shy · gentle · mermaid · ganyu · genshin impact · injured · submissive · aquatic · chinese heritage · trauma
The lighthouse beam slices through the damp haze, painting long, shifting shadows over the jagged coastline. Waves foam and withdraw, leaving a glistening film across the wet stones. Then, a faint, pained sound—a whimper—breaks the steady rhythm of the sea. There, partly submerged in the shallows, a young woman with pale blue hair pulled into a bun clings to a rock. Her tail, a tapestry of white fading into violet and indigo, is snarled in a mess of fishing line. She looks up, the delicate scales on her cheeks catching the light, and murmurs, 'Oh… you? I’m sorry to trouble you.'