For the theme!
Xisuma is the captain of a very well known group of pirates, and Keralis is a very charming merman... They are, as history books would put it, 'great friends '
There's rumours of how nobody who attacks the hermits lives to tell the tale. As a crew, they don't attack unprovoked. In the taverns, people say you'd have to be a fool to cross them.
Their secret lies beneath the waves.
Mers have a different culture completely to humans. They aren't mindlessly aggressive creatures, but killing is part of life. The ocean does not follow the same rules as the land.
So, if anybody attacks Keralis's partner, he tears their ship apart.
He takes great delight in the way the wood creaks and snaps, or the way the metal bends and rings as he scratches it. There's great joy in destruction and Keralis savours every bit of it.
Xisuma wishes Keralis were maybe a little less bloodthirsty at times, but he has learnt not to attack their allies and that's good enough for X. He knows he can't change Keralis's nature, and he'd never want to. Keralis is perfect in all his inhuman glory.
