So how do you pursue a mer-career? Many pros become mermaid swim instructors, mermaid entertainers at birthday parties and the like , "mermaid influencers" on social media and even custom mermaid tail makers. There are also mermaid modeling opportunities to be had.
Much like any career, there's some investment required on the front end to become a professional mer-person. First, a potential pro must have be strong swimmer and have a background teaching swimming or synchronized swimming, if he or she plans to be an instructor. Want to be a mermaid, but strapped for cash? Try your hand at making your own tail using materials like spandex, lycra, neoprene and more!
Check out these tutorials for step-by-step instructions, or just to marvel at the resourcefulness some people have. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe.
There are many agencies that can teach you how to safely hold your breath for minutes at a time. If you want to become a mermaid to swim with animals, this is one of the best things you can do. Freediving with dolphins in Hawaii. The sport of freediving is growing quickly but has existed since man first learned how to swim. In South Korea, Malaysia, and Japan, humans have been freediving for centuries — collecting abalone, pearls, and food while holding their breath for over five minutes at a time.
In some communities, freediving has been so ingrained into their lives, their eyes have developed to see underwater much better than the average person can. Today, Alessia Zecchini is the deepest female freediver who has dived deeper than meters feet. Other freedivers do it to help save the environment. Or, why not both? Choose a pair of fins instead. Read: How to choose a scuba diving school. You must be 10 years old to enroll in a scuba diving course and 16 years old to enroll in a freediving course.
Some cities have mermaid swimming classes. There are also academies devoted just to teaching humans how to be mermaids. The Philippine Mermaid Swim Academy trains people of all ages in the ocean. Simply grab a snorkel set and swim. Sometimes, snorkelers see more marine life than scuba divers or freedivers because they have a better vantage point from the surface. A mermaid tail is her strongest feature. Like a fingerprint, no two tails are alike. You can buy a mermaid tail for swimming, or create your own.
You will need a monofin to use as the base of the tail. You can use a mid-range monofin, or aprofessional monofin. There are also monofins for children. Then, you will need two pieces of spandex or Lycra material.
Lay on the material while wearing your monofin. Have someone outline the material around your body. Leave an inch or two extra on the outline so that you can adjust it and have room to sew the two pieces of material together.
Decorate each side of the tail if you like, adding shells, paint, or lace. If you are taking your tail into the ocean, make sure that nothing will fall off and pollute the sea.
You can also swim while on your back, or side. There are many skills and tricks you can do as a mermaid. Typically, those of us who do this are obsessed with mermaids. This means we love to watch videos and shows on mermaids and read books about mermaids. Siren - This epic drama series takes place in a coastal town called Bristol Cove. The town is known for stories about mermaids. A mysterious woman appears in town, who happens to be a siren in human form.
She is looking for her sister, who was captured by the military. This gives him the ability to transform into a merman when he touches water. The three mermaids get exiled from the pod, who must leave the area for fear of getting discovered.
The mermaids must strip the man of his powers in order to rejoin the pod, but they end up becoming friends with him instead. After being rescued, they find their worlds turned upside down discovering that they turn into mermaids when they come into contact with water. The most common trope for mermaid movies is the mermaid who turns into a human to win the heart of a man.
There have been many film adaptations based on this story. Splash - In the movie, Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid named Madison. Their romantic adventures are thwarted by a scientist who poses a threat to Madison. Little Mermaid - The animated Disney movie features one young, fearless, and rebellious mermaid princess, who denies her father and becomes a human to chase after love. But she only has three days to win his heart or else have to become the servant to an evil sea witch.
The mermaid, in Little Mermaid fashion, needs to fall in love with a human in order to prove to her father that true love exists, so she can get out of marrying a merman chosen by her father, whom she does not love. Did you know there are mermaid myths from all around the world? Tales of aquatic humanoid creatures are prevalent around the world and spanning back thousands of years. There are numerous aquatic creatures from folklore around the world that could be classified with mermaids.
In the epic poem, sirens are vicious creatures who lure sailors to their death. They sing a bewitching melody that causes sailors to jump to their death. They are often depicted as spooky looking creatures, such as the mermaids in the show Siren , who resemble wild creatures with spikes and sharp, jagged teeth. Selkies : Selkies are similar to mermaids. They are shapeshifters who change from seal to human. Selkies are popular in Celtic and Norse mythology.
Finfolk : From the Orkney Islands, northeast of Scotland, comes the tail of mysterious water-dwelling shapeshifters called finfolk, or finnfolk.
You may recognize the name from the tail making company Finfolk Productions. Finfolkaheem is the name of the underwater home of finfolk. Female finfolk are born as mermaids and remain that way into their maidenhood. Pincoya represents fertility and is portrayed as a naked woman. She is the daughter of a sea king named Millalobo.
Her sister is a mermaid named Sirena Chilota. Pincoy is a handsome merman who resembles a large lionfish. Ceasg - This creature is a mermaid in Scottish folklore. She is known to be beautiful and possess the tail of a salmon. She lives in the sea, but also can live in streams and rivers. She is said to grant three wishes to whoever captures her. In some stories she is more monstrous.
Nereids - Nereids are good-spirited sea nymphs who are the fifty daughters of a sea god named Nereus. They often came to the aid of those in distress and were protectors of sailors and fishermen.
Rusalka - Slavic stories of this aquatic entity date back to the eighth century. Rusalki are water nymphs who were once human women that died. They were not always considered malevolent, but the myths changed through the years to portray the Rusalka as a sinister creature. Atargatis - Atargatis is the oldest mermaid legend. She is the Assyrian goddess of the moon, water, and femininity.
She was worshipped some or years ago. Atargatis was depicted as a mermaid and is among the earliest told stories of mermaids. Her story is that when her mortal lover died, she drowned herself in the sea out of sorrow after giving birth to his child on the shore. The gods decided not to let her die and turned her into a mermaid. You can, if you prefer, simply create a mermaid in Create-A-Sim, either by starting a new game, or creating a new household to move in within an existing save file.
Upon entering Create-A-Sim, the randomly generated starting character will be a vanilla human. Unless you're using the game's new Story Mode, which might assign you a mermaid character based on your answers to the quiz questions. This will create a second randomly generated character, but this one will be very unambiguously a mermaid: the Create-A-Sim background takes on a watery effect, a shoal of fishes will briefly swim around the new character, and - most tellingly - they'll have a fish tail instead of legs.
You can delete the original human character by clicking the little cross on their character portrait, assuming you want this to be a mermaid-only household. From here on in, the character creation process is much the same as always, except that you have both human and mermaid forms to customise. There is one potentially major downside to making a mermaid in Create-A-Sim: you have to start from scratch.
This means that, even if your favourite Sim is safely stored in your library, ready to be re-added to your game as many times as you please, you can't turn them into a mermaid with a few simple clicks; you'll need to try something else. Which brings us rather neatly to Let's be honest, cheating is a staple of The Sims series, and has been throughout the franchise's twenty-year history. You know it, I know it, and the developers know it - and no-one's judging anybody for it!
That's why, to this day, the makers of The Sims go out of their way to make their cheat codes readily accessible and easy to use. A chime will sound to indicate that you have entered the cheat correctly. The hidden 'Mermaid' trait is then activated on your character, and you should be able to proceed the same as if you had followed Method 1. However, your Sim will not receive the 'Strange Sensations' moodlet that indicates the acquisition of the trait in normal gameplay.
Be aware, however, that using debugging cheats to alter a Sim in-game carries a risk of causing glitches and corruption, so always save your game first. If you encounter any errors and want to undo the harm - or if you simply want to reverse the process and have a mermaid become a human - follow Steps 1 and 2 as above, then for Step 3 substitute the cheat code Traits. Now you know how mermaids are made in The Sims 4, and you're ready to begin devoting full time to floating off the coast of Sulani!
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