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badliifechoiice22018-05-05 06:21 pm
pipers_son) wrote in badliifechoiice22018-05-05 06:21 pm
mermaid oh murmur into my ear
Rules:
● Put down character name and series in subject line.
● Add any preferences (romance and/or general, human and/or mer) in comment.
● Reply to other people!
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
Naoto Shirogane | Persona 4 | OTA
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Bogeyman that will snatch you up if you wander off the path in the forest. Tall, old trees that will give you good luck if you say a certain rhyme. An old building, or five, that are haunted with old ghosts.
Leave an offering at the large, old lake and, if you're in desperate need, you'll get something to help.
Most tales like that tend to be just what they are: tales told to children, or whispered for fun at night int he bar when the liquor has flowed long enough. All fun and games. That last one, however... In this little town, away from the larger cities, there seems to be some measure of truth. There's documentation, and even some items supposedly kept from where a local spirit, a water god of some sort, left them for some poor soul.
Well, there are skeptics, of course. The little valley the town resides in is notoriously foggy some seasons, and the water dark, reflective. Who's to say it's not been some well meaning prankster leaving things throughout the years? And for those who've been sick and miraculously recovered, well... There surely has to have been a logical explanation, just swept up in all the fantasy.
Either way, well. The lake, some distance away from the town with trees inbetween the two, is still rather beautiful. Even with its single island, situated right in the middle, it seems eerily still. There's no one here, not even at the little shrine along its coast....
Or at least there shouldn't be.
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However, there was one tale in this small town that was rather unique: the Legend of the Water God. At least, people said it was a water god, but there was nothing to say either it was some kind soul leaving gifts during foggy days and using the legend as a cover story. And there was always the placebo effect to explain miraculous recoveries.
Still, as nice as it was - as kind as this person may be - it didn't stop her from wanting to know the truth. It wasn't because she wanted notoriety or to expose the individual behind it; it was mere curiosity. And that was what brought her to the little shrine at the coast, leaving behind a gift to whatever being was there and hiding to observe who or what might come out. A rather rudimentary method, but a method nonetheless.
sorry it took this long!
What disturbs all of this serenity isn't the crunch of someone's feet making their way through the forest, however, or a splash rippling along the water's surface. Instead, it's a sound, one that comes first from the other end of the lake, past the island. Bouncing against trees, through the air, it's a kind of high pitched noise that only lasts for less than a second. Despite that, it lingers and hangs in the air for a moment afterwards.
From different spots in the lake, it repeats itself, again and again... Until finally there's a small shape in the water that lingers right beneath the surface...
And a young man with sopping wet lavender hair pokes his head out, blinking. It doesn't seem as if he's really heard anything..... Carefully, he swims closer to the little shrine, mainly using his arms. It's better to not splash too much too close to land...