merfolks were transmuted into what they are by some crazy guy years and years ago. Just more chimeras.

Now look what you've done. There's a whole universe now. D:

bleah time difference

[ketita]

Well, given the FMA world, it probably would make sense that they'd be some sort of chimera. Only they'd have to be pretty darn good ones, because they can actually function, and reproduce, and everything else.
Given that chimerae can actually shapeshift to a certain extent, though, maybe the merfolk actually would be capable of achieving a more human form on their own? Or maybe they used to be able to, but it sort of bred out of them?

But universes are so much fun! *pokes with a stick* well, if somebody wrote stuff for it, I'd be so horribly tempted to draw it it wouldn't even be funny :P

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[kalikamaxwell]

Depends how long ago we're talking. I suppose there could just be a handful of them who were turned when they were very young (so they may not be fertile), or we could be looking at a small population. Just maybe the guy was crazy doesn't mean he wasn't a genius capable of literally creating a new species. The use of the second idea is to have lots of merfolks around, but it might not be useful for the kind of story this is shaping up to be. Then again, if it is the first one and Ed finds out the truth, he might be willing to try to transmute Merfons back into a human because he'd think he's 'saving' him.

My eyes are about to go cross with possibilities. I need bedtime. I shall...reflect on this.

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[ketita]

Well, a fusion of both ideas might also work - a very small population of merpeople, who are capable of reproducing to a certain extent, but suffer many mutations because of sucky transmutet genes that only a few actually survive to adulthood. And then there could only be a few generations of them, meaning the first ones were transmuted not that long ago. It might also be difficult for them to survive; they may not have developed advanced enough weapons yet to successfully fight off sea predators (like a stone-age sort of society).

lol, you do that. the eternal problems with time differences. I was cross-eyed with exhaustion last night.

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[kalikamaxwell]

There were many things Edward hated. Drowning was one of them. Oh, he hadn't drowned yet, but he had the suspicion it was close at hand. He'd learned to swim in a lake, not in an ocean, and he'd never been trained to swim through a storm big enough to sink a ship, which he was currently trying to do anyway

Re: bleah time difference

[kalikamaxwell]

Past 2 am now. Bed time. >.>

Re: bleah time difference

[ketita]

lol, okay then. You definitely made me a happy camper, though :)

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[ketita]

*starry eyes* Ohhhh. There will be more, right? There must be more. A drawing for this one might look a bit too similar to the one I already did, though, I think....