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]

She pulled up the first bucket which was fit to burst with water.

But when she began to deposit the second bucket - the rock came at her too fast for her to dodge in time, smacking her right above the eye.

[richestduck]

"Come here, you bastard!"

Scrooge charged, teeth bared, at the one who'd thrown the rock. Just one good strong bite, that's all he asked...!

[blackmagicduck]

Magica staggered - the rock had been small, but it had done its job, as blood began to drip.

As for the assailant - a doddy housewife, who was ready to grab and throw another. "Wretched witch! You killed my babe, still in the womb! When will you be satisfied! Why must we suffer your wrath!"

The false accusations were easily ignored in lieu of the actual surprise - the seal! Magica stared, and then tried to grab him. "What are you doing here?"

[richestduck]

He ignored Magica for the moment, charging towards the housewife. Oh, she was gonna wish she'd followed her baby into death...!

"You think she killed your baby?! You ingrates who turned your backs on the gods, they've been warning you time and again that they won't bless you for cursing them! And you think she's the curse?!"

[blackmagicduck]

The housewife shrieked, backing away from the wild animal...

"Stop!" Magica stumbled after the seal, falling to her knees and trying to restrain him with her arms. "Stop, what are you doing?"

But this act of kindness wouldn't be repaid.

"The witch has control over beasts now!"
"She's trying to set the animals upon us!"
"She shan't be satisfied 'til we're all dead!"

[richestduck]

However, her command to stop had him freeze and look back at her.

"But...but she hurt you..."

He whined and licked at her cut, trying to stop the blood.

[blackmagicduck]

The villagers ranted and raved, calling for both her death and the death of her "familiar". Magica was certain if they'd stayed for long, the seal would get hurt, and she wouldn't have that.

Forced to abandon her water, she tried to drag Scrooge away, as the villagers began to pelt her with more rocks at her back.

[richestduck]

No. No, this wasn't what he wanted at all. Why did he keep messing up?

"Leucetios, please stop them!" he begged the god of storms and lightning. "She's one of yours!"

The selkie were children of the gods, they swam with Lir and would be called upon to do his and Cliodhna's bidding when a more direct option was needed. Still, they weren't supposed to call on the gods for petty things.

This was no petty thing. This was one of the gods' faithful who'd performed no treachery. As much as Scrooge wanted these heathens to die, all he truly wanted was for Magica to leave in peace with her water.

[blackmagicduck]

Perhaps his prayer was answered... or perhaps it was mere coincidence... But the sky darkened, and the sun was blotted. The rain came light, but in seconds was pouring, great and thunderous. The villages were forced to flee inside, but Magica kept pushing the seal along, only stopping when they reached the edge of the village and her legs gave out.

Her back ached, it was possible it was bleeding. She sank to her knees, saying nothing as the rain washed over her.

[richestduck]

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He nuzzled her and whined. If seals were capable of tears, he'd be practically sobbing. "I'm so, so sorry!"

[blackmagicduck]

Even if he had been speaking in a tongue she understood, she might not have heard him.

Pointless. It was all so... pointless. If her family had known she'd grown up to live so miserably, maybe they would have let her die with them, instead of begging for her life. Maybe... she had only been delaying the inevitable. The animals would be fine without her. Nothing and no one needed her.

"I'll join them," she said softly, eyes glazed and distant. "I'll go be with them."

[richestduck]

"Please. Please don't," he whispered, nuzzling her and wrapping his neck around her to pull her closer to him. "Don't go. Please."

He'd follow her without hesitation. She mattered so much to him that he didn't even fully understand it.

He reared up and wrapped his flippers around her as he whined.

[blackmagicduck]

Everything would be fine if she left... everything would stop hurting...

Wordlessly, she began trying to stand up, trying to push Scrooge off of her - this was difficult, given her weakness and his strength.

She'd go to the ocean, yes, that's it, let it take her...

[richestduck]

What would it take? What could he do? Everything he tried ultimately made things worse for her.

"Please stay with me. Let me protect you even if it's only as a seal."

[blackmagicduck]

By the time she finally wrestled Scrooge off, it took the remaining ounce of strength she had, and the lost the last bits of her dignity as she fell backwards, the ground beneath her turning to mud in the rain.

Feh. Not even allowed to die.

"Maybe I'm the idiot instead."

[richestduck]

Scrooge whined before taking one of the buckets and straightening it up to catch the rainwater. It was cleaner than what was in the vile well, after all.

The other bucket had fallen upside-down somehow, and he struggled to right it.

[blackmagicduck]

Magica lay there, in the mud and the rain, unable to do much of anything except devolve into further self-loathing. This would be a rather humiliating way to die.

Finally, she tried to turn, leaning on her arms as she sat up. "Let him call me pretty now," she muttered, as mud dripped off her hair.

[richestduck]

"I'd always call you pretty," he told her, lowering his head.

At the same time, he mutely thanked the god of storms for his intervention and the pure rain that renewed the world.

[blackmagicduck]

She looked up... and blinked at the full buckets of rainwater. She glanced at the seal, raising an eyebrow... and chuckled quietly.

"Small mercies." She wobbled to her feet, and took the buckets hand in hand.

[richestduck]

The seal lumbered along beside her, happy to be allowed to stay in her presence. Perhaps...

He looked around, trying to find an empty barrel. Any one would do. If she could collect the rainwater in it, she'd have less of a reason to go into town...

[blackmagicduck]

Time to go home. It'd be a slow walk, as her face and back still ached.

"Don't go into the village again... it's not safe for you there."

[richestduck]

He looked back at her and very deliberately nodded his head. He wasn't able to tell her the truth yet, but...

There. A barrel left all by its lonesome. He made his way over to it and began nudging it along in front of him, knocking it over so he could keep rolling it.

[blackmagicduck]

Magica turned her head hearing the noise, and her eyes widened. A barrel like that could provide plenty of water!

"What are you, my knight in shining armor?"

[richestduck]

"I try to be!" he told her as he kept rolling the barrel.

[blackmagicduck]

"I promise to get you some nice fat fish later." Though now that she had water to spare, she pulled up one bucket to drink from it before resuming the walk.