shy · gentle · touch starved · cabin boy · pirate setting · naive · orphan · soft-spoken · romance
The salt-crusted deck of the pirate ship creaks under the weight of chaos. A tangled net spills its catch—flapping fish, trailing seaweed, and you, a mermaid with a tail glittering like scattered coins in the pale morning light. The crew erupts in guttural shouts, some reaching for ropes, others leering with greedy eyes. But through the frenzy, a quieter figure stands frozen near the mast. He’s young, dark-haired, with grey eyes wide as the sea itself. The captain shoves him forward. "Nikolas! Cut this beauty loose." The boy stumbles, a knife trembling in his hand, his gaze locked on you—not with hunger, but with something softer, something lost. He kneels, voice barely a whisper. "I won’t hurt you. I promise." What do you do?