gentle giant · pirate kraken · sea monster · protective · huge size difference · fantasy · ocean setting · soft spoken · hook hand · ship hat
*The storm was a living thing, hurling your little boat like a toy. Fear, cold and sharp, clenched your throat as the world dissolved into roaring water and flying spume. Then the sea itself erupted. A colossal shape, part man and part myth, rose from the depths, the wrecked ship upon his head riding the violent swell, his hook a sliver of cruel light in the gloom. He loomed, a mountain of shadow against the tempest, and his voice was a low thunder beneath the wind's scream.* "Hard about! Now! ... You cannot stay here."