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oxiosa · 2 years

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Look I know we already made a mermaid au with pirates but this is the only month of the year in which I can unapologetically force mermaid content down your throats ok.

@disaster-fruit soo I already mentioned this MerPirateAU before a couple of times and, yes, it still lives in my brain. No, I still don’t have a full plot for it. So I’ve decided to turn it into public domain :D

SO, imagine. 1500s, the old world meets the new world. There’s a whole new lands to pillage explore, riches to be exploited, but this also means there are new cultures to meet and new dangers in the sea. Yes, I'm talking about mermaids.

Now, mermaids are creatures Europeans sailors are familiar with: they hunted them in their seas near to extinction, neutralizing their threat. Mermaid numbers in the old world are scarce, and they avoid men altogether. However, that is not the case for mermaids of this new world. The tribes native to America have always staid out of their way, sans some minor conflicts. Mermaids have no reason to fear men, and they don’t take kindly the arrival of these invadors who claim their seas very much like they are claiming the land.

White men see a threat in the large numbers of mermaids plaguing this new world, find it troublesome how unaffraid and aggressive they are: unlike the merfolk back home, these mermaids do not hesitate to attack, they do not flee, they make a stand and fight and make sailing very dangerous. They don't know their place, and white man shall teach it to them just like they did back home.

Thus, a mermaid hunt begins.

It is a massacre. For many years, mermaid hunters becomes a very profitable career to persue; mermaids are abundant and they pay well for their heads. It’s a battle mermaids dont win, no matter how fiercely they fight back. Once again, merkind is hunted almost to extinction and man claims the sea.

Our first character is Captain Port, a seasoned pirate who came to the new world to exploit its riches. He joined the mermaid hunting fever, and made quite a name for himself, became a legend for his wits and his head count. It was during one particularly vicious raid at a mermaid nest that everything changed for him. Along with his pirate crew, he massacred all the mermaids who staid and fought back and the ones who didnt manage to escape, until only one remained: a female, clinging to a an old treasure chest. Port was the one to make the honors and cut her down and claim the treasure she had been zealously guarding.

Where he expected gold and jewels, he found a merbaby with wild dark curls and big brown eyes.

Port froze, realisation dawning down on him. The infant held his gaze unaffraid, curious. As the moment stretched and Port didnt even breath, the merbaby started whimpering. It seemed only logical for Port to answer to his distressed sounds and pick him up, and he suddenly found himself craddling the merbaby against his chest.

It’d have been so easy to kill it, get rid of it before it turned into a real menace. It would have been the right thing to do; might have looked cute now, but it would eventually grow. But the merbaby cuddled against him, so small and light and fragile. Without giving it too much of a thought, Port took him back to his ship.

Captain Port drops his mermaid hunting days and goes back to good old pirating. He calls the merchild Luciano and he becomes his son, and with the help of his crew he raises him in the pirate's way. Now can you imagine the delightful shenanigans? A bunch of scary pirates raising an adorable yet naughty merkid? Teaching him how to tie knocks and trace routes and read the stars and all that sailing stuff he doesn’t even need ‘cause he is a merman but he is their child so they *will* raise him a proper pirate? Fucking delicious.

Fastforward, Lulu grows to become quite a devilish merman and a dashing pirate. He is Captain Port's secret weapon, the reason he never loses a fight. Lulu swims by his ship, scouts the waters and helps during pirate attacks to navy ships, sinking them by tearing their hull’s board with his claws and ending the unfortunate souls that fall into the sea.

Now, this is where Martín comes in and my story starts to fall apart.

I haven’t decided Tincho’s role quite yet, but the thing is Lulu saves him from drowning. Maybe he was a castaway drifiting away or maybe he was part of a ship they sunk down (i kinda have this visual of Tinchito sinking with the ship caged in one of it's cell, thinking he'll die slowly drifting into oblivion, and Lu rescues him just in time). Either way, Lulu is smittened by him and doesn’t want to let this handsome man die so he takes him to Port’s ship. Port is not thrilled (they are pirates, they dont save people they kill them), but Lu insists and fine, he’ll take the boy.

Martín wakes up and Port makes him earn his stay; he agreed the kid could stay but not for free. Of course they give him the worst jobs and the crew keeps calling him the “Captain’s son’s pet”, which makes no sense 'cause as far as Martín knows the Captain doesnt seem to have a son. It takes him a few frustrating days to finally meet the Captain’s mysterious son, one morning when Lulu climbs to deck to report whatever. Martín is beyond surprised; mermaids are a rare sight, and Luciano looks far from the regular mermaid. Also, perhaps Tincho is a little strucked by how hot he is.

Good news is Lulu is as smittened, if not more. Luciano was raised in this ship by this people, and for all the traveling they do he barely got to meet new people. He's thrilled to have a handsome man whom he doesn't consider family on board, it gives him an opportunity to ~romance~.

So Martín engages in a secret affair with the Captain’s son, except it's not so secret since Port is fully aware and allows it cause well, Lulu is a grown boy and he considers there is no harm in letting his son ehem attend his manly needs. So he lets them meet "in secret" at the ship's bow and pretends he doesnt know Lulu is teaching his newest crew member mermaid biology everynight.

It starts as some nice casual fling between Tincho and Lulu, just fun, but they slowly grow fond of each other. Not quite love, not yet. But a crush, some light influctuation.

And Im not sure but I have this idea of Martín eventually recognising Port, I mean he was a reowned mermaid hunter after all. Tincho confronts him about it, demands to know if Luciano is aware his father and his crew have his kind's blood on their hands, that they are part of the reasons Lulu is of the few mermaids still alive. Of course Luciano doesnt know of his dad's past, and Port intends to keep it that way. So, in cold blood, he stabs this bold fool who was stupid enough to dare confront a ruthless pirate in his own ship. He proceeds to push injured Martín into the sea so the tides might finish the job. When Lulu notices Martín's absence and asks his dad about it, Port simply lies and tells him Martín left or whatever. Lulu is heartbroken; there goes his first crush, just when he was starting to catch feeling and he thought it could have led to more.

And that's all I've got :D I have no idea how Tincho and Lu might meet again, or how/if Lulu will get to learn the truth about his dad. I feel it has some vendetta potential, some "lovers to enemies to lovers again" potential but ngl I dont really have anything else.

#look luciano is the pirate and the mermaid so it's different ok #just imagine merpirate lulu with sick tattoos and cool scars and a bandana and tiny braids in his hair just rocking the pirate look #he's part of the crew too yk might as well look the part #am i implying lulu only saved tinchito to get some? yes. yes i am #surprise brarg wednesday bitch you thought you had seen the last of me #merpirate au #brarg

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wormwonder · 2 years

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