━☽☾ / AU.18 - OCEAN DEEP.
merman!AU.
Nnoitra is a an above average large ( measuring at 15 feet + ) Great White Shark merman. His lower half is that of a Great White, and he also has the dorsal fin. He is also equipped with razor sharp Great White Shark teeth. His gills are found on either side of his neck. Nnoitra’s tail is split in two colours ( like the Great White ), with grey dominating the backside, and white the inside. He sports several scars on his face and inside his mouth. The most prominent of his scars is the one going across his left, blind eye.
Because of his blind eye, Nnoitra has troubles hunting ( the Great White Shark relies mostly on vision for hunting ), so he will often follow the scent of blood, in hopes of getting an ‘ easy ‘ meal. Because of his inability to hunt efficiently, he isn’t as large as he could’ve been, and definitely hasn’t reached his max weight for a shark his size. While he doesn’t always hunt wounded prey, he does it often enough to get fished. He simply can’t resist baits. This is why he has so many scars around and inside his mouth ( from fishing hooks ). When he hunts ‘ properly ‘, Nnoitra will patrol deeper waters, looking up to try and spot a silhouette of a potential prey.
All his life, he has hunted along the west coast of USA and Canada, and has never seen anyone of his kin. He wants to travel to other seas, but needs to gain more weight for such a long journey. While Nnoitra most often feeds on seals, he isn’t a picky eater at all, and will eat any helpless animal that comes into his path, including humans.
Whales and dolphins are on the menu, as long as they aren’t too large. An exception being Killer Whales, which are above him on the food chain. He avoids them at all costs. While he will attack whales and dolphins if they are wounded ( and both whales and dolphins are weary of him ), he will sometimes swim with them, as a form of socializing. If they allow him close enough, he can even play with them. He does this because it gets very lonely to swim by himself in the ocean day after day. Other White Sharks are a threat if they are large enough, but Nnoitra instinctively seeks them out during mating season.
Even if he gets fished quite a lot, he hasn’t had many meetings with humans. Whenever he bites onto a hook, he will rip it out with his hands, and avoids getting lifted onto the fishing boat. The fishermen might only get a glimpse of him, and return with stories of ‘mermaids’ ( thanks to Nnoitra’s long hair ).
Nnoitra has had two actual meetings with humans. Once, he found a man floating in the middle of the ocean after a storm. Nnoitra swam around him for hours, before actually showing himself to the man, who thought he was going to get eaten by a shark. Nnoitra had never been that close to a human, so he was more curious than bloodthirsty. He didn’t try to talk to the man, but only looked at him and splashed his tail fin a few times. He didn’t try to rescue him either, but kept swimming around him, and thus preventing other sharks from taking a bite. The man was rescued hours later ( though he died from hypothermia before reaching a hospital ).
The second encounter was with a group of three kids who were out kayaking. They were very scared when they saw the large dorsal fin, but Nnoitra didn’t attack them. After swimming around the kayak for a few minutes, he showed himself, and splashed water on the kids with his tail fin. The kids quickly stopped being afraid, and he played with them ( again, he didn’t talk ) until it became dark. Then, he guided them to shore and left, never to see them again. Nnoitra could’ve easily knocked the kayak over and had himself an easy meal, but he would rather interact with these humans - Yeah, he was lonely.
As an opposite to other sharks, Nnoitra isn’t colourblind, and this causes him to have a fascination with anything bright coloured, whether it’s man-made or not. He also likes things that glow in the dark, because the ocean can be such a dark place. When he isn’t hunting ( though he almost always is, because he’s always hungry ), he likes to swim near the surface, to bask in sunlight and look at the vibrant shades of blue.