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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

[dontpokethat]

Ginko sure hopes this ends up working out, because right now it is absolutely terrifying. He swears under his breath and grips the side of the boat until his knuckles turn white(r). He's reluctant to sit down, since... honestly, he wants to see this? He just hopes that standing up doesn't turn out to be a mistake.

"Great-- yeah, that's more fish, alright." He also hopes they aren't all sharks. He's pretty sure he doesn't have the materials to make that edible.

[pipers_son]

Fortunately, Joker seems to have had enough sense for this much. The waves can't be helped, out here in the open water, but the feeding frenzy, for the most part, seems to stay where the corpse is. A shark body might be too much for Ginko, but other creatures in the water have no such problems. And while those are focused on the main body...

It takes a few minutes, giving Ginko plenty of time to observe the show of a feast, but soon something is torpedoing up through the water and something crashes onto the deck of the boat. Fortunately, it's not a shark- only Joker, holding a fish in one hand and one clenched tightly in his teeth. Spitting out the fish, he grins up at Ginko and tries to use what water is still on him to help slide himself closer so that he can peer over the side too. This will bruise the hell out of him, but, hey, it's fine. "Fish~," he hums, relaxed.

Sure, the sharks are the main attraction here... but they can't get everything in those big mouths of theirs. Scraps will fall through the water and, where there's scraps, there's scavengers hoping for an easy meal. All sorts of things show up when there's a big feast to be had. If there was a whale of some sort, there'd be even more interesting things to see.

[dontpokethat]

Bit by bit, Ginko lowers himself down to sit in the boat and watch the frenzy from a somewhat safer position.

It's a good thing too, since that means he's actually sitting down by the time Joker hurls himself at top speed onto the boat's deck, so he stays on the boat when he jolts away on reflex. Then he gets a better look at what he's seeing and lets out a quiet, disbelieving snort. "Be careful, there."

He scoots over to lean against the side of the boat again, and hesitantly picks up the fish Joker dropped on the deck. "...You really are something, you know that?"

Ginko isn't sure he'd even be alive by now if this merman hadn't taken it upon himself to help him - and he's still not sure why he's doing this. Sure, Ginko helped him off the boat that first time, but this seems like... a lot, in comparison to one incident.

[pipers_son]

A high trilling noise is the only answer, a big grin split across his face as he forces himself up to the edge of the boat. Being wet really makes a difference in how much mobility he has, although he knows it won't last. Making himself comfortable, he hums and points at the frothing waves.

Learning names is half the fun, after all.

[dontpokethat]

Ginko gets to work scaling the fish, but just a bit at a time, looking up to see what Joker is asking about.

"Those are waves." He points his knife out over the water, moving it to imitate the movement of the water, as he repeats the word. "Waves."

After everything, the least he can do is teach Joker whatever he asks about.

[pipers_son]

A long deep hum leaves him, the kind that seems to rattle down into the wood of the boat. One day, he'll know enough human of the ocean to be able to communicate with Ginko a little more thoroughly. That's just not today.

Some of the waves are calming down now, individual sharks having eaten their fill, or torn off something to drag with them deeper into the waters. They're the type of creatures that can eat a whole meal and be done for a nice while.... and thinking about that has Joker pause, twisting around to watch Ginko at work.

Lacking legs means making a lot of noise on deck, flopping and smacking and slithering over, but Joker manages, instead looking over the fish he's gotten Ginko with an almost dubious stare. He has some questions he's clearly mulling over again. He stays quiet for a while, however, instead waiting until Ginko is done with the knife before he points down at the fish. "Eh... Food."

[dontpokethat]

He looks up as Joker flops his way over, and considers offering to splash him with some more water - but it seems like he's okay for the moment. Ginko will just... try and do that before too much longer, if Joker sticks around. He's sure he'll get off the boat when he needs to, but Ginko would rather not let him get too uncomfortable even before it becomes an emergency.

"Oh - you hungry?" He holds the fish out to Joker, just in case that's what he means. It's only fair, given that Joker caught it to begin with.

[pipers_son]

Rattling out that strange laughter sort of noise from the very pit of his throat, Joker shakes his head. He'd even go so far as to shove it back towards Ginko, if that wouldn't bring about some very obvious balance problems in his current position. Even just pointing can only happen with his elbow down against the deck. Instead, he just hopes Ginko gets the idea there.

"Not too big food." He's still kind of wondering about that. Can Ginko really be alright with just this amount?

[dontpokethat]

It does take Ginko a couple moments to figure out what Joker might mean by that. It wouldn't make much sense for him to be asking if the fish is too big for Ginko to eat, he's seen him eat plenty of fish around this size. And it doesn't really sound like a question, anyway... okay, he's pretty sure he's got the idea.

"Well-- maybe not, but that's fine with me. Some food is better than none, y'know?"