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

[lifesa_witch]

She didn't reply right away. When she did...

"... Sort of your mate?"

Granted, his hesitance was probably because of her own, but she was known to be stubborn and blame others for her own problems.

[richestduck]

His cheeks turned red.

"I didn't want to presume," he admitted. "If you'd have me, I'd gladly be your mate and praise Lir and Leucetios both for allowing our paths to cross daily. However, I don't want to force you into accepting such an offer."

[lifesa_witch]

If it was possible, now her blush was spreading out all over her face.

"Y-You don't have to be so dramatic!" Praising the gods, honestly! She was just one woman! "We... we already laid together, so... of course we're..."

[richestduck]

Scrooge shook his head. "There's a difference, Magica. We may have engaged in mating behavior, but it isn't a guarantee of becoming mates." He paused, considering his next words carefully. "I told you I'd swum with someone before, remember? Someone I was grateful that I didn't have pups with? I would've stayed with her for the pups' sakes even though I couldn't stand her out of a sense of duty. We might have been a mated pair, but we wouldn't be mates. Perhaps in time I could've learned to love her, but the relationship would've been hollow without any real affection."

It was a struggle to try and use shore dweller words for concepts that weren't spoken, only felt.

"I want to be with you on any level you'll allow me. Even if you decided right this moment that the one time we lied together would be the only time and that all we would be was friends, I would remain by your side until you decided that you wanted me gone."

[lifesa_witch]

She really couldn't look at him when he was being so sincere. It just made her feel so unworthy of it all. He could've gotten the same things she gave him from any number of women in the village - except maybe in a nicer tone.

"Always making things so complicated..." She muttered as an excuse to cover up her own insecurity. "I'm not a selkie, you know, I'm a regular mortal. And we mortals... we take lying together seriously! Especially women - and even more so their first time! So... so..." Again she fumbled, her real feelings and her desperate need not to show weakness combating. "It's not like I need a wedding or anything stupid like that. Your word is good enough."

[richestduck]

"I don't understand. What's a wedding?"

He'd heard tales of selkie that became husbands or brides for shore dwellers, but those words were interchangeable with "mate". "Wedding" was a completely new concept.

[lifesa_witch]

Oh, hell. She was already regretting saying anything at all.

"It's a... mortal ceremony. A man and a woman pledge their love in front of their family and friends. But like I said, I don't need it!"

[richestduck]

He listened, eyes wide with surprise. He'd never thought the shore dwellers had such a thing before.

"But would you like one?" He blushed. "Because I think I would."

[lifesa_witch]

Damn damn damn - she could feel that even her neck was blushing now!

"You - how could you possibly like one, you don't even know what it involves!"

[richestduck]

"Pledging ourselves to each other sounds exactly what I'd like though," Scrooge said, growing ever more confused.

[lifesa_witch]

"Then my word is good enough! We don't need dresses or blessings, and we don't even have any friends or family!"

Ah... that was too far. She winched, and looked away, ashamed.

[richestduck]

"Dresses? Blessings?"

Now he was getting even more confused.

[lifesa_witch]

"Ah, forget I said anything!" She huffed, and tried to storm off again.

[richestduck]

He followed behind her, trying to wrap his mind around it all. He wanted to ask more, but Magica clearly wasn't in the mood to explain. Plus it wasn't like he could just ask anyone in the village. Even if he didn't particularly care for the village on the whole, it would immediately mark him as not being human.

[lifesa_witch]

They returned to the cottage for supper, with Magica not saying much but mumbling this and that. As far as she was concerned, nothing really needed to change. What was wrong with their life now?

Days would pass, in food and magesight practice, one after the other.

[richestduck]

Scrooge was content to keep things as they were but he did want more. Not forcing her to have pups or anything like that, of course, but to be with her and let the entire world know that they belonged to each other.

Still, he could live with this. This could be enough.