#merfolks curse

[draxomoriatic]

If Black Pearl turned Sorbet Shark into a land cookie she can def do the opposite too.

Caviar is the only unamused one here

[brainrot-stitch]

Ough. I hate him. I hope he dies (/j I love them I js hate coloring..)

Fishyyy....

[slimslamflimflam]

it's mermay again! can you draw more merman joseph >:D

I’m gonna be real I completely forgot mermay was a thing but your fish as requested, dear patron

btw anon WHO ARE YOU. MY INBOX LAY DORMANT FOR SO LONG AND THE SECOND IT IS UP AGAIN THE VERY FIRST ASK IS ANOTHER FISH ONE. YOU ARE THE ONE FISH TRUTHER THAT REMAINS. WHAT ARE YOU. I FEAR YOU, FISH WARRIOR.

[cranerazedoodles]

It's been a bit since l've drawn horror, and l've been feeling inspired lately so why not 👏

[3y3-jesters]

Siren's Curse.

[wyked-original-writing]

the merfolk

they have a Kingdom in each ocean unlike the sirens which can only be found in the Xylem and bioluminescence sea. The merfolk Capital is in the bioluminescence sea and Queen Coral has a treaty with the pirates. They can be water or land dwelling depending on a few factors. If they are more humanoid in looks they have a human mate if they are gemstone skinned they are of the royal family. They are not to be messed with but are a relatively peaceful society. They also have cat like eyes.

[autumnarieka]

The first chapter is up on AO3 for Where the Yarrow Grows! This one is going to be fun to read, discovery with Izuku about his heritage and past, and learn about who and what Katsuki is to the little siren.

[royalreef]

Certified cannibalism-loving amphibian!

[jessaliaart]

Sketch pages of our DND characters from our Theros campaign!

Kiara the cursed, Inali, Asura, and Kerelli!

[stingslikeabee]

@dojimakaichou

[harunayuuka2060]

*Vil was still upset about the ordeal he had experienced, replaying in his mind how the MC had looked at him with such kindness—and their final words: "Save them." Rook studied his dorm leader’s expression, curious about the events that had unfolded beyond the portal. Yet he knew it wasn’t his place to ask.*

*Meanwhile, Grim sat in front of the chained portal, staring at it intently. Malleus noticed him and approached.*

Malleus: Grim, you must be growing impatient.

Grim: *continues to stare at the portal*

Malleus: ...

Leona: Azul, Ace, Epel, and robo-child.

Ortho: My name is Ortho.

Leona: Yeah, whatever. You're dealing with the next.

Azul: Honestly, I don’t think I’m ready for this.

Leona: You think you've got any choice?

Azul: ...

Azul: I dislike how you’re the one in control here.

Ace: I hope this MC will take easy on us.

Epel: Don't jinx us.

Ortho: Hmm... *his eyes widened* Is this the sound of waves I hear?

Ace: Eh?! But Leona-senpai! Ortho is not waterproof!

Leona: I know.

Idia: If you know, then why are you choosing him?!

Leona: These portals don't always follow natural logic. I chose the Octo-punk to lead this time because he's a merfolk.

Leona: And I'm sure Ortho would be fine regardless.

Idia: No! Just send Jack again—

Ortho: No, brother. If Leona chose me, then my expertise must be needed.

Leona: There we have it. Now run along and get that shard.

Azul: Don’t worry, Idia. I’ll get us out of there at the first sign of danger.

Idia: ...

Idia: Okay.

Azul: ...

*The four stared up at MC’s towering form. A giant-sized mermaid, they sat motionless in the middle of the ocean, their pale skin and tail almost luminous under the light. Even submerged, their scales appeared brittle, as if drying out. Their distant gaze remained fixed on the blue sky—unaware of the group watching from the shore.*

Ace: Wh-What's going on, Azul-senpai?

Azul: ...

Ortho: By all observable metrics, their condition defies natural laws.

Epel: They're sick?

Ortho: Or worse.

Ace: OI!!! PREFECT!!!

MC: ...

Ace: LOOK AT US! WE'RE HERE!

MC: ...

Ace: Azul-senpai!

Azul: ...

Azul: Wait here—I'm going to take a closer look.

*Azul dove into the water, shifting into his mer-form as he approached—then recoiled, instinctively covering his nose at the pungent scent of decay.*

Azul: (This is...)

Ace: What's wrong with them?

Azul: ...

Azul: A merfolk thrives in the embrace of the ocean—yet here, the Prefect withers, as if the very sea poisons them.

Epel: Are you suggesting the water is toxic?

Ortho: Should we get them out of the water?

Azul: I doubt that'll help.

Ace: ...

Ace: *jumps into the water and swims towards MC*

Epel: Ace! You idiot— *does the same thing*

Azul and Ortho: ...

Ace: *struggles to climb over their lap* Yo— You're slippery!

Epel: *curses when he slides back down*

Riddle: I hope Ace doesn't do anything idiotic.

Jamil: You're asking too much.

Ruggie: Have some faith in Ace. Shishishi!

Malleus: ...

Grim: ...

Grim: *his ears twitched*

Malleus: Grim, is there something amiss?

*Grim charged the portal, throwing his full weight against it—again and again—until the others exchanged uneasy looks.*

Silver: Grim! Stop! You're hurting yourself!

Grim: Grrr!!!

Sebek: GRIM! HURTING YOURSELF WON'T OPEN THAT PORTAL!

Grim: ...

Grim: Grr...

Leona and the others: ...

Leona: We're doing our best here. Learn to wait.

Grim: ...

Malleus: ...

[tea-potato-gt]

G/t Trope Bingo:

Borrower stories:

Captured/discovered while out borrowing

The dredded 🫙Jar🫙

Bean, the “no, it’s pronounced human BEING” conversation

borrower with artistic abilities

The “that’s not borrowing, that’s stealing” conversation

Befriends bean of the house

Hurt-Comfort

Drunk giant scene

Dealing with pets/animals

Borrowers named after objects, food, or plants.

Tails or animal ears

BL

Fairy stories:

Losing ability to fly due to getting wet

Magic affinities/powers

Wishing to be human

Collecting human things

Odd names based on plants/magical objects

Curse(s)

Dragonfly or butterfly wings

Merfolk G/t:

Human drowning and saved by giant fish person

Speak different languages/can’t understand eachother

Put in air sack or underwater cave

Tiny fish person kept in a tank

Collecting human treasures

Pirates

Saving an entire sinking ship

Fantasy:

Jack and the beanstalk retelling

Princess/prince is engaged to a giant/tiny from a neighboring kingdom

Magic, spells, curses

Character goes on a quest to slay a giant (fails lol)

Kidnapped by a well meaning giant

Found family

Dark Borrower Stories:

Entire species is discovered

Kept as Pets or exterminated or experimented on

Borrower found by kind hearted bean, who shows them not all giants are bad.

Rac!sm/spec!es!sm

Humans think borrowers are dumb and underestimate them

Size-shifter:

Triggered by emotions (Scared/sad = small) or (Angry/happy = big)

Accidentally growing infront of friends and freaking them out

Accidentally growing in a confined space (room/box) and busts out.

Tearing through clothes or shrinking out of them, resulting in needing to make special clothing that changes size with them.

Modern setting:

Dating app misshap (accidentally unknowingly matching with a giant or tiny)

Disastrous first date

Fear of giants

Recently integrated school/jobs

Adopted by giant or tiny

Using phone twice your size

K!dnapped by school bully

Aliens👽:

Travel to or from other worlds/dimensions

Abduction

Different languages

Science experiments

Giant trying to convince tiny they aren’t evil

Mixed-sized families stories:

“Big” sibling & “little” sibling

Stairs and ramps around the house for easy access and travel

Tiny kid has giant sized room/bed

Extra rooms that are small scale (bathrooms and kitchens)

Small scale furniture next to giant furniture

Adopted kids/married in step kids

Protective parents (either giant or tiny)

Being carried to school/work by giant parent/sibling

Kids not telling friends they live in a mixed family (embarrassed.?)

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Comment any other tropes to add! Also if anyone wants to make a bingo card 👀👀

I got recommendationsfor each G/t genre if y’all want any 👀 here’s some of my recs

[leighsartworks216]

Back At The Beginning

Dragon!Sylus & Lemurian!Reader

Wrote this thinking haha cute dragon-mermaid meeting, and then realized it could be a prequel to Fishing Trip... y'all I think I accidentally made another reader-character-oc

Warnings: silly, first meetings, lemurians, merfolk, pov third person, it/its pronouns for reader-character, injury, blood, drowning, swimming, implied kiss

Word Count: 1,691 (nice)

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He barely sucks a breath in before the crash. The water swooshes up around him. His body plunges into the depths at the center. The moon is dark tonight - there is no direction to guide him to the surface. All around him: inky black, burning his eyes.

His wings are useless. They could perhaps be used as fins to propel him, but he's never tried before. Never been in the ocean before.

The young dragon writhes and squirms like prey caught in a spider's web. There's no traction to gain. Nothing he can sink his claws into. His tail lashes about in wild arcs.

Something giggles beside him. He stops sharply, trying to follow the sound. Eyes burning from the salt. Hearing muffled. His heart races furiously. Bubbles rise from his nostrils in the darkness.

Something swooshes past on his other side. His tail whips around. He just misses it. He can feel the current behind it.

He curses to himself. He doesn't have time for this! He needs to get to the surface! He needs to find some dry land to haul himself onto so his wings can dry! So he can fly again - fly back home!

He tries to ignore whatever is surrounding him - for as terrifying as the prospect feels - to find the top of the water.

"That's the wrong way." It giggles again.

A rush of bubbles from his nose. They shimmer and refract some mysterious source of light, multicolored even in the gloom. And then pop. His lungs are beginning to strain. He rotates oddly and tries again.

"Still the wrong way!" it chimes. "Can't you tell up from down?"

A swish of water at his side. He claws at it on instinct. They scrape against something fish-like, but he causes no damage. Makes no impact on the creature.

It giggles again. The sound infuriates him in the same breath that it entrances him. He's losing energy trying to attack it. Each burst loses more of his oxygen. His body moves slow through the water, trying to follow his instincts. But his balance is all off.

He can sense the creature's presence underneath him. Feel its eyes watching him. "Are you a land creature?" He tries not to react when it touches his wing. He can't afford to. "A sky creature?"

He kicks his legs. Moves his arms as though he's digging through rock. He expects another laugh, but hears none.

"You can't swim?" A swirling current around his body. A ribbon of water that follows the creature's movements. "You can't breathe..."

No, he can't, and he can feel his chest burning. It aches, like a tunnel fit to collapse in on itself. He stubbornly pushes onward.

"Creature, I can help you," the voice says. "I can give you the ability to breathe underwater."

He shakes his head. He can't see. All he can do is hope he's going the right way. Judging by the creature's increasing anxiety, flitting about him, he isn't.

"You cannot hope to reach the surface like this! You're much too deep, creature." A soft touch at his arm. His instincts are faster this time. His claws catch skin. Tear apart flesh. Blood puffs into his face. The creature pulls away with a cry of pain.

But it doesn't leave.

"Please, creature, you're too deep! You'll drown! You're nearer the bottom - you can't reach the surface!" It swishes and whooshes and circles him nervously.

He shakes his head again, but the last bubbles of his air float away from him.

The creature makes a distressed sound. "Creature, I hope you can forgive me for saving your life!"

He feels the water shift in front of his face. Senses the large body of the creature directly in front of him. A soft touch to his lips. And they're gone - moved away.

It's like his lungs are suddenly full. As though fresh oxygen has entered his body in the same moment he gasps in a mouthful of salt water. He stills in his shock. Takes another tentative breath, and another.

A light appears in the depths. An orb of yellow, cradled in the palms of a humanoid-looking thing. He stares at it. Rakes his eyes over its features: its wide eyes and the slope of its nose; its slightly parted lips and its hair; the fins protruding from the tips of its ears and the gills at its throat; the large, shimmering tail steadying its body in the water.

"Creature? Are you breathing?"

He swallows and is surprised it doesn't taste of sand and sea. He nods unsurely.

Its lips curl upward at the sides. "I saved you! You're welcome!" It giggles with glee as it swirls around him. He can see it now, follow its powerful body with the light it carries. The scales of its tail shine even in the waning light left behind. It comes back in front of him, upside down, its body stretched over his head. "Come on! I'll show you back up."

Up. Right. He forgot he was trying to surface, so caught up in this strange creature's behavior. It nods its head in a direction - presumably up - and takes the lead in guiding him. It watches carefully as he finally shakes off his stupor and does his best to follow. It tilts its head curiously.

"You don't swim well. You have fins, why don't you use them?"

Fins? Is it talking about his wings? They trail pitifully behind him, limp and weighed down in the water.

"You can speak now, creature," it says. "The spell only lasts until you breathe air again, but it allows you to talk down here, too."

Speaking feels strange. He doesn't push air through his vocal cords, but water. It's thicker, somehow. "They're-" He grunts at the sensation and the effort of his poor swimming. "Not fins."

"No?"

"They're wings," he corrects bluntly. "What are you?"

"I'm Lemurian. What are you?"

"A Fiend."

They're nearing the surface. He can feel the change in pressure. It eases off his chest, makes speaking feel lighter. It must feel it, too. Even in what little light provided, he can see its chest rising and falling differently, like it's changed how it breathes to compensate.

"Do Fiends have names?" it asks.

He grunts.

It giggles, teasing, "Is that your name?" It makes a deep mimic of his voice.

He shakes his head, hair swishing in the surf. "It's... Stayrus," he mutters.

It tests it on its tongue. Purrs it like a melody. "Mine is Y/N."

He doesn't repeat it. His attention is set on the glow of the orb hitting the surface of the water, like a ceiling. He eagerly breaks through. Gasps deep lungfuls of air, expecting to cough out buckets of water; none comes out, save for the lapping waves that roll into his mouth. The creature pokes its head out with him, though with far greater hesitancy.

"Hmm, there's land that way," it murmurs. He follows their gaze, but he sees nothing. "I can help you get there, Stayrus. Please don't drown again."

Its body moves like a serpent in the surf. It moves silently, smoothly, through the water. He splashes behind, only following to reach dry land faster. He's sick and tired of being wet, especially now as the cold night air brings a chill that he'd normally greatly appreciate.

As they get closer, the seabed comes up to meet his feet. Soon his toes can reach. Then his full feet, and then his upper body is rising from the water with each step. The Lemurian stops just shy of that phase, appearing to sit on the soft sand to watch him leave. He groans with relief as he stretches his wings out. They're absolutely soaked. He inhales deeply, breathing in the air now that there is no risk of drawing in water with it.

The metallic scent of blood tickles his nose. Back on land, his senses are sharp and well-defined. He knows the blood is behind him. When he turns, he sees the creature in the water. The light shines on its arms. It reveals a scratch on its forearm - four in fact. Where he managed to land an attack on them. It bleeds sluggishly. The dark ichor stains the even darker water, moving with the tide. The creature smiles innocently up at him.

It bleeds out because of his doing, yet smiles like that. He hurt it, and yet it helped him anyway; cast some magic on him so he wouldn't drown and led him back to dry land. It shows kindness in the face of his destruction.

He releases a long breath. He would be better off making the slow trek back home. Leave it here to watch him disappear into the distance. So why is this young dragon stepping back into the water until it reaches his waist?

"Show me your arm," he gruffs.

It blinks up at him, but obliges. "What for?"

He stares hard at the open wound. The skin is jagged at the edges. Muscle underneath torn. He damns his weakness as he hovers his gauntleted hand over the injury.

Ashen tendrils of red and black extend from his palm and fingers. They circle its arm, swirl around just as the creature had done to him in the water. It watches in fascination as its skin stitches together, healed almost perfectly. When he draws his hand back, it excitedly traces over where the scratches had been, ball of light floating on the water's surface. It looks back up at him in awe.

"That's incredible, Stayrus! Thank you! Now I won't have to worry about sharks tonight." It giggles. He ignores the soft feeling in his heart as he turns away and trudges back up the beach. "Oh! Goodnight!"

When he's neared the grassy edge of the beach, where it transforms from sand to dirt, he's compelled to look back. He sees nothing; no light, no creature, no moon. He stares in the darkness for a while, but nothing disturbs the water. He shakes his head and navigates home, soggy wings trailing behind him.

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[rubynautilus]

The only instance of a giant horde of squid attacking people in fiction that I can think of is in Jules Verne's "20.000 leagues under the sea" and they're overblown in size so that they're a threat to the Nautilus itself.

Now, Verne liked to make a lot of shit up, but he did take inspiration from everything he could gather from scientists and expeditions. So I wouldn't be surprised if he had come across accounts of Humboldt squid and those inspired that scene because the similarities are striking.

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[royalreef]

^ Butch dreamboat, baby. ^

[liyv]

This summer, Shinichi Kudo and Kaitou Kid seem to have come upon A Fishy Situation...! (<- this is a fic link! you should press on it). Can Shinichi, cursed with a mermaid tail, get the useless bumbling fisher's apprentice, Kaito, to help solve crime and get his body back?!

the super cool amazing and funny @princebbu (writer!) and i (furniture drawer!) have worked very hard the last few months to bring the world's most introspective silly merfolk story to life for @kaishinbigbang, and it's a great adventurous tale of 37k (..!) words. u should really check it out, i promise it's worth your while !