#merbedo

[cake-wlk]

bully

#can i post this here without attracting weirdos? lets see #otherwise i'm nuking this and only letting friends see it lol #merbedo #aether #gi #genshin impact #my art #doodles

[dourpeep]

"To join them above the waves and discover the lands beyond would be my greatest joy"

- The Little Merbedo, probably

Please do not repost my art!

#dourdoodles #albedo #albedo kreideprinz #mermaid au #merbedo #genshin impact #genshin impact fanart #genshin impact albedo #i told myself I wasn't going to post it here too but I couldn't help myself OTL I'm just smitten with albedo and djkajcisjdks

[peachiiscribs]

gonna spend my night posting old art on here !! first up its merbedo saving his beloved✨

#kaebedo #kaeya #kaeya genshin impact #kaeya fanart #albedo fanart #albedo #kaeya x albedo #genshin impact #albedo genshin impact #am i tagging right #my main goal is to flood the kaebedo tags with my art tbh

[beuhakkaka]

Wow Mermay day 2-! Its day 2 actually guys not day 3

Anyways look at who I drew-!!! Its Merbedo-!!! His design was by my friendo @ckewlk go follow them for more fish albdeo-!! Anyways BIG FISH

Dang big feesh

#g/t #genshin impact g/t #digital painting #genshin g/t #genshin impact #giant tiny #giant/tiny #g/t art #g/t concept #g/t au #sfw g/t #g/t stuff #g/t sfw #g/t fiction #g/t drawing #g/t community #g/t blog #g/t mermay #g/t related #g/t impact #g/t prompts #albedo #albedo genshin impact #genshin impact angst #genshin impact albedo #genshin albedo #chalk prince #mermay #merfolk #genshin impact fanart

[little-robin-h00d]

Oh gosh! It’s almost the end of may, and I forgot to post this!

Have a Merbedo for the end of Mermay!

#mermay #albedo #genshin impact #merman #fish tail #art #digital art #digital painting #mermaid #merm

[dourpeep]

GIVE ME MERBEDO THOUGHTS THIS IS A THREAT

MERBEDO THOUGHTS?? MERBEDO THOUGHTS

Okay okay okay, time to come up with stuff on the spot hehe hoho *rubs hands together*

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He really isn't all that different from the Albedo that we currently know and love, still sharing an immense love and appreciation for the world around him and constantly making it his mission to discover new things day by day.

Definitely the type to teach himself the language of humans closest to where he resides if there is any sort of language barrier though he notes, with a face, that perhaps finding a way to converse might be harder than he anticipated considering the locals aren't too keen on talking to a man who's seemingly always in the water--but don't get him wrong, he's not a siren- or if he is (he's not) he certainly doesn't eat humans.

Sacralige.

Ah, regardless of his diet, Albedo also pretty much has similar hobbies. Alchemy and magic go hand-in-hand, after all, and while some resources are much more scarce in the ocean, there's a bountiful amount of many others!

Art on the other hand, is a bit more difficult since apart from chiseling away at rocks, he doesn't have the ability to draw or paint underwater. So, instead, he has a comfortable little cave just a little ways near shore where he can store his things that are sensitive to water in a high enough place that they won't get touched when the tide rolls in!

More under the cut because I've gotten sidetracked by Merbedo!

Hmmm what are other general ideas though???

Merbedo, or at least his type (?) of mermaid live a long long time and he's not an artificially made being in the mermaid au. I'm still sticking to the idea that he's kinda?? Like a prince where he has his brother(s) and Rhinedottir is his mother and they live in a cooler part of the ocean where there are large structures almost like underwater mountains nodnod

Mainly because I still think it's a cool idea

Ah! He does have a range of tattoos along his body (more notably his back, shoulders, and neck) that are only barely noticeable but are at the same time a brilliant gold. Think of them as a 'stamp' of his species.

So, theoretically speaking, if I were to draw Rhinedottir or Rubedo they'd also have similar markings but ones that are unique to them, if that makes sense? But then if I were to draw Xiao as a mermaid, he wouldn't have them because he's a different species of mermaid.

Yeah? Yeah

Oh! Another thing--he wouldn't want to really become a human, so much as just experience the world where he's not just restricted to the water. But he'd do it on his own terms (through alchemy, ofc).

I actually have a few ideas with this, one of them being where he ends up in a rehabilitation center with reader being one of the people who are put in charge of helping him??? Maybe something like he gets stranded when too close to shore, gets conked out and someone from the center (reader?) finds him and panics because oh my g O D

either that or he's successful in his leg alchemy and then conks out on the beach because it took a lot of energy and then reader finds him and panics because oh my g O D

But either way it'd naturally go towards the idea of an x reader since that's what I write oishfoiehih

BUT YEAH MERBEDO THOUGHTS

#anon asks #merbedo #mermaid au #ineshapanda #sprout's community garden #genshin impact imagines #genshin impact au #genshin impact albedo #albedo #actually speaking of merbedo I ehehe the merbedo art I most recently did has another 'part' to it in the sense that I was in the process #of doodling out a self-indulgent work where his cheek is being cupped gently by someone else which is why he's touching his cheek the way #he is in the current merbedo art #he's *reminiscing*

[cake-wlk]

ponder the aether

#he's fine ruby just wants attention #subject 2 #aether #merbedo au #genshin impact #my art #doodles

[cake-wlk]

big sad fish...........

#subject 2 #dorian #aether #genshin impact #merbedo au #my art #doodles

[cake-wlk]

getting held like this > every other method

#genshin impact #dorian #subject 2 #merbedo au #my art #doodles

[cake-wlk]

merbedo... merbedo behavioral hcs or just general things he does? if you don't mind talking about him 🤲

hmmm. mixed in a bit of his brother too to help me come up with some things.

sorry i've written more than i expected, so i hope its what you wanted at the very least

neutral - typical albedo behaviour, quiet and observant. most likely to be resting against the ground, if in the company of other people, because it helps alleviate weight. enjoys listening to people and studying their mannerisms closely, but won't really make any advances to actually touch or get close to someone. just enjoying the peace.

happy - will prop up his torso when he's particularly interested and happy. digging and flexing his claws into the sand. ear fins are more propped up. he tries not to move his tail too much in case he hits something, or someone, but its a good indicator of his mood. it'll grow more restless with a happier mood as his thoughts wander. he loves holding people, especially klee. a guilty pleasure of his to get as close as he can to people he trusts, being able to see and feel everything they do sates his curiosities completely. said curiosity will come out in full bloom if he recognises someone going out of their way to make him happy, but he will typically not go and physically touch someone unless they recognise his reluctance and give him permission of their own volition. *

sad - his fins are going to droop immediately, although it takes a lot to upset him, so it's not a common sight. he isn't one to back away from the situation though, after all he wants to understand humans properly and possibly make amends to the situation as quickly as he can. if he is truly consumed by sorrow, he will probably sink into a corner of his tank in the facility and curl up, or find a nice rocky beach to hide away and recollect himself.

* - its ingrained behaviour from the facility that created and 'cares' for him. none of the personnel are allowed to get close to him, treating him as a mere means to discover the secrets of the ocean. the only kind of contact he gets with humans there is through a thick glass window. rhinedottir and her crew don't exactly... take care of him and dorian very well, her lack of treating dorian as a being with human sentience made him lash out eventually, which in turn made her attempt to dispose of him after multiple casualties occurred... and this would've repeated with albedo too, if klee hadn't befriended him by chance.

extra - being touch-starved is shared between the brothers, albedo will snap up any chance for physical touch. dorian, on the flip-side, is too traumatised to accept it from humans, except for aether and maybe klee. as such, he can come across as particularly possessive with aether, coiling around him like he's going to be taken away at any moment he lets down his guard. albedo very much likes to rest on beaches for the warmth and also being able to draw in the sand. he absolutely adores it when sucrose or klee are there, doing their own things or taking part in whatever he's doing. he takes them for rides out into the water too. conversely, dorian much prefers the depths of the ocean, but will sometimes come up to silently observe, just barely peeking out of the water. klee attempts to get his attention on multiple occasions but it always results in him fleeing. the only one that really gets any success with him is aether... albedo's job primarily is to research the ocean, but he always brings back more samples than needed so he can give them to sucrose, as they both enjoy trading various specimens with sucrose's being from the surface and albedo's being from the sea. it helps lighten up his time at the facility, though they have to be sneaky about it. (rhinedottir eventually finds out, but decides to just stay quiet because of it helping albedo focus on his job, much like his friendship with klee keeping his spirits up) albedo and dorian tolerate each other a lot more than in canon, because dorian recognises that rhinedottir mistreats albedo too. there is a bit more mutual understanding from them because they're the only merfolk to exist. dorian was extremely rough and hurt albedo pretty bad, but he did try to help him when confronting him for the first time, ripping off his tracking collar. though it was a volatile mix of emotions and trauma that made him do it in such a hostile manner.

#don't be afraid to ask about more things if you want ^^ #merbedo au #albedo #genshin impact #asks #anon #long post

[cake-wlk]

aether accidentally falling asleep in mer dorian's company and poor dorian panicking because he doesn't know what to do, although he does feel honoured that aether trusts him so much 😭

#genshin impact #merbedo au #rambling

[cake-wlk]

they are cosy!!!

#i got diabetes from drawing this #merbedo au #albedo #klee #genshin impact #my art #doodles

[cake-wlk]

just a boi i doodled as an icon... except it didn’t end up looking good as an icon so RIP i guess

#albedo #genshin impact #merbedo au #my art #doodles

[cake-wlk]

HI SO UH I think your Merbedo design is literally super neat and your artstyle is very cool- and aa I am very much curious about your AU and the purpose of the tracking collar on Merbedo/who placed it on him. 👁👁

hello!! thank you so much for the ask! and aaaaa thank you for the compliment!! >w< i am glad you are interested in the au! i’ve been thinking about it a lot hehe so i’m happy someone else wants to listen

i’ll stick the answer under a read more, because it got pretty long

as for the tracking collar, that was rhinedottir! albedo and subject 2 are still synthetic lifeforms created by her. in fact, they were made to research the depths of the ocean! i like to think in this au they are the only merfolk to exist and are specifically made for this task alone. (that doesn’t stop them from being in an au where there are other merfolk, though!)

the collars, of course, track whatever they are attached to, because the ocean is a very big place and rhine wants to keep an eye on her experiments, but it also doubles as a shock collar as well to keep them in line she doesn’t exactly treat either of the boys very well in this au to be honest, seeing both of them as less than human, given their unnatural bodies and size, treating them more like tools.

subject 2 initially did have a collar as well, but rhine’s mistreatment of him led to him developing a very aggressive temperament, and she struggled to control him. rhine gave them efficient methods of defense (claws, teeth, size etc.) and resilience to survive in the depths of ocean, which of course backfires once subject 2 starts becoming aggressive. she decides to put him down once it gets out of control, probably using some paralysing serum-- or something similar-- and leaves him to die in dragonspine trench, where he barely manages to subsist off durin’s remains until he recovers.

this leads into him getting the scratch marks! rhine left his collar on, given that she didn’t need it anymore, and deactivated it as a result. however, the collars are hard to remove and he really scratched himself up trying to break it off :(

rhine, of course, made more counter-measures for albedo’s resilience when she created him, still refusing to learn that treating her creations appropriately would solve a lot of problems i like to think that she could’ve given him a mechanical heart, or something? so she can modify its settings to better keep albedo under control if he acts out of line, and can use it to monitor his body for more valuable scientific understanding into artificial hybrid lifeforms.

#albedo #subject 2 #merbedo au #genshin impact #phobiaexists #asks #just gonna stop there before i write an entire books worth of ideas lmao #i just realised i kinda went off about subject 2 woops haha

[cake-wlk]

merbeeddooooo

#genshin impact #merbedo but make it albether #no more need for boats just use merbedo instead merbedo taxi service

[cake-wlk]

OHHH HE GOT A SNACC....

#he's so cuteeee 😭😭😭 thank yoooouuuu #phobiaexists #asks #merbedo au