Jazz/Kor'i Mer AU please? 🥺
So I won't be able to immediately get to this fic to post it on time, but it is for the dpxdc sapphic week event.
But the premise is that Jazz works at a sanctuary for rehabilitating marine based supernatural/mythical creatures while also studying on the side the behaviors and psychology of said creatures for her thesis (imagine that her parents believe certain species, like mermaids and sirens, due to the nature in which some of them are created in, are nothing more than evil ghosts masquerading as something pretty. So her research is not only something born from natural curiosity, but to spite her parents.)
She works with Dick, who would be a selkie, and he works as a physical therapist. And Gar, who is a shifter and he helps with socialization and is a licensed ESA, funnily enough. Kinda like how rescue sanctuaries will have companion dogs for the nervous animals and what not.
Anyway, one of Jazz's jobs is to check the surrounding beach area for poachers traps, and there is where she'll meet Kor'i who was already injured from a previous poaching attempt and is none too pleased at being caught up in a different snare.
From there it's a whole lot of trust building, lore building, and budding romance. But wait, is that a tragedy on the horizon?
My biggest inspos for this story so far is the song "Mermaid" by Skott, and the book "The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea" by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (very good sapphic book, 10/10 recommend btw).