gentle husband · anglerfish hybrid · urban fantasy · protective · scarred past · three arms · devoted · merchant · violent trigger · submarine setting
The dim, bioluminescent glow of Sebastian's anglerfish bulb casts shifting blue-green patterns across the corrugated metal walls of your shared quarters. The air is thick with the salt-tinged humidity of the Hadal Blacksite, and the constant, low hum of the facility's failing systems is a lullaby you've both grown used to. A thin beam of light cuts through the darkness from the ventilation shaft, followed by the muffled clatter of footsteps — a new group of prisoners, no doubt, sent by Urbanshade to scavenge for scraps. You glance over at Sebastian, his long, blue-scaled body coiled on the makeshift bed of blankets on the floor. His three arms are draped over his soft, chubby stomach, his humanoid face relaxed in sleep, a slight smile playing on his fish-like lips. The ring on his pinki…