MERMAY MEME

[pcrtiallystcrs]

It's May and you know what that means: it's gonna be mers.
From the traditional to the octopi and jellyfish to selkies to turtles, come one and come all- even you folks who just want to smooch a fish. ...... Or keep one.

Comment below and roll for scenarios and please tag appropriately!

If one is human...

1. Abandon Ship: Maybe you were exploring the sea, but suddenly debris started floating down. It looks like something is happening on the surface- and perhaps someone needs saving... but from the waters, or from you?

2. Up Above: What's that casting such a huge shadow on the ocean floor? It's not a whale, and it's moving so fast- clearly it's time to investigate. Now, will you see something grand? Or will you get caught in a net? 

3. The Saltwater Room: There's always been a strange window in the cliffside, and you never once knew what it was for. Every now and then you'll give it a look, but you never really find anything. Except this time. This time, the room has someone inside of it. And they just saw you, too.

4. O Captain: Maybe you aren't the mermaid. Maybe you're a sailor or a pirate on a journey, seeking something only a merfolk has the answer to... but will they help you? Or will you try to take your guide by force?

5. Captivity: Maybe you were captured recently. Maybe it was a long time ago. Maybe you've been in this tank all your life. A human keeps you on display, sometimes bringing guests in to see you and oh, they gasp in awe.... but maybe one doesn't. Or maybe your eyes are on your keeper instead. 

6. The House on the Sand: You grew up by the beach, and side by side with a human who lived in a house on the beach. You were their closest kept secret, their closest confidant- and they, yours. Until one day they vanished and the house was empty. Years passed... but now, the light is on in the window again. And you'd know the person at the shoreline anywhere, even after all this time.

7. The Little Mermaid: You fell in love with a human, and you'd do anything to join your love on the surface... or maybe, they could join you. 

8. Wildcard: Your city now.

If both are merfolk...

1. New Seas: All your life you've lived in the reef- and you know the ocean is huge, of course, but your little piece of sandy waters is all you've ever known. You know everyone in the school... until one day, you see a new face in the water. 

2. Shipwreck: Now here's something special- a long-since-downed ship, just full of all sorts of neat human treasures. Maybe you're curious, maybe human artifacts sell well back in the market at the reef- just be careful. You aren't alone.

3. The Sea Witch: Everyone knows about the banished witch in the depths- how the king of the seas cast them out. Everyone knows you shouldn't make deals with them, the cost is much too great. But you have a wish no one else can help you with.

4. Story Time: Sometimes you don't want an adventure. Sometimes, you just want to get snacks with the gang and tell outrageous stories about those weird leggy fuckers that can't swim very well. The more off-the-mark, the better- someone's always going to believe every word.

5. Undersea Temple: Maybe you shouldn't be here. But the long since empty halls are calling- perhaps literally. You and your friend are exploring holy grounds, be it once human or merfolk's. Maybe it's just eerie. Maybe you aren't alone.

6. Lord of the Sea: It happens rarely but sometimes the Ocean Deity leaves their territory and checks on the various undersea cities and reefs. Perhaps you are part of the procession, or perhaps you get to meet a god for the first time. Don't hide behind your tailfin too much.

7. Pearl of the Sea: Uh oh. You, a lowly commoner, fell in love with the Mermaid King's child. Whatever will you do? ... Other than give up. That's not on the table at all.

8. Wildcard: There's plenty of ideas in the sea!

Comments

Lumine | Genshin Impact | OTA

[lightwishes]

( i'm good with either set! i'm still playing through the main story but it's fine this is au town now. )

nene yashiro ♡ jibaku shounen hanako-kun

[mermaidcursed]

( i'm good with either set! )

Riddle Rosehearts | Twisted Wonderland

[roserules]

( good with either set! )

I DIDN'T FORGET (I rolled 3!)

[foreelsies]

[ It wasn't often Floyd wandered toward this part of the sea. For whatever reason, there just wasn't that much excitement over here. Some fish shoaling, some vibrant corals, the occasional whale or shark floating by on their way toward something better... Floyd much prefered the ship wrecks, the caves, the weird things dropped from above either during a wreck or purposely thrown overboard!

Today however, Floyd's friends were either sleeping in or busy with something else, and Floyd himself was left to his own devices for the time being. He had spotted a porcupine fish and thought it would be a good bit of fun to scare it into inflating, but had apparently found the single most chill one of them in the ocean. Even after a good hour of following after it, prodding it with claws, baring his teeth and generally being a menace it just swam on with its vacant little smile.

And so here he ended up, the little reef raised up along the cliff of the shore, with its weird glass cave filled with weird land-things. It wouldn't hurt for him to take a look again, it'd been a while since the last time he had and maybe things were different now? So he swam up, and pressed his face up against the glass, hands brace on either side of his head to peer inside. ]

HI SORRY I'VE BEEN DYING

[roserules]

( things are certainly different. previously the room had been empty- a bed, tables and counters... but otherwise bare. but now floyd, keenly observant as he is, will likely notice a suitcase by the dressers, a coat hanging on the back of a chair, a book on the bedside table. there's a light peeking through under a door a little further back... and when it opens, riddle steps out, just out of the shower and properly dressed for the most part.

it's a nice little vacation, though the idea of his window looking into the ocean had been... equal parts exciting and intimidating. who knows what would come up to the glass, after all? at least he's got proper faith that the whole thing will uphold against the pressure.

for a moment he debates on what to do- he's got reading material, there's still things to unpack... a meal might do good as well. as he walks through the room, he continues thinking except wait are those eyes-

whipping around, riddle stares out the window, hard. there shouldn't be eyes- )

No worries at all!!

[foreelsies]

[ Floyd was much more enthused upon seeing the new additions to the room. He knew a little bit about human stuff, enough to know that even if the coat hanging from a chair looked like it could be a pelt or skin it was just something humans wore sometimes. He peered intensely at the suitcase, that one he couldn't quite figure out what it could be.

He smushed his face up against the glass as much as he could, staring so intently he doesn't notice Riddle entering the room for a long moment, not until the quick movement of his head catches Floyd's attention. ]

Ah!

[ Floyd exclaimed in surprise, then wiggled his tail to try and get a better view, staying against the glass like some kind of manta ray in an aquarium. ]

Azul Ashengrotto | Twisted Wonderland | OTA

[squidproquos]

( I'm open to either set! )

Shizuku Hinomori | Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage

[cheerfuldays]

( both sets are good! )

Uraraka Ochako | My Hero Academia

[floatsaway]

[M/F preferred for any shippy prompts!! Can do either or on merm or human, too.]

[first roll was 7, second was 3, so let's go with saltwater room!]

[catinspats]

[Exploring while the ship he came on was docked, Guta wandered into various places, including this odd room where he could see under the sea! Maybe he wasn't supposed to be here, but it's hard to say no (... or, sometimes, anything at all!) to a little talking cat on two legs, all dressed-up and wearing a captain's hat (he wasn't the captain, clearly, but it looked cute, didn't it?).

He was hoping to see water, maybe some fish he could imagine eating, but, he never expected to see what he saw outside the glass!!

At first, he thought he wasn't registering things properly... that was probably the tail of some really big fish back there, more importantly, there's a human girl in the water! He should call for help, there's someone... well, not drowning... just diving deep without any gear? ... those aren't two separate creatures, are they?]

[perfect!!]

[floatsaway]

[There are indeed fish that Guta can see in the water - the basic, ordinary fish that roam about where the ships dock on the harbor - large, grey, a bit dull...but the one in particular he saw was as vibrant and lovely as a shimmering piece of coral. Pink scales shimmering in the filtering sunlight and a long, billowing fin almost like a silk gown. Truly stunning.

But what's more stunning is the diver that Gua also saw...is actually attached to the tail end of that fish. Large, brown eyes, ringed slightly with pink and white scales, stare at him through the porthole, a mess of brown hair, fluttering in the surf. Where human ears ought to be are more fins, and they perk up when she sees him, blinking curiously at the little cat. She's never seen a creature like that before!! What is it? The humans are common, they galumph through the water like they own the place, but this...this is new.

Is that seagrass it's covered in? Kelp? Or just some long algae?? Gosh, and what a strange tail! How can it move around with such a flimsy thing? These surface dwellers are so strange.]

[her mermaid logic is sooo cute…]

[catinspats]

[What a beautiful, marvelous tail..! It’s so pretty, Guta doesn’t even think of food when he sees it, unlike the less striking fish, it really is like a beautiful gown…

He can see it now, the scales around her eyes, and the fins she has in place of ears! She looks human-like, but she’s really some kind of beautiful sea creature, isn’t she?

He finally manages to close his mouth (how long as he been staring, slack-jawed?!), and looks around in a panic, before looking at her with a pleading look, clasping his hands even.]
Please don’t go away! I want… to talk with you!

[Can she even hear him through all that glass? It has to be thick to withstand all that pressure, doesn’t it? He steps closer, slowly, as if any sudden movement might send her darting away into the depths, and places a hand on the surface of the glass while he wonders.

(A flimsy tail it might be, but he doesn’t use it to get around, it’s for balance, balance!! His sworn brother will steer him with it after Guta breaks his cane, but they haven’t met yet.)]

6

[glitchinthesystem]

[ When he came to this beach house this summer he thought he'd be alone. Having been sent out here to attend a school to pick up his grades for the next year? Not exactly fun. At least the sight was nice.

He had gone to the shoreline at dusk, to watch the sunset over the water, skipping stones over the water. Homework during the summer. Schoolwork during the day. Shouldn't he be relaxing? Just skipping stones one after the other. ]

This summer vacation would only blow completely if I didn't get this fucking beach house to myself.

[floatsaway]

[Skipping stones, huh? Well, the surf usually isn't great for that, but even so the water is relatively calm, and Glitch manages a few decent skips here and there - his longest one going for four whole skips!! It looks like it may even be five, but seems to strike something else and then sink into the water again...alas.

Perhaps he's in the process of picking up another one, of determining the trajectory, where the rock fell into the sea, but...at some point, the rock shoots out of the water and will strke the shore with a decidedly soft fwomp! It doesn't go far, spraying up a bit of sand, but the splash of water in the distance, and the literal tail end of a billowing, coral pink fin accompanies the little bubble of a voice.]

--...tch where your aiming those!

[glitchinthesystem]

[ Of all the things to happen he did not expect the rock to go flying back out of the ocean. It's a good thing it hadn't come back at his face. Think of all the awful things that could've happened.

He blinks a few times, looking between the stone and the ocean wondering how that could've been possible. Right up until the point a literal freaking mermaid pops out of the water. He stares agape for a moment, as he just stares...and then finally;]

...What the actual fuck?

Are you one of those weird girls who buys the mermaid tails? Why are you in the fucking ocean with one? [ He thinks the tail is fake...the fool. ]

hi it's Chris, I decided you get my OC. RNG gave me captivity

[caudal]

[ ooc: info in journal! ]

[ Callum has long since stopped keeping count of how long he's been in this tank. You would think, having grown up around humans, he would know how to avoid them better. But he got cocky, he let his guard down. He strayed too far from his pod. And it led to him being caught by some eccentric guy who collected strange and valuable keepsakes in his own private gallery, showing them off to the wealthy elite at lavish and one hundred percent illegal parties.

As far as Callum knows, he's the only "pet" in the collection that's actually sentient, but then, he's got a limited view from inside his large tank— it takes up one whole wall of the room he's in, but doesn't give him much sight of anything outside of that room.

He hates it here. He wants nothing more to get out and get back to the ocean. But what Callum doesn't know yet, is that the collector keeping him captive is about to be raided by a team of pro heroes. He hears a loud noise echoing from another room, and swims up to the glass, pressing his palms against it, not sure if he should be worried or excited. ]

[floatsaway]

[The scene before him is definitely a bit chaotic. There are people running, trying to grab goods and valuables as quickly as possible while making their escape. Others are fighting back, trying to fend off the Heroes to protect themselves and their ill-gotten gains. Exotic animal snuggling was rife in the world, and when the authorities caught wind of a particular "carnival" or sorts, a full investigation was put in and the Pros and their sidekicks/interns were called in to halt the operation entirely.

Mostly because there was word that a person was being held in captivity as well. Ochako didn't know everything, just was she was told, but there's already people fighting, gunshots ringing out as well as other forms of battle-quirks, and just a flurry of movement. Poor Callum will be shocked when a body hits the glass rather suddenly, having been grabbed, spun, and flung into it by a young brunette in a somewhat spacey-looking getup. Thankfully the glass is thick enough that it barely even makes a dent, but that no-good baddie is down for the count.

Panting, Ochako grabs some cuffs from her belt and ties the man up, looking to the tank and gasping.]

Oh!! You're the one they have hostage! I'll get you out, don't worry!!

[caudal]

[ Oh, now there's some action! Callum flinches back as a body thuds against the thick glass of his tank, but he grins when he sees that it's the body of one of his captors. He always hated that guy, so he's glad to see him in cuffs.

He shoots an excited smile at his savior (how lucky is he to be saved by a cute girl?) and swims over to the side, gesturing to the door at the side of the tank that will lead to the back room and the stairs up to the top of his tank. There is a cage over the top, close enough to the water line that Cal can't fully breach, which has been so annoying, because it's always hard to yell profanities at the assholes keeping him caged up through the water. ]

[candyapplechild]

[ Life as a runaway from an abusive situation was, as Eri was now discovering, not easy... especially as a small, young Mermaid swimming aimlessly through an impossibly large ocean. Swimming away from her captors, swimming away from mean sea creatures... she had thought that she could find help, but the ocean was bigger than she realized... and she was running out of luck.

At this point, even if she decided to go back, she couldn't. She's completely lost, and she doesn't want to go back there anyway. She's hungry, tired, cold, and running out of hope. She was free, but she was hopelessly alone... the fact she's lasted this long is about as good as her luck can get.

Being as tired as she is, she can't hold on much longer... and inevitably, her eyes drift close as the exhaustion takes over and she passes out.

Which is how an unconscious and pale-skinned Mermaid, clearly but a young child, washes up on a beach, right next to a lone beach house. ]

[floatsaway]

[The beach house itself is...old. Like a lot of things Ochako owns, the small cabin was given to her to rent when she moved out of her parents' home to alleviate some of their financial stress. She was no better off than them, really, but thought she could handle herself a bit with some grit and hard work! It's been a rough ride, and she's had to resort to combing the beach for lost jewelry to pawn off sometimes when oyster diving, or clam digging, didn't turn out much of a profit, but...it's fine!! She's got this!

She's out in the somewhat early morning - about six or seven - and stretches a bit before picking up her bucket and trowel to do some digging in the shallows. Hopefully there'll be enough of a find this time for a profit and some tasty breakfast. She's had to skip a few breakfasts over the past few days, or just have a small bit of fruit like an apple or banana to tide her over until...d-dinner. She's uh...not expecting to find a person on the shore, let alone a child. A merchild.

Dropping her bucket and trowel, eyes wide and mouth open slightly - much like a fish herself - Ochako stares a moment before racing over.]

H-Hey!! Hey, c'mon, wake up! Are you okay?! You can't be on the beach...someone might f-find you and... [And Ochako doesn't want to think what'd happen. She tugs off her windbreaker and gently wraps the girl in it, trying to hide her fishy bits as best as possible in case someone wanders up the beach.]

[candyapplechild]

[ She's largely unresponsive, only groaning a bit in response to the sudden feeling of being wrapped up. Her skin is pale and thin, having not had anything close to a proper meal for a while now. Truly, the universe must be giggling about placing a famished, exhausted merchild into the hands of Ochako of all people.

Though, as Ochako may have already imagined, there are worse people to be found by.

For hiding a Mermaid's fishy bits, one would usually need more than just a windbreaker... but with Eri being as small as she is, bundling her up—thick tail and all—is much more possible... though her long and swishy fins at the end of her tail do poke out a bit. ]

Trip | Pokemon (anime)

[serperiority]

((I already had a mer design for him from ages ago I was obsessed with mermaids for most of my childhood! He's a Frillish mer-prince. ^^
Designs: transformed into a human(...ish) form, mer...man? Boy? I realize he's mostly off-canvas, pfft, it's a generic Ariel-like tail, just light blue, Frillish-colours, with a Frillish-like crown. :D;

... if a regular fish tail is too boring, he can totally be more Frillish-like by having the frilly, veil-like tentacles instead! Like a cecaelia, but jellyfish instead of octopus?

Oooor your muse can be the merperson!! He's a photographer, it'd be fun if he tried to take a picture or investigate it. Scary stories won't deter him! Actually, if his Frillish feeding off spiritual energy and basically being an omen of shipwrecks, the scary stories will likely draw him in, instead.))

Bakugou Katsuki | My Hero Academia

[xploud]

[Can do either or for mermaid or human, PM me for ship prefs.]

[candyapplechild]

[ Being close to the surface, or even being above water at all, was something that Eri has been consistently warned against, even if she had been being held captive for reasons that she was too young to understand. Still, because being so far up was considered such a bad idea, it was exactly where Eri went when she escaped.

Close to the surface, where mermaids considered it to be a risk. It was the only place where she thought they wouldn't chase her, and she was right.

But she was also a 6-year-old Mermaid, and she's able to fare out on her own about as well as you would expect... or well, actually, the fact she's still alive is proof that she's done better than expected... or maybe she's just lucky.

In any case, in a big ocean of predators that don't care as much about a lone baby Mermaid as other animals, her refuge when she needs rest... is above water. Which has it's risks... not that she's very aware of it. She could be found by sailors, or others who would find value in a young Mermaid of all things.

Case and point, exhaustion was about to take her, she found herself an outcropping of rock sticking out of the ocean... probably only for a little while, until the tide comes in... but as uncomfortable as it is, it's still something.

And as expected, as her eyes remain closed and her breathing shallow, a boat with a single person on it is coming her way. ]

[xploud]

[Survival instinct can be a hell of a drive on the open ocean, that's for damn sure. Last longer, swim farther, endure. Live. Katsuki's not had to endure too much, still being relatively young, and having only just gotten his own sailboat maybe just three or so years back, but he's smart...he's read and sailed enough to have the naval knowledge and skill to keep himself, and his ship, afloat in dangerous waters. Rocks, reefs, high waves and winds...those are the real dangers of the sea.

Legends do tell of the merfolk - how could they not? The stories span for centuries, being myth and fairytale alike for as long as people have been sailing, but...hah! Who would believe such horseshit like that? A leviathan that can sink ships? Please. A monster shark as big as a galleon? Pffft! Fishpeople are just another old rumor drunken sailors tell to impress the other drunks at the docks. Idiots...

Katsuki is just doing his usual routine, cleaning, sailing, checking a few lobster traps he set out, hauling them up. The catch isn't extraordinary, but it is decent for the year. He's setting the empty traps back into the sea when he narrows his eyes.]

The fuck? [Is that a person? No, no can't be...has to be a seal. It's small, and--oh. Oh no.] Shit!

[He fumbles, nearly slips on the wet deck, and races to grab a small telescope from the cabin and rush back. Yeah, yup...yup, that's a fuckin kid. A literal child, probably half his age, hanging off a rock in the surf and looking ready to pass out. Did she get caught in a riptide? Had to...there's no way someone that tiny could swim out this way.]

Fucking shit--! Piss and tits and argh! [Cursing like the sailor he is, Katsuki is hurriedly removing his shoes, and excess clothing. He can get his boat in close to the rocks, so....yup. Time to take a dip. At least the surf's not that bad around here, and he's always been a good swimmer. With another string of creative curses, and of course anchoring the sailboat so it doesn't drift, he grabs the lifering from the emergency storage and leaps into the depths, swimming quickly toward that little shape on the rocks.]