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MERMAID AU MEME



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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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[4thdimensional]

[Sailing isn't really one of Emmett's great loves, but he has enough of an interest in it to be willing to try. There are supposed to be some fantastic sights in the beyond, after all, so once the course is mapped out, he sets sail.

All appears to go well at first, and he's happy enough, but then he encounters some turbulent sea he didn't plan for. Not to worry, he's got this under control---barely, but that's when the worst of the storm starts. There's something almost unreal about how it barreled in out of nowhere, and it's frightening.

He grips the sail and prays, using every technique he knows to stay afloat, but it isn't long before he's tossed overboard and set adrift, struggling to stay afloat---by the time it finally calms, he's a sodden white lump on a piece of driftwood, alive but looking a little under the weather.

With what little strength he has, he lifts his head just lightly to look. What was that?]

[drizzle]

[The seas are usually calm for the most part, wherever it was close to land, as it was an area no intelligent creature would wonder into. So much so, there are moments that these very mysterious creatures would migrate a generous amount of fish to piers to keep them from wandering too far.However, no matter how much they offer, there are humans that use the sea as their refuge to escape from their misdeeds. These are the people that need to be brought to justice if the land dwellers are unable to do so.

Sirens are the very creatures given that simple task. Be it by destroying their ships or allowing the land dwellers to die by their own two hands. In Nike's case, however, she much prefer for the weather and ocean to clean the very scum off her precious world.

She has used her spell many times before. Countless in the last century. Even so, she was still a very young siren that was given the task a little too early due to her innate talent and personal connections to the royalty of the mer-kingdom. Mistakes were prone to be made. Such as missing the lone boat that was in the area, who had nothing to do with the pirates trespassing into the area of the mer-kingdom -- well, to be fair, the other fellow was trespassing; however with those overly adventurous or easily lost types, she wouldn't use her weather powers, rather she would use her hypnosis on them.

Unfortunately she hadn't seen where the man had approached from, due to the raging storm, and was running out of time because he had fallen off his ship and having trouble remaining upright. Quickly, the young siren will approach the fellow, cautiously and keeping some distance between them, however he may be able to notice someone close by, especially once a song can be heard. Using her voice to manipulate the waves and wind to keep the fellow afloat while allowing the tides to lead him to the nearest island. In this case, he was being taken to the mysterious island of legends. It'll take some time, but they will arrive to the shore once the sun begins to rise over the horizon.

The siren will remain silent, watching over her passenger, wondering if he was alive or needed any additional assistance, as she kept herself hidden in a nearby boulder.]

[4thdimensional]

[Just as he was about to slip under, he heard the stirrings of a song. One of the fabled sirens, serenading him into eternal slumber? He really should have paid the legend more mind.

But that wasn't quite the case. The waves nudged him upright, then began their gentle pull toward...somewhere. He wasn't quite strong enough to stay conscious the rest of the way, but soon enough he'd awaken on a foreign shore.

Fortunately, he'd swallowed so little seawater that he could easily cough it up himself, but it was still unpleasant to do so---and then, pale and shaking, he'd lift himself up to have a look around. It was a lovely place, enough to admire for a while without thinking on his predicament...so he'd lay here to dry off, muttering to himself.]

...things could certainly be worse.