i know tumblr likes violent man eating mermaids but i fuck p heavy with pretty playful pretty scaled mermaids in warm sorts of waters keeping the tide gentle when lil toddlers are learning to swim and kissing the breath into good sailors because they have someone waiting on a cliff by the sea for them to come home and cutting seals and turtles out of netting and plastic bags
but maybe being from hawaii just made me think of the ocean of a safe cradley sort of place i know its scary i know it’ll kick your ass but sometimes its ten types of turquoise and and sometimes sea foam sticks to your eyelashes sometimes the sun hits your face even when you’re twenty feet under and i have a hard time forgetting its first and foremost a womb
so mermaids who watch the triple crown and scare sharks away from the surfers
How about both?
How about sweet, benevolent mermaids to those who respect the sea and respect each other, or are young and innocent
And Eldritch, vicious mermaids to those that don’t respect the ocean or her citizens
Best of all worlds, doncha think?
Maiden, mother and crone mermaids. They’re ruinously long-lived and as they go through the stages of life, their attitudes change.
They’re born delilcate and beautiful, made to fall in love with the world and every beautiful thing in it. But at some point they move from youthful wonder to wanting to protect all the beautiful creatures and things they’re so in love with. Mermaid warriors, mermaid healers, mermaid diplomats. Their scales thicken, their muscles develop, they become strong and sturdy and able to endure the wild depths of the sea.
But then eventually they’ve seen so much suffering and they’ve seen so much waste, and the futility and rage and exhaustion just sit and grow in their bellies till they grow wiry and sharp and hungry. Mermaid witches, mermaid furies, mermaid mystics who channel the eldritch forces of sea and storm. Ancient mermaid scholars who quest in the dark places of the ocean for secrets that can bring their people vengeance or salvation. Mermaids so old and powerful that they become the storm, whose very words form maelstroms.
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