I caved

sketching cyborg orca mermaid dad and his adopted spotted dolphin daughter was too much a temptation to pass up

why do i love mermaid aus so much ;_;

wait no, better question, why do i love mermaid aus with (hot) single dads and their eccentric children so much????

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before anyone says “but kay you already have a mermaid au”, l i s t e n i already got like full specs of why tucker as a mermaid is an entirely different thing than james as a mermaid okay i have the full monty of it figured out okay they’re not the s a m e i mean i’m lame enough that they’d look a bit alike but LISTEN THEY’RE DIFFERENT OKAY THEY’RE DIFFERENT like James and Penny can change into the animals their tails are, but Tucker can walk on land for a few hours without having to feel excruciating pain in every step

i also just realized i haven’t gone in depth about the mermaids in the other mermaid au