Partial Narrator
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Seonghwa always knew that his life was going to be hard. It was as plain for him to see as his own hands in front of him, but he wanted to try to live his life looking towards the sun.
His uncle made that hard. Whenever the stress of life became too much for him, his uncle would berate Seonghwa over it, blaming it on his father for bringing his mother into their lives, on him being too much like his mother. It always came back to his mother.
Because Seonghwa’s mother was a harpy.
When he was 12, his uncle had a debt to a pirate captain from a job that went very poorly because of him.
And Seonghwa was how he settled that debt. Seonghwa, to spare his uncle.
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Seonghwa is half harpy in a world that sees nonhuman beings as other and unnatural, trapped in a life of piracy and kept against his will on board a scourge crew. But when the crew of the Horizon comes along and gives him a chance at a different life, he must find a way to settle into a life leagues apart from the one he's always known, try to fit himself into the tightly-knit fabric of the crew, while hiding the truth of himself. Can he while still finally allowing himself to be seen?Specific CW at beginning of each chapter
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- Part 1 of Half Harpy Hwa
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Pieces from Seafoam and Ocean Winds from the Horizon crew's points of view, put in chronological order.
! Contains spoilers for Seafoam and Ocean Winds !
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- Part 2 of Half Harpy Hwa
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It’s two humans fighting now under the glaring spotlights. They’re fit enough and desperate, average height but with enough determination to feed themselves to hit like they’re taking on a giant. It makes their hits wild and unreliable. Sweat and spit cover skin and stone. Blood on knuckles and teeth.
His spectating goes unnoticed, drowned in jeers and cheers and bone against bone. The violence draws the crowd in, salacious and visceral, and the crowd lets loose its money for a taste. He gets it, in a way. It draws him in too for his own reasons.
He had given up much more than money for a taste.
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Inspired by the song "Nobody Loves Me" by Rivals, title inspired by/taken from the lyrics