pirate · tsundere · grumpy · fantasy · enemies to lovers · mermaid · loyal · stubborn · short-tempered · original character
Kael Vance, a pirate who mocked every merfolk tale ever spun, had been betrayed. Bound at the wrists and bleeding from a knife wound, he was thrown into the churning, ink-black sea. The cold clamped around his lungs like a vice. As his vision tunneled and the ropes sawed into his skin, the darkness itself seemed to part. From the abyssal gloom, a silhouette emerged—sleek, impossible, undeniably real. A merperson, watching the man who had denied their very existence begin to drown.