Mermaids On The Mind.

mermaids on the mind.

Alfyn lives in a mer community under the waves, but dreams frequently of exploring the surface world and spends a lot of time either near shore or following ships.

Therion’s betrayal happens at sea (maybe he and Darius are pirates together idk) and he gets thrown overboard into the ocean. Alfyn finds him and saves him from drowning (mermaid kisses allow a person to breath underwater for a time) and he takes him to a shore near a human settlement. Therion wakes up on an unfamiliar beach with vague memories and no clue how he is alive. At that point he starts carving out a new life for himself in town- but between the nightmares of the betrayal and drowning he also keeps dreaming of a handsome man he’s never met before kissing him. He often visits the sea and stares out at the water.

Broke out my watercolors for a mer Alfyn

Plain lineart too

Saw some little groundhogs today. Babies...

I hate that planned obsolescence is starting to reach fandoms. I hate that fandoms are starting to die after two, three years, I hate that whenever you stop getting content that means the fandom will die and be gone.

I need people to stop trying to brush off old interests as being 'cringe' as soon as you lose interest, or worse: make it seem like it's imoral to like something that they themselves held so dear before.

Fandoms are meant to last for years and years, the moment content stops being created is the moment we truly thrive because we keep creating the content ourselves the way we love it and expand on the things that are already there for us.

I don't care if you lost interest on something, it's fine and normal even, but stop trying to blame and make fun of people who still do love the fandom and the content and the things we can create.

I need people to enjoy fandom again

oh to find the merman from your dreams trapped in a too-small tank owned by some rich bastard.

I tried to write you some inbox fic but it DIED OTL

The gist of it was that Therion overheard dome dockworkers talking in the tavern abt how some fishermen caught a merman, and then proceeded to describe the one he saw in a dream(?) six years ago after his betrayal. And he thought about how the memories were fuzzy but his face and the desperation of the merman's lips on his were seared into his mind, and how he still spent a lot of time staring at the ocean in spite of everything. He didn't know what he expected, to see the merman, to see Darius with only just enough life left in him to beg for forgiveness, something else, who knows. But he still likes the sea. It's calming, thr sand is nice, he likes watching the hermit crabs scuttling around. Sometimes he swears he sees a flash of green iridescent scales behind the rocks but when he goes to investigate there's nothing there. Anyway the dock worker's friend thinks he's full of shit but Therion can't help himself and goes to investigate. And wouldn't you know it, there in the warehouse where all the fishermen's catches are brought is that same merman from six years ago, unconscious and tangled in fishing net.

Aaaaah this has me rotating ideas (along with the tags you left on my sketches) and just

Time to steal a merman. Rescue mission.

I'm out and about so I can't draw right now but...

Thinking of Alfyn getting sold to some rich person's own private aquarium

And I want Alfyn to be able to manifest legs somehow but escape is still difficult (he would also be naked if he transformed so...)

Mysterious Android wakes up very alarmed and mid mending. This is fine.

I have been rotating Android!Therion and Engineer!Alfyn

I loooove the idea of Alfyn finding this deactivated, beat-up android of a pretty unusual model and bringing them back to his shop in Clearbrook and painstakingly cleaning the leaked battery and replacing broken and waterlogged circuits to the point where he can even activate. Idk the other details (why was Therion turned off? Is this bc of Darius? How long was Therion out?) But. I'm a sucker for a good human/android dynamic

Oh I love the sound of this... if it was Darius then the last thing he would remember would be the betrayal... what if Darius found and restored him first just to use him until, well, he had too much a mind of his own and outlived his usefulness...

Then he's worried that Alfyn might do the same and Alfyn has to build up trust with him while also trying to keep him functional...

*Adds ideas to the fire*