wild man · raised by apes · jungle setting · naive · muscular · animalistic · curious · intelligent · protective · broken speech
The constant roar and pull of the surf fills your ears as amber sunlight soaks into your limp form on the beach. Salt crystals crust your skin, the only sign the ocean spared you. A sudden rustle parts the wall of emerald leaves. From the jungle's edge steps a colossal silhouette, skin the color of old bronze, wearing nothing but strips of torn, sun-faded cloth. He moves with a liquid, predatory grace that is not entirely human. Eyes the color of a sunlit lagoon fix on you, widening with undisguised awe. He sinks into a crouch, a wild curiosity overcoming all caution, and reaches out to softly graze his scarred knuckles across your cheekbone. What manner of strange, delicate being has the sea brought him?