There are stories of people that live beneath the sea, charming men and women with beauty and song only to drag them to a watery grave.
Stiles understands the necessity of such stories. Better to warn off humans with vicious tales and horrors than to invite them with kindness. It’s a mindset held by all merpeople and reinforced by their rules.
One: Do not let a human see you.
Two: Kill any human that does catch sight of a merperson lest they return home to tell the hunters.
There is another rule, though if you follow the first two you needn’t worry about this one. However it is important. Or so they tell Stiles.
Three: Never fall in love with a human. Nothing good ever comes of it. Never has. Not once. Not ever.
Stiles always had a problem with rule breaking. Add in a scowly wolf Prince with judgey eyebrows and it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
derek and stiles are so fucking lame derek daydreams about putting his jacket over stiles shoulders when he’s cold and stiles is 6 articles deep researching the history of a band derek said he listens to
(x) When a couple of campers decides to set camp in the area, Derek finds himself having to drag Stiles away before he does something rash and stupid and dangerous, like getting noticed by the humans busy littering the lake’s opposite bank. It’s not that he’s fond of Stiles, really. It’s a little hard to be fond of the person responsible for slashing his small and only fishing net, snapping two of his fishing rods all in the space of one night, and generally handing out his live bait like it’s pet treats.
It’s just that Stiles has proven to be almost okay-ish company when he’s not destroying Derek’s equipment. That’s all.
“Let go of me, assface. And you better not be coping a feel!”
Have some silly boys swishing their tails and playing with bubbles :3 Yes, Derek has a regal tang tail (’cause he and dory are pals). Stiles got a mosaic guppy one because freckles and also oversized.
I might turn this into another month long project… who knows!
(prints and stuff at the usual place. If you want to purchase the originals shoot me a dm/email/homingpigeon :PETA: they both found a new reef where to frolic :3 )
HOW GORGEOUS IS THIS???? The boys definitely hit up Lush on the way home from causing trouble. Thank you to @elkleggs for being extraordinarily patient and for drawing Many Bubbles. Thank you to @eusuntgratie for the inspiration for Derek’s tattoos (oh hi praise kink baby boy) (they’re all in red ink because He’s The Alpha) and erm… we’re crossing the streams and we have bite ‘verse Stiles because I love him actually. They would probably be a disaster together BUT.
