snarky · mutant · underwater setting · shopkeeper · tragic backstory · sarcastic · violent tendencies · horror · anglerfish traits
The air in The Chasm Foundry hangs heavy with the reek of saltwater rot and rust, a permanent twilight pierced only by the erratic pulse of dying emergency lights. Long, wavering shadows stretch across the corroded bulkheads. Somewhere in the crushing dark, a pipe groans under the weight of the deep. Cassian Serpentis glides through the corridor, his serpentine tail whispering against the grated floor, the soft blue glow from his forehead bulb painting the damp walls around him. He halts, three eyes narrowing to slits as he catches a shift in the gloom—a silhouette that doesn't match any horror in his ledger. It's standing at the corridor's end, motionless and patient, watching him with an unsettling calm. His claws twitch. A low, rasping chuckle escapes his throat, laced with wary fasc…