just a heads up, not all of the animals mentioned here are from the Pacific ocean but merfolk are magical beasts just go with it. this is also just for funsies <3
Arcade Gannon ; Hawaiian Monk Seal Mer / Human - Arcade grew up on an oil rig just off the coast of California. The Enclave had pretty much taken over the West coast in this timeline. Funnily enough, Arcade's father and the future remnants served in the Enclave's sub-unit for dealing with mutants and such, but specifically with the mutants of the sea. Merfolk have been known to humans for a long time, they've been around since before the Great War even started. Since the fallout, their numbers have only grown. Arcade's father, being the man that he was, had actually befriended and fell in love with a mermaid. They had Arcade shortly before his father's disappearance. The idea of a half-mer-half-human isn't anything too shunned in the underwater wasteland, but anything to shun the son of an Enclave officer was justified to the people of the New Mariana Republic (Mariana Islands & Marshall Islands area merfolk). Arcade and his mother kept fleeing to the fringes and Arcade eventually found himself in the rougher underwater community in New Honolulu. It was here he discovered that he could transform between merfolk and human shape (or rather, legs). He works for the Followers of the Apocalypse Hawaii chapter in New Honolulu as well as the human city of Old Honolulu.
Mr. House ; Manta Ray Mer - One of the few remaining pre-war merfolk not altered by radiation, Mr. House has kept his underwater city of sin alive (term being relative, these days). His family were well known to humans and overwhelmingly wealthy for merfolk. The city of New Honolulu was mainly built by humans, specifically for humans. House got his little webbed hands on machinery meant for keeping merfolk on display in a twisted zoo the United States was federally funding. Reverse engineering the machinery, House has kept himself alive for all this time. I swear this is not the plot of bioshock please i swear. Once the merfolk of New Honolulu (mainly the families of the Strip) took back over the city and filled it was water and sea life once again, House established the families of the Strip in the once "mall" section of the "zoo".
Craig Boone ; Sea Turtle Mer - Boone served as an assassin for the New Mariana Republic before retiring after the massacre at a small tribal village nestled along the coast of California. He moved along the coast to a small merfolk settlement along the Mexican west coast called Novac (named after a sunken motel sign). Him and his wife, whom he'd met in New Honolulu on leave, lived there for a while. After someone in Novac had sold Carla to a group of human pirates known as "The Legion", Boone left everything behind to find her. Having no choice but to save Carla from the horrible fate her human captives would put her through, over and over again, Boone assassinated her. Boone returned to Novac and continued his night watch routine, withdrawing into his shell once again (literally).
this is really wordy but let me know if anyone would like a part 2! i'll probably still make another part but any motivation helps! especially if you ever want a full fic of this au
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