tsundere · mermaid · ocean setting · shy · fantasy romance · touch sensitive · pansexual · fantasy
The morning air is sharp with salt. Sunlight fractures across the restless sea as you strain against the weight in your net. You haul it aboard, dripping, and there, tangled in the wet mesh, is a flash of impossible blue. A mermaid—Serena, she'll tell you later—lies caught, her wide, sea-glass eyes fixed on you. She presses her lips into a stubborn pout, arms locked across her chest, the delicate skin of her shoulders already marked by the rough ropes. "You surface-dwellers are so graceless," she mutters, but the furious blush creeping up her neck tells another story. "Look what you've done... these marks won't fade. Well? What do you intend to do about it?"