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mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean 

water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun
theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt
and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea

what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic

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Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.

Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.

Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.

Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.

I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.

Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.

Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror. 

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Gameboy Pokemon Terrariums made by Winnie Sumida

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the royal meme | the royal children 2/5

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had nine children. An undoubted love match, but without availability to contraceptives, the very intimate couple kept finding themselves pregnant. Much comment has been done on Victoria’s parenting–and while she was a bad mother, she did love her children. Albert also loved his children, though he and Victoria tended to be harsh on their eldest son, Edward (when Albert died, Victoria blamed his death on Edward for most of the rest of her life.) When her doctor told her to slow down with babies, Victoria complained that it would mean she couldn’t be intimate with her husband; eventually, Albert had to put his foot down after Beatrice to try to be more careful about pregnancy, since his wife was nearing forty and he didn’t want her to get hurt by childbirth.

Among their children, Edward became King of England, Vicky became German Empress, Alfred the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Helena Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Louise Duchess of Argyll, Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Leopold Duke of Albany, and Beatrice Princess Henry of Battenberg. Among these nine children produced numerous grandchildren of Victoria and Albert, including Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, King George V of England, Queen Sophia of Greece, Queen Maud of Norway,  Queen Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain.

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Details of Marie-Thérèse Charlotte and Marie Antoinette in two 19th-century paintings.

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Amalfi Cathedral Bell Tower, Italy *by Wolfgang Fenz

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Swamp sculpture in Victoria’s Way, Ireland.

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