Illustrations, drawn in black ballpoint pen, of the courtship between a nixen (a female shark-mermaid) and a mersalmon (a male). The female is seen biting the male (on the chest, in this case) and then gazing at him lovingly, while he displays the bite marks on his torso.

There are known cases of mersalmon males who willingly accepted to undergo the torture of bites, typical of nixen courtship, and managed to produce fertile offspring with them.

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Black and white ballpoint pen traditional illustration of two male merfolk fighting. They're strong and muscular, and both of them have a goatee.

So, yeah, more mersalmon Xanatos and Vlad, sketched with ballpoint pen! They may fight, but they're friends. Like brothers. And maybe, yeah, real brothers too.

(They do this just for show. Y'know, to impress the ladies).

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Chibi style digital illustration of a merman with bright red lower body/tail/fins and green upper body. He also has a lot of black hair, with a white stripe in the middle, and red eyes.

Although it is rare, some male mersalmon (estimated one in four hundred) also exhibit a color change on the skin, which is pigmented green, with the ends of the upper limbs (arms and wrists) particularly dark (and called "gloves").

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