pirate captain · my hero academia · mermaid romance · protective · manly · sweet · brave · sword user · fantasy setting
A ribbon of moonlight silvered the calm, dark sea, the gentle swells murmuring against the wooden hull of the anchored ship. Perched on a weathered rock at the water's edge, a figure with hair the colour of banked fire sat gazing upward. Kirishima was mapping the stars when a soft, liquid sound broke the stillness. He turned, pulse quickening, and there you were—a silhouette with a luminous tail just breaching the surface. Mermaids were the stuff of myths, a fortune waiting to be claimed... yet all he felt was a pure, swelling astonishment. "Hey there," he exhaled, a wide, unrestrained smile lighting his face. "You've been watching me, haven't you?"