#melyde

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are we still doing these gang

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ib @gg-is-a-loser <3

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what do you think like . so since so many maelstrom characters die do they have any significant thoughts ,,,, like are they relieved . scared . upset. angry. do they think of anyone dead that they think they’re going to see or alive that they think they’re going miss

I should tell you there isn't really a mermaid "afterlife" like. funeral practices vary (working on this) but most people will just put your body into the gash at the centre of the world with the assumption that the nutrients of your body will feed the creatures who live there. some people think a small vestige of your consciousness enters the water and you are in an unknowing unconscious constant state of calm forever. and even fewer people (usually groups who live close to the surface) believe the same thing happens only with the void above instead. Enough about this tho this only means that nobody thinks "oh I'm going to see X again". In terms of final thoughts I will go in death order for the main characters

enith doesn't have any death thoughts bc she never realises she's going to die she just gets chomped with no time to even process anything. Last thoughts would be "can I really kill my friend"

melyde does see her death coming but for a moment she still thinks she can make it. when she realises she can't it's just kind of like not fair not fair not fair not like this not like this

io is kinda disbelieving when she realises. "is this really what it's come to" and an urge to laugh kinda thing. she's spent the past few hours in irrational levels of desperation so it's like. of course. of course. hahaha. give her a bit more time and she would start to feel cheated and angry but ofc. she didn't get any more time

isther. after she puts her 'plan' into action the anger fades to determination fades to a mix of fear and resignation. this is the only option for her because she couldn't turn around and live with herself after this but she doesn't really want to die either. she's like. lost. but also very sure of herself. idk

selma's kind of preoccupied for most of her death with making sure that anemone knows that a) she can perform the final song and b) she has to sacrifice herself to make sure teagan can get home. after she's 100% done with that it kinda kicks in that she's dead. and she's really sad about it but putting on a brave face for ane/teagan. she wishes she could've rebuilt her childhood town like she wanted to and she wishes she could continue to protect her students and she wants to stay she wants to stay she wants to stay

anemone is the only one who we are actually in her perspective as she dies. and for her it's like. peaceful. because she knows she's doing this for teagan and for her people. also most of her friends are dead so there isn't anything really. left for her here and this is where she has been heading all along. she'll miss her brother and teagan and she knows they will miss her but. she's at peace

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got sum new nose/eye/lip masks and fishyish/mermaidish ears so here's minute rework mermaids plus new alsinth, nileao, gwen and end of story teagan

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I have asked about the worm but what are your ocs favourite dance moves

hmm.....

ane: bart simpson

teagan: the wave

selma: funky chicken

melyde: thinks she is above dancing. but it's the grapevine w clapping

enith: gangnam style

isther: knee spin

io: genuinely is above dancing

gwen: the hand jive

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OH ALSO WAIT i guess how does like. io view the main guys,.

okayy great question

io sees anemone in a very conflicted way bc they've known each other so long and been so similar for so long. like you're just like me fr😒😒 except you're NOT bc you're unpowerful but you don't even attempt doing anything abt it unlike me. Why have you accepted your fate like that girl are you pathetic?? All you do is Cry and all I do is Try. I am better than you

io and selma honestly just anelma but with all the jealousy and none of the love. and also a lot of condescension. but also near the end it's selma's shock n betrayal that has io like. actually getting overwhelmed by the guilt

io and melyde honestly just melymone just less gay. Like you're joking this untrained girl has a chorus of like 512? only it's even WORSE bc she got that chorus by bonding with a locket nileao made and io's like eye twitching that should've been ME URGH. And it’s part of what sets her off on her big plans

io and enith lowk inconsequential but there's some guilt there bc the monster attacks that io organised killed enith's parents much like how the attacks killed io's mother directly and her father indirectly. Like oh I'm. Taking people's parents now. but then there's also like. well I was much younger than her when I lost my parents😒😒 so she should stop crying

io and teagan dynamic is so funny to me like. teagan dgaf about this girl truly but io HATES teagan. like this HUMAN has the same (slightly higher) magical strength as ME? using nileao’s bracelets? Which she has BASTARDISED with sea glass??? and she's annoying and she sucks and she can't even do anything and she's stupid and I hate her grrrrr. and this is what properly properly sets her off on her plan

io and isther dynamic we r all familiar with. fuck you bitch you killed my parents but I need to put up w you to enact my evil plan which will end in your death btw. also The Guilt

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maelstrom human au!!

and yes it will feature a ton of regurgitated info from these but also a lot has changed lowkey

anemone: obsessed with stargazing and has a (very expensive) telescope in her room. she WILL fight you however if you so much as mention astrology around her. in the world's worst indie band with selma and melyde for which she plays the keyboard and writes lyrics. and not well either. the minecraft end poem changed her fundamentally as a person. a tumblr girl. big fan of jigsaws and the colour blue and shark documentaries. maths and eng lit nerd

teagan: works at the ice cream shop in her village. can't decide between becoming a speed climber or an endurance climber but definitely wants to be a professional rock climber when she's older. learning to sail a really sad dinghy alongside her brother but she's much worse at it than he is and capsizes almost daily. when it's good weather she goes surfing with mel. movie nights happen at her house because she has the best dvd collection

selma: dyed her hair pink to match with isther. plays the electric guitar (badly) for the band. a computer programmer in her spare time though she despairs at how much maths there is in it. used to be a kpop stan. chronically online especially when getting into arguments with people on stack overflow. a collector of useless little trinkets and tears through YA slop books like you wouldn't believe

melyde: has been to several anger management courses. would never ever admit to it but her favourite song is secretly somewhere in my heart by aztec camera (not everybody's fool by evanescence like she always says) and she is a lifelong directioner and zayn stan. writer of terrible wattpad stories including larry fics. sings for the band and uploads their songs to youtube (videos always do terribly and inexplicably look/sound like they were recorded in 2009). shelves covered in useless little trinkets which selma has given her. leaves glitter everywhere somehow

enith: nearly one year into her degree in geography with applied GIS. would sell her left kidney to see pulp in concert again. animal crossings new horizons addict and runs a tomodachi life world with her and her friends in like the navy including tomodachi versions of ane/selma/melyde's songs. a redditor and digital artist. obsessed with detective stories. allergic to dogs and cats

isther: pepsi fiend. was in a coma for 5 months once. dyed her hair pink to match with selma then immediately put green over the top. fried fucking hair. will not leave the house without at least one camouflage-pattern item of clothing which she genuinely thinks help her blend in. introduced to evanescence by mel (huge mistake) and hasn't realised yet that other music does in fact exist. had a frog phase in 2020 and the less said about that the better

iolanthe: small-scale etsy seller of jewellery she makes out of seaglass and shells. won't shut up about being a 'burntout gifted kid'. has seen every saw movie at least 3 times and once wrote a really terrible adam/lawrence fic. also honestly really good friends with teagan. like much better friends with teagan than she is with selma. sometimes they meet up in io's house and sit in silence while teagan makes friendship bracelets and io makes metal jewellery with seaglass she got from teagan. a redditor who has been long time online friends with enith without either of them realising who the other is

calen: nepo baby final boss working for his mama's activism charity who met jet on a reality dating show. anime watching loser (fav is snow white with the red hair. for some reason) who probably was deep in the MCU weeds when he was young. might quit his job to start a juice bar with jet. learning to play the drums. fav lorde song is writer in the dark

jet: unironically read my immortal when she was a teenager and enjoyed it too. suuuper pretentious about film and tv, thinks she would've been a director if she'd not gone into PR and then from PR into environmental consulting. obsessed with receiving flower bouquets even though she gets terrible hayfever. genuinely believes she IS samantha from satc. fav lorde song is homemade dynamite

gwen: kinda cheating to include gwen in human au and most of it is just. fun facts about her but. works at the same ice cream shop as teagan. always carries a syrup bottle with her in summer in case she has to revive a bee. lends enith detective stories. a whittler. has seen the entirety of young sheldon from instagram reels clips