#mako mermaids fic

[mako-mermaids2021]

question. How would ya'll feel about a Rita/Rob/Lauren fic? Might be E rated...

[dbphantom]

maybe i should have gone into practical effects instead of computer science...

[avengersfluff02]

Okay, I have one prompt that I'm working on right now, but prompts are open, and I now write for H2O: Just Add Water, and Mako Mermaids!

Prompts are Open!

Hi!

I’m currently going to stay anonymous with my name, but I am open for SFW Marvel, Supernatural, Game of Thrones, Pretty Little Liars, H2O: Just Add Water, Mako Mermaids, Starkid, and musicals (We Are The Tigers, Heathers) tickle fics!  

I will edit this as time goes on, but I mainly write for female reader (I can also make the reader gender neutral if you want), and I am most comfortable with writing for sibling, daughter, and teen reader.  I can try to write some ships, but I don’t know how good they will be.

I hope you all have a wonderful day or night!

[supercap2319]

Could you write a fic of Zac Blakely from Mako Mermaids with a human boyfriend who studies marine biology?

Zac smiled as he watched his boyfriend, Y/N L/N, sitting down on his couch in the Bungalow reading a marine biology book. Ever since they were kids, Y/N has been obsessed with the ocean and all its wonderful creatures.

Y/N still hadn't learned Zac's secret about him being a merman. Zac was afraid that if he told Y/N the truth, he wouldn't want to be with him anymore. So, he kept it hidden from him even though it hurt him lying to him.

"Hey, you." Zac smiled and plopped himself down onto the couch with Y/N and kissed his lips. Y/N smiled at Zac. "Hey, yourself. What's got you so happy?"

"Nothing. I just like spending time with you." Zac said.

"Me too, but I'm pretty busy later on. I'm headed to Mako Island."

"Mako Island?" Zac looks surprised. "W-Why are you going to do over there?"

"Study the sea creatures there. I heard there's interesting things on that island." Y/N said.

"You can't." Zac said suddenly.

"Why not?" Y/N frowns.

"Because...Because..."

"Yes?"

"Because...I wanna go with you." Zac lied.

Y/N's eyes lit up with excitement. "Really? Cool. We leave in two hours."

[tinydefector]

So ther was this Australian show that was called h2o just add water and another show called mako mermaids that was featured in the same universe. In the show the mermaids/ mermen had powers and can go from human to mermaid as long as they stay dried. But I’d like they get splash by liquid even something as small as dropping a glass of water on themselves. They had seconds before they transformed into their mermaid selves. Question is if this was a concept that could happen with the future pups or in another version of a merformer au?

These were two of My favourite shows when I was younger outside of the movie Aquamarine.

1. I'm not planning on the mers having powers outside of what the outliers already have and I'm just modifying it so it fits more for underwater. Such as Rodimus can withstand lounging in underwater Volcano's, Skywarp can blip himself further through water, Mirage can go full invisible and uses it to hunt very efficiently. And such on with the outliers in transformers.

2. I'm not a big fan of the oceanides being able to shift into humans, the closest thing they would look like if they were to shift would be the amphibian man from shape of water, humanoid but not the same, and they would be much taller than humans. But I'm not really branching into that side in Marine Centre, might be a cool idea if someone wants a shape of water type fic later on becuase I'd be all for the oceanides shifting into a creature like that, still needing the water to survive but having the ability to walk from pond to pond. Or a crude version of a Näcken.

3. For the pups in Marine Centre I'm sticking with they still look very much like the oceanides with jsut a few different features, such as their eyes are more human like and their vocal range is much better with talking than the main oceanides due to skull stucture. And that also adds into their bone structure. I do like the idea of once the pups get older in their tails you can clearly see the outline of what was meant to be legs but they didn't develop. I might actually have to do some drawings of the bone and cartilage stucture of the mers at some point for people. But I'm keeping with they look pretty much the same as the oceanides outside of a few little changes.

But I'm not aposed to writing tadpole like pups later on for another fic becuase at this rate I'm pretty sure Human Effects, Labratory logs and Marine Centre are my three most request fics.

[mynameisnowwyrm]

Weve established that mako mermaids and h2o have... conflicting lore to put it lightly but what are some ways to fixit fic the two together? Bc youd definitely have to rewrite parts of both shows to make it work. I at least think the majority of mako mermaids lore can stay youd just have to work it into h2o.

Some ideas:

Lengthen the amount of time that the mako pod was away from mako so theres no overlap between them and the h2o girls and the 50s mermaids

Let the mako pod have overlap with the 50s mermaids but let mrs chatham still be really cryptic about everything so that the girls dont find out

Let the girls find out about mermaid society during s3 ish bc bella is a born mermaid/ has come in to contact with mermaid society bc she got moon pooled in Ireland when she was nine she had to have met others c'mon

When rikki meets the mako girls, have her already know about other mermaids

That spell book they found in s1 was literally only there for an episode, one of them had to be curious who wrote it after the spell they tried worked

Let one human character in the entire run of mako mermaids google mermaids + wherever it is they live bc they eventually will find one article or something, archived message boards, of zane bennett ranting about mermaids

[lovelystarrysblog]

By The Sea | merman x gn!reader

CW: probably nsfw, but not this early into the fic!! also a merman’s hurt :(!!

Mermaids, pfft! you knew they weren’t real, hell- you’ve spent youre whole life by the sea! Yet you’ve watch every series about them, H2O; just add water, Mako mermaids- you wished on every star to meet a mermaid, but you were to young to realize that it’s just a childish idea…

until today.

after leaving work- you’re miserable job as a barista, you decided to return the the beach near your childhood home, just a 10 minute walk from your apartment. Nobody was there, it was a tuesday, what more could you expect?

While you walked- wondering a bit too far , you heard faint yelps- cries for help. Pausing for a minute, you contemplated if it was just your mind playing tricks. After hearing the cries continue, you briskly walked towards the direction of them- starting to jog when they got louder.

Eventually, you found the place, a bit hidden away, from where the noises came from. You quickly scanned the area for distress, walking around the gravely ground. big rocks surrounded the area, a small gap in between, leaving the ocean as the only other entrance.

“hello?” you called out, “where are you?” you added. You quickly heard a response, a masculine voice calling from behind a big (HUGE) rock, “help! help me- i-im stuck!” they yelled out to you. You gasped before running to the other side of the rock, finding a man laying on the ground. His breaths were panicked- you looked down to see his legs covered by a smaller ,but still big boulder. His wet curls stuck to his tanned face, looking up at you with big, brown eyes, he called out again, “please, help me!”, he shouted. you ran to his aid, trying your best to push the rock off his legs- the rock reluctantly shifted off of him. When you looked to his legs- you saw an unexpected sight! this man had a tail!

hi, this is a draft! i’m leaving you on a temporary cliffhanger (´ｖ｀) please give me tips, because i feel like i used “you” too much!!

[lomlhwa]

song of the sea (k.ys)

pairing: siren!yeosang x human!reader

preview: washing up on a remote island with no memories is scary enough. but when a siren song fills your ears in the dead of night, your skin crawls. with fear? or with excitement?

tags/warnings: fem reader, kinda cnc, auralism, lots of kissing, big dick!yeosang, his dick has... scales, degradation, like one pet name (doll), enough blood loss to be weakened, unprotected penetration cause yanno, desert island (wrap it before you tap it), creampie, uhhh he does fully eat and kill you at the end soooo...

trigger warnings: idk if being hypnotized by a siren song is cnc so uhhh, there's a cnc warning just in case. oh and you die at the end

wc: 2.2k

song recs for this fic: honestly? none

a/n: for context, this siren shit works like mako mermaids or h2o just add water. bro has a tail when in water, but on land has all the human limbs. but even on land, he has his lil siren powers. okay? okay. (don't have sex on the beach, it's uncomfortable and gross)

here's a link to what siren songs supposedly sound like!

you’re woken up by the cawing of seagulls flying around you. you immediately begin hacking up salty, bitter sea water. your hair is basically fused to the sand you’d been laying in. you have no idea where you are or how long you’ve been here. 

you get up off the ground, wiping the sand off your clothes to the best of your ability. you finally take in your surroundings. all you can see for miles ahead of you is deep, blue, open water. there’s a deep forest behind you; a mix of palm and pine trees. 

you make a few futile attempts to call for help. obviously, no one hears you. you’re here on this desert island all alone. your stomach grumbles and you wonder once again, just how long you’d been here. 

you wander over to a palm tree to find some coconuts. you find a shorter tree and shake it, letting two hefty coconuts fall into the sand. you honestly have no idea how to tell if a coconut is ripe enough to eat. you find a large rock to place the coconut on and find a slightly smaller one to smash it with.

after a couple hard hits, it bursts open. you rush to drink some of its nutty, sweet milk before it spills everywhere. you feel instantly relieved at the final liquid sustenance. you dig your fingers into its firm meat, raising it to your mouth. your stomach is almost instantly satiated by consuming it. 

you collapse back onto the sand softly, racking your brain for some way of getting out of here. no planes come by, no boats sail past, no one is ever going to find your deserted self. you figure you should do your best to try and find or make some shelter. 

you find a collection of large logs and set them up between a couple trees. you pack them in together, filled spaces with mud and leaves. the roof you managed to create is a mix of palm leaves and more mud. you can only hope that this will hold up for however long you’re here.

as the day fades away, you rest on the sand near the water. you watch as the sun sets into the water, turning the sky beautiful shades of yellow, orange and red. you watch as the sea goes from clear blue, to a deep dark blue, hiding whatever lies inside it. 

once the stars begin appearing, you lay back in the soft sand. you connect the constellations above you, admiring how bright they are tonight. the soft crashing of the waves and the calming activity of counting stars makes you feel drowsy. before you know it, you’re falling asleep on the sand, completely forgetting about your nicely made shelter from just a few hours before. 

you’re awoken by the feeling of pouring rain pelting your face. you quickly get up and rush to your make-shift house, relieved that it’s still standing. as soon as you settle, you feel like something’s missing. you look around, despite knowing you have none of your belongings.

but then, you look down. your shirt is missing. how on earth did you manage to lose your shirt? you peek out of your little window and find that it had been thrown just a few meters away from where you were sleeping. you dash out to grab your now soaked shirt and dash back into dry safety.

despite your shirt being sopping wet, you put it back on. you need to make use of your clothes while they’re still in good shape. you peek out of your window once again. you catch a glimpse of what seems to be something with a tail. 

it only appears once and only for a few seconds. but you swear on your life, it looks human. a mermaid, maybe? if it wasn’t raining so hard you’d go out and see what it is, maybe even strip down and swim around to find it. but right now, you just need to avoid getting hypothermia. 

the rain doesn’t let up until night has fallen again. you finally come out of hiding to see if the stars are lighting up the sky again. unfortunately, they’re hiding behind the clouds tonight. your stomach growls loudly, disturbing the quiet of the night. the clouds covering the stars makes it impossible to see if there are any more coconuts nearby. 

you walk around blindly for a moment, your arms outstretched in front of you. when your hands finally meet a tree, you shake it. you just shake and hope that there’s a coconut or two in it. luckily for you, there’s 3 coconuts in this tree. unluckily for you, one falls on your head and knocks you out. 

you come to what you assume is about midday. your head is pounding and you’re sure you probably have a goose egg on the top of your head. you get up and are blinded by the sun reflecting off the blue sea water. 

you gather the coconuts that you shook off the tree last night and take them back to your hut. when you enter your hut, you find that there are 4 coconuts inside. you know you didn’t put them there. so who else is on this island with you and providing coconuts?

your mind wanders back to the creature you’d seen the previous day. had it really been human after all? it sounds so silly that a human would be living in the water though. mermaids can’t walk so there’s no way that’s what it was. 

you shrug it off. as much as you should probably be concerned, you really don’t mind. more sustenance for you. you need to find a way to get off this island soon though. you could have a heart attack from too much coconut water.

you gather large rocks and sticks to create a make-shift ‘sos’ sign. you can only hope that it’ll be big enough for planes and helicopters that may fly past. with that out of the way, you crack open one of your many coconuts and feast on it.

when night falls again, you decide to sleep under the stars. you find the waves crashing to be extra calming when you’re closer to them. so, you get comfy in a pile of sand and admire the night sky.

the calming sound of the waves is interrupted by extra loud water crashing. you sit up, a little stunned. you rise just in time to, what you assume, is the same tail you’d seen previously. you see it flip and and out of the water under the moonlight.

you open your mouth to call out to whatever it is, but something interrupts you. the sound of an almost operatic song fills your ears. it’s alluring and mysterious to hear it coming from the dark water. 

before you have a chance to think, you begin losing control of your own body. you feel stuck to the ground as the tail in the water draws closer. it finally peeks it’s human head out of the water to peek at you. once you see it, your mind finally registers what you’re facing.

a siren.

the reason you hadn’t considered it before is because you assumed all sirens were female. that’s what mythology says. that’s what everyone says. but everyone was wrong. you’re face to face with a male siren right now. 

he’s singing his dangerous song to keep you where he wants you. he slithers out of the water and onto the sand. much to your surprise, he magically forms a pair of legs. he saunters towards you, his siren song not faltering once. 

before you know it, he’s right in front of you. he’s gorgeous. his sharp eyes pierce into your soul, keeping you entranced. you can see that he has dangerously sharp teeth, knowing they’re supposed to be for ripping humans apart. 

he runs his gray fingers down the side of your face, sharp nails grazing your cheek. despite his mouth finally being closed, the song continues to keep you pinned in place. he smiles a sinister smile at you.

“i’ve been watching you since you got here,” he says. you know he has. you’ve pieced everything from the last few days together and it all leads back to him. you nod, finding that he’s restricted your ability to speak.

“i’m gonna have fun with you, doll,” he snickers. “you washed up on the wrong island.” fear finally takes over your body. you know it’s futile to try and fight a siren song but you try anyway. you writhe and wiggle to try and free yourself from your invisible constraints. 

“no point in fighting it, you’re under my spell,” his words become distorted as he slightly changes his song. you find your body moving on its own accord; well, his accord. your hands move to remove your clothes; pulling your shirt over your head and pants down your legs. you reach back and unclasp your bra, letting it slide off. he stops you just before you move to take off your underwear. he wants to do that part himself. 

now that you’re topless and mostly bottomless, goosebumps rise on your exposed skin. the cool breeze from the night sea makes you shiver. the siren ghosts his cold fingers down your ribs and over your hip bones. your legs bend and you’re laid down on the sand once again. 

he finally connects his salty lips to your soft ones, feverishly kissing you. his sharp fang-like teeth graze your bottom lip once, splitting it open. he wildly suckles on your now open gash on your lip. you know he has a primal urge for human blood and human meat. you know your life is in danger and you can do nothing to stop it. 

he pulls away from you, his own lips bloody now. despite being a siren, his human form has a pair of black boxers on, probably for decency when encountering someone on land. he sheds those from his body. you manage to look down for a split second, catching a glimpse of what seems to be scales on his length. 

he finally takes your panties off your cold, sandy body. he graces your clit with the rough pad of his finger, but only to get your hole weeping for him. it was a fleeting sense of pleasure. it had your back arching sporadically. 

he lines up his leaking, pink cock with your entrance. you shudder, wondering what his raised scales are going to feel like inside you. he changes his song again, so slightly that you almost didn’t notice. you only notice because your body starts moving on its own; your hips lifting up, welcoming his length.

he shoves into you quickly, sheathing himself to hilt instantly. the scales scrape your walls deliciously. the edges of them lift and catch on your insides, sending waves of pleasure through your entire body. 

he thrusts into you at a quick pace, his song making you more sensitive than you ever thought you could be. even just a few thrusts have you shaking and sputtering under him. he grips your waist with his bony fingers tightly.

his nails pierce your skin and you’re reminded that you are in inevitable danger because of the man currently inside you. blood spills out of you as your high creeps up on you. your mind goes hazy at the blood loss. you hit your high out of nowhere, your walls clamping down on him.

your walls closing in on him sent him over the edge; the tightness milking him of his seed. he momentarily stills, almost letting the song slip. his mouth hangs open, no sound escaping. he pulls out of you, admiring the way his seed spills out of you. 

you almost hope that he’ll just slither away, back into the ocean. but, he doesn’t. he pulls his black boxers back on. he bares his sharp teeth at you. you want to crawl away and hide. anything to get away from him.

his demeanor changes instantly. from lust to hunger. he bites into your arm, just below the shoulder. he bites a chunk out of your skin, down to the bone. you watch as he eats your skin and muscle in front of you. your body hasn’t registered the pain yet.

when your body finally registers the pain, it’s once he’s ripped your arm completely off your body. you cry out, screaming into the night. he repeats the same actions with your other arm. your throat is becoming raw from screaming in pain. 

he sits next to you, eating your arms like chicken wings. he’s consuming you and simultaneously getting off on your fear. once your arms are nothing but cartilage and bone, he discards them. he chooses to go for your jugular next; more blood, less meat. your death in his hands. 

he tongues at your throat before baring his teeth again. he sinks his teeth into your neck slowly, savoring your pain. your cry out a final time before he completely pierces your throat. he rips out your trachea, waving his head around like a dog with a bone. 

the red hot searing pain takes over your entire body, making you dizzy. it burns through you, your nerves on fire. you feel as the blood pours out of you, staining the sand and your hair. tears fall from your eyes, but without your throat, you can’t really cry.

you watch as he devours what was once your airway. you’re disgusted by the sight but you can’t do anything about it. 

finally, you lose consciousness. permanently. 

© lomlhwa 2023

[deafchild2000]

Updates for my H2O: Just Add Water AU starring the OG trio's character foils (for those who actually are interested in this fic ideas):

First order of business: I'm pushing beyond the PG rating of the original show. I'm going for obvious nostalgia but I also prefer my common sense and realism - so expect a lot of call outs!

I'm bringing the parents in. Like, me and the fans get why they were on the outside of things , but as I get older (even in my mid 20s), I find myself thinking there should have been more moments with the adults being adults & parents.

I'm definitely expanding, or in some cases CRAFTING, better background stories for Charlotte, Miriam, and the Benjamin siblings. (I said this once and I'll say it again) Charlotte had the perfect potential for characterization if she'd been in S1, Miriam Kent is iconic in her own right and deserved more screentime for me, and the Benjamin siblings are a combination of good potential and messy execution that I'm fixing so hard without making them unrecognizable. The OG girls not being mermaids is me experimenting on how their road to friendship would go, with others butting in. (Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of Rikki, so it might show!)

I'm gonna expand the mermaid lore and abilities. Not only is there room for that in 2024/2025, I studied the H2O wiki to find there's opening for it such as physical strength, I may be borrowing from H2O RP Tumblrs because fans can always be trusted to be better content creators.

Because I'm rewatching H2O for ideas, one thing I knew I was getting rid of, under TV Tropes, Louise Chatham's "cloudcuckoolander" trait. I'm not sorry, it was fun to see as a child, but after watching Lilia Calderu in AAA, I'm 90% sure Louise would've dropped the act as Charlotte, Miriam, and Sophie are a different group and would want full disclosure or they won't trust her. Thus, Louise has to see beyond the rose tinted glasses the OG trio let her get away with and help these girls in need of guidance. Plus, she's meeting Gracie's surviving family - which means I definitely can see her take an active role in knowing Charlotte and Annette.

(FOLLOWING ABOVE) Imma explore the 50s mermaids because not only did they deserve it, I hated that Louise and Max had control of Gracie and Julia's narrative in OG. I'm definitely exploring Gracie Watsford because this girl gave up her tail and yet is the only one of her group to have a family - there's so much in that to Louise (a lonely widow) and Max (a hermit) worth talking about as well as the fact she left paintings of Mako Island and the moon pool for Charlotte to have and ended up using in Canon. Julia is gonna be a doozy because she's compared to Rikki but not a lot after that, nor did we find out anymore about her beyond her death in the show. I reiterate again, I have to expand the 50s mermaids because letting two lonely old people tell the group story isn't great.

Surprisingly or not, I'm expanding background characters and adding new ones because it's definitely needed. Charlotte moved a year early, so her mom's restaurant and employees need proper acknowledgement. Miriam is definitely high class like Zane and Emma, so her world is coded for new people. And Sophie is the only one in the group that an adult and active mermaid - she clearly needs some friends outside Will.

Speaking of Will... I'm gonna do my best to make him tolerable since he's physically around the same as Byron, getting more time with Lewis and Zane. Not gonna lie, he's gonna need guy friends and ALSO not gonna lie, we both knew his character existed to make Zane insecure and I'm living for it! Watching him easily become popular because he's him and forging friendship with the other characters (some he never met) is gonna be fun while distressing for Zane.

I'm keeping Lisa Denman along for the ride (and extending it) because I don't think anyone appreciates just how well-written her character was - and just how useful she could be in the narrative. Like if you wanted to combine Lewis and Emma, make her someone important and well-established that people PAY her to go study marine biology anywhere in the world and easy to get along with, then Dr. Lisa Denman is definitely worthy of a threat - but in a way that she sneaks up on you and is worth more than three episodes. And I'm definitely not making light of underestimating her intelligence like canon did.

Two sides of one coin, Mother-Daughter edition. I'm surprised no one realized that if Charlotte was the new girl in town, the same could be said about her mom, Annette. Because of this, in expanding their relationship (and their lives before Gracie died), I'm building potential relationships - especially Annette, dealing with the Sertoris, Gilberts, Bennetts, and Kents (whose friendship goes back years) - just as Charlotte is dealing with Cleo, Emma, Zane and Miriam. A family duo who are outsiders with fresh perspectives. Though I will spoil the idea that the Watsford Women constantly beef with the Harrison Men (a lot of context in bad first impressions and generally unimpressed).

Another thing is the acknowledgement of time, events, and media because S1 of H2O happened in a duration of 8 months since the OG trio became mermaids on Valentine's Day. I'm definitely all for making shout outs for known mermaid media at the time, but definitely holidays and birthdays as well.

In place of episodes that can't happen in this AU, I'm either rewriting or creating original "episodes" as if the show would do. I'm also not shying away from important and serious topics, some not child friendly but definitely issues that could happen in the world.

Small bit: I'm never not using Kim Sertori and Elliot Gilbert. I think there are still fun uses in the narrative for them, but I'm not having Kim entirely intolerable as the fans see her. There's plenty of room for her to grow imo, and I don't believe in underestimating her either.

[labyrinthhofmymind]

as an australian marauders fan i am BEGGING for some aussie marauders fics!!!!

the absolute havoc and iconicness and silliness that could ensure

afl playing james potter and marlene mckinnon!!

eshay barty crouch jr. and evan rosier!!!

indigenous remus lupin!!!!

the marauders would 100% be swooped by magpies

the girls would love taking trips to the beach

sirius would be obsessed with h2o and mako mermaids

and they all definitely go to a rich fancy private school

[mako-mermaids2021]

here we go, I got this prompt like 2 years ago and have finally written it.

so @silvermermaids thanks for the prompt thats like 2 years late. and thanks to @mako-and-tails-and-stuff because I lowley stole your last name for Harry.

enjoy!

[dbphantom]

Thought process: wow I have so many tabs open on my Firefox what the hell was I do-

Carry on.

[mako-and-tails-and-stuff]

Still alive and actually trying to write again! Working on The Day That Went Askew chapter 28 again but I really need to re-read the fic and re-watch season 1 of Mako Mermaids.

I've skipped a few episodes but now I'm thinking maybe I should go back but then this is an AU and things are already out of order so maybe the path is already set...

[emily-ispirata]

Help I'm having thoughts about mermaid powers and Charlotte's redemption

I love the idea of a five mermaid season three where we get to see everyone working together, but does the power imbalance bug anyone else? Like, I GET why Charlotte got all three mermaid powers in canon- she was always just going to lose them anyway, and it fits nicely into her SuperMermaid(tm) villain arc, but if you make them all friends, it feels a little... unfair for one member of the group to be as powerful as three other members of the group combined, right?

I'm considering how I'd fix this (for a s3 fic maybe??), but I'm also just kinda curious what everyone's thoughts are. This is what I've come up with:

Charlotte keeps all three basic powers, but loses the more advanced weather-based powers that Emma, Cleo and Rikki have.

Pros: Not as difficult to explain, I don't have to think of some exciting new mermaid power

Cons: Charlotte doesn't get a unique ability like everyone else

Charlotte loses Emma, Cleo, and Rikki's abilities and gets the ability to do... something else, not quite sure what, but completely different from any of the other girls' powers.

Pros: Feels the most balanced, everyone has a unique ability, Charlotte gets something that fits her personality

Cons: I have to explain how the hell that happens lol

Charlotte keeps all of her abilities, and all of the mermaids learn that while they each had a natural pull towards one power or another, every mermaid has the ability to do every power a la Mako Mermaids. Charlotte is just the only one with enough audacity to assume she can do everything, lol.

Pros: The idea of Charlotte saying "Have you tried, though?" to Rikki asking why she's got all the powers and then being RIGHT? And it's been a year and none of the og three have even tried using the others' powers = hysterical, easiest to explain, narrative potential in them all helping each other work on improving their powers

Cons: Outside of the comedic potential? Boring.

Anyway. I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts on how the show handles the show's power balance vs. how it SHOULD have handled it. I kind of wish she'd had her own power- if she hadn't Emma, Cleo, and Rikki's powers, they probably would have had an easier time accepting her into the group. Rikki even says that there are three powers = there can only be three mermaids, so I wonder how the addition of a fourth completely different power would have changed the dynamic.

[outatmako]

26. "How long were you standing there?"

Ohhh this one was so much fun. Way in the future fic! Clewis but also the OG four friendships. Pure fluff. Send me drabble prompts! (list A) (list B)

The café was bustling when Cleo stepped inside, looking for her friends. Rikki had asked her and Emma to meet at the café for an afternoon swim, but quickly looking around the place, she had yet to spot them. But she did see Zane behind the counter.

“Do you know where the girls are?” she asked him.

He barely glanced up from the drink he was preparing. “Mermaid Club is in Rikki’s office.”

“Thanks.” She wound her way back towards Rikki’s office, but stopped short of the door when she heard a familiar voice.

“You think she’ll like it?” Lewis was asking, in that high, pitchy way of his that told her he was nervous about something.

“It’s beautiful, Lewis,” came Emma’s calm and reassuring response. “She’ll love it.”

“Yeah,” Rikki agreed. “Besides, she’s crazy about you. You could give her a ring pop and she’d say yes.”

Cleo’s heart skipped several beats, as the realization of exactly what she was overhearing sank in. Lewis bought a ring. Lewis was planning on proposing. She wasn’t surprised exactly—it was obvious for a while now that marriage was the next step for them. Still though, she wasn’t expecting to hear this today.

“I just want it to be special for her,” Lewis was saying, when Cleo regained her senses. “After everything we’ve been through, she deserves that.”

Cleo smiled to herself. He really didn’t need to go all out, but it was so sweet, and so like him, to want to. She was willing to bet he’d even gone and talked to her dad about it. She giggled to herself at the thought of that conversation.

“Cleo?”

“Uh.” She had apparently giggled louder than she thought.

Lewis scrambled to his feet, already going red in the face. "How long were you standing there?"

“Er, a bit,” she admitted. “Sorry.”

His face fell. “It’s—I wanted it to be a surprise.”

“Hey.” She reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck. “I didn’t see anything. And I still don’t know what you're planning.”

He pursed his lips. “I guess.”

“And just so you know,” she moved in close. “Rikki’s right. No matter what you do, I’m going to say yes.”

He gave her a small smile, his hands coming up to rest on her waist. “Yeah, I know.” He closed the small distance between them, capturing her lips in a lingering kiss. She let herself melt into him, hoping he could feel some fragment of her emotions. She loved him so much.

“Ugh, I think I’m gonna be sick.”

They broke apart, and Lewis turned his head toward the girls with a grin. “Jealous because Zane hasn’t popped the question yet?”

Rikki scoffed. “Like I would wait for him to do it.”

Emma cut Lewis’s response off at the pass. “Come on, girls. Aren’t we meant to be swimming?”

“Lewis is the one who showed up here uninvited!” Rikki insisted.

“Maybe he should come with us,” Cleo suggested, arms still around him. “What do you say? We’re just heading out to Mako.”

He nodded. “Yeah, I can meet you out there.”

She grinned and gave him another quick kiss. “Perfect.”

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Deep Blue Underworld

Deep Blue Underworld

My submission for the @sevenseasofharryandlouis Fic Fest.

Thanks to @enchantedlandcoffee for being an amazing beta.

WC: 13k

Rating: T

Summary:

Louis has hated water all his life, even though he lives on the coast in Australia. When he, Liam, and their new friend Zayn end up stranded on Mako Island during a full moon, none of them expect to wake up as mermaids. Whenever they touch the water they grow two foot long blue scaly tails. Louis wants nothing more than to share this with his wicked smart friend Harry, who he's sure could help them figure out what the hell happened on the island, but Liam and Zayn have sworn him to secrecy.

There, emerging from the bubbles, was a tail. A dark blue, scaled, almost two foot long tail. Louis blinked. He tried to wiggle his toes. The end of the fin flapped slightly. He closed his eyes again, and took three deep breaths. He was clearly hallucinating.

The first in an H2O: Just Add Water series

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