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i'm gonna show you crazy

Who: Everyone on the SS Caprine!
Broadcast: None :(
Action: mingle mingle mingle
When: month-wide, get in here whenever you want

[hey everybody it's a mingle]

[when you're not sunbathing on planet sandals beach resort, GET IN HERE]

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[Joseph only cares about two things when he shows up on the bridge of the Caprine. (Well, three things. But that third thing he'll worry about later.) The first is this delicious dessert that he's been offered. He'll take that, thank you very much, and go lose the will to live later. Right now, while eating, he wants to get his hands on these controls.]

[Sorry if flight is suddenly a little less smooth. He knows vaguely what everything goes, but knowing and doing are two different things. He's working out the kinks, you guys. Just be patient. Or have a barf bag handy. Maybe start praying to whatever deity you feel is the most acceptable and/or receptive to such prayers. Just be patient, okay. He'll get the hang of this and he won't crash.]

[For now.]

[Clearly, when the pilot is having trouble, the wisest course of action is to smack them in the back of the head. ... It's a good thing she's kind of sadly weak, really.]

What the fuck are you doing, you asshole, stop that!

[Things that are helping: literally everything that is not what she just said and did. Her smack gets his attention and he reacts to it, but it definitely doesn't hurt. He's had way, way worse.]

What the hell was that for!? Can't you see I'm trying to fly this thing!?

I can see that you're trying and failing! Are you trying to make us all sick?!

Why are you yelling at me!?

[Why yes, he is just going to swat at her to go away.]

Because you can't drive!

And yelling at me is helping how!?

It's supposed to get you to stop!

[Okay, just for that, Joseph is going to intentionally turn the ship just a little too sharply. No.]

[and that's when she stumbles and falls]

Do I have to use fire before you'll stop?!

[Joseph does reach a hand out though and catches her by the arm to keep her from falling on the ground even if she comes pretty close to it. He hoists her back up to her feet.]

Relax, I'm getting the hang of it.

[He just gotta work the kinks out is all! You can't expect him to be an expert overnight.]

[And okay, he maybe feels a little bad about making her fail, but she totally pushed him towards doing it!]

Let go-!

[The sudden grab is enough to make her freak out, trying to jerk her arm away, the ship's state almost forgotten.]

[He lets go the second she starts trying to get away, holding his hand up in the universal surrender sign. What the hell is this girl's problem?]

[Her problem is that she just spent five months in a castle that tried to kill her every few days.

And also that she's just kind of jumpy anyway.]

Shit- Sorry- I'm okay. Just- don't grab me like that again.

Alright, next time, I'll just let you fall.

[Joseph rolls his eyes.]

[...Actually, he wouldn't. He'd rather she be mad and uncomfortable than injured.]

Next time, don't shake the ship and I won't fall.

Then don't start a conversation by hitting and yelling at me.

Then don't shake up the whole ship while I'm trying to sleep!

[What time even is it? who the fuck can tell in space.]

How was I supposed to know you were asleep? I just got here.

[You are asking way too much of him if you really expected him to actually leave behind the controls to look at anything else on the ship, okay.]

Checking before you start hurling us around!

I didn't "hurl" you around! [Yes, you did, Joseph.] You're over-exaggerating! [No, she's not Joseph.]

[He rolls his eyes with a huff.]

I'll check next time, alright? Just go back to bed.

Too late. I'm already awake, so you've already wasted the tea I had.

Then go make another one. I don't care what you do, just find somewhere else to be that isn't right next to me.

Like I have the resources to waste it like that? I'll leave when you're not at the controls.

I don't need a babysitter.

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