Mermay!!

[pursuitofcappiness]

WHO: Steve Rogers
WHERE: all around
WHAT: MERMAY
WHEN: MERMAY
WARNINGS: ....MERMAY

darling it's better

Steve can be found on his now early-morning swim around town, zipping past anyone. He'll happily deliver anything to anyone within the confines of Temba, for any reason, in the early morning, since he makes a whole loop around. He's faster than a shark, but he's got a rather ostentatious blue tail, with red and white striped fins.

He seems to be in a decent mood, if only because he's having trouble with a lot of his memories of the past that don't reconcile with his ones of being a merman. Anytime he tries too hard to wonder why there's a lack of water if he thinks too hard, the memory disappears like seafoam.

He's having one of those such moments, paused mid-fin flip, eyes in concentration as he starts to sink, but then, he shakes his head, and keeps swimming. That was weird!

down where it's wetter

Sitting on a rock somewhere, Steve's drawing things into the sand. If you ask, he could make a whole series of drawings, each of them replacing the last, ephemeral in nature, washed away by the waves.

"I can try drawing you next," he offers. He's not sure how portraits will work out in the sand, but he'll give it a good college try.

take it from me!

[ cw: injury ]

Having swum through a whole nest of sea urchins in order to grab one, somehow Steve'd accidentally loosened a whole bunch of them, and they'd fallen, mostly on his tail.

He swims out of there quickly, but he has lots of barbs sticking out. He pauses to pull one out, only to manage to accidentally shatter a few of the ones in a cluster and leave them further embedded into his tail. Trying to violently flip it doesn't really help, either. He needs to swim somewhere he can sit down and address this as best as he can.

"Tell me you have tweezers on you," he requests of the nearest He-Row that he finds.

Comments

[pursuitofcappiness]

Well, she's right about that. He's useless if he's benched. "I'll have you know, the thing they say about doctors being the worst patients, it's true in my case."

He's not even a doctor, he's just trying to lend a hand. Sorry Tae.

[butterfly_kiss]

"It's less true in mine," Tae laughs. "Except for my own patience."

A joke that only works in english, but she's still content to make it.

[pursuitofcappiness]

"Clever," he concedes, as more spines are plucked from his tail. "On the bright side, I've got enough sea urchin to feed just about everyone," he says. At least he didn't come up empty-handed. That would've been embarrassing.

[butterfly_kiss]

"At least you are suffering for a cause," she says with a smile. She plucks the final spine from the fins and starts on his tail itself. "Though I'm not sure it's worth it."

[pursuitofcappiness]

"I think so," he says. "We've got enough to feed everyone at least one meal." Well, more than that because uni is so rich. "I think that's worth it."

[butterfly_kiss]

"If only we had rice to go with it. But we'll have to deal with what we can," she says with a smile. This was something worth having after all.