Merfolk & Humans
merfolk catcalling and heckling sailors and pirates as they sail by: the "siren song" was always just interspecies beef
"Look at that idiot. Bet he can't even eat fish with those blunt teeth."
merman always seeing the same sailor at the edge of a boat, staring wistfully out into the water as though they know there is something else out there... in reality, the sailor just gets seasick easily
trading between humans and merfolk: they hire one another to respectively get valuable resources from land or the bottom of the ocean
ever since relationships between humans and merfolk have improved, it is not uncommon to see nomadic merfolk tribes traveling with human ships in a symbiotic relationship and also friendship of sorts
after a pirate ship sinks in a storm, all the pirates end up adopted like stray pets by the local merfolk, who are figuring out how to keep humans alive as they go
merfolk populations who hear the sailors sing at night and have started singing the same songs underwater
"Is it true that you lot drag humans into the depth to drown and eat them?" "Why would we do that? No, like literally, why? Way to inconsistent as a food source and humans don't even taste good." "... And how do you know that?"
[Prompt Calender: June 8th, World Oceans Day]














