honestly a big indicator of a good game for me is the ability to just chill in it. if you can enjoy yourself just stopping to take in the scenery and listen to the music and ambience, or hanging out on the title screen, or ignoring the main gameplay to go off and screw around picking flowers, or even just mousing over all the menu options for the tactile feedback, chances are it’s a good fucking game
Unlike ocean mermaids who have plenty of room to grow their hair, freshwater mermaids prefer shorter styles similar to humans; because of their close proximity to the surface, “freshies” may also be seen wearing hats to block out sunlight and peek out from the water like alligators.
Additionally, due to their small size in even smaller environments like lakes and rivers, freshwater mermaids prefer human speech for communication over the whale-like humming used by their ocean relatives to speak.
Abyssal mermaid, humming: [Hello cousin…!] River mermaid, tipping their seashell cowboy hat: HOWDY
Give me whump but most important give me the comfort after the whump
Give me carrying characters to safety. Give me fighting while one is on the ground. Give me the aftermath where the rest of the cast beg their friend to wake up.
Give me soft hospital visits and silent rooms. Give me sleeping in a chair by the bedside. Sometimes resting back and sometimes falling asleep with their head tucked in their arms on the mattress.
Give me the thinking, the pondering, the “what if I’d done something different.” Give me the guilt and choking back tears because they think this is their fault.
Give me rustling on the bed and startled gasps and soft callings of “are you awake?” “Are you with us?”. Give me struggling to regain and stay conscious. Give me fading in and out. Give me bleary half lidded eyes suddenly coming open.
Give me confusion and questions, hoarse voices and gently shushing. Give me hugs and soft smiles and gratefulness they they’re still alive. Give me hand holding and quick touches, platonic, romantic, or otherwise.
Just give me the hurt but also give me the sweet soft comfort
If I'm your savior, then you're mine. 