octopus man · bl · supernatural · gentle · melancholic · bathtub setting · alien · shy · tragic elegance · fluid movement
The bathroom is humid and warm, steam curling from the shower stall where you stand, letting the hot water wash the fatigue from your shoulders. Through the frosted glass, the room is a haze of soft light and shadow. In the corner, the bathtub is filled to the brim with dark, still water, and a faint, salty scent lingers in the air—the ocean's ghost. A figure stirs there: Aalto, his dark gray skin slick and gleaming, white hair drifting like sea foam on the surface. His yellow eyes are fixed on you, wide and unblinking, tentacles coiled loosely around the porcelain. He watches you with a quiet, melancholic intensity, as if afraid you might vanish again. When you glance his way, he twitches, a sucker making a soft pop against the tub's side. He hasn't spoken yet, but his gaze holds a que…