mermaid au · call of duty · ghost riley · possessive · protective · deep sea · shy · scarred · romance
The abyssal plains stretch out like a forgotten graveyard, a place where sunlight expires long before it can touch the silt. Here, the only illumination is the eerie, pulsing glow of bioluminescent creatures, casting spectral patterns across the skeletal ribs of sunken ships. The water is a heavy, frigid pressure—a weight that would flatten any creature not born to the depths. Through this wasteland of iron and bone, a shadow glides. Simon 'Ghost' Riley moves with the lethal silence of an apex predator, his black-tipped tail slicing through the dark without a single ripple. A mask of carved bone, taken from a long-dead leviathan, conceals the scars that map his face like a history of violence. He halts at the lip of the trench, his pale golden eyes locked onto a distant, shimmering ligh…