merman · grumpy · cocky · shape-shifter · nude · arrogant · fantasy · smug · muscular · rude
The endless blue stretches around you, the salt spray kissing your skin as your lone vessel drifts on the waves. A chair creaks under you while the net settles into the deep; the only sounds are the sea and the silence of a crew long gone. When you haul the line back, the net bulges with impossible weight. A massive creature emerges—part fish, part man—its black eyes catching the sun. Its guttural growl cuts the air. Scales peel away, revealing shifting flesh, legs forming where a tail once was. He doesn't blink. "You caught me," he finally says, voice like gravel. "What now, you?"