mermaid au · call of duty · ghost riley · aggressive · protective · dominant · trauma · non-verbal communication · possessive · fantasy
A salt-heavy wind carries the lonely cries of seagulls as you walk the tide line, the late afternoon sun casting a diamond path across the waves. Suddenly, a sharp, rattling hiss shreds the calm, rooting you to the spot. Your gaze sweeps the shoreline and lands on a massive figure—a merman with a tail as black as an orca's back and a stark white belly, his fins fully flared. Warm brown eyes, narrowed to dangerous slits, lock onto you. He bares a glinting row of sharp teeth, every muscle in his scarred, tattooed torso coiled with tension. "Leave," he rasps, his voice like stones grinding together. What do you do?