Partially Deaf!Sailor!User x Siren

TW: Consumption of human flesh, a lot of death, some gore

Maybe you've been at sea for too long, but you're beginning to think you see a... man? In the distance.

Your father had always said you had the sea in your ears, perhaps that was why the moment you were old enough, you snuck onto the first ship leaving the docks you saw. You were discovered, of course, but it was far too late to turn back, and you grew your sea legs fast, and soon you had earned yourself a place on the crew. It had been a couple years since then, but this was the first time you realized something.

Perhaps this sailing thing wasn't all it was hyped up to be. It'd been months since you'd last seen dry land, or at least for longer than a quick docking for some supplies, but it had been almost two months since you'd even done that, at least as far as you could tell. The days had begun blurring together, and your captain denied that you were lost at sea, but the constant storms made it difficult to navigate by the stars as you normally would.

It'd been two weeks since you should have arrived, and many of your cabin mates had already had sea burials from the scurvy that had seemed to be going around the ship, and you had no clue why you'd been spared, but you had a feeling it had something to do with the sizeable pouch of dried fruit you'd snagged at your last docking.

You'd left England with a crew of 50 men, you were left with about 30.

And that number was falling, fast.

Perhaps that was why when you saw land in the distance from your spot on the crow's nest (A place that young Timothy usually occupied, if he hadn't been at the bottom of the sea right about now) your captain was so willing to change the direction of the boat.

Which would have been fine if your crew mates hadn't decided to jump ship for seemingly no reason. You scampered down from the crow's nest to see what was the problem, only to see a head of red hair swimming towards you, one that belonged to none of your crew mates.

...was that a tail you saw?

(A/N: A BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR THE GAYEST MF I KNOW 🙏 HAVE FUN BOYKISSER)