I'm now wondering how infamous these two are now. I can't help but imagining my seatroll hearing about this and sighing because it turns out that this Lord Aspera is now being a complete disaster to the reputation of seadwellers or something. On the other hand if they're only really famous through gossip rags then maybe she hasn't heard that much about them. But still. They're pornstars. What's the bet that some kids decided to make their own videos inspired by Erskin?
genuine seadweller not only making porn but acknowleging it and not trying to hide their identity? i'm thinking they've been trending off and on since the first video. :D and hell yes there'd be copycats galore, though how many of them were real seadwellers... probably like... one. and his name is vaziok dasyat. he does red. *waggles eyebrows*
I think that my fantrolls have heard of them. Ailesi at least has files on basically everyone with political ambitions/above a certain hue, though she's probably rather annoyed that her notes on Erskin are so sparse. ('What do you mean, he only shows up in porn and gossip rags? He's got to be up to something, every seadweller is! My informants must not be looking in the right places.') Iridie, having met Lophii, rather doubts that.
to anyone who takes the time, bel is probably pretty easy to research. after all, he was trying to make a name for himself in military circles before he got disillusioned, and he was pretty dang good at the practice-war thing.
Yeah, she knows about Bel, certainly! Iridie, who is vaguely involved with rebellion stuff, may know of him through that, but I have no idea how involved she is.
I feel like Citlal knew who Bel was before she chatted to him a bit on tumblr, but was a bit distracted by other stuff to really look into him. He's the type of troll she'd try to scoop into her contacts though. Useful to have chosen good officers to work under you, especially if you think they'll treat your special, carefully collected "assets" (read: talented lowbloods) with precision for tasks (read: use their talents by knowing your force instead of throwing fodder out). ... Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of what you've written about Bel, Jesse, is more or less part of what I've wanted to do with Citlal, only that I am bad at thinking about military things :'D
Loreli knows about the porn vids and is furious she didn't think of it first. Erskin is on her shitlist, mostly because seadwellers always are (having her body adapted to freshwater means she can't go to fancy seadweller parties and she got mocked and bullied quite a bit by other royals, so she is pissed at any finface by default). She follows the gossip blogs on the two of them with quite the enthusiasm. (If I get the ok by you guys maybe she will come visit with her moirail and their coffeeshop-boat at some point?) Ophira probably saw the vid, muttered a drawn out 'niiice' and went back to exploding stuff. Unless either of them actually do something related to alchemy she would probably not care if they had a horizontal tango right in front of her nose. Unless they do it on stuff she needs of course then she'll just shove them off the stuff. Ophira has a way more chaotic anarchist approach to rebellion so she probably won't even be part of Blackbox, unless she wants to relay 'I kinda accidentally sploded an entire empire base not sorry' so everyone reading that can go 'godDAMMIT PHI'
My two (far too underdeveloped, sigh) fan trolls likely heard of them vaguely. They're sort of isolated on top of a fucking mountain and their lusii are... paranoid about the internet.
Wait, is erskin scared of galley? Thats both appropriate and hilariously wrong. Also fuckin precious. Jethro, baby, i cant so much as begin to even you are perf.
Dammit now I want Citlal to try and feel Bel out for officer material under her command even though he's older than her. She likes headstarts though. (She probably thinks Erskin is an obvious playboy who will crash during ascension though :'D If she's paid enough attention.) Regardless, I am going to chinhand at the teasing of Jethro, that is adorable, go pester your moirail Erskin, be cute <3
Oh my fucking god is that shopkeeper doing the "why is there a black guy in my store" can i help you? dance at jethro. EXCUSE YOU.
yuuuuup. notice that. Made me think of how I would probably react to the situation by going "No thank you," then look at them funny for standing too close, and how that, combined with how I've now witnessed a white dude try and start a fistfight with two black dudes in a convenience store over motherfucking eye contact, reminds me once again that had I been born a black dude, I would have a high likelihood of being shot/in jail by now... ... actually, are there any studies on the mortality/incarceration rates of spergy black folk? or would that be sunk-on-arrival because of underdiagnosis of autism in black kids/adults? *edit* ambien dial, srry for OT
Spoiler: Whoops sorry. Pasted from planning thread. The thing I'm most anticipating/concerned about is how the encounter might force Bel and Erskin to have to face the rift in their personal narratives re: the realness attributes of what happened with Cloris. That's who he was there with before, and in the note he sent, the shop kid was decidedly on Cloris's side in addition to being enthusiastically anti-Bel. If nothing else, if he hears Cloris is dead and Bel is responsible, he knows he's lost a repeat customer and who to blame for it.
