more mermay au and for those who noticed it in the last post, i made the brothers selkies because ive been on a weird seal obsession lately lol

I think for the au theyd be part of a sea monster hunting crew (paralelling the witch hunter thing). Caleb basically encourages Philip to use their pelts as little as possible to avoid be seen so they both are really depressed and cranky from not being in the sea for a while.

Caleb, with help from a sweet mermaid he saved from his own crew's slaughter, learns to kinda embrace and not be ashamed of his selkie side, spending more time in the sea and learning everything theyve been taught about sea-monsters and such was a lie. Evelyn also tries to get a taste of Caleb's human life, trying her best to follow him onto land, which more often than not ends up with Caleb stressing over if she'll be seen

Philip is taught to fight his selkie impulse to go to the sea so when he finds Caleb leaning into it, along with being around Evelyn, he assumes his brother is being led astray by both the pelt, the mermaid, and the sea, from which he begins he path as a devouted sea-monster hunter, and burns his seal pelt, forever trapping himself in human form.