Hybrids, A deep dive.

『ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝟝』

Now we will move onto the Aquatic hybrids. These hybrids breath and live underwater, but it is important to note that they CAN breath above water for short periods of time.

Merlings:
Merling hybrids are the most common of the Aquatic hybrids and are the only type to still have legs rather than tails, making it easy for them to transition to land. These hybrids have webbed fingers and toes and along the back of their arms, legs and spine these hybrids have fins. It is also important to note that around their stomach, to their underhand and inner legs these hybrids skin is lighter.
The fins can also be found behind their ears and their gills are located on their neck. They do not have any unique hair or eye colours, but their skin can be anywhere from normal human skin to an irregular colour.
On average they are around 6'0 feet tall.

Gaurdians:
They have a similar bodytype to the Merlings except instead of having legs they have a tail. The scales for the tail depend on the gender. Females will have scales that climb to their chest while Males will have their scales blend into their hips and along their sides.
Strangly, these hybrids do not have gills or lungs. The bodily annatomy is hard to explain, but these hybrids, to put it simply, don't need to breathe.
These gaurdians have a greyscale skin colour and their hair can be either Grey, Turquoise or Lavender while their eyes can be Red, Pink or Yellow.
They do not have ears and they are lacking in the ability to seak or hear, forcing them use sign language.

The inavility to hear is an interesting one as they have a kind of echo-location that means they can identify when something enters or leaves the water and in which dirrection it's heading even if the thing in question isn't in their dirrect line of sight.

Gaurdians are, on average, around 6'0 feet however there are a some that grow to be around 7'0 that are we refer to as the "Elders". The word "Elders" refers to their comnection to their ancestors rather than age, and will be accompanied by spiritual markings along their skin in the same colour as their eyes. These markings are to show their comnection to acient magics which they use to protect their villages.

Gaurdians are the top members of the Aquatic hybrids and considered royalty.

Squid:
These hybrids are the only Aquatic that doesn't grow hair, instead of hair they have what seems like a hood of flesh that wraps around from their head to their shoulders as seen in figure A:

Instead of legs these hybrids will have multiple tails that they use to glide around the water with.

These hybrids have very sharp teeth and tend to have Greyscale skin and natural coloured eyes, however, it should be noted they have rectangular pupils.

Glow squid hybrids:
These annatomically are built the same as normal squid hybrids, however, these hybrids have Blue or Turquoise skin that glows in the water.

These hybrids are slightly rarer than the average squid hybrid and is often sought out for the slimey resedue on their skin as it is known to be the source of their glowing skin. The slime is harmless to remove and can reacumulate quite easily, but this does typically mean they are taken to factorys as cash cow of sorts.

『 Important note on Aquatics 』

After further investigating we found:

Merlings can have more unatural skin colours if they are a sertain breed of fish. The recorded data at the top is just the Average across the Merlings and seen as the common base.

Some Squid hybrids can come in Pink or redish colouring and sometimes the Glow Squid hybrids will not be able to produce as much of the slime or not as fast which can irritate the skin.

Elder Gaurdians are devided into different sides depending on if they have the markings, as priveously meantioned, or if they have scales lining their body in an armour-like pattern. The gaurdians with scales are typically male and often will have the flesh hood, meantioned in the Squids, rather than hair. The hood on them will be covered in Scales though rather than flesh.
Elder gaurdians markings can actually glow in the water.