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Name: Orseis
Age: 32 years (409th moon phase)
Length: 217 cm
Weight: 86 Kg


Background
Composed but joyful, Orseis is rather clever for a mermaid and has a pretty, but dangerous, smile with fangs. Even if she's already 32 year old, She is still a young mermaid, a specie that reaches adulthood around 25-30 years and can live about 180-200 years. At her 350th moon phase, Orseis was tattoed all over her body during a ceremony which is showing that she was now an adult. Scientists have proven that those tattoos have a complex signification, either ceremonial and social, which make every tattoed mermaid unique.

As an adult, Orseis now lives alone, wandering around and doing some jobs for money. Sadly, like most of mermaids, she doesn't really understand the value of money, and she's generally tricked about it. That’s why she usually prefers to be rewarded with meat or chicken (they’re the same to her eyes). Because humans don't like their nudity, mermaids were first obliged to wear suits or clothes, but they quickly understood that it can prevent from cold and scratches, so they don't mind at all wearing them.

People generally mistakes her gills for her ears, which are in fact ear holes just behind the gills. Because of that, even though she's a mammal, she can breath underwater. She can go around 200 meters deep, but no one really knows at how deep can mermaids go. Like every mermaid, Orseis is a voracious fish predator, eating them raw (remember, there's no fire underwater). She is also flesh eating, and can eat every animal that is too near water. Stories spread about mermaids eatings men, and even if few cases were recorded back time, it's not happening anymore nowadays. Contrary to her specie, she also loves cooked meat.

As a mermaid, she lives in fresh water, but she can live into oceans too. Orseis can also go on land, by squirming awkwardly. She can go very fast like that, but only on a short distance. However, this kind of things aren’t recommended to her since she needs to be hydrated often and that she can hardly defend herself on land. But because she’s quite curious, she likes to go on land to visit human towns, although people don’t like to see mermaids on land (mermaids were, and are still, considered as thieves because they were sneaking near towns and robbing food or items back time).


Here a previous pic of her: [link]

Thanks for Jazz-lizard for checking the text.

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:iconkaruilknight:
I like her too. She's pretty, for a mermaid in a wetsuit.

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Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup.
:icongamera1985:
yeah ^^ damn pretty
:icontransfnight:
She's so cute ^_^. I'm happy that you draw her again
:iconcoffeecoffee:
you could make a comic about her. thatd rock! shes a cutie alright. ill just assume that mermaids wear wetsuits.

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Religious people tried to prove the existence of God, and they Failed. Atheists tried to disprove the existence of God, and were met with a similar failure.
:icondarkstar2032:
Fantastic.
I figure even mermaids need to stay warm too. Right?
:stormtrooper:

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"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse." John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
:iconevil-jevil:
:hmm:
She looks like a 'Nami'... :nod:

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You Know what I don't understand? Why do some deviants link to their gallery in their signature, when people could just as easily click the thumbnail next to their name?
:iconhyday-shido:
this is one of my fav characters ^_^ please make a background and name and everything lol. another awesome job ^_^

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(About humans) "They Fear what they do not understand, and they despise what they fear."-Janos Audron (Soul Reaver 2)
:iconjsxeno:
Love this mermaid. I don't know why, but she is absolutely adorable. My personal favorite character you made, zam. Great job.

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Looks like I have to resort to the politician's golden rule: "If they can't prove it, deny, deny, deny."

Etna - Disgaea 2
:iconkarbo:
C'est vraiment une super idée cette combi pour une sirène :D
Elle a un petit air de Nami je trouve :)

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