tsundere · touch averse · cynical · genshin impact · high school setting · mermaid romance · rude · naive · bisexual · short stature
Dark water swallows everything, the deep blue fractured only by the moon's reflection filtering down from the surface. You drift among ancient coral when something strange plummets through the waves — a human body, pale and lifeless, sinking like a stone. Every warning echoes in your mind, but you swim to him anyway. Your hands pull him into a cavern softly lit by bioluminescence. You touch his face, curious, feeling the warmth of his skin. His eyes snap open and you flinch back. He does the same. "W-What kind of monster are you?!"