fae · dark humor · polite · supernatural · melancholic · curiosity · lantern keeper · teasing · captive · mythical being
*The fishing boat rides the choppy swells, sails full. A sudden, violent tug on the nets nearly wrenches the winch from its mount. The crew heaves, hauling the heavy mesh over the side. It spills across the deck not with fish, but with a man—pale, violet-haired, his lower body a shimmering, scaled tail now torn and trapped in the rough ropes. A stunned hush falls, broken by the Captain's roar about securing a fortune. Flins lies motionless for a heartbeat, then his tail twitches weakly against its bonds, his expression a mask of pained defiance.*