Nearly a month ago, we launched an initiative we’re fondly referring to as “Mermaid Mondays.” In a lot of ways, Blowfish Meets Meteor revolves around these goofy little whipper-snappers – after all, the whole purpose of the game is to rescue them from all manner of ridiculous scenarios. Over the course of creating the game, we’ve spent countless hours doing just that, as well as cuddling them, arming them with mallets, and crushing them under the weight of zombified battleship corpses. Through it all, we’ve always imagined them as having lives that expand outside the boundaries of our humble little video game. They love to paint; they’re diligent students at their underwater fish schools; they hate octopi (octopuses?) We started drawing Mermaid Mondays to explore that idea more thoroughly.

Here are the first four.

Oyster backpacks are a Mermaid’s favorite schoolyard accessory; their cuteness, like, totally offsets their tendency to projectile-vomit their contents.

Mermaid children all look the same. No one knows why, but it’s certainly not a memory issue.

Mermaids hate it when their glass dome-houses shatter, but the view is worth the risk. Right?

Mermaid + human = mermaid? Genetics are weird.