#elumax mermaid au

[angelbymadonna]

ERICA!

Okay I know I said I was gonna do a Big Kid- but the results from that poll aren't in yet and I was gonna do Erica too anyways since I did Lucas so I already knew she was a mermaid in the AU.

Stranger Things Three primary color scheme my beloved~~

I also copied her hairstyle from ST3- I guess I chose the most iconic one in her case.

I gave her a beaded necklace to match Lucas', since they're both *from* the merm town and probably dress however is normal there, which I say means pretty jewelry because I can! But otherwise, I didn't make her too jewel-heavy since she's eleven and because she's already got alot happening visually with the sleeves. That combined with the tail gradient is also why she doesn't have side fins like El and Max. I think she kinda matches Lucas that way though. Plus I made her facial fin's bigger to compensate. I tried to give the effect that the bottom part of her tail was turned backwards, like she was just having spinned around, but I hope it comes across that way. I did screw up the library for her hands but lemme tell you the sketch-

Link to elmax

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Gonna see if I can unearth my Emily Windsnap books so I can study up for the AU✨️

And if you happen to know that I've got to be up early tomorrow, no tf you don't.

[starsarefire824]

Fanfic Guide

Been meaning to organize this here for a while and just haven't so here goes!

I am JustMyName on A03! (some people have told me they had no idea)

Here are some fics I've written for Stranger Things:

✨Touch Me Like You Know Me ▻rating: M ▻status: Complete ▻words: 14,894 ▻ ship: Byler ▻ description: Mike doesn't go home anymore, not unless absolutely necessary. Instead, he stays far away from Hawkins, quietly shutting himself off from the world, and burying the pain of the things he never said to the boy he'd left behind. But when his mother convinces him to return home for his thirty-fifth birthday, Mike is finally forced to confront just how much he'd given up when he runs into Will by accident. Mike-centric. Estranged Byler reconnection fic. Soft and Sweet.

✨Death Lies in Wait ▻ rating: M ▻ status: Ongoing ▻ words: 13,322▻ ship: Arranged Madwheeler, Byler, Lumax, Mileven, Secret Ship ▻ description: Massachusetts, 1890. Max Mayfield is twenty-six years old and at the hand of her parents, settles for a marriage of convenience to a widowed lighthouse keeper. A stranger she'll be trapped with for the rest of her life on a lonely strip of land surrounded by nothing but endless, lonely sea. But, as she settles into her life, and she and her new husband try to coexist, they get wrapped up in a mysterious presence on the cape. It calls to them. It's lulling and coaxing and sings to them at night. Max discovers the secrets her new husband keeps. Mermaids and ghosts of the past come to haunt them. Madwheeler/Byler//Lumax Gothic AU- Mermaid Will. UPDATED 6/13!

✨The Pact ▻ rating: M ▻ status: Ongoing ▻words: 97,440 ▻ship: Madwheeler, Byler, Elumax ▻ description: A pact between Max and Mike gone wrong gets them both unanimously voted out of the Party and they find themselves stuck with each other the summer after Graduation: fighting, commiserating, and begrudgingly discovering they are a lot more alike than they originally thought. UPDATED 4/30!

✨Certain Slant of Light ▻ rating: M ▻ status: Ongoing ▻words: ▻ship: Byler, Will x OC. description: Will just wants to get through his last year of high school without incident, to feel normal for once in his life, and try to survive the building tension between him and Mike that grows with every word left unsaid. On the first day of school, Will meets someone new who may finally offer him the acceptance he craves, but he’s unsure what to do when it causes his relationship with Mike to hit a breaking point, forcing them both to confront their true feelings. And to make matters worse, Vecna is always there, whispering in his ear, and letting him know his fated role in the inevitable fall of Hawkins. Slow Burn. Will-centric. Mike-centric later chapters. UPDATED 5/31!

✨ Mashed Potatoes ▻rating: G ▻ status: Complete ▻ words: 1,352 ▻ ship: Byler ▻description: "Wait," Mike says, grabbing the carton of milk out of Will's hand. Will blinks, his brows creasing in confusion. "What?" he asks with uncertainty. "We need milk, don't we?"

Mike stares at the carton Will has chosen. It's labeled with red lettering and a stamp of a picturesque farm across the front. Whole milk. Mike shrugs. "I mean----yeah. But-----" he raises an eyebrow. "Whole milk?" Will huffs and rolls his yes. "Yes. Whole milk? What milk did you want?" Mike shifts on his feet and pulls at the waist of his usual black jeans. "Well, I mean----we always drank skim at our house." Now, Will's mouth opens up a little. Offended.

"Skim?!" he asks, completely appalled. "Who actually drinks skim milk? You might as well drink water."

OR

Mike and Will really think the other is wrong in their grocery shopping decisions. NEW!

✨I Held On As Tightly As You Held Onto Me ▻ rating: T ▻ status: Complete ▻ words: 7,014 ▻ ship: Byler ▻ description: After years of life getting in the way---be it by distance or choices made--Mike hasn't seen Will in almost a decade. But one cold winter's night, he's back in town and Mike cooks him a meal.

✨Demons of Change and Wildflower Eyes ▻ rating: M ▻ status: Ongoing ▻ words: 9,609 ▻ship: Byler, minor: Henderhop, Lumax. ▻ description: High school hasn't been easy for Will Byers, and he's had to live with the emotional scars of a loveless father and supernatural worlds as well as the physical ones from the hands of the bullies that make his everyday existence hell. One night, when he's looking for some peace and quiet Will comes upon one of them and something surprising happens. As he and Mike Wheeler tentatively open up to each other, they just might discover they may be exactly what they need to give each other much needed healing and self-acceptance. Can they survive everything that comes along with that?

✨When We Wake Up ▻ rating: T ▻ status: Complete ▻ words: 23,428 ▻ ship: Byler ▻description: Will and Mike having to share a room while waiting for the impending apocalypse and the utter torture it is for both of them.

✨Come Away With Me ▻ rating: T ▻status: Complete ▻ words: 18,760 ▻ ship: Byler ▻ description: “Two shots ring out! BAM!-then a pause-BAM! Mike’s head snaps towards the sound, squinting his eyes to orient himself to the darkness. A guttural, pained wail echoes through the trees as if some forsaken wraith howls at him in this lonely forest, it’s voice sounding all too familiar. Then, a loud screeching roar follows close behind it. Another shot! Mike sucks in a wretched, frightened breath, his heart thrashing in his chest so hard that it feels as if it might shatter his ribs. Dread settles sickeningly in his belly. "Will….” OR: The one in which Mike gets to be Will's knight in shining armor. Tending Wounds Fic.

✨ We Are All Fools In Love ▻ rating: T ▻ status: On Hiatus ▻ words: 13,098 ▻ ship: Byler ▻ description: Fifteen years after being forcibly separated as children, William Bennet recognizes a familiar brooding face, plucked from another lifetime across a crowded ballroom. As his and Michael Darcy's paths begin to merge once more, they discover they are now separated by more than only time and distance, but faults which lie within their own hearts. Matters of pride and prejudice. Regency au of our dreams.

Other Fics:

🌙 I'm Trying All the Time ➢fandom: Turn ➢ rating: E ➢ status: Complete ➢ Words: 22,020 ➢ ship: Townhull ➢ description: In which Abe and Robert end up in the coat room after all. The aftermath of an unexpected moment between them forces Robert and Abe to come to terms with their feelings.

Season 4 alternative timeline. 4 parts.

🌙 We Could Be the Embers ➢ fandom: Turn ➢ rating: M ➢ status: Complete ➢ words: 13,347 ➢ ship: Townhull ➢ description: Robert must stay in Setauket after delivering the intelligence that saved Washington's camp. With Abraham, of course.

🌙 I Find Myself in the Morning's Light ➢ fandom: Severance ➢ rating: T ➢ status: Complete ➢ Words: 2,656 ➢ characters: Devon and Mark ➢ description: Devon and Mark's immediate conversation following iMark's stunning revelation. Season Finale spoilers. Loving Siblings.

[jaegerisim]

hiii! thanx for tag lovely!!

Byler S5 aka mike having no critical thinkings skills

Byler x Elumax solidarity for mermay

Jancy avatar au with a side of byler

Elmax x Ronance (bi4lesbian)x2

Stonathan shenanigans dnd style

Snippet of Byler x Elumax solidarity for mermay:

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When Prince Mike and his best friend Max went down to the coast, they did not expect to find 3 merpeople there.

They were objectively stunning, the 3 of them, but one particularly caught Mike's eye. He had chocolate hair, hazel eyes, and a beautiful tail with gold scales. His skin also seemed to have the same scales as his sun-kissed skin reflecting the rays of sunshine.

He turned around to see Max gaping at the other 2 merpeople. One had dark skin that matched perfectly his dark green tail. The merman was holding a female mermaid close. She had shoulder-length wavy chocolate hair with a pinkish-purple tail.

Mike noticed the golden mermaid staring at him. He stared back and the mermaid winked at him, flirtily and flashed a dashing smile at him.

Mike flushed and inched closer to the being.

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npt: @daydreams-in-the-moonlight @shutuperce @ihopeyouhaveanicexmas @thornywords @quinnandco @talkingtothelights @merth-or-nothin @bylertruth3r and any moot who wants to join!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

wip weekend!

tagged by the lovely @el-fandom-birb

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post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to post.

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wips!

Timber week day 7 - meeting

stonathan week day 1 - scoops ahoy

twaf (huntlow)

that’s what you get when you your heart win (ronance)

wenclair oneshot

snippet!

He’s used to being tired, honestly. When he was younger, when he’d gotten his first ‘assignment’ from the king. He’d felt so proud, so ready to take on the challenge that he’d spent every waking moment studying. Every waking moment turned into every moment he could force himself to stay awake. He’d been oh-so tired, so ready for a rest, but it had all been worth it to see the satisfaction on the king’s face, to hear the sweetly rare song of praise. Hunter had been ready to work over and over again to feel the same sort of sense of worth, to make himself worthy of his uncle’s time, to make himself worthy of the empire itself.  (He was seven)

tagging (some of) my wonderful writer friends!

@haystarlight @imhumanguysiswear @stealing-ur-wife @angelcloves @smokestarrules @weirdo09

[polyamorous-eleven]

for @cruxifyyy lil elumax au!!! (featuring; mermaid!El x fisher’s daughter!Max x sailor!Lucas)

・。.・

I think that mermaid!Eleven and sailor!Lucas  met first. They wouldn’t even start friendship or anything, but they just met, maybe even talk and then swim their ways.

That would happen at night. Lucas wouldn’t be able to sleep, so he would go on board and look at the ocean. And that was when he saw her. She was pretty but she didn’t look like human. At least no like human who was out in the ocean without a boat.

El, on the other hand, just was curious. She always liked to look at people’s ships at night, when sailors were usually asleep and she could just look and imagine how their lives looks like.

They would look at each other, Lucas would be surprised, El scared and she would want to swim away, but then Lucas would say something dumb like “aren’t you cold down there?” and she would stop because, she didn’t expect that at all, and just answer him and that’s how their discussion would start.

When the sun began to rise, they parted, saying a simple "bye".

・。.・

Fisher’s daughter and sailor!Lucas would be childhood best friends. Sailor would always bring his friend some souvenirs from his journeys and they would just be each other soulmates.

It has been weird for a while, when Max’s father suggest Lucas taking his daughter as a wife. It’s not that they didn’t love each other. They did, dearly. They even dated as older teenagers but they always felt like something was off. As if, they forget about someone. That was weird and not fulfilling, and so, they decided to broke up. They have been searching for that something/someone since that day.

・。.・

Fishman’s daughter and mermaid met in a quite depressing moment. Max met her, a real mermaid, when the beautiful creature was fighting for her life, for her freedom. Because she actually wasn’t in the ocean but in someone’s barrel. El somehow throw away lid just when Max was walking next to it.

They look at each other, what feels like minutes but it was only seconds.

And then Max kicked the barrel, so it falls and the mermaid falls into the ocean again.

When finally safe in a water, El blew Max a kiss, like mermaids usually do with people they cherish, and she dived into the deep waters thinking about her human saver with firelike hair and blushing cheeks.

・。.・

Next time they meet, it’s three of them.

Mermaid laying on the big rock in the ocean, near the land, and Lucas with Max walking through the ocean line on the sand.

And at that moment when the two of them saw the mermaid, when they were at one place at one time, when the three of them were so close to each other...It was when Max and Lucas finally felt as if their missing piece fall back into place. It was someone that they were looking for.

El, on the other hand, never felt such a pure need to have legs as right now. She couldn’t do anything beside waiting for them and hoping that they would come closer to her. Mermaid felt like it was the moment she was waiting for. The thing for whom she was floating to the surface that often. Because something was always pulling her towards it.

It was them.

It didn’t work when it was only two of them.

But now, it would. 

[angelbymadonna]

Oh, she could not be serious.

She had to be fucking kidding.

Because there's no way in hell that El was really sitting on that stupid chair with the stupid parasol in a red crewneck sweatshirt and a one-piece swimsuit.

And there was no way even El's rebellious spirit went that far.

Max paid no mind to anyone else on the beach as she stomped down the sand to the lifeguard post.

"A minute, El?" She asked, trying not to sound annoyed.

El turned, presumably looking at Max through the dark sunglasses on her nose. She gestured to another lifeguard to take her place and hopped down, grabbing her flip-flops.

The other lifeguard, a sandy blonde in a matching one-piece, have Max a suspicious once-over, but Max couldn't care less what anyone thought at that moment. She grabbed El's arm and marched her up behind some cabin. El took off her shades, letting them hang on her neck by the elastic strap attached to the ends. She held Max's elbows and pulled her closer.

"Hi, Max." She was grinning, sounding smug, fixating on Max's lips rather than eyes. Did she have to make it so hard to be mad?

"What were you thinking!? A lifeguard? What happens when some ass needs saving and you have to jump in the water, huh?" Max said through her teeth.

Finally, El's eyes flitted to Max's, her hands slipping down to grasp her fingers. Her smile fell. "You're mad at me?" She asked.

But honestly, Max couldn't be. She was too afraid that El would end up having to choose between exposing their world and letting someone drown. And hurt that El didn't consult her. "Just.. answer the question, El."

"I do not think that will happen. I just wanted to work, like we were talking about."

"It's too dangerous! Work somewhere else."

"Okay. But I like it out here. With the water."

Max's resolve was crumbling by the second, what with El's earnest words and her pink-painted thumb tracing Max's hip above her trunks.

"Ugh, fine. Stay."

She was *definitely* going to have to save El from some type of situation. Either that or El had to learn some goddamn subtlety. This girl had practically introduced herself to Will as "Max's mermaid girlfriend" and that was not the last of her incidents.

A smile crept into El's face. She moved her arms to drape on Max's shoulders and leaned in for a kiss.

[angelbymadonna]

The skrunkly✨️

ID in alt.

Link to elmax

I fixed the coloring

[angelbymadonna]

Okay here is a corrected version of mermaid Lucas bc his skin looked so washed out on the other photo--

I color corrected the left photo, but for the right photo I used a warmer tone marker to fix it bc the coverage was pretty patchy to begin with.

Wait a sec so I can paste in the ID and links <2

Erica elmax

Details✨️

[angelbymadonna]

Concept sketching Lucas for the mermaid au

I thought the top hairstyle was more mermaid-y but his regular hair might be too iconic✨️ I'm still concepting how to integrate his jewelry and seaweed accessories.

I may or may not just try writing out a description from Max/Emily's pov...

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Okay but VSCO girl El

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Okay I will be making my Robin mermaid tomorrow.. unlike the others I do not have a design idea yet, so if you have a favorite thing about her you want me to incorporate it a pretty detail I should add, leave it in the replies! That means fit details, color schemes, an object associated with her, whatever.

I tried to match the other ones to their canon personality, giving Max blue because she's a "blue" character and using one of Erica's color schemes. I'm sure I will think of something, but I would also like to talk :)

Goodnight😌

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Mermax getting wanting to get tail piercings but knowing she'll have to take them off every time she surfaces and she can't do that because they're a bitch to heal

[angelbymadonna]

Little details✨️ Lucas edition

The blue gradient on his armband, bi beads, and multicolor scales

The facial fin's edge where it's attached to the skin goes around his cheekbone, he glows blue, shoulder fin. Reflective eyes via shiny gel pen.

I didn't want to put too much detail in the face and eyes bc of the size, so this was what I did instead, but you'll notice Max saying his eyes are alike to gold in the ficlet. Same for his hairstyle, if you saw the concept sketch you'll notice the greater variety of doodads. I used the expression based on Shona's personality in this case. If you don't know her, she's who this AU is based on.

I tried to copy the style I did for yesterday's art when U drew El and Max. Since I decided to do an elumax AU, here is the Lucas art!

Link to original, with ID

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Lucas "what's that thing humans say? Totally tubular?" Silkfin jqjsjfjjdjwjwjjdhfndjfjjfjjfjfjqkid

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Okay Jonathan-Max friendship is gonna be so so There and a Thing in the AU-------------

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

And when I make Stonathan canon in my mermaid au?