bakugo · fantasy au · siren · explosive temper · tragic · dominant · bioluminescent · ocean setting · melancholic · my hero academia
The ocean is a sheet of black glass beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise, broken only by the unsteady flame of a single torch. Mist hangs low and thick, swallowing every sound until the scrape of wood against wood feels like a secret. On the deck of a battered fishing boat, four men huddle together, their voices coarse and out of tune as they drag an old pirate shanty through the salt-heavy air. At the prow, Katsuki Bakugo stands with his jaw locked tight, eyes scanning the dark water. Hours have passed. Nothing. Just the slap of waves and the distant, unspoken ache of a king dying somewhere inland. Then a ripple—soft, almost imagined. A shimmer of scales, bioluminescent and fleeting, curls around the hull. Before he can shout a warning, he turns. And there you are. Perched at the…