Mermaid Liminal

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## General Information

### Subspecies

* Eel Mermaid Liminal
* Fresh Water Mermaid Liminal
* Lamprey Mermaid Liminal
* Shark Mermaid Liminal
* Siren Liminal
* Tropical Mermaid Liminal

## Meta-Physical

### Reality Type(s)

* Manga (Originally)
* Anime
* Video Game

### Media Source(s)

Monster Musume: Everyday Life with a Monster Girl

### Creator(s)

Takemaru Inui

The **Mermaid Liminals** are a race of Liminals from the manga and anime series, Monster Musume: Everyday Life with a Monster Girl.

## Physiology

Mermaid Liminals secrete a slippery slime to keep from drying out, as they can only function upon land if their gills remain adequately moist. These gills are located along the waist and are compatible with both fresh and salt water. In addition to gills, Mermaid Liminals also have a humanoid respiratory system that allows vocalization and breathing through the mouth. This effectively makes them amphibious in the sense that they can breathe air as well. Mermaid Liminals need to stay moist even on dry land, as they are more prone to dehydration than land creatures.

Mermaid Liminals have webbing between their fingers to aid in swimming and their pelvic fins (which appear to be closer in structure to an unfeathered bird's wing than any fish's hindfin) are the main modes of steering in the water, with propulsion achieved via the muscular tail, which has a horizontal fin at the end. They even have fin-like ears. This tail is not as long as that of an Eel Mermaid Liminal's or Lamia Liminal's, and Mermaid Liminals must either drag themselves with their arms and pelvic fins while on land or employ wheelchairs. Mermaid Liminals vary individually by color of their tail and fins, the former of which commonly matches the individual's hair color. These colors are often soft, flowery, and bright like that of tropical fish, as opposed to the more solid and hard colors of the fishfolk.

Mermaid Liminals, like most bony fish, have swim bladders to help control buoyancy. They are said to be able to reach speeds of 50 km/h (31 mph) while swimming.

## Pre-Apocalypse

The Mermaid Liminals, unlike their Mamono cousins, have been suffering a huge decline as their society is supposedly dealing with an "elopement problem". As, due to the society's fascination with The Little Mermaid tale and "tragic romance" involving another species, the number of young Mermaid Liminal women (and Merman Liminals for that matter) meeting humans by the seashore and eloping with them is rising dramatically; resulting in a dwindling population. Even the king of the nation eloped with a human woman. As a result, Mermaid Liminal-Human relations have soured and driven at least some Mermaid Liminal houses to seek isolation from the human world. In truth, however, the "elopement problem" turns out to have been exaggerated by the Mermaid Queen for the sake of creating the drama and tragedy that so many mermaids adore (and the king eloped because the queen herself had been cheating on him with a human). Once this is resolved the species become as free as any other in seeking relationships with humans.

In the psyche multiverse, many of them have venture out into the bigger multiverse with many of them preferring to live on colonies with large oceans or just an ocean world entirely as they continue with their "eloping". Or try to make up tragedies in order to encourage more of the "eloping problem". However, some people found a way to stop these tragedy addicts by placing a few nanites into their brains to have them stop being tragedy addicts. Whether or not it is true is still up for debate.

## Post-Apocalypse

They are more or less the same yet there are a much larger number of those that have nanites in their brains that are more productive and helpful rather than trying to elope. Even after the apocalypse. Yet many of them venture out to seek new oceans to colonize and establish kingdoms of their own with the help of many of their kindred.