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mermaid oh murmur into my ear

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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Yeah... but, I think I would remember meeting you before, right? Still... you're way too familiar to think you might not be a friend.

[Somewhere... somewhere, he'd seen her eyes before.]

I do... I can't help it. I almost did something foolish on accident.

[She liked to think she'd be memorable enough to remember. But maybe not?]

This is weird. I don't think this has ever happened to me before.

[She doesn't know for sure because there's a lot she doesn't remember, even now.]

I just thought you were going to drown yourself... and it scared me...

[It had terrified her, and she couldn't understand why she cared so much.]

It hasn't? ... Do you have any idea where we could've met before?

[Was it along the bank before? Maybe years ago? There's... something. Something he's forgetting.]

Sorry for scaring you.

[But still, why did she worry about his well-being so much?]

Mmm... nope~ And I'm not sure.

[She was almost tempted to make a joke about him drowning himself in the dark, but it seemed a little much.]

You're fine. I mean, it's okay. I can understand what you were trying to do. I'm sorry for overreacting.

[She's just not going to try to analyze why she was so worried before. Who was he?]

It's probably going to come back at some random moment.

[Just like memories to do that.]

No, it's okay. I mean, how else could you figure what I was actually trying to do? I came here wearing clothes. If anyone else jumped into the water like that, it wouldn't be for a swim.

Probably after you go back to wherever it is you came from.

[She's just smiling at that, because wouldn't that be about right?]

You're clearly not just anyone, though, even if I can't remember where I know you from. You don't seem like someone I'd just forget.

Likely. But if that happens, I'd want to find you again.

[Was it okay to say that?]

Yeah... you're not just someone I was acquainted with either.

... You would?

[That was pretty surprising, but she's glad to hear it.]

You could come find me again. I could wait here.

[Was that ridiculous? She felt like it was a little ridiculous.]

Of course.

[She was someone important... someone he was missing and needed to see.]

Would you really? Wouldn't that be dangerous?

I... okay.

[It was probably ridiculous to dwell on it, but that was very likely the nicest thing anyone had ever said to her. And she wasn't terribly worried about something happening to her if she did decide to wait for him to come back.]

I would. Do you want me to?

[She shouldn't. If anything, he needs to say no and tell her to flee; that they could try meeting somewhere secluded a few days from now...]

... Yes. Please.

[But he's a little selfish. Even if he didn't remember, he would want to see her again.]

[Maybe it's foolish. Maybe she shouldn't. But if he wanted her to?]

Okay.

[No hesitation. Just okay. If he wanted her to wait here, then she'd wait. Why that was so important, she couldn't say. But it was.]

[He blinked. He didn't... expect her to say yes like that.]

... Okay.

[He'd come back to her tomorrow then. Definitely. Wait, definitely?]

[If there was something off about the way she'd agreed so quickly, it was lost on her.]

Okay!

[For now, it just seems like things are lighter. Better?]

So what now? I kind of ruined your plan...

[She's still kind of curious about that, though.]

Do you think it would have worked?

Okay...

[Leaning against her slightly now, his forehead almost touching hers, he still wanted to stay here...]

Ah... I guess I should go home...

[Not looking forward to that.]

Honestly? I don't know. The old man who suggested the book seemed sure.

[It's only at this point that she realizes she's still holding him, how close he is, and she doesn't really want to let him go just yet.]

Yea... I'm sure people will be missing you.

[There's no way that's not a thing that happens. She'd miss him.]

What did the book say, exactly?

[Because now she's curious...]

[He doesn't want to let go of her either...]

In a way... yeah...

[He's already missing her just with the thought of leaving.]

... Bring a treasure from the sea as a charm and submerge yourself in water while the moon is full.

Yea...

[This was nice, though, and she couldn't even remember the last time anything had made her feel this nice.]

A treasure from the sea?

[And now she's curious.]

What kind of treasure?

I don't know... I brought this though.

[Raising his hand, he opened his fingers to reveal some homemade looking charm bracelet.]

Maybe it needed something else?

Like a pearl or a shell or something?

[She's not even going to pretend not to be curious, though, and she's just... staring at that hand.]

I... don't think that's from the sea. It's beautiful, though.

[He frowns.]

Really? It... seemed appropriate to bring it.

[Now she's wondering what kind of book he was looking at and where he got it from.]

That's a pretty bracelet. Why aren't you wearing it?

[Was it a gift? It didn't look like it came from the sea, though, so can't decide whether or not it would have worked for whatever plan he'd been trying to put into motion.]

Father told me not to. I'm not sure why though.

[He thinks it's because something about making him look taken? He doesn't know... might've easily been too colorful.]

That's weird.

[She couldn't imagine anyone telling him not to wear such a gorgeous gift. But maybe his father had his reasons.]

I'd wear it anyway.

... You think so?

[Should he... really? He doesn't like to try his father... but...]

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