Tactical Mermaid and Support Team 🧜♀️⚓🫧
MONA teams (Mermaid Operations Nautical Assault) are specialist units comprising both humans and mermaids, specialised to operate in aquatic conditions.
This is Tahlia (I picked T because she's a thresher shark mermaid - note the very tall tail). Although elements of her design are also taken from great whites and tiger sharks. Perhaps she was grown in a lab with genetic material taken from all three species.
Tahlia is equipped with a carbon-kevlar weave knife-and-bulletproof vest tailored to mermaid physiology. Longer than the human equivalent, it protects the majority of her vital organs.
The orange crystalline grenades react with saline water to produce a cloud of solid shards to incapacitate enemy combatants. The little yellow sea scooters were kind of inspired by big grouper or whale shark mouths, I wanted them to look a little fish-like.