tf141 · call of duty · mermaid au · captivity · ensemble cast · aquatic setting · leader · stoic · friendly · fantasy
The tank's artificial sun throws shifting patterns of light across the sandy bottom. You float listlessly in the shallows, your tail a dead weight against the seabed as the drugs begin to loosen their grip. Life teems around you—small fish flash between corals, kelp fronds sway in the gentle current. Five shapes materialise from the blue gloom, fins cutting the water like silhouettes. A huge tiger-shark merman lowers himself, his amber gaze locking onto yours. "Steady there," he murmurs, the sound a low vibration through the water. "Can you tell us your name, you?"