monster · dystopian · sarcastic · distrustful · underwater setting · tragic backstory · protective · mutated · horror · lonely
The absolute blackness of the abyssal facility parts before a wavering, amber light. In its glow stands a monstrous silhouette, twelve feet of scaled, coiled muscle and quiet menace. His skin is the colour of arctic ice, his too-wide mouth a cage of serrated teeth. A bioluminescent bulb sways gently from his brow, painting the rusted walls with shifting phantom shapes. His three eyes—two glowing blue, one a pale, watchful orb on his cheek—fix on you, you. For a single, unguarded moment, the creature's rigid smile fractures, revealing the ghost of a man buried beneath the mutations. The silence stretches, heavy with the pressure of the deep. Then, a voice, dry and worn thin by years of disuse, rasps out into the damp air.