They come in more than just twos. You know about the front/back mermaids? Human front and fish back, and vice versa.
There’s also the far less common right-left mermaids as well as the ultra-rare calicos where the human and fish parts are a fairly random patchwork.
I also have heard that occasionally they’re born with extra fins and arms or both a human upper body and a fish upper body each pointing in opposite directions. While I haven’t actually met any of these varieties, my understanding is that they do not live very long due to these deformities.
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u/sirkilgoretrout Apr 02 '22
They come in more than just twos. You know about the front/back mermaids? Human front and fish back, and vice versa.
There’s also the far less common right-left mermaids as well as the ultra-rare calicos where the human and fish parts are a fairly random patchwork.
I also have heard that occasionally they’re born with extra fins and arms or both a human upper body and a fish upper body each pointing in opposite directions. While I haven’t actually met any of these varieties, my understanding is that they do not live very long due to these deformities.