"You Tried": The Ship

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Who: Bloodsport crew and any visitors aboard their fine vessel.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Ship shenanigans!
When: While they're still on the Starlight.

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[time to check in on the Bloodsport... what antics has this well-behaved and perfectly well-adjusted crew been up to?]

Comments

[bb_wolf]

[There's a shock and horror. Bigby is in his room, but he's not shifted yet. He's sprawled on a bunch of blankets and pillows (some of which he clearly didn't buy himself), wearing pants and shirt, but no tie and no shoes.

He really does seem horribly, mundanely human right now, until he looks up, his eyes flashing yellow.]

Fucking knock and wait to be asked in!

[pneumo]

Wah--! [ It's more the sudden yelling than the state Bigby's in that causes him to startle and jump a bit. His arms reflexively come up like he's going to need to deflect a blow, but when he sees the flash of yellow he's...well, more consoled by it than anything else. That's what a fellow vampire's eyes would have done after all, and that's normal. ]

...Ohh, you're in beard-form still.

[ Human...form... ]

[bb_wolf]

What the fuck are you talking about?!

[This might be some kind of proof. Bigby is grumpy when he's human. He's not a barrel of laughs as a wolf, but he's a bit better tempered.]

And get out, knock and wait.

[pneumo]

Aww... I can't watch? [ It'd be cool to see someone go from beard-form to wolf form, he thinks. Nothing to be shy about. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby looks bewildered.]

I'm not shifting, I'm teaching you some fucking manners, now get out.

[There's actual, inhuman depth to that roar.]

[pneumo]

--Okay!! [ Oh wow is he going to back out of that room fast, wow. Sascha will even cling to the doorway a little--at least until it closes and he can't, heart skipping a bit.

Big is a scary beard-man. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby relaxes back into his human shape and closes his eyes, breathing slow and steady and waiting for the knock on the door.]

[pneumo]

[ ...It will takes almost a minute for him to work up the nerve, but eventually? There comes a very hesitant knock. Just in case he's not supposed to do it just yet. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby listens, waits and when the knock comes, it's a perfectly calm and civilised reply.]

Come in.

[pneumo]

[ It's almost too good to be true considering the reaction he'd gotten only a moment before, but veeeery slowly Sascha will touch the door panel again so it opens, and peek his head over. ]

Good morning!

[ It's a cautious but noisy whisper. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby's temper burns hot and bright over things like this. He's old. Very old. And this isn't worth his energy to mad over. Sascha's learning.]

It's not morning, but sure. Good morning. You can come in.

[pneumo]

Thank you.... [ Bigby-sama. He's still going to cautiously hedge his way in mind you, but he at least looks happy to have been given permission. Because he's a loser like that. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby sighs.]

I'm not going to bite. You just need to learn to pretend to be people and learn some civility while we're at it. This is my den, not yours. You're a guest, so you knock and wait to be asked in. This is my territory.

[He hopes that putting it in less human terms might help it to sink in.]

[pneumo]

[ It's...half and half, honestly. Sascha's about as used to the terminology as he is anything else, but what he kind of gets is the territory part. That he can respect...ish. All he has to do is knock, right? ]

Hehe, sorry... I was just excited!

[bb_wolf]

[They'll work on it. Slowly.]

Excited about what?

[He pats a cushion, not right next to him, but not too far away.]

[pneumo]

[ And Sascha is more than happy to hurry over to it, seating himself down so that he can rummage through his coat and hold uuuuup: ]

Tada~☆

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby looks at it and then looks up Sascha.]

You better not have used the money I loaned you for that.

[pneumo]

Nope♥ The pretty girls in the smelly district gave it to me as a present. [ ...When he told them he had a wolf he liked to pet ]

[bb_wolf]

And what, precisely, do you intend on doing with it?

[His tone is a little too pleasant for Bigby. Be careful, Sascha, other people would probably recognise that as potentially dangerous.]

[pneumo]

[ And Sascha ignores all warning signs. ]

I can brush you with it~

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby looks up at Sascha with a flat stare.]

I'm not a pet.

[pneumo]

Well...you like being pet, right?

[bb_wolf]

[Dammit.]

Sometimes. Under my terms. That is not for petting. That is a brush. A brush that doesn't have a hope in hell of getting through my fur.

[pneumo]

Can't I at least try it once...? Just to see? [ Pleeeeeease dad ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby continues to give him the flat stare.]