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OH MY GOODNESS HELLO!! I didn’t see this before, thanks for the ask!!!
YES they are my fictional golden-age-of-piracy lesbians and I’ve been dying to talk about them!! There’s so much I want to say about them and this is only scratching the surface but it’s already so long so HERE’S SOME INFO
It starts in a pub in a pirate haven. A cocky wannabe bartender, who’s never had anything interesting happen to her, hits rock bottom and meets a mermaid in the same night.
The bartender, Rose, had sought to find the dangerous siren she heard some bar patrons talking about that night, hoping to gain notoriety and the validation she craves from the public. Instead, when she crashes on the rocks, the mermaid she meets gives her what she’s looking for in ways she didn’t expect.
She listens to Rose. She’s interested in Rose. She immediately debunks the tall tales that Rose often tries to spin to impress others, but that’s almost better because she’s only interested in the boring things Rose actually does. It’s not in the form she expected, but in its own way, it’s the validation she’s always chasing.
Meeting this mermaid means that Rose finally has something interesting happen to her, a story to tell that’s actually true, but she doesn’t tell anyone the story for once. It’s the interesting thing itself, learning more about the odd but somewhat charming mermaid, that’s exciting to her. Plus, that mermaid was a better listener than anyone else around here, and she’s not gonna pass an opportunity to easily impress someone. She can’t resist going back and feeling like that again, and so she does. Regularly.
(Side note: up to this point the mermaid had no name, but she later chooses the name Turritella, or Tella for short.)
What Rose doesn’t know is that, despite it not being Tella, there is a siren out there. A siren that was just as lonely as Tella was before she and Rose met. A siren that, desperate for Tella’s company as the only other mermaid around, only doesn’t kill Rose at Tella’s insistence.
Turritella very purposefully never involves herself in things. She only watches from afar, and she never stays in one place for long. Speaking to Rose that first night was an anomaly. She was just… so unlike anyone Tella had ever seen, making the strangest decisions, one of them being calling out to her on purpose. She liked Rose well enough, but having a siren breathing down her neck insisting that they’re “friends” was something she’d rather not handle.
She meant to cut things off, to back out of what she knows will be a huge mess, even though it meant putting an end to Rose’s visits. It’s not like she can tell Rose that there’s a siren, though, because she’ll almost definitely try to find it and get herself killed in the process. She meant to tell Rose that (for reasons she can’t explain) it’s not a good idea for them to meet up anymore. She never meant for it to go this far. She’s never let anything go this far.
Both Rose and Turritella become more attached than either of them were ready for. They help each other grow in ways they never would have predicted: Rose learns to be genuine, Tella learns to be brave, and they both learn so much more. What started as a vague interest towards one another becomes an unexpected friendship and, as time goes on, an even more unexpected romantic attraction to each other. But it’s looking like neither of them will pursue anything romantic. Rose wonders: is it fair of her to want anything more since she’s essentially Tella’s only friend? And does Tella even swing that way? Meanwhile, Tella knows that the threat of the siren looms… the guilt from keeping the secret only gets worse as time goes on, and she knows that anything more than what she already has with Rose will make the siren envious and even more dangerous.
Will they take things further? What else is the siren going to do? Stay tuned and you might find out!
That’s all I’ll say for now, let me know if you have any questions!!!
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