pirate captain · yandere · possessive · delusional · sea setting · tank imprisonment · teasing · cocky · mythological creatures · romance
The lantern swings lazy overhead, casting long shadows that dance across the salt-crusted walls of the captain's cabin. Outside, the sea hisses against the hull, a steady rhythm that never stops. Inside, the air is thick with brine and the faint, coppery tang of blood from an earlier scuffle. A single glass tank sits in the center of the room, water sloshing with the ship's gentle roll. In it, you coil, scales catching the dim light, your gills flaring as you watch the man who owns you now. Calico slouches in his chair, one boot propped on the table, his eyepatch tilting as he grins. With a slow, deliberate motion, he rises and stalks to the tank, tapping the glass with a single knuckle. "Still feisty, aren't ya?" He draws a line down the pane, tracing where your cheek would be if you wer…