Hi guys! You can skip this whole first chapter if you want, it's really just to give you an idea of the universe. I came up with this story one night and decided to write it! Enjoy!
The World of Mermaids
Kwamis
On the sixteenth birthday of every mermaid, they recieve a kwami. It's a kwami's job to watch over their holder and to turn their holder's tails into legs. In turn, his\her holder will keep thier kwami safe.
The kwami is a magical animal or bug based creature ranging from pigs to monkeys to wolves. They can live up to 7,000 years old, having many different holders in a lifetime.
When a holder recieves a kwami, the two are bound for life. Mermaids, having a lifespan of only up to 200 years old, are usualy the first to die therefore breaking the bond. An unbound Kwami goes to a home for widowed Kwamis until his or hers next holder is chosen.
Mermaids
A mermaid's sixteenth birthday is a very special day. They recieve their kwami so as to go on land, as long as they aced thier 'How to become a human', 'How to act like a human', and ' The history of humans' classes. There are a few reasons mermaids need to go on land for.
The first one is to make sure humans don't find out about their kind. They'll try to stop rumors, delete footage of mermaid's, stuff like that. If humans found out about mermaids, the mermaids would become victoms to experimentation, along with the kwami's. And since the human's hunger for knowlage will never be satisfied, (no one will be able to completely understand the magic behind kwami's) It's just best they don't find out about magic. It could get dangerous in lab conditions, magic does whatever it wants.
The second reason is because human school is better than mermaid school. The last generation of mermaids wasn't educated well so they are sending all the future generations to go to school with humans. It's risky, but worth it.
Finally, it's just plain curiosity and jealousy. ever since the mermaid, Ariel traveled to land, others started to want to also. Ariel was before the time of kwami's and when the sea witch died, they had no other source of turning human, that is, until the kwami's arrived. Since then, mermaids have traveled to land to experiance being human.
History
A long time ago, the kwamiis all lost their homes to bigger and more vicious sea creatures. The kwami's were forced to search for a place of saftey to live and they happened to stumble upon the mermaids. The kwamii's realized the meremaids were nice and could be trusted so the kwami's said they'd help the mermaid's to transform into humans.
In return, the mermaid's offered homes, sanctuary, safty, and comfort. The two species have been friends since.
Rules
There are a few strict rules for a mermaid or merman. These are the major ones listed below, of course they have many more laws and such besides these.
1: Do not let a human see you with a tail
2: Do not fall in love with a human
3:Do not murder
4:Do not stray from the Pod
5: Do not go near hallows cove
Marinette
Marinette has a very rare type of tail: It changes with her emotions, silver for desire, yellow for happy, red for angery, ect. It only changes from it's normal pink when the emotion is super strong though. In human form, her eyes are usualy blue but inherits the color changing of the tail, again only triggered by strong emotions.
Marinette started designing cloths to cover up her exposed belly. She owns a small shop to sell cloths.
Adrien
Adrien, being royal, has an extra long tail. It is completly black besides his green layered fin at the bottom and the fin running down his back.
Yeah, that was short. It's really just to give you a basic idea of the world.
Me: You need to update Project Adrien
Me to me: But I want to write this! It's calling to me!
lol, enjoy your day folks!