There are known cases of mersalmon males who willingly accepted to undergo the torture of bites, typical of nixen courtship, and managed to produce fertile offspring with them.
Although male nixens normally use only force to conquer females, biting and chasing them, it seems that the courtship ritual of mersalmons, composed mostly of displays and songs, can still convince female nixens to mate.
Xanatos (as mersalmon) and Fox (as nixen) illustrate this mixed courtship ritual...

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So, yeah, more mersalmon Xanatos and Vlad, sketched with ballpoint pen! They may fight, but they're friends. Like brothers. And maybe, yeah, real brothers too.

(They do this just for show. Y'know, to impress the ladies).

More about mersalmon: https://fantasydiario.blogspot.com/2025/09/ceasg-or-mersalmons.html

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Although it is rare, some male mersalmon (estimated one in four hundred) also exhibit a color change on the skin, which is pigmented green, with the ends of the upper limbs (arms and wrists) particularly dark (and called "gloves").

The contrast between the green of the skin of the torso, and the intense color of the scales of the tail, makes them particularly striking, but also particularly visible to predators, and this is why "green" males are so few.

More about mersalmon: https://fantasydiario.blogspot.com/2025/09/ceasg-or-mersalmons.html

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So, yeah, salmons have these small males called "Jacks", we could not possibly skip the opportunity of having an AU where Jack is a small guy (who, in the end, still wins the girl. Vlad is just unlucky in love, poor one! Oh, those sneaky little jacks...)

More about mersalmons (https://fantasydiario.blogspot.com/2025/09/ceasg-or-mersalmons.html)

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