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MERMAID AU MEME

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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

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[I rolled "fantasy meets fantasy" SO THAT WORKS OUT WITH THE SORCERER BIT LMAO. What sort of research would he be up to?]

[You'd think that after hundreds of years as the court sorcerer, Love would be able to catch a break eventually. But no, he's back out on a quest even after the sister-queens promised him retirement, because there's a plague sweeping across the kingdoms and none of the doctors or magicians have been able to do anything about it.

Love has an idea, something that might work if he's very lucky (and he usually is, but this time if he isn't he won't have enough time for a second chance). The only problem is that there's an ingredient for the potion that can only be found in the sea, and while the mer don't bother many ships that cross the water, they don't tend to take kindly to any interference below the waves.

But Love's the man known as a god and a demon, and he's not worried about some mermaids trying to get in his way.

At the shore, he climbs down off his horse and turns it back into the butterfly it used to be, then turns his attention to the waves without a second glance back. He tugs his hood down, takes a breath, and parts the ocean with a flick of his wrist. Not all the way across, there's no reason for that, just enough to keep his boots and the hem of his cape dry as he strides across the seafloor. He lets the water close in over his head again, leaving him a bubble of dry breathable air.

He'll probably draw a lot of attention, as usual.]

[Yeah, uh. Parting an entire ocean kind of does draw lots of attention. Almost as much as parting it right back.]

[It doesn't take long before Love gets someone coming right up to him, sure enough: a lanky young man up top and some sort of catfish down bottom with an upper fin that almost seems to trail in a way. The only time the two differing body types seem to merge, besides in the middle, are the barbels trailing from his jaws.]

[Garry has no idea if this guy can even understand him... but he will make the universally understood hand flailing gesture of hey my guy what the fuck.]

[Love waves, casual and friendly, and projects his voice through the water. Thankfully, he speaks mer.]

Hello! Sorry if I bothered you, I'm just passing through.

[Oh. Well, that's a surprise. Garry jolt for a moment, clearly not expecting this although he shouldn't be too surprised. After a second, he bows his head to cough down into one hand. Don't mind the shiny spherical thing, or three, that he has in his palm.]

Passing through doesn't mean upturning the entire ocean!

[If he sounds panicked, that's because.... he absolutely is, no chill whatsoever.]

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im just gonna launch into this

/thumbs up! Sorry it took me a while to get back to this!

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