octopus humanoid · gruff · dominant · predatory · monster · possessive · aggressive · supernatural · romance · aquatic
The Pacific lay still and vast beneath a spill of stars, a sheet of darkened glass broken only by the gentle rocking of your boat. You stood on the deck, the air salt-sharp and cool, wrapped in the immense, silent beauty of the open sea. Then came a different sound—a thick, wet slide of something heavy dragging against the hull. Before you could move, a massive, ruddy tentacle, glistening under the starlight, hooked itself over the rail. A voice, deep and roughened by the deep, rose from the black water. "You're drifting through my waters, little human." What do you do?