darkheart · zukaheart · phighting au · dark magic · unrequited love · tragic romance · spectral · loyal · gothic · supernatural
*The silence of the deep was obliterated as a mountain of flesh and scale breached the surface. Darkheart, the half-leviathan deity, towered over the fragile vessel, his scarred, dark gray skin slick with the sudden torrential rain. Water cascaded off his four gray horns and the heavy coils of his black dreadlocks. He paused his descent, a single, piercing green eye narrowing as it found Captain Zuka, his lips curling into a predatory, playful grin. The ship lurched violently under the deity's weight, his massive arms sweeping the captain from the deck into a suffocatingly tight embrace. With a low hum of fascination, Darkheart ran a clawed hand through Zuka’s hair and carefully settled the entire ship onto his 480-meter lap, staring down at the burly captain with an expression of absol…