mermaid washed ashore

Um, hello. I'm Leia. Nice to meet you. It's good to make new friends! HMRRP blog <3

[reaping-the-harvest1]

One thing Molly had always enjoyed was walking along the beach to watch the sunrise. She had lucked out when her Castanet property was just before a beach. Deciding to take a walk that particular day, she stumbled upon something, or rather someone, she had never had intentions of ever seeing.

"Huh…" She scratched the back of her neck idly. "Is that a costume you’re wearing?" She asked the finned woman.

[leiathemermaid]

Leia smiled and sat upright when she saw the woman approach, but furrowed her eyebrows at the question. "Costume?" She looked down at her top, touching the bottom hem with her left hand and tugging at it a little. "This is what I wear each day." She looked up at the woman. "Um, I am glad you happened to be here now. Do you think you could help me?" Leia rubbed her eyes with her hands. Her mother's voice began faintly in her mind. It's rude to ask favors from strangers without giving them your name, child.

"Oh, oh. I'm Leia, by the way." She offered a small but sweet smile, which quickly turned into a yawn.

[leiathemermaid]

Leia wakes up on the beach at dawn, feeling quite rested but a tad parched. The tide was much farther out than it had been when she dozed off! She was sure she could make it back to the ocean, but it would take a lot of time.

Maybe someone would help her?

[leiathemermaid]

TMI Tuesday

[leiathemermaid]

Do you not get to see them?

I haven’t been well enough to swim all the way home yet. After the accident, I’ve been stuck swimming pretty close to shore. They live out in the deep ocean.

[leiathemermaid]

Do you have any siblings?

Yes! I have three sisters. Akamei, Kamoana, and Wainani. And one brother, Kye. I miss them dearly...

[leiathemermaid]

TMI Tuesday

~~Sorry for posting so late!

[leiathemermaid]

*splashes all of you with water*

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some of my favorite sharks

[leiathemermaid]

MINE TOO!!

[leiathemermaid]

How do you communicate with the marine animals?

Like this! *makes incomprehensible blub noises with a strangely accurate dolphin imitation in the middle*How do you do it?

[leiathemermaid]

TMI Tuesday

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

"Hey, don’t underestimate a man of the sea! I know my way around the ocean better than most." The one constant in his life had been the sea, so it was natural he felt at home when he was on it.

He scanned the area with her, trying to find something they could use as a landmark. Swimming against a mermaid. It sounded kind of crazy, since more didn’t believe in mermaids and if you did then why would you swim against one?? But Kai never backed down from a challenge.

"Oh, I’m Kai." He grinned. "You know, my name actually means ocean. I think we’re more like than you think, Leia." He winked at her playfully.

[leiathemermaid]

"'Kai' means 'ocean'?" Leia's name was just a name as far as she knew. "Man of the sea sounds silly, like another way to say merman. And you aren't one!" She laughed. He was so insistent! He must be very stubborn.

She had no idea what to make of being similar to a tattooed Human Man. He looked very different to her. She continued searching the beach and then, of course, saw the pier. "Oh! We could race to the pier!"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

He chuckled sheepishly. She was right. That had been rather silly to ask. 

"You seem like a great swimmer to me," he commented, laying back and letting the water hold him. He watched her out of the side of his eye. "You think you could beat me? I’m pretty good, you know, I’ve practically lived in the water my whole life." It was true. Growing up on islands, Kai had always been out in the water. Whenever there was a swimming contest, he had always come in first. He had even been on the swim team during high school but it hadn’t been enough to hold his attention. Why swim in a pool when you can swim in the ocean?

[leiathemermaid]

"You're a fast swimmer?" Leia giggled. "You have no fins!" A race could be fun, though. She loved to race her sisters. Being the youngest, she would always lose. That didn't take the fun out of it, though - she only tried harder. "I'm still recovering, but I'm still faster than any Human!"

She scanned the shore, looking for any visible. There was only sand, sand, and more sand. "How do you want to do this, um, ...." She didn't know his name.

"Oh! Oh oh oh I forgot! I'm Leia. What's your name?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[leiathemermaid]

"I learned how to cook like you do when I stayed with Daryl." Daryl, being a quirky scientist, never learned how to cook, so she took it upon herself to understand the recipe books he owned to pay back the favor of nursing her back to health. She got pretty good at making grilled fish. "Sometimes at home, though, we can prep things to dry in the sun. Like on a big rock. Only problem is the seagulls… I usually just eat sashimi."

[summer-summerboy-blog]

Daryl? Wait… he thought he knew that guy. Wasn’t he that creepy scientist in Forget-Me-Not Valley? He would stop in the Valley every now and then since he had a small Snack Stand there. Surely she didn’t mean him though.

"That’s really inventive," he commented grinning.

"Though I gotta ask-" his train of thought was interrupted. ‘At home’? ‘We’?

“‘We’? So there are more mermaids?” It was astounding enough to discover just one but now there were more? If he stopped to think about it this wouldn’t be that surprising. After all, how did a population sustain with just one member? But Kai’s logical side had kinda checked out at the moment.

[leiathemermaid]

She giggled. "Of course there are more mermaids!" That's be like asking if there were more Human Men with ink sewn into them - of course there isn't just one!

"There are lots of us. Most are just better at swimming than I am, I guess, so they're never seen." Most mermaids lived far out in the ocean. Stories say they only caught the attention of sailors, who were generally going a little crazy and needed help getting where they needed to go. Leia, however, had been washed ashore after a typhoon.

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

He watched her swim in circles, slowly following her movements with his eyes. It was amazing how at one with the water she was, although she was a mermaid so it was to be expected.

"Yeah, I cook." Was it okay to tell her that he cooked fish too? Wasn’t that like… cannibalism? Half-cannibalism? But she said she cooked too.

"How do you cook in the ocean though? Fire and water don’t exactly mix."

[leiathemermaid]

"I learned how to cook like you do when I stayed with Daryl." Daryl, being a quirky scientist, never learned how to cook, so she took it upon herself to understand the recipe books he owned to pay back the favor of nursing her back to health. She got pretty good at making grilled fish. "Sometimes at home, though, we can prep things to dry in the sun. Like on a big rock. Only problem is the seagulls... I usually just eat sashimi."

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

"That’s about the gist of it," he replied. Perhaps sewing with ink wasn’t the exact way to describe it, but she got the main idea.

He grinned at her enthusiasm. Even though he was still in awe at finding out mermaids were real, she was too much like a human for him to see a difference. So she had scales and could swim faster, that just made her cooler.

"Me? Nah. I’m only an artist in the kitchen. I paid someone to do these for me." He turned his head slightly to watch her, his skin shivering a little as she rubbed at his tattoos. It wasn’t often that people touched them.

[leiathemermaid]

"Oh, you said that." She forgot, having trouble listening really, still rubbing the turtles on his back. There were just so many things she didn't know! "You mean you cook, right?" She stopped rubbing, having fully discovered that the turtles did not move. She began swimming in slow circles, barely keeping her mouth above the water, spinning occasionally onto her back to look up at him. "I cook sometimes. Mostly fish."

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

Wow, a real mermaid.

Wait, strange skin? He looked down. Oh, she meant his tattoos.

"No, no, they’re just ink. Here, feel it." He grabbed her hand and brought it to his chest, letting her touch where his tattoo was across his chest. "Totally normal. It’s like, uhm," he released her hand, letting her do whatever she wanted to, "an artist takes a needle and puts the design on my skin with ink. It takes a few days to heal but I’ve had these for awhile." He grinned proudly. "There are some turtle designs on my back if you wanna see." He gestured to his back.

[leiathemermaid]

She rubbed her fingers back and forth across his tattoo quickly, trying to rub it off. "Needle? Like to sew? They sew ink into your skin?" A needle stitching ink from a squid into someone's skin was an odd picture, and a painful one too. The only time she has seen someone use a needle on skin was when her sister gashed her arm on a rock during a storm. Her sister had screamed. She swam around him quickly with little apparent movement, much like a fish (as one would expect). "Oh, turtles!!" She had seen those before, swam with them. She tried to rub the turtles out with her fingers too, but they didn't smear at all. "Did you do these all yourself?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

*waves from the ocean nearby* Helloooooooooo!!

"Hey there!" He waves back enthusiastically. Since she’s in the water, he can’t tell that she’s, well, not human. "Catchin’ some waves out there?"

[summer-summerboy-blog]

Poisoned? What?

Any confusion he had was instantly wiped from his mind. Was that.. did she have… did she just…?

She resurfaced near him, her sea green hair wet with sea water along with two pink sea shells. Her top was a mixture of pearls and shells. She looked like….

"Are you a mermaid," he asked, swimming closer to her in awe. He totally forgot that she had asked about his tattoos. She was a mermaid! Who cared about tattoos?

[leiathemermaid]

Right. Humans are confused by mermaids.

"Yes! Yes, I'm a mermaid." She said the words quickly without looking at his face, just his tattoos.Her eyebrows pinched together. "Are you okay? What happened?" She looked up at his face now.

"Your skin is the wrong color in places. Are you sick? Do Humans get sick in their skin?" She was blurting things out, all filtering was gone. This Human Man with strange skin was one of the few to just jump in the water, and he spoke of catching waves...

Is this how Humans feel when they see me? Am I this strange? She might have smiled if she wasn't so concerned with the markings.