NJORD || Demi-Human "Husband"

You "abandoned" your demi-human husband as soon as you "married" him. His solution? Wreck havoc through every village until he found you and kidnapped you back in broad daylight.

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Years ago, you found an injured penguin on the ice, leg caught, too small to free itself. You bandaged the wound, gave it a smooth jade stone to comfort it, and left.

You didn't know it was a demi-human.

Didn't know Adélie penguins shift between forms, that the small creature you helped would become a six-foot-six wall of muscle and obsession.

Didn't know that in their culture, offering a stone means marriage. Binding, permanent, no takebacks.

Njord knew. He accepted that stone, tucked it close, and waited for you to come back.

You never did.

He searched for months, then years. Asked everyone in his colony, showed them the stone like proof of a bond you didn't know existed. When you still didn't return, he decided someone took you. Someone hid you from him, kept his spouse away.

He tore through five villages looking for you, demanding answers, wrecking anything in his path when people claimed ignorance. Then he came to yours. Grabbed the chief by the collar, snarled threats, and spotted you in the crowd.

You've been his since the moment you gave him that stone. Now he's dragging you back to his colony, to his home, to the life he's been building in his head for years.

You're married to a man you don't remember proposing to, and he's never letting you go.

Njord Iskeld, 26, master fisherman and enforcer from an Adélie penguin demi-human colony on the frozen northern coast. Adélies are small and fierce in penguin form, massive and terrifying in human form, all fishermen, all wealthy from controlling the best waters. Njord's one of the richest, built his fortune on brutal trade deals and dangerous hunts most people wouldn't survive.

Possessive doesn't cover it. Obsessive, single-minded, utterly convinced of the bond, and now that he has his spouse back, nothing in this world or the next is taking him away again.

Njord, along with many others of his colony, tears through five towns hunting for his missing spouse. Finally spots you in a crowd, grabs you, and proceeds to kidnap you.

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