Glacier the Mermaid

## Glacier

Concept Art

"**Maybe some of them are good**"
—Glacier in regards to humans

**Glacier the Mermaid** is a fan character designed by Frostybites16. Glacier resides in the Mermaids: The Body Found universe, a docufiction released in 2012.

Glacier is a young mermaid who reflects the current effects pollution is having on our oceans. He does not have the ability to speak any human languages, he and and his people communicate through echolocation and occasional body language. but he knows American sign language (ASL) and can use it as a way to communicate with others who know it. He is kind and well-meaning but often lets his curiosity often get the better of him.

## Appearance

He is a legless humanoid, that has smooth and rubbery skin with no hair. He has soft facial features, two big eyes, and he has a large sagittal crest on the top of his head. He possesses a small lip fang as well as very prominent canines. His hands are big and fully webbed and he has small but sharp claws. He has a small dorsal fin on his back, and a slim waist and wide hips, with a long rounded paddle-shaped tail like that of a manatee, though unlike a manatee his is vaguely diamond shaped.

While his kind are typically blue or grey, Glacier is an albino, being almost completely white, with some pinkish undertones. He does have some faint patterning, though, with a pink dorsal stripe on his back and a piebald pattern that wraps onto his arms and neck but is most noticeable starting around his waist and covering the entirety of his tail. His eyelids are pink, resembling mascara, and his eyes are red.

He has the quirky tendency to turn bright pink when he's feeling angry, sad, excited, or even embarrassed. The phenomenon results from his pigmentless skin, which causes blood vessels to change in color tone depending on his emotional state. Essentially, he blushes with his whole body.

He has decorated himself with trash he found around the ocean (much to his pod's dismay), using discarded items to make necklaces or loop them around his tail, including a broken compass he wears around his neck, as well as a 711 trash bag he wears around his waist for collecting items, and some small buoys wrapped around his tail. He also has a few barnacles growing on his back, shoulders, waist, and tail. He wields a discarded pitchfork armed with carved corals and stingray stingers.

## Personality

Glacier is very friendly and well meaning but can be very stubborn as well. he can be a little shy, but he can also be extremely brave when a situation calls for it. He his very curious and observant and investigates anything that gets his attention, his curiosity can often get the better of him though

## Abilities

**Natural Abilities:**

* **Speed Swimming:** Being a mermaid, Glacier is capable of swimming much faster than normal humans and even certain aquatic/marine creatures in terms of undersea travel or sea travel.
* **Echolocation/Sonar:** Glacier can put out a call, and the echo helps him find objects. Like whales and dolphins, His kind possess a melon - an organ that gives them the ability of echolocation, which they also use to communicate with their own species as well as with whales and dolphins. Their language is highly complex.
* **Breath holding:** Glacier can hold his breath for up to 90 minutes at a time
* **Diving:** Like other members of his species, Glacier has a hinged ribcage which protects their organs from the extreme pressure of the deep, and special proteins allow them to store oxygen in muscle tissue. They're capable of holding their breath for nearly an hour, which enables them to dive deeper. Glacier can dive as deep as 3,280 feet
* **Night Vision:** Glacier's eyes are well-developed and able to see in the dark.
* **Ocular illumination:** Glacier has the ability to project light from his eyes when he is in dimly lit areas.

**Unique Abilities:**

* **Color Changing**: Glacier usually whitish with some faint pink markings and undertones, but can turn bright pink when feeling strong emotions, and other times he can appear completely white, or sometimes even creamy colored.

**Skillset:**

* **Resourcefulness**: Glacier is very resourceful, being able to use his surroundings very well to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.
* **Weapon proficiency:** Glacier is skilled at using a melee weapons, such as a large discarded pitchfork armed with stingray stingers, to eliminate targets. He's also adept at using spears, and he can also create makeshift weapons on the fly
* **Precision:** Glacier has good aim, able to throw spears or his pitchfork with almost perfect accuracy to capture fish
* **Crafting:** Glacier hands, although webbed, are still highly dexterous and useful for manipulating tools. He has learned to make tools such as nets and spears among other things from his pod and is quite good at it
* **Bilingualism:** Glacier has learned vocalizations from some other species. He grew up around bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales, and can change the types of sounds he makes to resemble those of some of his interspecies social partners. In addition to being able to speak mermaid, bottlenose, and humpback, has learned the languages of other cetaceans including but not limited to - blue whale, vaquita, and even orca as well. Eventually through interactions with a human friend of his, he also learns ASL sign language.
* **Musical Talent:** Glacier can play the harmonica, he uses various objects as percussion instruments, and he likes to sing soft melodies. (Though his songs have no words that a human would be able to understand, but he can make very human-like noises which can be pretty eerie. He just can't speak verbal human languages as previously stated.)

## Relationships

### Family

* **His Pod:** unnamed family members
* **Ruddy the vaquita:** Best Friend

## Trivia

* Glacier was created on September 15, 2022
* Glacier's unique tendency to turn pink is based off a rare bottlenose dolphin named Angel, who is infamous for having the same ability, so I thought why not give this trait to Glacier too, him also being an albino marine mammal.
* Glacier's design was based off various albino cetaceans, albino neon tetras, and images of manatees with barnacles growing on them.
* Glacier is a direct descendent of the merman who sacrificed himself to the megalodon, and a relative of the P.T Barnum Mermaid.
* Glacier's Canon birthday is September 15th, 2002.
* Glacier's themes are Sigur Rós - Flugufrelsarinn, Ryan Adams - Desire, and Novo Amor - Carry You