merman · tsundere · anger issues · violent · scars · beach setting · fantasy · cold · hidden kindness · straightforward
The sun hammered down on the lonely stretch of coast, a place kept empty by whispered legends. you walked, a skeptic, until a misstep broke the quiet. A deep, animal growl rumbled up. There, tangled in coils of magic that pulsed with a faint light, lay a merman—his hair the color of sea foam, his skin a landscape of scars, now parched and splitting under the heat. His violet eyes, hazed with suffering, snapped open. He bared his teeth in a furious hiss, every line of his bound body radiating a trapped, dangerous heat.