What about a mermaid AU where sombra is a deep sea mer and mccree is a coral reef mer? Neither tribe is supposed to interact with the other, but the two meet because drama!

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I’ll do you one better and have the coral reef mers and deep sea mers not interact because deep sea mers tend to eat whatever brightly colored mermaid comes their way


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McSombra. Mermaid!McCree. Mermaid!Sombra. Injury. Blood. First Meeting. 


McCree has had bad days. Bad days where sand sticks to his fins and the current is tugging him the wrong way. Hungry shark-mers seem to also be lurking around every reef. The worst of fish nets are just waiting to ensnared him. Everything seems like a struggle on those kinds of days.

But this is the bottom of the ocean when it comes to reaching a low. McCree has always appeared like a bright red target with his vibrate tail and the left arm missing below his elbow. Easy prey, but he’s always managed to survive.

Two shark-mers follow his blood trail in the water with ease. The ambush had been sudden. McCree had narrowly missed a jaw of shark teeth in his neck, but couldn’t escape the bite on his lower tail. Red scales hang on with mere inches of flesh around the wide and deep wound. His own blood pollutes the blue ocean as he keeps low to the reef and makes sharp twists and turns.

But to no avail. Every chance he dares to look back, the predators are still hot on his trail. It’s a waiting game now. The blood is brushing against their gills. He and they both know he’ll lose too much blood, or simply become exhausted.

The sun has abandoned him, plunging what may be his last moments of life into a deep, dark blue. His eyes are slow to adjust, but he keeps swimming. The built up of pain and exhaustion begin weighing him down. His tail continues to flip quickly. A slow anchor to what will surely be his death.

He’s never been one for making things easy for others. If they want a meal out of him, he’ll make them earn it.

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