#mer!reaper

[merwatch]

You didn’t really care for the colour your friends explained to you, you went your whole life seeing black, white, and grey, but it didn’t bother you. The red your mom explained to you fell flat on your eyes, the purple hues your best friend explained to you when she met her husband didn’t excite you, the blues explained to you by your brother didn’t matter even when you two were at the beach and he explained the glistening ocean, colour didn’t matter to you.

And you thought it never would. Late nights at the ocean were filled with silence except the waves crashing against the dock and the rocks surrounding the small beach. A white glow in the ocean caught your attention, but it was gone the moment you trained your eyes on it. You shook it off as just the moonlight glinting against the dark waters. Your eyes moved upwards towards the moon and stars in the distance. “Its beautiful here, isn’t it?” A voice asked, quiet and unsure. You looked around, unable to see where the voice was coming from. An aggravated sigh from below you caught your attention, a man was leaning against the stairs of the dock, staring up at you, with an annoyed albeit curious look. “Why are you in the water so late at night?” Was the first question you asked the man in the water. His only response was a chuckle, he shook his head, his long, wet hair catching your attention as it moved. You tried to ask again but he spoke before you could, “If you’re really that curious, I could show you?” He asked, lending a hand to you. All logic and reason left you as you took the man’s hand, carefully entering the cold water. “Its not so cold once you get used to it.” He whispered, something wrapped itself around your leg and you squeaked, looking down. The white glint you saw in the water earlier was in fact red, and bright. Red. Red. “Red?” You asked, mostly yourself. But the man made a noise upon looking down, and released you immediately. “My soulmate is a human? Sombra is gonna have a field day with this.” He growled. “What do you mean human? Of course I’m human, what are you?!” You asked, backing away from him, only for your back to hit the dock. The strange man advanced towards you, quietly. Something again wrapped around your leg, this time wrapping around the other as well. “What are you doing? Let me go!” You demanded, struggling against whatever was holding you down beneath the dark water. “Come back tomorrow, and I’ll explain everything. Promise me that.” He insisted, or at least his tone did. “Fine I promise! Can I at least get your name?” You asked, giving up the impossible struggle. “Gabriel.”

[overwatchxreader]

-Mer!Reaper has long, thick, black hair that reaches his chest. Its often unruly and it smells like seawater and a flower you can never put your finger on.

 -He’s an octopus mer, which are very rare in the ocean! His tendrils are black, red rings littering the tendrils as well. He won’t let you see them often, usually keeping them under water, but when you do see them you’ll be able to see that much like normal Reaper, his tendrils drift off into smoke, solidify themselves, then repeat.

 -The red rings glow in the murky water, matching his glowing red eyes. Instead of a mask, he has the owl outline scratched into his face, late one night he’ll tell you the story about how another mer carved the scars into his face years ago, he’ll say something along the lines of “Jack and I never really got along after the collapse of the reef.”

 -He likes to try to scare you or sneak up on you. The red glowing rings on his tendrils makes that difficult, so he’ll go as far as hiding in a sand bank to slither through the sand and scare you from behind. He’ll laugh a deep laugh when you jump and try to hide yourself behind the rocks on the shore.

 -An odd fact is his skin is quite dark still, being under water in the sun all day has tanned his skin slightly, but come night fall and the lack of sun it’ll greatly decrease to a pale grey, if you see him from sunrise to sunset you’ll see the darkening of his skin, and then at night the lightening. If you ask he’ll just crack a joke about being a dead man swimming.

 -When he falls in love with you he’ll bring you pieces of coral, he’ll usually bring you black coral, which he had to explain to you since it was quite brightly coloured, but he’ll also bring you bubblegum coral. Giving you tips on how to preserve the coral in aquariums.

 -Despite all this, Gabriel is insecure. He’s a mer, and you’re human! You can walk and talk and breathe and run and do human things while he’s stuck near the water. He’ll believe he isn’t good enough for you, and will take a lot of reassuring and I love yous a lot of the time, he doesn’t mean to be like this, but its just what happened after so many years in the dark waters.

[merwatch]

So I have binge reading your whole blog and I loved the most recent one about mer! Reaper x reader soulmate au! And I was wondering if we could get a part 2 because it was sooo good

First one HERE,

You had done what the strange man in the water told you to do, and returned to the waterside the next day. He was in the same spot as before, lingering near the docks, he gestured for you to come closer to him, you followed instruction without questioning it too much, he was your soulmate so there wasn’t a whole lot to fear.

“Okay so spill,” you started once you were in the water with Gabriel. “what are you? What kind of creature?” You asked, staring at the tentacles just below you in the dark blue water. The man huffed and you noticed the tentacles flick when he did so, seemingly showing off similar emotions.

“I’m a mer, like The Little Mermaid, except real, and ya know, I have a real tail instead of the fake mermaid ones you humans use.” He explained, he grabbed your arm and led you to some hidden rocks just away from the docks. Once he knew for sure the two of you were out of sight from other humans or mers, he used his upper-body strength to pull himself up onto one of the rocks, the eight tentacles joining him on the rock just below, the black tentacles were odd in design. Red rings littered them in random places with no real pattern, the most intriguing part of his tentacles were the fact every once in a while some of them would turn to smoke and seemingly fade away, before reforming into the solid mass they should be.

“What are they doing?” You asked as you noticed parts of the tail disappear again. He sighed and looked behind you, across the ocean. You took this time to really take in the man’s feature, the chest length hair, his dark eyes, tan skin, tan skin littered in scars, small scars and big scars alike crisscrossed his body, long ones were cut into his face, his right cheek had two scars running down them, deep and noticeable once you actually looked.

“An old friend turned me into this.” He finally spoke up, he turned his gaze to you a hardened look on his face. “She didn’t mean to, but she did, essentially turned me into a siren of sorts.” He explained, running his hand through his thick wet hair. You stared at him, slightly mortified, sure you’ve heard the stories, but to know they were real and in front of you, it was scary. Gabriel noticed the change in your expression and his face softened. “Don’t worry mi amor, I won’t do that to you.”

[overwatchxreader]

Hitting the rocky island wasn’t the best idea, nor was falling overboard as your ship plunged into the darkness. The dark murky ocean water surrounding your body, luring you into the depths. Dark tendrils wrapped around your body, red lights glowed in the dark waters, wait red? Everything was supposed to be black and white, no that’s definitely red. That was all you remembered before the darkness of the murky water consumed you and drifted you to unconsciousness.  

You coughed up water, feeling the wet sand around you, scratching your bared skin. The feeling of the sand on your back brought you back to the reality around you. It was dawn, the sun peeking at the horizon rays starting to light up the rocks and shore around you. "You're alright?" Came a gruff voice from the rocks to the left of you. The voice wasn't familiar, it wasn't somebody from your crew, you sat up slowly turning your head towards the waiting voice. Long black hair cloaked the man's face for the most part, minus his eyes, glowing red through the dark bangs, wait again red. "Do you see it?" You asked, staring at his eyes, the colour so vibrant from the white and black world you're used to. He grunted in reply, flicking his tendrils in response, the misty black tendrils were covered in glowing red circles that stood out against the dark rock. "I do see it." He replied to you, lifting his hand to move his hair from his face to be able to stare at your wet form better. Once he moved his hair the scar was quite noticeable the pinkish white lines on his face were in a curious shape. You slowly stood up, leaning against a rock to help you up and make sure you don't fall. “Can I ask what you are?” You slowly made your way to the creature, wanting to get a closer look at who or what saved you from the icy sea. He shrunk back slightly, not used to human interaction save for stealing their souls. “I’m a mer. Half human half fish.” He explained, the tendrils flicking as he spoke each word carefully. You kneeled beside the man, curiously looking over his tail, examining the smoky tendrils drifting together and away. You went to touch them before the mer flicked his tail, letting it drop down into the water. “Don’t touch the smoke, it’ll hurt you.” He hissed, grabbing your wrist to keep you from touching the broken tendrils. You nodded in understanding and he let you go, letting his tail rest back up on the rock, you went for the upper part of the tail, where the body seemed solid and touched it, it was almost a velvety texture. “What’s your name?” You asked him, gently stroking the pitch black tail, enjoying the smell of seawater and the feel of the beautiful tail. “Gabriel, they call me the Reaper below though. So whichever you prefer.” He answered, tilting his head. “What’s yours?” He asked, watching you intently as you stroked his tail. “(Y/N), my name is (Y/N). Holy shit I can’t believe my soulmate is a mer.” You sighed in disbelief, stopping your hand movements on his tail, and smiling at him. “A pleasure to meet you, Gabriel.” You smiled, lifting your hand to cup his cheek. A small smile crossed his face as he leaned into your warm touch. “Nice to meet you too.” He whispered.

[merwatch]

Mercy was known to have knowledge within the Mer community about herbs and other healing items, it was useful with all types of mer and the wounds that can come from accidentally interacting too friendly with some. However Octo!Mer were extremely rare and very unlikely to be seen, something she didn't know the right forumla for, she needed someone she could test her formula on, and after the collapse of the coral reef and her friends Jack Morrison and Gabriel Reyes, Gabriel being the only Octo!Mer in the colony she took his dead body and began her experiements. What she brought back however, wasn't the mer she knew. When Talon Colony attacked the Overwatch Colony and took Gabriel's body she was distraught because her experiements were not done. Leaving a decaying monster in the deep sea.