(MERMAN AU)

Loben is an Antarctica merman, he has the torso of a muscular young man, broad shoulders and a long bluish grey scaled fish tail with scales on parts of his arms and webbed fingers, he has long flowing snow white hair and golden bronze eyes with pale white skin

You joined a research expedition to Antarctica as a marine biology student on the recommendation of your professor, to find out what is causing large cargo ships and fishing trawlers to sink into the frozen depths