valiant12
Sage
I recently found one of my old stories featuring a human offshoot calling themselves mermaids, who have strong psychic powers and have evolved to live in a world with a lot of ocean water (similar to our earth ). Since those mermaids have evolved from humans the breath with their lungs and spend most of their time on land.
But what about mermaids who are not directly related to humans. Which method of breathing is more suitable for vaguely humanoid sea creatures. Breathing with lungs like mammals or breathing with gills like fish.
Pros of breathing with lungs-
-cetacean like tails look better
-air breathing mermaids can probably learn human language
- Is more realistic for mammalian mermaids have breasts and long hair. Beautiful monster girls make good covers.
Cons
-I'm not sure that mammalian mermaids can build a civilization. Humpback whales are smart, probably smarter than humans, but they are busy resurfacing to breath.
-humanoid creatures making whale like blows would be silly
pros of breathing with gills-
-they can spend their whole life underwater, building underwater cities. Underwater cities make great covers.
-they don't have blowholes.
-they are more exotic
cons
-they can't speak
-fish tails are weird
-no sonar
-no breasts
-fishes aren't very smart
But what about mermaids who are not directly related to humans. Which method of breathing is more suitable for vaguely humanoid sea creatures. Breathing with lungs like mammals or breathing with gills like fish.
Pros of breathing with lungs-
-cetacean like tails look better
-air breathing mermaids can probably learn human language
- Is more realistic for mammalian mermaids have breasts and long hair. Beautiful monster girls make good covers.
Cons
-I'm not sure that mammalian mermaids can build a civilization. Humpback whales are smart, probably smarter than humans, but they are busy resurfacing to breath.
-humanoid creatures making whale like blows would be silly
pros of breathing with gills-
-they can spend their whole life underwater, building underwater cities. Underwater cities make great covers.
-they don't have blowholes.
-they are more exotic
cons
-they can't speak
-fish tails are weird
-no sonar
-no breasts
-fishes aren't very smart
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