23-06-2020, 11:30 PM
Maybe... but I'm more of a 1400-1430 kind of guy 
I'm not saying the character is Jonah, in fact I think it's something else. But it is very ambiguous and quite a lot of the ambiguity falls on the side of the Jonah archetype rather than any kind of mermaid.
Mermaids are vain creatures, obsessed with combing their hair. Which they wear loose (the harlots!) to seduce men. In medieval depictions, they often come with a mirror and a comb.
The VM figure, not so much. This hair style is typical for VM men. Granted, the body appears female, but the head is male. So androgyny, precisely in the figure where we are debating whether the inspiration is Jonah or Melusina.
I'm not saying the character is Jonah, in fact I think it's something else. But it is very ambiguous and quite a lot of the ambiguity falls on the side of the Jonah archetype rather than any kind of mermaid.
Mermaids are vain creatures, obsessed with combing their hair. Which they wear loose (the harlots!) to seduce men. In medieval depictions, they often come with a mirror and a comb.
The VM figure, not so much. This hair style is typical for VM men. Granted, the body appears female, but the head is male. So androgyny, precisely in the figure where we are debating whether the inspiration is Jonah or Melusina.