A change of color

After using my previous avatar for a good long while, I decided it needed a splash of color.

Rather, it needed all the colors. I'm a rainbow fanatic so the more colors the better.

The spine fins are actually from an entirely different set than the tail. The tail is yet another of Erluen's Flexi Legless tails, only this one is in pink. Aside from the base color, the main difference between the pink and blue tails is that the pink tail has much more colorful fins.

Fins that coincidentally match those of Erluen's Slimline Rainbow Guppy Tail, which I had purchased beforehand before deciding legless was the way to go. Since the legless tail had no spine fins, I just borrowed them from the Slimline and the outfit was complete!

Honestly, I can't wait to see more legless tails available out there. After going legless, it's hard to go back to normal tails. The only problem I have with legless tails is they sometimes work awkwardly with poseballs. Otherwise, I have no complaints and suspect that legless tails will become far more common in the future (and poseballs will be more compatible with them too!)

As for the hair, again - as colorful as it was I decided that anything that was truly ME had to be rainbow colored. FL friends know that I'm all about the rainbows!

So began the SL search for rainbow hair.

It's alot harder than you'd think! Finally I came across this ponytail at Goth1c0.

The star tattoo on the my chest is actually from a Rainbow Brite costume I got at Adored. It seemed to fit with the theme!

Other than changes to my avatar, I don't really have much else to talk about. FL has taken priority for the past few weeks.

I've been really looking for a change of scenery in SL. A sim where you can engage in active mer RP as your SL self. In my quest for mer interaction, I either happen upon other mers by coincidence, go to mer dances, or find myself joining large-scale fantasy RP sims with strict rules and combat meters and character applications.

The latter sounded appealing at first, but I realize that I don't want to RP some made-up character on SecondLife. I want to live my SecondLife as a mermaid. Being a mer was my whole reason for joining. But I want to form ongoing friendships with other mers. I want to make my own mer story without having to 'act' as a 'character'.

Furries on SL don't have this kind of problem. They live their alternate lives quite well with plenty of interaction, from what I understand. Why don't we mers have that? I know there are lots of us out there!

Tala

Greetings friends and welcome to my blog.

I suppose I'll start out with this - I'm new to Second Life. I was "born" on January 29th, 2009.

I joined because, let's face it, there aren't many places, even on the internet, where you can have the opportunity to be a mermaid.


Going into Second Life I already knew what I wanted. I had some friends there that were involved in the furry community and roleplaying, and I had seen other mermaid blogs in various areas of the internet.

I knew that I wanted a mermaid avatar. I knew that I wanted a parcel of land with lots of water. I knew that I wanted to interact with other mers and make friends and participate in a little roleplaying.

IRL, I'm generally not the kind of person to get immersed in a virtual world, and I've always had mental images of SecondLife fans being socially crippled losers. I know it's horrible, but as I signed up for SecondLife with the default gaming girl avatar and went right away to Siren's Mermaid Mall, a thought in the back of my mind whispered "oh god you're actually doing it."

But now I have my mermaid avatar, and my parcel of land at Serenity Unleashed, and I couldn't be happier.

I started out by trying several different tails, but the one that I ended up sticking with was Erluen's Flexi LEGLESS Tail from Merwings! It came completely with its own Animation Override (AO), and while it's not nearly as fancy as some of the other tails I tried, the fact that you can't see the legs makes it all the more worth it. I see other tails that are beautiful and fancy, but have a nice bulge where the feet should be.

The hair was an instant favorite of mine the moment I saw it. It's 3 Star Design's Blue Opal Hair, and it comes in two versions - long and super short. I of course opted for the long version. The hair is beautiful, colorful, and wildly flows in the wind/current, and comes adorned with pearls and seashells.

The addition of purple skin came later. I chose ND/MD Miranda Purple Mermaid Skin. It goes well with the purple/blue color scheme I already had going and it's just the right shade - not too light and not too dark.

Once I had experimented with different things, I decided I was happy with these results. Now that I had just the right avatar, it was time to figure out how to make my home just as appealing and "mermaidish".