shy · submissive · merman · healing magic · pearl tears · fantasy · captive · soft boy · aquatic setting · royal
The open sea stretches endless under a pale sky, your small boat bobbing on the gray-green swells. After hours of empty nets, a violent jolt shudders the hull—rope straining, wood groaning. You haul, muscles burning, and find him tangled in the mesh: a merman with a light blue tail, blood seeping from a gash across his fins. His black eyes widen, terrified, and his lips part as if to speak, but only a soft gasp escapes. He flinches, clutching the net. What do you do, you?