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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
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He didn't have time to react to that inhuman speed, and took the full force of it's tackle, falling hard onto the stony shoreline. And then the sudden, heavy weight of a body against him, soaking wet against his clothing--]
[Any outburst of pain or anger was quickly hushed, it's cold hands covering his mouth, and it took him a moment for his sight to readjust to see what he was looking at-- both his cigarette and his flashlight tossed aside from the force of it all.]
[Or... her... tail?]
[Her eyes were a piercing, pale blue-- and it was a 'her', he could tell now from... ah.
Dojima swallowed involuntarily as she spoke, the wind still knocked out of him as she asked what he wanted.]
[...Wait, blood kin...?]
...W-what... are you...?
[It had taken him longer than he'd like to respond, but... his mind was swimming from the pain and the shock of it all, give him a break.]
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... Usually, I'm an Ocean Guardian. Consider me your temporary River Guardian until the next one grows.
[Moving herself from his lap, she moved well for being stuck to mainly tail. Into the water she returned, but she crossed an arm beneath her chest while the other hand came to rest on her cheek.]
Meanwhile, what are you doing out here?
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River... Guardian. You mean that urban legend about the giant fish...?
[He sat up when she shifted off his body, wincing from the dull ache in his back. God, he wasn't getting any younger, was he?
Meanwhile, she was already back in the water, and when he glanced up--
--And futher up, punching down that distracted thought, though he couldn't stop that heat rushing to his cheeks. This was far too surreal...]
[Not that her face was much better in some ways. She was clearly not human, but not that alien, and...
Weren't there legends in some countries about creatures like her leading men astray?]
...Looking for whatever people were seeing in the river.
[Which he's pretty sure he's found.]
There's a murder investigation going on, and I can't leave any stone unturned...
[Though, his hand went up to gingerly rub the back of his head, noticing that new bump that was oh so graciously forming.]
...This can't be real...
[Because... mermaids didn't actually exist, right? It would be far more logical that he slipped while checking the river and this was now just a halluciantion...]
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[She sighs and makes herself comfortable on a small pile of rocks gathered in the river. They're probably going to be here for a while.]
If that's all, you've likely found it. Unless they saw something besides my scales, but not likely. The river is calm for the most part. No disturbances besides the occasional kid or two splashing at the shore.
[Or... fist fighting nearby. So, he could go.]
Murder investigation? You'd have better luck going to the shrine to find answers.
[But... it doesn't seem like he was paying full attention to her. Raising an eyebrow, her tail shortly flicks, sending a cascade of water upon him.]
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[He still wasn't quite responding to her directly, but he was listening. Maybe his unconscious mind could provide some insight. Why his unconscious mind decided to take the form of a... mermaid was a disconcerting question he didn't want to deal with, but--]
The Shrine? Wh--Hey!
[Annnd he's getting splashed with water. At this point it really shouldn't matter since his front was already soaked through, but this was just insult to injury!]
I'm wet enough already, damn it!
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[She could hear that old man muttering on shore. Could he just accept not seeing that one fish?]
Huh, my mistake. It looked like you were still trying to decide if I'm real or not.
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[He has a feeling they're going to have a looooong talk next time he can get the kid alone, without Nanako listening in. Now he just needs to work on it not sounding like an interrogation...]
... Well, I am. I did hit my head, after all.
[Dojima could at least be honest...]
But... my daughter mentioned seeing a 'shiny, pretty woman' one time she came here on her own... I'm guessing that was you?
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[Humans really aren't supposed to know she's here, but... que sera, sera sometimes. At the mention of hitting his head, she shrugged.]
Hm... small girl, brown hair, and pigtails? Yes, I spoke to her.
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... it's probably rude to ask 'what about', but I'm curious why she's the only one who seems to have actually seen you compared to everyone else who's just seeing odd shapes under water.
[Though he had a sinking feeling... that perhaps she'd overheard him that night as well. That wasn't something he wanted to relive...]
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Thanks, for looking out for her.
[Still, he could at least appreciate her keeping an eye on his daughter.]
...You make it sound like it's easy to talk to them.
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[Though, she was literally just doing what she's supposed to. His statement had her tilt her head.]
Should it not be easy to talk to your own offspring? I might have some magic, but I'm not a mind-reader.
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[Understatement of the century, at least in his mind.]
I don't really know how to talk to them... at either Nanako's age or Souji's age.
[The fact that Souji had to approach him most of the time was telling...]
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[She gave him a scrutinizing look.]
Avoiding talking to either of them isn't going to improve your understanding. When that girl, Nanako, came here, all I asked her at first was 'What's wrong?'.
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...So what did she tell you?
[She made it sound easy. But he couldn't even tell something was wrong, sometimes...]
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[Which sir, that's concerning.]
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Of course I care about her! She's my daughter, I--
2/2
...But I know I'm a lousy father to be stuck with.
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... You don't have to be.
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[What... what exactly do you say to that? It was like talking to Souji in some ways... only more ...fishy, and naked.
Scratch that, it was definitely different than talking to Souji.]
... I don't know how.
[...What was with this strange fish woman getting all this out of him? Was the shock of it all just... making it all come out?]
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What do you mean 'how'? You did it the other evening...
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[It's the silver hair and piercing eyes combined with a stoic face?][He blinked a moment, glancing back up at her.]
Other ev--
[Ah... wait, so she heard all that, too? ...So she already knew his current thoughts on the matter, anyway.]
That's... more about Souji being who he is than me knowing what to do. Besides, I'm the one who made her run off in the first place.
...Sorry you had to hear all that.
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[And some of them were fools out by her waters anyway.]
I probably would've convinced her to return in time, but you two found her so it didn't come to that.