Mermaid Bondage Poll Follow-up

Posted on by MarioneTTe

Hello, all! MarioneTTe here again! This time, I bring you the results of the poll on how mermaids would feel about rope bondage.

In total, there were 61 responses.

You might notice this is a pie graph, and not a bar graph, which would have been much better for this type of poll. That’s because I made a pretty big error while creating this poll and made a second version, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

ANYWAY!, Those percentages break down as follows:

  • MORE likely – 11
  • LESS likely – 4
  • HATE* – 14
  • Rebellious/Others – 24
  • Different Opinion – 8

There were actually 9 things listed, so ONE OF YOU decided to post an opinion while also voting in the normal poll! This is fine, mind you, I’m just listing why there are 9 opinions but only 8 in the actual poll. They were:

  • Nets are used to catch prey/food. Sub mermaids would be into it. Also all of them are jealous of fishnet stockings.
  • No change in likelyhood compared to Surface Dwellers. And why is that Option not included above?*
  • Depends on how much of a deviant the mermaid in question is.
  • Ropes would peel off their scales! No other reason to fear it then any other kidnapping if they don’t suffocate
  • The REAL question is if they’re into fishnets or not.
  • Sort of depends if these are mermaids exposed to land dwellers fishing. If so it’s like someone hunting near you, it’s a known danger that might actually get you. As a result it would be fairly niche (getting bitten by sharks and struck by lightning aren’t common kinks.) If not then probably ambvalent based on the merperson.
  • some mermaids are into it but only ironically, some mermaids aren’t personally into it but complain about cultural appropriation when other species do it, some mermaids prefer handcuffs and sexy police officer uniforms, some mermaids are the kind that have human legs and fish heads and are unable to express their opinion on the matter
  • mermaids with alraune gfs prefer vine bondage
  • It would probably depend on the setting? If mermaids were actually being hunted in nets, they’d probably be less into it, but other than that I don’t think they’d care. It’s not like we’re less into rope bondage because we use nets to capture other mammals.

Interesting thoughts, all around! There are a few interesting thoughts in there that might make for an interesting bit of story. We’ll see in the future!

Now you might notice that the options are… a bit odd. One “other opinion” even mentions it: where’s the “no change” option? The astute among you might even notice the asterisks next to the “HATE” numbers, as well as the opinion saying ‘no change’ and asking why that option wasn’t available.

It turns out, I posted the first version of the poll, where I had originally messed up the options and graph type then decided to go to bed then redo the poll the next day.

The second version I made had a “No Change” option instead of the “Hate” option (having “Hate” but not “Love” doesn’t make sense, especially when there are already options for liking it more or liking it less), and it was a bar graph instead of a pie graph. Did you know you can’t change the type of graph after the poll is made? I didn’t!

(If you can, tell me how in our Discord, please!)

I did realize my error a day after posting the poll, but by then it had already received a dozen or so responses and I didn’t want to throw that all away.

Oh, well. The results DO give me a few ideas, but whether they appear in-game or as random story tie-ins depends on whether Salty can be convinced to add mermaids to [LOCATION REDACTED] in [CHAPTER REDACTED] where you have to [EVENT REDACTED] in order to [RESULT REDACTED].

Hmm… That reads kind of like a madlib! “Add mermaids to ___ in ___ where you have to ___ in order to ___.”

Let’s see… “Add mermaids to my apartment in my city where you have to figure out how to stand them up in a stand-up shower in order to keep them from drying out.”

…I’m not very good at madlibs…