#sanctuary au
IT’S MERMAY \o/
So ofc I had to rework my mer blorbos >:3c
Fifth one is Alyra!
There isn’t a lot known about her. She seems to suddenly appear in a random enclosure, and once you turn your head she disappears to appear in another. She’s kind of an urban legend in the sanctuary and no one knows where and when she started to appear; some even thinks the sanctuary is haunted by this deathly beautiful fish and that she’s actually the ghost of an unfortunate merperson. Her singing voice is incredibly beautiful, but chilling at the same time, making your mind hesitate between your fight or flight instincts.
But the truth is; she’s just chilling, hopping left and right in the enclosures to observe humans; they fascinate her and she wants to know more about them.
Alyra is a sort of “treasure hunter”, a hoarder of man-made objects and seashells (yes she consider our trash, tools and baubles as treasures). She crafts her own jewelry out of bones and materials she finds on the seabed and likes to hang out where humans are nearby, either the local dock or the sanctuary. The conch she wears as necklace is the shell of her dead pet, a hermit crab named Bernard.
IT’S MERMAY \o/
So ofc I had to rework my mer blorbos >:3c
Fourth one is Arthas!
In his mer story Arthas lived as a lone wolf his entire life, fiercely protecting his territory from other mers and marine creatures, and he was successful for most of his life until he was met with a more sizable adversary; a bigger and meaner merperson, an octopus more precisely. After a gruesome fight where Arthas struggled to defend his home, he lost the battle when the other shred his arm off his body. He was brought to the sanctuary and almost passed away from blood loss but miraculously survived. It’s now been a few years he’s been living in the sanctuary. Workers tried so many times to return him back to the wild but he never budged even if they tried everything to yeet him out of there. He made himself at home in the sanctuary even though he isolates himself from other merfolks (yes he’s still a grumpy hermit that hates people) and doesn’t wanna leave. He basically established himself in his enclosure and went “This is my home now, fuck off”. XDD
Workers likes him even though he’s a grumpy man because he’s calm and usually keeps to himself, but he’s still very territorial and fiercely defends his enclosure from other merpeople.
IT’S MERMAY \o/
So ofc I had to rework my mer blorbos >:3c
Third one is Mitch!
In his mer story, he lost his parents at a young age after a shark attack and grew up alone. He’s a scavenger, loots trash from the seafloor to use as weapons and craft material. (Un)fortunately for him, he was found and nursed by a wealthy man that took care of him just as if he was his own son. However, that protection and affection came with a price; Mitch essentially had to become a poacher and hunt down exotic merfolks to bring back to his “master” for him to display as hunt trophies (aka he wipes his hands clean while Mitch does the dirty work). He lives near the sanctuary and targets any pretty looking merfolks who attracts his attention, and those living in the sanctuary are perfect targets because they’re usually in a weaker state than normal, healthy and wild merpeople.
(Bonus “hunting” gear version under the cut!)
