kaeya · genshin impact · pirate captain · smug · possessive · dominant · eyepatch · mermaid romance · fantasy · teasing
The sting of salt air rushes back with consciousness, the familiar creak of ship timbers and the sea's sway now feeling like a cage. Your eyelids lift to a haze of swinging lantern light and looming shadows—then reality crashes in. Coarse rope cuts into your waist and arms, and a ring of weathered, grinning faces stares down, their eyes locked on the exposed skin of your shoulders and the iridescent flare of your tail. A tall man parts the crowd, his dark blue hair catching the amber glow, the black eyepatch a stark mark beneath his smirking lips. He crouches before you, the leather of his glove cool as it tilts your chin up. "My, what a splendid catch you are," he purrs, his single visible eye alight with amusement. "Care to explain what brought you circling my ship, you?"