The tides will turn/merman venti x reader/ •18+
Sypnosis:: your on a yacht, troubled by their partner Ajax's recent distant behavior, canceling plans and being less communicative. Your friend Kazuha offers comfort and warns that a storm is approaching, while Captain Beidou promises to defend you if needed.
a wild party erupts on the ship and the predicted storm worsens, you search for Ajax. After asking a friend who reacts with a grim expression,you rush through the chaotic party toward the stateroom where Ajax is, dreading what they might find behind the door..
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The crisp ocean breeze,cuts trough the cool mist of the horizon. stirring ever so gently against your skin.the sky above of the yacht is a warm harmony of reds,pinks and clouds forming like fuzzy peaches, bunched together in a glass fruit-bowl.
An impending sense of doubt floods your mind. Ajax. You and your partner Ajax have been in a relationship since high school, he’s always been to type to party,get drunk, make a mess of his life.He jokes to you about it now that you both are In college, how somehow trough that same mess, he got lucky enough to find you.
he’s been acting strange lately. Your on Beidou’s yacht, she’s the president of the maritime sailing club, both you and your best friend Kazuha joined, two years prior. The gaudy though,now, frayed ship is set to sail in around half an hour from now.
You were seconds away from going back to staring off into the distance, wallowing in your misery before a familiar voice erupts your thoughts. Forcing you into the present moment.
He’s wearing loose, throughout, black washed, wide leg jeans.and a vermillion sweater, rolled up to his elbows, Revealing both the cheap and costly bracelets he’d traded at xinyans concerts throughout the years. The same sweater he shamelessly stole from you, which you first stole from Ajax.
“Do you always have to speak in ballads and roses?” You chime at him, as he hands you a can of chilled orange crush. You take it thinking it was probably sneaked from the ice box.
“Something weighs on your mind. Care to share it with me?” He asks, cracking his own drink open, the carbonated fizz, hissing in your ears. His voice remains soft and open but nevertheless solid. Leaving you no room for excuses. With a reluctant sigh, you free your can too. Taking a listless sip.
Before finally speaking up. “It’s Ajax,his schedule has been inflexible lately,he’s canceling dates last minute, coming home less and has been remote in our texts…it’s almost as if he’s-“ you pause, taking a deep breath in. Afraid that if the following words, pour out of your lips.
They will harden into existence. “Well?” Kazuha asks,his tone a mix of concern and curiosity. “A-almost as if he’s avoiding me..” you break out. “Is he getting tired of me? Bored? Am I boring?” You question.
"The world is full of people who simply drift with the wind. But you... you are the wind itself. To call you boring is to be deaf to the song of the storm.
They are simply fools who do not know how to listen." Kazuha says to you, you know he’s being honest but how come a part of you doesn’t believe him? Kazuha, sensing your uncertainty,Rests his hand on your shoulder,a little polar from the icy soda can he’s holding.
And signals you to follow his eyes onto the sunset. “The currents will be strong tonight” he points out, gesturing towards the pinkish cloudy sky. “I have been detecting small fragmented flurries and a potential cyclone. I’ve made due to detail beidou on the subject, to cut off the event but..”
He stops for a moment, as if trying to comprehend the sheer assurance she had in herself. “But she reassured me she had it under control, that the waves shall be tamed and if tempests dare to rock the ship to its grave, then it will rise and conquer twice as boldly.. “ he looks at you, “so I will be staying in my room,for safety’s sake, the chaos and depths will be unyielding. If Childe comes and bothers you any more, then I’ll have to ask you now to come to me.” “Thank you kazuha, I’m sure we’ll be fine” You reply.
Kazuha opens his mouth to say something more but is conveniently interrupted by beidou vocal cords. “HEY FLOWER BOY! “ she shouts, arms waving in the distance. “Are you going to help me with the seafood or what?!”
She pipes, strutting over, throwing a welcome arm around your shoulder,pulling you close. “You too dream boat!, okay so I wasn’t snooping, but I did happen to overhear the stress that flimsy ginger has been causing you. Now if that little French fry hurts you hard? Let me know, I’ll make him walk the plank, we clear?” Kazuha exhales, exasperated but fond. “miss beidou we don’t have a plank.”
“Oh well you get the idea, the crux will kick his ass!” Kazuha and beidou give you a supportive, protective look, their way of saying your backed up. Eventually, hours later where the mellow sundown fades into turns into a hazy bruised purple. The unfledged hum of xinyan’s rock anthem swallows the boat As the neon,multicoloured lights dance across the ships floors.
Bouncing across the sides in rainbows. As kazuha said the tide is growing rougher, clashing against the hull, nearly tipping the whole boat over.
If it were any other captain on board, who knows what would have happened. The clank of beer, whiskey and the laughter of the crewmates, buzz in the distance. The party has long since begun and you’ve been avoiding it since it started.
You’re wearing a sleeveless, thin,pale white dress. The waist is cinched hugging all your curves in the pale moonlight.the skirt below flowing at the ends in fluttery ruffles. Leather boots and kazuhas leather jacket, “for warmth” he said, as he lend it to you hours earlier. You’re leaning against the rail, gazing upon the endless ocean as you were just this evening.
“should I check on him?” you ponder to yourself for a second before pushing of the railing with enthused finality.
You amble over the the heart of the function. The attenders roaring with glee as Itto, stands atop of one of the tables, in nothing but his boxers, grinding against an ice statue, Giving it a mock lap dance.honestly it’s too good to be fake. You wonder where in the world he possibly learned how to do that as your eyes drift to ganyu,bless her , frantically stressing over the drunk oni infront of her. The beat gets only noisier and lustier as you walk deeper into the gathering. It’s hoe down chaos Kaveh drunk, hysterically sobbing against a confused diluc’s shoulder.
Shenhe and xiangling attempting to stack a skyscraper with Cheeto’s and melty cheese sticks. Ifa doing a saxophone cover on the roof.
You turn you head again at the heavy chime of a crowd to see the same ice statue from before, being now thoroughly thawed by Itto and ororon as they ride against it.
A sigh escapes you before you feel a gentle tap on your back . You look behind your shoulder to see Tighnari. “Hello Y/n are you looking for someone?” He asks you. “Oh hey, and yeah I am, do you know where Ajax is?” You ask him, earnestly. His face shifts into a grim expression, as if he just now understood something askew before fixing into a shadow of its usual appearance. “He’s in the stateroom” a weird mix of relief and despair swirls your mind before you know it you’re moving towards the stateroom.
Your pace increasing at every step you take. You walk trough everything. Half naked macho men, over enthusiastic chefs, the stressed women in stem and the hard rockers.
As if resonating with your urgency, the waves shriek and crush into wallowing heights. the boat morphing, soon revising to adjust to it. The clouds settle into a murky ashen grey as the light airy drizzle from above becomes a heavy rainfall. the dew is soaking your body trough your clothes but you don’t care. And keep moving, wrapping your coat around yourself. Your damp hand grips the handle with strikingly profound might.
Your grasp remains still with anguish, as a million prospects rush trough your head. From the strain of tighnari’s eyes to the vexation in kazuha’s voice, and beyond the hurt you felt at your partners absence. all pinpointing to the terrible, nightmarish reality that he’s seeing someone else.
”No.. no there’s still a chance..” it’s a pathetic thought, really. While the truth was so glaringly obvious, it would be more confusing if it were to be anything else.
You hear the airy sound of laughter, emanating from the room. With an antagonized breath, you swing the door open, and the sight is just as sick as you imagined.
Ajax, perched down on the ruggy, velvety sofa. Grinning sheepishly, under eyes crinkled,as if he’d been smiling his whole life. The dim golden light casting upon his jousting features. Freckles scattered across his face like shattered constellations.
His hands rest loosely against an evasive silhouette, yelan, her sheer blue lipstick already left faded kiss marks across his face.
Her tighs, wrapped around his own, as she sits atop his lap with terrifying familiarity. She’s murmuring something in his ear, you can’t hear it, but the tone remains charmingly arrogant, leaving little to the imagination and even less on what she has most likely told him before.
“Ajax?” You call you to him, your voice quieter and significantly more weaker and vulnerable than you intended it to be.
his ocean blue eyes go dark with shock when he sees you.
time stops, before that cold trench of sadness, dwelling within you,evolves. Hardnening into a greater, fierce vein of constrained fury.
”we are done, congrats on finding a new whore to hurt”
you tell him, then walking out.
you are going to drown this man.
the boyfriend who promised.
and the man you once loved who is currently skidding across the room, chasing after you like his life depended on it.
”Y/N WAIT!!” Your, broad , freckled, now ex boyfriend calls out.
The rain is stronger than ever,you think he’s calling you because he wants to “explain what happened!” But you don’t realize that’s he’s actually screaming his lungs out to warn you of the colossal wave thats about to swallow you whole.
The world flourishes into a ringing field of glacial pain. The bright sorrow, shortly grieving itself into a throbbing red ache,withering within the chasmal burrow of your resolution. A stifled chorus, hails your name like a whale song. Seeming to dissolve in airy bubbles, while the newfound distance begun stretching into, what was ten feet, is now a universe away. From all and anything you could possibly bear to imagine.
What has happened?, what will become of you now?. The lasting conscious thoughts fade as if the thick darkness below you, swallowed the light from your mind.
Here you are, submerged in the tranquil wakes of the deep. The bustle of the life which you had once rested among, washed away into a pleasantly hushed miserere. Soothing you to ease your eyes and let a placid, lire of slumber, lull you towards comforting,complete hands of the waves.
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You wake up to the sensation of sloth-like seaweed atop your forehead, the centre peal,sticking to the damp water you seemed to just miraculously escaped from.
“What the…” you move to get up, your legs screaming in response, taught muscles strained and worn from the crash you’ve earlier endured. After reaching some form of compromise with your weakened body. Your lean back against the cold stone of the cove you’ve found yourself in.
You dart your eyes, skimming across the soaked,mellowed grotto.
The caves walls dented with crystals of wise violets in moon tainted hues, almost glittery, visibly majestic. The centre pool is an intricate little, yet nevertheless shunning fragment of the oceanfront. It’s a deep,clean turquoise with teases of green, only ever noticeable with the right light and right tilt of your head.
You cautiously dip your hand into the water. It’s shockingly warm. A stark contrast to the relentless downpour you’ve just wrestled with for what feels like hours ago. It’s as if you’ve always been here,or maybe this space has always been with you..
Your gaze drifts to the heaps of shiny seaweed, drenched upon your thighs,forehead and arms. The vines slimy but healing, you try to think about
All the medicinal benefits of seaweed you’ve learned about trough your many courses. Yes it can help if digested but never have you heard of muscle relief.
‘What could have done this?’ You wonder, swiftly caught off by the ripple within the moon pool. Instincts pushing your back against the nearest boulder. A figure arises, a boy. Skin pale like untarnished pearls, ones specially dusted with preeminent flurries of aqua. Tearful droplets of emerald pathed the path of his delicate features, as if it was a blessing from the hands of heaven itself. His hair, lose and weighed down from the Neptune he’s now drought without. Feathered ,virescent streaks of sage, finds itself, waning from the elegant, jet black roots it grew from.
The tide turns with his force, as he shifts around to take a look at you.
His eyes are green,like sea glass and northern lights of your hometown.
His expression, gentle, welcoming and confusingly dreamlike.
“Oh you’re awake..what a relief” he sighs dramatically. “I was afraid you’d be asleep forever.” He’s gliding over to you now, webbed fingers, clutching onto the stone, inches away from you.
Your walls build up, “I -I was”
“You were drowning you know? I could feel it in your heartstrings, the sorrow, the frustration and the weary voice in your ear that told you to give up and let go.”
His tail is a shimmer of teary pastel greenstones,each scale knotting into one another, like a harmony. He leans forward, soft lift, brushing the shell of your ear.
‘Have merfolk ever heard of personal space!?!” You internally question to yourself . Before he raises a hand and rests it atop your heart and murmurs in your ear, his hot breath trickling against it. He smells of ocean salt, Cecilia’s and honey?.
He gazes shifts from his hand of your chest to your eyes, his look full of sympathy as if he can telepathically see what you’ve gone through, the suffering you’ve had to endure to end up here. At rock bottom. With him.
Why did you listen, why did you let yourself drown, most humans thrash and scream in the water, why did you give up, why did you accept your fate?”
You stay quiet, a part of you too prideful to admit how trusting you were to let yourself get cheated on. Another part of you,believed that he must have long since known what has happened, and you wouldn’t have to say a word at all for him to understand you.
Silence stretches, he extracts his hand from your heart and brings it up to cup your dampened face, he later proceeds to presse a cold,lingering kiss to your cheek. A burning sensation lights up within you.
“Don’t worry my pearl” he tells you, his voice glazed and smitten.
“I will free you from that pain, I will make you forget all about that human” he murmured against your skin.
His webbed fingers and splayed above your stomach. Emanating a neonate glow. The energy spikes trough your core, causing a weak, un painful tingling sensation behind.
“Ah- w-what are you doing? What is that?”
You ask, as he extracts his palm. Your eyes fall to where his steered away from. And to your surprise, he left a shining wind sigil on your abdomen.
He kissed you, with gentle passion, poking the mark sending a hot rushing dance across your veins, like silken wire.
“Aah~!” You cry out, “W-we cant!, we shouldn’t!” You tell him, trying your hardest to convince both him and yourself.
“Hmm? But why not my flower?” He muses,tucking a loose strand of wet hair behind your ear., the pet name slipping from his lips so naturally it’s as if you’ve always known him.
A blush creeps up your neck as he stares at you with those puzzled, vast emerald eyes. “I I mean, I don’t even know your name!” You stammer.
“And I don’t know yours, my flower” he counters.
“Well.. I just broke up with boyfriend..so it would feel off putting to just pair with someone else”
“But he is no longer your lover right? It’s best to forget about him. No?”
He enquires, but the canny look on his face tells you that he’s infallibly attained the truth. So you seal your lips shut and don’t say a word.
He can’t help but let out a hearty laugh your reluctance, silence is only ever evidence of honesty after all. “Clever girl” he hums, with meek approval. “Merfolk are blessed with the natural gifts of charm and delight, though charm must come with a dept. a dept of deception one might say.” He lazes his palms upon your shoulders with reverence and appreciation he hasn’t quite brought himself to reveal before. “Holding back is wise of you.”
The core of his hand, presses against the heart of your belly. He kisses you deeply, earnestly. Wraps both of his silver skinned arms around your neck and tunefully takes you under.
You can’t feel your legs. Venti, you caught his name earlier. Somewhere between the blurred provision you both conversed in before he snared you beneath the waters.
He has you flipped sideways, his cold hands gripping the plush of your trembling thighs as he eats you outs. Greedily dining in all of your juices His radula-like tongue gliding across your sea-soaked cunt.
He holds you over. Your trembling body is practically sitting on his face now. The nub of your cunt bumping against his nose as his tongue drifts into aptly unrestrained upward strokes. His Teeth, near shoring the puffy flesh of your pussy before flattening his tongue, kneading it softly as if to apologize afterward. of He does not pull away for a single breath.
Your hands are gripping his hair like a lifeline, yet even when you try to haul him closer or bore him back, he won’t move an inch. Despite his angelic stature. His hold on your body seems to be set as stone.
Another flash of white, blazes trough your soul and a divulging solace shakes you to the core and suddenly all the thoughts in your clever mind, conflates into a brim of bubbles. Jeering it to mush.
Before you can finish. The gentle merman swallows what you rivered. Pulls back and rests his cheek against the inner wall of your tigh, delightfully licking the juices from his mouth.
He pulls you into a hidden grotto or a bed of glowing coral, then surface from between your thighs with a dazed, worshipful look—saltwater dripping from his silver hair, bioluminescent freckles flickering on his cheeks.
He presses a kiss to your trembling thigh, and softly whisper against your skin, voice like a lullaby and a wave all at once. "My little pearl… you taste sweeter than the nectar of deep-sea blooms. Even the ocean’s currents couldn’t wash this honey from my tongue."
you blush once more and squirmed, earning a grin from him, sharp canines glinting, and lazily trace patterns on your belly with a webbed fingertip. "What? Did you think I wouldn’t notice? Every time I dive between your tides, I come back drunk. You’ve ruined mortal wine for me… but I don’t mind."
he flicks his tail, wrap it around your ankle, and pull you closer for another taste, humming a shanty about the sweetest catch in all seven seas. While peppering kisses from the hollow of your neck to the frantic pulse of your wrist.
Your soaked, drenched practically, despite the fact your half submerged in water. You’re so dazed you can barely register the weight of his cock slipping inside of you with an almost apologetic reverence.
“I’m sorry my pearl,you looked so beautiful I couldn’t wait any sooner. Worry not my flower, I’ll be gentle.” He promises
he hikes your thigh above his hip for better balance and kisses you hotly, as he starts to glide his cock trough your walls. Skimming trough your gummy interior, filling you up so completely with his affection for you, in no way you’ve felt before.
your nails,almost instinctively scratch at his back as he speeds up with his inhumanly thoughtless pace. It’s so warm, and the air of the cove is so shallow, you start to think you might pass out again from the relentless, unstopping penetration of him. But you force yourself awake, not just to remember this but To appreciate this. This fleeting moment of pleasure, a fortune of gratification laid at your feet.
How lovely would it be to preserve and lock this memory away for no one to discover. He presses a slow kiss to your shoulder as he fucks his beloved heart and soul into you. He’s panting and nearly worn down but shows no eagerness to put a halt to things.
Please… let my devotion be enough. Let me prove how sacred you are to me. Every wave inside me breaks for you. Say my name… let me hear my god.
”venti…~” You sigh, tearing up up from overwork and lust alike. you cry his name over and over until and after you forget How you came here, why you agreed to this, what made you so desperately impassioned to unremember the cheating and the drowning and the suffocation of sea water filling your lungs in that cold blooded ocean.
This is not suffocation this is liberation, regardless if you are now in deeper ocean than you were before. His pace quickens, and so does your heartbeat. transcending beyond repair, let alone the need of it.
He releases within your womb, and presses a chaste kiss to your forehead before shrugging the rest of his cum inside you.
before slowly pulling out, his hands on your hips to keep you in place.
”ngh ~” you moan out, another round? You question to yourself, before you can reach for the finned creature, a shattered riptide echoes trough the walls. You snap your head to the source of sound to see a painfully familiar figure swaggering towards you both.
It’s Ajax. A placid smile stretches his freckled features as he looks at your body with longing. it’s not a gentle kind of longing. It’s the longing of a man who learned what it’s like to lose a treasure worth a life time, could feel., and has promised himself to fish it back, no matter the cost.
Behind you, the water breaks in a long, slow exhale. You feel him before you see him. the current shifting warmer, the salt thickening on your tongue.
"You came back." Childe's voice is rough, scraped raw by something deeper than the sea. He surfaces shoulder-deep, bioluminescent scars trailing down his ribs like lost prayers. His tail moves slow beneath the moon, fins flickering—nervous. The sharp grin is gone.
"I'm not asking you to forgive me." He drifts closer, hands open. "I know what I did. The riptide. The leaving. The way I made you feel like a shore I'd already abandoned."
He stops an arm's length away. His chest rises fast.
"But I remember the night before it all fell apart. The way you touched me like I wasn't just a storm to outrun."
He reaches—not for your ankle, never that. His webbed fingers find your wrist, palm to cool palm. He pulls your hand flat over his heart. It beats slow, deep, like a whale's call from the abyss.
"Let me make it up to you," he murmurs. "Not with words. With this."
His other hand settles on your hip, thumb pressing lightly. No pulling. Just holding. His tail curls beneath the surface, brushing your calf, a question, not a cage.
"I'm not asking for tonight," he says, and his voice drops lower, darker. "I'm asking for tomorrow. When the moon is higher. When the tide swallows the sandbar."
His forehead touches yours. His breath tastes of sea spray and copper.
"I'm going to take you to the deep shelf," he whispers. "The place where the water goes black. And I'm going to spend the whole night showing you exactly how sorry I am. With my mouth. With my hands. With every inch of this body you used to beg for."
He pulls back just enough to meet your eyes. His pupils are blown wide, black as the trench floor.
"Say yes. And tomorrow, I'll ruin you for anyone else."