Okay so I saw this really cool Pidge design where our favorite little Green Paladin was a mermaid and I suddenly get this thought literally out of nowhere: Avian Lance and Mermaid Pidge being secret buddies. Throw in Shiro as Pidge's overprotective pod member, Matt the Meme Merman who's chill af and a bit of a lil shit, Avian Hunk, and Centaur Keith and BAM make a reverse Mythics AU with Shance! The whole idea is Pidge, as a young guppy, gets trapped in a storm and beached on some rough rocks near the woods. Lance, who has wings too big for his body ("You'll grow into them, don't worry my fluffy little chick!" "Mamaaaaa I'm not that fluffy!" "Nonsense! Fluffiest chick I've ever had." "I can attest to that, baby bro.") is wandering the forest after falling from the tree nest where his flock is and finds the beached mermaid. Both are initially afraid of each other, but Lance who has a heart of gold and is a sweet and helpful child sees that oh no this cute little fish girl is hurt, her back fin is all messed up and oozing which cannot be good, and bravely moves forwards. Pidge scrunches up, since there are stories of Avians spearing Mer from the water to eat them with something called spices, but Lance talks her into letting him see the owie. He manages to get water on her scales, which is very helpful since she was drying out, and bandages the wound on her fin with his shirt that he rips into strips. He then struggles to carry her into the water, and accidentally falls in the shallows. The shocked look on his face is so funny that Pidge starts laughing, because Lance hasn't been in the ocean before because his Mana said that it was too dangerous and Avians can't swim because their wings would get soaked and heavy and drown them, but it's salty and wet and he loves it! His wings flop out, and the little mermaid splashes him, and they go back and forth playing in the water until Pidge hears her pod trilling her name and Lance hears his Mama calling, and they both say goodbye and leave. The next day, Lance sneaks back to the ocean and calls around for the mermaid he met the other day, and she comes back and they continue playing. They become really close best friends, Lance nicknames her Pidge because her real name is way too complicated to say. They complain about their families, talk about their friends, and yet neither can introduce the other to their respective flock/pod because the Mer are afraid of the Avians, the Avians are wary of the Mer, and everyone sees everyone as the bad guy. Until Shiro gets fed up with where Pidge keeps disappearing to, and confronts Lance, nearly drowning him until Pidge and Matt interfere. Matt, as an empath Mer like Pidge, can tell that Lance really cares for Pidge like a sister. Shiro is still wary, but accepts it, and now accompanies Pidge (and occasionally Matt) to meet Lance. Hunk gets dragged into this, who brings Keith (Lance's other friend/rival who's a Centaur and a bit of an asshole, but a pretty okay guy to hang with) along, and they all hang out until Lance's mother finds out and bans him from leaving the nest and Shiro gets super worried, and Keith can't get anything out of Hunk about it, and it's a terrible few weeks until there's a storm and Lance has a fight with his parents and abandons the nest, flying out into the storm and- Well, I'm gonna fic this anyways, so you'll just have to see what happens after that ;3 Shance and langst are my strong points, after all! Plus I love the Pidge and Lance sibling dynamic, and I wanna try my hand at Sassy Meme King Matt Holt™ for once, and I never see Avian Lance, so this should be a lot of fun to write! :3
