#tnslm

Based on an AU I'm currently working on: The (not so) Little Mermaid Tomarry AU

Where Prince Harry was saved from a shipwreck by a Cecaelia named Tom. Tom then exchanged his tentacles with human feet so that he could come to the human world and claim the Prince as his.

Hi! First official part for TNSLM! It’s probably going to start off a little slowly at first, we are doing a little bit of some history bit here. There might be some mistakes here and there, I didn’t get to read through to be honest so if you spy any, do tell me. I’ll change it immediately. Also would love to hear your thoughts so comment below (it’s alright if you don’t, just curious is all lol). How do you like Damian so far? Hehe.

PROLOGUE

Damian huffs as he swims towards the big ocean. After listening to his older brothers nagging incessantly about how he should stop dicking about, Damian decides to head for a swim, to try and clear his head. Being the youngest is always the toughest. Merpeople often think it’s always fun and it’s nice to have older siblings that dote on him but not to Damian.

His brothers are all a nuisance to him, always talking about the greater good and how they think changes are bad and content with life down under. Not only that, they also often talk to him about how he should be a better Prince – yes, he is not his father’s heir, he should have, given the fact that his mother had been the latest Queen but alas it is his oldest brother, Dick that will take the throne once his father steps down – and how he should treat Merpeople, nicely and with respect.

“Tt.” Respect? That is something that needs to be earned and not given away easily. Everyone who knows Damian knows that he is not one to give his respect to people easily – as can be heard whenever he talks to his siblings, whom he calls by none other than their last names; he does not even call them by their titles. Why should he though? Especially since his mother taught him better than that.

Damian did not know how long he had been swimming and thinking for the next thing he knows; he is not at the big ocean anymore. He is somewhere unfamiliar – there are territories he has yet to conquer – and he frowns. “I wonder if father knows I am not at the palace.” Damian speaks to himself as he swims slowly up to the surface. Earlier, he had had a fight with one of his siblings about something that was not of any import to him and in his haste to leave, he had forgotten about his father.

“Father would not be happy about this.” Damian says out loud as he finally reaches the surface of the water. He hesitates. He remembers those myths that has been going around about humans – Damian has never met a human, nor has his mother but apparently right before his Grandfather had died, he had told his mother about the horrors of the land.

But Father is not here, he reminds himself and narrows his eyes when he finally breaks through to the surface. Damian looks around – he is nowhere he knows but when he squints enough in the distance, he can see his father’s light so he shrugs before turning back to look around where he currently is.

Not far from where he is, there is what seems to be houses – “it looks different from the pictures as well as from what the myths have said” – and even though it is a little bit different from the houses the commoners in Atlantis lived, Damian reckons they still serve the same purpose. He swims closer and pauses when he spies a bigger house – perhaps from where he currently is floating, it could be as big as his palace, maybe even bigger – and Damian shakes his head. “Tt.”

This is the prelude to the Little Mermaid inspired au that I have been working on. A little about the first story, I will be dividing it in to several parts as I see fit! So I am not sure how many parts this story will have either. Special shout out to everyone who voted for the main lead of this story! It was a close call so thank you for voting! I hope I can deliver this as well as I plan for it! Tagging this as #tnslm too. 

That aside, today I will be flying off for vacation so yes, updates might still be super slow and none at all on some days but I will always try to make sure to post at least a few things. (Here is to hoping I can manage to write some more requests on my notebook while I am in the flight!) There’s a Peter Parker imagine coming up too. (I think you guys just have to get used to seeing me post a Peter Parker imagine hehe). Anyways, hope you enjoy the prelude of some sort.

Legends have said that in a land far away to the east, there lives a group of Merpeople who are said to have built themselves a kingdom and what used to be a rather small group of Merpeople, gradually grew in size over the next few hundred years and supposedly, that is where the Merpeople are currently living, making said land what is known to most storytellers all around the world as Atlantis.

You, like any other kid, grew up listening to these stories – it made for a good bedtime story and you have always loved adventurous stories too. Some of the stories had been concocted by your parents whose parents concocted their stories and it goes far back actually. Some even said that your great ancestors had been friends with Merpeople – that is how the stories came to be. Though somewhere along the way, the picture they are depicting of Merpeople have changed from nice and friendly to a lot of exaggerated characteristics and personalities.

So you grew up listening to stories of how Merpeople are a myth, about how they are supposedly very scary sea creatures that now dwell closer to the land – no longer in Atlantis – and how you should never ever venture too far out to the ocean – this is specifically for you because one of the things you absolutely love to do is explore the sea. All in all, growing up, you had listened to quite a lot of things, some truths and lies.

Merpeople and humans apparently have never gotten along well enough with each other. Whenever you ask ‘Why?’ to anyone willing to listen to you, no one seems to be able to answer your inquisitive question and instead every single of them simply tells you that Merpeople will kill any and every human they see by either drowning them or enticing them to do their bidding.

As you grew up and got older, you continue to have more questions than answers about the ocean, the water and more specifically the Merpeople. There have been more than several times where you have been flat-out scolded for even obsessing over the possibilities of Merpeople actually existing.

You can’t even count the amount of times you have heard someone telling you ‘Young Princess, you ought to pull your head out of the clouds.” because you have heard those words far too much. Yet, it has never been able to stop you from still trying to learn as much as you can; there is just something about the possibility of Merpeople actually existing that causes you to feel very excited and motivated to go there.

Hi, darl! Getting this message really did make me feel extremely happy and thank you so much for taking the time to leave me this message! It is always nice to know what people think about my works sometimes so thank you so much! I am so glad to know it made your day too!

Only almost forget that I even wrote Averted! It makes me feel contented to know that it did a number of things to your heart and that you are sharing it with me too! Maybe in the future, as soon as I am done trying to finish requests, I might even do a continuation for this! I love trying to explore dynamics between characters and all that so thank you for sending in this prompt! Glad you enjoyed it!