MerMarch because i said so

[blackmagicduck]

 

Types Of Mermaid:
1.Good: Everything said about merfolks is wrong. They are reclusive, but not evil. Especially not this one. Maybe they even saved you. No matter what, they love you, absolutely. And, were you to be honest, it was love at first sight on your end, too. But that doesn't mean you can be together...at least, not easily.
2. Bad: Come, jolly sailor bold. Come into the arms of a mermaid, and you will not regret it. They will hold you, and you cannot resist, even as you're dashed against the rock.
3. Wild: Good and evil cannot be applied to mermaids here, for they are like any other wild creature, more beast than man. Yet the more they're exposed to the kindness of humans or others who live on land, the more fond they grow towards it - and those who show them that kindness.
4. Ignorant: The mermaid's intentions are good, yet he or she doesn't realize what they could do to hurt their land dweller lover.
5. The Mermaid Dilemma: What can be done if someone wants to do more with a mermaid than give them kisses or sweet words? Not much, it seems. At first glance, that is, though who knows what can happen if one puts their mind to it.
6. Not What Was Expected: Beauty is always expected of a mermaid, but what if such a creature looked more like this? Who could care for such a beast? Well, there's still charm there, and with enough personality, appearances can be looked past.

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, carp. 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 ♢ 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? 

9 ♢ 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?

10 ♢ 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?

11 ♢ 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. 

12 ♢ 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. 

13 ♢ 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?

14 ♢ 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?

15 ♢ 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. 

16 ♢ 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?

17 ♢ Wildcard
♢ follow your dreams, make up whatever

Mix and Match the two, or pick one!  Pick one of my characters to play with! 

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[blackmagicduck]

That campfire certainly hadn't been there half an hour ago, where meat was roasting with several herbs crushed on top. It had been a rushed effort, and the woman sitting there on a unbalanced rock was grumbling something or other - he was too far away to tell exactly what. A woven basket was at her side, though years had made it frayed and bitter, it probably wouldn't last another year.

As the warm of the fire got through to her, she pulled down the hood of her robe - revealing quite the young beauty. Even though there were dark circles of exhaustion underneath her eyes, and her body was thinning, there was a natural allure to her that undeniable. She ripped off a piece of meat, grumbling once more as she chewed.

[richestduck]

Scrooge made his way onto the shore a bit farther down, removing his seal skin to become a man. He dug a hole and buried the skin to hide it. The last thing he wanted was to be trapped in human form because someone recognized what he was.

He then made his way down the coast in plain view of her, dressed in simple pants and shirt. He raised his hand to greet her.

"Hello!" he called.

[blackmagicduck]

"Bugger off."

She could see someone was approaching, but couldn't quite see who, nor did she care. Last thing she needed was another idiot bothering her - gods, it was cold out. She shivered, and threw another stick into the fire.

[richestduck]

Oooh, a feisty one.

He stopped. "If I bring you more driftwood, do you mind if I have a little of that delicious smell?"

[blackmagicduck]

She paused, debating, looking at the tiny twigs at her side.

"... It had better be a big piece of driftwood."

[richestduck]

"I'll get you a stack. Be right back," he told her.

Grabbing it from the ocean would be fastest, but wet wood didn't burn well. Instead, he paced down the beach, tucking large branches of driftwood under one arm.

He wandered around for fifteen minutes before returning with his arms piled high with driftwood.

"Will this do?" he asked playfully.

[blackmagicduck]

She glanced over occasionally as he got to work. Sheesh, at that rate, she'd have to give over her entire meal. She looked away, making sure to snatch a hefty portion for herself so her stomach could be saved.

"Fine, whatever." She waved dismissively. Only when he set the wood down did she actually look at his face. "Take it and-"

HELLO, HANDSOME. Her mouth dropped open in an entirely undignified fashion.

[richestduck]

He didn't object to her snatching the bulk of the food. He chuckled and took his small share.

"Take it and...?" he prompted, giving his most charming smile.

[blackmagicduck]

She said something that wasn't English - to be fair, it wasn't any language, just the confused garbling of a woman whose brain had shut down.

But him speaking managed to snap her out of it, and she blinked wildly, shaking her head and slapping her cheek. What the hell had that been?

"Leave. Take it and leave."

[richestduck]

Well, this was interesting.

"I promise I won't take any more," he told her. He took a bite from his share, wagging his tail. "Mmmm, that is good."

[blackmagicduck]

Huh. All looks and no brains, was it? She huffed, taking some driftwood and putting it into the fire.

"I didn't come here for company." She eyed him. No way he was from the village, she definitely would've remembered that face.

[richestduck]

"I kind of guessed," Scrooge said dryly. "Nobody from the village tends to come to the shore when the sun goes down."

He took another bite, taking a moment to savor the flavor.

"What is this anyway?"

[blackmagicduck]

... So if he wasn't from the village, where did he come from? A traveler from afar?

"Rabbit. Took me two hours to catch the jerk."

[richestduck]

That actually made him pause, blushing guiltily. "Oh. Sorry. If I'd known, I wouldn't have invited myself to take some of it. I could catch you some fish to make up for it if you'd like."

[blackmagicduck]

"I won't rely on the charity of another." Even if her stomach protested otherwise.

Damn, he was cute when he blushed.

[richestduck]

"Charity nothing. You might make fish actually taste interesting again if I play my cards right," Scrooge told her, winking.

[blackmagicduck]

... Damn, now she was the one blushing. What was with her?

"It's... just a few herbs from my garden, that's all."

[richestduck]

"A few herbs well-used," he complimented, taking another bite of his rabbit. "I haven't had anything this good in a long time."

[blackmagicduck]

"Then I guess you haven't been around too many places." She absolutely refused the compliment.

[richestduck]

"Don't be so quick to put yourself down," he told her. "Accepting a compliment won't kill you, I promise."

[blackmagicduck]

"You think so?" Her glare became contemptuous. "No one is nice for free. The world is full of people who will give you a smile and stab you in the back once you turn away. You can only rely on yourself."

The only way it could be more obvious this came with experience would be if she wrote it on a sign and waved it around.

[richestduck]

He narrowed his eyes at her. "And how can you be so sure I'm one of them?! Did you think that maybe, just maybe I actually like your cooking?"

[blackmagicduck]

"Even starving dogs will think garbage is cuisine."

... Oh hell, he was attractive angry too.

[richestduck]

Scrooge rolled his eyes. "I'm Scrooge, by the way. What's your name?"

[blackmagicduck]

She looked away.

"... Magica. Magica De Spell."