Musings and Headcannons
Imagine a trans Merman living in the Mako universe
Always feeling out of place but never really understanding why. Imagine always hearing those stories about Mermen and realising that you were one of them. Imagine dealing with the dysphoria of having these chest scales and in the colour orange. Imagine sneaking away from your Pod and using corals to paint your scales blue and loving how it looks but still not being able to do anything about your chest.
Then imagine going onto land and releasing up here it's easier to be who you are. You can make yourself look like a boy, you don't have the constant reminder that you're alive because you look like a Mermaid. You tell the land people you're a boy and they don't question it. That dysphoria is always there though, everytime you transform.
But then imagine hearing about surgeries you can get. Top surgery. You wonder - will it work on both forms? Obviously you can't get an operation as a Mer but if you got it as a human, would it transfer over?
Cam is gay and struggling with it, he projects a crush instead
You're not meant to have a crush on your teacher. But then he doesn't. He's projecting because that's a thing apparently. Going after women you know you can't get so the rejection makes you feel normal.
Maybe it's a bit more than that. He wants to be like her in that way that she's not afraid to kiss girls in front of other people and he's too afraid to tell the guy he likes that he actually likes him.
Musing on the character of Evie
Evie , when she became a Mermaid essentially lost who she was. She was a studious, hard-working girl who wanted to be a journalist and a fashion designer, who cared so much about keeping her place at Suncoast High and maintaining a strong relationship with her father. She cared so much about her friends that she dove into the ocean and into a strange cave in the middle of the night to save Zac. True she did keep this instinct, as seen when she tried to defend Zac from the dragon, but she let her other friendships slide in favour of Mermaid stuff. She stopped studying with Zac, passed off her friends in favour for the Mermaids.
In all though she was just simply given another world. And in accepting that world and being accepted in to that world, she lost sight of her old world. When she lost her tail she suddenly lost access to that other world, but I believe it was for the better. She was given a chance to reach for her goals again, to be what she wanted again, with no fear. She lost the magic in herself but gained her life back. Even if she become okay without it.
Some Headcannons
In southern Mer society the matriarchal bonds are dismissed, instead the Pods are a closer knit sisterhood. Who your mother are does not matter, instead it's who you associate with , who you chose to be your closet friends does.
Southern Pods are the only ones to follow this. Eastern and Northern Pods are arranged similar yet matriarchal connections are valued higher.
Touch is very important.
Moon Rings are of cultural significance