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]

Ratface perched on the water, huffing at his enemy.

Magica was quick to start the fire, and as it burned, she tried to pick out pieces of mud from her hair.

"Gods, maybe I should just chop it all off."

[richestduck]

"No!" Scrooge shook his head in protest. Not her lovely hair!

[blackmagicduck]

Magica sneezed again - no matter how warm the fire was, she'd still be cold as long as she had these wet, muddy clothes on. They needed to be cleaned and dried - they were pretty much all she had.

"This will be a long week..." She stood up, and began to strip.

[richestduck]

If seals could blush, Scrooge would have.

As it was, he started wiggling back out of the house to give her some privacy. That and the ability to shut the door would keep the warmth in.

[blackmagicduck]

Magica glanced back - seal friend was leaving? That was fine, he was probably aching for the ocean. "See you again, handsome one."

If Scrooge bothered to take one last look, he'd notice her back - perhaps most of her body - was covered in old scars, no doubt thanks to the village.

[richestduck]

Oh he saw, and he seethed. However, he made his way back out onto the beach to climb up onto a rocky outcropping and point his nose towards the sky.

"Thank you, Leucetios, for your kind rains which wash away all things," he told the god. "Your blessing of clean water will help her for many days to come."

[blackmagicduck]

Now she had plenty of water to spare, she could bathe and clean her clothes, and it would be some time before she needed to return to the village. A victory roughly earned.

It took almost all day for her to clean up, and to dry up, but she felt much better afterwards - almost like a new person. Night was falling, but she couldn't sleep. So instead she headed out with her net, refreshed and relieved.

[richestduck]

Scrooge had removed and hidden his seal skin when the rain had stopped, intending to go to the door and knock, but the idea that she might still be naked had caused him to stop. Instead, he sat at the edge of the water, thinking.

He could hear her approaching on the sand, and he turned to look at her.

"Hello," he told her awkwardly.

[blackmagicduck]

Her face instantly turned into a scowl, and she looked away as she headed for the water.

"What are you doing here?"

[richestduck]

"I wanted to apologize," he told her. "I shouldn't have stayed over even if you were telling me to. You weren't in your right mind."

[blackmagicduck]

"... No, you shouldn't have." She kept her eyes away.

"It won't happen again. I've destroyed all my potion-work."

[richestduck]

"That's a shame," he admitted quietly. "What I saw of it, you looked like you knew a lot about them."

[blackmagicduck]

"A lot of good it did me. Just a few good dreams and easing my aches. I'll live without them."

She began to wade into the water.

[richestduck]

Scrooge looked out over the water and froze, realizing something. "Not there!"

She likely wouldn't be able to see in the dark, but he'd swum through that area earlier.

"There's a rip current in that area," he told her. He then pointed a bit farther down the beach. "But I saw herring down that way close to shore. Should be able to catch a few without being dragged out to sea."

[blackmagicduck]

Magica stopped, and looked back at him, quite puzzled.

"How can you tell from here?" It was night, and the land had grown dark.

[richestduck]

"Wading through it earlier," he told her. It wasn't entirely a lie. "Noticed there was a void in the surf and felt the current tugging at my ankles."

[blackmagicduck]

It was valid, but still... something about it was off. Something she couldn't quite pinpoint.

"Fine, fine, fine..." She walked out of the water. "Come here to bother me for food, have you?"

[richestduck]

"Well, no, not tonight. I was trying to find something to give you as part of the apology," he admitted honestly. "I wasn't sure what you'd like though."

[blackmagicduck]

"I don't want anything from you." She walked along the beach. "I have my food, I have my clothes, I have my garden, I need little else."

[richestduck]

"Little but not nothing," he pointed out. "I'd still like to trade with you sometime, if you'd let me."

[blackmagicduck]

"You have nothing I want. The only thing I ever wanted was for you to leave, and yet you keep coming back." Which made absolutely no sense.

[richestduck]

"I told you: I think you're interesting. And I like your cooking," he told her. "I'd like to trade for more of it, but I imagine you'll get sick of fish and driftwood soon enough."

[blackmagicduck]

"... I don't get sick of necessities." Hence her only outfit.

[richestduck]

He nodded his understanding. "But you can have too much fish. It'd rot before you could eat it which'd only make you sick."

Now that he thought about it, didn't land women like pretty jewelry? The selkie women did at least...

[blackmagicduck]

"Has anyone ever told you how annoying you are?" She tried to walk a little faster on the beach in an attempt to ditch him.