Deceit is a merman, but he has no memories of a life under water, all he knows is life on land, but he always felt a pull to the ocean.
he becomes a sailor, ship got overtaken by pirates he was kept alive with some other crew members, the pirate ship is taken by another ban of Pirates, the notorious twins. Aka Remus and Roman. Born from a noble family but felt to stifled in that kind of life so they both ran. Logan is the ships navigator, Virgil is the one who keeps the crew in check when Remus or Roman are away. Patton is the “pirate mom” he’s the ships doctor and part time chef.
They don’t trust Deceit at first, because new won recruits tend to try and start a mutiny now and again.
But that’s just background, the thought i was hit with was that for some reason the ships is broken, either by a storm or during a fight and Deceit and the others ends up in the water, he never learned how to swim. He blacks out. His body shifts to merform and he can breathe
Time seems to slow and the world is blurry, but he doesn’t feel dead, he watches the others struggle to get to the surface. He helps. Getting them to a broken piece of debris and starts to swim towards the closest piece of land which is an deserted island.
Deceit comes too later with no recollection on to how he got to the island, now back as human, nor why the others are staring at him like that. They tell him but he doesn’t believe them at first.
A little different from what I usually post but I had a sudden need to draw deceit from sanders sides... sooooo here’s a mer-deceit, I’ll probably do all the others sometime in the future. In all honesty, I don’t think I did it justice, his tail is too short in my opinion and the pose is really basic, but I tried my best (I don’t usually draw guys or mermaids so this was a first) Anyway, he’s a sea snake mermaid because he’s a slimy boi and I love him.
Warnings: Screaming Mention, Caps, Injury Mention, Yelling Mention, Innuendo Mention, Sex Mention, Blood Mention, Food Mention, Cannibalism Mention, Fire Mention, Cursing, let me know if I should tag anything else.
Fishy Situations Chapter 2: Water Mess
Janus looked around the bathroom, the water basin was quite interesting. The glass of which was much smoother and less sharp than the glass he'd seen back home. It was shiny and pretty, he liked it. His tail still ached with the cleaning Roman had done but he knew it was necessary from the horror stories he'd heard of other mer getting infections from net cuts.
He heard the door open and, though he thought it would be Virgil or Roman, he watched as someone else come in with fluffy things they put down on the counter and they turned on the waterfall machine in the other corner of the room. He heard footsteps get closer and something touched his tail.
"Roman bought a giant fish tail?" Janus tried to keep his tail still but the hand feeling over the small tear in his fin tickled and he couldn't help his tail twitching, hitting the human in the face, and hiding back in the water.
"Oh Christ!" The human exclaimed, making his head shoot under the water to hide again. The human sat before him, looking over him as if he was amazed rather than confused so he he peeked his eyes up above the water again.
"Hi there." He looked over the human's face. "So Roman smuggled a mermaid home. You're really pretty, by the way. And your tail is really cool, it feels like a snake when it's dry. Anyway, I'm Remus, Roman's brother. Do you know how long he'll be harboring you here?" He shook his head.
"Well, try not to stare at my butt or something, I need to shower." Janus ducked his head back under the water and settled in as he heard Remus go back to his 'shower' in the waterfall machine. This human being there made him feel safe enough to rest like Virgil had insisted earlier. He vaguely felt a hand on his face after the waterfall turned off.
"Poor thing, you have wounds everywhere." Remus' voice came to his ears.
"I got caught in a net." He put only his head from the water to rest on the fluffy thing Roman had put on the edge of the basin near his head.
"Why didn't Roman dress the wounds?" Remus asked.
"Water."
"Oh yeah. Does the water help?"
"Usually. Going to freshwater helps wounds heal quicker."
"That's good. What's your name, by the way? I can't keep calling you Mermaid." Remus smiled.
"Janus." He liked seeing this human smile.
"Janus. That's a cool name. Like the god?" He nodded. "That's awesome." Janus felt himself slipping. This morning and last night had taken a lot out of him.
"Get some sleep, you look exhausted." Remus assured him. Janus was out before he knew it.
Remus looked over the sleeping mermaid. Roman was going to have a long explanation, he knew. He could just play stupid and pretend he didn't meet him but he didn't know if Janus would talk about him to Roman.
He ultimately decided he was far too tired and laid down in his bed and went to sleep himself, only to get woken up four hours later at eleven by his alarms. He threw his phone at Roman's bed, hitting Roman.
"REMUS!" Roman yelled.
"Be quiet, idiot, the fish is sleeping." He grumbled.
"Y-You met Janus?" Roman asked.
"Of course I met Janus. I showered, didn't I?" Remus sat himself up and sighed as he rubbed his eyes. He got his phone hitting his arm. "Ooooooow." He whined, finally turning his alarm off.
"So Janus told you his name?" Roman asked.
"Yeah. I thought his tail was some big fish tail you bought or something. I guess I tickled him because he hit me in the face with his fin. Kicked? Hit? Probably both. But he's shy so I calmed him down and got him to sleep." Remus explained, pulling a sweater on and judged how badly he had to pee.
"Think he'd mind if I pee or should I bother whoever else knows about him?"
"Bother Virgil." Roman told him.
"You give me too much credit in the annoying others department." Remus told him, leaving their room to go bother Virgil down the hall.
"Hey, emo, I need to use your bathroom." Remus banged on the door. He heard things banging and blankets moving.
"Fine, fine. Come in." Remus opened the door and went straight for Virgil's bathroom, only taking note when he left that Virgil had Remy over and went back to his and Roman's room cackling and near tears in fits of laughter.
"What's so funny?" Roman asked.
"Virgil has Remy over! I interrupted them!" He screeched.
"SHUT UP!" Came from Virgil down the hall.
"Oh my gods, you seriously interrupted them?" Roman asked.
"I didn't know that Remy was over!" Remus cackled.
"I don't think anyone did." Roman justified, trying not to laugh.
"What's happening?" Came Janus' meek voice from the open bathroom door.
"Nothing, Janus." Roman assured him.
"What are you two yelling about?" Logan asked from his room.
"Remus walked in on me and Remy!" Virgil screeched.
"Remus, what possessed you to walk in on them?" Logan asked.
"Not wanting to flash a fish my dick so I could pee?" Remus defended himself.
"Oh yes, our visitor." Logan sighed and pinched his nose.
"Yeah, our visitor." Remus rolled his eyes.
"Fine, fine. Just make sure you apologize to Virgil and Remy once they...finish their activity." Logan walked back to his room.
"What happened Lo?" Patton asked softly when Logan went back toward his room.
"Nothing, Remus terrorizing the good people of this floor again." Logan assured him.
"Okay." Patton ducked back into his room.
"Speaking of fish, how are you, Janus?" Remus asked into the bathroom.
"Are you all done yelling?" He asked, hiding halfway below the water.
"Yes, we're done yelling." Remus assured him.
"I'm fine." He lifted his upper half from the tub and shook his hair. "The water in here's getting a bit bloody, though." He showed them the pink water running through his fingers.
"Sure. Wanna sit on the counter a bit so the tub can drain?" Remus let Janus grab onto him and he got him out with little issue, setting him on a towel on the counter and he began patting his tail dry so the bathroom wouldn't have a wet floor before he set the tub to drain.
"It might take a while." Remus told him. By the time it drained, Janus looked quite comfortable.
"Maybe no water for now?" Janus asked.
"Is that safe?" Roman asked.
"Yeah. My dad can stay dry for days and not dry out. Land-braving is a genetic trait." Janus assured him.
"Alright, then we'll get you as dry as we can and I'll let you take over my bed." Remus offered. Janus nodded and let Remus pat his tail dry and carry him out to his bed to lay down. Janus was asleep before he could even set him down, which made Remus significantly proud as he covered the mermaid with the blanket and let him sleep.
"What do you think he eats?" Janus roused a bit and looked up at Remus with tired eyes.
"Probably fish?" Roman answered, also unsure.
"Well, that's helpful, Roman. He's a fish, why would a fish eat a fish?"
"Because that's how it works?"
"What?"
"Did you not listen in marine biology, Remus? Big fish eat little fish."
"Does that mean he eats his own kind?" Remus asked.
"No, probably not."
"We don't eat each other." Janus grumbled.
"You don't?" Remus asked.
"Different merfolk eat different things. There's not one kind of mer. There's sirens, deep-sea, freshwater, traveler, tropical, probably more I haven't even met. A lot of them eat different things. Fish isn't everyone's choice. I've only heard of deep-sea mer eating other mer."
"Then what do you eat?"
"Mainly plants. But there was this one time when I was little where I got stuck in an old lady's pond that her husband was filling with seawater for their fish and the lady gave me something she called chicken before she helped me back."
"So you like chicken and plants?" Remus asked.
"Yes."
"Alright, chicken and plants. Get some sleep." Remus assured him. Janus turned over and went back to sleeping if the steady rise and fall of the blankets was any indication.
"You stay here with him, I'll get lunch?" Remus asked Roman.
"Sure. Don't be shocked if Virgil punches you on the way out." Roman warned.
"I'm counting on it." Remus told him, taking clothes into the bathroom and changing into jeans rather than his sleep pants. Remus didn't get punched on the way out so he assumed he'd be punched on the way back to his room when he got back.
Remus most certainly didn't know what 'plants' Janus meant but he assumed anything green and watery might do so off to produce. Green and watery meant watercress and lettuce and a bag of mixed vegetables. Salad, done.
Now, something with chicken. Probably best to keep it easy because he would likely be giving it to Janus either raw or undercooked. Chicken soup. Everyone liked it when he made chicken soup and maybe it would make Virgil less mad at him if he promised him soup.
He went about gathering his ingredients, paid, and went home to make lunch. Virgil seemed much less angry once he promised him chicken soup and Janus still seemed to be sleeping so he set up the soup in the pressure cooker. Logan watched in confusion and fascination.
"You're cooking? I thought you were forbidden from it since last month you set the drapes on fire." Logan remarked.
"A salad and a soup isn't going to burn the kitchen down." Remus told him.
"You said that about potatoes being on the stove a month ago." Logan remarked.
"Shut. I'm listening for Roman and Janus." Remus whacked him with paper towels.
"They haven't done anything. I believe Roman is taking a shower. Not really advisable seeing as your visitor stays in the tub." Logan told him.
"Janus actually is staying on my bed for now. Apparently he can stay out of water for some time. Roman's alone in the bathroom." Remus heard the water stop. At least Janus wasn't alone now, someone was guarding him.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Came from their room and Remus put Logan in charge of watching the pot as he bolted to their room.
"What happened?" Remus asked into their room. Roman was dressed but Janus was sitting on his bed, nude, very much without a tail, and visibly confused.
