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[pipers_son]

MERMAID AU MEME



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

Comments

Stranded/Rescue

[aggrate]

[Of course, one with such status and reputation as he had, it required traveling to meet others and negotiate agreements and the like on occasion. Which was what was supposed to happen, in Livius heading out from his kingdom to meet with another to broker a trade agreement together. Only, that didn't quite end up happening. His ship got caught in a storm, leaving the crew to scramble for the lifeboats, and Livius ending up getting pulled into one with them only to fall out when they toppled over from another wave.

Leaving him to attempt to keep himself afloat, to try and fail in keeping his head above water, there not having exactly been the most opportunities to learn to swim in a kingdom without rain. He tries to cling to the broken boards of wood from the ship, only to eventually slip from how damp it is, from the waves crashing into him.]

[drizzle]

[The sudden storm was an abrupt summoning from an outrage elder after learning of a ship travelling through their territory without permission. From the way the meeting had gone, they knew the identity of the ship and those on it too. World King or not, the seas were not under his domain, and he had no right to travel above them as though he were in the same level as the Dragon God.

As much as Nike agreed with the elder's viewpoint, she still didn't find the rash decision to be fair in the slightest. It wasn't as though they were pirates or a military ship prying in their area to use to hide away their loot and whatnot. She needed more information about them!

It was the only reason she can be found in the area. Watching the chaos above her, witnessing her elder's massive abilities, but what she found to be incredible was the sudden appearance of a drowning child having fallen overboard. He was so small! It was enough encouragement to have her use the wind to rise the boy back towards the broken piles of floating wood coming from the ship. Maybe it may be best to find a bigger piece for him to be on instead?

The siren will begin to desperately search the area for bigger pieces until deciding to take matters into her own hands by using the wind to cut a bigger piece of floating wood, almost the size of a door, to take back to the boy, which she accomplishes by using her powers for the tide to offer it to him. Maybe it'll protect him from the harsh waves? All she can do was watch and pray he could rise onto the wood on his own.]

[aggrate]

[Luckily for her, Livius is focusing so much on merely managing to keep his head above water that he doesn't notice her, her movement in the water from the crashing waves and debris from the ship. She would have been well within reason for just letting him wait, if the others in the life boats hadn't already figured him drowned and focused on getting themselves to shore. To keep them heading in the direction they were going at least.

Livi clings to the wood, scrambling up onto it, dripping wet from his clothes and hair as he all but collapses onto it, exhausted. He wasn't sure how to get back home or where they had been heading from here. But at least he wasn't drowning. That was something. A start, at least.

If he does notice her in the water nearby, it would be easy to pass it off as some sort of frantic illusion. Even if he had vaguely heard of merfolk, dismissing them as mere stories. But at the same time, with a brief look of confusion, a frown, before he smiles faintly.]

Thank you.

[Just in case he wasn't imagining this. Before his eyes close and he lies on the wood, letting the waves carry him where they may.]