bOI, IāVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS NON-STOP SINCE THEN, ITāS TIME TO ROLL OUT THIS META.
-Donald and Douglas are marine biologists/geneticists, top of their field. They work as partners, studying the extremes of ocean life to find benefits for humans, medicines, and even other ocean life. Seeing if they can borrow attributes from one species to help another survive pollution and climate change. Itās the new radical thing theyāre working on.
-Until Donald discovers that Douglas has been going behind his back and creating actual fish people, something he hadnāt even realized was possible.
-He steals the three hybrid children away to his mansion by the ocean (so like, his mansion basically, Iām pretty sure itās on an ocean cliff in the show). His lab has a large pool connected to the ocean by a gate where he usually has dolphins or rays recuperating/studying. He keeps them there. Modifies it a bit for them.
-itās a week before he learns they can speak. Heās feeding them one day when the only one with actual legs (heās pretty sure itās the oldest), asks for candy.
((Iām guessing thatās the one thatās Adam, plz let me know if Iām wrong, Iām bad with faces to begin with so reconstructions can fool me, but Iām going by Chase having the magic so))
-Douglas fakes his death with a whirlpool instead of a volcano after they have a fight about his actions in the middle of the ocean.
-Heās saved by his āmermaid boyfriendā, aka Krane, who he injects with his marine gene experiments. It works a little differently, changing after birth instead of being hybrid from birth. He breathes, swims, and eats like it, and has greater strength. He also glows sometimes. Unevenly. Itās both sad and terrifying. He looks mostly human though, but his appearance slowly changes over the years. Very slowly. Again, sad but terrifying.
-meanwhile Donald has taken over the roll of ādadā without realizing it. He never lets them leave the house cove for fear of them being discovered, but he swims with them daily and has created his own wheelchairs for Bree and Chase to explore outside of it. He didnāt really have a choice, they complained when Adam would just stroll out and about.
-he still keeps the occasional animal when needed, the children love to talk and play with them (realizing they could actually communicate with other ocean creatures was a Surpriseā¢, but he rolled with it, it helped diagnose sometimes anyway)
-when they get older, they realize they have magic. Little things, mostly, like controlling small amounts of water or enchanting small fish and crabs to follow them around or help them.
-Donald made sure to sit them all down and talk about that one, no making innocent beings do things against their will for fun.
-they each also had their own talents. Bree was an extremely fast swimmer. Adam was super strong. Chase could control bigger areas of water and create bubbles like shields.
-he was also more susceptible to his āfish instinctsā than the other two, giving into the strains of more aggressive fish in his DNA.
-the biggest thing they all could do was make themselves human (until they touched ocean water again anyway).
-Donald nearly had a heart attack walking in that day to three human children that looked like his.
-there may have been some screaming involved. Just a little.
-then Donald met Tasha and Leo
-plz imagine the original meeting but in water with terrified splashing bc Leo thought his new dad had an epic pool and just dived right in.
-when they sneak off to school with Leo, they find out that even though theyāre āhumanā, they still have their powers. Oopsā¢.
-Dewey Dingo needs therapy.
-Chase develops his higher knack for magic later on. Including being able to, wait for itā¦
-turn Leo into a mermaid.
-Leoās freaking excited.
-itās not permanent, Chase has to undo it and redo it every time. But they all get to go on epic ocean adventures together.
-when he loses his arm (and then leg), Douglas uses regenerative DNA from starfish to regrow his limbs. Using their research for what it was originally meant for.
-it has some side effects though, one being he has to āwet itā occasionally or it feels dried out and stiff. Once a day is usually good enough.
-Krane goes after them because he wants to create an evil mermaid empire and feels theyāre a threat.
-they kick his wannabe ass.
And this is what Iāve been thinking about instead of focusing on prompts. Youāre welcome.
Also i just wanna add that I love that Chase is a seahorse??? Perfection.
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