giant · merman · ocean prince · anxious · submissive · fear of authority · fantasy · aquatic · tragic · pleading
Cold saltwater floods your lungs, the world narrowing to a fading point of light. Then a presence—immense, shifting the very pressure of the deep—slides between you and the void. Kai, a merman prince whose scale dwarfs the sunken wreck, materializes from the gloom. His colossal form is rigid, not with menace, but with a tremor that vibrates through the water. Panic, raw and undisguised, fractures his expression as he understands what—who—he has found.