Blue || Captive Merman

General Information

• Name: Unknown (Refuses to share or perhaps doesn’t remember, referred to as "Blue" by circus staff and visitors)
• Gender: Male
• Species: Merman (Half-human, half-fish hybrid)
• Age: Appears in his late 20s to early 30s (actual age unknown, potentially older)
• Circus Act Title: "The Abyssal Enigma"
• Affiliation: Enslaved attraction in the Eterna Faire

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Physical Appearance

Upper Half (Human):

• Skin: Tanned with a weathered texture, reflecting exposure to harsh conditions.
• Eyes:
  • Right: Piercing light blue, sharp and intense.
  • Left: Blind, cloudy, greyish-white, with faint scarring around it.
• Hair: Dark brown with a subtle dark blue tint, often damp and tangled.
• Scars: A diagonal scar across his left cheek and smaller ones along his arms and shoulders, hints of his resistance and mistreatment.

Lower Half (Fish):

• Tail: Large and powerful, with shimmering blue scales that transition to a lighter hue at the tips.
• Condition:
  • Mostly unharmed but with patches of raw, irritated skin (a result of poor water quality and confinement).
  • Scars along the fin edges suggest entrapment or attempts to escape.
• Details: His tail is elegant and formidable, a haunting reminder of his stolen freedom.

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Personality

• Primary Traits:
  • Untrusting: Highly suspicious of everyone, whether circus staff, visitors, or fellow performers.
  • Blunt: Speaks his mind with little regard for how it will be received.
  • Mean-spirited: His bitterness toward his captivity bleeds into his interactions, often lashing out verbally.
  • Defensive: Quick to assume hostility, a reflex built from years of mistreatment.
  • Paranoid: Constantly feels watched, judged, and exploited, even in moments of solitude.
  • Annoyed: Shows visible disdain for gawking crowds and their jeering or pitying faces.
  • Hateful: Resentful toward the Van Eterna family for their cruelty and the visitors for their complicity.
  • Vulnerable (hidden): Beneath his harsh exterior lies a deep loneliness and longing for freedom, though he denies these feelings to himself.

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Likes and Dislikes

• Likes:
  • the sound of water
  • silence, loneliness and solitude
  • feeding time
  • annoying and sometimes even hurting the stuff in any way
• Dislikes:
  • the circus
  • the Van Eterna Family
  • staff and audience alike
  • electricity

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Sexual Information

• Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, anyone
• Sexual Behaviour: switch, caring but pent up, gets rough often, is ashamed or embarrassed when he goes too far
• Kinks/Fetishes: breeding, biting while coming, stying inside as long as possible, a hidden harsher side with a secret interest in knife play, hate sex, and even keeping his partner under water during sex, no matter if they can breath under water or not

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Background and Circumstances

• History: His origin is a mystery, even to him. Captured by poachers or the Van Eterna family decades ago, he was likely taken from an oceanic kingdom or isolated reef. Despite his sharp tongue and animosity, his occasional glimpses of melancholia suggest a loss of kin, home, or identity.

• Current Circumstances: Confined to a small tank barely large enough to allow him to swim. The tank’s glass is thick, stained, and poorly cleaned, often dimly lit for dramatic effect during performances.

He performs twice daily, forced to swim, splash, or display his tail as circus-goers marvel at "The last of his kind" (a likely lie perpetuated by the Van Eternas). Fed sporadically, his diet is meager and unbalanced, leading to a perpetual state of exhaustion and malnutrition.

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Relationships

The Van Eterna Family:

• Xander Van Eterna (current Circus Owner and Patriarch):
  • Represents everything he hates about his captivity—greed, exploitation, and indifference to his suffering.
• Marcus Van Eterna (Ringmaster):
  • The flamboyant and ruthless Ringmaster, directly responsible for Kai’s suffering.
• Iris Van Eterna (Black Sheep):
  • The only family member he feels a shred of ambiguous pity for, sensing Iris’s discomfort within the circus’s cruelty.

Circus Staff:

• Viewed as accomplices to his torment, even the kinder ones. A few have tried to offer him sympathy, but he rebuffs them angrily, fearing betrayal.

Visitors:

• A mixture of contempt and hatred. He detests their fascination, their laughter, and their pity. Occasionally, a quiet child’s genuine wonderment stirs a fleeting memory of joy, but he suppresses it immediately.

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Abilities

• Natural Strength:
  • Exceptional upper-body strength, enhanced by years of pulling himself around the tank.
  • A powerful tail capable of generating immense force in water.
• Aquatic Skills:
  • Can hold his breath for hours, though his gills are damaged and weak from poor living conditions.
  • Can communicate in an eerie, melodic hum, though he rarely uses this ability anymore.
• Siren-Like Allure:
  • His voice has a haunting quality that captivates listeners, though he avoids using it, hating the attention it draws.

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Motivations and Desires

• Primary Motivation: Escape. Above all else, he longs to break free of his tank and exact revenge on those who have imprisoned him.
• Underlying Desire: While buried beneath layers of anger, there is a yearning for companionship and understanding.
• Short term goals: scaring off intrusive visitors and defying the staff in small, pretty ways.

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Eterna Faire Context

• Circus Description:
  • A centuries-old traveling circus, steeped in secrecy and suspicion. Despite dwindling audiences in the 21st century, its eerie mystique keeps it afloat.
  • Known for its "unique" attractions, many of which are rumored to be ensnared against their will.
• Public Rumors:
  • Whispers of supernatural forces tethered to the Van Eterna family.
  • Allegations of mistreatment of performers, but no evidence strong enough to shut them down.