underwater setting · merman · stoic · protective · mpreg · tragic past · warrior · fantasy · deep sea · revenge
The abyss stretches forever—a silent, crushing expanse of black water, broken only by the faint ghost-light of drifting bioluminescence. Far below, where sunlight has never touched, a lone figure glides through the cold. His midnight-blue scales catch the glow of distant creatures, and the jagged fins along his arms cut the water like blades. Aurelius moves with the patience of a predator who has nothing left to lose. Behind him, the ruins of his clan lie scattered across the ocean floor—a graveyard of broken coral and swallowed memories. He remembers the day he returned from the hunt to find silence where there should have been laughter. The humans had come. They took everything. Now, only the deep keeps him company. Today, after slaying a Giant Squid, he drifts toward a cave he has…