requested — cw: pirate!mizu x mermaid!reader, mostly sfw, slight nsfw at the end, slight mentions of drowning and (head) injuries, talk about hallucinations (but no actual ones), obsessive behavior, wet dreams, wc: ~890
pirates and mermaids have lived alongside each other for so long, nobody sailing the seas remembered it ever being different. but despite their proximity, the two species rarely interacted.
mermaids usually kept to themselves, avoiding human ships and observing from a distance. and pirates? well, they had their business to take care of.
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pirate!mizu who has heard stories and rumors about mermaids ever since she stepped foot on her first ever ship. she didn't believe any of it at first, thought it'd be just another old myth spun from boredom at sea.
pirate!mizu who could swear she catches glimpses of iridescent scales in the waves from time to time. nothing out of the ordinary, though. right? there's lots of big shiny fish in the ocean after all. even though those fins do seem larger than any fishes' she's aware of.
pirate!mizu whose ship is caught in a brutal storm; deck flooded and sails ripped by the sheer force of the whipping winds. the battle is good as lost before it even properly begins, mizu knows that. she's never seen this much water hurdling from the skies, never seen waves this high.
pirate!mizu who must've hit her head hard while running onto the deck to help the crew. one second she's focusing on not slipping on the wet wood beneath her boots, next thing she knows, her vision is going black as she hears somebody scream her name.
pirate!mizu who wakes up drenched, freezing, and with a pounding headache. it takes her longer than she'd like to admit to come to her senses. somewhat. at least enough to register the heavy raindrops still hitting her clammy skin and the solid — rock? she's laying on.
pirate!mizu who only notices the heavy weight on her chest when she starts coughing up water from her lungs.
once the stars bursting across her field of vision fade, she looks down and sees a... mermaid? looking up at her through wet lashes. gods, she must've hit her head really hard if she's hallucinating like this. this mermaid looks a little too convincing to just be a hallucination, though.
pirate!mizu who grows more skeptical whether you actually are just the result of a hard smack to the head the longer she keeps staring at you. you're not part of her crew, that much is clear, and you do look very human. at least above the waist.
below, there's a shiny, scaled tail with fins like the ones a tropical fish might have, in place of legs. so not exactly human, then. there's scratches along the length of your tail, and some littering your arms.
pirate!mizu who is just about to ask you about those wounds when you seemingly decide that you've had enough of this random, half-drowned pirate you saved, and disappear into the water to save yourself from being thrown around by the crashing waves any more.
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pirate!mizu who had to find a new crew, a new ship, and new money, after realizing her old one probably drowned during that damn storm. luckily for her, that rock she'd found herself on wasn't too far away from a shore for her swimming skills.
even more luck that it's not some desolate island with no inhabitants save for some monkeys and birds but an actual town complete with a port, small as it is.
pirate!mizu who just can't get you out of her head. no matter how much she tells herself that she must've imagined you, the dreams just won't stop. it's like she's falling under a siren's spell, something she's always denied the existence of. but the truth is, she'd never seen a creature as beautiful as you before.
it must've been her dizzy mind messing with her, because nobody could possibly be that enchanting. especially not to someone like mizu, who prided herself with being above such foolish and useless things as crushes.
pirate!mizu who must truly be losing her mind, because she could swear she keeps seeing flashes of shimmering scales in the water at the port she frequents in her search for a new crew to join. the bright shimmer sends her straight back to that stormy night; the way you had looked at her; the way your scales had felt against her torn clothes.
pirate!mizu who starts searching for you; her obsession with you fueled by the increasingly lewd dreams of you that have her waking up sweaty and aching. she lingers by the beach, the port — any body of water connected to the sea.
her heart does a strange flip behind her ribs each time she catches a glimpse of you. it feels like it stops beating completely whenever your eyes meet hers for but a second before you disappear back into the waves.
pirate!mizu who convinces herself that one day the two of you will find yourselves as close as you'd been on that rock again; just without a storm haunting the skies above and sea below. one night, it'll be your fingers slipping between her legs to find her wet and warm instead of her own ones. or that's what mizu tells herself when her thighs spasm to the thought of you each night.
how I be heartbroken when I've repeatedly prayed for the same thing but vi, mizu and adult toph still havent cracked me in that crunchy ahh foursome (I'm a girl)
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