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Difficulties of transforming from mermaid to human and vice versa?

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Anatomy wise, how could growing legs or having your legs melded together to form a large fin happen in a matter of hours? How could the change work in reverse?

I want this to be able to work without flesh, bone, or extra tissue being gained or lost magically.

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Maybe for the "joining of legs"-part you could use a mechanism similar to velcro, which was inspired by burs, so that they are hold together. Then you could let the mermaid control if the mechanism ties the legs together and therefore act like some sort of fin or allows them to be used as separate legs.

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