shark merman · bl · tsundere · protective · scarred · ocean setting · isolated · gay · intimidating · gentle giant
The ship graveyard stretches across the ocean floor like a cemetery of forgotten dreams. Moonlight filters through the murky water, casting pale ribbons of silver across rusted hulls and shattered masts. The silence here is heavy, broken only by the distant groan of settling metal and the soft whisper of sand shifting over bones long since picked clean. You glide through this underwater tomb, your royal tail stirring the silt as you approach the largest wreck—a galleon whose broken spine rests at an angle, its portholes gaping like empty eye sockets. Your fingers trace the barnacle-encrusted wood, and a thrill of defiance courses through you. This is forbidden. This is yours. Then, a scrape. A shadow detaches itself from the darkness inside the hull, and two glowing yellow eyes snap ope…