#mermaid prompt

[thepenultimateword]

Mermaids and Mermen

Happy Mermay!

1. Scientist works at a rehabilitation facility for injured cryptids and creatures. They’re newest addition to the family is a mer, something they’ve never seen at the facility before.

2. The Pirate Captain has always seen mers as pests. If they’re not trying to drown his men, they’re damaging the ship’s hull or throwing them off course. His policy has always been cannon fire or harpoons, but everything changes when he’s is forced overboard by a mutinous crew in the middle of pod of mermaid.

3. Merperson has made a life for themself as a human in the west, far away from the sea that holds the secret of their true form. But when a potion shipment involving sea water prompts them to transform, they must do their best to conceal the truth from the wild west’s many cutthroats and opportunists while searching for a new spell to get their legs back.

4. It’s a royal alliance like any other, a prince and princess arranged in marriage for the peace and good of their kingdoms. Except one is a human and the other a merperson. As the Mer is the heir to the throne, it’s obvious it should be the human who moves to their kingdom. Underwater. The mers assure them that it’s an entirely possible though admittedly painful transformation process.

5. Mer is the property of an underground fighting ring where different sea creatures are pitted against each other for the gambling amusement of the pirates and fisherman that come into port. Mer has become hardened and savage, never hesitating to tear someone or something apart before they get torn apart first. But when a fresh mer is captured, Mer recognizes them, and they’ll do anything to protect them.

6. Mer is the property of an underground fighting ring where different sea creatures are pitted against each other for the gambling amusement of the pirates and fisherman that come into port. Though they’ve become hardened and savage, they have also grown close to one of their competitors. Though they’re forced to fight often, they tend to each others wounds outside the ring and pray their handlers never realize they’re pulling their punches.

7. The villain tries to feed the hero to the captive carnivorous mers swimming beneath their floors. Joke’s on them though, because one of these mers is the hero’s long lost lover and they’ve been looking for them everywhere.

8. When their parents were hunted and killed, a whale type mermaid is adopted by regular mermaids as a baby. Despite the massive—pun intended—accommodations made to shelter them, their adopted family has always been determined to make sure they are loved and taken care of. But that doesn’t stop Mer from having problems with other mers or from wondering about their own kind.

9. A carnivorous mer and a herbivore mer are captured and sold to a collector. Despite their differing instincts and backgrounds, they must rely on each other to find freedom.

10. A mer from the deep sea is washed ashore in a small fishing village. Though their unconventional appearance makes them abhorrent to many of the townspeople, a visiting scholar takes the displaced mer into their home and offers them kindness, as well as a few hundred questions.

[seaside-writings]

Hello, all you lovely people! I'm here with a prompt list for this year's Mermay challenge!

This has always been one of my favorite challenges and I'm super excited to add my own prompts into the mix! So I do hope that this list helps give inspiration wherever it's needed!

Like always if you do use these prompts please credit/tag me so I can see what you've made!

I hope you all stay blessed and safe throughout your day.

Lots of Love & Wishes: Celia 💙🪸🐚🏖

🌊 Sun Glitter 🌊 Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates (Glowing Plankton) 🌊 Marine Life 🌊 Deep Sea 🌊 Seashells 🌊 Sunken Treasure 🌊 Coral Reef 🌊 Shipwreck 🌊 Floating 🌊 Crashing Waves 🌊 Lighthouse 🌊 Shark Tooth 🌊 Bubbles 🌊 Whale Watching 🌊 Currents 🌊 Atlantis 🌊 High Tide 🌊 Submarine 🌊 Kelp Forest 🌊 Abyssal Gigantism 🌊 Diving 🌊 Stormy Seas 🌊 Jellyfish 🌊 Dangerous Waters 🌊 Scales 🌊 Arctic Waters 🌊 Sand Dollar 🌊 Flying Fish 🌊 Triton 🌊 Sandcastles 🌊 Moonglade

[eryniell]

Selkie hymn - personal work

[a-dead-tea]

Writing Prompt #117

A siren who wants to be able to share their music with the world but doesn't want to affect people with their song.

Making nonvocal-based music? Playing their instruments for someone else to sing to?

[esperosisdoeswriting]

Prompt #561

"Wait, you're a mermaid?! I thought you were a vampire!" [Human] shouted.

"Huh??? Why would you think I was a vampire?!" [Mermaid] sputtered in disbelief.

"You have pure white hair and skin, blood red eyes, sharp teeth, and you cringe away from sunlight!" [Human] defended themself, "Those are all very vampire-like traits!"

"I'm a deep-sea mermaid idiot," [Mermaid] scowled. "We don't have sunlight all the way down there so I don't have any melanin in my skin, eyes, or hair!"

[snilla]

Mermay day 2: Upside Down

https://www.instagram.com/smillallart/

[the-beauty-of-the-written-words]

"What's that smell? Like...rotten fish guts."

"Well god," Character A muttered uncomfortably. "Don't pull any punches."

"What?"

"Mermaids molt every once in a while, dumbass. Sorry it doesn't smell like chocolate and roses."

[merprompts]

Mer Prompt #121

Whale mer mates that communicate by sound, separated by oceans yet never once spending the day alone.

[alyssasketchd]

Daughters of Sobeck

[random-shit-writing]

the things you do for love

character A hates the ocean with a passion. they’re terrified of the animals, of drowning, or getting lost at sea. not to mention they also don’t like beaches because of the sand, the ocean water is so salty and it fucks up their hair, and they just hate spending long periods of time in the sun because they either get a sunburn or migraines. basically, they hate everything about it.

HOWEVER, despite having a fierce hate for the ocean, character A visits their local beach almost every day. after all, how else were they going to hang out with their mermaid boyfriend?

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

A guy doing marine research into phytoplankton is far out to sea and waiting for the samples to be ready when he spots a fast-moving ripple in the water up ahead.

Fully aware that this spot is home to a migratory orca pod, he assumes he's stumbled across an orca hunting a seal and settles against the railing to watch, because it's not every day you get to see that.

The ripples get closer, the shadows in the water more defined, the water choppier, and suddenly the orca and its unfortunate prey are zooming directly towards the boat and he's waiting, breath held, for them to duck right underneath--

When the water breaks, the ocean sprays, and he's suddenly smacked fully in the face by a very wet, very confused, and very pretty merman, throwing them both down onto the deck while the boat rocks as a confused and now quite hungry orca dives beneath it.

The merman, it turns out, thought that the boat was an ice float and didn't realise his mistake until it was too late. But he's very thankful for the impromptu rescue, and wow don't you have nice arms, and holy shit you've got legs, can I touch them? Is that weird? Can I touch them anyway? And your hair--

So of course they get to talking because they're both utterly fascinated with the other, and soon the sun has set and the samples are long-since ready and the moonlight is making the ocean look black and they part with the knowledge that they'll never meet again, and a kiss, and a lingering look over the shoulder for all the things that can't be...

And the researcher gets back to land, moors his boat, readies his samples. He packs up his things, shoves them into his bags, and prepares to go home. He steps onto the jetty boards and thinks of the merman and the solid wood beneath his feet seems to sway for more than one reason.

There's a splash. He turns, pulled as if by the tide, and there's a ripple in the water. A face. A pair of eyes made black by the moonlight.

And this is how the researcher acquires a merman boyfriend who helps him find samples and the merman acquires a human boyfriend who rescues him from whales.

[gravitysoda]

nothing but sea foam, in the end

[mossypidder]

FINISHED MY LIST OF PROMPTS, GUYS

If anyone uses these, please feel free to @ me, I’d love to see how people interpret them. I guess you could also just use a tag. #piddermermay I guess? Idk. I’ve never done anything like this before.

[eryniell]

Atlantic Unicorn - personal work

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: The kingdom by the sea is cruel. A captured mermaid being carried through the castle gates briefly caught the eye of a harpy in a cage above, a glance full of rage and compassion.

[maikaartwork]

@xirayn suggested that mer!Eddie learns to speak English the way Starfire did in the Teen Titans universe. It’s THIS scene, if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

They also promised to write a blurb about it if I draw it, so here we are. Mer!Eddie kissing staff member Steve to obtain some language skills, because mermaid magic.