Mermaid/Man/Person AU Ideas
Some are romantic, some are platonic, some could be both!
-âIâm a relatively new employee at the local supermarket when I hear that there is a cleanup on aisle 14, one of the refrigerated sections. I plod on over with a mop and a plucky attitude andâOH MY WORD THERE IS A SOPPING WET MERMAID/MAN/PERSON ON THE FLOOR WHAT DO I DO THIS WASNâT COVERED IN TRAINING OR MY JOB DESCRIPTION! Turns out, youâve been human-passing for years but some idiot spilled their water bottle on youâ AU
-âYouâre half-mermaid and going to college, living in the dorms on campus. Youâve been singing Mamma Mia in the shower quietly and showering at 3AM so you wonât enchant anyone with your voice and you only shower at a normal time when you donât feel like singing. One night I get off work late and shower at 3AM too in the other set of shower but hear you anyway. I think Iâm technically immune to your mermaid magic powers but frick Iâm not immune to the fact that you have the most beautiful voice Iâve ever heard. Who are you?!â AU
-âWeâre both in marine biology class because we want to clean the ocean pollution and Iâm the only one who is more passionate than you and you canât figure out why I act like ocean pollution is personal âtil youâre scuba diving and come across me underwater and see my tail. I scream and swim away and refuse to talk to you in classâ AU
-âWhat do you mean I canât audition for [insert _______âs Got Talent/other show/some musical] because Iâm half-mermaid? I canât enchant peopleâoh shoot well now Iâve tried to prove that and proved the exact opposite and youâre declaring undying love for me. Please stop you donât really mean what youâre saying how do I undo this hELPâ AU
-âI automatically transform into a mermaid during the full moon, equinoxes, eclipses, and solstices. My significant other doesnât know and invites me to a pool party on the summer solstice. The sun goes down WAY late and I transform, falling into the pool and thatâs how my S/O finds out. Please donât be mad?â AU
-âMy S/O just broke up with me because they found out Iâm a mer and thought Iâd been enchanting them to be in love with me (I wasnât). You find me and comfort me and I tell you everything and yeah Iâd like to join you for dinner to cheer me up. Thank you so much!â AU
-âI unintentionally enchanted this entire karaoke bar with my voice because of my mermaid genetics and you just came in to see every single person staring mooney-eyed at me and help me get away before anything happensâ AU
-âYouâre asexual and/or aromantic and believe that youâre immune to mermaidsâ and sirensâ songs so youâre plodding around your ship while the rest of the crew has earplugs to block us out but we, the mermaids and sirens, sing about whatever it is you want most and it adapts magically. IÂ am really confused as you jump off the side of the ship because why in Poseidonâs name are we singing about pizza?! Oh wait hey youâre cute like a baby fish I donât want to drown youâ AU
-âYouâre the lead singer in a band called Shrieking Sirens (or something) and have a mermaid aesthetic going on. Iâm a big fan of your music but one night when Iâm drunk/sleep deprived I manage to email you/your manager/your publicist an angry, typo-ridden email about how sirens are bird-ladies not mermaids. You email me back with a âWe know :)â and when Iâm sober/well-rested Iâm really embarrassed but you thought it was hilarious. We started emailing and I find out that youâre all mermaids passing as humans and trying to slightly steer it away from being suspicious with the siren nameâ AU
-âAs if our romance wasnât forbidden enough because Iâm a mermaid and youâre human, youâre actually a dragon disguised as a human because dragons were sick of being persecuted by humans and oh CRAP if my pod ever found out Iâd be kicked out for sureâ AU
-âWhat do you mean the dragons arenât staying in hiding anymore?! Theyâre going to expose US too!â AU
-âIâm out for a late-night swim in the ocean because Iâm hardcore (read: reckless) like that and youâre a mermaid with the fluke of your tail caught in a crab trap and I found you underwater and got your fin out of the trap but it was bleeding and torn and made it hard to swim so I took you home and fixed you up and now youâre recovering in my bathtub?â AU
-âYouâre a marine veterinarian and Iâm gravely injured after I got attacked by a pod of aggressive orcas/other marine life but youâre out on a rowboat and Iâm floating near the surface and you see the blood in the water and manage to pull me into the boat and get me to shore before the sharks come after the blood and you rehabilitate me at your facility in secret because, hey, mermaids arenât supposed to exist but thank youâ AU
-âI got trapped in a rather deep tide pool when the tide went out. Hey you! Yeah you! Strong-looking human! You mind picking me up and hauling me into the ocean? Please? I will reward you with a pearl or something!â AU
-âI grew up in a landlocked area but me and my family just moved to a town on the ocean and I got to swim in the sea for the first time and AAAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE HECK?! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LEGS? WHY DO I HAVE A TAIL?! And you, a native mer, heard me screaming underwater in the language mers use to communicate and came to see if I was okay and I freak out even worse and you use your singing magic to lull me to sleep and I wake up in an abandoned cove and youâre lounging on the sand next to me and Iâm still freaking out but my legs are back and you ask me lots of questions and Look Buddy, I got nothinâ.â AU
-âIâm a curious mer hiding under a dock and watching a group of human friends goofing around through the wood and one of your friends pushes you off the end of the dock and into the water and Oh NO! it looks like you canât swim very well! I should help! But itâs forbiddenâŠâ AU
-âYou found yourself in an enchanted forest, somehow, and when you make it to a lake, you find me perched on a rock, my tail dangling into the magic lake, talking pleasantly to a unicorn and now youâre positive youâre dreaming and I dunno what to tell ya, mateâ AU
-âIâve been human-passing for years until yoU SPILLED YOUR WATER BOTTLE ALL OVER ME! WHAT THE HECK?!â AU
-âOkay, listen human, the ocean is terrifying and full of creepy/scary stuff. Donât EVEN judge me for deciding to live on land!â AU
-âI was adopted by human parents when they found me in the sea foam with a little tail that hadnât even taken on a color yet but turned to legs when I was dry. Turned out they also adopted other abandoned supernatural creatures so I have a werewolf sibling, a vampire sibling, a changeling sibling and their human âtwinâ and⊠letâs just say when I brought you home to meet my family you were⊠very confused to say the leastâ AU
-âOh shoot my roommateâs Significant Other is a mer who was singing a love song for my roommate and I fell in love why are mers like this?â AU
-âThere was a storm while I was out on a boat and I got knocked overboard and I woke up to you swimming me back to shore and your tail brushes my legs and wHAT THE HECK?! WHY ARE YOUR LEGS SO SLIMY?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONâT HAVE LEGS?â AU
-âA kiss from a mermaid can keep a person from drowning. But apparently the kiss does that by traNSFORMING WHOEVER WAS KISSED INTO A MER IN THE WATER! And apparently I kissed a mer recently because whAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING TO ME?! WHO WAS IT THAT I KISSED?â AU
-âI promise my tail looks heavy on land but itâs really graceful and strong underwater. Stop complaining it doesnât actually weigh two-tonsâ AU
-âSometimes humans lose their glasses in the water and they always end up in the mer community and I canât see underwater for the life of me because everything is blurry and one day my friend, who is also something of my seeing-eye friend, finds some in the sand and puts them on me and OH MY GOODNESS SAND HAS INDIVIDUAL GRAINS?! I have visible scales?! I CAN SEE!?â AU
-âI MAY BE THE MOST PETITE MERMAID YOUâVE EVER SEEN BUT I WILL STILL SINK YOUR WHOLE SHIP, JERK!â AU
-âYou have wings and I have a tail. We met by accident/chance and weâre deeply in love but thereâs no way we can be together. Iâm aquatic and youâre avian. Land is the literal middle ground of us to meet but itâs hard for me to be out of the water and you canât swim without your wings dragging you downâ AU
-âI run a cute cafe/coffee shop/bakery right by the beach. I see mermaids in the water all the time, but no one else ever seems to notice?â AU
-âThe local childrenâs hospital buses the kids who are well enough to the beach every so often where I get there first and pretend to be a mermaid to entertain themâI sing and tell stories. One day you wash up on the shore next to me after they leave but youâre real what the heck?!â AU
-âIâm a single parent and my mermaid-obsessed child(ren) swear up and down they saw a mermaid in the water and I pretend to be interested but my kid(s) can sense I donât believe them so they rush in to prove it to me and get caught in a riptide before I can get to them. You appear out of nowhere and save them but vanish before I can thank you. Who were you? I spend the next week(s) visiting the beach as often as I can to see if I can find you again. One night I swim out a ways and there you areânow what do I do?â AU
-âIâm dating a mer and somehow we ended up married by mermaid culture customs but not human and⊠what do???â AU
-âA hurricane scooped you up out of the ocean and flung you inland and thank the heavens you landed in my swimming pool but I didnât know mermaids existed and screamedâ AU
-âMe and my mermaid choir squad are out on some rocks/tiny abandoned island singing for choir practice and youâre sailing nearby with a buddy and hear us. But when we sing and a person âfalls in loveâ they try to impress us so youâve joined in with our song singing baritone and we drop the magic of the song completely. Get over here we havenât had a baritone sing with us in ages no weâre not going to drown you just get over here!â AU