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light_mischief) wrote2022-04-24 01:29 am
light_mischief) wrote2022-04-24 01:29 amEntry tags:
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Skulduggery Pleasant
Cabin 117 - 6:39 PM
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light_mischief) wrote2022-04-24 01:29 am
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Post-captain talk (once more with feeling)
i was right about the contract
'entire kingdoms have been slaughtered for the weight of pieces of paper like that'
dude was worried that it was causing his feelings for you but lo and fucking behold it wasnt because thats dumb
burnt it
youre welcome he was ungrateful (expected)
long pointless annoying conversation but uh
1) he outright said he wouldve been willing to watch vile slowly drive you mad if they hadnt voted to take you out
2) said hes 'done it before' and then was like 'i dont know what that means'
so
maybe
talk to your boyfriend about that?????????????
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i tried to but he was dumb and annoying and brought up personal shit so its gonna have to be you
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He has a habit of assuming he has no autonomy. Understandably so. Thank you for destroying it. I'm sure he failed to experience enough gratitude to offer it, so I will do it in his stead.
I will talk to him about it. Interesting that he clarified to you that he didn't know what he was referring to. I wonder if he's put any thought into it after your conversation was over, or if he put it aside with everything else.
cw reference to suicidal ideation
yeah thats what he said too
something something blah blah im so old that my habits have wrinkles
i would put actual money on him just not thinking about it since
you have to believe me that i didnt bring it up to stir shit but like
he made it sound like if literally anything bad ever happens hes just going to give up and kill himself
you get why im worried about this right
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That would be a safe bet.
I do believe you. You've done nothing wrong, and you are right to worry about it. He makes a habit of hiding the depth of his misery by being flippant about everything. It was a defensive mechanism that likely helped when he was still cavorting around realities, but I think it's reached the end of its usefulness. I'll talk to him.
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this wasnt even flippant
but thank you
if you get the chance to
could you tell him not to bring up avery again
he wont listen to me about it as we both already know
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I will. And I will make sure he apologizes for doing so.
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youre not a miracle workerim not expecting it
he fundamentally does not understand why i still give a shit about him
all i want is for him to not bring him up again
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Very well. I will make sure he knows. I take it he didn't do it to get back at you for a slight, perceived or otherwise, but in his customarily offhanded way?
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he was in the middle of insulting me for having trauma after i tried to help with the random thing he remembered when he was all'i wonder why you care so much about the dead when hes among them'
and
'if you owe dead strangers nothing you owe him even less'
also he said his name was stupid
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Deflection. It's the tactic he turns to most often. The same thing as him pretending to only hear the least difficult question to answer. I'm sorry he resorted to it when you were trying to help.
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i knowsome shit is just a yellow card
i dont care if he does it
i just care about bringing him into it
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Understood.
Which would be a fine place to end it, if only he didn't have his own information to share. At least he knows teenagers generally prefer even exchanges?By the way, do you have any experience with cannibal ghosts? Or mirrors that eat people? Just curious.
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thats the second time someones asked me about cannibal ghostsand yeah i had to pull dimitri out of one back when ghosts were dragging people into them
why?
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Second time? I'm not sure that's a good record to have...
Hopefully Dimitri didn't try to step though it like Bash did. It was an apparently nasty sensation of nothingness. I thought you'd be the best person to tell. The cannibal ghosts are something Ava told me about. Well, just one of them. And it only ate Ebalon.
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hasnt ebalon been dead for likesince last year?
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Somebody found his body in the ocean and it was... repurposed. Really, I think he would have approved. He did blow himself up in the atrium back in October.
But yes. His body was retrieved and then it was accidentally fed to a ghost.
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you know how one time i said we might be monkeys at a typewriter writing shakespeare or some shityeah i change my mind were just regular monkeys and were all gonna die
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It can't be THAT bad, can it?
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valdis was telling me that friday said if a ghost got out of the nothing it would completely entirely destroy the ship and everything on it forever no takebacksiesso honestly its worse
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Oh.
Okay, so it is that bad. But that's fine. Who hasn't had to stop a world-ending catastrophe brought on by magical hubris? All we have to do is figure out HOW it will destroy the ship and then make it not do that. Simple.
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wow you really dont even believe your own shit this time do youill do what i can if it happens and valdis says she can handle ghosts too but like
this is bad dude
just admit its bad
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Literally the first thing I replied was "this is bad."
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and then immediately afterwards you said 'this is fine'.dont bullshit me
i know you
and 'work out how it does the thing and then stop the thing' isnt a plan and doesnt reassure me
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You are correct, it isn't a plan. It's a series of thoughts that will eventually coalesce into a plan. And we have until people start reporting mangled corpses on deck to figure out how to do that.
Ghosts aren't my forte, but I do have literally two centuries' worth of experience with cataclysmic magical catastrophes. I'll see what I can find out from the Captain and Friday, and we'll figure out a plan that may, with any luck, actually help us forward our goal of getting everyone out of here.
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okayfine
[ There's that word he hates. But there's not much point in pushing it any further, is there? He's decided it's not her problem, so it isn't. ]
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