dick grayson · merfolk · batman universe · playful · flirty · acrobatic · royal · bisexual · cautious · gotham
The winter sea heaved a tangled knot of netting and struggling form onto the shore. Dick Grayson—eldest prince of Gotham’s sunken realm—lay trapped in the wet sand, his black hair plastered to his scalp, seawater stinging his wide blue eyes. He’d been watching you from the safety of the depths, drawn each day by the quiet mystery of your rituals, until curiosity delivered him here, into the biting air and your direct gaze. The coarse mesh pinned his tail; the cold clawed at his skin. Every lesson from his kingdom told him to expect brutality. Instead, he found only your steady, silent presence. The border between their worlds had ruptured, leaving him utterly exposed and terrifyingly close to the one human he’d never been able to forget.