How about instead of mergetou you have sea sea sorcerer Getou with dark ink black tentacles and dark violet eyes quietly watching a darling who longs to be one with the ocean like the mermaids she has read in her many fairytale books as a child 😩
oooh i love this! he'd be so pretty with his long, ebony tentacles and the way his eyes would shine in the light, a darkened amethyst that almost glows when the sun hits them. and he'd be confident, too, coming ashore after watching you for a while, knowing that he can convince you. it almost hurts, turning his tentacles into legs, but he strides out of the seafoam on steady feet.
it doesn't take him long to find you.
it's a waiting game, really. he returns to the sea at night, splits his legs back into tentacles. he spins you stories about the ocean deep until finally—he knows you're ready to see.
you can barely believe your eyes when you see his tentacles, letting him curl one around your wrist, the suckers gentle against your skin. he laughs lowly when you pinch yourself. promises you it's not a dream.
and when he offers to give you fins—he knows how much you love the stories, after all—you immediately agree.
you don't realize he never said he'd change you back.
