Very much driving in the @rawme-price lane rn
Mer!reader who’s part of a critically endangered species, but you just won’t accept any of the other mers as mates. Why?
You’re in love with Nikolai, your primary handler. When you came to the sanctuary years ago, injured and malnourished as you’d no longer been able to hunt, he was the one who hand-fed you and redressed your injuries, he was the one who wore the dive suit to give you physical therapy.
This all happened before it was understood just how loyal your species is. How you mate for life without exception.
And regardless of his feelings (let’s not mention how he hasn’t exactly dated anyone since you came to the sanctuary), your species is at risk.
So he courts you, and it’s everything you’ve ever wanted. Cuts of fresh, fatty fish wrapped in kelp strands. The lab develops a modified form of agar he can use to create a sac of pretty shells for you to nest with, the same way your mate in the wild would have.
He gets into your tank without his suit when the time is right— and you need full body contact and warmth to conceive. Using a toy won’t do. So he wears a sheath with an attached tube, connected to a reservoir of “donated” milt (wonder who that came from) and fucks you full on the sandy floor of your enclosure for as long as his oxygen tank will allow.
