#merseptics au
Shawn Flynn as a Copper Shark (Bronze Whaler) and Jameson as a Roughtail stingray!
HAPPY MERMAY!!! Presenting, these dumbasses.
Henrik doesn’t risk bringing his glasses underwater with him when he transforms, but he usually has a scarf he keeps on his person (I forgot it here aaa) that allows him to switch back and forth. Chase uses a similar concept, using his cap to help him switch back and forth. Without those items, they are stuck as human. That in general they don’t find bad, they were both human before being turned into mers… but without them they cannot fulfill their contracts, and the person in possession of that item has partial control over what they can do. Much like a selkie skin, but less of a desire to return to the ocean and more of a fear of what would happen if they didn’t.
In turn, Henrik can hardly see underwater and Chase has explained he should just get a pair to bring underwater, but Henrik is stubborn as ever and doesn’t want to ruin glasses every time he needs to go in the ocean. Instead, usually he brings Chase with him as his “seeing eye dolphin” (and emotional support), and Chase will lay out the land. Chase, while being new to this whole merman thing, has yet to find out how to balance himself in the water and keeps floating away when he stays still for too long,,, so I present to you: Monkey backpack leash B)
Note: No he does not actually have a vest for him with a handle that says seeing eye dolphin, that was a joke. He does however, tie rope around their waists to keep Chase from floating away!
Dragonfish Merm Anti
Guardian of the Ocean: Jackie… shrimp man? ShrimpJackieman… Jackiemershrimp… Jackie… Shrimp…
Based off the peacock mantis shrimp, this guy packs a hell of a punch. One hit is all it takes to stun even the worst of monsters he faces in the depths, if not stunning them then outright killing them with a single hit. After one particularly nasty fight with a giant squid (and close call with a serpent), Jackie was left wounded and had to retreat to the shallows to heal a large gash in his chest and bruised ribs. He needed time away from the depths to heal and avoid swimming as well as large sharks that may come after him.
He never even made it inland. When he was hunting for some mackerel to eat on the way there, the school as well as himself were pulled into a large commercial fishing net. He was completely overwhelmed by the amount of people, he’d never had to deal with people too much before, and suddenly there was a swarm of them gawking at the beast they had caught. The large net that once was emptied, was just thrown back over him and tied tight as they brought him to shore, the rope keeping him distracted and tied down long enough to bring him in.
The net was left on him through transport, and each time he nearly succeeded in breaking through, another just seemed to take its place. They kept him tied up long enough to reach the facility, where he would be staying for quite a while. At first he was given a tank of a decent size (nowhere near big enough nor humane, but it wasn’t tiny) and as he swam around to see the other fish he realized he couldn’t stay. He had to leave this place, return home. So the moment he had the chance, he swam up to this strange invisible barrier keeping them there, and punched clean through the glass, emptying the tank of himself and the water in it.
But every time as he attempted to wander the halls, they’d find some way to subdue him and bring him back (usually with the same net tactic they used to reel him in), and each time he broke free, he was given less and less until he only had a tiny tank just big enough for him to swim around in. He still cracks the glass sometimes out of spite, to scare some of the scientists roaming around, studying him. Maybe every now and again he’ll try to escape again, but now he has become more worried that if he tries, the punishment will only get worse. The tiny tank he was given was already punishment enough. So, he lays at the bottom of his tank, and sleeps… this strange foreign containment draining his tail’s colors and spirits.
