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

-yes lusii definitely get to go to space! lusii are ideally lifelong companions, and anyway trolls have the resources and culture to build big. if i was organizing this i'd have each deck of a ship's crew quarters being built along the lines of a nautilus, with larger-massing custodian-troll pairs being housed in the smaller number of larger sections.

-if we take the homestuck trolls as representative, sollux, kanaya, terezi, vriska, gamzee, and feferi have huge custodians, but kanaya, terezi, and feferi's custodians are near-unique cases. i think the percentage of huge custodians is likely to be something closer to one-in-six, rather than five-in-twelve. karkat's lusus is bigger than him while aradia, nepeta, tavros, equius, and eridan have lusii that are about their own size or smaller. the percentage of small custodians is probably low, though.

-there are probably sections of deck for lusii to get exercise— run, fly, train with their trolls, etc. hell, why not throw armories in there, too, and race tracks and combat arenas. space is big and trolls are fuckin rowdy.

-as a first officer bel should certainly get a big chunk of space for his custodian. perhaps eagledad's been dealing with clipped wings for awhile and bel's really excited about the promotion because he'll finally get enough space allotment for a deck-eyrie to himself so eagledad can fly around all he likes.

-maybe this is why bel puts up with erskin for the first fang-grittingly rough little while.

-a ship the size of TNG's NCC-1701-D enterprise holds a thousand humans. it would probably hold two hundred trolls, and that's if 150 were lowbloods.

 

btw look at this poster i love this poster

 

huff, i wish uploading pics was easier, but— yeah. humans are an interesting combo of solitary and swarming compared to trolls-and-lusii i think? we don't need custodians past our young adulthood, but will cram a two hundred humans into a vessel the size of an ablution trap and no one kills anyone. once you stuff humans in somewhere tight enough you get a sort of ashrom buckyball, with everyone leaning on everyone else to keep chill. troll scientists conclude 'gross', and also 'what the fuck'.

when i think of the battleship condescension vs human architecture i kinda think of like:

 

ok also pls consider the suspicious number of trolls on erskin's ship that wear sunglasses indoors and have horns that wobble when they turn around fast

'those are alien spies, aspera'
'nonsense!'
'they have BROWN SKIN'
'it's not nice to point out people's private diseases you know'

 

yes. probably yes. the garbage ship is where trolls who can't be culled or 'accident'-ed are promoted to. there's probably still a pretty high turnover rate but erskin, at least, has lasted longer than usual. galley may be taking this as a personal affront.

i think the top brass has made the mistake of composing a darwinian gauntlet to throw inconvenient fuckups into, and are going to wind up with a shipful of invincible inconvenient fuckups.

please tell me how long it takes bel to figure out the real reason behind his promotion and also his feels

 

awww, baby. ):

also i think kintsugi is not telling me when you've replied very promptly? i'll refresh and it'll be like 'oh he answered a post an hour ago lol'. we need some kind of rp bat signal. maybe every time i reply to a post i'll release a dove out my window?

 

gotcha

 

Now i really like the idea of a couple human spies kicking around and trying to slip erskin subversive literature. He thinks they're all smashing fellows, if a bit slutty in the pale areas, and puts all eccentricities down to them being orphans with diseases

One of them is bridge crew and their bookclub contributions tend to be along the lines of Animal Farm. Erskin likes the violent bits but has yet to do anything more than skim over the moralistic bits. Allusions are not his strong suite.

 

Awww cute. There was no way erskin was gonna sleep around strangers who knew who and where he waa-- too many bad experiences. Dude likes his hides! They should probably go back for erskins cool new bike, tho.

Playing thru a battle is gonna be so fun.

Eta: hmm it might be neat for some superior party to come along and bel see erskin quietly go to ground? Idk. Or maybe they just play hide and seek!