Siren’s Song

Short Summary: Rafayel, now as a Lemurian survivor and opera singer ("Mo"), seeks vengeance for his people's genocide while maintaining a cold, calculating facade. His performance as the Siren parallels his real-life trauma, culminating in Mr. Fallon's mysterious death. As detective Louis investigates, Rafayel burns evidence and departs for Linkon City, the site of Lemuria's ruins, while also hinting at his next move in a centuries-old revenge plot.

Timeline Notes:

Event	Timeframe
Lemuria's destruction	Current Lifetime (implied decades ago)
Rafayel's childhood Seamoon Ceremony	~15-20 years ago (memory)
K's death & Seamoon Ceremony	"Last Saturday" (Current Lifetime, recent past to this memory)
Opera performance (Mr. Fallon's death)	Present (days before café scene)
Café meeting with Talia	Present (post-performance)
Restaurant confrontation with Louis	Present (same day as café)
Departure for Linkon City, has a picture of MC	Immediate future (post-investigation)

Key Lore Information:

Vengeance vs. Grief: Rafayel's elegy for Lemuria masks his lethal intent.
- Performance as Identity: His opera role mirrors his real-life duality (singer/assassin).
Lemurian Lore:
- Cultural Erasure: Lemuria's ruins symbolize colonial violence against aquatic civilizations [paralels with Forgotten Sea, when he was trying to prevent this from happening. He did have a flame at the end of the myth
- Seamoon Ceremony: Funeral rite connecting water, memory, and loss.
Relationships/Dynamics
- Not with Protagonist yet, alone aand lonely.
- Talia (Aunt): Protective but estranged; serves as his last human tether.
Extra
- Fishbone in meal: Metaphor for Rafayel's "unfinished" revenge (Louis: "There's bone").

Full Transcript

01 | Cliffhanger

Maverick finally arrives at the beach. The Siren who deceived him sits on the rocks. She turns around, smiling amidst the fragmented waves.

His bloodline that spanned 100 years has met its end, its family crest stained with the blood of loved ones. The Siren is responsible. He cherished her, yet she dug out their hearts with her own hands.

He wades through the shallow water and climbs onto the rocks. His hands are marred with scars.

These bloody hands had once cradled the girl's face, gently caressing her exquisitely sculpted features.

But her love is a web meticulously woven.

The seawater wets Maverick's clothes as he slowly opens his mouth, singing a melodious love song to his former lover. It is the song she once taught him, a siren's ballad.

His voice fluctuates from deep below the waves to soaring high above the skies, from sunset to moonrise, from high tide to low tide.