Merpeople (Carddass Mermaid)

Merpeople are a species that appears in the Carddass Mermaid manga. Mermaids are fish people that live anywhere in the sea.
==Biology==
Millennia ago, the city of Atlantis sank beneath the surface due to an earthquake. Out of pity, Poseidon uses his powers to change the inhabitants into Mermaids (human above the waist, fish below). Using science and sorcery to adapt to life on the ocean floor, the population increased and some even left to begin other kingdoms. Over millennia, Mermaids evolved further due to the use of magic and sorcery, to the point where Mermaids sorcerers and scientists, in a attempt to adapt even more to the ocean, unknowingly turning a portion of the Merpeople population into Mer-Beasts, with the heads and torsos of anthropomorphic animals and the tails of fish. Mer-Beasts have traits of the animals they are based on. As Mer-Beasts were once human Merpeople transformed prementily by the experiments, they are viewed as equals by the human Merpeople, to the point of being in a counsel and even Kings and Queens.
==Culture==
Merpeople lives in kingdoms that are ruled by a royal family. While there are underwater kingdoms, they also flourishing and modern, with a big city or capital with huge buildings and very active businesses and modern amenities like phones and laptops. Some kingdoms are based on different counties on land. Mermaids have schools they teach kids about magic and how to use it. All kingdoms have Royal Guards, trained warriors with a system of serving both the royal family and the people in the kingdoms. Royal families also have mercenaries in their employment, often doing tasks that the Royal Guards wouldn't do. Some mercenaries even work at part of the Royal Guards. In Mu, Mermaids can have more than one job in each city. When a merperson become a Royal Guard member, a spell is cast by the Princesses of the Sea with the blessing of the gods that allows the merperson to transcend their physical body to a spiritual one with enchanted powers.
Merpeople are mammals and the female Mermaid give birth to babies after a 3-month pregnancy period. Reproductive organs are similar to dolphins. Merpeople are born with their tails in the water. Polyamorous relationship and marriage are common to Merpeople.
Do to having many different cultural backgrounds, Merpeople are bilingual in nature, being able to fluently speak every language, even conversing in several different languages in the same conversation. In addition, they can also use their arms, hands and tails to do sign language and can mimic sea creatures and land animals sounds.
Mermaids can transform humans into Mermaids or Mer-Beasts through magic, as well as make it temporary or preament. When humans gets transformed for the first time, their gills would need time to function, thus they still need to breathe air and must seek out an air reservoir scattered in designated areas around the undersea kingdoms or buddy breathe with another Mermaid.
==Appearance==
Mermaids and Mer-Beasts are generally depicted as human and/or an anthropomorphized variant of any animal species from the middle of the body and up, while a fish tail replaces the lower body. Mermaids have gills from their torso up to their necks. The child of either a Mer-Beast and a Mermaid or two different types of Mer-Beasts can only inherit one of their parents' forms. Mermaids' tails varies in color and appearances from one of five types of aquatic animals (Fish, Sharks, Whales, Dolphins, Seals).
Merpeople can choose to wear cloths or not, though all Mermaids wears magical swim trucks that can merge with the fish tail. All female Mermaids wear a top that can switch between seashell bra and bandeau top made from magical waterproof fabric.
==Jobs/Roles==
*Sirens - Female members of the Royal Guards that uses their enchantingly beautiful and melodic voices to assist in magic or simply entertain those heard it, mostly kids.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Aquatic Habitation - Merpeople can survive and adapt to underwater environments such as high water pressure, the effects of freezing and extreme water temperatures. They're also immure to toxic water.
*Cryokinesis - Merpeople have the ability to freeze water as well as freely create and control solid ice, snow and frost underwater.
*Endurance - Merpeople are able to swim for days without exhaustion, something which no human has the stamina to do. They can dive at depths no human could withstand, even with submarines or the most expensive dive equipment.
*Enhanced Senses - Just like sea lions, whales and dolphins, mermaids, due to living in the sea, can hear sounds far off the ultrasonic frequency. They also have enhanced night vision.
*Electrokinesis - the ability to generate and control pure lightning and electricity.
*Enhanced Strength - Merpeople are physically much stronger than humans.
*Hydrokinesis - The elemental ability to create, control, and manipulate liquid water at will.
*Hydro-Thermokinesis - Mermaid have the ability to heat and boil the water.
*Siren Singing - A musical/voice-related magical ability that allows a Mermaid to enchanted their abitites. Only mermaids have this ability.
*Sound Waves - Merpeople can use echolocation like dolphins and whales.
*Speed Swimming - Merpeople can swim for an entirety without fatigue. Mermaids are also able to swim at 600 km per hour for long periods of time as well jump over the water like dolphins.
*Telekinesis - Merpeople can manipulate the movement of object like causing them to rise.
*Transformation - Merpeople can changes their fish tails to legs and back again on both land and water. They can also change how it looks in color and appearances and grow scales from across the body.
*Underwater Breathing - In order to live underwater, Merpeople are amphibious and have the ability to breathe underwater due to their skins and gills on their torso and necks, which negates the need to surface to breathe air. However, they are also capable of breathing air outside of the water. It's also shown that Mermaids can hold their breath for an unlimited almost of time with no difficulty or discomfort. Merpeople can also stop their pulse and stop breathing all together underwater and still function.
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