At least 4 were documented by me on my spot at the beach, I had been out bodyboarding and was keeping an eye out for rays as they have a strange attraction to attacking my face everytime, and noticed the pups swimming a few feet from me. Original thought they were port Jackson before noting their pattern.
Since they are typically born around May/June and they were spotted on June 27th around 10 in morning. They look to be around 2 feet, it was hard to tell but I had a reference (which was about 1.5 feet) and they were slightly bigger, so they were most likely at least 1 month old so they were most likely born in May or Early June
Ok life cycle of a jelly mer is a GO. I’ll stick it under the cut in case anyone doesn’t want to see the lil development/newborn stuff
BUT before that since I know at least a few people are going to ask; yes, you can hold tiny baby medusa Neil, it can’t even sting you yet. Just a lil tingle
(Shout out to @the-tortoise-lady for the idea of baby Neil with no common sense or self awareness being very certain it both can and will eat that thing it found wading in the water near the beach (fisherman Andrew))
So normal jellyfish polyps grow into what looks like little stacked saucers or plates and when one breaks off it grows into the actual medusa we all know. So like. I’m just imagining the upper body/human part of the mer grows inside more like two cups stacked together, and there’s only one per polyp (i don’t even know if regular polyps have multiple discs break off tbh).
But according to some v quick research and not being able to find specifically Sea Nettle reproductive cycle, I am declaring their polyps the average size of Small (about an inch/3cm or something close) and their baby medusae have A LOT of growing to do :D
Six scuba diving inside of a old underwater shipwreck while she is wearing a yellow short sleeved wetsuit diving fins and diving mask
Six would come across a scarred friendly Great White Shark Pup and pets it as they both decide to hunt for fish together due to Six armed with a underwater speargun and secretly her teeth aswell and hungry nature
while exploring the eerie underwater shipwreck finding kinds of different things inside it and sneakily find a abandoned treasure chest together and swim together back to the surface of the water and meanwhile Mono would be worriedly confused while in a boat wondering where the hell Six went as it was in the middle of the night
until Mono gets spooked by Six surfacing and alongside with the great white shark pup and treasure chest as it gets thrown abroad onto the boat
Mono be worriedly complaining to Six but she is to focused picking up the great white shark pup like a cat in her arms while in the water and giving a unphased look and Mono be utter baffled by the treasure chest staring at it .
sorry if this is a lot
i would make a full blown comic of this but i don’t have the time :((
so instead i have a series of sketches that kind of emulate what ur saying?? hope u like them
i wish i could’ve drawn more but this is all i can do for now <3
sat down and compiled some thoughts on voice claims for my ocs- despite my brain yelling at me to make an animatic, I've settled for a much easier showcase. Here you all go! :) I'd like to do more of these once I figure out and share other characters of mine.