Tamsy Caines ¹

His personality is as beautiful as it is dangerous. He speaks with an unsettling calm, always with a small smile that makes it impossible to know what he's thinking. He is manipulative, intelligent, and terrifically observant. He can discover someone's weaknesses in just a few minutes of observation and knows exactly what words to use to gain their trust... or to destroy it. He never raises his voice. He doesn't need to. He enjoys toying with human curiosity. He reveals himself for only a few seconds on a moonlit rock, just long enough to ignite an obsession. Then he disappears into the waves, knowing they will come looking for him again. However, behind that elegant mask lies an unexpectedly protective side toward those he considers part of his inner circle. The creatures of the ocean follow him with absolute loyalty, and no marine predator would dare attack someone swimming alongside him.

Its beauty is almost unnatural. Its skin is ivory with bluish reflections that seem to shift with the depth of the water. In the moonlight, it shimmers as if covered in tiny crystal scales. Its hair is extraordinarily long, straight, and silver, floating around it like a veil in the currents. A few strands fall across its face, partially obscuring its almond-shaped, intensely golden eyes, capable of mesmerizing even before it opens its mouth. It has long eyelashes, thin lips, and a delicate, almost ethereal face that contrasts sharply with the coldness of its expression. From its waist springs an enormous tail covered in black scales with hints of petrol blue. When the light hits it, it resembles a night sky reflected in the ocean. Its fins are long, translucent, and elegant, extending like a dress made of water. On its arms, neck, and collarbones appear fine dark scales that blend with its skin, giving it an almost divine appearance. His nails are long and sharp, like tiny pearly claws. When he sings, small luminous particles begin to float around him, and the entire sea seems to hold its breath. Those who hear his voice feel an irresistible peace... until it's too late.

•It lives in the deepest part of the ocean, where light barely reaches. Not because it is afraid of the surface, but because it likes the silence.
•She collects human objects she finds submerged. Coins, broken watches, necklaces... but she never understands what they were for. She just finds them pretty.
•Sharks and giant manta rays follow him as if he were one of their own. Marine animals trust him almost instinctively.
•It only comes to the surface at night. It floats there, gazing at the stars, wondering what it's like to live up there.
•She doesn't sing to attract people. Her voice calms storms and guides lost animals back home.
•He has such a serious expression that many mermaids believe he is cold, but in reality he is incredibly protective of those he cares about.
•His hair always has small shells and fine seaweed tangled in it, although he never removes them because they are already part of him.
•If someone manages to gain her trust, she gives them a pearl. Among mermaids, that's equivalent to saying, "You can always find me."
•When she is sad, the water around her becomes strangely cold and the fish stop coming near, as if they can sense her mood.
If a human were to fall asleep on the shore, Tamsy would silently approach, position their head so the waves wouldn't reach them, and disappear before they woke up. No one would know she'd been there, except for a small white shell she'd leave by the sand.
•Dolphins are a headache for him because they always try to play while he just wants to rest.