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

I was thinking that erskin would politely and quietly lay out that bel has made important decisions on the assumption that erskin is an incompetent fool, and this has caused significant problems two or three times now.

and then he would lay out that hardcase's ship does not have a captain, it's just inside what a cobalt could keep command of, if he was bloodthirsty and smart, and bel can go be a proper captain on a proper battlefront and live happily ever after— no first mate was a much superior experience to a first mate that's contemptuous of him, and undermines and sabotages him, and jockeys for control with him.

so— then bel could actually make the decision to stay? anime credits roll, etc.

 

hmm yeah. i think the problem is what he's been doing has had like— good intentions! and in other situations i can totally see it all working out! but this is a weird situation, and he keeps sulking 'no one is telling me this, no one is telling me that' but not... asking? so he keeps oscillating between baffled paralysis and attempts to fix stuff that doesn't need to be fixed the way he's trying to fix it.

anyway, erskin's operating mostly on the idea that, if everyone knows what needs to be done, and why it needs to be done, they'll do it. unquestioning obedience isn't a concept for him, so that's where they're talking past each other most, i think? and so erskin's really hurt that bel keeps not just /asking/ him why this or why that and chalking the answer up to 'i don't get it (because i've been here a week) so the answer must be that erskin is stupid'. and that bel won't just tell erskin what he wants done and why, and then they can work out how to get that done, or if it needs to be done.

 

" Or rather, there are rules like 'when Glasswind shows up, the captain has to dress up like a rentboy and fuck her into submission, and anyone who gets in the way of this very important prostitution is persona non grata,' and no one has bothered to tell you any of them."

eheheh SOMEONE'S JEALOUS

 

haha ok, yeah, that is a very good point. and i think that erskin is actually increasingly into the idea of a first mate, like, someone who helps him do things more efficiently, and someone he might be able to rely on to get things done when he's out of commission. and come to think of it, erskin hasn't been asking many questions either? bel is like BUT THE MILITARY and erskin is like OK SHUT UP I DON'T CARE NUH UH. and re-inventing the wheel.

hmmmrffgh these dumb babies. who would have thought blackrom was hard???

what if galley like, idk, chats with bel? galley might be in favor of the ship having a first mate too, especially one that gets a boner at the mere sight of his meat puppet.

 

oh my god bel if i looked in the alternian dictionary under 'sulky bitch' your picture would be there

 

i kept meaning for galley to do the fuckboy thing of Let's Play 20 Questions but maybe they can play that later, when galley stops being quite so chickenshit.

btw technically galley's a lech. i'm pretty sure 'lowbloods topping' is a common enough kink, for trolls.

ALSO i didn't mean for the implication to be made that galley and erskin are blackrommy, just that galley has the most contentious relationship with erskin of anyone on the ship by about a lightyear, and knows it. i think erskin's pretty fucked up about his ethical desire to do no harm (especially to dependent subordinates) and not be an awful shitty violent troll like the warmachines he holds in contempt... versus his desire to fuck shit up in the face. probably that's why he gets so stoked to have a righteous excuse to beat someone up, he doesn't feel like it's okay to be violent at any other time.

he is going to feel SO MUCH BETTER when bel finally goads him over the edge. meanwhile, blackrom ust is my favorite thing.

 

YEAH.

 

brb naps