#prince marzel

[thejokesterjester]

Maybe not headcanon but what do you think about drawing Elena with the "royal" friend group? I like the idea that she's able to hang out with them (Valentina, Rebecca, Alonzo, Marisa, etc) and has other people to talk to about what it's like to rule 💕

(they’re having a slumber party, that’s why they’re all in different clothes)

[twincest-ship-of-the-day]

The Twincest Ship of the Day is:

Marzel & Marisa from Elena of Avalor!

[jezyan]

1E for Marisa and 5A for Marzel. Like Marisa is teasing her brother over a crush or something

really enjoyed drawing these two! thanks for the request anon! ^o^/

[foxchainships]

Request for glorytoukraine2022

If you want me to draw your favorite ship, send over a DM :)

[cartoonfangirl1218]

I was just thinking, Elena has been shipped with so many people. Mateo, Gabe, Naomi, Alonso, Valentina, Marisa, you get the picture.

But her and Marzel? Absolutely nada. Which I kinda find funny but I also admire because they do give me platonic friends vibes. And the more I think about it they have quite a few things in common so they’d make great friends.

Both were learning how to become good rulers, felt insecurities and setbacks but powered through with some help firm their friends. Both had a black and white morality in the beginning, Marzel with trusting humans, Elena with Esteban. Both enjoy athletic sports.

Both are perhaps a bit too protective when it comes to their siblings because Marisa and Isabel know how to handle themselves.

They have the somewhat same outlook in life that they’d get along without any sparks. I just think they’re neat. Here’s some gifs!

[notsolittlemerman]

If I had a nickel for every time a merman marries a human, has a happy family with kids, and doesn't die, all while staying as a merman, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[dittomander]

I like your post about Elena x one of the Sirena siblings. Regardless of whether they live on land or in the sea, do you think Elena x Sirena sibling’s kids will be able to transform legs on land and a tail in the water like Marisa and Marzel? Or will it not work since one of their parents is only half Sirena?

ooh, an interesting question - depends on how the genetics of shapeshifting works! y'know, assuming it's even possible to apply real world science to the genetics of fantasy creatures. bear with me for a second here; I'm about to wallpaper this post with Punnet squares. In particular, I'm going to examine three main possibilities: species co-dominance, species-linked traits, and a recessive shapeshifting gene.

For the sake of the following squares:

H = gene/chromosome designating its holder as human

S = gene/chromosome designating its holder as sirena

A = dominant trait indicating lack of shapeshifting ability

a = recessive trait indicating ability to shapeshift

the human/formerly human partner listed is always on the left of the square, and the sirena partner is always on the top.

Option 1: Species Co-Dominance

This option presumes that Camila still genetically counts as a human, even after her transformation, and that the reason for Marisa and Marzel's shapeshifting abilities is the result of simultaneously having both human and sirena genes that present with equal dominance. They're technically neither, but something else entirely, and are able to present as both. A real-world example of this is with blood types: A and B blood types are co-dominant (as opposed to the recessive type O), and someone with both alleles has type AB blood, which is neither type A nor B, but has traits of both.

Now obviously there's not like, a single gene that's like "yep! this is a human!" in actual people, so this is drastically simplified, but by this model, any of Camila and Pescoro's children would be able to shapeshift, and there would be about a 50% chance that of one Elena and Marisa or Marzel's kids would be able to shapeshift, as indicated by the "HS" blocks in the squares above. Otherwise, the kids would be completely human.

Option 2.1: Species-Linked Trait, Human Camila

There are two variations on the species-linked trait option, but the gist of both is as follows: I imagine there could be a species equivalent to how sex-linked traits work in humans. (Crash course for the unfamiliar: basically, since the X and Y chromosomes are different sizes, there are certain genes on the X chromosome that don't have equivalents on the Y chromosome, meaning if one of those traits on the X of someone with XY chromosomes is the recessive allele, it will be the displayed allele, because there can't be a dominant trait to overwrite it. Someone with two X chromosomes would need to have the recessive allele on both for it to display. Color-blindness is a real world example of this.)

This option proposes that shapeshifting could be a sirena-specific trait on whatever their "sirena chromosome" is, and since there's no equivalent gene in humans, if the recessive, "yes shapeshifting" allele is passed on, the human/sirena hybrid will be able to shapeshift. The dominant "no shapeshifting" allele that would otherwise be very common amongst sirenas would prevent most of them from being able to shapeshift themselves, and if sirenas haven't approached the shore since before their war with the humans, it's possible that they don't even know anymore that some of them could shapeshift.

The variations here come from whether or not Camila counts genetically as a human or as a sirena. If she's still considered human but with a sirena coat of paint, then as shown above, there was a 50% chance for either Marisa or Marzel to end up being able to shapeshift (and only a 25% chance that they both can!), and as in the co-dominance case, there'd be a 50% chance of shapeshifting Elena/Sirena Sib kids and 50% chance of them being human. In the other case...

Option 2.2: Species-Linked Trait, Sirena Camila

If Camila now genetically counts as a sirena, then we know that both she and Pescoro must have at least one dominant "no shapeshifting" allele, assuming they can't shapeshift themselves, and one recessive "yes shapeshifting" allele to pass on for Marisa and Marzel to be able to do it. In this scenario, since both of Marisa and Marzel's relevant chromosomes (or whatever they'd be called) would have the recessive trait, Elena's lack of a shapeshifting gene to counteract it would mean that all of their children would be able to shapeshift.

Option 3: Recessive Shapeshifting Gene

This option presumes that, this being a fantasy world, shapeshifting is just a perfectly normal trait that any humanoid creature can have, and it's just extremely uncommon amongst humans. The Camila/Pescoro square in this case would look no different from their option 2.2 square, since Marisa and Marzel still need to be able to shapeshift without allowing Camila and Pescoro to do so themselves, so I've left it out here to focus on Elena's genetic possibilities.

Since she can't seem to shapeshift into anything automatically, Elena would have to have either two dominant "no shapeshifting" alleles or one dominant and one masked recessive allele. In the former case, none of the Elena/Marisa|Marzel kids would be able to shapeshift, but could all potentially pass on the trait to do so to their own kids. In the latter case, there'd be a 50% chance that the kids could shapeshift. I have no idea if they'd present as human or sirena - maybe the species of whichever parent carried them? I feel like a kid born in the wrong biome would be. Y'know. An issue.

So In Conclusion:

There's options lol. I personally feel like some kind of co-dominance is most likely, since that's most in-line with what's presented in the text. That is: shapeshifting between human and sirena is something unique to Marisa and Marzel as a direct result of their mixed heritage. This would make the shapeshifting ability of their children a bit of a toss-up. That said, this does beg the question of why Camila, who has supposedly been thoroughly transformed into a sirena, still genetically counts as a human, which options 2.2 and 3 can get around asking.

Now, the one I *like* the most is option 2.2 - it avoids the messy "so what's up with Camila" question as well as the "why don't we see any shapeshifting humans" question, and the lack of other sirena shapeshifters can be hand-waved away by the aforementioned "well they just haven't tried because of tensions with the humans" thing. I think "suddenly, other shapeshifting sirenas have shown up and balancing the two cultures is more important than ever" could make for a really interesting story, and 2.2 is also the only option that guarantees that the second gen sirena kids can shapeshift.

...Although now that I'm thinking about it, the conflict of "I'm the child of a human queen and a sirena noble and my sibling can shapeshift but I can't, how is that fair?" could also make for a really good story. So it's - there's options! Elena and a Sirena sibling's kids being able to shapeshift or not could be justified one way or the other, and any interpretation could lend itself to a fun story.

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

Hair Ruffle Marissa and Marzel?

Up until this ask Mariza and Marzel had crossed my mind literally zero times

"Get back here!" Marisa roared, chasing after Marzel. She reached for him, but he was faster and before she caught up he had already jumped into the water.

"I'll get you!" She yelled after him, banging her fist on the railing of the ship.

"Umm... What happened?" Marisa turned around to see a very confused Valentina behind herself. "I was looking for you to ask if you want to join us for a game of zestaball, but I see you're busy?"

"Not really, Marzel got another point," Marisa groaned flopping onto the deck. Seeing Valentina's confused stare she explained, "We have a prank war going on and he just made me drop a whole plate of kelp tacos on Alonso. Speaking of that, I should probably go apologize to him..."

She started to get up but was immediately stopped by a cunning grin blooming on Valentina's face.

"Alonso can wait," she said putting an arm around Marisa. "But now we should plan your revenge."

***

Marzel was sitting safely in an armchair below deck, with his feet kicked onto the table. Now that he had one upped Marisa in pranks, and after an exhausting tenis match with Rebecca, there was nothing he wanted to do more than take a quick siesta. But alas he wasn't given that.

"Watch out!" He heard right before Marisa jumped into the back of his armchair and ruffled his hair.

He immediately bolted up and tried to catch her hand, but she was already running to the door leading to the deck. He shouted at her and launched into pursuit after her.

He caught up with her only on the bow, but still before she could escape him into the sea.

"Oh no, you got me!" Marisa exclaimed far too calmly. Something was off.

"Yeah," Marzel looked carefully around, but not seeing any buckets of paint or puffish launched at him, he continued. "And now you'll get a taste of your own medicine."

He reached for Marisa's hair to ruffle it even more than she had his before he could do that, he noticed a seagull, flying right into him.

He yelped and jumped back. Only then he realized, it wasn't only one seagull. Soon he was swarmed by tens, if not hundreds of birds all diving at his head, and he had to jump like a jellyfish in a whirlpool to avoid getting pecked.

"Marisa!" He yelled over the squawking. "What did you put in my hair!?"

And Marisa instead of answering, high fived Valentina and sat back to watch the show.

Phew, that was difficult! Still, I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for the ask!

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