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Published: 2019-08-20 17:30:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3129; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 14
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Description Another Spyro related pic. This time of a more obscure character, specifically from Hero's Tail (which I have a bevy of mixed feelings for).

For all the fairies in the series, it's dissapointing that it took five games in before we saw my favorite: mermaids. Personally, I prefer mermaids to fairies, mainly because I love the sensation of bouancy in the water, and if I could, I'd totally stay near forever underwater. There's nothing like it. 

Going off that tangent, we finally got a glimpse of mermaids in Hero's Tail, one in particular, Lily, picture here, a resident of a place called Mermaid Coast, both in Hero's Tail, but also in Season of Ice and Season of Fire (GBA games). Even Skylanders gave them much needed attention.

Though for the Reignited continuity (or at least, in my little universe, those are always fun), Lily here is a resident of Dragon Shores, a coastline off of the Artisan World accessed via portal there (portals, at least to me, are essentially warp points to further away areas in the home worlds), the former access point of the Aquifiers (now nearly extinct). Yet while they were there, the Aquifiers and Mermaids had a rivalry with each other over territory. Now that they're all nearly gone (none living in the area as of now), the Mermaids have taken over, and claimed the coastline as their own. 

Dragons are naturally cautious of the seafolk, unlike Fairies. Mermaids hold no alligence to the Dragons, and do as they see fit, thus, some are fine with them and actually wish to be friends (Lily here being one of that ilk), some are neutral, and some are outright malicious. Unlike Fairies, they hold bewitching, hauntingly beautiful voices that, should they choose, can ensare and enrapture any living thing, and should they see fit to, lead them into the water to either make them their slaves and/or drown them. And whomever is the current Queen of the Mermaids usually influences which of the two, or neither, is done to the land dwellers. 

Of course, Lily here isn't like that. While she and her people currently are under the leadership of the land hating Queen Ineptune, this young merwoman is intrigued and fascinated by other creatures, wishing to explore and see more of it. And in doing so, perhaps come and befriend a certain little dragon that also has a hankering to explore.

That was a mouthful. But I'd love to delve into this further, yet I feel this has gone on long enough. Let me know if you like! Thank you!

Water and cloud brushes by and respectively.

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Comments: 17

SuperMarioFan65 [2021-05-15 03:53:00 +0000 UTC]

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RockmanGurl In reply to SuperMarioFan65 [2021-05-15 04:04:31 +0000 UTC]

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MariaTenebre [2019-09-06 07:48:43 +0000 UTC]

I love Lily's design here. I bet she and Spyro could be good friends. I could even see her helping him overthrow Queen Ineptune. Maybe afterwards Lily could be the Queen of the Merfolk and create peace with the Mermaids and Dragons.

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RockmanGurl In reply to MariaTenebre [2019-09-06 17:39:25 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that'd be cool! Thanks for the suggestion! Maybe after Ineptune's tyranny is over, they could have something of a democratic monarchy or something along those lines. Like she becomes a 'president'.

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DarthArchanist [2019-08-22 09:03:17 +0000 UTC]

Mermaids first appeared in Season of Ice, which came out a full 3 years begore A Hero's Tail. So technically they were introduced 4 games in, with Hero's Tail being the 8th overall.

Great artwork by the way

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RockmanGurl In reply to DarthArchanist [2019-08-22 10:51:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh really? Wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for both the comment and info.

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Kaldorei-Sowa [2019-08-22 06:56:01 +0000 UTC]

holy buckets I remember this mermaid though my childhood playing that video game!  

And I like how you portray them living in the dragon realm

She looks beautiful in your own style good job!  

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RockmanGurl In reply to Kaldorei-Sowa [2019-08-22 10:52:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! Never played the game, but I love exploring obscure stuff in the series.

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Kaldorei-Sowa In reply to RockmanGurl [2019-08-23 04:20:36 +0000 UTC]

its pretty good game in my opinion I recommended trying it out  

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RockmanGurl In reply to Kaldorei-Sowa [2019-08-23 15:51:54 +0000 UTC]

Maybe, though I don't know if I have any liable way to play Gamecube games. 

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Nikkigamer [2019-08-22 00:01:12 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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RockmanGurl In reply to Nikkigamer [2019-08-22 02:00:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Nikkigamer In reply to RockmanGurl [2019-08-22 16:14:22 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Teaganm [2019-08-20 22:11:18 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful 

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RockmanGurl In reply to Teaganm [2019-08-21 00:43:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Agent505 [2019-08-20 17:44:03 +0000 UTC]

I bought that game but found my copy to be unplayable - kinda a shame, I'm a sucker for mermaids in any game. 

At least Lily looks great here.

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RockmanGurl In reply to Agent505 [2019-08-20 18:20:03 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thank you so much! Never played it either. Love mermaids too.

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