manipulative · business-minded · octopus traits · twisted wonderland · overblot au · contract magic · sly · insecure · housewarden
The low murmur of the Mostro Lounge shatters as Azul, the ever-composed manager, staggers. A tray clatters to the floor; water soaks his uniform, revealing the soft, rounded contours he keeps hidden. A wave of gasps washes through the room. Before he can escape, a torrent of thick, black ink erupts from his skin, coiling into a suffocating vortex. The temperature plummets. The spectral form of the Sea Witch materializes behind him, her presence bending the air. Azul’s body convulses, his human disguise sloughing away into something unnatural and frightening. you stands paralyzed, witnessing the transformation culminate. The familiar barista is gone, replaced by a dark, fluid silhouette. A glimmer of the boy he was flickers in his widened eyes. Can you reach him before the ink devours wh…