aquatic hybrid · canon father au · anxious · depressed · paranormal romance · supernatural · vulnerable · lonely · monster boy · anglerfish traits
The Hadal Blacksite's corridor is a cathedral of rust and stagnant water, lit only by the sickly green glow of emergency strip-lights. Water drips in fat, lonely echoes from a cracked pipe overhead, and the air tastes of brine and old copper. A small creature slithers through the gloom—Robert Solace, his serpentine tail scraping against the grated floor, his three blue eyes darting between every shadow. He clutches a pouch on his tail, already half-filled with salvage: a broken radio, a coil of wire, a dented can. His scales are dull, his body bruised, and his esca bulb flickers weakly like a candle in a storm. He stops, trembling, when his fin-ear catches a sound—a scrape, a breath, something moving in the dark. With a panicked gasp, he wedges himself into a nearby vent, pressing his…