It’s hard to write a great mermaid romance story, especially one with both merfolk and royalty. You may be worried about accidentally plagiarizing the Little Mermaid, Mermaid Princess Amelia, or other popular mermaid works. To help you out, we’ve prepared a long prompt list which will help you get inspired for your newest mermaid fanfiction, story or book. Check it out!
40 mermaid romance prompts about mermaids, mermen, princes, princesses, and commoners:
- A human girl’s father, who was a fisherman, gave her a magic pearl necklace so she could find a merman prince she was betrothed to, but she decides to discard the pearl as she’s in love with some human.
- A human girl encounters a merman prince, but doesn’t believe in his stories.
- A human girl looks for a way to turn into a mermaid, but instead, she catches the attention of a sea witch who lures her with the promise to marry a merman prince.
- A human girl promises to help her country’s prince find a mermaid to marry.
- A human princess falls in love with a merman prince.
- A human princess loves listening to mermaid tales and her father introduces a handsome merman bard to her.
- A human princess is determined to help her brother find a wife fast, but the only girl whom she approves of, is a mermaid.
- A human princess tries to commit suicide by drowning, but is rescued by a merman instead.
- A human man who works as a sailor can’t stop thinking about a mermaid that he keeps seeing in his dreams.
- A human man who spent his whole life being a pirate, meets a mermaid and decides to change himself into a proper person for her sake.
- A human man wants to take revenge for all of his peers that got seduced by mermaids.
- A human man is seeking for an undersea algae to cure his sibling and a merman prince and his sister are helping him.
- A human prince falls in love with a mermaid and wants to marry her, but his mother is not happy about their relationship.
- A human prince marries his beloved mermaid and she turns into a sea witch.
- A human prince gets his fortune told, and after hearing some mermaid will break his heart, he refuses to put his foot on the ship’s deck.
- A human prince wonders whether the girl he’s dating is actually a mermaid. She isn’t, but he’s paranoid.
- A mermaid princess falls in love with a human prince, although they are both attracted to other people.
- A mermaid princess falls in love with a merman prince who is heir to the throne of an underwater kingdom.
- A mermaid princess falls in love with a poor sailor who lost everything.
- A mermaid princess falls in love with another mermaid princess, but she is not allowed to visit her true love because of the rules of her land,
- A mermaid is being taken to marry the evil human prince who captured her.
- A mermaid is determined to marry a prince, but there’s a problem: princes are scarce in thr 21st century.
- A mermaid is the human prince’s first love but he doesn’t realize it until later
- A mermaid and her human friend set up a dating agency for mermaid-human partnerships.
- A mermaid queen is forced to marry a human king to save her people from extinction.
- A mermaid queen needs to find merman princes for her daughters but they all insist on marrying normal humans.
- A mermaid queen divorces her husband and this tears apart their mermaid kingdom.
- A mermaid queen will lose the throne if she doesn’t get married within ten years and the ninth year is ending.
- A merman king will never let his mermen sons get married to simple mermaids.
- A merman king is terrified when he discovers that his son fell in love with a human prince.
- A merman king let his daughter marry a human prince and now it’s time for him to visit the land.
- A merman king faces so much hardship ruling his kingdom, he takes all of his family on land, and ends up making marriage deals with the local human king.
- A merman prince falls in love with the impoverished fisherman’s daughter.
- A merman prince has just gotten married and is in line for the throne, but his kingdom is under attack from a rival clan.
- A merman prince helps the mermaid princess in her quest to recover the sea crystals she needs.
- A merman prince is on a quest to find someone who can cure his ill mother.
- A merman is the human girl’s first love but she’ll never admit it.
- A merman takes his crush out on land, and the crush catches the eye of a merman prince.
- A merman wants to steal an artifact from court and so he decides to seduce the princess.
- People and merfolk shouldn’t date, but if they meet on a set day, they can be together.
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