#truthwind

merik nihar | xix | windwitch 

summary: the little mermaid gone wrong. maybe not so much. 

read on ao3

a/n: so this was an idea by @morebooks-pls on my 4:17 am post and we basically fleshed it out and it sounds like such a good idea so i just hope i can do it justice. this is going to be done in 4 perspectives too so 4 full fanfics i guess if you could call it that. also constructive criticism is very much accepted and wanted bc i wanna improve. also sorry if the characters are super ooc i haven’t written with these characters much. also tell me if y'all wanna be tagged in the rest of these

Part I: Aeduan

Aeduan should have known this was going to be a bad idea. The team finally reunited in a small lagoon, which conveniently doubled as a safe house, and they were currently planning and strategizing what to do next. So when Merik offered a break, he gladly took it, hoping for some alone time with his blades. What he had gotten instead was a blindfold and Merik leading him to a place with wet sand and sounds of water lapping up against rocks.

“Just a couple steps more and you’ll be there for your special surprise!” Merik said, guiding him. He could hear the smirk in the Nubrevnan’s gruff voice. His foot banged against something hard before Merik yelled out to lift his legs in and sit. He could feel what he thought was rotted or soggy wood as he stumbled around to find a seat.  Aeduan reached up to remove his blindfold to at least get his vision back and figure out what was happening when Merik told him to stop and not take the blindfold out until he was told to do so. So this is what iIve been reduced to he thought to himself as a frown set into his face, completing his grumpy persona. Although, he was grumpy all the time so this was also his natural look. He sat quite impatiently, so much so that when his leg started jiggling up and down he shook the thing he was sitting in.

And then, he hears voices. Female voices. More specifically, the one that’s been constantly in his mind from the day she spoke to him. He could hear and feel her and her threadsister, Safi, shuffling towards where he was sitting. The wind also picked up, and he assumed that Merik’s witchery was acting up from Safi being there.Love-struck foolhe thought as the thing he was sitting on swayed side to side from a weight trying to settle in. A boat. A boat is what I am sitting on he realized, suffocating the urge to slap himself because he didn’t figure it out sooner. He let out a slight growl in his frustrations but that must have been enough for Iseult to recognize him.

“Aeduan?” her voice rang out and he could feel her warmth all around him, indicating how close they were sitting. Before he could conjure up a response, he felt a hard push on the boat, swaying as it made its way deep into the water. In an instant, he ripped off his blindfold and threw it into the water, looking around to assess his surroundings, but what he saw was shockingly gorgeous. All around him was water deep midnight blue and teal swirling together with specks of dust that made it seem like a galaxy of stars. Thick, mud-covered trees took root into the water with emerald green leaves and branches weaving in and out above them. Little fishes and creatures scattered around the water and the moss-covered rocks. And in the center of everything was Iseult. When his eyes finally caught sight of her, he couldn’t breathe. Her midnight hair falling just to her shoulders glowed and her shocked eyes fluttered around and it was all of sudden too much for Aeduan. The light in her eyes, the way her face moved ever so slightly trying to keep her emotions and wonder in check became his sole focus. She was still as deadly as ever but the way she looked right now made him even more attracted to her. Iseult det Midenzi was beautiful. Her beauty, her strength, just her everything, had him in a chokehold and she wouldn’t let go until he begged for mercy. In quick movement, Iseult looked up and into his eyes and he thought this is it. i’m going to forego everything and kiss her, right now. But in a flash, they were snapped out of their trance, as a jazzy tone floated out. Both of them snapped up, Aeduan’s hands going to his sword and his eyes scanning his surrounding. Suddenly, a blonde popped out from behind singing… kiss the girl from little mermaid?

“There you see her.

Sitting there across the way,” Safi sang. Well if you could call it that. Her voice resembled somewhat between a duck quacking and a goose screeching. When he looked over at Iseult, he saw her visibly flinching at the sound of her voice.

“She don’t got a lot to say

but there something about her,” she continued, bongos and flutes ringing out from all around them.

“And you don’t know why

but you’re dying to try,” she continued with almost a choir of people with equally gruff voices, “go on and kiss the girl.” Aeduan looked up at Iseult and felt his face heat up as he tried to look somewhere else.

A boat filled with people popped out from beside them, containing Merik’s sailors and of course, Merik himself trying his shot at singing. “Yes, you want her, “ he went on “Look at her, you know you do.” Luckily for their Iseult and Aeduan’s ears, he could sing. His voice was much deeper and a little bit rough, like the grit sandpaper. “Possible she wants you too, there is one way to ask her,” Merik went on and winked at Aeduan causing his anger to simmer. “It don’t take a word, not a single word go on and kiss the girl” he sang out as what seemed like the entire lagoon sang the chorus together like an orchestra.

“Sha-la-la-la-la-la,

my, oh my,

looks like the boys too shy!

Ain’t gonna kiss the girl” Merik sang with Safi’s duck voice, and the sailors joining in. Thank god for the rest of them drowning out Safi’s voice.

“Sha la la la la la

Ain't that sad?

Ain't it a shame? Too bad

safi: bold of you to assume that i was planning to share.

merik: *blankly stares*

safi:... there’s another dozen in the car