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Jayden's shark hybridity does not apply to a specific shark species, he is a composite hodgepodge of mainly hammerhead, tiger and thresher (sea fox) sharks.

What distinguishes Jayden from a human is his larger height and build. I think he's the same height as Mane and Mane is a fucking hefty two-Vandam frame. But unlike the lion and his tiger bro, Jaden's physique is a little less even.

Kinda.

He's broad-shouldered, but his forearms are stronger than his shoulders and better developed, and his pelvis is almost "feminine," so no matter how fucked up it sounds, he has a waist and it's fucking great.

From hammerhead sharks, Jaden has maneuverability (read it like "the ability to fit into turns at ungodly high speed and not lose balance at the same time and keep going") and reaction speed. To this is added to the ability to quickly gain speed from the thresher skarks. Also from the sea fox Jayden got a lot in terms of movements.

Fox sharks are called "thrashers" for the reason that they use their long tail like a whip and this shit has enough speed and application force not just to break the victim's bones, but to shatter them - Jayden relies heavily on his speed and maneuverability in this sense but if the shark doesn't give a fuck about how vulnerable the range will make her - Jaden takes a lot of risks all the time (ruptured axillary arteries are always fatal, kids, aim in and protect them)

Jayden has strengh from the tiger shark and its that kind that dosen't needs to be applied, it's his own (like Wembu's snake-like flexibility). Also he got really good face memory from tiger sharks - Jay may not remember the name of someone, but he remembers faces well and forgets them with great difficulty and creak lol.

In addition to these features, Jaden also has visual hybridity features. For example, he has gills and they are quite functional but he cannot open and close them like a fish and for sanitary and protective purposes he wears a mask (well, at first it was like that, and then for reasons of style).

Jaden also has large, sharp teeth and a frighteningly fucking serious jaw force (hello tiger and bull sharks).

I also think that besides the fact that Jayden's skin is very calloused and weathered from salt, sometimes darker stripes and spots appear on it, like tiger sharks one.

About the human part of Jaden.

Jaden's gait sways slightly - as with all pirates - this is noticeable only on land. However it would be a mistake to assume that because of this Jayden is easily knocked down - on the contrary, it takes a lot of effort to knock down the Pirate King.

And thats because of rocking.

The constant rocking of ships and even the swaying board bridges of Pirate Civ willy-nilly internal balance and vestibular apparatus gets used to that.

The same applies to body navigation in space. Jaden relies on triden-mace, which - like elitra-mace - requires serious skills and a sense of body position.

"— On your knees.

Heavy blue coat flies straight to the floor

— Exscuse me?

or: jaden and wemmbu through eggchan's perspective (a mini drabble)

wemmbu did not find pirate superstition all that interesting, but egg felt it was very important for the lore book. like a good friend and fantastic scholar of the unstable smp, he took it upon himself to ensure this arduous task of lore-keeping goes well documented, so here's a list of all recorded instances of their superstitions.

and then, only then, does he fuck her, pushing her to her limits all while whispering praises in her ear about how good she’s being and how much he loves her

uuuuuugghhhh yesssssss Jaden's hunger and greed knows no bounds nor limits when it comes to Wemmbu it's almost disgusting - he fucking obssesed with Wemmbu, with her body. He doesn't deserve all this gorgeous macabre goddess but when he DID deserve anything he have? Jaden is a pirate and pirates just take what they want and what they like.

Jaden do edgeing her, but never deniy Wemmbu's orgasm, in fact - cap 'll do anything to make her cum. Yet he won't stop here. Making Wemms cry out of overstimulation - kinda Jaden's way of marking, of saying that Wemmbu is his and his only, no one can make you fell so good as I do, love.

Cap'n not just praises Wemmbu - he got both rich imagination and rich vocabulary, so Jaden practical showers her in all kind of compliments of petnames to the point she's overstimulated not only phisicaly to the point that only Jaden's rhaspy and low out of pure disgusting want voise make Wemms body tremble.

Instead the name whispered in every tavern, murmured in every bar is Jadenman. King of the Pirates. The man who managed to gather together a civilisation of the most anarchist, ruthless and free players to ever step foot on the server and convince them serve under one banner

What it means is that even as glamorously decorated and brightly coloured as Wemmbu normally is by Jadens side he's practically invisible. All eyes are on the Pirate King, where he'll go next, what he's planning to do. Nobody will even spare a glance at the demon next him, deemed unimportant in face of such greatness

People have an awful habit of passing over Egg. Treating him as useless or an extension of wemmbu, a hostage or an item of knowledge. Never as a person. Even Manepear knocked him off of the high branches treehouse multiple times.

Jaden never did that. He kidnapped him in the beginning, but that was before he ever knew Wemmbu, never knew Egg. After having so much time to think, in the abandonded civ, after the Flame debacle, after the invis knight incident, he treats Egg like his own thinking feeling being upon being brought into pirate civ. And that means more to wemmbu then Jaden will ever realise

Part of the Egg loves Jaden is because he treats Wemmbu right.

People treat Wemmbu as a weapon, something to be used and wielding. An object to point towards their enemies.

Jaden gives Wemmbu space to be soft. A place where eyes slide off him and land on the glittering shining King of the Pirates. Pirate Civ is a place where Wemmbu can relax. Eggchans safety isn't a burden to be constantly monitored and worried about. He's free to laze around all day in a downy soft bed sunken in with pillows, sunbathe on heated rock, wash his hair with high quality shampoos and conditioner, eat good food or run off on an adventure. He can do anything.

"Losing, I guess."

something about dehumanization and legacy

something i saw a lot was a very straightforward inner struggle and internalization of being told hes a weapon—"i'm a weapon, or am i not? i don't want to be, but maybe thats all i am." something of that sort. and while mugm does internalize that rhetoric i think there's further nuance to how it informs his thoughts and behaviors

in the august-november 2025-ish era where that was a reoccurring conflict for him, i felt like mugm struggled far more with cognitive dissonance than outright questioning. and when i say cognitive dissonance i mean very classic cognitive dissonance—psychological discomfort that arises from a conflict in a person’s behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs that runs contrary to their self-perception. in this case, mugm's internalized dehumanization (belief) runs contrary to his self-perception of someone who is confident, capable, and independent. in his mind, someone self-labeling as a weapon comes from deep insecurity, confusion, and lack of purpose, which he does not recognize in himself (even though those traits did exist within him at the time). he even expresses near-disgust at the concept of the weapon label, saying he "hates the trope [of thinking that way]" and expressing anger that nezo and puqi would call him that. but regardless, this dehumanization is internalized anyway, and he does believe it about himself despite rejecting it logically. i have a whole other post about it here blah blah blah not very relevant, all you needed to understand was that this cognitive dissonance exists (existed? it hasnt been revisted often because mugm isn't in an unstable environment where it would be triggered anymore. he did show dismissal of this period of his life, describing it as a "crisis" so im inclined to believe its somewhat internally resolved as of now)

when it comes to coping with cognitive dissonance, there are generally two paths people usually take. they either A) undergo a change of action to reflect their self-perception, or B) a change of belief to justify self-perception. one example is somebody who believes themselves to make healthy lifestyle choices, but smokes cigarettes. "A" would be working towards quitting smoking to reflect their self-perception of being a healthy person. "B" would be beginning to deny the science about the health dangers of smoking in order to justify the incongruity—"i'm still a healthy person because it's not PROVEN that cigarettes are bad"

mugm 100% chose option B. his change of belief was the worth-value of other people. instead of contending with his own insecurities, he paints the rest of humanity with them and frames it as an objective fact. "everyone has ONE THING they're good for." this is what he tells nezo at the pedestal and what he tells wyll later. and this IS his coping strategy. by judging everyone this way, he doesn't need to think about his own dehumanization, because he's not unique anymore. it's just the way the world works, this is how people are. this is a mindset that escalates into him being able to call everyone ants, being able to definitively judge them as lesser-than or proclaim them sinners who are unworthy of their own gems and of bliss itself (because he views himself—and wyll—as being Most Successful at their "one thing," and views their "one thing" as more valuable than other "one things," therefore they are better) and his feelings remain complex about it up to today, i think

DIVINE COMMAND THEORY

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