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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.
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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
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He'd go so far as to say "hate", but that's sort of a lot of energy and effort devoted to people he honestly just plain doesn't care about. If he really and truly hated other people, that would make going to class insufferable. Rather, he guesses it would be more accurate to say that he hates dealing with people.
The faux politeness, all the energy people throw into things that don't really matter in the end , hot headed idiots that take forever to deal with one way or another...
Yeah. If he hates anything, it's dealing with people.
Well, perhaps not every kind of person. He likes his best (and only) friend, Yamaguchi, even if sometimes he does stuff that's a little eyeroll inducing. Yamaguchi has helped make the school year pretty bearable, frankly... but this summer, Yamaguchi isn't in town. It's... some sort of family thing, and they've promised (in the loosest terms) to call each other every other night or so, but still. That leaves him with a lot of nothing to do over the month. Sure, he can read over his books, work on his summer homework, all of that stuff, but... Well. That gets tiring, after a bit.
In the end, there's nothing better to beat the heat than to wander the beach. Like everyone else, he's heard the scary stories adults have told, to be careful of the deeper waters and the rocky caves along the coast, but Kei ignores that steadily as he ventures, one day, into one of the larger caves where the floor is split in two. The ocean filters into this cave just as much as the paths do. The deeper he ventures into the cave, a backpack with some food, a music player, and other stuff on his shoulders, the cooler it seems to get. Curiously, he peers over the side of the path down into the waters.
"Wonder how deep you go?" he asks nothing in particular, half to hear his own voice bounce off the rock walls. He's going to have to get his flashlight out, soon.
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Yes, he's been told that he shouldn't interact with humans, that humans would try to capture him, hurt him, or take him away when he didn't think that way at all. Humans were interesting! The way they would explore things always interested him. How was the world above? How did they react to things? How did things work out for them? Suga couldn't help being curious. He would always peak up at the water at night to watch them.
One of his favorites spots to watch humans were the caves. He could easily sit on the rocks and watch whatever human came through that day. Sometimes children would come by to see if the legends about merfolk were true. On those days Suga would ripple the water, then laugh when they squealed and ran away. Teenagers would try to throw something in the water, so he would throw it back then laugh again when they ran away. Whenever he saw couples come by, he would watch for awhile before swimming away. Privacy is very important! Still, Suga loves watching them, humans are so interesting.
Today, Suga goes back to the cave to see if anyone came by when he spots the human. He's tall with glasses and a backpack. He swims over to get a better look at him. Suga knows he should keep his distance, knows it part of the rules, but he can't help it. He swims close to the surface as his head pops out of the water.
"It's actually pretty deep."
Now he can get a better look at him.
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People lurking around places to scare bored and curious kids (or teenagers in this case) isn't that weird of a thing. If someone had leapt out at him from the darkness up ahead, Kei would have just accepted it. Well, he would have made them regret all their life choices leading up to that moment, but still. It wouldn't have been that big a deal.
From down in the dark water, however?
....Well. He might have jumped all the way back to the wall. Good thing it's no one but him and some weirdo mystery swimmer.
The water is way too dark for him to really see much into its depths, at least this far into the cave. So he gets a hold of himself pretty quickly, lips twisting into a scowl as he steps close again. "Do you honestly not have anything better to do with your time than lurk around in the water to mess with people?"
Which wasn't him, or anything.
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Suga swims closer resting his arms on the cool rock of the cave.
"I do, but this is better use of my time. Is this a popular place? Many people come through here all the time. Do you like coming here?"
He made sure not to move the water too much behind him with his tail.
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That will probably change if he pulls anything like that pop up trick from before, obviously.
"When it's quite, sure." Is that a purposeful barb? Of course it is. Now to see if it gets through. "But I'm usually busy doing other things."
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"It can be quiet here, but I enjoy it when it's not too quiet." He lifts his head at the mention of other things. Oh, time for him to learn more about the human world!
"Other things like what?"
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"School, mainly." There's a certain dry tone to his voice, because this should be obvious. Then again, with how tall he is, sometimes people don't realize he's only a high schooler. "Sports, I guess."