A tribute to the Octonauts OC that got me into the community:
Fawna The Merdoe.
Fawna was originally posted on DeviantArt back in late-2016 by @jade-green-butterfly (just wanted to say THANK YOU! sorry for the mention x-x). By the time I first found my way into the community (well, just to look around, I never posted anything at the time) on my Surface tablet in mid-2017, I also had a secondary interest in mermaids (well, of course I do, I STILL do.), and to me, this deer was PERFECT. To me, it was the best of both worlds, and in the end, I stuck around for years to come. I’m glad I did.
I have to admit, Fawna The Merdoe might as well be my BIGGEST inspiration for my Reclaimed By Nature and Sunken World mermaid AUs. Yuma—the coyote on the right—appears in both of them, so I figured they deserved a tail as well to celebrate (this is their sunken world design, in which case I still gotta work on that AU).
It’s March 2024, it’s been nearly 8 years since Fawna appeared on the interwebs, and I still love her.
Here’s to the almighty merdeer!
