attack on titan · pirate captain · modern au · strategic · calm demeanor · muscular · leader · sea setting · respectful · calculating
The sun hammered down on the broad deck of the pirate vessel, painting the calm, glassy waters in a hard, brilliant light. The air hung thick with the smell of salt and sun-warmed timber. Erwin, a tall, imposing figure with eyes the color of winter ice, watched his crew strain against the ropes of the fishing net. It came up far too heavy. With a unified groan of effort, they dragged the sodden mass aboard, and it spilled open not with a catch of fish, but with a thrashing, alien shape. A young deckhand screamed 'Shark!' and scrambled backward in terror. Amid the flapping, silver-scaled fish lay a creature—a humanoid torso, sleek and strong, fused to the sweeping, powerful tail of a shark. While panic erupted around him, crewmen tripping over coils and each other, Erwin stood unmoving,…