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

bel is ex special forces and picked up lycanthropy in a manner that is STILL EXTREMELY CLASSIFIED and so he kind of reacts to every single werewolf with the thought in mind that he was ten times more deadly pre-bite than they are under a full moon, and in general they react to this by fear-smiling and tail-tucking, and he was getting used to that. then there is THIS bunch of lunatics who somehow completely don't even care that he could practically take out a spetsnaz task force by accident, and instead instantly detect how confused and embarrassed and awkward he is and react exclusively to the awkward and think he is a cute dork.

he hates how relieved that makes him.

 

eventually bel decides that he is going to beat erskin at cute-doggie chicken, and starts acting the proud dog owner in public, scritching ears, telling cute pet stories to strangers, throwing a frisbee for him in the park and offering him milkbones.

he kind of doesn't know what to do when erskin appears to really enjoy this.

 

they end up snuggling on a hearthrug while pancho takes pictures and lu makes raunchy jokes, and bel is brushing woofy-erskin's fur and thinking, "how is this my life? also what is the endpoint of cute doggie chicken? do we just go on like this? for years? or will he back down if i put pink barettes in his fur?"

next day, erskin is seen around town with pink barettes in his fur, begging for scraps at outdoor cafes. bel has only made everything worse.

 

is that... a teddy bear in a clown hat?

upon seeing it, bel goes "nope, nope, nope," in a tightly controlled little clipped Calm Voice while confiscating the item and burning it in the back yard.

 

pancho and lu print out the weirdest, most xeno-ey ABO porn they can find on the internets and leave it for bel to find. he uses the pages to wrap leftovers. claims he never read it. and yet somehow it's the grossest, squelchiest pages that end up in erskin's lunch bags.

 

oh my god that would be SO cute and fun. do you think we can keep it loose and not get hooked on plot? what's got me hung up on the space navy au is i love these plot hooks and tropes we're playing with so much that i really want to see them through and try to do them some justice. how would you feel about the werewolf thread being like 49% fluff, 49% slapstick, and 2% roughly sketched causality?

 

i think bel should be the new arrival, that way he can't decide he's the boss of everyone, at least not automatically. and erskin can show him the ropes, in his own specially unhelpful way. <3

should pancho and lu and galley and etc be here too, or just the two of them for starters? i kind of like the simple conflict of "hi you are in my territory" "oh god sorry i don't know the protocol for this" "buy me ice cream and then we prank a frat house" "uhhhh is that traditional?" "yes, yes it is"

 

hell, with bel all uprooted from getting woofed and ex-militaried, he could actually join erskin in his wanderings, instead of being stay-at-home guy.

 

what if galley was a street kid who was deliberately given lycanthropy for some reason, and escaped from whoever did it?

but yeah i dig not wanting to have the ensemble cast, i'm alongside just Erskin And Bel Have Stupid Adventures for a little while, that sounds relaxing.

i propose: bel, less than a year woofed, has gotten some kind of factsheet or debriefing about it but no real support, and is just traveling to clear his head. runs into erskin's current playground and we see what happens.