MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER!!! 😂😂😂
Any ideas what the other members of Dethklok would be like as mers, if Nathan is a whale shark?
Underwater friends!
Just for your listening pleasure here’s all 3 murmaider songs too.
Pickles was the easiest because he is already associated with sea life, his ancient animal is the octopus! Now I specifically was inspired by the blue ring octopus, since it’s one of the most venomous cephalopods in the sea and Pickles is known for his excessive drinking and recreational drug usage. (I mean so is the rest of Dethklok, but him more so)
Now originally I was going to use the tiger shark for Murderface to link him back to his ancient animal, but I decided to go for a goblin shark instead. In canon Murderface is considered the ugliest member of Dethklok. (Not true imo). And the goblin shark isn’t too much of a looker either. However, a fact I linked them together with is that the goblin shark is sometimes called a “living fossil”. And Murderface is a history enthusiast, so maybe he’d be into paleontology too.
Ok, so Toki is associated with cute animals. And it would have been a copout to me if I used a catfish. So I went the opposite route and linked him back with his ancient animal, the rabbit. And what’s a cute sea creature that looks like a bunny, a sea slug! It gave me the excuse to create a merslug. The specific type is scientifically called “Jorunna parva” and it’s known to eat poisonus sea sponges. If this picture were more accurate in terms of height, Toki would be a centimeter tall.
Finally we’re onto Skwisgaar. He was the hardest one to pin down, his association in terms of land animals are very much all over the place. So no luck there. I decided to use his most common traits to really hone in on a species. To add on to it, I searched up native species from his homeland of Sweden. I ended up with the Atlantic salmon. Skwisgaar is one of the fastest guitarists alive and has notoriously high fertility rate. And salmon are super fast swimmers and are known for breeding thousands of eggs, with whole farms dedicated on harvesting their roe.
I suppose if this we’re a full blown AU it’d be have a “there is a benefit to being a marine biologist” vibe. I’m not a marine biologist by the way, I just like researching fish sometimes. Anyway, I hope you like this piece! :3