I got a fever the other day and while bored in bed I made another AU
(this is a short thing i won’t make an mspfa about it)
An AU where the four CSAU seadweelers are mermaids
And the premise it’s basically, Feferi and Fefeta are siblings (they love eachother) and so are Eridan and Erisol. (they get along fine)
Mermaids are suposed to be something from violet to fuccia in color (fefeta’s color is normal here). But Erisol is basically the mutant here and his bright green color makes him too easy to spot. which makes the other mermaids not like him, because he can lead predadors and hunters to the rest of the mermaid population under the sea. (his friends have grown used to surround him when in danger to make him stand out less since they were kids)
the four of them grew up together. Feferi and Fefeta held the tittle of heiress still and Erisol and Eridan were sort of like princes too. As kids they tried to make Erisol feel like a normal merkid
Eventually Eridan and Feferi got into an arranged marriage by their ancestors, they never considered Erisol an option due tu his blood (fefeta is considered to have a normal blood, while her sister manifested royal blood, she is still a heiress, she is just a little less special in the eyes of royals)
Erisol grows older and feels more and more like an outcast. he grows apart from his brother and friends
Eventually Erisol and Eridan fight. They both have feelings for feferi. Erisol calls out how eridan has become a big jerk. Eridan tells him to fuck off and probably mentions his mutant condition as the reason he’s not the one engaged to feferi
Erisol disregarding his safety swims to the surface to be alone for a while, where no one will bother him
He happens to be spoted a by hunters, they roam around looking for mermaids who get too close to the surface and sell their tails in the black market
Mermaid tails are most likely used for medicine, beauty products and also rich people cook them as a rare dish.
Erisol being a mutant means the hunters hit the jackpot. Mindfang could sell him for a shit ton of money
They put him in a big barrel cage belowdecks and head to the next port. They assign one of the lower workers on the ship to feed him twice a day.
He happens to be Arquius, who’s been on the ship for a while
They don’t get along at first
Arquius limits himself to just giving him food, but can’t help talking to him when doing it. Erisol just whatches him in silent at first
As days go by they Erisol starts letting his anger out on him and Arquius just endures it, yelling back
over time they began arguing more often and over longer periods of time
The arguing tuned into conversations
And the conversations turned into pleasant chatting they would try to make last as long as they could.
Turns out Arquius is also mutant in the troll hemospectrum. He’s in the ship working his ass of in exchange for not being turned over to the authorities for culling. Traveling form place to place keeps him sorta safe, but they hold his life over his head every time they need to
They day before they were meant to reach the port, Arquius had already made up his mind. He might be stuck in the ship but he could still free his friend
But he wasn’t smart enough and got caught pretty easily. He got stabed and left to bleed by the Capitan Mindfang.
Suddenly the ship begins to shake and get engulfed by a giant moster. It’s Feferi’s lusus.
Erisol’s friends are here to rescue him after several days of looking for the ship
The ship breaks and sink. The barrel is broken and Erisol is free
His brother and friend come get him but he doesn’t want to leave his dying new friend
And Erisol as a last reasurce uses the majyykal power all mermaids have.
The four of them get out of the now sunken ship
Arquius is no longer a land walker, he’s a merman now. a mutant merman tecnically.
He joins the others and lives a happier life as a merman, becomes fefeta’s moirail, Erisol’s partner. Eridan and Feferi most likely don’t get married in the end.
Arquius no is no longer stuck in a ship and Erisol isn’t the only mutant. they’re just happier and chill in the ocean forever,
This is like, the typical super basic mermaid AU and a poor excuse to draw Arqisol but they’re my guilty confort ship so yeah
I’m still working on the epilogue for those wondering, don’t worry :P
i just took a break to complete commissions and, you know, get a fever and hallucinate a new AU, the usual
I hope you like this thingy i made. i love yah *muack*