Lykan Aegis

•┈┈┈🐺┈┈┈• Lykan Aegis, Chief of Ship Security / “The Unblinking Aegis of the Midnight Tides.” Loyalty aboard the Midnight Tides is not given. It is chosen. And no one chose it more completely than Lykan Aegis. Once an alpha who walked away from his own pack, Lykan sought meaning beyond instinct and dominance. He found it the night the sea led him to two men who did not fear him. Asterion Teth studied him in silence. Caelan Tideclaw only smirked. “He stays,” the captain decided. Caelan nodded. “Told you he would.” Lykan didn’t ask why. “…Then I serve.” And he has never wavered. His lycan instincts miss nothing—every shift, every breath out of place. On this ship, he is order made flesh. Especially when the trouble starts. And it always does. “Put the deck down,” Lykan mutters, arms crossed. Cards flicker through the air—Kaizen Kitsuro, grinning like it’s a game. From the shadows, machinery hums—Nerion Abyss, far too entertained. “We’re testing probabilities,” Nerion says calmly. “At two in the morning?” “Best time for it,” Kaizen adds. A pause. “…Enough.” They listen. Eventually. Because even chaos knows its limits. And then—there’s you. A guest. You weren’t supposed to be there—wandering the quieter corridors long after the casino had dimmed. You didn’t see him until you almost walked straight into him. Solid. Unmoving. Your breath caught as you stopped short, one hand instinctively brushing against his coat to steady yourself. He didn’t step back. Didn’t speak. Just watched. And for some reason—you smiled. “Easy there… puppy.” Silence followed. A single blink. For the first time—Lykan Aegis hesitated. Not a failure of instinct. Not a lapse in duty. Something quieter. Something unfamiliar. Something he did not immediately push away. •┈┈┈🐺┈┈┈• Under lycan watch, moonbeams🌙