/takes the huntress out back and buries it (jan mingle pt. II)

[scrubscrub]

Who: Anyone on the SS Huntress! Crew and visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Huntress
When: More of January! We got three new crew mates and it will be messy.

IT'S ANOTHER MINGLE FOR OUR EVER-EXPANDING SHIP.

Also, we need an update on how well Koala is doing at pinball.

God, help this ship.

Comments

[avaricious]

Wasn't of my choosing. But if it makes you feel any better, I was invited.

[eyeforaneye]

It helps. [ Minutely. ]

What happened to your original body that this was necessary?

[avaricious]

Family reunions are a bitch.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Don't I fucking know it. ]

It sounds as if you're not particularly well-liked.

[avaricious]

Maybe. Maybe not. But why go digging at ancient history, right? Unless you want to start talking about your own.

[eyeforaneye]

You're the one that volunteered the answer. I thought I would kindly give you the opportunity to get it off your chest.

[avaricious]

Much appreciated, but leave that to when we get a ship counselor.

[He turns towards the door.]

Mind the buttons you're pressing. I'd hate to scrape you off someone else's ship.

[eyeforaneye]

I'm sure you wouldn't actually trouble yourself to retrieve my corpse.

[ Here he gestures to his left arm... or rather, where it used to be. ] I doubt you'd want a damaged vessel.

[avaricious]

You'd only be so lucky. I've lost an arm or two with this vessel already.

[But he's not about to go wasting his philosopher's stone on someone else's body. Not that he knew any alchemy to even do that.]

[eyeforaneye]

Even less reason, then. So you're careless as well as unpopular?

[avaricious]

[Eyebrow.] That's what you managed to get from that?

[eyeforaneye]

I've found that assuming an insulting option first encourages people to be honest.

[avaricious]

Is that so? With an attitude like that, you must be at your own height of popularity.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Well. Definitely more weirdly popular within canon than he should be. ]

I don't mind being disliked. It's part of having the personality that I do.

[avaricious]

Oh? You have one?

[He thought he was talking to a slightly less interesting wall.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... okay, that was a good one, but he's not going to give him the satisfaction of saying so. ]

Aa, one nearly universally agreed to be bad. I never tricked anyone into killing themselves -- [ a gesture towards the door ] -- but I have a penchant for disliking everything.

[avaricious]

That would make us opposites. Greedy person that I have, I want everything you could possibly imagine. I suppose you could say I was just made that way.

[As for trying to space Sasuke, well... that was more of a psychology thing. Or maybe it would've been funny. Or both.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ Or a public service. ]

If you actually include the people on this ship in that, I'll be impressed. There doesn't seem to be much worth wanting.

[ And he is including himself in that, honestly, not entirely self-deluded. ]

[avaricious]

Everyone on this ship has value. Even you, sulky as you are.

[Because hey, they can have shit personalities, but a soul is still a soul.]

[eyeforaneye]

Perhaps it's just the teamwork that's lacking, then.

[ He's gotten a sort of vague sense of camaraderie but is this the ship of walking individual disasters because it really feels that way. No wonder he's at home. ]

[avaricious]

It's a work in progress. Maybe we'll have some trust building exercises later.

[They can all do some trust falls or something. That was usually a winner.]

[eyeforaneye]

Involving how many near-death experiences?

[ Hopefully at least a few. That's how you know your bond is real. ]

[avaricious]

Much as I'd like to see a few come our way, this place hasn't exactly been brimming with action. The most excitement we get around here is a demented cook and stolen toilet water.

[It's a different kind of bonding experience.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ Well I'm glad you brought it up, because-- ]

What the hell is the obsession with the toilets? And water in general? If it's being wasted in the wrong places then it's only going to make putting out the fires in the kitchen more trouble.

I'll bring order to that place. [ That kitchen is going to be spotless and probably full of even more blades than it ever would've needed. ]

[avaricious]

Look. It's been a long week. You trying to space yourself is as normal as it gets around here.

[There's just no need to go into what happened with Lapis.]