User blog:Rai-Knightshade/Character Designs Alert

Yo guys, just letting you know, I'm working on changing a couple of things up about Arion Neptune and Tempis Courtly. Namely, that I'm retconning their race identifications from vaugely-white-ish to most-decidedly-Pacific-Islander. They both already have the hair for it, plus it makes a lot of sense concerning their story of the Little Mermaid that merpeople might have a lot in common with islander people (water connection and all that). Why am I doing both of them when I've clearly put more time into Arion? Because half the reason the story of the Little Mermaid worked was because the Mermaid and the Temple Girl looked physically similar; it therefore stands to reason that Arion, the Merman, and Tempis, the Temple Girl, would look physically similar, even though anyone not half drowned in sea water would be able to tell the difference between the two. (This is also part of the reason why Arion is a countertenor-to a half-drowned man, his voice might be confused with a woman's, especially a lower-pitched woman's.) I'm currently working on new designs for the two. Note: Arion will continue to have his striking blue-green-grey eyes, I'm just planning on making them look more... unnatural, as they're part of his merman genes rather than his human ones. I haven't decided if Tempis's eyes will match to any extent or if she'll have her own human eye color.

Oh, also? Circe Cecaelia might be getting new color updates, specifically making her significantly more blue-tinged as she'll have very little human genes to her. (I headcanon that while human-mermpeople relationships are more common now than they were during the original Little Mermaid's time, they're still not terribly common and so only the Royal Family's bloodline has any significant amount of human blood in it; most other merfamilies have a majority of merblood in them and so they appear considerably more inhuman than the Royals. This sometimes causes resentment among the merpeople as they may think that the Royal bloodline is tainted.)