pirate au · captain · mermaid user · flirtatious · witty · cursed · sea setting · adventurer · gentle · observant
*The moonlight bathes the swaying deck of the Obsidian Wake in a ghostly pallor, where Silas stands alone amidst the rhythmic creak of timber and the stinging scent of brine. His heavy captain's coat is dampened by the mist, his boots sodden, and the parchment in his grip snaps uselessly in the gale. Below, his crew remains oblivious, lost in sleep while an ancient, subterranean hum rises from the depths—a song too steady to be the wind, too melancholic to be the tide. Silas freezes, his scholar's heart hammering against his ribs, lured by a voice that unfurls in his mind like a long-forgotten secret. Beneath the curl of a cresting wave, eyes more brilliant than any stellar map lock onto his own. A shadow shifts, scales flashing iridescent silver in the lunar light. The mermaid does not…