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(I've been seeing art going around of @chimkin-samich's mermaid Caine and have ALSO been seeing art of Mer!Bubble and saw someone questioning the presence of other mers, so I'm just gonna throw out the information. I'm largely inactive on Tumblr but like... Thems my AUs so I may as well put the information out there, lmao.
Rehabilitation AU (Primary)
An AU in which OC's/Sonas Ayala (mine) and Tari (Chimkin's) run a specialized rehab center and sanctuary focused on Merfolk. In the context of the AU, Ayala is the owner with a lot of knowledge on mer and is the one in charge of arranging for the various specimen to be brought to the location. Tari is a "veterinarian" and caretaker. Other human characters include Crysta (mine) who is a biologist that routinely does lab-work to monitor the overall health of the specimens, and eventually Kinger; one of Caine's creators who eventually reached out.
Caine is specified as being an experimental recreation of an extinct species of mer, who is deemed a failure due to being born deformed. He was kept around and used as a basis to eventually create Abel; a much more successful variant. Things take a negative turn for Caine following Abel's creation, and Chimkin's art tells the story from there. Ultimately Caine is due to be culled and vivisected for research purposes due to not being a major problem that has cost them more than he could ever be worth. He's kept around long enough to provide what is needed to make the next desirable experiment, but is both neglected and abused during that process (the muzzle plays a key role here).
Through Kinger's timely intervention, Caine is rescued by the Rehab center before he can officially be culled. But not before more physical damage can be done (the vivisection process had already started by the time the emergency payment was offered). Caine is saved, moved to the rehab center, and then the long care/recovery process starts. During which he becomes very close to Tari.
A while later Bubble winds up coming into play. He is a 2nd failed experiment born lacking "scales". He is bald. Only having the thick armor plating on his head (and the teeth) while otherwise lacking all forms of armor. In addition to this he as leucism. He is very pale, with very delicate skin, and develops a lot of issues as a result. He is easily wounded, has no protection from skin parasites, and requires specialized care/housing. Bubble's creators reach out to Ayala to sell him, effectively strongarming the purchase because she'll know that he'll ALSO be culled if she doesn't buy him. And considering that she perceives Mer to be effectively the same as people, she can't in good conscious just allow him to be murdered. (Bubble is noted as desperately wanting to be around Caine but largely can't be due to risks. Not just because of Caine's history, but because Caine is sharp.)
Other mer noted as being in the facility are Sun, Moon, and Eclipse. All of whom are rescued circus performers. Eclipse is specifically noted as having been born wild and poached, whereas Sun and Moon were born in captivity. None can be returned to the wild. All of them are brought to the facility with severe problems (health wise and mental health wise) brought on by poor care and the abuse that went into conditioning them to be circus performers. Sun and Eclipse are "Bettas". I have yet to decide for Moon (I'm more inclined to make him an eel).
Personal OC's that are mers include Scorpius and Hollow (Blood Moon OC). Scorpius is a Lionfish and Hollow is a giant eel hybrid that was also created in a lab setting.
In some variants of the AU, Abel is actually noted as SURVIVING the attack but is left maimed. He is also eventually sold to Ayala for rehab purposes, and there's lots of fun drama in that regard.
Sea-Witch AU's (there are a bunch)
There are multiple variants of this AU. Named this way because they all involve a focus on sea-witches and in pretty much all of them, someone has been turned into a mer.
There is a variant of the AU where Tari is a human princess who abandoned her role to become a mermaid and has to try and integrate herself into an underwater world that is largely designed to reject her or judge her (due to current conflicts with human and her father in specifics). In this one she winds up developing relationships with Sun (Lionfish), Moon (Shark), and Eclipse (Orca) and there's some fun drama.
There is a variant of the same AU where all of the details are the same, only instead of encountering the DCA inspired mer, Tari winds up encountering Caine. Who is ALSO a human that was turned into a mer... Only the sea witch in question intentionally turned him into a malformed monster and tortured him, leading to him becoming a highly dangerous entity. She tames him and rehabilitates him with the power of friendship.
Yet another variant of the AU where Tari is actually born a mer but was born into a not-great family that treated her like property and put her in bad situations (which would've eventually led to her dying). She is Confiscated and then adopted by a Sea Witch (Crysta) and taught magic alongside Ayala (Sea-witch in training). Tari very specifically is NOT a Sea Witch in this setting (due to lore related reasons and rules) and is instead something called a Vorlocc. Which is a magic user trained by a witch who failed to undergo all of the rituals that are required to create a witch.
This AU is in turn broken up into at least 2 variants. One where Tari encounters and helps a Human Caine, who then goes on to get himself transformed into a monstrous and deformed mer by a human magic user; and another where Caine was formerly human but was transformed into a monstrous mer by an entirely different Sea Witch out of spite due to having wronged the merfolk. In both of these settings, Caine largely forgets who he was as a human. He is much more dangerous in one than the other. But Tari winds up being there for him regardless.
In all variants of this AU, Ayala is a Sea Witch (and the one that transforms human Tari into a mer) and she is very specifically an Octopus. Crysta is the witch that made Ayala; and Crysta's mentor is the one responsible for Caine's creation in certain iterations.
Subnautica AU
This one is still in development. It is very canon-divergent from the actual story of Subnautica (it is instead the equivalent of Space Australia, in the sense that it is an entire planet that violent criminals were banished to and imprisoned in). Humanity is trapped in space after fucking up Earth and search for a new "homeworld" is underway, leading to Ayala being stranded on the waterworld.
Ayala is just trying to survive in this hostile new world. All the while there is a hostile Cartel formed up of the trapped descendants of those that were banished to the planet thousands of years prior; as well as individuals that have been FORCED to join after also winding up stranded on the world (ships that get too close get shot down because the "Wardens" very much think that the planet is still a prison and that the inhabitants are prisoners who cannot be allowed to escape).
Tari is a former Cartel member who has escaped and is intentionally causing problems. Kinger and Queenie are some of the more "recent" additions (who are being held against their will, tortured, and experimented on). Jax has been born into the Cartel and has ALSO been experimented on.
The Cartel members experiment using a highly mutagentic substance made from the remains of deceased Wardens (who are highly advanced, self-replicating, shapeshifting entities made up of super-colonies of microscopic organisms that are both machine and organic) to force sudden "adaptations" and mutations. The end goal being to find a way to access a special form of Telepathy that can be used to manipulate the Wardens into just letting everyone leave the planet.
Caine is the result of one of these experiments and is a Telepathic Mutant composed of the DNA of multiple "Leviathans". In this AU he DID kill and consume Abel; but it wasn't out of malice and more out of a warped desire to protect them from harm. He is deemed a failed experiment and is kept imprisoned in the waters around the Cartel base, where his whole purpose is to be a violent, murderous, guard dog. (He is eventually set free).
There's a lot going on in this AU and I don't feel like describing it all. But this reveals the gist of it.
And that's all the current AUs that feature the Mermaid Caine design that Chimkin came up with. So far.
I imagined them to be kidda under devloped DunkleoMer making them shorter and scalese(scales only grow on the head that he use to often ram into thing like caine imao)
Albino with à epic iridescent skin (wanted to make them semi transparent like certain fish species but was not sure how bru so gone with the beluga look)
In the AU where Caine ends up in a Mer rehabilitation facility, are there other Mers or is it just him?
And if there are other Mers, what are their thoughts on our boy Caine?
Anyway thats all. Can’t wait to see more Mer!Caine :D
Hello!
The rehabilitation au is more of a thing we did for the sillies and to mess around with some idea with a friend. There are a handful of other mers but the vast majority are said friends ocs.
The few mers that are ours are Caine, Bubble and depending on how were feeling Able as well. Able sometimes is fine but we do have a variation were he managed to evade and survive Caine's attack so he's pretty messed up (dw they both get the much need therapy they need in that case 😭)
Hello you two! I hope this question finds you well! I noticed that mer!Caine’s blush is always in the same spots on his face. Are they actually a part of his body, or is that a stylistic choice (because it’s very pretty either way!)? Thank you, and have a good one!! :)
Hi! His blush in the little comic with the Rubik's cube is more of a stylistic choice to show he's a little ashamed, the one in the suggestive drawings I made not that long ago is is actual blush, which I made into a conveniently placed bioluminescence, which seems triggered as a mating display 👀
Your giving me ideas for more angst, not that there isn't but maybe might make Caine suffer some more in some variation of aus. I don't think he's gotten enough pain ✨
BUT BESIDES THAT REALLY LOVE THE ART, Def would eat here again 10/10 mega scrumptious ✨✨
Oooo love what you did with his eyes showing through his skull! It's very cool! It's also very cute with the gold rim around the eyes I love it so much!
His little expressions are so cute too especially the one where hes grinning😭 wanna grab his big ol head and shake it aggressively sjdifjf
Caine is a possessive jealous creature with a habit of eating his problems.
Entirely self indulgent this time around lol.
The crumb of context for this is that this is one of the many alternate timelines of the original AU. He gets rescued and put in a rehabilitation facility. Antares, or Tari for short is no one else than Akela as a human, and in this au she is the doctor/vet of said facility. He is quite fond of her, maybe a little too fond...
Hewo hewo both of you :>
Thanks again for the love of the mini comic that I'm doing of your Mer!Caine AU, I have some questions to know more info and solve doubts about the worldbuilding. I do know that the cast is gonna be humans, but... Abstractions exist there? If it does, how does it work? If not, I've got anotha' question.
*check notes*
I bet Dunkleomers are made from somewhere, is there a chance a human can become a mermay or similar in this underwater research laboratory (because I do not know if they actually experiment with humans, just a question)? Just asking if there is a chance or you've been thinking of this, love your AU!!! (Including the FNAF one!!!)
Hiii!!
Thank you for your question, and we absolutely loved your comic! like I already said I can't wait for more! And I'm also a great fan of the way you drew everyone's facial expressions!
As for your questions, it does get a little complicated because as of now we have 3 different sub-AUs with Mer Caine, and many many alternative timelines with them.
I'll walk you tru the 3 main ones, so that you can choose and pick what works best for you, so that you can do your own time-line variation with it and have fun!
Using a readmore cuz it gets long lol
So first off there's the "recom" Au.
(I don't know if you have watched Avatar from James Cameron)
Basically the gist of it is the same facility that made Caine also worked on a new way for Marine biologists specialized on Merfolk research, to work on field without the hussle of operating a loud mini submarine.
They created these bodies, fusing human DNA with pre existing species of Mer, and they were meant to be controlled remotely by the scientists (the pilots). Think animal spy cams but you're wearing a suit that makes you look like them... It was kind of a fucked up concept, but the result of this bio engineering was interesting to people that wanted to use the same concept to one day even live forever.
The problem with this research was that much like the og material, there was this faulty thing that they couldn't control, that sometimes upon activation the "Avatars" instead of accepting the data transfer from a human brain, they'd copy paste the consciousness and effectively become sentient clones of their human counterpart.
As you might have guessed, in this au the human cast were all failed experiments. As far as they're concerned they got turned into a mer, they don't remember being clones. All except Grant (Kinger), but he's a little lost in the head.
This au is the closest to the Canon we got.
The facility is abandoned and they're all left there to rot, the only source of food is a tank that is connected with the sea outside where fishes come and go from.
Food is scarce and some closed off tanks have started getting stillwater, which ends up being the "abstraction" in this case because humans that try and flee by getting out of one tank and drag themselves to others while looking for an opening to get out, they get infected by the germs in the water and start getting a fever that makes them lose their head kinda like rabies.
Caine is not immune but really resistant to it because he was genetically engineered to withstand critical living situations to ensure survival.
The second au it still doesn't have a name.
Its where the humans are all still humans, work on the research facility that has been bought by the government, they're all on site workers. Kinger is what is left of the originally vast scientific staff, and the other humans have all been recruited by the government through deals not to end up in prison.
They're trapped there because the contract is binding.
They can't leave, they have little to no contact with the world outside and are forced to use code names with each other.
The only test subject left in the research facility from the previous genetic experiments is Caine.
They all don't know but they're all part of a bigger ongoing experiment. The government every 4 months send medical staff to survey both Caine and the worker's status for some reason. They "vaccinate" them all against something mysterious, and then leave.
To keep the experiment ongoing without casualties derived from mental health (abstracting here means losing your head and trying to kill yourself or others in a psychotic spiral) they all have monetary monthly allowances to spend however they please. Within limitations of course.
That and an on site therapist. (Which in our case would be Tari, codename: Akela, but in your case it can be anyone else)
The third au is the one where the ppl from the original cast do play a role in but they're overall characters that come and go.
The og mermay au.
Grant/Kinger is the only one with a main role for a period before the facility gets abandoned. Caine is left alone with only Bubble (seagull) for occasional company for 15yrs. When Bubble no longer shows up he ends up escaping and lives at sea for a few years before finding his way back to the coastline where the facility lays in ruins (he uses his old tank as a storage for his trinkets)
you already know we love it but rebloggin it here as well cuz its just so scrumptious and i still cant get over his cute lil face in that one panel✨✨✨✨
yes yes i know that they live in different type of water BUT can someone PLEASE get merCaine some bumblebee gobies? as a treat for Caine being the best at everything, especially fratricide?
Omg i didnt know this fish existed 😭😭 Yes Caine will totally be granted some bee gobies thank you for introducing us to this fish, thier also so cute too ✨✨
