Theory: symbiotic relationship. mermaids produce excessive milk at all life stages so the starfish drink it making the starfish well feed and the mermaid milked (which is important in over production of milk)
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Alternate Theory: Mermaid babies look like starfish. That "bra" is actually the normal process for mermaids to carry and feed their young.
I decided unilaterally that this is canon. Bring in the lorebooks gents we got some corrections and addendums to make.
Edit: wait so we stabilised that mermaids are ovviviparrous and mammals, like a platipus? The evolution tree needs a few reconsiderations maybe
I always figured mermaids would be more like cetaceans than fish. Having scales on their tails would be inaccurate, but breathing air, growing hair, and having a horizontal tail fluke are all in-line with mammals/cetaceans.
Not to mention, it would mean mermaids would have regular genitals (albeit hidden inside a genital fold, to increase hydrodynamics.) It would also mean they’d have normal placental pregnancies.
So that’s, uhh… a thing to consider.
Umm man had sex with a fish and some very very unlikely offsprings endedup being the humans of the sea and so they dominating it.
What evolution do you need?
Just the kinky ones. The rest wear clamshells
So that’s how strapless bras work!
Man, never have I wanted to be a starfish so bad in my life.
Why would a mermaid even need a bra for?
Their sexual allure to humans is part of their natural survival strategy.
Neither starfish or clamps add any support either.
Makes as much sense as a sentient peacock butterfly covering the eyes on its wings cause its shy.
The starfish, clamshells etc. serve only the purpose of appeasing American religious conservatives.
And, I suppose, to keep Disney's G to PG rating. Can't really market a movie to kids and show animated titties, now can you? Also, she's only 16, so there's that.
Then again, why is Ariel only 16 to begin with? I get that she's a teenager in the source material, but it's not like Disney has never taken artistic liberties. And it's not like 18 year olds don't deal with power struggles with their parents. I was having power struggles with mine at 22.
Maybe the ones with bras are able to allure more people?
Natural selection gonna naturally select
Well, I just found out that manatee mammaries are located in their armpits, so I think we're going to need to pull up the drawing board on this one. Seems like mermaids need a total do over!
Their anus is also there, BTW.
I feel like the classic image the mermaid in my head is clamshells as a bra. However, my extensive mermaid knowledge consists of: ariel, the concept of the undine (which I have never seen depicted and I’m not sure is a mermaid actually, is this something that encompasses mermaids technically? Not really my forte), and decerto, who I have also never seen depicted
I feel like the classic image the mermaid in my head is clamshells as a bra.
You might be thinking of Ariel
However, my extensive mermaid knowledge consists of: ariel,
Undyne is an undine. So there's a depiction. They are water nymphs tho. Not technically a mermaid?
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It's pretty obvious they are sea sex toys.
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this just in, starfish need milk. news at 11.
I audibly laugh at this
