I drew this sometime in December after not drawing for MONTHS so admittedly not my best work but I like it. And I hope yall like it :)

Bad lighting I know haha! Anyway, the fin specifically is based off of a whale tail. There are some older drawings of mine where i incorporated irl fish into my mermaid designs and whale tails are fun for me. Enjoy :) <3

FOR CONTEXT- I was planning on making a horror awareness game about animal abuse- for specific fish, which are one of the most abused and neglected domestic pets.

But in this situation the pet would be a merman or a mermaid haven't really decided yet but in other words a half human half fish (a freshwater type). It'd have both lungs and gills.

I really want it to be disturbing but biologically correct, my main motive for the game would be 'if fish could scream.' but that brings me to the title question

what noises would it make?

This is a question that has been bothering me for some time now😓This also applies to other animals like whales, etc. This doesn't apply to seals or otters or other sorts of animals because they don't necessarily live in the water. But anyways, if dolphins were merfolk would they be considered one, or no because they still need air to breathe😭Just wondering! Because mermaids are a mix between fish and human, and since dolphins also has some of those fish features like their tail, etc would they be considered one? Or just no.

Can anyone find the video which this mermaid was in? Thanks.

Done in Procreate

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