Little Mermaid AU
Or I guess more LM inspired? An idea I don’t know if I’ll do, it’s a fun idea but not one I feel passionate enough to do. Maybe sometime? But if anyone wants to tackle it instead, go ahead.
So...
Mers and humans have a neutral dislike to each other.
Mers are said to either lead humans astray or drown them.
Humans are said to capture mer and keep them as exotic pets, or take them with the intent to get their lovely scales.
And both are described to be very vain, willing to kill for treasure.
Either way, both races are warned to stay away from the other.
Marinette is a rare sea witch, anything she makes brings the wearer good luck and has a rejuvenating power in her touch.
Her power is well known enough that King Andre seeks to have her be apart of his court, and desires for her to help his daughter Princess Chloe rule when she takes the throne (they don’t get along though).
Marinette likes to slip out into the open ocean, gather materials to make her lucky trinkets.
This trip, she slips out during a coming storm; same as a lonely Adrien is running away from home slips out onto rough waters, missing the signs of the coming storm.
The storms overwhelms Adrien and he’s tossed under the waves unconscious, giving Marinette quite the fright when the water shoved him right next to her.
It is pure instinct that pushes Marinette to save him.
And once he’s safe on shore and breathing, she has a few minutes of relief before it clicks in her head what she just did.
She saved a human.
She saved a human.
That is one of the biggest no’s no’s in the mer kingdom! (maybe just go ahead and call it Paris? idk)
AND SHE SAVED A HUMAN.
Marinette has her freak out, afraid she may get kicked out of the kingdom and will have to live alone like most other sea witches (they usually live alone because of abuse power).
Unconscious Adrien moves and Marinette has a start, calming down and actually taking this human in.
This is her real first time being close to a human, she’s seen them at a distance, with Alya dragging her and Nino up to the surface to watch humans from afar, live on the edge of danger; but this human didn’t seem dangerous.
He was actually kind of handsome for a human, and she gives into her curiosity instead of her caution and explores him.
But her probing (looking at ears and eyes) rouses Adrien and he catches sight of a mer looming over him.
Cue Adrien freak out cause he’s heard so many stories about mers and there was one with him.
Marinette gets scared and flees back into the water, going as far away as possible and doesn’t calm down till she felt she was far away enough. Then she reassures herself. No one knows she saved a human. She wasn’t going to see that human again. She was undeniably curious, but she should just let the current take this episode away.
She was not going to see that human again and just go on living life.
Only, Adrien was still frozen, his mind locked on the mythical being he saw, a being that didn’t kill him like so many warned they would, a being that saved him.
Adrien was intrigued and curious.
And he always followed his curiosity.
Cue Adrien trying to refind that mer.
And to do so, probably comes across the sea witch Hawkmoth who was kicked out of the mer kingdom and wants to rule it. He makes a deal with Adrien, he’ll turn him into a mer in return for... I guess his voice but I don’t know if voice would be a good choice? Maybe?
This is pretty how far I got on this idea, with mer!Adrien refinding Marinette and her having an internal freak out cause yes, that human came back into her life and he’s a mer for some reason and he doesn’t know mer customs and this is a huge mess with Adrienette slow burn.
What happens hence forth... I dunno. This is the basics I have for a LM inspired fic. It’s on my maybe list atm. If anyone wants to tackle the idea, all I ask is that you let me know, I’d like to see it.