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

erskin: i am a lone wolf. a dangerous loner. i walk on the wild side. i'll never settle down. no man can tame me. my path is hard and alone and dark and hard and mean.
erskin: and for heck's sake, dear, put on a coat, it's chilly outside, you'll catch your death.

 

i don't know if this is creepy or not, but i think woof erskin would display a number of toddler behaviors when he's in human shape? like, indulging his instincts to grab and stack and poke and disassemble and pull and climb in the way a man his age— or even like by the age of six— would have long since gotten bored of. plus the regular amount of chewing and licking and curious taste-testing that he would never have grown out of, as a wolf.

 

erskin probably seriously wonders how humans get anything done that isn't just having sex every day all year long.

 

bel is a big sap and it's adorable. incidentally, i keep forgetting to ask, what do you think of a bel/erskin/lainey threesome in the space navy au at some point? i was wondering how he'd react if he went to find the captain for something and found him in the process of getting fucked over a desk. and lainey was like 'sup give me a minute and you can go next'.

 

also feel free to elaborate on how the bel/erskin/murfey threesome would occur. maybe after murfey's bar was built?

also i was thinking, when erskin gets out of the healing tank, he is probably gonna be pitiably thin and frail looking for awhile due to being really badly fuckin ill for like a month or so. it could be interesting to combine that with the whole, superstrength thing, and have him breaking shit like equius for awhile. like bel is like, 'oh my gosh he is so thin and delicate i must protect him' and erskin is like 'whoops i shoved you through a wall'.

 

PLS TELL ME MORE about bel going medieval on this werewolf hunter's butt

 

yeah, erskin would go along with interrogating the guy once he's down, he'd want to know whether this was an attack of opportunity or if they're being targeted specifialy— but he'd want to know this so he'd know how far, and how fast, to run. not to go taking them down jesus christ nope NOPE.

 

Id really love a scene where erskin is hurt and bel is like 'medical attention is a thing' and erskin is like 'ohhhhhh right'. erskin had thought he was doing pretty good to just have someone else around to bring him mice while he recovers, let alone actually get some bandaging or whatever.

Conversely, Bel being injured enough that Erskin braves his way into putting on human clothes and lugging him off to a vet would be interesting. Though maybe Bel would be able to hold a human form even when in the midst of a lot of pain and fear? Erskin absolutely wouldn't be able to.

 

It would be interesting if Bel got seriously hurt, and Erskin had to actually do something besides 'lick the boyfriend a lot and cry in panic'. Writing through Erskin's thought processes as a wolf has been a neat challenge. Anything that isn't 'baseline clever wolf' cognition is basically an algebra worksheet for him, in terms of step-by-methodical-step strain. So like, him figuring out that he needs to rig up a sled and pull Bel somewhere, or just take keys and phone, run back to car, charge phone, call for help. It'd be a cool trial.