Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

oh btw, they do have extended family, a whole big mess of greek relatives they get together with once or twice a year, they just live elsewhere. haven't decided where, we can run into them sometime if that'd be fun. after bel's mom died, alex asked for a posting that would allow him to raise his son a) mostly in one place and b) not in military housing, and being as high-ranked as he is, actually got one -- he's in charge of the reserve base at the international airport. so he's got like a two-hour commute, and stays on the base when there's something important happening, but he was able to be home at least a few days every week so it wasn't just bel and a nanny all alone, and they could stay in the house alex's dad built.

 

no, not that kind of drama. just byronic cliff-moping, and catastrophizing, and hyperbolic internal monologues and so forth. he's generally pretty good at keeping a lid on it. but every so often he ticks over onto the warpath, which could be considered drama of a sort, although so far it's been probably too bloodbathy for that because trolls.

 

ok i figured out how to explain: he does wrist-to-forehead, raven-on-a-skull, "i shall never love again," brb palely loitering, Romantic-in-the-classic-sense drama. not reality tv, mean girls, weave-snatching drama.

 

100% accurate.

 

ps palely loitering is extra difficult when you're covered in freckles, he had to make an effort.

 

it's like you truly understand him.

 

i have no clue if partial changes like yellow eyes are a thing in your werewolf concept, i can edit if you object. i just think it's a neat warning sign.

 

heh, yeah, idk how the fur thing would even go, i can't really visualize it. teeth, now, teeth i can see. :D

so i was thinking about how the werewolf legend is kind of about the animalistic side of humans, and i thought: what if they have the hardest time staying human when they're under the influence of a state or emotion that's their particular weakness? so like, what if the reason erskin's having so much trouble changing right now is because he's been socializing with humans and being on his best behavior so much. and bel can just flip back and forth like he does because that's not especially rough for him, but hit him with a fear/anger adrenaline rush, and suddenly his teeth go all pointy.

he would be appalled.

 

yeah, not a mindless animal escape, but more... instincts? when you're at war with your instincts? my ritalin wore off and i'm having trouble articulating.

 

oh hey: what if bel finds this out when assbutt mc trenchcoat finally manages to piss him off

 

oh god, and bel is being SO PATIENT with him because like. when you are an actual no-kidding green beret, you do not get into pissing contests with random suburban fork lift drivers or whatever. it is unfair and beneath your dignity. but the way he treats erskin just. and his casual bigotry. and his unending incorrectness about everything. and then he does the one thing that just tips bel over and suddenly "excuse me i have to go somewhere that is not here before i pop this fucker's head off like a dandelion BYE"

all struggling for self-control and DIGNITY always dignity and manners

but he has monster face and his nails are turning into claws and he is so ashamed of himself

probably fuckchop is not smart enough to let him go, and then hooboy.