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Published: 2009-12-27 14:33:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 5397; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 105
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WARNING: OLD ART!! The art and comments in this Deviation may no longer represent the artist's current views or interests.
Inspired by a wreck-dive I took while on vacation in Boracay. A combination of viperfish, oarfish, lionfish, and a myriad of other bioluminescent deep-sea creatures.
--Sak
All characters and artwork © Shamine Athena King
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You have very unique mermen; more fish-like.
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Bwaaa, they're so cool :3 *goes nuts for mers like this*
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They're marvelous.
I could tell the last scene was the kiss-of-life from the get-go. It's a classic!
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Shoopus! Yeah, I tried making the kiss-of-life less of a stereotype by making them both male. 
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Makes all the difference. Not as many will see it coming. XD
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Hahahaha, and a pain in the ass to color. xDDDD
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No surprise there. 0__0
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Wow we want to see more of your own characters and designs (we being the royal We of me 
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Hehehe, I'd have done more but I was too busy doing ... beachy ... things ... ">> I guess.
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Hot as sin, but more comfortable than in Singapore, because it's not so humid.
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Ugh I hate humidity! It makes my hair puff
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Oh god. xD Yes, it annoyed me so much when all I'd have to do was step out the door and my hair would frizz.
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Mine does that even before I step out the door...it's how I know it's humid or a storm is coming
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AHAHAH! It tells the weather! Sell it to CNN!
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I know, and some other person was selling a jar of air breathed by some one...I think it was Elvis
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xDDDDD
Air is recycled; we've all been breathing Elvis! Hell, I just farted on Elvis's air, beat that!
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I wont do that, because if it does sell I'll have to kill myself ...
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Wow, i'd love to go diving, but im so deathly afraid of ocean D:
Fish are beautiful, i like the way you took them into the merman, it's scary and yet loveable :3
Kind of reminds me of an eel as well.
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I used to be, too, and in fact deep dives still petrify me at first, when I'm descending and can't yet see the bottom, and it just looks like there's murky nothing underneath me ... I always find it so hard not to panic at those times.
Lovelovelovelovelove eels, so thank you!
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I live in sunny california e.o;
San deigo, so im often by the sea, but there is no diving out here really.
All there is is whale watching, but it's rare that a whale would be anywhere but seaworld.
I love seeing the eels at seaworld. They're sooo beautiful.
But everytime i go my friends lose me there D:
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I got to see a few "sand eels", one of which looked like a morey, which happens to be my favorite types of eels. Morey's are pure win.
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They have those at seaworld :333
You go underground a bit in the enclosure and see TONS of them all hidden half way in holes in the rocks.
Its below the sting rays that you can pet and feed :3
I love it!
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You can pet and feed sting rays?? oO Can't do that over here, that's for sure!
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oh no no, not the sting rays xD
Their inclosure is just connected below the sting rays, which you can feed and pet xD
I'd be scared as hell to pet an eel. As adorible as they are those teeth would wreck a person D:
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Well I doubt they're poisonous, but they'd sink in deep for sure.
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i saw a video of a guy who used to dive all the time and had an eel that stayed in the same place everyday.
He always feed it hotdogs, until one day he was taking too long to get it out of the bag and the eel bit his finger clen off
D:
I like animal planet xD
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Oh jeeze. oO Ouch. Way to repay him, you silly eel.
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Awesome! I'm actually a little something of a "fish nerd" and I completely see the resemblances of those fish in that piece. I actually want to go back to school for deep sea biology.
The fins in the third picture down blow me away.
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I seem to be good with fish ... my dad had three guppies: one died in his care, another died shortly after he came back from a business trip for a month, during which time I kept the two alive perfectly fine, and the third seems to be dying after leaving it for a week (with food, don't worry) but he's still alive ... for now. The color seems to be going out of his fins, though, poor guy.
Deep sea creatures scare and fascinate me at the same time.
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This is pretty stinking epic. I love the bottom one. I hope you post that short story. It looks like it will be a life saving story or something close. The details are amazing. You definatly have an eye for that.
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Heheheh, I'm that predictable, aren't I? I had no tablet so I had to do -something- to make it interesting, and tried pulling off crosshatching again,m after so long. Thankee kindly for the comments!
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not so much! I just happened to read the little label you had on the bottom of it and was all "ho-boy! that sounds EPIC"
And your hatching turned out incredible, and I just love this D=
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Oh yeah! I forgot about that! I usally hide them on Photoshop ... opsies!
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creepeh....
Looks very fish-like to me, though. (Burn you, I want a holiday at some place with beaches and diving and stuff, too >.< All I get is rain ... )
Oh, and that "fish with LED lights on them" thingy just made my day xDDD
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It's fun alright, but not quite Christmassy. My sister and I are nostalgic for snowy winters, full of thick blankets and sitting in front of fireplaces.
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me, too ... we even do have a fireplace now. but it's all lacking in snow ... (we did have some. for about a day or so. now it's mostly gray mud, and it's raining again ... not that winterly ... )
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Cold weather, grey skies, rain ... YEEESSSS it isss!! I've been living in nothing but SUMMER climes for the last 5 years!
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