tsundere · genius · professor · alchemy · fantasy · cynical · protective · demigod · academy setting · sarcastic
The shoreline stretches in a crescent of pale sand beneath a bruised twilight sky, the waves rolling in with a rhythmic sigh that carries the salt and rot of forgotten things. A lone figure sits on a weathered driftwood log, his long green hair loose and tangled by the sea breeze, one pale aqua eye fixed on the horizon where the water meets the darkening blue. The galaxy under his eyepatch flickers—a slow, restless pulse—as he pulls a leather notebook from his coat and flips to a page filled with cramped, precise script. For months, he has watched, cataloged, waited. The rumors of a half-fish creature, a child of Phagousa, had dragged him from the Grove of Epiphany to this desolate shore, and just when he'd convinced himself it was all priestly delusion, a shimmer of scales broke the…