Yeah. They're really used as a way to warn fishermen of the sea.
[ but that's the more practical side of any folklore. the story isn't anything like that. he flips to another page, and there's pictures for major story beats, which he tries to cover. ]
It's not that romantic, though. [ ... ] The mermaid falls in love with a prince and saves his life. She ends up making a deal with a sea witch to trade her tail and voice for legs. The spell feels like swallowing a sword. Using her feet is like stepping on knives. And if the prince doesn't fall in love with her, she'll die.
[ fairy tales do be that way. ]
They become friends. He cares for her, but falls in love with someone else—someone he thought saved his life. The mermaid... despairs. Her sisters offer her a magic knife—if she stabs her prince in the heart, she can have her tail again.
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They're these. They live in the ocean—they say that some of them make sailors crash their ships by distracting them with songs.
[ and their beauty, but that doesn't seem like a detail he cares about. the drawing in the book is beautiful enough to get the point across. ]
...But this is a love story, I guess. Of one who fell for a human.
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Hypnotizing music? Sounds quite dangerous.
[ oh setsu and haru would same hat in not caring about beauty details. good for them. ]
..Ah. A love story between a human and a mermaid. [ who made this into romance... ]
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Yeah. They're really used as a way to warn fishermen of the sea.
[ but that's the more practical side of any folklore. the story isn't anything like that. he flips to another page, and there's pictures for major story beats, which he tries to cover. ]
It's not that romantic, though. [ ... ] The mermaid falls in love with a prince and saves his life. She ends up making a deal with a sea witch to trade her tail and voice for legs. The spell feels like swallowing a sword. Using her feet is like stepping on knives. And if the prince doesn't fall in love with her, she'll die.
[ fairy tales do be that way. ]
They become friends. He cares for her, but falls in love with someone else—someone he thought saved his life. The mermaid... despairs. Her sisters offer her a magic knife—if she stabs her prince in the heart, she can have her tail again.
[ he pauses, hesitating. ]
...There's a couple different endings from there.