#and shizuo builds him a nice aquarium on the ship

[lavenderboneswrites]

Siren Izaya x pirate captain Shizuo, any headcannons other than it being like the little mermaid but gay and darker.

Oooh oh ooohhhh ! Okay let me preface this with saying I absolutely LOVE everything and anything to do with pirates! One Piece, Black Sails, AC Black Flag (the greatest AC game ever), Pirates of the Caribbean, Treasure Planet, Treasure Island (the book), Muppets Treasure Island. Seriously anything that has pirates? Sign me the fuck up because I am a slut for that shit. If ya'll have any good pirate shows/books please rec me because I will devour that like the kraken devours ships. Just everything to do with pirates, the aesthetics, the language, the big ships, the clothes, the tales, sailing the seas and having adventures. The idea of freedom and fighting against authority. *Mwuah* chef's kiss.

Alright, now that's out of the way I have to admit @scrambledshizaya and me have discussed a Disney The Little Mermaid au at length. Mostly just imaging merman Prince Izaya loving humans and being fascinated by them and longing to be 'part of their world'. Shizuo is of course Prince Eric and I love the thought of Shinra as Sebastian.

Anyway for a darker, pirate version. Yohohoho oh boy I gotta stop from making this just pirate shizaya. Okay so pirate captain Shizuo. He definitely would be considered a beast of the seas, a terrifying pirate with an incredibly high bounty with stories of terror and mystery surrounding him. Did he defeat the Kraken? Who knows? (I can see Shizuo wrestling the Kraken barehanded and yeeting it into the neighbouring sea). Anyway, there’s the tale of his battle with the great siren. Pirates, like sailors, are incredibly superstitious and the legend of siren’s bewitching men and luring them to Davy Jones’s locker is well known.

Izaya is one of these mythical creatures, obsessed with bewitching human’s with his beauty, words, and above all his siren call. However he loves humans and sometimes will forget to actually kill them cause he’s too busy just talking to them. Most actually die from their own stupidity (trying to fight a siren in open water is not a smart move), and really that makes Izaya pout cause he wasn’t done playing. (I imagine siren Izaya kind of like a mermaid but with a leopard shark tail and a bit more murky and dark, with vicious claws and shark like teeth (just imagine his wide lil grin with all those teeth omg bb). (I don’t know a whole heap about siren’s to be honest).

One night at sea, snow falls like infinity around the ship and Shizuo hears the siren’s call. He takes a harpooning boat out to investigate, going alone as the rest of his crew are much too frightened. Izaya swims up to him, very interested in this strange, unafraid human. Shizuo just grins as he spots him, thinking he’s never seen such a pretty prize before.

And Shizuo is the one human who is not affected by Izaya and that makes him incredibly annoyed. Shizuo just captures him in a net and Izaya is hissing like a little drowned housecat. A siren is a fine pet for the King of Pirates after all.