#merfolk prompts

[seaside-writings]

Hello, all you lovely people! I'm here with a prompt list for this year's Mermay challenge!

This has always been one of my favorite challenges and I'm super excited to add my own prompts into the mix! So I do hope that this list helps give inspiration wherever it's needed!

Like always if you do use these prompts please credit/tag me so I can see what you've made!

I hope you all stay blessed and safe throughout your day.

Lots of Love & Wishes: Celia 💙🪸🐚🏖

🌊 Sun Glitter 🌊 Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates (Glowing Plankton) 🌊 Marine Life 🌊 Deep Sea 🌊 Seashells 🌊 Sunken Treasure 🌊 Coral Reef 🌊 Shipwreck 🌊 Floating 🌊 Crashing Waves 🌊 Lighthouse 🌊 Shark Tooth 🌊 Bubbles 🌊 Whale Watching 🌊 Currents 🌊 Atlantis 🌊 High Tide 🌊 Submarine 🌊 Kelp Forest 🌊 Abyssal Gigantism 🌊 Diving 🌊 Stormy Seas 🌊 Jellyfish 🌊 Dangerous Waters 🌊 Scales 🌊 Arctic Waters 🌊 Sand Dollar 🌊 Flying Fish 🌊 Triton 🌊 Sandcastles 🌊 Moonglade

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[monsterwaltzing]

I love terrifying beasts who live for the hunt as much as the next person, but I adore monsters who aren't that smart and kinda clumsy too. Nagas who get their own tails tied in a knot or stuck around furniture. Werewolves who get irrationally scared at things like vacuums and the doorbell ringing. Vampires who run into doors and windows, not realizing they're closed. Merfolk who accidentally beach themselves and refuse to accept help out of embarrassment. Centaurs accidentally bumping things over and scaring themselves, leading to them knocking another object over. They're adorable. I love them.

#Midnight-Monsters #vampire prompts #naga prompts #Werewolf prompts #Merfolk prompts #Mermaid prompts #Merman prompts #Centaur Prompts #monster prompts #monsters #sweet monsters #monster lover #I love them #dumb monsters

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 278

You know what I’ve gotten obsessed with and inspired by? Dredge. 

You know what is also fun? Merfolk. What’s even better? Lovecraftian corrupted merfolk. Especially if say, one goes with the Lazarus Waters being a form of ectoplasm. So, in this? Lazarus waters are like lakes, while Amity Park, thanks to the Portal, and the barriers? It is an entire sea. 

There are islands, small areas that were once the tips of buildings that have gathered more landmass around them. There are mangroves, trees not like anything on earth or anywhere else stretching up in canopies dark enough to block out the sun, yet lit by the green waters. 

It goes deep. Mariana Trench deep, despite it being impossible. The GIW have explored for caves or tunnels, they’ve tried to find some sort of explanation, but there isn’t one. 

Now all that ecto? That has an effect on people. They mutate, they change, they adapt. Anywhere else would have been a slow death- something the GIW might have even been counting on. But Amity Park? It was founded by witches, it was the hotspot for the supernatural, even before the Fentonwork Portal. They’ve been dealing with this sort of energy in microdoses from the moment they first began to live in the city in any generation. 

But they begin to adapt. Shift into something… other. Some stay contaminated, clinging to human forms as they form homes on the tiny islands, fishing and farming what they can. Others become Liminal, almost seeming to meld with fish, some similar to ones of the Living and others something just to the left. Similar yes, but not quite… right. And then there are those that have truly melded with the energy of the dead, forms torn asunder by it, ripped apart and made anew by it. 

The first sign back when the barrier was activated, when they could no longer leave and were trapped were the fish in the lake. And now they are the same, with gazes of something Else, with gnashing teeth and a hunger gnawing at where hearts once were. 

But they aren’t monsters. They’re still themselves. Just a little… Other now. 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Eldritch Ghosts #Liminal Amity Park #Merfolk AU #They see nothing wrong with each other because they’ve gotten used to it #Also yes they can ‘swim’ in the air too #Seriously check out the Dredge Wiki if u aren’t up for playin- at least look at the Aberrations #Even the more human-looking Parkers (usually elderly but not always) still look Off #While others have become deep sea nightmares #I see the fact there’s an entire Lazarus ecosystem in the middle of nowhere Illinois interesting Absolutely No One #People Definitely Doesn’t Have A Fishing Boat Out There Trying To Fish Up The Pit Creatures #Honestly GIW might do that too & have some fucked up fish- they keep failing at catching a parker who knows better #Clockwork and others visit too sometimes & it’s like seeing a Fucking Incomprehensible Leviathan #If the Infinite Realms is the Open Ocean then Amity is a Sea where whales go to set up their nursery #Idk if any of this makes sense I’ve been sick the last few days lol #Dredge Au

[bloo-the-dragon]

Geggy Fish.

Bonus:

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddy's security breach #fnaf gregory #fnaf sun #fnaf sundrop #fnaf moon #fnaf moondrop #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf fanart #mermay #mermay 2022 #Bloo's Art #Geggy Fish #celestial merfolk #This was a fun lil prompt to work on ashjsgd #it was tricky mermafying Gregory since he's a human and my mers are very much Not Human based lol #Sun and Moon were easy because they already had designs i could work with #but i hope you like the lil angy bby fish Greg lol #(he's based on a betta btw)

[loonybun]

hooks as restraints, digging under the skin. I think this works particularly well for merfolk whump. If you wanna be really mean, maybe have them hang by the hook. Even if they’re perfectly still, the wound will still grow worse. If they struggle, they’ll just create more pain for themselves. I’ve literally never seen this done before but god i need it asap

#whump community #whump #whumpblr #tw gore #whump prompt #sadistic whumper #gore whump #whump writing #fantasy whump #merfolk whump #mermaid whump #mermaid whumpee #merfolk whumpee

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Merfolk Edition!

Jason Todd is an Orca!mer who drowned when the Joker tied him up at the bottom of the ocean.

Tim Drake, an octopus!mer, stole his place in Bruce’s pod only a short few lunar cycles after.

Jason is going to make him pay.

aka. The Titans Tower Au but instead of just beating him up Tim is in serious danger of getting eaten.

#orcas hunt octopus #this is very bad for Tim #but in my head Jason’s brain quickly goes from ‘dinner’ to ‘baby’ #and henceforth you can see a huge orca mer swimming around with an octo!mer clinging to his belly or dorsal fi #bruce gets several heart attacks when he first sees this #and is very sure he’s gonna find Tim’s throat ripped out #Jason is straight up snarling at any one trying to come close to his new baby #it’s a wild couple days #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #Tim drake #merfolk #mermaid Au #merpeople #bruce wayne #batfam #robin #red hood #prompts

[sparrowmoth]

Completed two part merfolk!Wesper commission for @stormkpr 💙

The commissioner has permission to adapt this piece for their personal use. All others, please do not use, edit, or repost my art anywhere. Thank you!

#stormkpr #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #shadow and bone #six of crows #sab fanart #my fanart #my art #commission art #merfolk #the boyfriends united!! #god I love them #this was my first ever comm and I was so nervous about it #but I'm so so so happy with how it turned out!! #thank you to stormkpr for the super fun comm prompt! #<3

[mossypidder]

This is a drawing I did for a potential MerMay workshop ad, so the girl isn’t really a character in know much about. She doesn’t have a name or backstory or anything, but she’s based off a pygmy seahorse. In doing research to make this, I learned that male seahorses actually have heightened levels of prolactin (the hormone used to regulate lactation in female mammals) while they’re pregnant, which is honestly even weirder and more fascinating than the males being the brooding vessel in and of itself. Animals are cool and very interesting.

Anyway, that development resulted in the conclusion that female seahorse mers do not have breasts, but I’m still debating whether males would instead? By all preset rules for my merfolk thus far, they should, so probably? But yeah. Weird little guys.

#also #a bantu knot type silhouette seemed to work well for the way these little guys camouflage works #for her pseudo hair I mean #since she isn’t a mammal and thus #not allowed to have hair #more also #WHERE THE HECK ARE THE MERMAY PROMPTS #I NEED TO START PLOTTING THE COMIC AND IF I CAN’T START SOON I WON’T HAVE TIME #MerMay #mermay 2024 #mermaid art #merfolk art #mer character design #mermaid au #mermaid #mermaid character #seahorse mermaid #pygmy seahorse #fishblr #artists on tumblr #small artist #my art #character design #digital art #young artist #chibi style #digital painting

[toyybox]

(cw: starvation)

Merfolk whumpee that’s a carnivore. They’ve got poisonous spines, or shark-like teeth, or a jaw meant for breaking bones. Their instinct is to chase down anything that moves. It’s just the way they were born. They can’t change it.

But the whumper knows very little about merfolk. They think this is absolutely barbaric. They think it’s the whumpee’s fault. They force the whumpee to eat seaweed, refusing to let them near any sort of meat. “It’s not right!” they say. “Mermaids aren’t supposed to behave like that!” They have an overly idealistic view of how sea creatures live. Maybe the whumpee is kept in a bathtub, or some other cramped space, and the lack of movement and their hunger is making them restless…

They’re just waiting until the day their captor leans in close enough to reach.

#merfolk whumpee #mermaid whumpee #whump prompt #whump #I just want some fucked up merfolk alright #is that too much to ask :( #starvation #toyybox general

[thepromptfoundry]

For May 2024, The Prompt Foundry is sticking with the classics and doing MerMay!

Hope everyone's excited to dive in!

If you use this list, please tag me here @thepromptfoundry, I’d love to see your writing and art!

Feel free to combine different days' prompts with each other, or combine them with other seasonal events! Use your OCs, your favorite characters from media, whatever tickles your fancy.

Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don’t worry about missing or skipping any. Remember, this is supposed to be fun!

If you have any questions or musings, check our FAQ, and if you don't find your answer, shoot me an ask.

Plain text list below the cut:

1 Merfolk Royalty 2 Seafloor Cities 3 Merfolk and Sailors 4 Sinking Ships 5 Sirens 6 Fishnets 7 Deep Sea Mer 8 Undersea Agriculture 9 Seahorse Mer 10 High Tide 11 Underwater Communication 12 Merbabies 13 Sand Dollars 14 Drowning 15 Whale Mer 16 Storms at Sea 17 Shark Teeth 18 Tsunami 19 Octopus Mer 20 Mer Marriage 21 Evolutionarily Plausible Mer 22 Lost at Sea 23 The Mariana Trench 24 Selkies 25 Mer Schooling 26 Seashells 27 Merfolk Folklore 28 Freshwater Mer 29 Sunbathing 30 Watery Warfare 31 Land and Sea

#the prompt foundry #mermay #mermay 2024 #mermaid #merfolk #art prompt #art challenge #writing prompt #writing challenge

[isabellebissonrouthier]

WRITING PROMPTS - Merfolk

Merfolk have more teeth than they have scales, and they hide them behind the prettiest smiles

"Join me in the water, gorgeous! The sharks won't bite my friends."

Merchildren are just fish

"Take my tail and I'll take your hand."

#my post #prompt #writing prompt #writeblr #writer #writers #fantasy #mermaid #merfolk #merman

[species-whump-weekly]

Merfolk Week

Creatures from myths and fairytales all over the world, with the tails of fish and the upper bodies of people. They live in the ocean or other bodies of water. In some myths they're helpful to humans and in others they drown or even eat them. It varies by region.

Sunday: Muzzled - Dehydration - "I don't think I'll survive much longer like this, if I'm being honestly pessimistic."

Monday: Forced to Perform - Fishing Net - "Yeah, it's pretty alright, but can it sing?"

Tuesday: Dirty Water - Suffocation - "Stupid humans. I say, when I get my hands on them-"

Wednesday: Marine Research - Language Barrier - "What is it saying? Do you think it's trying to communicate with us?"

Thursday: Stranded on Land - Amputated Tail - "There is salt water in my gills. I didn't think it was possible to be in this much pain."

Friday: Clipped Vocal Cords - Discovery - "All I wanted to do was watch those stupid lights they put in the sky, and look where it got me."

Saturday: Too-Small Tank - Private Collection - "Please, I don't know what you want from me. But I want to- to go home. If that's alright. I can't stay here."

Have fun ♡♡♡

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#Species whump weekly #Whump #Nonhuman whump #Nonhuman whumpee #Merfolk #Merfolk whump #Merfolk whumpee #Whump prompts #Whump event #Whumpblr

[puppetmaster13u]

What if- What if DC x Subnautica Below Zero

Shadow Leviathans Batfam, Frozen Leviathan Wonder Woman, Glow Whales Superfam, Iceworms Speedsters, Cryptosuchus Cyborg, Brinewings Arrowfam; Eyejelly Marvel, Feather Fish Hawkwoman, etc I am open to further ideas

Bonus DP crossover of the Phantom crew crashing on the planet or getting stuck there when visiting Sam or Tucker who is working there.

#subnautica au #dcu #batman au #dc x subnautica #subnautica below zero #shadow leviathan #bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #robin #why yes bruce does in fact have a shackle made out of precursor metal and material #merfolk #merfolk au #art #prompts #dcxdp #dpxdc #subnautica #ibispaintx

[redd956]

Whump Ideas: Water

Injured whumpee slipping and struggling through the rain

Whumpee who can't swim being tossed into deep water

Caretaker looking into water only to spot red across the surface

Whumper pouring a bottle of water out in front of a dehydrated whumpee

Caretaker swimming out to get whumpee 🏊‍♂️

Whumper ambushing whumpee in downpouring rain

Caretaker frantically searching for whumpee through thick fog

Whumpee washing up on shore

Siren whumpee entangled in a fishing net or line

Water Elemental whumpee trapped in the desert

Whumpee washing blood off their hands in a river

Caretaker and whumpee using the fog to cover their tracks from whumper

Whumpee entering Whumper's room to see them crying

Robotic whumpee trudging through the acid rain

Whumpee being kicked down into mud

Caretaker washing whumpee's wounds

#whump ideas #whump #whump water #water whump #ocean whump #nonhuman whumpee #merfolk whump #whumper #whump prompts #whump scenarios #whump scenes #whump prompt list #whump prompt #caretaker #rescue whump #cw drowning

[a-dead-tea]

Writing Prompt #117

A siren who wants to be able to share their music with the world but doesn't want to affect people with their song.

Making nonvocal-based music? Playing their instruments for someone else to sing to?

#Using vocaloid? #I should've thought of this during mermay #writing #writing prompts #story prompt #prompt #siren #mermaid #mermaid prompt #I hate tagging #merfolk #merman #siren prompt

[a-whumped-tea]

A siren who has managed to gain human legs. Siren slips into the music business. Instant success. Gains a whole ton of adoring fans.

Maybe Siren is a whumper who likes to toy with some of their new fans. There's always an unlimited amount of fans willing to do anything for them, why not take one of them home? Whumper has to eat after all.

And even if Whumpee escapes no one would believe them that Siren is bad or tried to hurt and kill them. Siren's so great! How could someone so popular be bad?

Siren turning into a Whumperee. Surely a supernatural hunter is going to pick up on the signs of this person being a siren pretty quick. Hunter should probably take care of this Siren problem before it gets more out of hand than it already has.

Might want to hurry with getting rid of Siren. We wouldn't want the general public getting withdrawals from being exposed to Siren's song for too long.

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