#mer viggo

[mr-business-whump]

colored another @mdoodlerfandomart piece because how could i ever ignore fem vigcup (as mers, to boot)

close ups and alternative version without the water effects below the cut!

[reallyprofoundkryptonite]

Siren!Krogan

[thevividai]

Ight so chat ima just write out my ai bot plans-

Req List -

VanillaCupCakeQueen - Supervillain Wilbur bot

No12345678919- Camp Cretaceous/ Chaos theory bots (also wants you to read a fanfic)

Fnaflesbian - Sbi SH comfort

MountaimEmu - SBI angst (no prompt)

Mossy123302 - Dark adoptive Avian Philza adopts (or kidnaps) avian user

MountaimEmu - vampire sire!sbi Vampire!Techno with a newly turned user

MountainEmu - Fae Dream bot

Bethn0tfoind - Dream catches user escaping exile

H4mst3rl0v3r - Foster!Phil helps with homework + SH comfort with father Phil

ascscarlet - platonic boreal warden gets turned into a little dog thing and gets stuck in the user’s refrigerator

Corvus-ambrosia - Avian Phil version of your Brute Techno bot

Atlasaft35da5k - Superhero Dream Team bots like TCFSV

Moonrise231- BirdDragon Phil finds Tommy and User in eggs takes em home (much to Techno’s displeasure) and adopts them

Flametheguywhonooneknows - SquidKid hires the user to spy on Techno and vice versa

Obviously the reqs

Then what i wanna make

- Hybrid Foster AU

- Werewolf!user foster au

- Twilight final battle

- chaos theory s2 on the boat

- Chaos theory s2 as the user as red

- chaos theory s1 with user at the cargo hold thing

- drago’s bewilderbeast (now named Gladiator) comfort + trauma recovery

- User as Drago’s abused bewilderbeast but as a baby

- Human!user in a dragon nest (httyd)

- Vampire Dream with a human user

- Shinobu and Kyojuro tsugoku bots

- Foster sbi au with new foster user

- User gets kidnapped by Viggo

- User is another stormcutter

- Training with the dragon riders

- Avian traumatized tommy getting preened

- Maybe Mer kny au?

- Other dsmp c!s in my mer au

- More ATLA / TOH bots

- Hellion Egion Garra and Verdant bot

- Aizawa comfort bot

- User takes Midoryia’s place in the vigilante arc

-Fae user abused human boy Tommy

- Vampire Wilbur from my fic

- More Warrior cats bots (maybe ocs?)

- Wings of fire bots

- Dragon Auction

- User is a rescued dragon

- The Sea Beast bots

- More mer bots (i have mer brainrot helppp)

- foster sbi bot based off Boy In The Bubble by Alec Benjamin

- Fun in the snow emerald duo bot

- Abandoned baby dragon Tommy bot

- Same as the one above but with Tubbo Ranboo Purpled and Eryn

- Northern Markets bot

- Maybe an httyd oc bot?

- Dinosaur user bot for CC and CT

- Drago’s bewilderbeast user (my baby needs love dangit.)

- Lore accurate cos bots

- Flying with Hiccup

- Doing trust falls with dragons

- Kokushibo fluff

- Toothless!user under the bewilderbeasts control

- Spirit the horse bots

- Vampire!Quackity bloodbag!user

- A bot based off Thats Like a Hundred miles

- A bot based off Rise again, little fallen star

- a bot based off my new raccoon brother (I LOVE THIS FIC SO MUCH OMGNWISHEJSJSABSJSJWKSKSNSNSJENSN)

So many bots based off fics-

- Eret comforts baby bewilderbeast!user after Drago punishes them (IHATETHATWORDIAMTOOPOLITETOSAYSOMUCHIWANTTOSKINHIM.)

- Toothless user when Hiccup fights HookFang in the ring

- Tubbo!user with Quackity and Schlatt fighting as a married toxic couple

- Human user gets kidnapped by very uneducated on humans Sbi aliens

If i think of any others (ive been keeping all these bot ideas in my head exclusively) i’ll add it into this later :p

[evilwriter37]

mmm now i'm just thinking like. au where snotlout becomes mermaid in water. mainly bc i envisioned like. him tied up and suspended upside down in the air, helpless, being sprayed with water every so often to keep him from drying out all the way and turning back into a human. perfect for making sure he can't escape.

actually apply that to all the riders. make them all h2o just add water-style mermaids. group mermaid sex curse. let hiccup try to drown viggo he deserves a good drowning attempt at his mortal enemy

Lol, I was actually so into mermaids and H20 as a preteen! Like, it was very much a special interest for me!

So, I’m definitely here for the Riders being mermaids in that sense, where they can walk on land but turn whenever they get wet. All of them having that curse is such a fun thought. I love that for them!

And yes, Snotlout whump! Tie him up and make him suffer!

Also, I love the thought of mer-Hiccup attempting to drown Viggo. It’s a very good thought!

[just-a-little-silly]

Wizardess Heart Ocs!

(Okay soo technically they’re multifandom but I’m hyperfixated on them in WH so I just drew how I picture them for it :3)

These would be their casual outfits i think????…did i get ridiculously carried away? yeah. as usual.

Anyways here’s some stuff about them:

• They’re rly just a tight-knit group of girls trying to make it through the school year of their magic academy :P

• Měi Líng and Safiya are humans but Lynn is a siren, Yessenia is a nymph, Kajal is fae and Abena…well no one knows what Abena is. She’s never said anything about it and all the girls know not to ask-

• As for their main ships: Měi Líng is w/ Leslie, Kajal is w/ Zeus, Safiya is w/ Elias and Yessenia is w/ Viggo^^ Lynn and Abena don’t have partners as of now

• Měi Líng, Kajal and Abena are Night Class students while Yessenia, Safiya and Lynn are Day Class students

• Kajal and Yessenia are childhood friends! Their families have been close for several centuries, Safiya and Lynn are also childhood friends though their families don’t really know each other too well

• Lynn is royalty! She’s the youngest princess of her kingdom under the sea. Yessenia and Kajal both come from aristocratic families, Měi Líng was raised in a military household, Safiya was raised in a peaceful village and again, no one really knows anything about Abena’s past-

• Also fun thing I wanted to note: Lynn’s fin design thing on her outfit is actually what her tail looks like!! (Shes a siren so she has a mer form skjakak and yeahh)

I can’t think of anything else to blab about as of now😭 Maybe I’ll make a more detailed post for each of them at a later time^^

[ind1exo]

[ How I Pronounce WH Characters' Names ]

Elias Goldstein: (2017) El-li-yahs Gold-steen; (Now) El-li-yis Gold-steen

Yukiya Reizen: (2017) Yu-kai-yah Rey-zin; (Now) Yu-key-ya Rey-zin

Luca Orlem: Lu-ka Or-lem

Klaus Goldstein: Claus Gold-steen

Randy March: Ran-dee March

Azusa Kuze: Uh-zu-sa Ku-zay

Joel Crawford: (2017) Johl Crawford; (Now) Jo-el Crawford

Vincent Knight: Vincent Night

Leon: Leon

Cerim Leiado: Ser-im Lay-ah-do

Guy Brighton: Guy Brai-tin

Glenn Qing: Glenn King

Leslie Roseblade: Les-lee Rose-blade

Sigurd Curtis: Sih-gurd Kur-tis

Mel Glover: Mehl Glow-ver

Zeus Brundle: Zeus Brun-dul

Hiro Tachibana: He-ro Tah-chi-ba-na

Alfonse Goldstein: Al-fonse Gold-steen

Caesar Raphael: See-zar Ra-fai-el

Lucious Duller: (2018) Luh-cious Dul-ler; (Months ago) Lu-see-is Dul-ler; (Now) Lu-cious Dul-ler I've taken years of vacations off the game twice so that's why the timeline is drastic

Hugo Peers: Hue-go Peers

Hisoka Hagakure: He-so-ka Ha-ga-ku-rae

Willem V. Rembrandt: Will-em V. Rem-brant

Nox Noir: Nohx No-ar

Rex Blanc: Rehx Blahnk

Gray: Gray

Ted: Tehd

Lars Lagrene: Lars Lah-gren

Clive Lagrene: Clive Lah-gren

Florin Arden: Floor-in Ar-den

Albert Auburne: Ahl-bert Au-burn

Light Fildora: Light Fill-dora

Felix: Feel-lix

Viggo: Vih-go

Vain: Vain

Zett: Zeht

Augustus Cole: Au-gist-us Kole

Scarlett Quinn: Skar-let Quin

Randolph: Randolph

Conrad Schuyler: Cohn-rad Sk-huy-ler (It's hard to tell how his last name is actually pronounced...)

Loran Merkulova: Low-ran Mer-ku-lova

Thanatos: Than-na-tohs

Lacan: Lah-kan

Carbuncle: Car-bun-kle

Eress: Air-ess

Ronnie: Rah-nee

Chica: Chi-ka

Mischa: Mees-cha (Surprisingly, since my accent is supposed to make me say Mihs-cha like mischievous)

Chocolate Cake (Coco): I just call him Coco because saying the whole name is a pain. Luca reference

Nidhogg: Nihd-hog

Shu: Shoo

[malinbrink]

2023

Krig och elände. Bilder på olyckliga barn. I Sverige, i världen. Och bilder på mina barn, de lyckliga. Det är en privilegierad ångest som sammanfattar hur jag känt i år. Skammen av att tillslut ta bort sociala medier, för att hjärtat inte orkar mer. Skammen av tryggheten och otillräckligheten.

Det är svårt att skriva om 2023 som ett lyckligt år. Det har varit för mycket skit som hänt, även om det inte har hänt mig. För i vårt lilla radhus i Bandhagen har lycka funnits. Zakarias har lämnat bebislivet bakom sig. Viggo kan skriva sitt namn och räkna till 15. De leker tillsammans, bråkar, kramas och älskar. Ivan är hälsan själv, jag är avundsjuk. Men 2024 ska jag sluta tänka och börja göra. Jag ska bli stark. Jobbet har varit fint, men med rastlösheten som skugga. Nu har jag hittat någonting nytt, hur det blir visar sig i nästa kapitel.

Jag drömmer om fred när jag lägger mig. Att alla barn får somna tryggt hos sin mamma och pappa. Att diktatorer, terrorister och annat ont folk byter sida till den goda eller löses upp som ånga och försvinner ut i atmosfären. Det har varit många tuffa år. Och det är nog nu. Nästa år ska kärleken vinna. God Jul och Gott Nytt Fredligt År

[hiccupbutpurple]

Mer-Ruffnut AU

Basically a crack fic where Ruffnut is a mermaid AU I used to act out as a child (about 8-10 years old lol)

She is actually like Tuff’s 4th cousin or something in this (cause drama happened) but her mermaid mum needed to protect her so sent her to Berk where Tuff’s parents agreed to take her in as their own. She was about 6 years old and got her memory erased. No one on Berk questioned it (maybe cause magic i guess) but years later she realises she isn’t from Berk and tries to find out where she’s from.

On the cool side she got a sickass mermaid reveal while in a battle and could control the seas and skies, glowing gold eyes and her hair floofs up. Picture the Ariel on the rock scene but she’s in the air with a bunch of water and storms and hair around her. She saves the gangs lives from some sea monster thing and then transforms into a mermaid and everyone is like ‘wow’ - also Kendall from Big Time Rush showed up, I think he had either a music talent or ore control (that could’ve been another character tho), and Percy Jackson helped her too.

(Disconnected but when I was maybe closer to 10 I added that she had been in an orphanage originally and there’s a plot where she stumbles upon that random orphanage….don’t know where I was going with that plot tbh.)

I also think later she like drowned Viggo or something when I started watching rtte.

I used to act this out on my trampoline or on the swing set or scooting up and down my driveway…now I pace around.

TLDR: Ruffnut is no ordinary girl, she’s from the deep blue underworld

[issy5316]

:0 since requests are open maybe mer!Krogan and human viggo?

sorry i took so long to make this,school is a bitch,but here it is!

the strange human on the beach by lizardkiller for MaeaStorm

[mr-business-whump]

riding currents together 💙🌊

another @mdoodlerfandomart vigcup mermay piece <3 closeup and alternative version below the cut!

[reallyprofoundkryptonite]

Krogan ship requests!

Anyways um. Perhaps some holiday-themed requests? Feel free to send in any you can think of. I don’tt much care for what Krogan ship they are but I am kind of feeling either Kroggo (Viggo x Krogan) or Krocup! (Hiccup x Krogan).

It does not have to deal with holiday themed because I might wanna write some mer!krogan stuff but I may include lycanwing!Krogan in your request if you ask:)

If you want something easy just give me a title and a small blurb that’s like a sentence long for me to go off of

[lilliths-not-just-httyd-blog]

hiccup: *fucks something up*

hiccup: oh, fuck me 💢

viggo:

how different y'all reckon rtte would have turned out if characters were allowed to say "fuck"

[overlookedfile]

MasterList - Alfred Molina

My Fiction - Alfred Molina Characters

Author’s Note: Life sucks. I’m sorry that I don’t know when anything is going to update. :-/

Updated: 2024.06.24

This is to help keep a list for me of what I’m working on, need to work on, what I’ve done, etc. A sort of accountability chart, if you will.

For brevity’s sake, I’ve moved everything under a cut.

Listed Alphabetically by Fandom (”The” ignored in titles that start with)

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Chocolat - Comte de Reynaud

Temper Us in Fire - WiP - Chapters 7 of 8 (Updates on SUNDAYs) - Latest 2024.03.10

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Da Vinci Code, The - Bishop Manuel Aringarosa

Sins of the Father - WiP (not posted)

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Dudley Do-Right - Snidely Whiplash

The Bad Guy - WiP (not posted)

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Frida - Diego Rivera

Artistry - WiP (not posted)

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How to Train Your Dragon - Viggo Grimborn

By Definition, A Bounty - WiP - Chapter 23 of ? - Latest 2024.06.24

Gamesmanship - Complete - Posted 2022.04.15

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Identity - Dr. Malick

Roadhead - WiP (not posted)

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Imposters, The - Sir Jeremy Burtom

Days of Yore - WiP (not posted)

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Indiana Jones series - Satipo

“Para Mi” Series (Posted Order)

Legendary Reputations - Complete - Posted 2022.07.21

Writing a New History - WiP (not posted)

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Law & Order - Gabriel Duvall

Calibrations - WiP (not posted)

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Law & Order: LA - Ricardo Morales

“12 Hours” Series (Chronological Order)

Motive  - Complete - Posted 2022.05.13

Means - Complete - Posted 2022.05.14

Opportunity - Complete 2022.05.24

Suspicions - Complete - Posted 2022.05.10

Intrigues - Complete - Posted 2022.05.12

Consensus - Complete - Chapters: 1 , 2 , 3  - Completed 2022.05.27

Precedent - Complete - Posted 2022.05.29

Corruption - Complete - Posted 2022.06.10

Crime & Court - WiP - Chapters 2 of ? - Updated 2022.07.04

Overruled - WiP (not posted)

Accomplices - WiP (not posted) 

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Love is Strange - George Garea

Arts & Sciences - WiP (not posted) - expansion on this drabble

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Man Who Knew Too Little, The - Boris Blavasky

Retirement - WiP - Chapters: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 - Updated 2022.05.07

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Maverick - Angel

"When the Cards are Down" Series (Chronological Order)

A Good Run of Bad Luck (Omega!Angel au) - Chapters 8 of ? (Updates on THURSDAYs) - Updated 2022.08.18

Desperado -WiP (not posted)

Untitled (Modern AU) - WiP (not posted)

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Monday Mornings - Harding Hooten

Trust Fall (Alpha!Harding au) - WiP (not posted)

Donor Compatibility - WiP (not posted)

Untitled (Vampire AU) - WiP (not posted)

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Moon and the Stars, The - Davide Riete

Miraculous Mistakes - WiP (not posted)

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Nervous Energy - Ira Moss

Kiss Me Again - Complete - Posted 2022.05.03

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Nothing Like the Holidays - Edy Rodriguez

Not a Moment Too Soon - WiP (not posted)

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Pete’s Meteor - Hugh Wheldon

Bound and Determined - WiP (not posted)

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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero - Rippen

Part-Time Lessons - WiP (not posted)

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Pink Panther 2 - Randall Pepperidge

Dickmatized - WiP (not posted)

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Prince of Persia - Sheik Amar

The "D" in "Desert" series (chronological order)

Distraction - Complete - Posted 2022.10.23

Determination

Disinhibition

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Scorpion Spring - Denis Brabant

The Green & The Pink - WiP (not posted)

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Show Me a Hero - Hank Spallone

The Best of a Bad Situation - WiP (not posted)

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Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The - Maxim Horvath

Unexpected Inspiration - Complete - Chapters 1 , 2 - Completed 2022.05.11

“Arcane Opus” series - (Chronological Order)

Artificier’s Lullaby - WiP (not posted)

Apprentices’ Chorus - WiP (not posted)

Mirror’s Verse (prologue) - Complete - Posted 2022.08.05

Sorcerer’s Nursery Rhyme - WiP (not posted)

Child’s Coda - WiP (not posted)

Soundtracks - WiP (not posted)

Follow the Leader - WiP (not posted) - expansion on this drabble

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Species - Dr. Stephen Arden

CrossCultural Studies - WiP (not posted)

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Spider-Man - Dr. Otto Octavius / Doc Ock

Stolen Paradise - WiP - Chapters 4 of ? - Updated 2022.07.08

LoveCraft (mer!Otto au) - WiP - Chapters 1 - ? - Updated 2022.06.11

Kintsugi - WiP (not posted)

Natural Triptych (Mutation AU & College AU) - WiP (not posted)

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Three Pines - Armand Gamache

The Path to Perfect (Isn’t a Straight Line) - WiP (not posted)

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Undertaking Betty - Boris Plots

The Cold that Bites - WiP (not posted)

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When Pigs Fly - Marty

Collared - WiP (not posted)

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Multi-Character Collections -

Croissants - WiP (not posted) - Inspired by this post

Inhuman Relations - WiP (not posted) - inspired by past kinktober prompts

Counterparts - WiP (not posted) - expansion on this drabble

Tumblr Prompts / Requests

AO3 / Tumblr - AO3 Chapter 1 is a Master List with details. Tumblr is a list linking to original Tumblr post for each prompt. 

[monstersandmaw]

Here's story number four for Mermay! How did that come round so quickly? This time we have 5k words of budding friendship and fluff when we meet a kindred spirit on a remote island nature reserve where we've been posted as a ranger for the week. We meet some actual orcas, weather a nasty storm, and get chatting to Viggo who lives and hunts in and protects the waters around the island. It was supposed to have a female reader, but when I read it back, there was no indication of gender, so I left it as is. If you're looking for the kind of weather/storm/landscape I'm imagining for this, this video from Fair Isle, Shetland, basically covers it.

Thanks for being such an engaging and lovely bunch of patrons, and I hope you enjoy this latest offering!

Chunky preview:

“Yer gonna be in for a storm in a few days,” the old fisherman grunted as he steered the craft through glass-smooth seas, across the yawning channel to the remote mound of rock and grass that rose like a sea-monster’s back from the depths. Dark, imposing rock, sheer cliffs, miles of deep, wild ocean, and no company but the wheeling birds through an endless, blue sky; it was about as remote a place as you’d ever been for work, and you grinned at him.

It wasn’t that you didn’t believe him - on the contrary; if anyone would know, it would be the wizened, scar-knuckled old selkie whom the Bird Conservancy had hired to take you out to the reserve, miles off the coast of the mainland. He was grim and gruff, with wild white hair like sea foam atop his head and quick dark eyes that twinkled with hidden mischief. That was the first thing he’d said to you in the whole forty minutes you’d been out on the water with him.

“I’ll be careful,” you said, but he shot you a look that said he didn't think you knew how to be careful out here on the ocean. “You think it’ll be a quick storm? I’m only supposed to be there for a week…” The fisherman didn’t respond, and you found yourself rabbiting on to fill the suddenly awkward silence. “I mean,” you added, tapping one of the four plastic crates of gear that surrounded you, “I’ve got enough supplies here for a fortnight, and the previous ranger always leaves something too, so I’m sure I’ll be alright if someone can’t come and get me, but still…” Eventually you did peter off into silence, but the old selkie didn’t fill it with any contributions of his own.

Instead he leaned into the tiller and guided his craft expertly between the currents that flowed inexorably along at deceptive speeds, making the sea seem about to boil in places, just beneath the glassy surface. It was eerie, thinking about the power of the water and how you were as out of your element here as many of the merfolk would be in the middle of a landlocked city.

The number of birds in the blue sky soon began to pick up as you neared the looming island, but while you were staring up at them, the selkie grunted something at you.

“Hmm?” you asked, attention snapping back to him. “What is it?”

“Look’ee there,” he chuckled, pointing a gnarled, brown finger out over the water behind you. “Perfect day for ‘em to play.”

Turning, you gasped as you saw the tall, unmistakable silhouettes of three orca cutting through the water like chef knives through butter. One male, one female, and probably one young one between them. Plumes of spray rose intermittently from their blow holes with a soft puff. You couldn’t tell from that distance whether they were the animals or the merfolk who resembled them, but regardless, the easy economy of their movements and the coiled power harboured in their muscular bodies was enough to make you shiver and stare. If the selkie was bothered by their presence, he didn’t show it, and they left the little craft alone as he continued to steer it up towards the concrete jetty at the base of the cliff.

“I suppose you can’t pull up here in rougher seas,” you commented, instantly regretting the banality of the comment and focusing instead on readying your stuff as much as you could without standing up. You didn’t fancy embarrassing yourself in front of him any further by overbalancing and tipping backwards into the deep blue sea.

He didn’t speak immediately, but he nodded, working his jaw as if trying to remember how to form words for a moment, and then said, “Anything rougher ‘an this, ‘n we don’t bring you landfolk out ‘ere at all.”

“That’s… probably for the best,” you grinned and to your surprise, he gave a rasping laugh, somewhere between the bark of a seal and a smoker’s cough.

“Aye. You take care now,” he said as he held the boat steady for you while you heaved the four crates of gear and your rucksack of clothes off and then clambered out without very much grace.

“Will do. And thank you,” you smiled as his fingers loosed the knot again, acting almost without thought, and he turned the craft around. It answered him as if it were an extension of himself, cruising away through the water like a marlin and as you stood there and watched, it caught the attention of the orca.

Still motionless on the dock, you watched in horror as they accelerated and began to stalk the craft. Fear rose in your throat for the grizzled old selkie, and you stepped forwards, as helplessness crushed you from the inside. Were they drawn to him because of his supernatural connection to seals; to the creatures they hunted? Only when one of them breached the surface did you see that they were the animals and not the merfolk. The fisherman didn’t react to them though, and continued to cut his craft through the water, making for the mainland, but you were certain that the big male was going to land on top of the boat and smash it to kindling each time he reared up and crashed down beside it.

A moment later, a fourth orca joined them; a male with a long, blade-like dorsal. Or at least, you thought it was another orca until the newest arrival also breached the water and you saw a merman with a huge harpoon in one hand. Was he planning on attacking the selkie? Or the orca? Morbidly transfixed, you hurried to the end of the jetty to watch.

The merman, you noticed as he breached again, had only one arm, his right ending in a stump just above his elbow. Scenarios involving the champing jaws of orca began to play in your mind. Did he hunt the orca then? Mystified, you stayed rooted to the spot and stared.

As you continued to watch, it seemed as though the merman was driving the orca off the boat with just his body, and eventually they turned and headed off down the wide sound. The selkie continued on towards the mainland, waving a hand at the merman, who gave one last spectacular breach, body smacking down on the smooth surface of the sea to give a huge spraying slap, and then he disappeared beneath the water.

An unsteady breath escaped you and you stepped back, turning wide-eyed from the scene. The unexpected drama left you surprisingly shaky, and the switch-back cliff path which wound up from the beach-level dock to the top of the island seemed almost insurmountable, especially with all your gear. Taking a moment to enjoy the sunshine in the shelter of the little cove, and to let the adrenaline drain out of you, you dug out your thermos flask and a cereal bar from your rucksack, and plonked yourself down onto one of the sturdy crates. It felt a bit like a fainting couch to a Victorian lady, and you snickered at the thought as you reclined on the decidedly uncomfortable box.  

After no more than five minutes, a lone dorsal fin rose steadily the water, followed by a short puff of air through an orca’s blow hole, and your eyes locked onto it instantly. Whatever they were - mer or animal - they were fast approaching, and you swallowed, wondering if it was the merman come to harpoon you for lunch. The more rational side of your brain told you that he’d just protected the selkie, so it was unlikely that he’d come after you. But then again, you were one of the landfolk - a human no less - and in many countries, your kind hunted merfolk down for sport. How was he to know that you were here to protect and not persecute?

Before your panic could gather much momentum, the orca mer swam into the crystal clear waters of the cove and poked his head above the water. His hair was black with a streak of white at his forelock, and the skin of his upper half was a patchwork mixture of monochrome, though largely greyish white. On his face he had two patches of dark skin over his cheekbones and around his eyes. The irises of his eyes, you noticed as he blinked at you for a moment, were almost red, though also shot through with pale blue, and he was strikingly handsome.

“Hi,” you chirped nervously, swilling the cloying remnants of your cereal bar down with a huge, too-hot gulp of tea and trying not to choke.

You can read the whole thing right now for just $1 over on my Patreon, and gain access to exclusives from both Mermay and previous months!

[adamads]

“Viggo sentit les larmes perler au coin de ses yeux tant la douleur était intense. Elle pulsait sous son crâne comme si chaque coup menaçait de défoncer sa boîte crânienne. Il avait si mal que même ses cris s’étranglaient dans sa gorge. 

L’ombre sembla soupirer et il sentit une main d’une fraîcheur bienvenue se poser sur son front, ses longs doigts fins comme des pattes d’araignée cherchant des points spécifiques sur son visage. La douleur le quitta comme la mer se retire des côtes après la marée. Son corps s'affaissa, agréablement gourd, sur le sol froid de la grange. A travers la main posée sur son front comme un voile de ténèbres, il commença à distinguer les traits de l’ombre, sa peau hâlée, ses yeux d’un bleu surréalistes, ses cheveux encore plus noirs que les siens, ses oreilles pointues. A mesure que sa vision se précisait, il devinait également les traits de son visage et les tatouages bleus et noirs fluorescents qui habillaient ses bras, son dos et sa nuque et transparaissaient sous ses vêtements. 

-Tu as vieilli, fit-il dans un souffle, aussi bas qu’il l’osa.  

-Tout comme toi, lui fit remarquer l’ombre.  

Ces yeux, songea Viggo. Il avait pu presque tout oublier de sa vie avant les herbes, mais il n’avait jamais pu oublier ces yeux bleu phosphore. De toutes les créatures qu’il avait jamais connu, aucune n’en avait de pareils. Ils luisaient dans l’ombre comme des joyaux dans un écrin d’obscurité. 

Il retira sa main et Viggo se redressa précautionneusement, craignant un ressac de douleur qui ne vint pas. 

-J’ai fait des progrès, lui annonça l’ombre comme s’il avait deviné ses pensées. 

Viggo hocha la tête. De toute évidence, songea t-il.”

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So this hände.

2024: Jobbade på ICA. Inte i kassan. På Banken. Gillade det inte. Bytte igen. Landade på en reklambyrå med värme. Känns som hemma. Trivs som fisken. Här ska jag stanna länge, länge. Mer? Z blev två år och Viggo blev fyra. Sen gifte vi oss, jag och Ivan. 10 år blev ett I do i Stadshuset och en håll käften-fest med trerätters och karaoke. Jag hade en otrolig klänning, otroligt hår, otroligt kul. Blev för full. Ivan med. Vad gör det. Dagen efter var nästan bättre. Vi hämtade barnen, tog bilen till stranden och njöt av årets sista bad. September tog slut och livet tog fart. Jag jobbar mer än någonsin just nu, och det är precis så jag vill ha det. Aldrig känt mig så kreativ. Det är fint.