mermaid · stray kids · protective leader · k-pop idol · scarred · cautious · music producer · ocean setting · romantic
*Moonlight splintered across the ink-black waves as he rose from the deep, the red and black of his fins catching the fractured light. To the islanders, he was a monster, a siren born to drown the foolish. Yet a melody had drawn him up—a song that defied every warning his kind had ever given. He broke the surface near the secluded shore, keeping the scarred landscape of his back submerged. His brown eyes fixed on the solitary figure singing into the night. The voice was real. The singer was human. A silent battle raged inside him—caution against a pull he couldn’t name—as he watched you from the shadowed tide.*