The Werefish /Werepiscine (plural: Werepiscines)(were-fish or were-piscine (plural: were-piscines)), also called the Ichthanthropy (plural: Ichthanthropies), Ichthanthrope (plural: Ichthanthropes), or Ichthanthropic (plural: Ichthanthropics) is a massive term that use to describe a person who transforms into fish or piscine-based fish-types beyond the sharks, trouts bass, tuna fish, piranha, and more of them. It expands ichthanthrope into a wider, more monstrously and bestiary, each form carrying its own temperament, instincts, and curse. Often a bite or the occasional scratch from another werefish, with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon.
In a quiet coastal village where fishing is a way of life and the sea gives more than it takes, old legends are whispered over nets and drinks—tales of “the Moonwake,” a rare tide when the full moon hangs low and bright over the ocean, stirring ancient magic. Most dismiss it as superstition, except for Mira, a marine biologist who returns to her hometown to study a strange migration pattern.
But something is wrong. Villagers start disappearing on moonlit nights, their last footprints ending at the water’s edge. The sea foams red. Mira investigates and uncovers a family curse in her own bloodline: a pact made generations ago between her ancestors and something deep beneath the waves. Under the Moonwake, cursed descendants transform—not into mermaids or sirens, but into monstrous werefish, amphibious shapeshifters driven by hunger and instinct.
As the next full moon approaches, Mira begins to change. Her skin toughens, lungs ache for brine, and dreams pull her toward the deep. Now, she must choose: resist the call of the ocean or embrace the weremonstrous fish, she’s becoming—and decide whether to break the curse or let it consume the shore.
Ichthanthropy transformation refers to the mythical or fictional process by which a human transforms into a fish or a piscine animal-human hybrid. But the same based-off species, unlike mammalianthropes, reptilianthropes, avianthropes, and therianthropes, these werefish can involve transformation into any kind of fish, such as sharks, trouts, basses, tropical fish, pufferfish, eels, electric eels, piranhas, clownfish, catfish, dogfish, betta fish, goldfish, flying fish, sunfish, and more of these types of fish. Depicting all humans in fish form, known as Ichthyomorphism (singular: Ichthyomorphist) or Ichthanism (singular: Ichthianist).
- Ichthanthropism (singular: Ichthanthropist) is a zoanthropic representation of deities in combined human and fish form.
- Ichthyotype (plural: Ichthyotypes) is an ichthanthropic piscine creature that is from fish identifies as (From ichthyo- + type).
- The word “Icthanthropy” originates from a portmanteau of Greek words. From Ancient Greek ΙΧΘΥΣ (IKHTHUS, “fish”). And in Greek Anthropos [ἄνθρωπος], meaning human or person; man or woman. So the term loosely translates to ‘fish human’ or even ‘fish person’.
