Another thing for @justshance Shance Mermay prompts, sunlight basking.
Just two fish chillin’ on a rock, enjoying the afternoon sun \o/

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Origami Around
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Discoholic 🪩
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Sweet Seals For You, Always

Love Begins
One Nice Bug Per Day

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Misplaced Lens Cap
Not today Justin
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Another thing for @justshance Shance Mermay prompts, sunlight basking.
Just two fish chillin’ on a rock, enjoying the afternoon sun \o/
Mermay Day 13: Fathomless Deep
doodled this last night for @shancemermay to destress a lil bit!! cant go too long without drawing glowy shance stuff, after all u_u
gotta find the right depth and pressure to give ur deep sea ocean man a proper smooch sometimes, u know how it is, just rising from the depths to kiss ur warmwater bf when he streaks down into the dark like ur own personal falling star…
EDIT: reuploaded w another image file, since the last one didnt save correctly? also, a closeup! :p
MerMay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them. @shancemermay
11. Far horizons
Lance’s family was keeping a safe distance but close enough to intervene should it be necessary. Allowing their young spotted dolphin mer lance to investigate the orca mer who was alone. It was always keeping a polite distance from their pod, while following. Never making any moves that could come off as aggression. But it still had the pod’s hackles raised. A lone orca mer was unheard of. If it’s pod was laying in wait to catch the dolphin pod off guard they would be in trouble. But the oddity of it had finally been to much for the curious mer. And he had split off to talk to the lone orca.
“Hey why are you following us?” lance called out swimming in the orca’s line of sight, but at an angle that would buy him time should the orca attack him.
“I’m sorry.” the orca said stalling in his path. Maintaining the distance the dolphin had instilled. “I’m, i’m just lost.”
“Lost how?” the dolphin siad with a tilt of his head moving closer to the orca.
The orca hmphed at the question. “In what way am i not? I’ve lost my pod. Lost my way. And lost my arm.” the orca waved a stump of an arm at the dolphin. “I didn’t mean to scare your family. I’ll be on my way.” the orca ended after the wide eyed silence from the dolphin mer. He turned to head the other way from the pod.
“Wait!” the dolphin shouted darting in front of the orca getting close to his face. Causing the orca arch back. “I’m sorry. Please dont… you don’t have to go. My name is lance. What’s yours?”
“Shiro.” the orca answered quietly looking at the dolphin skeptically.
“Shiro.” the dolphin replied with a small smile. “I’m sorry, for suggesting you were up to something insidious.”
“No it’s alright. It’s understandable.” shiro said softly. “I’m sorry i snapped at you. It’s just been a lot.”
“And lonely?” lance asked moving up into the orca’s space again. Taking the larger male’s hand in both of his. Shiro didn’t answer just kept his head turned away. Lance gave his hand a little squeeze to get his attention. “How about since you aren’t trying to hurt us and are going the same way, you join our pod. Till you find your own, or you get sick of us.” lance offered once shiro was looking at him again.
The orca’s face was scrunched in confusion. “Why would you do that? For someone like me? I can’t ask you to do that.”
“Good thing i asked you then.” lance teased pulling along the orca, very slowly since shiro was not helping at all. “And you aren’t trying to hurt us. That’s all we were afraid of. You had mom and me worried you were alone. And you were. So now you won’t be. Plus think how badass i’ll look having this big strong orca as a friend. See you’re doing me a favor too. So no worries.” with the lighter tone shiro kicked his tail a bit to propel himself in the direction the dolphin was pulling him towards the rest of his pod.
“Are you sure your pod will be alright we me being so close?” shiro ask while they were still out of earshot.
“Yeah. momma gave me permission to check on you. So she must have thought our hunch you were alone was true.” lance said with a shrug. “Don’t worry so much. It’ll be fine. I won’t let my family bully you.”
With a soft smile shiro squeezed lance’s hand back in silent thanks as they approached his pod to continue their migration.
Mermay Day 12: Pulled Ashore
listen……. i know everyone in the world redraws this bUT now its my turn for @shancemermay . drawing shance tlm au is so therapeutic lmao, i just had to…!!! i honestly have such a weak spot for the part of your world reprise, it like,,, makes my heart ache :’)
MerMay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them. @shancemermay
9. Sunlit basking
Shiro growled and slashed with his remaining clawed hand at the big gator who had wondered too close to his nest and mate. Threatening it and forcing it off. Had it not taken heed, he would have taken it for dinner. But the young male was smart enough to swim off. Once it was far enough away shiro turned back to his nest and mate sunbathing on the bank nearby. Shiro used his tail to propel himself through the water till his belly reached the bank rubbing his scales there. Lance turning to look over his shoulder at his mate. The brightly colored mudskipper mer chirping pleasantly as his mate joined him on the bank. The sound similar to what they were waiting on to hear from their adopted nest. Shiro made sure to splash his mate thoroughly to keep him damp while they sunned. His mate would not be returning to the water any time soon. They were expecting hatchlings soon. The nest having been maintained and guarded well by them and nearly ready to bless them with their adopted offspring. Even if they were regular aligator young and not the same species as either, it would not hinder their love for them. Shiro draped his arm around his mate pulling him close to his side. The mer chirping as her rubbed his face into his mate’s chest. Shiro responded with a few chuffs before settling down himself. Though the two taking turns to keep their heads up and alert for any would be predators who would harm their nest. Soon they’d be parents taking their young into the waters that would be their continued home.
Sea Witch (Shance MerMay 2019)
another drabble for my series Making Waves and Turning Tides. Series was inspired by @justshance‘s Mermay prompts for 2019, written for @shancemermay and fellow shance and mermaid fans in general.
Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, some plot, conspiracy, pining, fairy tale elements, little mermaid elements, AU
After having to watch that disgusting display of emotions, Lotor sank into the depths of the abyss, welcoming the feeling of darkness as well as the increasing pressure allowing his gills to breathe in and out gently. The wonderful air flowing through and cleaning out the salty air from above surface left him feeling more relaxed but he was still on edge hoping his plan would work.
Lotor continued to swim down, the light from the surface fading away until he was swallowed up by the void, circling around him with only his senses to guide him past other mers who lingered around the abyss, usually nowhere to go with other unsavory creatures who liked to lurk in the deep. Lotor located his cave quickly, quietly slipping into the vast cavern, easily avoiding the fluttering cuttlefish his mother liked to experiment on. He cool called out a greeting towards the witch, sliding against a rock and parking himself there, unfurling his tentacles to stretch as the witch, his mother Honerva, approached.
“Lotor have you spoken with the fish noble’s son?” A raspy voice called from behind the seaweed curtain. Lotor hummed, meticulously cleaning a tentacle sucker, making sure no remnants of fish scales were stuck underneath before casually replying, “Yes I have. The silly little brat took the deal and he’s now off frolicking on the dry lands with the king. We’ll be ruling this pathetic ocean soon Mother. That damned Queen Allura was a fool to reject me as a potential mate and to cast you from her palace with your talents! A true disgrace for a monarch in my opinion.” Lotor huffed as his mother oozed from the shadows, pulling back the weeds to expose her curling tentacles floating around her as she glided over to her son.
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MerMay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them. @shancemermay
7. Moonlit waters
Large blue whale mer lance visited by sea god shiro.
Shiro awoke with a yawn and a stretch. The eclipse giving him a short time to rest and recharge away from prying eyes of the mortals below. A short nap if you were. Many worshipped him on the earth, relying on his light to guide them. With his added boost of energy Shiro followed his glow to the sea surface, wanting to see those who worshipped him up close with the added energy, able to perform a few miracles for them should they need it. He headed first to a mer tribe who worshipped him steadily and had become his favorite from the moment a mother had lifted her newborns babe to the heavens for him to shine down upon. The babes scales a dark blue, the color of the empty sky he in habituated with a scattering of white twinkling like pearls scattered on the beach or diamonds on the land. And when the child had opened his eyes to gaze upon the moon god for the first time, shiro had been frozen at the sight of the ocean blue looking so mesmerized back at him. Shiro had been mesmerized back. And how bestowed gifts and favor upon the child. The child was very dutiful and loyal. Top contributor to the tribes shrine to Shiro and visitor. Shiro was not ashamed to say he enjoyed every minute watching the mer grow and become an even more beautiful adult full of life, joy, and kindness. His love for his pod and others they came across showed no bounds or limits. His acts of kindness always bringing a smile to his face.
That’s why the sight shiro came down to at the shrine caused him such confusion and fury. His favorite most beautiful follower was tied and bound to a tangle of flotsam. His skin marred with sunburns and his beautiful scales that had shiro’s attention at first sight dry and flaking. His breathing was shallow and only through his limited lungs. Eyes closed tight in pain, maybe even blindness from the sun. shiro feared his little starfish had died at first sight. Nearily sending shiro into a fury till he heard the labored breath from him. Just that little bit of air softer than an ocean breeze bring shiro to his side. He untangled the mer while lifting him delicately into his arms. “Oh lance. My little starfish please, can you speak to me? You don’t have to open your eyes. Just a word please. Let me know you are still here.”
“Shiro?” Lance rasped. His voice horse from being so dry. A twinge of a smile peaked at the corners of his mouth. A twinge brought itself to shiro heart at the sight. A shadow of the smiles lance always beamed at him when he hung in the sky. “You returned.”
“Of course I did. I always do. And I always will Lance, for you. You just need to hang on. I need to get you to Allura. She can heal you. You’ll be safe and well then.” Shiro felt his little starfish’s life force slowly leaking in his arms. The life goddess could stop it from flowing out.
Lance struggled but managed to open his eyes and gaze adoringly at the god. With the same look he had when he was just a guppy. “It’s ok.” lance coughed his body jerking in shiro’s arms. He carefully lowered lance’s head into the water so it could try to soothe his throat and wet his tightly clamped gills on his neck. “I just hoped to lay eyes on you once more. It was all worth it to quell your anger and see you return to us.”
“My little starfish i don’t understand. Who did this to you. I will make them pay dearly for harming you.” shiro said bring his head down to press his forehead to the mers. The coolness of the moon’s skin soothing to the burns maring his mer.
“No one harmed me. I volunteered.”
“You what?” shiro asked even more confused.
“The priest said we had angered you. That is why you fell away from the sky and hid your light from us the past night. And one must be sacrificed to make amends for wronging you. Someone you had shown favor to. So i volunteered, to save the others, to bring you back. To see you again. Everything would be ok if i saw you again. Was i good enough shiro? Did i please you?”
“Oh lance,” shiro closed his eyes as tear tracks flowed down his cheeks devastation flowing out of him darking the water where his light would have brightened it before. “Your life, your joy, your kindness always pleased me. Never your death. I was never prepared for it thinking you still had time. Knowing I was the cause is the furthest from pleasing.”
“I’m sorry I failed you shiro.” Lance said quietly tears beading at the corners of his eyes to dissolve into the water.
“You have not failed me little starfish. I have failed you.” Shiro kissed his head moving towards Allura’s domain with his devoted. “I was never mad. I was resting yesterday. You did nothing wrong.” Shiro turned away to try to hide his fury. “Your priest was jealous of your status in my eyes and manipulated you. You were favored and he was not, so he wished to remove you. But it will not gain him favor, he has done nothing but gain my wrath.”
“No, please. Do not confuse his ignorance with malice shiro. Many were confused and lost without your light. Please don’t punish those who strayed. I’m alright to pass. I got to see your beauty once more and it was all i wanted. And now i’m in your arms. It’s more than i could ever dream of.” Lance said his face stretching to extend his smile, eyes half opened to meet shiro’s gaze. Still just a fraction of his former self.
“No. i will not let you go so easily lance. Just stay with me a little longer. Try please.”
“I’d do anything for you shiro.” Lance answered softly. His eyes drifting closed. Shiro hastened his journey to Allura’s domain. Lance keeping his promise still clinging to life. However allura’s look of resignation once she placed her hand upon the mortal already answered shiro’s question before he could ask.
“I’m so sorry shiro. He doesn’t have enough life energy left for me to heal him.”
“No that can not be. I’m not ready to lose him. There has to be something. Allura please, i’d do anything to save him.” shiro pleaded with her brushing lance’s hair from his face and trying to sooth the mer discomfort in his injuries.
Allura bit her lip and turned to view where the sun was beginning to rise into his domain. Keith would be furious with her when he finds out what she is about to tell shiro. But she could feel the love and devotion from shiro and the mirror of it in the mortal. With it should could save him but at a cost. “There is something but it would require a sacrifice from both of you.”
“Yes please allura anything.” shiro pleaded once more.
“Very well the cost from you is half your life. Even though it is so long to feel never ending it does have an end. And you would be giving half of it to him. Once i transfer it you will both be connected to your domain. He will be tied to you for all the time you both have left. He will no longer be mortal, and will have the burden to see all he knows wither and die in cycle. For us we witness it for millennials. But for mortals it can be hard to process. He’d also not be able to penetrate the sea. Banished practically from all he has ever known. You’d have to make this choice for him. He is too weak. And quickly. Once his life force is gone. Not even that is an option.”
“Do it.” shiro said with no hesitation. “please . i do not want to continue without him. And he has always known me.”
“Very well.” allura said eyes glowing bright. “Let’s begin.” she placed a hand to both shiro and lance to perform the task.
Lance awoke to the gentle splash of tears on his cheeks. It surprised him how the salt of which no longer stung his skin. Nor did he feel in pain anymore. He felt full of energy and life like he had just partaken in a huge meal and they had touched a warm current. He carefully blinked open his eyes to the sight of the moon holding him still carefully in his arms. “Shiro? Why are you crying? Are you ok?”
“I’m just so happy. I thought i’d lost you my starfish. But you are safe now. Safe and well for as long as we are together.” Shiro answered. “Will you come with me my starfish? Stay with me for all our time in the sky? To shine down on the ocean and show others the way with me?”
Lance smiled wide and bright at shiro, just as he had the first time he had laid eyes on him. “Of course i will shiro. I’d want nothing more.” With those words shiro kissed his starfish and pulled both to the safety of his domain once more. Lance’s tail spreading out around them to blanket shiro with his love and devotion. His white scales glittering across the night sky to shine even when shiro needed to rest to light the way for those below.
Mermay Day Eleven: Far Horizons
tried to keep it rly quick/simple for this one, so theyre more doodles than anything!! but!! give me starcrossed princes and mermen watching each other as the sun rises and sets any day u_u
still at it for @shancemermay, feel free to use my prompts if you like!!
Beach-Cute(Shance)
Another Shance Mermay prompt inspired by @justshance ‘s Shance Mermay 2019 prompt list. Tagging @shancemermay as well.
Tags: comedy, fluff, fluff and crack, first meetings, meet-cute, AU, Fairytale elements, Little Mermaid elements,
This one is a bit longer than my first one(i got too inspired apparently) Enjoy~
The sounds of the waves crashing as they hit the shore partnered with the sounds of the strange flappy birds scavenging for something to eat were very soothing, helping Lance to further relax as he reclined along a protruded rock, barely hidden from public view if someone were to stroll upon the beach then.
He kinda didn’t care though, if he was being truthful. Yes, he should be more aware of keeping a “low-profile” around the humans, but Lance was curious okay? He was tired of being stuck underwater, not when there was new things to discover and explore above shore!
He could barely make out the little town in the distance next to the big seaside palace. Even from across the distance, he could smell all sorts of enticing scents wafting over to him that always stirred his appetite, even his second stomach would grumble for food despite his successful hunting trips beforehand. At night, there were magical lights that lit up across the town, matching the bright, beaming ones coming from the castle that held Lance in a trance as he lounged, watching the magical lights as some faded in and out, the bright yellow standing out against the dark violet sky above them. He wanted to see them up close, see what they were and how they shone so bright like that.
And he would.
Absentmindedly, Lance pulled out the little trinket, a locket, Lotor had given him earlier after Lance went skulking around the Dark Abysmal Zone, an appropriate nickname for the area where shady no good mers dwelled. Lance had been repeatedly warned by his Mama to never go down there ever, mostly because the sea witch, a notorious cecaelia known for her dark magic, lurked there, ready to trick any young mer that crossed her path. Rumor has it that her witchcraft had once been good, previously thought to be a wonderful healer, but now she was focusing towards the dark arts, which is what banished her from the mers kingdom many seasons ago.
And yet, Lance had seeked her out despite the warnings of his family and his friends. He only made it about a mile into the abysmal zone when Lotor had popped up in front of him and gave him a bargain deal instead. Lance would get to be a human for a week in return he owed Lotor one small favor. It was very vague and incredibly shifty to openly accept but then Lotor had to bring up how the handsome human he’d seen Lance ogling had been returning to the shore with another handsome man which had Lance agreeing to the deal immediately.
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MerMay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them. @shancemermay 5. Coral reef
“Hello, please can someone help me?” The black tip reef shark mer called out into the reef as he made his way a little deeper into the cluster of corals and sponges. He held his one good to the upper shoulder of his stump. A small cloud of red spilling from his fingers and cut along his face. A few others along his body that was littered with old scars. “Please. I need help. I was told to come here to find it.
Lance watched with others of his community from the safety of the corals to the sharks pleas. He made a move to go out into the open, but was grabbed by another cleaner wrasse mer.
“What are you doing?” Sanda hissed at him. “He is a predator and an outsider. Leave him to the tide.”
“He is hurt, and in need of help. Do we not help him because he is not from our reef?” Lance asked. “We help other predators.”
“We help those from our community. Who know should they turn on us they will not be helped again. There is nothing to stop an outsider from doing so. They will just move on to the next reef.” Sanda pointed out in a tone you would use to remind a the water is wet.
Lance puffed out his chest as he patted his work bag. “It is in the nature of a predator to kill, just as it is my nature to help.” with that lance darted out into the open behind the shark. The shark mer turning to the disturbance in the water. “I can help you. In exchange for things you no longer need and not eating me.” lance said once the shark’s eyes were on him. His last sentence said with a nervous grin. He cringed a bit when the shark jerked back in it’s slow movement towards him.
“I won’t eat you.” the shark’s brows drawn tight in a pained puzzle. The shark eye up the much smaller mer. Nearly a quarter his own size. “I…” he was cut off.
“Good then we are in agreement.” the smaller wrasse mer flitted up to the shark with a lack fear. “I’m not the best medic. But afraid i have to do. Let me see that shoulder.” the shark pulled back.
“No, not me. I’m fine…”
“You are bleeding all over the place is does that slash on your face mess with your smeller?” he asked scrunching up his face just an arms length from the shark.
The shark let out a huff. “It does, but i know i am bleeding. But my friend needs help more. I will be fine.”
“And where is your friend?” lance asked looking around drifting in a slow circle moving up in the water column to get a better view.
The shark winced at that. “He is not here. He couldn’t make the swim. Please, come with me to help him.” the shark asked.
The wrasse mer looked nervously from the shark to the coral cluster he knew sanda was hiding in. before shaking his head and squaring his shoulders. He met the sharks eyes and gave a determined nod. “Of coarse. Show me to the person who needs help and i will help to the best of my abilities.”
The shark mer swam up to the wrasse with a warm smile. “Thank you. Please follow me. My name is shiro.”
“Lance.” the wrasse mer said with a small smile of his own, pressing closely to the sharks side near his belly keeping behind his pectoral fins and out of arm’s reach. “Lead the way big guy.” the two kept close as the shark booked it to open water, lance keeping up thankfully by stay in the streamline of the shark’s body as it cut through the water with great speed despite his injuries. When ever he couldn’t keep pace he’d reach out tentatively and grab the shark’s pectoral fin. Shiro would only glance over his shoulder at the motion to make sure the wrasse stayed with him. “What is your friends name?” lance asked after a short time passed but he was much farther from home than he had ever been.
“Keith. He is also a shark, but smaller than me. Young.” shiro answered. “Thank you. For agreeing to help me. And trusting me. I know it seemed like a trick or a trap to ask you to leave the safety of your home with a stranger.”
“Trust is earned and traded.” lance recited his lesson from his favorite teacher the shrimp mer coran. “But help can be freely given should one choose. And i have chosen to follow my nature to help those in need. And you are in need.” lance gave a light squeeze to the shark’s fin. “Maybe should you and your friend not eat me, we can work on trading trust.”
“You have earned my trust already lance.” the shark answered sincerely. “Neither of us will harm you.”
“Are we close?”
“Yes there.” shiro pointed to a cluster of dead and bleached coral. Between it and the rocks they had made a rather large cave under the debris. Inside was a shark mer with longer dark hair curled up in aganony. A bloody gash seeping red into the water from his cheek. The larger mer quickly settling in around his friend. “Keith i’m back. I brought help.” shiro turned back to look to lance who was hovering at the entrance to the cave nervously. The soft pleading gaze from shiro bringing him closer to the other shark who was thrashing wildly every few minutes.
“My name is lance and i’m going to do my best to make you feel better.” he said softly opening his bag and pulling out a snail shell with a hollow urchin spin from a hole in it’s center. Moving closer to press it to the sick sharks back near his gills.
The shark jerked back and growled. Causing the smaller mer to drift away from him. “What is a runt like you going to do?” it growled.
“Keith…”
“Everything i can. You just have to let me.” lance said back sternly. “Can you tell me what’s wrong since you can insult me.”
“Poisoned.” the smaller shark growled, while the larger said it more softly.
“By something you ate or something stung you?” Lance asked quickly pulling out a deep round shell and a coral cone with a rounded bottom.
“Maybe if i eat you, i’ll feel better!” the smaller shark snapped thrashing in pain again.
“Keith stop!” shiro snapped at his friend before turning to lance, “ please, he didn’t… he won’t…” but he stopped as lance swam up easily to the smaller shark and pulled his eye lid open to look into his eyes.
“Answer the question mullet. I can’t make a remedy unless i know which. And what did it.” lance pulled the shark’s ear before smearing a salve onto the wound on his cheek from another clam shell in his bag.
“Stung.” he quipped bitterly. Wincing at the stinging wound and manhandling.
“By what or who?”
“A lionfish mer tried to take our cave.” shiro answered instead. “We fought, but keith was stung.”
Lance smiled and patted keith’s unmarred cheek. “See not so hard. I have what i need to take care of that. Was it your face here that got stung?”
“No my clasper did.” keith snarked sarcastically.
“Well either way wouldn’t be much of a loss for you i’m sure.” lance sassed back settling into the sand and pulling a few things from his bag to place into his shell and began to crush with his coral. Ignoring keith’s growling. “Shiro can you catch a small flounder or white fish? Something bland? It will help the medicine go down easier for your friend.” he didn’t even look up from his work. Even as keith thrashed again.
“Yes i can but…”
“Go it’s ok. I’m here to help. After he is free of the toxins i’ll give you both a through check up teeth and parasites and all your little cuts. He’s too sick to stomach me as he is.” lance said with a smile at the calmer shark.
“I wouldn’t be able to stomach you if i was starving.” Keith shot back.
“I take it back. How about the nastiest sea squirt you can find. Really make this medicine taste like parrotfish poop.
Shiro smiled at the fiery little wrasse, giving a light chuckle before heading out to collect a meal for his friend. Shiro returned with enough to feed all three of them. Helping lance to force feed keith who swore it was poisoned by the wrasse to kill him faster. Lance saying the initial sting was making him have hallucinations or it was part of his permanently damaged brain since he hallucinates his hair being in style. Shiro laughing it off as keith being a picky eater. But they did get him to take the med. The trashing had become far less intense just minutes after. Shiro invited lance to stay the night with them in their cave after he treated shiro’s wounds. The rest could wait till the next day, and he’d swim lance all the way home. Lance agreed wholeheartedly, snuggling up under the sharks fin for the night. .
Mermay Day Eleven: Far Horizons
tried to keep it rly quick/simple for this one, so theyre more doodles than anything!! but!! give me starcrossed princes and mermen watching each other as the sun rises and sets any day u_u
still at it for @shancemermay, feel free to use my prompts if you like!!
Shining Pearl (shance)
For the Shance Mermay 2019 prompts that @justshance came up with! Also tagging @shancemermay.
Tags: Fluff, Flirting, Courting Rituals, Mermay, Fairy tale elements, AU, not gonna lie they don’t talk to each other…yet.
Lance wanted legs.
Specifically he wanted human legs. For himself of course, not to eat. That would be gross.
He continued to watch from a safe distance, the handsome man that was currently walking along the shore, a palace in the distance on dry land where alas, Lance could not go because where humans usually had legs, Lance had a fishtail.
A very beautiful fishtail mind you, with its glimmering blue scales that looked silver where light flashed. His fins were translucent and delicate, some wispy fins trailing along the sides of his tail and up his spine. He was surely the pride and joy of his family since not even his siblings or any others mers in the shoal could compete with his beauty. He wasn’t a prince, but his father was a noble making Lance a noble as well so he’d received many courting offers, including snooty Lotor a cecaelia species who just wanted a pretty mate to look at much to Lance’s annoyance. Call him shellfish and naive, but he wanted to experience true love!
Plus, Lotor was creepy, who still lived in a cave in the dark abyss of the ocean these days? Fish hermits, thats who!
Lance sighed mind focusing back on the present, a little shy smile creeping up as he watched the man collect seashells, almost absentmindedly since he was picking out a bunch of broken ones that have lost their luster. Almost like a reflex, Lance quietly slipped back into the water, hurrying towards the bottom of the ocean floor and scanning around the murky water, hoping he’ll find a shell that was still in tact and shiny enough for the beautiful man. A sparkle caught his eye and with inhuman speed, Lance dove towards it, snatching it up and scaring the shit out of a school of butterfly fish. Lance brushed the sand off the shell only to gasp excitedly as he realized it wasn’t a shell but a clam, one that was starting to wither away from age, but what Lance was after, was their beautiful treasure inside.
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Mermay Day 10: Sunken Treasure
forgot to upload my mermay pic from the other day, but im a day behind anyway lol :’) just trying to keep these kinda quick and simple between other work, but who knows i might revisit some of these someday…
check out @shancemermay for more of that sweet sweet mer shance content the rest of this month!
uhhh, im not very good at drawing, but I really wanted to participate in Shance mermay event. SO, here is mine for the Sea and Sky prompt I guess (I drew this before the prompt list) @shancemermay @justshance
Mermay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them. this one is a direct continuation of 1.
2. Ocean breeze.
The breeze was blowing in from the ocean. Much like the tide, bringing with it the warm air thermals from the heated water. Shiro kept his wings spread to feel the wind press into his feathers. As he looked out over the water. Spotting his favorite flying fish mer skimming the water’s surface. Using that same sea breeze to bring him closer to his feathery love. shiro ‘s grip tightened around the blue sapphire and pearl necklace he held protectively to his chest just over his heart, that soared at the sight of the mer and the anticipation for the answer to the question he was going to ask him in the mer seconds it would take to descend to the waves below and into the arms of his beautiful mer.
So uh, @justshance made a list of prompts for mermay with Shance and I had to jump on it, so uh…
This is for the prompt “Sea Witch” because I just wanted an excuse to draw a very fancy mer!Lance with long hair \o/
@shancemermay
Mermay Shance
Prompts stolen from @justshance. all pieces are up for grabs if anyone wants to take them further or rework them.
1.
Sea and sky.
Shiro is a stellar sea eagle, his large black and white feathered wings springing from his back. He has large taloned feet for grabbing onto the rock cliffs that he calls home or the sparse ocean battered trees resting on top of the cliffs. A cave in the side of it made into his home. His perch allows him to easily catch the thermals over the ocean for hunting. His kind hunting with spears, to bows, or a few even have upgraded to crossbows allowing them to keep further and further distance from the water, as few predators can spring from the water, but none from the air outside their own kind. Shiro was very proud of his perch and home. But it’s views and access to the ocean not the only thing that made it so alluring and perfect for shiro. As the sparkling glint appearing and disappearing from sight not to far from the coast caught shiro’s eyes as it flickered in and out of view, shiro grabbed his waist bag, and short spear. Easily diving off his cliff to catch a thermal ot pull him out to sea to wear the light kept catching his calling day star as he liked to call him. He came down to skim the water with his toes just before climbing once more a few feet above the surface to allow room for lance, his beautiful blue and sparkling flying fish mer to clear the surface and glide under him. His fins extended like shiro’s own wings. The glossy membrane shining bright in the sun. Lance looking over his shoulder to grin brightly at shiro. Shiro smiling down on him from above. The two joining each other in the hunt and taking time to just enjoy each others company in flight with tender touches and skims. Both taking a break on an exposed sandbar to share in a meal and a few not so tender touches and kisses before parting ways. Lance shiro felt really made his roost home, even if his star belonged to the ocean and him to the sky. The two could and would meet just like their elements. He loved his home and loved lance even more.