splash! au steddie where steve meets the merman that he would swear up and down was real when he was little; the little merman he'd see every time his family would visit the coast.
steve, who moves permanently to that (now much bigger, touristy-adjacent) town and runs into (no, literally, smack into) a fully naked (very handsome, holy shit!) man when he's on his way to the little shop he runs on the coast early one morning.
steve gives him his sweater and shuffles the softly smiling (vaugely familiar???) man to the shop and gives him a spare set of clothes that he'd had there from the remodels he did a couple years ago.
the man follows steve around the shop all day, poking around the books and tchotchkes the shop sells, listening to the tourist stories steve tells him, never speaking, until steve closes up early, taking him just outside town to get him some more clothes and such.
at one point while at the store, the man wanders away and steve panics, eventually finding him gazing wonderously at all the screens in the 'home entertainment' section, completely entranced by the multiple screens playing MTV and blaring music through the speakers for sale as well.
He tries to explain the non-speaking-ness of his new friend to the employee trying to close up their part of the store when the man suddenly speaks, "Hi Steve, how was your day?"
The employee ushers them out and the pair leave, walking back into town. Steve asks, "So what's your name, anyway? Did you learn it from the TV?"
The man rolls his eyes, "I had a name before today, sweetheart."
Steve's stomach flips at the term of endearment, assuming it's just a product of whatever commercials he may have seen today, maybe he thought it was a normal thing to call your friend..they are friends, right?
"O-okay, what is it?"
"It's kinda hard to pronounce in english,"
"Try me, I wanna know."
The man gives him a look, but does, squealing out something more suited for something living in the tanks at Sea World than for a person.
He grimaces at Steve's bewildered look, "I told you."
"Uh.. yeah. Well hey! That's okay, we just need to find something else to call you."
"Like what?"
"Well lets see.. There's Andrew?"
"No.."
"Joseph?"
Another no.
"James? Isaac? Brad? Seymour? John?" more and more names and 'no's until they're nearly home (and no closer to a decision). "Wayne maybe? Where are we... Ah! Edmonton." Steve mutters to himself. Only a couple more streets to go.
The name 'Pablo' is on the tip of his tongue when he's stopped by "Edmonton! I like that one."
Steve snorts out a laugh, "Edmonton isn't really a name, it's--" he cuts himself off this time, seeing the horrible kicked puppy look on the other man's face. "Hey, no, okay, Edmonton it is! We'll call you Eddie for short!"
Eddie grins at him so bright and sincere in that moment, that Steve can feel it hit him, and snap something into place inside him.
Lophie + Splash AU (wherein the other one turns into a mermaid when in contact with even the tiniest droplet of water)
Ok, this fits because I actually watched H2O Just Add Water, so this is gonna be easy.
-Sophie is the Magic Girl? Why because it’s teen drama stuff and she’d be the heroine because teen dramas usally are girl starring.
-She can’t sing to save her life though, strange as it is but her superpower is memory and beauty tho all merfolk have this so it’s not exactly limited to her as her semblance
-Lok is the new cute boy in town and a surfer(hey he has ocean in Ireland) and he falls in love with her divine beauty, and tries to get her to talk to him but she has eyes on the hot teacher-Dante. Who however turns out to be engaged so after some time of wishing his wife died in childbirth or accident Sophie finally moves on to Lok, who is cute.
-He is in seventh heaven for that, and asks her to a beach but she’s reluctant because HELLO MERMAID so she proposes another place and they go on couple of dates or whatever, but one day Lok, being the clutz he is splis water on her and sees the tail. Sophie thinks he’d run but he doesn’t and he offers her help. Like he offers he’d help her get to the bottom of it and he’s like Louis in H2o. The mermaid researcher
-They get into lots of crazy adventures, and they swim together. He surfs on his board and Sophie swims below him and sometimes scares him by trying to trip him.
