MERMAY 2024

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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

Comments

Dorian Storm | Critical Role | OTA

[makingmyway]

Rolled a 5 - feel free to be good, bad, whatever, and add other things too!

[morethan25characters]

Percy's enjoyed getting to know Dorian. Sure, the man's a bit unusual, but he's a talented musician with a voice like a siren's, and he's kind besides! Percy has welcomed him into his life, even if he mostly wanders and they only cross paths now and then, in an inn or a camp, to trade stories and gossip. Dorian is one that Percy would call a friend, certainly, a welcome companion on a late night.

He hasn't told him he's nobility. He doesn't usually share that, but it might come up someday, and besides, there's something Dorian hasn't said either, something he wonders about. Neither has ever given details of where they come from, only where they're going.

Nevertheless, approaching Dorian on the docks after he left the bar in the seaside town they chanced to encounter each other in is second nature. Percy is eager to begin a conversation, but pauses when he gets close enough to see Dorian's face as he looks over the sea. "Are you alright?"

[makingmyway]

Dorian certainly had his own secrets he’s kept from his new friend. Not only that he was also nobility, but also exactly where he’s from. But he’d wanted to leave all that behind when he came up to land, wanting to be free and exploring the surface world the day he’d always dreamed.

But the past always had a way of catching up to someone, and somehow certain news had reached Dorian, even here, that had him more than a little worried.

So when Percy finds him at the dock, Dorian isn’t sure how to answer. He turns different responses over in his head, before he sighs softly.

“Honestly? I’m not sure.”

[morethan25characters]

"Can I... help?" He's offered his help before, with little things.

This... doesn't feel little. That pause alone tells him it's important. "If not it's fine - I just wanted to offer."

He tries to smile - it doesn't really work - and sits on the dock, toes of his boots hanging inches over the surf. Then he pats the spot next to him. "Talk to me, Dorian. Whether I can help or not, it's clear you've got a lot on your mind."

[makingmyway]

Dorian glances down at his friend, hesitant for a moment before taking a seat beside him. Still, he doesn’t answer immediately, words spinning though his head like a hurricane.

While he does enjoy the other man’s company, there still so many things that he’s never told him - never told anyone. And now that some of it was looming over him, he isn’t sure how to start.

Or how much to divulge without giving everything away.

“…my…home life is complicated,” he begins reluctantly, slowly. “I left without a word to anyone, essentially running away from home. I ventured out on my own, wanting to see the rest of the world. And farther I traveled, the less sure I was that I wanted to go back.”

He glances down at the water below them, kicking his legs to let his feet skim the surface. “But I recently received word from my brother…because my family found me. They know where I am, and he’s informed that our parents are going to try to force me to return.”

[morethan25characters]

"Force you, how, exactly?" Percy is confused - how can anyone force someone to come to a place if they care about them?

His answer comes before Dorian can even speak as a cold, rough hand grabs his ankle. With a startled yelp, he's dragged under, faster than he can reach his guns. The creature below is large, dangerously toothed - a guardian shark merman, though Percy has no way of knowing that. He kicks for all he's worth, but only manages to break free a moment, get to the surface to get a breath of air, before he's dragged under again, this time by hands around his waist, and dragged down. Fast.

Princess Allura | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[heartofalioness]

[[Most likely a mermaid classic, but equally good as the human.]]

Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter | Sailor Moon

[roseeclair]

[[Can either be a human or an electric ray mermaid.]]

Kotori Iida | Sweetness & Lightning

[ricebird]

[[Mostly likely a human, but can also be a skipjack tuna mermaid. Art by demidemonLove.]]

Asterios / Berserker - Fate : Grand Order

[beefaroni]

Fizzarolli | Helluva Boss

[butdoc_impagliacci]

Hollyberry Cookie | Cookie Run Kingdom

[celebrateourvictory]

Maribelle | Fire Emblem : Awakening

[troubadamsel]

Antoine D'Coolette | Archie Sonic

[mon_dieu]

Mikan Tsumiki | Super Dangan Ronpa 2

[naughty_nurse]

Minnie Mouse | Musketeer Movie / Disney

[princesswhatshername]

Della Duck | Ducktales 2017

[sos_pilot]

Webby Vanderquack | Ducktales 2017

[woo_oo]

Magica De Spell | Disney Comics | DT17 available upon request

[lifesa_witch]

Daisy Duck | Ducktales 2017/general disney

[allfortheloveofyou]

Morgana MacCawber | fan-designed for Ducktales 2017

[lovebites_sodoi]

Naomi Kimishima + Trauma Team + OTA

[chatwithdeath]

[OOC: Comes in jellyfish flavor. If 'Little Mermaid' route, I often have her as the sea witch - the book one, not Ursula. Can still be in other scenarios haha...]

Rosalia Rossellini - Trauma Team - OTA

[bloodinbloom]

[OOC: A harmless (relatively) mermaid that looks like a living flower. Option 2 of bad mermaid is out, but being poisonous like a blue-ringed octopus? Likely. Not really open to romantic options.]

Alhaitham ♦ Genshin Impact ♦ OTA

[cogito_ergosum]

[OOC: More like a sea snake than anything (personally, working on a Consecrated Serpent design), and can be with or without a Vision. Leading prompt option is the research project that's researching the researcher, but open to other scenarios (sideshow attraction?) including being human. Bi-leaning male for shipping scenarios.]

Zidane Tribal || Final Fantasy IX || OTA

[tantailizing]

[OOC: Totally that monstrous mermaid, but looks mostly normal disguised as a human... mostly. Also, mostly human if he's the human in the scenario, and big on rescuing any mermaids from captivity. While open to situations, he's into the ladies for shippy threads.]