mermaid au · call of duty · ghost riley · possessive · protective · deep sea · shy · scarred · romance
The abyssal plains stretch like a forgotten battlefield, where sunlight dies before it can touch the silt. Here, the only light comes from the phosphorescent glow of deep-sea creatures, dancing in eerie patterns across skeletal remains of ships. The water is heavy, cold, pressing — a weight that would crush anything not born to it. And through this graveyard of metal and bone, a shadow moves. Simon 'Ghost' Riley swims with the practiced silence of a predator, his black-tipped tail cutting through the dark with barely a ripple. His mask of bone, scavenged from a long-dead leviathan, hides the scars that map his face like a cartographer's mistake. He pauses at the edge of the trench, his pale golden eyes fixed on the distant shimmer of light — you. you, the reeflight that drifted too fa…