Mermaid Personas

What is your mermaid's background story? Feel free to share, here, the story of your mermaid!

Lanai is a strong minded and independent Mermaid Princess, who’s determined to do things for herself (very stubborn asother mers would say) She proved this to her overbearing father, by swimming off on the day of her arranged marriage. On her adventures of exploration, she befriends whales and dolphins and other marine life long her way, some of which were in need of rescue from nets or were injured by human interference. Around the pods many know her as “Guardian of the Cetaceans”. Her curiosity always leads her to the surface to observe children as they play, she would once in a while interact with the kids who swam in the shallow waters. And also learned there are humans out there who care for her whale/dolphin friends enough to help them, when she can’t. Her fondness of humans also relates to one in particular, a male who works in animal rescue and saved the life of Lanai's whale friend, she watches this human as he goes to the beach and sits by the waters edge every night, without fail.

I actually have a darker version of Lanai.. a lost sister, twin actually.
i want call her Kaida (which was the name of my florida gar), she was lost in the kelp forests one day while play chasing with a seal into the forest. Lost and alone she was eventually found and taken in by a lone transient orca who lost her calf, she was raised to learn the ways of the pod following, hunting and socializing with the pods. She's become more of a warrior mermaid than a gentle kind. She's seen what humans have done to her adopted family and other orcas, losing some members of her pod because of loud sounds which came from boats, hurting their ears. And those she calls the hunters who follow in boats and take orcas for food. She however has a moment where she strays from the pod because her curiosity can get the best of her. which she ends up getting into much trouble.

^ I love your mermaid's background story! <3

thank you, so whats aquas story :)

I'm currently working on it! But It'll b up soon :)

My merman is sort of like a fairy godfather, in many asian cultures Koi are considered magical and often grant wishes depending on the story. I like to think that my mermaid is like that

Aqua is a curious little mermaid, often intriuged by land dwellers. Abandoned at sea when an oil pollution ruined her kingdom, Aqua was adopted by a friendly group of bottle nose dolphins. Often refered to as shy and adventrous, Aqua enjoys spending her time searching for unusual items from the human world with her dolphin pals and exploring ship wrecks. Her curiousity usually gets her into sticky situations, but she always finds her way out. She dreams of one day stopping Japanese dolphin slaughter and meeting a land dweller for the first time. Aqua can also shapeshift and control water :)

@Koiboi I love koi so much they are such magical creatures I currently own 3 of them, 2 are butterfly koi. thats a great Background, considering people do consider merfolks to posess magical powers

@ Aqua I love your story as well, she wants to help save those that have saved her.

I used the animals rescue cause its something i do in real life, I also want to share how to help save our ocean animals and talk about the hazards of driftnets.

Well I sort of have two stories as Sirena is really two very different characters. There is the Disney version who loves to come on land and meet people, learn all about humans and their strange world. She loves to read though it's nye impossible under the waves, she can only read on land so she spends a lot of time out of the water.

The other (which is the original and core idea) is based around the darker side of mermaids often forgotten in the mythology. She is a temptress and will steal your heart only to smash it against the rocks on the shore. She will lure you in with the sweetest of smiles, for those who get to close, she will sweetly drown you.

Needless to say I have only ever been able to portray Disneyfied Sirena. ^_^

I don't have much of a backstory set up yet, but mer merself is a cartographer. :P

@ Sirena. How does one tell which you are? (Just in case we ever meet in person)

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And shouldn't it be a "mersona" instead of a "mermaid persona"?

Koiboi, I like the story about the koi who leap all the way up the waterfall and are transformed into dragons for their courage and persistance.

Alveric/Sirena, I agree, I think we need warning coloration or something for when Dark MermaidSirena makes an appearance.

Lol ^_^ She would never actually hurt anyone, just that sort of vibe. And you would know, I've been working on assembling the costume parts though many wont go on sale until after halloween.

I'm very similar to you Sirena with the dark mermaid personality and a lot of my tails are designed to look a lot darker than my pod's. The one i'm wearing at the moment is made up of snake skin like scales but sadly dark colours don't seem to appeal to kiddies as much as I would like so I think I need an alternate tail for the bouncy disney Aradia :P

Volitania (named after the volitans part of the lionfish's name with a temper to match) is not a huge fan of children. Or critters. Or anybody, really (excluding the human she is smitten by). She'd never hurt anything, and can tolerate all of the above for a certain time before she gets impatient and splashes them before swimming away. She loves to torment human teenage boys (the ones who are too cool to believe in magic) and delights in enchanting smaller children, though her delight comes more from her vanity than making kids happy - but that said, she is glad she can make people happy.

My back story is simple, and it's the one I've had since I was little- I'm a mermaid fished out of the ocean and stuck in an aquarium. A spectacle. Not sure how I feel about it.

I'm a gentle mermaid princess who is friends with every creature in the ocean and doesn't understand why humans keep killing her friends and eating them!

I try to go for 'ridiculous and silly'. I can't really pull off the whole "beautiful" aspect of the mermaid myth, so I went the other way and decided Nerissa is fairly unconcerned by her attractiveness to humans, and therefore is happy to look completely silly.

I like to think that Nerissa was quite scared of humans and found them intimidating, until she started to meet human children, because they're just like her. She is also a huge fan of music, and loves nothing more than a singalong session!

^ Great stories mers :)
I must say Nikki, even though your's is short it has a story all its own

My story as written on my Facebook page.

"Legends abound of a mystical creature frolicking in the crystal clear waters of the many Floridian spring-fed water ways. A creature once said to have been pure myth. Described as being half man, half fish. Where humans have legs, Jesse has a merman tail with scales as gold as rays from the sun, and more vibrant a sunflowers beautiful petals.

Merman Jesse grew up in the natural springs of Florida, which is Heaven for anyone who loves the water as much as he. Despite stories to the contrary, he was presumed to be a myth until videos with confirmed sightings surfaced. Pun intended!"