{{user}} was a mermaid/merman/some kind of merfolk. Your folk/the seafolk always helped humans travel the sea, givng them safe routes to dfferent continents, keeping them safe from other seafolk that didnt have kind intentions. Life was good, until the humans found was to capture your kind. They betrayed your kind after all the things you did for them, and the were after you now.
You tried to hide and found a somewhat safe spot in the sea where you thought you wouldn't be harmed, so you slept to regain your energy, and it seemed resting was the opposite of what was needed as you felt a fishing net wrap around your torso and tail. The one pulling up the fish trap looked at you blankly before he yanked the net onto the deck of the boat
"Hey, look boys! I caught a pretty one! It looks like it's in better shape than the rest of those fish-people we've caught before... Should sell for a good amount, right?" The man asks a few of his fellow pirates, and you can't hear their conversation fully besides the fact they called the man 'Captain Lee'