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MERMAID AU MEME



Rules:
● Put down character name and series in subject line.
● Add any preferences (romance and/or general, human and/or mer) in comment.
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Scenarios:

1 ♢ Little Mermaid
♢ Mer
♢ One of you is a mer person with something you want. The other is a powerful mage who can possibly give it to you. Can an arrangement be made...?

2 ♢ Exploration
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Whatever you are, your curiosity has gotten the best of you. Whether it's a sunken shipwreck on the bottom of the ocean or a mysterious cove hidden away along the cliffside... Venturing with a friend or running into something unexpected... What will you find?

3 ♢ Exchange
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Sometimes, territories are broached, but it's not always a bad thing. Whether you're of entirely different species, or just from different seas, you've met in peaceful circumstances- perhaps as a direct result of those! So it's time for a cultural exchange. Just ignore the fresh water mer.

4 ♢ For Science
♢ Mer and Human
♢ This is a one in a lifetime chance.... for at least one person. Are you on an isolated island? A ship far out to sea? A highly funded aquarium? Or perhaps even a laboratory with more than questionable methods... Either way, you have the chance now to study something rarely seen before. How will it turn out for both of you?

5 ♢ Ariel's Dream
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Some say it's impossible for a mer to live on dry land... except that's been quietly proven wrong. One of you has taken to living among humans, whether for years or still learning the ropes. As for the other... Are you a concerned friend, checking in on them from the sea? Or are you a landdweller, stumbling onto a great secret?

6 ♢ Sea Life
♢ Mer and Human
♢ While they have the legs for landdwelling, some humans seem to have more saltwater in their veins than blood, and those are the kinds of humans that end up with dealing with the mysteries of the sea the most. A surfer catching waves with shark mer? A pirate bartering with sirens for safe passage? A fisherman working together with those who know fish best? There's all sorts.

7 ♢ Stranded
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Well, fuck. Good job. One way or another, you're stuck where you shouldn't be. Whether that's a human lost in the tides, or a mer trapped against the land, you need help.... So don't be picky with what you do get.

8 ♢ Not Safe For Water
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ The scenario made explicitly for Guillermo Del Toro and anyone who was extremely anxious for a xeno sex scene in The Shape Of Water. Get your smut on. Feel free to mix and match it with any of the other scenarios as well.

9 ♢ Siren Song
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Sometimes, there's a good reason people fear the too wide expanse of the sea, or how deep its depths an reach... Strange songs which string through coastal towns and cause disappearances... The sound of something slipping through the water around a ship in the dead of night... Unexplained shapes which flicker outside of deep-sea vessels or submarines or installations. Do you want to know what's out there?

10 ♢ Capture
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Sometimes, there's a good reason why people fear humans. You don't belong here, being gawked at through thick aquarium glass or trapped in a too-small freakshow tank, but what can you do? Is there anyone who cares for your plight, or are there only people responsible for it?

11 ♢ Chance Encounter
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Well, this is awkward. You didn't mean to stumble onto a mer just... there, doing whatever, on the beach or by the docks or tangled up in your fishing net, but, well. It's happened. Now what?

12 ♢ Transformation
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ For one reason or another, you want to go where you've never gone before... A mer, venturing on the land either as a rare chance or every day business? Or a human, accepting some sort of trade or just to run away from the life you have now? Either way, it might get messy.... Feel free to mix in with other scenarios.

13 ♢ Fantasy Meets Fantasy
♢ Mer and OTHERS!
♢ Who's to say that humans are the only other creatures in the world? Maybe people living beneath the sea's waves aren't the only strange things. Maybe there are centaurs who travel along coastal roads to watch the night sky along with mer astronomers. Perhaps selkies are just distant cousins. Or who's to say that mer can't be a host of things unto themselves? The ocean's the limit.

14 ♢ Sci-fi
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Some say astronauts are nothing more than sailors venturing off into another unexplored sea, one that's above instead of below. And, befitting those same sailors of older days, they seem to tell tails of strange melodic frequencies coming in over the radio to their ears, and strange comets that look like tails passing them by on a landed planet. Do they not know what's accompanying them in space, or is that what they're actively chasing?

15 ♢ Divinity
♢ Mer and Human
♢ There are stories told of what exactly it is that could be both human and fish... So it's not surprising that, eventually, one would land upon calling them divine entities, either gods of the sea or lakes, or just their messengers. Is that true, or just a very clever, long lasting ruse?

16 ♢ Afterlife
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Some say mer are just humans, wrongfully forced overboard by superstition or cruelty and welcomed by the sea into something more. Others say that they're the spirits, haunting a particular sea or lake town for a wrongful death. What's the truth? Time to find out.

17 ♢ Peaceful Living
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Not everything has to be a dramatic mess. Sometimes, things just... work out for the best. These are better times, and mer are just another part of life. Water-side towns where everything is built around those that share the waters with them, or huge metropolises with water tubes and sprouts for mer to travel through. How will you imagine this sort of life?

18 ♢ Wildcard
♢ follow your dreams, make up whatever

Comments

Wendy - Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler

[nopixiedust]

[ooc: good for human or mer, she's not a child but looks like one so i figure i'll just stick with gen since most won't want to explore that mess]

I'm reusing this one for #10 because it's too perfect for his circus friends

[silentscales]

Snake was bringing in remarkable crowds for this tiny carnival. Sure, they had decided to stop travelling so that they can keep their tanked cash cow. That doesn't mean they did anything more than the pure basics to set up the cramped tank.

Snake could barely lay at the bottom of the cold and empty bottom to sleep. He's drifting near the bottom now, his long snake-or-eel-like tail curled underneath him. He rests his head against the edge of the tank, occasionally flinching or moving around with agitation when someone inevitably taps on the tanks.

He's exhausted, and underfed, and there are sores on his skin, as well as scars in his scales. He's listless and drifting, and the expression on his face is mostly lifeless until someone taps the glass a little too many times in succession. That's the only time he reacts anymore, giving a the audience a hiss that can't be heard through the water, but showing his many sharp teeth and rushing the glass.

[nopixiedust]

People really are the worst, sometimes. Having gotten a nice good look at humanity at its worst, Wendy doesn't particularly think she can be blamed for viewing most in a rather low opinion. It means, when faced with the sort of cruelty that can be so often seen when one is traveling from place to place, she's not caught off-guard like some new to this life are.

So she's not surprised at the sight which greets her in one of the small-time carnivals which is in the town next over, and she's equally unsurprised when her family makes the decision it does. If they hadn't, honestly, she would have been rather disappointed.

But that explains why, in the dead of night, a tiny little shape scurries over to the area where the strange creature is kept, and strikes a match that shimmers against the glass of the tank. "I hope you're as quiet as a real snake and don't cause any trouble," she murmurs to herself as she eyes the height of the tank and what's nearby. "Or this will be pretty annoying."

[silentscales]

Snake had been sleeping, but the sound of footsteps sent a shock through the water, rousing him. He spins around his tank, barely having enough room to do even that, before pressing his hands against the tank as he watches her.

He moves to the top of the tank, his hands moving up towards cover where it is latched down on the sides. He couldn't possibly release the lid himself, though the one blessing is that behind a shield to keep people from throwing things into the tank, there were bars. They might keep him trapped inside, but it also meant that there was some oxygen exchange between the air outside the tank and the water.

There were some bits of equipment kept behind some curtains to allow for easier care of the cramped tank. There were hoses for water to fill the tank as well as a liquid vacuum to draw the filth and water out of the tank. They were both running now, making a decent cover of noise for Wendy. There was also a much smaller tank that could barely fit Snake folded up on himself several times over, but it was set up on large wheels. It was gathering dust, but probably had been used to move Snake around before the employees determined that it would be easier to just stay in one places. It had a lid on it that would keep water from spilling out, but also meant that Snake would only have so much oxygen before suffocating.

While he held out hope that she was here to help, he couldn't yet be sure, the bars on the tank being too close to the water to allow him to surface to actually hear her words. All he could do is indicate the latches he knew were kept out of his reach by the shield that angles up over the bars and blocked the sides.

[nopixiedust]

Oh, that's handy. Wendy cranes her neck back to look to where he's gesturing, humming in satisfaction. Well, that works. Reaching from within the large ribbon tied about her waist, she pulls out her wire and uses it to hoist herself up for higher reach. "Let's see about getting this off first," she murmurs to herself, the sound of her voice lost in the sound of the equipment.

Small though she might be, she can at least undo the latch and haul it open, peering inside past the bars and towards the water man. Can he even live outside of water? Time to find out.

[silentscales]

Snake eagerly swims to the surface once there's room for him. He takes a deep breath of air, and already looks more alive. He takes a few more deep breaths as he breathes easily for the first time in ages.

He holds onto the edge of the tank, looking at his presumbale rescuer. At the very least it seems that he can breathe air, and his gills on the side of his neck smooth down while he's out of the water to almost totally disappear.

[nopixiedust]

"Oh." Well, that's a surprise. Making sure not to be too easily within arms reach- because you never know after all- Wendy tilts her head to the side. "I thought you would have wanted water, but I guess you have air too.... You learn something new every day."

Maybe if he breathes air, he can talk to her, too. That would make this job much easier.

[silentscales]

He catches his breath, but takes a moment to debate over his words, or if he wants her to know that he can speak them. He still doesn't know why she's here though, so he waits with a sigh and closes his mouth to swallow the words on his tongue.

He didn't want to give a new group of humans another reason to put him on display. He looks past her to see if there was anything she'd brought with her to take him away or not. She looked far too small to carry him, after all, and there would be the problem of his lower half drying out too much without water.

[nopixiedust]

No go, huh... Well, that's fine. Wendy is sure they can figure out something with him, probably. In the meantime, she pushes herself away from the top and plops down to the ground with hardly a ruffle of her frills.

"Well, just stay there, then." Hopefully he doesn't do anything stupid and flop out of the water like a dead fish. In the meanwhile, she goes to examine some of the old carrying equipment. A lot of it doesn't look like it's been used in a while... but she guesses that's not surprising either. This whole business has been in place for a while, if she's been listening correctly. But it's also stupidly bulky... She taps her chin thoughtfully.

"I wonder how long fish can live out of water... If you're part human, you'd think that would work out evenly."

[silentscales]

Snake hesitates still, but it's possible that they'd be kinder with him, even if they kept him captive. "The problem is my tail drying," he offers reluctantly. He's holding his shoulders above the water, blinking the water out of his eyes.

[nopixiedust]

"Oh, so you can talk." Wendy doesn't bother to act too surprised about it. After all, he is part human, and he's clearly had to be around other full humans long enough. Wendy glances over at him from her shoulder.

"So it's just your tail that needs to stay wet, then?"

[silentscales]

Snake nods to her. He looks around for what backup or supplies she might have with her. He knows he really doesn't have much choice in the matter, and he doesn't have the slightest bit of fondness for this place, so he only sounds mildly defeated when he asks, "Where are you taking me?"

[nopixiedust]

No backup, at least any that can be seen... And there's only a satchel attached to her back as she looks over everything to her satisfaction. "Well, first to our circus... and then after that, we'll figure things out from there." She waves her hand dismissively.

"It'll be easier to deal with since you can talk." Or else, worst case scenario, they would have had to figure out a way to keep him around... which they might still do, depending on how things go, she supposes.