ic fmk: sing edition

[singhelpers]

Fuck (kiss), marry, or kill


— post your a toplevel for your character or throw three people's names out into the ether
— decide which one your character would like to fuck (or hug for the wee ones), marry, or kill
— respond appropriately
— shenanigans ensue

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[fidior]

[ WHY IS THIS A GAME? THERE IS NO ENJOYMENT TO BE FOUND HERE. ONLY MISERY! ]

All of this is so deeply inappropriate, I apologise....

Marry....

[notarat]

[ .... ]

Lieutenant, have you been giving anyone at all any other response than 'marry'?

[ Sorry, Little.. Being called out by your own steward... ]

[fidior]

[ GASP... How did Gibson know that....! Ah but of course, he's so observant.... ]

For the younger ones, with "hug" being allowed, I did choose that option as well, but.... "Marry" has seemed the.... safest option...

[notarat]

[ Look, sex definitely.. is not a topic he really wants to broach with his bosses, for obvious reasons..

On the other hand, he's also fully convinced that having more sex might actually fix the lieutenants, okay. All of them. ]

Haven't you found any woman attractive here?

[fidior]

[ Ah—! GIBSON, WHY.............................

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............................. ]

No— certainly not. It would be inappropriate of me — and I have my duties to fulfill, of course. That is all I have time for.

[notarat]

...

Perhaps it is slightly too bold for me to say. [ Read: don't make this awkward!!! ] But we are no longer stuck on the ship. It should be entirely possible to carry out your duties and have time for other things next to them.

[ Hell, it's entirely possible to keep up with your duties and have plenty of time for quickies in the orlop even on a ship, Ned!!

Not that Billy is going to share that with him, obviously. ]

In fact, you might find it could even.. [ .. diplomatic.. way.. of putting it.. He can't just say 'lighten you up', right. Even if there's no ranks anymore. ] .. broaden your horizons.

[fidior]

[ HOW IS IT THAT GIBSON ISN'T THE ONLY ONE SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HIM...

He's just going to look Very Startled..... like a deer stuck in the headlights.... before collapsing into a flustered sweep of hands moving against themselves. ]

I— Well I— have little interest in such things, I suppose. I haven't even any experience with those types of matters.

[ ....... ]

[notarat]

[ Please, Little, you can't say stuff like that last sentence?? How embarrassed do you want him to be that these are the men he served back home.. Plural, because Irving sure wasn't having action either!! Maybe Hodge, but.. like.. probably not Hodge either.. ]

.. no experience whatsoever?

[ You have no idea how hard he's trying to sound like he's not judging here. Even though he's totally judging. ]

[fidior]

[ He hates this.... ]

Well, I— my time has fully been dedicated to my service, from the time I began.

[ Fully. Dedicated. Fully. So... no experience... ]

But it is something I accepted, especially upon promotion.... As a senior officer, my obligation must be to my duty. I could not even marry without approval.

[ It's a whole process... ]

[notarat]

[ Fully indeed.. And it doesn't help that Billy is well aware they are working from different perspectives here. It's clear Little is talking about marrying a woman on land, rather than.. you know, the sort of stuff Billy gets up to, which is literally the opposite of almost every single word in that sentence.. ]

But everything is different now. We owe no more duty, therefore we could do anything we would want to do here.

[fidior]

[ The thing is, even in Dumb Meme Land, Edward's been having a crisis about his identity and duty... He frowns, looking confused, unsure.

But that's a whole other talk, probably, so he focuses on this part of it. Though none of it is... easy for him to discuss. None of this is pleasant business. ]

I suppose I don't see much in the way of a... "future" for me. This place is... Whatever it is, I am little more than a ghost.

[notarat]

.. aren't we all?

[ Granted, maybe not the greater population of Milton, since some people seem to very much have been taken to this place alive, or at least not from a clearly doomed expedition..

But all of them? It's clear none of them were going to return from that expedition alive once everything went south. ]

Do you mean to imply all of us should not seek any pleasure in our existence here? [ Maybe it's a little mean, using this against Little, when Billy knows so well that the other is way too much of a wet dog to impose that strict standard onto other people when he puts it like that.

But sometimes you have to use some underhanded techniques to prove a point to someone. It's for his own good.. ]

[fidior]

[ 'aren't we all?'

Edward's eyes drop, some quick attempt to hide the ache in them, but he's visibly mournful nonetheless. It's a question that needs no answer, for he knows all of the men know it. They are all ghosts.

His eyes stay down as Gibson continues, taking some time to process the thought. Finally he responds, voice quiet and soft. ]

No— if you and the others wish to seek pleasure, to make lives... to live, I hope that you do. You deserve that, William.

[ His eyes finally look back up to the other man's. He knows all of them carry... heaviness. All of them have done things that cannot be undone, and all of them had their reasons for it. He does not fault or blame any of them.

But he will always fault and blame himself for what he'd done. He was responsible for those men, and he betrayed them. Betrayed the captain himself. ]

But I do not deserve it. It is all right, I have made peace with it. I am here only to support and protect the people of this place. That is my duty now.

[notarat]

[ He isn't too sure if he wants to think too hard about the implications of Little being so utterly hard on himself and saying he doesn't deserve it, yet saying that others do. He doesn't even seem to have to think about saying Billy deserves it, despite both of them knowing what he did at this point.

Not that Billy thinks it makes him undeserving of pleasure, or of a second chance at life. He doesn't really regret a thing. But what could the other man possibly imagine he did worse than that to not deserve it in comparison? ]

And what is the reason you do not deserve it?

[ Well, it's not like he can't imagine it, knowing what the lieutenants individually are like after spending years around them. ]

Simply due to the fact you made some bad decisions? [ Especially near the end there. Hell, if Little had been a little more competent, there's no way the mutiny would have succeeded.. Even Billy knows that.. Hell, he's the one who told Hickey what the lieutenants were like in the first place.

And yes, especially the next part is being more bold than he usually is, but.. you know. It's fine. It's just a meme, that's where you can say the stuff you usually can't!! ] You do realise we never would have been in this position if not for people like Sir John and our Captain making terrible decisions that started the downward spiral in the first place?