THANK U feel free to its forr my awesome fish world but i am happy to share my fish wisdom..

THEY CAN ALSO HAVE MOST HUMAN PIERCINGS like stomach piercings, most dermals, tongue piercings (which is sometimes called a louse piercing here!), eyebrow piercings that arent armoured ridge piercings, etc

my fish ocs dont have any mammary glands or nipples so calling nipple piercings, nipple piercings, wouldnt make much sense. so i called them mammary piercings because i imagine they saw these piercings in land mammals and thought it would be cool. intelligent terrestial species exist in this world too BTW but its essentially just this world but with furries

gill flukes are called such bc they r named after a parasite common in fish that can infect the gills. yeah. same for the louse piercing! named after the tongue-eating louse

piercings are very normalized in aquatic culture (compared to terrestial culture), and most aquatics have at least one. they are a very popular form of self expression and different colored jewelery in different piercings can mean different things.! a lot of aquatics use it to show what they believe in and what their morals are (for example, if an aquatic wanted to say 'free palestine' in their piercings, they'd get red, white, green, and black jewelery)

silver and white piercings by themselves have no specific meaning

body mods in general are overall viewed positively, likely because of how diverse sea life is. many aquatics get scales removed in patterns as a form of scarification, and some get tattoos (but they require specific hard-to-get inks, and are rarer to see around.) armoured aquatics get patterns etched and painted into their armour

RIGHT i forgot to mention that in order for carnivorious aquatics to survive, they neef meat (duh.) but if every sea creature is intelligent, what do they eat? well i figured it out !! not ALL sea creatures are intelligent ! intelligent aquatics are all vertebrate, while nonintelligent aquatics, just called animals, are all invertebrate. carnivores eat the invertebrate!!

so animals like squid, starfish, jellyfish, urchins, all that stuff, are as they always were

some carnivores seek delicacies and rare, taboo meals though, and so sharks are occasionally kidnapped for illegal organ harvesting of their dorsal fins to make shark fin soup. sharks' dorsal fins are very culturaly important to them, so this is a big issue and worry among sharks everywhere, despite it being quite rare. some sharks decide to donate their fins alongside other organs after death, for varying reasons. most commonly its to provide a fin that can be transplanted to sharks who have lost one

i loev world building ?!?!

if u guys find any of my fish worldbuilding cool and wnat to use it for ur own fish ocs FEEL FREE!!! very happy to inspire cool designs and concepts

ok so i clearly didnt know isopods are invertebrate when i made ts so i gotta figure out something else im crine. everything else is cool tho i love lookimg back at old lore posts

🫡🫡 happy to contribute to such a noble cause..

ITS NEVER TOO MUCH TRUST!!!

i LOVE fish hook piercings on fish ocs ..