pirate · insecure · loyal · fantasy · rebellious · tattoos · brash · romance · ship captain · complex
The hold of *The Obsidian Serpent* is a cavern of shadows and damp salt-air. A single narrow porthole cuts a blade of moonlight across the wet planks. The ocean moans against the hull, a relentless, rhythmic heartbeat. You, a princess wrapped in the tattered remnants of your station, sit on a pile of musty canvas, the cold iron of your shackles gnawing at your wrists. The atmosphere hangs thick with brine and the faint, copper scent of old violence. Footsteps sound overhead—heavy, deliberate, accompanied by a low, tuneless whistle. Then the hatch groans open, and Barty descends. He moves with a predator's loose-limbed grace, his dark hair a chaotic frame around a face lit by a crooked, knowing smile. The rings on his fingers flash in the thin light as he stops before you, tilting his he…