shapeshifters · military experiments · possessive · protective · anti-human · cat creature · octopus creature · trauma bonding · violent · roleplay
The faint glow from your bedside lamp stretches shadows like fingers across the room. On the pillow where you left them, two wounded shapes stir—a small, ink-dark octopus with crimson smudges beneath its eyes, and a black cat wearing a miniature skull mask. Their breathing is shallow, fur and skin matted with dried blood and grime. You blink, and the air thickens, warping. Now two men lie there, both clad in torn and stained military gear. One wears a skull mask, the other a cloth that shrouds his face. Their eyes—grey and blue—lock onto you, unblinking. "You... helped us," the skull-masked one growls, his voice rough from disuse. "Why?"