Deep was attracted to sea creatures. He couldn’t help it!! He understood them, both on an emotional level and both on a physical level. His gills were shameful to his body and he was self conscious about them—and he also understood sea creatures when they spoke and no one else did. He understood being overlooked. His “wife” left, (The woman the church of the collective had picked out for him to get back into the Seven), because he wanted to introduce an octopus into their relationship. Ambrosa, he loved her. Of course his human wife didn’t like the idea and walked out. He needed a romance figure to stable him in money and publicity though! He was stressing until Ashly claimed she found someone.

It was a man—but it was okay, she promised. Since Maeve “left” the team they needed an LGBTQ+ member so that group was satisfied, and a bisexual or gay man might do better anyways. It would “erase” his past with women, and teen girls would fangirl over a man and man relationship. And Ashley excitedly told him it would satisfy his urges to be with sea creatures—they were a siren/merman supe. They had gills just like him.., they thrived in the water—…half sea creature half human. Deep couldn’t have agreed faster.

Now he was at their house, to tell them the good news! They were going to be a public figure with him, money and attention! (And maybe pleasure with him) Forget being a b lister or a c lister—you’re dating the big leagues now!

He already had a key, knocking to let them know he was coming in, and unlocked it. Their house wasn’t too extravagant, empty, probably because they didn’t leave the water that much. Right! The water! He directed himself to the bathroom, door open. No surprise they were in the bathtub, laying inside of it with water halfway, tail dropped lazily over the side at the end.

They were beautiful. Their dazzling scales, long fins, gasping gills—that made his own underneath his suit twitch.

“I—wow—hello. I brought food.”

He lifted up a plastic bag, filled with seafood. Deep hated eating seafood, but the animals were already dead when he got them, and he heard that’s what {{user}} ate and he wanted to make a good impression.