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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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[That seemed simple enough, so she's reaching out to take the bracelet, and then moving to carefully knot the ends together with (hopefully) enough slack that he could remove it easily enough.]
There~
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Thanks. I'm glad it's on now.
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You're welcome! It's not too tight?
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[Fits perfectly... but he was going to ignore the weird itching around his wrist now.]
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[She'd hate to think she'd accidentally tied it too tight.]
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Huh...
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Is... that why you don't wear this?
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[That green patch kind of looks... scaly. How would he explain that? And it's on his upper arm now.]
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[Was his arm seriously growing scales? She's staring at the arm and raising a hand to run her fingers over the green patches on his upper arm.]
How do you feel?
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[When she touches it, it felt a little better. Slowly, he placed it into the water... and sighed, relieved.]
It was itching like crazy. But when you touched it, and holding it in the water, it's much better.
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[That made two of them, though. Marinette is watching intently as he lowered the arm into the water.]
When I touched it?
[At that, she ran her fingers over the green spot again.]
Is that better?
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[When she touches his arm again, there's relief.]
Y-yeah... much.
[In fact, he doesn't feel anything at all. Not even the fact he might suddenly have a green finny tail.]
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[She'd never heard of something like this happening either, or at least she didn't remember hearing as much.]
I'm glad.
[But even if she didn't remember a lot, she was beginning to question the fact that this was happening at all. Was this how mermaids were made, or was this just something else entirely? And when did he grow that ta--]
Y-you... have a tail now!
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[That's peculiar.]
[It's weird to not feel anything as more scales appeared on his other arm, but at least he wasn't itching. He considered taking the bracelet off, but he paused, shocked, and looked down at her exclamation.]
... Wha-! B-But how!?
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[Mostly because she didn't want to lose it or accidentally tear it.
And she's fighting the urge to reach out and touch his other arm.]
I don't know! It wasn't there before...
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This is real... Woah...
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Was this what you were trying to do before...?
[Maybe it was a long shot, but it didn't seem like that much of a stretch, considering what had just happened. She gave his wrist a squeeze and then ran her fingers over the green scales still spreading over his arms.]
This really just happened...
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[But... he wasn't interested in doing that right away. Blinking, he felt his face heat as she touched his scales. The itching was gone and so was the numbness... he could feel her doing that.]
Y-Yeah...
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What would you do if it was?
[She's curious more than anything, and she's absently trailing her fingers over his arm as she waits for an answer. Has it occurred to her that he could feel it now? Probably not.]
How do you feel?
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[He'd likely inform his father too, but... if this was his life now, there was no way he would go back. He didn't even know what his father might do.]
Better... I... I can feel you doing that.
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[Granted, she wasn't really staying anywhere in particular, but it might be nice to have someone around all the time.]
You can stay with me.
[Better was good, at least. And she could feel the heat creeping over her face and neck when he admitted to being able to feel what she was doing.]
Ah... sorry! I wasn't thinking about it...
[A pause, and then-]
Do... you want me to stop?
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[But only if she was okay with it. His expression brightened considerably at her answer.]
[He doesn't mean to embarrass her like that, but she was cute blushing...]
It's fine. It feels nice actually.
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[Assuming, of course, that this was permanent. She's kind of hoping it might be, but admitting as much might seem a little...
But she's going to take that to mean that she should continue. He felt nice, though, and she wanted him to be happy. So she's sliding her hand down his arm to lace their fingers together.]
Is this okay?
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[And if he could go together with someone, that was even better.]
[This was probably the first real time he felt comfortable with anyone touching him in... he doesn't know how long. Feeling her fingers take hold, his own curled to hold her hand.]
Totally okay.
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[But it would be nice to have someone to be with.]
But you won't be alone, so...
[Smiling, she gives his hand a squeeze.]
I'm glad...
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