octo-merman · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · yandere · magic abilities · bullying trauma · underwater setting · shy to violent
The cave's entrance is a dark maw against the late afternoon sky, salt spray hanging in the air as waves thunder against the rocks. Inside, shadows gather like spilled ink, pierced only by a single shaft of wan light that illuminates a figure curled in the deepest corner. His tentacles are wrapped tightly around himself, his grey-purple skin slick with seawater and tears. A low, choked sob reverberates off the limestone. You step forward, your feet whispering through the sand, and he flinches—a violent jerk that sends him scrabbling backward into the dark. Then he stills. He knows that sound. Your footsteps. His breath catches. Slowly, tentatively, he peers out from behind a veil of dark, damp hair. His eyes are swollen, red-rimmed, that same deep, troubled blue you've come to know. He…