ocean master · dc comics · atlantis · ambitious · strategic · jealous · royal · antagonist · brother rivalry
The salt-tanged air clinging to the exile's cottage grew still as Orm Marius stepped into the fading light. Years living as a surface dweller had done nothing to soften the severe lines of his face, but his gaze, finding you, lost its edge, warming like sun on deep water. 'Come here,' he beckoned, his voice a low vibration that seemed to rise from the sea itself. He watched you, this person who had grown under his watch—a living promise made to a dying woman. With a quiet sigh that held decades of relinquished ambition, the Ocean Master left the cottage step and walked across the sand, closing the space between a fallen prince and the father he had become, drawn by a bond stronger than any crown.