[012 ☿] Mer-cury

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She's a mermaid, slipping through the water even faster than her normal body could do, darting beneath the waves and breathing her element. Her tail, shimmering blue and silver scales, flickers to speed her along. Sapphires adorn her ears and neck. When she surfaces, finally, she rests on a small rock outcropping, and plays her harp.

The music is clear and lovely. When her voice joins it, lilting and enticing, it becomes irresistible. Nothing like it belongs to this world. Ships divert their courses, heading straight for the rocks, heedless and helpless.

The inevitable wreckage causes chaos. Men shout and struggle to keep themselves afloat. A black-haired soldier determined to reach Mercury finally comes close, only for the mermaid to grab him with unnatural strength and drag him beneath the water with her in a grasping and clinging embrace. She laughs coldly, stirring up a cloud of bubbles that entangle themselves in her hair that wavers with the current. She likes luring them to her.

These sailors and soldiers are far from the first. In the background, the remains of several ships pile up against the misty horizon, notably one marked as the SS Senshi.

[ooc: join in the mer-cury's mischief, be drowned or wrecked (or spared if you're a friend!), just swim together, anything goes. can tell me what you'd prefer.]

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[She tosses her head, and looks at the moray for a long moment. She has a deep, gut instinct to warn the other creature off her prey, the dream crossing these sailors with the sailor senshi. (Of course.)

She brushes the strange incongruous feeling off. As she is now, what does she care past the initial moments of the fun of making them come to her? After that, whatever end they meet is so much less important.

Still, she teases her sudden partner.]

Can't bring them to you on your own?

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

[Mostly, she's lazy.]

Not how I hunt. I don't need any kind of magic. [She does it all on her own.] I'm all about the sneak attack. [Like most morays, she usually stays holed up until she bursts out to kill, but she does what she want, and she felt like coming out to see the confusion.] Usually I'm working with the others. [There's no sign of these "others", but Reno seems to assume Ami will know what she's talking about.

She darts forward, biting into another of the sailors for good measure. She isn't even really hungry. She likes to see the blood.]

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Don't look down on our powers. [Mermaids. Her power over water in waking life, her other powers in waking life that people call cheating. They're not.] We're born with them like you were born with those teeth.

[She doesn't draw blood. Each victim of hers drowns, the ones she attaches herself to so fiercely that they're drawn right into her world, a world they can't hope to survive in.

The black-haired man hadn't had a chance; though just for a moment, the very moment the fight went out of him, she'd almost looked shocked.

Until Reno had come. In the dream, as this cold mermaid, it's easy to leave behind the body, which sinks slowly. She stays a mild distance away, not swimming into the red miasma left by Reno's kill. She makes her own judgment.]

Humans are really easy.

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

Calm down, baby, I wasn't insulting you. [She's harsh and sarcastic, but she's not no real problem with mermaids.]

Yeah, humans are easy, but they don't taste that good. [Not like fish, which taste awesome.] It's fun tearing them up, though. [Killing things means nothing to her. It's what she does, what they do.

Suddenly, she realizes that's not all she can do. She rises up in the water toward another drowner and sends out a powerful jolt of electricity, shocking him. He shudders and dies. Apparently, she's an electric moray eel.] That was fun. You should bring down some more.

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[Now there, see? Her powers are wonderful. They can do this:

Mer-cury flashes that malicious grin and flits away. She breaks the surface, giving a quick gasp at the air she finds more difficult to breathe than the water. She repeats her song, no flashy harp this time, and in their haste to get to her, three men jump overboard.

She laughs. She swims over to them, effortlessly, and pulls them down with her. She even creates a bubble for them to breathe, and they relax as they take it for good intentions.

She brings them right near Reno instead. The bubbles pop at her will, and they flail in their sudden confusion and panic, gurgling unintelligible words into the water.]

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[Reno laughs right along with her, because that's hilarious. She has no empathy for humans, since she isn't one, for the moment. This time, she electrocutes the sailors, then takes bites out of them.

There's more blood in the water. It might attract sharks, but Reno's not afraid of sharks--they're not something an electric eel has to worry about, as long as they don't get the jump on her, and she sees to it that they never do.]

Not bad. I guess mermaid magic is good for something after all. [She winks.]

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[An arrogant smirk is her answer. She has no fear of sharks, either, though once again she avoids trailing through the blood and breathing it in.

As if she can truly avoid it, when it mixes through the water.]

Our power sets us apart. We're on an entirely different level from the human world.

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. On a whole nother level.

[Of course she's better than other people.]

Well, that was fun. [She quickly snaps up a fish that floats by, attracted by the blood.] What should we do next, mermaid?

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[Down deep, the Dark Kingdom castle has been rendered in coral and pearl and shell. Nearer at hand, there are other simpler amusements, most mirroring or inverting the typical pastimes of the surface world, through a distorted lens.]


Why not choose for yourself? - if it's fun, we'll do it.

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[She mostly stays in her usual part of the ocean, but why not branch out? Well, now and then, as she tends to be on the lazy side, but she doesn't have a good idea of what there is to do. She turns to gaze further into the deep.]

Anything you recommend? We could go see some races, do some gambling. Do some hunting. Or some exploring.

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If it's a new area for you, shouldn't we explore it?

[In the single statement, she emphasis her own familiarity with the place, now superiority, and gives in to her own enjoyment of seeing new places and things.]

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why not? I'm game. I'm up for anything. [At the moment, that is. She's not too worried. With her speed and electricity, there's not much she needs to worry about.]

Got something you want to show me?

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The ships don't always wreck against the rocks. Sometimes they sink.

Want to see what's left behind?

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not? I'm up for anything. [Her eel body crackles briefly.] Gotta find something to do way down here.

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[Keep it up with the lightning and you'll end up as her not!Jupiter, Reno.]

Whatever they left behind is mine.

[She tilts her head as though considering.]

Maybe ours.

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

[Well, electricity is her favored attack!]

Nice.

[Reno grins.] Ours sounds good to me. [She starts to swim ahead.] Let's go.

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[It's a good attack for water. Carried very easily. Sometimes it can go further than intended, but that's part of the fun when she's fully in this type of mood.]

Or we can see which men escaped to the surface world.

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[In her current state, dreaming and not on duty, she doesn't care too much about anyone, but she has a natural inclination to partner up, so she accepts Ami's company easily.]

That sounds like even more fun. Bet they didn't deserve to escape. [She grins widely, which looks quite frightening when she's in eelmaid form.]

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[Not frightening to Mer-cury; after all, for the time being, they're on the same side.]

No. They didn't.

[Somehow, as soon as the eelmaid Reno says it, the humans shift to be a focus of her resentment. Humans, who search the seas but are only interested in what they can take from it, who would be fascinated to see her but only because of the nature of her existence and never because of her.]

Shall we remind them of that?