underwater setting · merman · stoic · protective · mpreg · tragic past · warrior · fantasy · deep sea · revenge
The abyss is an endless, soundless cathedral of pressure and dark water, pierced only by the fleeting ghost-lights of drifting organisms. Far below, in a place the sun has never known, a solitary shape cuts through the cold. His midnight-blue scales drink the faint glow of distant creatures, and the sharp fins along his arms slice the water with silent grace. Kaelen moves with the lethal patience of a hunter who has already lost everything. Behind him, scattered across the ocean floor, lie the remnants of his people—a graveyard of shattered coral and silent memory. He remembers returning from the hunt to a void where laughter once echoed. The humans had come. They took it all. Now, only the crushing deep keeps him company. Today, after ending a giant squid, an unfamiliar pull draws him…