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

i saw it but had nothing to contribute! i am a sad potato.

 

ok here is a logistics question! erskin isn't leaving cloris in a voluntary way and doesn't intend to get over the bite-dependency that rainbowdrinkers like to foster in their victims. i'm pretty sure a bunch of interested bloodsuckers are going to want to pick up where cloris left off, and erskin is going to at least be interested in getting a fix via one-night-stands or open relationships or whatever.

how badly is this going to fuck with the island's security system? like, how would galley and pancho and lu get together and deal with that, would there be a hard and fast NO VAMPIRES NEAR LU AND GALLEY rule or something more flexible like 'for fuck's sake warn us when you're having someone over'. or something else?

 

i like that! i definitely like the idea of bel getting judgey and ticked off the first time erskin turns up with fresh bite marks and a completely unapologetic grin. also bel and erskin having to hash out that erskin expects and wants a certain level of damage from red trysts, now, and bel isn't the only guy in the world allowed to romantically chew on him... would bel feel guilty about erskin having gotten so messed up? or just mad at him for not coping in an acceptable way? or what.

another possible frustrating complication: bites are supposed to be a blackrom thing, but when erskin's bit anymore all the fight goes out of him. thanks a lot, cloris.

 

god forbid! well, we can always figure shit out before it gets to that point, or not have erskin be messed up in that way if it isn't fun, or have him come up with some other way to tease bel that they both enjoy. i think probably everyone's first blackrom is confusing and embarrassing, though! no way of getting around it.

i don't think bel is at all liable to be abusive or even overly controlling at all, tho. he's a good dude, and pretty mindful of quadrant boundaries.

 

yeah i think erskin's had his confidence really undermined by how like, he's really been comparing himself to bel, in terms of fearlessness and people skills and intelligence, and so he's come to feel very keenly that he doesn't measure up, as a young adult or even a troll. those are the things he admires about bel... so i guess when bel invalidates his feelings on something, or misses one of his carefully, defensively-phrased requests for help and support, erskin takes it as kind of another sign that he's failing to function. i wonder if bel has any idea of how much erskin respects him? it'd make sense if bel didn't even guess, since erskin's combative and dismissive and even scornful with bel, to his face.

hm. i guess that's part of the problem with erskin withdrawing even before he ran away? erskin doesn't match bel on the stuff he admires bel for, so he thinks he has nothing to contribute to an equal relationship. so the relationship they do have must just be bel having a careless, sadistic fling with a pretty (and disposable) idiot. plus erskin's got no real concept of friendship, let alone family, so he just straight up stopped believing bel's promises of love and support the minute things got rough... i think that's kind of the crux of what they need to talk over.

i don't think i can stand the idea of erskin and jethro having bad times and misunderstandings! they need to be cuddly and trusting forever, the end.

 

yeah, for serious. some time after jethro's been patched up, i guess.

oh, right— i was thinking, cloris doesn't even need to brutalize jethro or anything. she could just chomp him to keep him pliant the way she gets erskin, but she miscalculates: the bite wounds a seadweller can get off to would make a warmblood bleed out, and fast. so everyone flips out, haha.

 

this feels especially ironic, since erskin really did want to be more pale than pitch with bel for a while, until he concluded bel had simply lied to him about having pale feelings as part of a pitch gambit to find out his insecurities and kick him in them. hence bitterly withdrawing... with jethro in the mix, at least that aspect of the clusterfuck is going to be cleared up fast.

 

give jethro a rolled up newspaper and let him loose!

 

i really like the idea of lu being their auspistice! i also really like the idea of lu being like 'ok we both survived the same hellbeast mindfuckery, that's a bonding experience! we're comrades now!' and erskin being like haha NOPE.