Where Do The Little Mermaids Come From?

A question like that in the teen tank: from the bottom of their tails

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Can't say I do, no

This was also asked on the teen think tank, so this is my answer from that.

Before I start this I just have to say: you asked for it

So since mermaids are mainly human, I would assume that they are mammals. That means that a merman would have to get a mermaid pregnant just like humans. But they do have tails which cover up where the human genitals would be. We don't even know how do they go to the bathroom? Well maybe they're genitals are end of there tails! For a merman to get a mermaid pregnant, what if all they had to do was essentially put one tail in the other. News flash– 🧜‍♂️the little flap at the ends of their tails are mermaid-protection. And in case the water gets to the right temperature, they give the protection to everyone, even children. The mermaid gets pregnant just like any human would, but out of their tails. Then after *insert time here* the child is ready to come out of the mermaid's tail. That would definitely be very difficult for the mother because the tails get smaller as they reach the bottom. But then why don't the mother's tails have marks? They get new scales. The mother must have lots of time after the birth to recover, which is probably why Ariel had so many sisters, because their mom loved having all that time to just lay there while her tail gets back into normal form. Then when the mermaid has had enough time to fully recover she must do it all over again or actually take care of her family.

ayy you remembered my post lol

The question is even how they mate. Please note the way fishes mate is completely different from how humans do it. Fishes unlike humans, don't even touch each other... The females lay eggs and the males spray their sperm onto them. Fishes are completely different from mammals on this point (the shark maybe as a notable exception as sharks can get pregnant).

Now mermaids are beings from folklore and their reproduction stories are not mentioned in folklore. The fact that their intelligence is similar to humans does not mean their anatomy characteristics are the same. Fantasy writers have come up with people who look like humans, but who are not born out of pregnancy, but who hatch from eggs. Since folklore does not discuss the details of how mermaids come to be, I guess writers who come up with stories about them do therefore have the full freedom to come up with their own thoughts on this one.

One nice detail... Mermaids, and their male counterparts, mermen, are often depicted having a navel. This would indicate they are born from a womb and not from laid eggs, since creatures born from laid eggs do normally not have a navel. After all, the navel has no more medical function after birth, as it's merely the scar left when the connection with the mother body (for providing food and oxygen) is severed... When you are inside an egg you don't have a physical connection with your mother. However mermaids come in all shapes and sizes, and there are also the kind where the fish part reaches up to the shoulders only leaving human arms and a human head, and then things are completely different, and then the navel is missing and then the egg story becomes more into play.

And then there's the kind of mermaid is in the romantic comedy "Splash" in which Tom Hanks falls in love with a mermaid. The mermaid here only has her fish part when in salt water. Does that mean that when not in salt water, her reproduction organs work the same as on humans?

Well since mermaids are not real, and come in many shapes and sizes, I guess anything is possible depending on the sage and the writer of that saga. For me as a fantasy writer, good news 😜😜

They don't

They take their fins of and start f**king

Maybe they lay eggs... 🤔

Mermaids are not frogs

neither are fish but fish lay eggs

Nope.