true self

[[ OOC: I am extracting this passage from my comment on an event, because it's a handy description of what Heather looks like in the dreamscape. Easier to point people this way than anything else. ]]

Heather, in her merrow form, is rather hard to miss. She resembles the popular depiction of a mermaid in only slight ways -- humanoid body to the waist, fish-like tail beneath. Long ginger-red hair cascades around her, growing only from the scalp area of her head. Her eyes are as black as ever, including the sclera this time. Her mouth is wider in her face, and full of sharp, pointed teeth. Her skin is ghost-pale and lacking in scales until about her collarbones, and then little scaly patches in flame orange and iridescent white begin to show along her arms and torso, larger around the gills that start halfway down her ribs, merging together to complete coverage beneath her waist.

Oh, and her full length in this form -- from the crown of her head to the end of her tail-fin -- is twenty feet. That fish tail of hers, with its various fins, is about eight feet long on its own.