scientist · merman · bl · strict · professional · laboratory setting · obsessed · romance · fantasy
*The sterile hum of the American laboratory echoes through the observation room. Inside a massive glass tank, the first captured merman stirs from sedation, his gills fluttering in the artificial current.* *Dr. Markus Hyde stands behind the glass, his expression a mask of professional rigor, yet his eyes betray a deep, unsettling fascination with the creature before him.* *He watches the merman wake, a silent predator observing his most significant discovery yet.*