once, he heard a man say, you underestimate what pirates will do for the people they love.
so taehyung gets out of the boat, even if some part of him already knows he will not find what he’s looking for here. but the same thought that has pushed him onward for a year pushes him on now, just four words that have gotten him back onto that ship time and time again, no matter how many times he comes back alone:
there was no body.
(or: a year ago, the cry of hades sunk to the bottom of the sea and took park jimin with it. but taehyung refuses to stop searching for his lost love, even if it means turning to the darkest parts of piracy, immersing himself in magic, and sacrificing all he has to bring jimin home