Meet: Teles

Teles is a rare male siren specimen, despite de believe that they're only females. He comes from a nordic species, and in difference with regular mermaids, he posses two tails (like legs) instead of just one. He's capable to breath under and over water, but he does require constant moist for his skin to survive. His colours resemble a a japanese carp fish with bright oranges and white spots. He's often mistaken by a girl because of his fragile appearance. He was raised in a life of comfort as he was one of the few males born, therefore he was treated like royalty in his tribe.
His attitude can be a bit pedantic and childish at times, yet he tends to manage to see what people are like inside very easily. He's never had the need to do much in life, therefore he doesn't have many abilities that can help him scape. He comes from a very reserved and hostile tribe that are not very open to new ideas and traditions. This is probably his biggest frustration as he's grown with this feeling of restriction , explaining a lot of his grumpy personality. He never learned any self defence as he thought he'd never leave his tribe, so now he's stuck to what others can do for him to scape the conservatory. People in his tribe usually typically uses traditional tridents as a weapon along with their water affinities, yet he finds no desire on picking such a heavy weapon. His arms and vocal cords are sealed with magic by those ornaments, yet they don't posses much power as he's been limited to stay by the fountain.

In respect to his design, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to make him like a little prince. I got mixed feelings with his design, as some people though he was too feminine and slightly repulsive. I wanted to keep the feminine touch and gave a mix sexuality identity (hermaphrodite). Once again with the colours, I wanted to stay away from the norm (green/blue for underwater people) and still keep that colourful aspect of a fish. Also his names comes from latin american roots that mean siren, and decided to give him that name despite it being meant to be for girls.