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Little orphan Harry was raised by the sea by his cruel aunt and uncle. His uncle is the mayor of the fishing town. He was told his whore of a mother got pregnant by an unknown man and that she drowned herself in the ocean out of shame shortly after his birth.
Harry is kept away from the ocean by his aunt who seems terrified of the water, but she is actually aware that Harry is not fully human though she has kept it a secret from even her husband out of fear of being punished herself. However one day, Dudley and his friends chases Harry to the cliffs overlooking the ocean, and Piers pushes Harry into the ocean. Harry thought for sure he would drown, however under the waters he transforms into a mythical mermaid.
Harry travels alone in the sea for a while, but he is found by Mer-King Grindelwald's patrol, Severus Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange. Severus recognizes Harry for who he is - the missing child of Lily Evans whom the Mer-King had killed to punish James Potter for daring to have a relationship with a human. What kind of life waits for Harry now?
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Through the Blood, My Heart Stutters by Pearl09
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
01 Jul 2026
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Grace pressed his lips together and hummed curiously. “That’s a tank of blood?”
“Yes. We need your help studying what’s inside.”
“You mean the blood?” He frowned. “Are you sure you don’t have anyone better for this? Like, aren’t there doctors who spend their entire lives analyzing blood? Surely they’d be—”
He was cut off as a loud thud made him jump. For a brief second, an inhuman hand pressed against the glass. It had five long, thin fingers, with thin membranes stretching between each to make it webbed.
Grace gulped.
Something was in there.
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Simon is a little shit and I love him
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Jolly Sailor Bold by Shy_Gay
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
14 Jun 2026
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The ocean was not a kind place. It was wild, relentless, a beast that could not be tamed. Full of monsters, fraught with storms, a fearsome creature of untold power.
Usopp, for the life of him, couldn't figure out why he ever dared venture out on it in the first place.
A tale of the land, the sea, and the two lovers caught between them.
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“What’s your name?” The man barely hesitates a millisecond before responding with honesty: “Hongjoong.”
Hongjoong. It would be a pretty name for a pretty man, but Seonghwa knows those looks won't last long. He sighs lightly with relaxed satisfaction, clasps Hongjoong’s hand in his own, and leans up close to him. “Hongjoong,” Seonghwa starts, “Let me help you. Do you trust me?”
Hongjoong’s instincts may be screaming no, his body may be alight with fire and his muscles with the desire to flee, but none of that matters now; because with clouded mind and eardrums ever-attracted to the alluring voice of the stranger in front of him, he can’t think straight. Nothing in his head wants anything to do with anything except for this sea angel that floats in front of him. Hongjoong nods before words can even escape, and when they do, they’re low in a whisper, desperate and pliant through the wide brown of his eyes: “Yes,” He says, and that’s all that Seonghwa needs to hear to know that he’s got him.
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Against the Course by bundie
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 May 2023
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When their nets filled, the ship lagged with their added weight.The aft jerked downwards, a surge of black water flooded the deck as a cresting wave shoved them aside.
Katsuki’s heartbeat thundered in his ears; there was a pair of high-pitched warbles that shattered the air. Young, effervescent voices crying out into the dark. By the shouts and jeers from the rest of the crew, Katsuki knew it wasn’t a school of mackerel flailing within their fibers.
His whole body froze, muscles locking as the unfamiliar sound of a captured mer drowned out the crew’s shouting. He barely registered what they were saying, hoping he could still save the mer before it was too late.Bakugou Katsuki is an expert on mer and he's sworn to protect them from pirates and poachers. He joins a pirate crew to sabotage their hunt and comes across the most beautiful mer he'd ever seen. He's forced to drastic measures to protect Deku, even at the cost of his own life.
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This was absolutly beautiful, the end was so poetic, I loved every moments of this story (and I usually hate human/mer bkdk soooo) yes perfect, I will re read !
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When Will catches a strange fish in his stream, the last thing he expects is for it to turn into a man with a merman tail.
“My name is Hannibal,” the impossible merman in Will’s bathtub says. “You may eat me now.”
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- Part 2 of Hannigram MerMay
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Melancholy carried by a freight train running across the seashore (Tears and the prologue to a kiss hidden inside a seashell) by Blissful_Jupiter
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 May 2023
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Alhaitham and his little childish mind didn’t know much about the mudanity of human life, but he did know that he loved his grandmother, and he loved the ocean. Two facts that were practically universal to his tiny brain.
He’d come to know a third one.
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Alhaitham knew mermaids were real. His first ever friend was a mermaid. Or was that just the figments of his imagination acting up?
After a particularly stressful night trying to survive a party with his trusted noise-cancelling headset flat, and his friend Cyno nowhere to be seen, Alhaitham slips away to the beach to find a moment of quiet. Instead, he finds a familiar face, one he’s been longing to see for decades.
Title from: Sachiko - Lamp
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- Part 3 of Kavetham Blues ★彡
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A mer AU focused on the Linked Universe boys. Notes and description will update as new entries are posted.
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All the Waters Between Us by WaywardJaybird
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
27 Jun 2026
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The hurricane should have killed him.
It tore him out of the reef and left him half-dead on a shore where human hands found him before the sea could take him back.
The fighting pits should have killed him.
Over twenty-five bouts, blood-clouded water, teeth and claws and crowds screaming for him as he became Legend.
Legend thought rotting away in Yuga's glass cage would kill him.
Behind glass, under lights, with a sealed lid above him and infection eating through him, Legend had started to understand that he might not survive being kept.
That was before a stranger with green eyes and indigo hair walked into Yuga’s office, looked at him too closely, and came back to steal him away.
But Legend is not salvage, and unfortunately for Ravio, Legend has no intention of being anyone's treasure.
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that one where Legend is a little reef bastard
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- Part 1 of Oceans
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Starting life over after a medical discharge and subsequent recovery from poor decisions, Simon moves to a seaside town in Scotland. Content to keep to himself, he stumbles across a chance at the connection he's been longing for in the arms of very unlikely, and improbable, lovers
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waiting for potential series
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I'm from the deep blue underworld by Coolish_Corvid_Cryptid
Fandoms: Dream SMP, H2O: Just Add Water, Minecraft (Video Game)
07 Jul 2024
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He takes a deep breath and takes Tubbo's outstretched hand. He slides forward and for a terrifying moment he’s submerged. Submerged in the surprisingly warm pool. But then Tubbo and Tommy are keeping him afloat. He gasps for air and clings to them desperately.
Then something strange happens. The water starts bubbling around them. Tiny droplets float out of the water, sparkling as they float toward the moon. The moon, directly overhead, shining down at them. He can’t do anything but stare, enchanted by the pool.
Then all at once, it's over. He glances at his two classmates and they glance back.
“What the fuck?"
Bench trio H2O AUTommy, Tubbo and Ranboo become mermaids when they touch water, shenanigans ensue
Background sleepy bois
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He wasn't ready to be a civilian again. The idea filled him with dread until his stomach turned, the vast wide open future of nothing. So he signed his name again, and again, and again, a different, more exciting kind of dread settling in his bones at what he was really agreeing to, and packed his bags.
Made a friend and got a flatmate on the same day, in the same person. Bought his boat a month later.
And met him.
Soap enjoys his new life, especially since he spends considerable time getting to know Ghost, a shark-human hybrid captured and kept for study who won't let anyone close enough to do that. Aside from Soap, that is.
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beyond our fears, tangled in their prejudices by redonthemoon
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 May 2021
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The rules are simple: during the week the courting season begins, all the mers in their pod need to find a mate if they don't, they are banished from the territory.
Shouto used to be an outcast due to his looks, now he's the most solicited bachelor... too bad for the rest, as his heart has always belonged to a certain angry blond merman who, like him, was also (and is still) considered a pariah, an abomination as he has tentacles rather than a tail. Not for Shouto. He has always found Katsuki to be the prettiest among them, and now, he plans to court him like he deserves.
If only he could find him!
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- Part 5 of BKTD MerMay 2021
- Part 1 of bktd omegaverse - red's version
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All his life, Cloud has known hunger. It has followed him everywhere, coloring every memory, tainting every good thing he's ever known. It rocks him to sleep, haunts his dreams, howls when he wakes. It takes. It demands. It devours.
Cloud knows hunger, but he isn't hungry now. He's ravenous.
(Cloud is a feral omega siren who has taken to using unsuspecting alpha's skulls to line his nest. Zack thinks that's hot.)
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- Part 1 of Blood in the Water
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Zaps of Pleasure by Smut_Sorcerer
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 May 2026
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Shen Yuan finds himself trapped in a net. Unfortunately help doesn't come before real trouble finds him
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- Part 8 of 2026 Personal Bingo
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“They're known to be attracted by gold, gems, but most of all, any ancient thing that as historical value, like maps, or even books...”
“You're telling me those fish can read?” Eddie laughed, shaking his head in disbelief.
Gareth was not amused.---
Something keeps stealing Eddie's well hidden loot, and today is really not the day to piss him off. Whoever is doing it better stops now before the twitchy pirate completely loses it.
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- Part 7 of Steddie One-Shots
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The Art of Drowning by seyalore
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
02 May 2022
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Denki knows full well that there’s never really been a question needed as to whether the mer exist. They ‘exist’ to humanity these days in the same way the true fae and titans do: in fossils and relics, and stories from an age when magic held the world carefully in its palms and instilled new wonders with every gentle whisper.
It’s not like magic is gone— far from it. But the creatures that breathed magic, bled it, held together by miracles and timelessness and enigma… well, they’re another story.
Which is why he’s having a hard time comprehending the visual feed from his sea rover.
(Or: Kaminari Denki saves a siren and ends up in over his head.)
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(Or: Kaminari Denki saves a siren and ends up in over his head.)⚡️💟
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Forever and Always by LadyVamp
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
20 May 2023
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It's Prince Merji's engagement day and his best friend and personal guard, MerXian, is not happy about it. A set of noble suitors has gathered to bid for Lan Wangji's hand by presenting him with magnificent gifts, each one more enticing than the other. Wei Wuxian's heart is conflicted, for his only wish is to see his best friend find happiness, even if that happiness isn't with him by the prince's side.
or: Merji chooses his husband with a giant clam shell while MerXian pouts nearby.
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sounds fishy, i'm in [love] by chefmanardee, Green_Riot, lumipoke, Omg_its_Birdie
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 May 2026
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A curious, playful mer pulls Lan Zhan into the water. They kiss (and more) about it.
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sounds fishy, i'm in [love]
by chefmanardee, Green_Riot (@green-riot), lumipoke and Omg_its_Birdie
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)
E, 2k, WangxianPart of the Three Bows Wangxian Server Events
Summary: A curious, playful mer pulls Lan Zhan into the water. They kiss (and more) about it.
My comments: Exactly what the summary says and also featuring beautiful art! I feel like I missed out on MerMay a little this year, so I'm catching up now and this story was fun. Good for Wangxian! Love what they have going on!
Excerpt: Carefully, Lan Zhan swims slowly back to the pier to hoist himself up just far enough to reach the sardines. He falls back into the water, because he really isn't sure he has a real choice in the matter, and holds out the fish.
"Here."
The mer almost visibly brightens and dips under the water. Rather than swim away, though, Lan Zhan watches the red of that tail swim closer at an alarming speed. Lan Zhan's heart jumps, wondering just what kind of danger he might actually be in. Thankfully, Lan Zhan isn't dragged to a watery grave—shufu would have been so disappointed in him—but he is grabbed again. He finds himself held by the wrist, the mer having surfaced just in front of him and nearly making him drop the offering. His hands are vaguely human, but webbed and speckled with iridescent red scales.
It leans toward the sardine still being held out, as if inspecting the dull-eyed fish. It grins, a mischievous glint in its eyes as their gazes meet.
“Do you have any chili oil?”
Lan Zhan nearly screams.
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Dick laughs, but it’s watery. “We named him, like idiots. I know, I know, don’t name them, you get attached, but we couldn’t keep calling him Baby or M52DC16.”
“What’s his name, Dick?” Bruce coaxes as he starts planning out what he’s going to need for the fountain.
“Timothy,” Dick says fondly. “His name’s Timothy.”
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Mer!Tim. Rlly cute