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

ok lemme see so his name was vaziok dasyat

he was your standard seadweller living in a submarine, shaking down FLARPers for their winnings, getting into fights with sharks



and he had this matesprit who was an orangeblooded back-alley doctor with a psi talent for fusing flesh



(they met when Ray Dad got harpooned by a business rival)

and they were very happy together



and they decided to dodge conscription to build a crime empire together. like ya do. so heleph did mad science and came up with a way to induce the lusus mutation, thus making them essentially invisible to the drones. he did this procedure on vaziok as well as his two main minions, but while they were still under sedation, a conscription drone (or so it seemed?) came for heleph and took him away. so vaziok woke up no-longer-really-a-troll, but with nothing to stay on-planet for, and he was very. very. angry.



after rampaging around in a royal temper for a while, he got a message from heleph: he was alive and sort-of-well, in space somewhere, but couldn't say where, his attempts to do so were auto-censored. he had been made into a surgeon-cyborg and was being trained to work on helmsmen.

vaziok resolved to find heleph and take him back if he has to punch the empress herself in the tit to do it, and at first building his criminal empire in space was a means to that end, but as time passed and he got no closer to finding heleph's location, he settled down to making a shitload of money. the richer and more powerful he is, the more he can poke into secrets, and the better his chances of finding heleph, right? and also, of course, taking him back when he finds him, and protecting him from the revenge of whoever has him.

don't let his tragic romance fool you. he is an amoral jerk. but he is the kind of amoral jerk who loves one particular coppery smartass more than even money or missiles, and lets his minions sass him mercilessly when he's in a good mood. you know, the fun kind of bad guy. :D

 

what the rp crew are dealing with: 'whitey' the crime boss. he knows his lusus look freaks people out, and uses that. he's a little weird, a little twisted, but tends to keep it out of his business dealings unless things go sour.

horns: much like erskin's, a bit longer maybe, with a double barb at the point

height: middling

voice: smooth and pleasant, gender-ambiguous, occasionally shading into petulantly whiny

mannerisms: the spoiled prince act is partially a put-on, but it's hard to tell which parts are an act; he'll go from little-lord-candypants to hard-nosed-businesstroll in an instant, but then, sometimes he'll throw a mini-tantrum over the lousy coffee during an important negotiation, so who knows.

proclivities: has no quadrants but heleph, and doesn't want any. he briefly had a moirail when he was very young, who was killed by a rival seadweller to make some point or other, and has never attempted the pale quadrant since. he won't let anyone tell him what to do, so ashen is right out, and his reaction to opposition is either to negotiate it away or annihilate it, so he's never had a romantic rival. this, by troll standards, probably makes him basically ace/aro even though he has the one bf with whom he was plenty sexual.

he responds well to flattery and luxury without ever really losing his cynicism; he knows it's not a reflection on his essential quality as a person, but he loves to lounge around on expensive furniture looking pretty in embroidered designer swim pants and acres of gold and pearls, sipping champagne and being told how great he is. he's kind of a cat.

 

ooh, i like. vaziok was always a bit gender-ambiguous, i wouldn't be surprised if he embraced femninity more and incorporated, for instance, heels and lipstick into his look. and clouds of white hair -- freaky, yes, i love it.

 

the first and last pic are by me, btw, and the rest are by rah.

 

ooh, so it would! he does not like to wear shirts, so the lack of boobage would be readily apparent, but combining that with female-coded accessories and mannerisms -- yes, that's just right. he'd be doing it deliberately to induce cognitive dissonance, that's just his sort of thing.

 

those ground-effect hoverdogs are ridiculous. <3

 

i want to do the whitey thing, but i'm having a blockage p much for the same reason i had the blockage last time. someday i will learn to say so and ask for help :P

i can't seem to keep where-is-everybody-and-what-are-they-doing in my head well enough to make a scene happen. i am not sure what to do about this. switch to whitey and lainey? have whitey be off by himself? have whitey be pestering murfey? help!

 

sounds about right!

i am super enticed! but idk what to do with it. i will just pet it a little.

 

bel is super impressed and a little turned on. idiotic bravery does that to him.

 

i think if i don't take a nap on purpose i'm going to take a nap by accident. much sorry.