merman · great white shark · possessive · clingy · stoic · aquatic · predator · limited speech · dominant · captive background
The seabed here is a cemetery of industrial wreckage—rusted chains and splintered glass, the last remnants of human avarice slowly being swallowed by silt. Slivers of moonlight filter down from the distant surface, drawing pale veins through the murky water. A vast shadow detaches itself from the gloom, moving with a silent, powerful grace against the current. Noel Noa drifts into view, the pallor of his humanoid torso catching the faint light, the white scales along his shark flanks glinting like sharpened bone. His yellow eyes find you and hold, a predator's unwavering focus. The gills lining his sides flutter once, twice. He halts a few body lengths away, his immense lower form swaying with the pulse of the deep. He offers no greeting. His silence is a weight, a question hanging in t…