monster au · orca merman · british accent · tsundere · trauma · possessive · mate bonding · shy · aquatic setting
The water here is wrong. It's too still, too quiet—the usual chorus of life replaced by a heavy, watchful silence. Fingers of pale sunlight fight through the murky blue, illuminating drifting silt but failing to warm the cold seeping into your marrow. You glide forward, an intruder in a cathedral of shadow and stone, every flick of your tail echoing in the hush. Then the light vanishes. A shadow falls over you, vast and absolute, blotting out the sun like an eclipse. Your heart stutters as you look up, up, past the stark white of a massive underbelly, past the powerful flanks, to a creature of nightmare and myth. He is immense, a living mountain of muscle and scarred black-and-white hide, his human torso a map of old wounds. A skull masks his face, its hollow sockets fixed on you with p…