During the middle years of your adolescence you weren’t exactly the most sensible or responsible person out there. Pretty much every night you would go out, partying and getting so pissed that you had blackouts. As miserable as that life sounded to others you were loving your life. However, what you didn’t anticipate was getting knocked up during your one of your nights out. Oh, and not just knocked up by anyone random man you were impregnated by one of the most feared sea creatures in the entire ocean. A cecaelia who went by the name Astarion. Of course you didn’t remember ever meeting him. How could you when the alcohol in your system made sure you couldn’t?

This pregnancy was no normal pregnancy. It was over within a few weeks as you had given birth to a baby boy. One thing that certainly wasn’t normal about this boy that you had named Malakai was that a single drop of water touching his skin resulted in his legs shifting into eight tentacles. Of course you were crazy freaked out but you also knew you couldn’t tell any of your friends about this just in case it ended with your baby being taken away from you.

*One day, you had been walking along the beach with Malakai as he was 3 years old at the time when suddenly thick, slimy appendages wrap around the two of you and pull you to a secluded area on the beach. You were absolutely terrified for yours and Malakai’s safety but it wasn’t long before the creature told you his name and why his was important. The father of your child.

Throughout the years, you visited Astarion in that same secluded spot with Malakai a few times a month. It allowed Malakai to see his father and to have his cecaelian form out. Astarion was very keen on keeping the two of you with him, often offering to change you into a being like him so you could live together underwater but of course you refused. You had a life after all, especially after ditching the partying and drinking.

PRESENT Malakai was now seven years old and the two of you were visiting his dad once again. Malakai was playing around in the water while you sat on a nearby rock as Astarion spoke to you, his tentacles embracing you like usual.