#i thought this was a squid thank you to all you marine experts!

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Idea Prompt

I know i’m pretty late to the punch and the month is almost over, but I want to do something for Mermay while I still have the chance.

I haven’t thought of the full details, but the basic premise is that Naofumi is a Marine biologist working in a marine research center.

One day, when Naofumi arrives to work, he finds the place in an absolute frenzy.

One of the research teams that had just come back from a month-long sea expedition made a huge discovery. They apparently had discovered a real life mermaid and brought it back with them to study it.

Of course, Naofumi didn’t believe it at first. Mermaids weren’t real! They’re just fairytales, legends, myths! A made up creature to entertain people.

At least, that’s what Naofumi thought until he came face to face with the half-human, half-fish creature swimming around in an enormous tank.

Naofumi damn near passed out on sight.

The mermaid in question had long light-blue hair somehow tied in a thick braid, matching light-blue eyes and white ivory skin. She had fins where the ears would usually be and webbed hands with sharp claws at the end of each finger tip.

of course, the most noticeable feature was her long fish tail. It was dark blue in color with scales that shined like precious sapphires.

However, the research team has been unable to gather any sort of meaningful data on the mermaid due to the subject's increasingly hostile nature.

The mermaid would hiss and claw at anyone that got too close.

Which Naofumi would argue is to be expected since the supposed ‘experts’ thought it would be a good idea to take an animal they know little to nothing about from it’s original habitat to a completely different and unfamiliar one. 

It really shouldn’t be a surprise that the mermaid would be less than cooperative.

However, for some strange reason, the mermaid acts docile around Naofumi.

This was noticed by one of Naofumi’s coworkers. The coworker noticed that whenever Naofumi walked past the tank, the mermaid would stare at the human male with a curious look. Sometimes she’d even swim up to the glass to get a closer look.

Thus Naofumi is given the task of taking care of the mermaid and gathering data and the creature.

While looking after the sea creature, Naofumi learned the mermaid could actually understand human speech, but she couldn’t speak it.

So, Naofumi ended up helping the mermaid learn to speak it. It’s through this teaching that Naofumi learns the mermaid’s name is Therese.

Naofumi attempted to teach Therese his name, but she only managed to say the first part of his name and ended up calling him, “Nao”. It was cute though.

One day, while Naofumi is closing up for the night after everyone else has left, he decides to say goodnight to Therese. The biologist had grown quite fond of the mermaid over the past few months.

However, upon reaching Therese’s tank, Naofumi finds an unknown man standing in front of the tank.

The man had red hair and was wearing a loose shirt and a pair of pants.

When Naofumi calls out to him, the man turns to face the biologist revealing his handsome face with deep crimson eyes.

Naofumi demands to know who the man is and how he got in the facility without any sort of clearance.

The man simply ignores Naofumi’s questions and smiles, before introducing himself as L’arc.

L’arc thanks Naofumi for taking great care of his mate, but he’d like to take her back home now.

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That all I got for now, but that’s pretty much the gist of it.

I haven’t thought of what kind of mermaid Therese is, but I was thinking of making L’arc a cecaelia (a mermaid/merman with the lower body of a octopus or squid). I can’t tell you why, I just like the idea.

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