now then: skulduggery will not be seen by anyone outside of extremely close cr from the 29th to the 8th or 9th of january
this is because he is tired and needs to be away from people, and also because i will be at anime los angeles that weekend hehe

have fun

if anyone wants to do/plan out anything specific with him, here's a good place to do it. please ping any newer players that i may not be friends with b/c i rarely ever use plurk sob

oh i plan to!!!

ooooh yes have so much fun!!!

also this is perfect, bc clarke's gonna be so angry (memory dependent i guess but still!) but if they were gonna talk i wanted it to be after she had a bit to chill

rip in ash pieces black binder, had a good few months' run....

that being said i do think jade would want to try to check in with skuls around the approximate time he'd be alive again on the ship, just to see if he's indeed alive + if it seems like the captain's soul operation...succeeded?? or at least didn't end in immediate catastrophe etc

YES jade is included in that extremely close cr

tbh since you'll be ooc busy for that window we can handdwave that check-in! skully exhibiting a mood for being reclusive means jade would keep it brief and professional at least obvs, or ee could say skully ignored/shooed him off entirely for a spell lmao, up to you!

OH then yes that would have been a thing ehehe

omg typos pls

anyway!! whether that initial bit's handwaved or not, they should interact more sometime in jan somehow or another ofc ALSO, alas it's belated now...but would you still be up for jade joining the dissociation corner in the event p2 log? when i, finally get to it, and all my other tags smh....

how nice of skuls to shut down the mutiny crew's arguments about the binder

no binder no problem

skulduggery has decided that if people arent going to believe him when he tells the truth then they dont need his truth!!!

rainbell: im down! now thst the secret is out we can have skulduggery actively being like "haha uh fuuuck" abt it

NICE on the bright side we can def slather on a much ominous foreshadowing as we want in the metatext there lmaooo

gotta get in one last round of dadsociation hangouts before everything goes to hell......

I hope Klaus and Skulduggery can chill some more. Need him to make Skulduggery watch Triassic Attack so when the dino skeletons start getting up to shit, he can be like, “This must be what it was like when you were alive last.”

Have fun!!!!

kingdonkey: yes i def want them ot hang more! i'm still doing dec tags and will be prooobably until the threads are finished or the notifs get lost on one side or the other, as all other threads in my life lmfao

Yes! Klaus is still team Skulduggery and Skulcap...cause that was painful to watch after just coming from a break up that they instigated by having a trauma response to the possibility of being cut out of your bf's life. sjdakfns. Because he didn't want them fighting the Captain and being dumb. sdjafn. -Shakes fist- But he'll send Ava with a peace offering

I definitely want to fling Jeff at Skul after he emerges from his away time!

There's big feelings about... not being listened to when trying to explain that the monstrous things you do when under some kind of influence are still you, etc etc. but I'm not sure how to go about that when they don't particularly know each other yet

weeyotch: <3 skulduggery thinks jeff's pretty neat so far at least, since when they chatted in tauva he was very "eh" about going home LMFAO
i'm sure when the time comes the muses will work through us and these two will have a Real conversation about being responsible for demonic entities

Yessss

And in the meantime they can just vibe

skulduggery needs bros that can just vibe tbh. not enough of tht even before the whole "evil alter ego killing 15 people" thing

points at eyes points at you

6 is definitely coming for a talk

Hi! Maybe not this month because I doubt they'd go near each other but I'd love him to have a conversation with Ari sometime. Just for the awkwardness - I think she'd actually be a bit scared of him. After being the weirdo who won't just shut up and let him die.

She has a lot of feelings and assumptions about him without actually knowing him at all.

KansaiBanzai: i am so excited for this conversation b/c MAN. skulduggery feels SUPER BAD DUDE. he really wanted it to be erin lmfao

6 is def one of the few people who's going to get to chew him out without him fighting back too much (at first anyway)

MillisaK: haha it's fine he's suuuuper used to people making assumptions about him, it's kind of how life is when you're a skeleton detective working with people who knew you when you were alive and Less of a Dick

i'll have an open post for skulduggery that will be general catch-all for january, and i'm SURE ari's gonna have an open at some point righhhht??? i really like reading her tags so i want MORE

6 didn't want it to be Erin either!! but actually the part I'm looking forward to most is that skulduggery isn't going to get rage from 6 it's the Disappointed Voice

oh NO not disappointment

that's even worse!

it sure is!!

man was just learning to trust again and now this

so like, i was mentioning it on demi's plurk

prior to this (and prior to the end of the next book he hasn't canon jumped to yet), vile has never ever EVER been a physical, separate manifestation. in the books, canonically, he literally freaks out when vile manifests for the first time. "you can't be here, you're dead" is what he says iirc

so like for him, this whole time he was assuming "if something happens with vile, i will know. i'll feel it, i'll hear it, i will be part of the experience"

that's why he was so intent on telling ava and darcy how to take off the armor, because he would be vulnerable

Thank you I feel bad sometimes because she talks about him without having really interacted, but I really want them to talk even if she doesn't! I'll take a look at his open and she'll definitely have one sometime too.

NO IT'S FINE he's a cryptid everyone talks about him all the time!!!
i hope you don't mind that his first interaction with her was so hostile, he uhhhh wasn't in a good headspace lmfao

so he was walking around all these crime scenes like "man this is just what i would do. kill the doctors, yeah we would always target healers first... stab wounds consistent with shadow magic........ black metal armor..."

basically by the fire he was trying to convince himself that he was crazy, that he got up in a fugue state, that it was erin...

Poor Skully

but the more he thought about it the more it just. felt like there was something else in his head. for the first time ever vile really felt like a different thing in him. and that's the point where he needed it excised

there was also a brief span of a minute where he wondered if maybe the captain knew what was going to happen before it happened. but then he felt deeply ashamed about thinking that

which is why he was getting so fuckin heated when people kept trying to shift blame to the captain. guilt baby

dsjkafnd.

yeah i just know that's gonna be useful wordvomit later when i'm working on his open post hahaha
it isn't intended to alter any ic perceptions of him im just tryin to put it all out into words ooc

Klaus still thinks you're pretty cool

hell yeah klaus

He'd give you a gift, but he doesn't rly know what to give a skeleton man tha that has everything

Or at least the same stuff as him

He's p. sure a see through shirt's not up there

No no I am all for the hostility! I didn't tag back all the general heckling for her speech because there was too much to keep up with, but at that point he just blended in with the rest anyway. He was mild compared to some lol

It was the trial which got her worried. She didn’t expect him to be angry that people are trying to find loopholes to save him with (Ari is also ignorant - at this point arguably wilfully ignorant - about magic)

yeah all of that makes a lot of sense and I actually think 6 will be sympathetic to it if skulduggery can articulate it to him

I love getting the insight into his character! Of course for ooc knowledge only. Ari is just - even before all this, he is the person most likely to insist to her that she'll never go home, because of what he put in the binder

and that's just such a massive trigger for her she couldn't even go and ask him 'what's the evidence for what you wrote?' like would be logical

oooh have fun!! also aaah this whole thing with skuls has been so fun and fascinating I have no idea how rita will react to him next but she sure is going to be unhappy and untrusting with him

Oh noooo Skully

I'm definitely planning on using Suddenly No Binder as a springboard for a Wilson prompt- basically he read the binder once when he was really sleep deprived and all he remembers is scattered bits, now he wants to reread it properly and he can't find it

sorry to the new passengers but older passengers really pissed skulduggery off!!!

have you tried boarding the boat earlier, wilson???