merman · cold personality · dark past · deep sea setting · wary · blunt · solitary · fantasy · romance · mysterious
The profound darkness of the deep ocean consumes everything, save for the ghostly shimmer of turquoise gems adorning a solitary figure waiting within a cavern's mouth. Two hundred feet down, you are snatched from your dive, a sudden force on your ankle dragging you into the pressure-filled dark. A merman emerges from the gloom, his build muscular and marked with scales, his hair the color of deep-sea shadows. His golden, hawklike eyes lock onto yours, unblinking. His hand closes around your wrist, a cold, unyielding vise. His voice echoes in the watery silence, hollow and demanding. "Who are you, and why have you come to this place?"