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

also i know we already started the thread with older bel getting dumped back in time to see younger erskine but now im VERY curious as to how captain aspera would handle being dumped in the middle of the fucking desert with young bel. and how young bel would deal with suddenly hot and capable and commanding erskin, back on planet.

 

yeah, erskin is seeing him as a loose cannonball on deck: he KNOWS bel's general personality, and is also deeply dismayed that he's got a completely untrained ensign that won't follow orders and gets insulted when told to stop doing stupid shit. if bel was any other kid but erskin's kismesis, and thus being afforded a LOT of benefit of the doubt, erskin would have smacked him a good one and shoved him in the brig for a night.

 

i still think erskin being grandly and patronizingly unflappable about all of bel's (very good) barbs is extremely funny. bel can worry the guy, he can probably even infuriate him-- he just can't actually *insult* him.

 

bel, normally: i shouldn't drink
captain aspera: you shouldn't drink
bel: >8U

 

also man i really don't know how galley would react to all that. im still uncertain of writing him! in my head he's very much still luka's character-- maybe we should go ask him?

 

would you feel like playing with the discworld au? i've been on a discworld kick, lately...

 

im hoping erskin's air of casual command comes off as handsome and confident and admirable (as does he, if he'd even pause to think about it) instead of just bratty and spoiled. he's still a very young captain, as these things go. but he's gotten used to being indulged by his crew.

 

perhaps one of erskin's crew comes up to pester him and bel could see how much erskin is liked, as a captain, and how confidently he cares for his people? it could be very surprising considering how awkward and jumpy and cautious young erskin is around just about everyone.

edit: oh man maybe bel can see that erskin is basically the emergency maintenance technician, especially for plumbing problems, and clearly learned the skillset and foul vocabulary from rustbloods.

 

Man, bel would have had no idea that erskin could be mechanical. I don't think he is, by nature, but he's been thoroughly trained for it by his lowblood minders, and sweeps of practice has combined very well with his inclination for oddball, out-of-the-box answers to problems that aren't actually supposed to be solved.

If presented a locked door, erskin's nature is to go under or over or around, rather than try to find the key. And he's been raised by a bunch of guys with hammers and shovels and ladders.

 

im back to work for a chunk of this week, so im gonna be slow too. life happens!

 

oh i forgot to say! yesterday at work i daydreamed that arguus was a young igor employed by the asperas, and maybe went off and became a photographer for lainey's newspaper in ankh-morpork after the whole cloris thing happened. and maybe the next day in the game lainey and arguus could come into the yarn shop asking for some black thread because arguus's hand fell off or something!

also, if lainey and erskin got together, it'd be cute, and also set up the fact that erskin doesn't think much of the black ribboners and would easily rationalize his way back into drinking blood, especially if that blood is from busty and enthusiastic young women. which later sets him up as a prime suspect when a bunch of gruesome murders start happening.

 

i like the idea of arguus as an igor of such splendid engineering he manages to lisp not only his S's but also his everything.