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Bargain Of Blue by noirruby for wronghuntress
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Nov 2025
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“What’s this for?” He asked, inspecting the sand dollar closely. Maybe it would blow up in his face.
The mermaid cleared her throat, and looked away. “It’s payment. For helping me,” she mumbled.
Ekko raised a brow. Normally, he’d be more charitable, but his sleep-deprived mind was in control. “Pretty sure they’re only valuable underwater?”
The mermaid snorted, slightly disgusted with him, he could tell. “If you ever need help, snap it in half, and it’ll come.”OR:
Ekko was always convinced he would become a sailor and make the sea his home. A dream that died the moment his mother drowned on a voyage, lost to storm-tossed waves. He now lives on the edge of Zaun, operating the little lighthouse that guides ships home. That was the most he would ever love the water. That was the closest he would get to the sea.
Until one day, he saves a mermaid….
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Worn down from years of strife as the last of her kind, Madison once believed happiness was far from reach. Everything begins to change when she meets a man called the Doctor. As secrets and sorrows are shared between them, the pair finds comfort together amidst the stars. Madison can only hope that this time things will be different, even if the universe has other plans for her.
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Anduin Wrynn had pretty much been confined to Stormwind City his entire teenage life so far, yearning for adventure onboard the multiple ships that come and go from their port. He heard stories from the sailors that returned with his father, and he had read so much of the world, just to never have been allowed to witness it with his own two eyes. Until finally he manages to beg his aunt, Captain Jaina Proudmoore, to talk his father into allowing him with her on a routine business trip to Booty Bay and back on her ship. What Anduin expected to find was a fun little adventure to the multicultural port city, and instead what he found was possibly the last black tailed mermaid on Azeroth. The only one his father had not yet killed.
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Richard moves to a quiet island, content to live in his dream house, beside the ocean he’s always feared.
But when one misstep sends him beneath its surface, the water doesn’t let him drown. He wakes up on the beach, disoriented and alone, with the ghost of a touch on his skin.
From that moment, the water begins to watch him back.
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“That’s not—” Jisung trails off. “That’s strange,” He tries again, correcting himself with a stutter.
He looks at Changbin with his head cocked. Changbin juts out his jaw, trying not to melt under the scrutiny.
A seagull soars overhead. A wave crashes against the dock. The ocean breathes. Changbin waits.
“I had a friend named Changbin once.” Jisung’s voice cracks halfway through the sentence. His chin wobbles. “But he—he died.”
Changbin holds his gaze, watching as recognition dawns over Jisung’s round features. Timid, careful, desperate. Ages of heartache in a single look.
“I had a friend named Jisung,” he says softly. “He died, too.”
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or: childhood best friends changbin and jisung were inseparable until one tragic night tore them apart. when jisung returns to town years later, desperate to cure his writer's block, changbin's double life as a mermaid hybrid becomes harder and harder to hide.
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One Day I'll Walk With You by plain_y, Slxyer
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Nov 2025
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In a world underwater, Wei Wuxian has never known anything but living in Lotus Cove with the Jiangs. They were his clan, his family, no matter how dysfunctional.
Enter Lan Wangji, the Second Serpent of the Lan Clan, who makes Wei Wuxian's heart flutter in ways he didn't know possible.
Through mischievous antics, bogus competitions, trials and tribulations, war and tragedy, the two can never seem to catch a break from the other.
Even death cannot put a permanent barrier between them, it seems.
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Or, an MDZS merpeople AU. Aside from the mermaid traits, most of this story follows canon with a little extra sprinkled in, such as graphic gore and violence, original characters and backstories (including ones for existing characters), and a whole bunch of lore (and wherein the title may be a spoiler but oh well).
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Soulstar - Crashing Waves and Glowing Dreams by Lydiaquarell
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, Stray Kids (Band), ATEEZ (Band)
16 Nov 2025
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Seokjin has warned him time and again to be wary of humans and their traps. Namjoon, however, has told him a different story. Has told him of the humans' curiosity and kindness, of their neverending creativity. Jeongguk likes that version much better. And honestly, how could he ever fear Taehyung, let alone loathe him? How could he ever do something else than loving him with everything he has?
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When Idol Taehyung requested a timeout and moves to the most boring coast town he can find, he certainly did not think he'd come eye-to-eye with a living miracle there. Let alone fall in love.
This is part one of the series "Children of the sea" and contains the main arc of the story about merman Jeongguk and idol Taehyung. Of course you can read other parts of the series first, you do you, dear reader, but a lot of things probably won't make sense. At all. So, I highly recommend you read this main story first before you move on to other parts of the series, which will be more, like... sequels. Thank you ^^
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- Part 1 of Children of the sea
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High Tide by pretty_pyrite
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Nov 2025
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A coral mer is rescued from a poacher attack, and Izuku is ecstatic to become his handler. It’s her job to research him, and to help him save his endangered species.
The more time she spends with him, though, the more the glass between them cracks.Series
- Part 2 of My Hero Academia: AUs
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UmiBōzu by Dawnari
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Nov 2025
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Kirishima, a newly graduated marine biology major, has to put his life on a standstill due to his grandmother falling sick. In his time living at her small seaside town he starts noticing strange things happening.
Hes convinced its an evil monster trying to eat him, because thats a completely normal assumption.
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The Boy I Used To Know (Or: Still the One?) by eerian_sadow
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
16 Nov 2025
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Drift's road to recovery is going to be long, but he's not alone anymore and that will help immeasurably.
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- Part 12 of Children of the Sea and Stars
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On an especially cold day in Nova Cronum, a dolphin Mer comes from Kaon with an offer of trade.
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- Part 1 of Children of the Sea and Stars
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what would you give? by memobu
Fandoms: カラオケ行こ！ | Karaoke Iko! | Let's Go Karaoke! (Manga), ファミレス行こ。 | Famiresu Iko | Let's Go to the Family Restaurant (Manga)
16 Nov 2025
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He had been warned to stay away from humans. His parents were raised believing if a human caught you they'd eat you, and he was raised under the same belief. When he had found this cove and this rock, there was no sign of human life around it whatsoever— not like the beach a few miles down, lined with docks and a long pier that stretched into the sea. All merfolk knew to stay away from there.
Here, Satomi thought he had been safe.
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A KyoSato merfolk!Satomi AU with a bit of The Little Mermaid inspo -
Anchor Lost by Shy_Secret
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Nov 2025
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Shen Jiu hates humans. Hates the way they steal their food. Hates the way they poison the water with their foul creations. Hates the way they just take and take, leaving only blood in their wake. But for his brother, he will become one of them. Become a monster, and bleed them dry.
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- Part 3 of Mer Au!
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His parents were always so unreasonable… Demanding him to marry? How could they? He was getting to that age, but seriously? Well, there’s only one person he can ask and his parents are not going to be happy about it…
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- Part 28 of Moonflower Shipping Fics
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Water. Cold, heavy, dark. A burning, in his throat and lungs. A song echoes below Kaveh, akin to the mournful call of a whale. The singer's voice is eerily familiar. Scales brush against his skin, the song pausing long enough for a single phrase, whispered in Sumerian:
"How has realizing your ideals gone for you?"
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Kaveh's unlikely friendship (and subsequent fight) with Alhaitham, a mer from the deep sea, leads to what might be the ocean's worst roommate situation after Alhaitham saves the architect from drowning.
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A Storm Of Magic And Love by Ohio_uwu
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
15 Nov 2025
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Leaving your home and becoming a pirate is something done too many times. But Tsukasa is Tsukasa, he's not like the other pirates! He's the future star of the seas, accompanied by... well, the most unexpected crew. A loud captain, a genius strategist who’s also a powerful sea mage, a siren and a rebellious princess together looking for treasures? Why not?
Right now, it says 8 chapters - but it might be more in the future!
Weekly updates - every Thursday, as long as I have chapters to post :3
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In this Mermaid AU, Jak and Daxter grew up in the idyllic mangrove village of Sandover, sheltered from the chaos stirring in the wider North Atlantic. Guided by the wise Green Eco Sage, Samos Hagai, and joined by their friends Jakleen and Keira Hagai (Samos’s daughter), the duo set out for Atlantis City to attend the dazzling Stingrave Music Festival. But their plans take an unexpected turn when they’re swept into a mysterious scavenger hunt that pits them against the ruthless Krimzon Sharks of Haven Reef and the looming threat of the Metal Heads. Along the way, they uncover a prophecy deeper than the ocean itself—one tied to Jak’s rare ability to channel eco, Jakleen’s formidable psionic powers, and the secrets of their shared past.
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- Part 1 of Mic Drop Mermaids
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“What the hell was that?” SuoWei stood there for a moment, trying to find his footing on the wet floor boards of the deck. A loud thud was heard, and a deep groan following behind it.
The confusion on SuoWei’s face was clear as day. He held onto the metal framing as he walked out to the ship's front deck. To say he was speechless at the sight would be an understatement. There, on the deck of his ship was what could only be described as a merman.
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Biologist Kyle Garrick is in charge of the team taking care of Toun Foindle, the guarded nature reserve no. 141 in Scotland. It was set up to protect a nesting forest of Scottish crossbill and a very rare grey seal mer colony. All is going well, except the never-ending influx of nosy tourists overstepping boundaries and poachers trying to steal the mers for private collectors, until his husband, journalist and mer rights activist Gary Garrick, gets a target on their back by messing with a wealthy private collector.
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Orca mer Ghost has had a horrible life filled with abuse from humans and the deaths of his entire pod. After getting captured and being neglected by a private collector for a year he is suddenly dumped in a very specific Scottish Loch in Toun Foindle. -
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"The gods can go fuck themselves."
He Xuan is a fisherman-turned-merhunter. After his family was killed a storm, leaving him the only survivor, He Xuan stays alive to hunt the one who destroyed his happiness. It has been many years since and he has grown tired. The fish aren't biting as usual and he curses the sea gods for their poor fortune, until something snags his hook...