The Eel & The Dolphin

like he DOES have a father that raised and loved him, that being Calvin Durham, who he fully believed was his biological father before Aquaman told him its actually Black Manta aka David Hyde. Like he has a good relationship with his adoptive dad and I dare say same with his bio dad in the beginning before he y'know betrayed him. Like Black Manta is actually like a good dad to Kaldur, he genuinely cares about him and loves him, he was willing to kill M'gann for his kid after she essentially lobotomized him

David's only flaw is that he's a super villain that wants to take over the world and hates Aquaman with a passion (when he saw Kaldur in his Aquaman suit he said smth along the lines of "Seeing you in those colors makes me sick" and Kaldur replied with smth essentially like "Good thing you won't see it in your cell cause I won't be visiting you")

Ivan Reis and Joe Prado “Mera” Brightest Day #5 page 22 splash (2010) Source

Colors by Aspen MLT or Peter Steigerwald

panel edits by me :D because the native people in this comic (Aquaman 1994) are bright fucking red

I think they should bring Koryak back, and I think everyone needs to get more Koryakpilled. I don't care how many hoops they need to jump through to bring him back I miss him and his water mind beam

originals under the cut. be warned