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! 

Comments

[richestduck]

"On the beach," he told her. "It's where I've been staying this whole time. Selkie don't build homes. We sleep on rocks and sand and just floating in the water."

[blackmagicduck]

Gods, he really was thick.

"I said stay right here, fool." She tapped on his beak downward.

[richestduck]

"I know, but I was answering your first question. I didn't want to just take up space on your floor if you didn't want me here."

[blackmagicduck]

"I just made it clear what I wanted, so stop dithering about it, you idiot!"

Clearly the woman for him.

[richestduck]

"Oh." He turned a bit pink. "Right. That sounds great."

He gave her a little smile and a tail wag.

[blackmagicduck]

She might have snapped at him some more, but the wind was picking up outside, signaling the oncoming doom. Respect for the gods came with a healthy dose of fear, and she wound up scooting closer to Scrooge quietly.

[richestduck]

Carefully, fully aware that she might not like it, he wrapped his arm around her in mute reassurance that he wasn't going anywhere. If he had anything to say or do about this, she'd be safe.

[blackmagicduck]

There was no fight to it. She allowed him to pull her in close, and ducked her head under his beak. Ratface, for his part, decided he'd hide under the bed until the mess was over.

[richestduck]

Emboldened, he tightened his grip just enough to help her feel more secure. Then he began to softly sing the same song she'd heard before. He sang not just for the gods but for her, hoping to calm her nerves.

[blackmagicduck]

Slowly but surely, it did the trick. Her muscles loosened and relaxed, and Ratface began to fall asleep. Magica wound up leaning on him, her hand curled up on his chest.

[richestduck]

He kept singing, repeating the song as soon as he'd finished it. If it helped her, he'd sing it until he was hoarse.

[blackmagicduck]

Her grip on him began to loosen, and drop. Her head began to sink, as sleep took over. Within minutes, she was out, using his body as a stand-up pillow.

[richestduck]

He sang the song a third time through, carefully lowering them both to the floor with her head resting on his chest. Then he yawned and closed his eyes, allowing himself to sleep with the sounds of the storm as his own lullaby.

[blackmagicduck]

Hours passed as they slept through the storm, the world outside being destroyed. Magica slept peacefully for the first time in ages, with no nightmares or screams or haunting memories.

Only when the storm began to ease and slow did she begin to wake up, blinking slowly. She was in no hurry to leave Scrooge's arms, but she stared quietly at the ceiling, thinking of the village.

[richestduck]

Scrooge gave another cavernous yawn as he woke up. "Mornin'."

[blackmagicduck]

"... I have a bed, fool." Starting the morning off with a dose of snark. "Didn't that kill your back?"

[richestduck]

"I've never slept on a bed before," he told her sheepishly as he shook his head.

[blackmagicduck]

She rolled her eyes, trying to get up and crawl out of his arms. "... Is the storm over?"

[richestduck]

He shook his head. "No. We're just in the quiet before the main part of the storm arrives. If you want to go stretch your legs, I wouldn't do so for long."

[blackmagicduck]

She shook her head. "Best not to take the risk." She hugged her knees, thinking of the village again, and of her future. "Have you ever seen this happen before?"

[richestduck]

He nodded his head. "Actually the storm that's coming doesn't have the same feel as the worst storm I've seen. That one..." He shivered at the memory. "...nothing was safe from those winds. But the most frightening part was the center of the storm. It was quiet and still. There wasn't even a breeze."

[blackmagicduck]

Magica glanced at her little home. For all their prep and work, would this cottage really be safe? "I never asked for this. I never..." She almost said she didn't want it, but that would be a lie. She couldn't say she never wanted revenge against those who had taken her family away and made her life a living hell. "I... never thought it would come to this."

[richestduck]

"Given what you've told me, what I've seen of them, what they keep doing to you was just the last straw. Those villagers have been living on borrowed time, worshiping the gifts they'd been given rather than the ones who gave them. Slaughtering and harming those who show proper gratitude because it'd mean having to acknowledge that they had it all wrong."

[blackmagicduck]

"Some people have a very difficult time admitting they were wrong." And she was one of them, begrudgingly enough, especially towards him. She could only hope he was too dumb to pick up on that.

"What I don't get is... what was the straw that broke the camel's back?" She still didn't know about the mark Scrooge had burned on that one man, nor the warning he'd given. It was hard to think of her handsome seal-man as intimidating, after all. "Nothing's been any worse than it has all these years."

[richestduck]

"I don't know," Scrooge said, not knowing that the village hadn't taken the warning to heart. "When I stopped the man who attacked you, I gave him a warning. I told him that you were under my protection and had Leucetios's mark on you. When you give those kind of warnings, you mark that you gave them. I told him to tell the village that if they wanted your money, they were to earn it, not steal it like he'd been planning. And I told him that the gods were unhappy enough with the village, so it'd be best not to make it worse.

"I didn't expect a second warning to come almost immediately. Something must've happened in the village after we'd both gone."