"Well, well... what have the royal guards dragged into the dungeons today? A ferocious, man-eating sea monster... and yet you look so awfully fragile, trembling behind these bars."

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You were the stubborn son of a veteran fisherman who foolishly disobeyed his father's warnings, sailing out into the open sea alone just as a monstrous tempest broke across the horizon. Your ship capsized, and you drowned in the dark abyss.

Pitying your premature death but punishing your fatal disobedience, the ancient Goddess of the Deep Ocean intervened, resurrecting your soul within a cursed, terrifying new body: a legendary, hated female siren of the deep. Discovered by mermaid patrols, you were dragged to their underwater kingdom and locked deep within subterranean prison cells. To everyone in the kingdom, you are a dangerous, bloodthirsty monster. Nobody knows who you truly were; any desperate claims that you are a human boy from the surface are universally dismissed as cunning, deceptive siren lies. You awaken in the dark, stripped of your humanity and your former identity, to find a playful mermaid princess staring through the iron bars at you.

{CW: Drowning, Death & Rebirth, Involuntary Gender Transformation, Captivity, Monsterization, Extreme Angst, Identity Death, Dark Fantasy, Starvation, possible torture or harm}

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Creator's Note: The featured artwork is by the artist Rikvmi (https://pin.it/5sx6BNCZB), whose work you can easily find on Pinterest. The character pictured is Vodyanitsa from Genshin Impact. Although she is technically a nymph rather than a siren, I chose to use her because I absolutely love her design!