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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

[transient_specter]

"... It's my fault." He frowns and takes Chikusa's arm. "I can lead you over there. If they have a problem with it, then I'll deal with it. Let me at least try to make up for this a little."

[kokuyoyo]

Well, it's not like he has a choice otherwise, and Chikusa is feeling too dazed to think of anything else he could do. So he gives a slight nod before looking between them. "Will you be able to swim all the way there... and in wet clothes...?" It seems far too tiring, at least from Chikusa's point of view. That's how he would have thought even before he become more aquatic than mammalian.

[transient_specter]

"I'll make it." He has to. "I'm not leaving you out here to be defenseless." He starts swimming, mostly doing a modified side stroke. It's difficult with one of his arms occupied, but he's managing. Barely. "I... have to."

He's tiring, and he knows it, but he can't give up. Not when Chikusa needs help, not when he's at fault for the other's pain.

[kokuyoyo]

Makoto can say whatever he wants, but the movement of his body is a lot more difficult to lie about. Chikusa stays silent for a moment, trying to help as best as he can with with the pulse and push of his lower half, yet he has to say something eventually.

"Makoto.... You're going to wear yourself out. Go rest."

[transient_specter]

"I'm not leaving you to get hurt." Even if he drowns, it doesn't matter. His brother needs him, and he's not abandoning him. "I'm the one who hurt you, so I'm the one who should help you if I can." It's that simple, even if his legs are cramping up, leaving him bobbing low in the water and having to forcefully push himself up every time.

[kokuyoyo]

"...You're going to leave me if you end up drowning." A simple, quiet fact, and Chikusa's brows draw in just a little bit. "Makoto... You need to take a break. Or else we'll both be dead..."

And then they'll both have ended up failing, one way or the other.

[transient_specter]

Makoto lets go of Chikusa, trying to figure out what to do. "I... I can go rest for a minute... but you'll... still be here, right?"

Not that Chikusa can move anywhere fast, but he kind of needs to hear it.

[kokuyoyo]

"I'll still be here." The obvious reason, the very one that Makoto is helping him overcome, doesn't really need to be stated. At least, that's what Chikusa figures. It would be a waste of energy when they're both exhausted.

"So just... go back to dry land until you have energy again."

[transient_specter]

He turns and swims back towards the rocks, hauling himself up on them to catch his breath. He can't let himself rest for too long though... just a few minutes.

He keeps an eye on Chikusa - he believes his brother isn't going anywhere, but he also doesn't want anything to come hurt him.

[kokuyoyo]

There's no need to worry- Chikusa couldn't move even if he wanted to but that doesn't mean he's defenseless. Not many creatures care to eat a jellyfish, venomous as they all are, and he's no exception. And for the rare few that do, well, he's too big for them.

In turn, Chikusa watches back, eyes strangely bright beneath the moonlight and his own translucent bell. With his brother here, it doesn't feel as if he can space out so easily as he had before. It's strange, uneasy, and he calls out quietly after a moment. "Do you think you could get a boat...?"

[transient_specter]

He's quiet for a few moments, before getting up and heading towards the shore a bit more. He did see that big kayak thing that had been upturned on the beach. No one really steals things around here - a benefit of living in a safe town - so it's easy enough to head over and push it upright.

With some grunting, Makoto shoves it to the water, watching it carefully to make sure that it floats. He pulls a paddle out of the thing and starts heading over towards Chikusa, his movements a bit unsteady. He does take a bit to stop, unsure of how to, but at least he's nearby, though still tired.

[kokuyoyo]

Thank goodness he doesn't have to explain further. Then again, as he's left to aimlessly float there in the sea, he supposes it does explain itself. There are only so many reasons someone would want a boat, and those reasons become all the fewer when they're a creature like he is now. Once Makoto is close enough, Chikusa tries to awkwardly paddle with his arms and propel himself towards it. He's a little lopsided... but he's doing his best.

"Did you actually rest long enough...?"

[transient_specter]

He reaches a paddle down to help lift Chikusa's arms up so he can grab the side of the kayak. Thankfully, Chikusa is pretty light now. "... Probably not. But at least now I can be near you." He's too afraid that the other will leave. Even if Chikusa said he won't... "You need to rest, too."

[kokuyoyo]

If there's anything to be thankful for, it's that he's pretty sure the rest of him isn't as venomous as his lower half is. Letting himself be dragged up, he slumps against the side of the kayak with his bell flopping over most of it... and his face.

"It's fine... The way I am now, I'm used to it... You're the one who jumped in fully clothed..."