Merfolk politics are complicated. Many families become rich and marry their most appealing daughters off to other families to grow their wealth pools, and singular insults may lead to generations of feuding. Ockinta was the heir to one of these family's legacies, and for a time was the family's pride and joy. Perfectly fit, strong, agile and an excellent cook. She reached 18 and her family decided to marry her off to another family in a bid to get the family even more influence than it had.

However, Ockinta had different ideas. She loathed the idea of being married to a guy she never met, and she decided she'd go to any length to stop the marriage. And so she went on a vacation alone. She was a hungry girl and tended to dislike exercise, and more food was always better. A few binges later and she was already a bit pudgy. Eventually she got too fat for her dress to fit, but continued wearing it. Days before the wedding she finally felt like she hit her maximum size.

Ockinta was big. She knew it better than anyone. Her shorts knew it too, as they valiantly fought to not rip in half from her stomach trying to force it's way free. Her flab hung over her shorts and prevented the front of her dress from going down. The merfolk man she was to be married to requested that the marriage be cancelled almost immediately after seeing her in all her blubbery glory, completing Ockinta's goal.

4 years later, Ockinta was 22 and still as big as ever. With no worry of being courted, she took a large sum of money(a fortune to normal society but chump change in her family) and exiled herself from the city and family and going above water, cutting nearly all ties. She now lives in a semi-urban city, living a relaxed life of eating and sleeping, with bits and pieces of a colorful social life in between. Where she goes, the feast often follows, much to the dismay of her shorts.




Here's the original submission link! I digitized it after the original was drawn. http://ewequeen.deviantart.com/art/.....elly-685251901