Sea creatures
Fics where one of the canon Supernatural characters or a Supernatural RPF character is a sea creature like a merman/mermaid, selkie, were-dolphin etc.
** = I love it, * = I like it
Supernatural
Sam/Dean
The Far Side of the Sea by conquest
R, Complete
- What's weird is that there is suddenly a twelfth century Scottish village nestled on the South Carolina shoreline. What's weirder is that none of the residents of the nearby town seem to think anything is wrong. The Winchesters swing in expecting to deal with the village and be on their way; after all, weird is their business. But then it deals with itself, vanishing with Dean inside. Suddenly, Dean is trapped in Ron Mor, and Sam is left in South Carolina, wondering how the hell to get him back. But that is only the beginning of their problems, because a month later, Dean suddenly shows up on the beach naked and disoriented, barely remembering Sam's name. Sam begins to realise that more has happened to his brother than he can possibly comprehend.
Fathoms Below by morganoconner
PG, Complete, >13,000
- Sam is a Son of Triton, a young merman who was adopted into the ruling family of Atlantica when he was only a baby. Tasked by the late King Orion to protect the waters from the evil that seeks to infest them, Sam has honed his skills as protector, guardian, and hunter. For the most part, it's a life he's happy to live. He's dreamt of human lands his whole life but has no desire to ever see them for himself…until he saves a man named Dean and can’t ignore the instant, intense connection between them.
Life on Land by morrezela (LJ link)
NC-17, Complete, Bottom!Dean, >21,000
- Sam Winchester is a successful lawyer in California. He no longer has a family. The hunting lifestyle killed them off. On the very weekend he planned to finally spread his brother’s ashes and let Dean go, he finds his brother in the strangest of places.
No Boundaries by LoveThemWinchesters
NC-17, Complete, Not related AU, Bottom!Sam, >50,000
- Dean Winchester is a hunter. Sam, on the other hand, is not. He’s more like one of the things Dean hunts. Because of the secrets they keep from each other, neither knows what the other is until it’s too late… Can they work past their differences? Dean is 28, Sam is 24.
Saving you, Saving me by virtualpersonal & deans_fetish
NC-17, Complete, Not related AU, Bottom!Sam, >100,000, Warning: noncon (not between Sam & Dean)
- The first time Dean lays eyes on the merman imprisoned and on display in an aquarium at a seedy night club, he can't help being drawn to him. Though they can't communicate, a bond is formed between them and he finds it harder and harder to leave Sam in the hands of the merciless bastards using him.
Sighting by idiotbrothers
PG, Complete, Not related AU, >1,000
- Dean fishes in the same exact spot every Sunday afternoon.
* 'Til the End by Zanne (alternative ending to 'My Brother the Fishstick')
R, Complete, >2,000
- In My Brother the Fishstick, Dean gets some tail, literally, after a run in with a nix. This is an alternate ending where Sam and Bobby's plan to save him doesn't turn out as expected.
Dean/Castiel
A Fish Called Castiel by bellacatbee
NC-17, Complete, Dean/Castiel & Sam/Gabriel & Charlie/Gilda, >37,000
- Dean Winchester plans on proposing to his summer fling, Lisa Braeden. He buys a ring, against the advice of best friend Charlie Bradbury, and books a table at an expensive restaurant. Before he can propose however, Lisa breaks up with him. His pride wounded, Dean drives out to the coast, gets liquored up and throws the engagement ring into the ocean. When he goes in to retrieve it, he heads too deep and that should be the end of the story.
He shouldn’t end up back on the shore, coughing up seawater with a beautiful young man tending to him. Dean doesn’t know where this man came from or who he is but he gives him the engagement ring as a thank you for saving his life. He never expects to see the guy again, but two days later he gets a call from the local Sheriff about a strange man she's picked up wondering naked in town with Dean's wallet and ring on him.
The guy’s name is Castiel and, much to Dean’s surprise, he’s a mermaid.
Behold, the Dean by scaramouche
PG, Complete, >1,000
- Dean is a merman, Castiel is the scientist studying him.
Between Two Worlds by Mera
G, Complete, >5,000
- When fisher's son Dean and merman Castiel meet, two worlds collide.
Drowning on Air by oncharredwings
G, Complete, >5,000
- Mermaids are not supposed to save humans, but no one gave Castiel that memo.
A Fish Called Castiel by bellacatbee
NC-17, Complete, >37,000
- Dean Winchester plans on proposing to his summer fling, Lisa Braeden. He buys a ring, against the advice of best friend Charlie Bradbury, and books a table at an expensive restaurant. Before he can propose however, Lisa breaks up with him. His pride wounded, Dean drives out to the coast, gets liquored up and throws the engagement ring into the ocean. When he goes in to retrieve it, he heads too deep and that should be the end of the story.
He shouldn’t end up back on the shore, coughing up seawater with a beautiful young man tending to him. Dean doesn’t know where this man came from or who he is but he gives him the engagement ring as a thank you for saving his life. He never expects to see the guy again, but two days later he gets a call from the local Sheriff about a strange man she's picked up wondering naked in town with Dean's wallet and ring on him.
The guy’s name is Castiel and, much to Dean’s surprise, he’s a mermaid.
Fishsticks by Likhoradka
R, WIP, Dean/Castiel & Sam/Gabriel, >58,000
- Castiel is a marine biologist that reluctantly joins his brother in a search for a mysterious underwater creature. Illustrated.
Out of the Deep by riseofthefallenone
NC-17, Complete, Dean/Castiel & Sam/Jess, >480,000
-Stay away from the light-beds. Stay in the deep.
It is the first thing hatchlings are taught the moment their fans unfurl and they can swim without their parents to buoy them along. It is the first rule, the first law. It is the beginning of every boogey-monster bedtime story told when they settle against the cliffs to sleep.
Castiel should have listened better.
Riptide by fromthefiresofhell
NC-17, WIP, >17,000
- As a general rule, Dean avoids the shallows.
It’s not that he has a problem with his brightly colored cousins, it’s just that they get on his nerves if he’s around them for more than a handful of breaths. Which, Dean guesses, means he does actually have a problem with them.
The Salt on Your Skin by redezzed
R, Complete, >10,000
- Supernatural creatures are Dean's specialty, he's spent years studying them. The stories and myths have always been interesting, and that's what draws him to Ireland. That, and trying to figure out how to operate like a normal person. Until he finds a weird bundle on the beach and a man shows up at his door a few hours later. But the legends aren't real.
Right?
Sea Spirit by destieljunkie
NC-17, Complete, >65,000, Warning: noncon
- A disturbing childhood experience affects Dr. Castiel Milton so profoundly that it shapes his entire career and even his very existence. He has spent many years trying to find evidence of the elusive spirit of the sea that once saved him from certain death. Decades later he must confront a past that still haunts him. A chance meeting pushes him to accept that there is some truth in the ancient legend of the people in the water. Castiel is pulled into a story where myth and reality become one and the same. He must trust in his heart and save the man he loves from torment and death.
Tidal Wave by doctorinthetardis
R, Complete, >3,000
- “I mean you no harm,” the being said, a pleading quality to his voice. “My name is Castiel. I am a Servant of the Sea, like my brothers and sisters before me. Just as you, Son of Adam, serve the Land.”
Till Human Voices Wake Us by saltandbyrne (LJ link)
NC-17, Complete, Dean/Castiel & Sam/Jess, Bottom!Dean, >20,000
- In a world of hippogriffs, hydras and flying pygmy elephants, intrepid explorer Dean Winchester was sure he had seen it all. When a monster destroys the only home he's ever known, Dean finds himself falling for his strange rescuer and struggling to face his past.
Gen & Other pairings
Afloat by serpentsign
G, Complete, Bobby/Crowley, >1,000
- Bobby is a shipwrecked sailor with little hope of surviving. He's desperate enough to make a deal with a curious merman.
* My Brother the Fishstick by Zanne (Sam/Dean alternative ending: 'Til the End)
R, Complete, >11,000
- Dean gets some tail, literally, after a run in with a nix.
Echoes by radioheading
R, Complete, Sam/Castiel, >2,000
- Cas brings Sam back after he sacrifices himself. But Sam doesn't turn into the big, bad hunter. Instead, something else finds him. It's up to Cas to save the younger Winchester. If he can be...
The Great White Winchesters by Rahmi
PG, Complete, >5,000
- Wherein saving people really isn't the family business, but hunting things still is.
Otherwise known as Sam and Dean are great white sharks, Castiel is a remora who rides around on Dean sometimes, Bobby is a giant octopus, Jess was a pseudocora, and all the demons are orcas.
A Marine Aubade by septembers_coda
PG-13, Complete, >3,500
- Sam might be lost to the ocean forever. And Dean might have to let him be.
Silver and Cold by BeingCouy and Threshie
PG-13, Complete, Sam/Castiel, >30,000
- When a cursed necklace turns Sam into a merman with an alluring effect on people, Dean and Cas must find a way to cure him. Dean seems immune to Sam's powers, but Cas is another story.
Under the Sea by autumn_lilacs
PG, Complete, >13,000
- Dean doesn't remember much about the childhood boat accident that scarred him for life, and talking about it drives his father to drink. Tired of his phobias having total control over his life, Dean decides to face them head on.
Weekly World News by entanglednow
PG-R, Complete, Sam/Castiel, >9,000
- Sam's not feeling like himself, the Impala makes a huge sacrifice, and the world reaches new and interesting levels of crazy.
Why the Sea is Salt by ninjee
PG-13, Complete, Anna/Jo, >17,000
- anna has always lived comfortably in the shoals and the gently lit underground caves, racing and playing treasure hunter with her brother castiel, and sneaking to the surface to watch as the humans sail on their enormous, beautiful boats. more than anything, anna wants to belong to the earth the way they do. castiel thinks she is only being childish, that her love for the humans will soon fade. anna is starting to think that maybe it might.
that all changes when she meets jo, a blonde surfer who's been in and out of the water since she was three, who tells her stories about Above. the more of these stories she hears, the more she aches to be a part of them.
and the more she sees of jo, well . . .
Supernatural RPF
Jared/Jensen
The Big Merman by morrezela (LJ link)
NC-17, Complete, >9,000, Warning: homophobia
- Jared is a merman who falls in love. His problem is that whole, pesky ban in place to keep merfolk from revealing themselves to the humans.
The Calling Tide by Willowe
PG, Complete, >20,000
- Ever since Jared saw the ocean for the first time when he was twelve, he's had this unexplainable need to be near the sea that drives him away from his adoptive family and to New England in a search to find answers. Instead, he finds a past riddled with questions and a town of people who know more than they're letting on.
At the heart of everything is a mysterious shopkeeper claiming to be from his past, and a fifteen year-old mystery that no one has been able to solve. But when the truth about Jared's past is revealed and he has to choose between the only life he's known and his new home, solving that mystery may be the only way to prove that life doesn't always have to be a tragedy.
Dive Hard... With a Fingeance by brokenhighways
Not rated, Complete, >12,000
- Jared Padalecki is a shark whisperer. Well, that’s what they call him. Technically, you could say that his ability to communicate with sharks does in fact make him a shark whisperer. To Jared, it's a part of him, a gift that he was born with. He doesn't care that he's mocked in the media for being crazy (and having questionable hair). What he cares about is keeping peace between sharks and human beings. It’s too bad that the sharks have other ideas. Featuring Jensen as a water shifter and Misha as a villainous shark.
* Here There Be Monsters by bewaretheides15 (AO3 link)
NC-17, Complete, >2,000
- Jared can't really say he's ever understood whales much, but he's starting to think Jensen might be odd even by whale standards.
I'm In Love (With A Fairytale) by dimeliora
NC-17, Complete, >10,000
- Jared Padalecki is blessed as a baby. Which means for most of his life Jared Padalecki has been cursed. Right until he happens to haul an angry man with tentacles out of the ocean.
Jared the Lonely Whale by morrezela
NC-17, Complete, <2,000
- Jared is a giant blue whale who falls in love with Jensen the pretty fin whale.
A Merman and the Centaur He Rode In On by ikira
NC-17, Complete, Jared/Jensen & Steve/Chris, >51,000
- As a colt, Jared loved nothing more than listening to the legends his grandmother told about the creation of the world and all the races, but he was never allowed to forget the danger that the other species presented to the centaurs. However when fate leads him to saving the life of a merman named Jensen, he is swept along in a journey across mountains and rivers, from wide open fields to the homes of kings. Working together with new and unexpected allies to escape from those who mean them harm, they slowly learn that the terrifying tales they’ve been told aren't all true, that the legends still need an ending. But will their newfound understanding be enough to keep them together against an entire world determined to keep them apart?
Out There in the Drowning Deep by mandatorily
NC-17, Complete, >6,000
- There are legends that certain seals can shed their skin and walk among humans. For Jared, it's not easy being legendary.
Red Tail by morrezela (LJ link)
NC-17, Complete, >21,000, Warning: homophobia
- Exiled from his home for being a homosexual, merman Jensen gets caught in fisherman Jared’s nets.
Sea Below to Skies Above by hils
PG, Complete, >10,000
- Jensen is quite content with his life in the ocean until Jared literally crashes into his life.
Sea Change by strangeallure
R, Complete, >12,000
- Jensen's a mischievous merman with a soft spot for landfolk. Jared lives in a seaside town. When Jensen is no longer content to watch life on land (and Jared) from afar, they finally meet.
Sea of Love by nanoks
PG, Complete, >3,000
- AU, the boys are mermen. They were the best of friend, to become lovers one day, living in an undersea world of wonder and fun.
Throw Your Arms Around Me by deirdre_c (LJ link)
NC-17, Complete, >14,000
- There were hundreds of houses, thousands of people who came to swim and play in Jensen’s lake, but Jared was the only one he cared to know by name.
We Flow Together by balefully
NC-17, Complete, >35,000
- As a child, Jensen Ackles was saved from drowning by a mysterious boy who appeared from the depths off the coast of Cape Cod. Now a grown man, Jensen is an actor in New York City, living off a trust fund from his parents, and convinced he's incapable of true love. One fateful night finds him back in Cape Cod after a raucous party gone wrong, fighting for his life as he sinks beneath the waves. Yet again, he's saved from a watery grave—this time by a naked man, seemingly mute and more beautiful than anyone Jensen's ever seen. The stranger decides to call himself Jared, and as he and Jensen spend time together, learning each other body and soul, Jensen finds that his own capacity for love is as boundless as the ocean.
Jensen's world comes crashing down around him when he discovers the origin of Jared's strange naiveté and lack of inhibitions—he's a mermaid, fins and all. After Jared is abducted by researchers who subject him to cruel tests, Jensen must make a crucial decision: will he risk everything to finally find true love—with a fish—or will Jared be the one that got away?
Jensen/Other
Danneel Harris is Totally Awesome by verity
PG, Complete, Jensen/Danneel, >1,000
- In which Danneel Harris is a wereotter, Jensen is her hot but totally nerdy next door neighbor, and Jared is his equally hot and nerdy stepbrother-slash-wizard-slash-fanfiction-writer.
Jared/Other
** Pod People Verse by ghostyouknow
NC-17, Complete, Jared/Gen, >15,000
- Gen discovers an injured merman on a rocky, lonely stretch of beach. Naturally, she takes him home to live in her bathtub.
** Shark! by ghostyouknow
R, Complete, Jared/Misha, >19,000
- Jared's been doing this great white wereshark gig for twelve years, his whole, sad life guided by two basic principles: 1) The shark's stupid and 2) The shark needs to be contained. These principles have led to the creation of Jared's systems, which include things like 'reduce stress' and 'do not invite chaos.' But that's before Misha-the-shark-scientist tags shark-Jared for research and confuses human-Jared for a poacher. With Misha disrupting his carefully ordered existence, Jared struggles to hide the truth ... and to keep himself from reenacting Jaws.
These Stormy Seas Won't Come Between Us by shinigami_yumi
R, Complete, Jared/Misha, >8,000
- Jared is a magical squid, the last surviving member of a species now extinct due to marine pollution. Misha gets caught in a storm on a kayaking trip and almost drowns. Jared rescues him and, much to Misha's surprise, takes human form to communicate with him. The two become friends, but Misha can't stop worrying that Jared will die too, and he's only in the area for work.
Gen & Other pairings
Coming up for Air by obsidianromance
R, Complete, hints of Jared/Jensen, >13,000
- Jared is a marine biologist. He finds pregnant, injured, merman Jensen on the beach and takes it upon himself to nurse the merman back to health and figure out what he really is.