The Lighthouse and the Siren AU
One guides men to safety. The other lures them to their doom.
New England, 1821. Whaler Thor Borson returns home after a two-year voyage to discover that his wife has died of tuberculosis and his young son is being looked after by his estranged father. Odin Borson, a sailor himself who is now an eccentric and ailing lighthouse keeper, lives on an island and has not spoken with his son in years.
Drowning in grief and cast adrift in life, Thor moves in with his father and begins training as the next keeper of the light. The old man speaks of sirens and legends as if they were real, warning his son and grandson to stay away from the water. Thor thinks his father has gone strange from so many years of being alone.
It isn’t until Thor starts seeing a face in the waves and hearing eerie singing at night that he begins to suspect his father might not be as mad as he thought. He soon becomes obsessed with this beautiful, dangerous creature, and slowly his grip on reality begins to loosen as the powerful currents of loneliness and lust threaten to drag him out to sea.
