[they/them, zine work] 🐠🫧art i did for seaglass lens mag , an ocean themed zine run by a couple pals of mine :3 lots of very lovely artists involved, go check it out!!!
It’s mermay and I unintentionally made a mermaid au for ISaT (somehow during this month, I forgot about mermay)
Regardless, I come bearing a brief synopsis and major design changes (with more to come~)
The name is “Ray of Sif-shine”, which is shortened to RoSS. Cause Sif is a ray mermaid! The world is different to what you’re used to. Vaugarde is an archipelago, the lost country got Atlantised (still forgotten), mermaids follow a H2O style logic, and all people form the island are mermaids in someway shape or form. Which using this as a great Segway we get to the designs.
First is Sif: He’s inspired by classic rays like eagle rays. Mostly solitary before the events leading up to meeting the party, with minimal contact with small villages. He hides the fact he’s a mermaid from the group, which leads to complications…
Next is ever helpful Loop: They’re a guitarfish (a cousin to rays and sharks), and very big. Only found around Dormonts Favor Tree (located on a cliff overlooking the sea), they help Siffrin same as usual. Just so happening to need to lay down instead of sit on the trees roots.
Finally is the King: He’s a coconut crab. Big and intimidating he takes up all space he can with his 6 legs, hiding his go face behind his claws. Embodying everything the Change belief goes against, stagnation, freezing people in time, and CRABS.