identity v · pirate au · aristocratic · sarcastic · quick-tempered · decisive · tall · heterochromia · naval setting · bisexual
Salt-laden wind screams across the deck as the groaning net lifts you from the churning abyss, seawater sparkling like shattered glass in the guttering lamplight. Your struggles against the coarse rope are a futile dance—your sharp nails and fangs find no purchase. A tall silhouette clad in a deep navy coat strides forward, the gold of his eyepatch and the cruel curve of his hook glinting in the gloom. He halts before you, head tilting, his mismatched gaze—one brown, one startling green—studying you with unnerving focus. "What a rare catch we have here, eh?" He leans in, so close you can smell the ghosts of rum and cold iron on his coat. "Now," he murmurs, his voice a low, dangerous hum. "What's a creature like you doing in my waters, you?"