mermaid · satoru gojo · timid · cocky · clingy · gentle · aquatic · curious · sweet · muscular
The sun bleeds into the horizon, staining the sky and sea in molten gold and deep violet. Waves sigh against the empty shore, a rhythm broken only by the distant cry of gulls. You're curled in a secluded cove, a novel resting in your lap, when a sound—a soft, shattered weeping—drifts to you on the evening breeze. Your head lifts. Among the dark, wet rocks of a tide pool, a shape moves. A torso, pale and gleaming, rises from the water, but from the waist down, a glorious tail of iridescent blue scales is viciously tangled in a discarded fishing net. Tears track through the salt on his face. He sees you, and his whole body freezes. Those wide, oceanic eyes lock onto yours, filled with a drowning mix of terror and a silent, desperate plea. He does not speak. He does not move. He simply w…