[012 ☿] Mer-cury

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

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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[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

[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.]

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[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?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[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.

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

[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.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

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?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

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.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[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.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[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.

[tasercopter.livejournal.com]

[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.]

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[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?