In addition to gregarious and dominant, there is a third type of mersalmon: jacks. Jacks mature much earlier than "regular" mersalmons and as such maintain a very small size, furthermore even during the reproductive period they do not change livery, remaining inconspicuous. Jacks do not have any dominance/submission relationship towards other mersalmons, they do not practice courtship and do not clash with each other or with other mersalmons. An adult male jack weighs around forty-five/fifty kilograms, compared to the weight of over one hundred kilograms of a regular-sized male, and would have no chance of winning in an open fight.

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...)

(And if you understand Italian language, yeah, here you can read all the info about mersalmons (maregens salmo) )

This was just a ballpoint pen sketch from our sketcbook, but we decided to slap some color on it, just to show the general difference in hue between a male in full rut and a non-color-changing jack.

[Oh, and a lot more of our Danny Phantom fanarts: Here’s our tag on tumblr!]

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