fish boy

[CountVanBadger]

EDIT: stingray, not manta ray.

Imagine you're reading a book (stretching your suspension of disbelief to its limits, I know) about a guy who gets isekaid to a pirate/nautical-themed story, and in the process he gets turned into some kind of fish man. Which of these two fish would you prefer: shark, or stingray?

Shark Pros: simple, familiar, intimidating, built in cool factor.
Shark Cons: possibly cliche, everyone uses sharks.

Ray Pros: not widely used, unique body shape could be used creatively, built in butt sword, wings for gliding maybe?
Ray Cons: more complicated, needs more explanation, gliding makes people complain about scientific inaccuracies, steve irwin.
Ray Guns: pew pew

 

[Anonjohn20]

Futa fish person?

 

[Playerkartik]

Shark boy is already a thing...
Maybe go with manta ray...if you don't want that character to be violent. Cause manta rays are harmless, with very small teeth and no stingers and friendly.
There are other options like sword fish or sawfish maybe if you want violent.

 

[CountVanBadger]

Cause manta rays are harmless, with very small teeth and no stingers

Okay, stingray then. Because I want him to have a stinger.

 

[Sunsetinapainting]

I like the idea of Manta ray

 

[DarkCosmos]

You can also make rays fly or glide, too, so it's quite versatile in a sense

 

[TheDraconeaWriter]

Stingray does sound cool, but if you called the book Stingray, it would make people think of that old TV show, Stingray. That said, Stingrays do have great stealth tactics; they are great at hunting in deep waters, plus they have venom in their tail. So they have more options to deal with their problems, which would make a character have a good number of options to deal with problems.

That said, a shark could be a good choice because there are different types of sharks, so you could try using a different one, which most people wouldn't normally see.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

The choices were boring.
Ocean Sunfish.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Our webcomic deals with manta-ray girls, so I have to imagine manta-ray boys would be just as hawt.