Can Mer-Knuckles communicate with the critters and animals in the ocean? Are they they closest things he has to friends ?🥺
Can he communicate with them? Not fluently. He understands basic things relating to emotions like scared, suprised, happy or angry. And yeah, this boy has many symbiotic relationships with many different species and creatures. Not counting other mobians or merfolk, he's a fairly social boy with the critters of the sea.
The garden eels are especially fond of him, for reasons he's not sure but doesn't mind.
There's also the occasional Rouge












