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Hi-Res Mortasheen, Art File Download and Concept notes: Diamrem!

Added 2020-06-27 08:58:01 +0000 UTC

There's just something about dead, rotten fish I find exceptionally cool, creepy and surreal as imagery. I already poured this into a few other monsters, but then the Junjo, a "reverse mermaid," wound up being kind of my ultimate smelly fish monster. This still wasn't really enough, since I kept having idea after idea for more cousins to give it, and since the Junjo is a "reverse mermaid," I wanted to do a "reverse reverse mermaid" too; it has a human torso and a fish tail, but the fish tail is the head end.

Every monster in this family also incorporates parasitic crustaceans in some way, and I flip-flop on whether I should actually make them Wormbrains. This would mean that the parasitic crustaceans are in turn controlled by the brain flukes that control other wormbrain species. It makes more sense the more I consider it, but I also kind of liked the rotten merfolk to be their own thing.

Diamrem's name is literally just "Mermaid" backwards, but oddly almost nobody noticed.

Attached are Sai and PSD files if you want to play around with them!