I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

[sassybird]

Mermaid AU Meme



Rules:
- Put down your character name and series in the subject header. Put down any preferences (romantic or if you're a mermaid/human) in the comment.
- Reply to other people! RNG a choice from the prompts below, or just come up with whatever on your own.
- This is not a strictly romance meme. Feel free to have whatever shenanigans you like.


Merfolk and Merfolk

1.
Little Mermaid it
♢ One of you is a merperson with something you want. (Power? Help figuring out what this weird human doodad is? Becoming human?) The other is a powerful sea mage of some sort... And for the first of you, you better hope they're the good sort as you venture forth to their lair...

2.
Exploration
♢ C'mon. What's the worst that could happen when checking out this enormous sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean? You're merpeople! What's the worst that could happen? (Besides sharks. Or giant squid. Or maybe worse.)

3.
New tides
♢ Hey... That person isn't from around these parts, are they...? Maybe one of you is from deep seas, or a swamp-mer way out of your territory, or just from simply a different ocean. Hopefully neither of you are particularly territorial...

4.
Hey there, Ariel
♢ So. Looks like one of you actually took up on some sea witch's deal and is living in some human settlement. The other? Is trying to help you deal with that. Whether it means puzzling out human culture and items with you, pleading with you to come back home, or even offering you a dagger just in case you need to stab your crush (what? it's a legitimate strategy), you two need to cope.

5.
Wildcard.


Merfolk and Humans

1.
For Science!
♢ You're a scientist, here to study a fascinating new creature. Although the 'creature' in question might take offense to you saying that... So are you searching them out for the first time in the open ocean? Keeping them in some sort of containment? It's up to you.

2.
Stranded
♢ There was a shipwreck, and you're the sole survivor... Although you very nearly weren't. Whether you've just woken up or have been trying to puzzle things out on this deserted island, well... It seems you're not alone, although they're not exactly on the island with you.

3.
Siren Song
♢ Merpeople aren't always good signs... Sometimes they lure sailors out onto rocks, or extinguish their stamina and drown them in the ocean's tumultuous waters. Is this another encounter that will end in tragedy?

4.
Chance Encounter
♢ You're nothing extraordinary, just a regular person in a beach town, and one way or another... You find something that's very much not regular. Maybe you just walked into the cove at the right time, or found something- someone- trapped or injured that needed your help. So now what?

5.
Wildcard

Comments

[nanaharu]

Haruka concentrates on the stone and its path, body tensing as he turns around and swings his tail with all his might-- it goes flying off to the side into the distance, until it begins to fall back down into a dark chasm as the edge of this sea cliff.

He rubs the spot where he'd hit the stone. "Ow..."

[showyouthesight]

Rin whistles at the hit. "Great shot! I told you you've got some power behind that thing."

Then he notices Haruka feeling at the spot the stone struck and swims over to assess the damage. "You just need to build up some callous there."

[nanaharu]

Haruka rubs it a bit more, but he tilts his head to look at Rin's tail.

"Do you feel anything if you hit your tail again something?"

He knows that it isn't the default way that sharks hunt. Still, sharks don't have the obvious scales that the merpeople do, and maybe he still uses it in a fight in case something attacks from behind? Does anything try to attack the sharks? He stares at Rin's tail curiously...

[showyouthesight]

"Oh definitely. But we just learn to ignore it. You can't let pain stop you during a hunt or you're likely to get even more messed up." Not that he uses his tail that often in hunting or even in his sparring matches. Sharks have their teeth and claws for that. But since Haruka has neither of those, he's going to need something to compensate.

"Maybe we could make you some sort of harder scale to protect it when you fight."

[nanaharu]

"Out of what?" Haruka looks around... he looks down, and sees a lot of thin, flat rocks collected like a rough beach. Each of them look like the size of their hands. That might work, if they could find something to bind them to him.

He would rather avoid pain, if he could. But he won't give up so easily if he feels it... is that a way to build up the threshold?

[showyouthesight]

Rin follows Haruka's gaze and sees the rocks for themselves. His eyes light up. Yes, those will work nicely! He swims over to start collecting them.

"Got any really thick seaweed around here? We might be able to bind some up around you tail. Then, you just need to practice hitting with that spot so you don't bump the unprotected parts."