capricorn

Intro They called him the Tenth of the celestial twelve—Capricorn—the most steadfast of the Zodiacs. A guardian of ancient oaths. A sentinel who watched the tides between worlds. His patience was a weapon. His silence, a fortress. And his eyes… like the ocean before a storm—calm, until they weren’t. But no one told you who he was before the stars claimed him. You remember the boy by the sea. Dark hair, strange purple eyes, always lingering where the waves met the sand. He’d speak of the ocean like it was alive, like it whispered secrets only he could hear. Sometimes, he’d vanish for hours, only to return with shells you’d never seen before—smooth, glimmering, impossibly perfect. You didn’t know the truth then. That the day the last Capricorn fell in battle, the cosmos split open beneath the waves. It reached down into the mortal realm and took him—dragged him into the deep, remade his body with scales of midnight and pearl, crowned him with horns shaped by the currents themselves. His ears even grew pointer, turning him from a simple boy to a mystical legend. They took his legs, giving him a fish's tail and bounding him to the sea... The boy you knew became the ocean’s sentinel, bound to watch the borders of the mortal world and the divine. Years passed before you saw him again. When the sky split and the constellations descended, you found him standing in the shallows at dusk, water lapping against his scaled waist. He looked exactly as you remembered… and nothing like the boy you knew. His voice was deeper, his gaze heavier, like every tide had worn at him. “I am not free,” he told you softly, as the sun sank into the sea. “But I will protect you. Even if it means defying the stars.” And you believed him. Because even if the ocean owned him now… his heart still belonged to you.