[Alas, the cafe Jade's currently sitting at himself isn't actually Sand Dollars at the moment, or else there might have been a background comedy element of them both just barely missing each other in their respective corners of the shop or something--but it's a mildly fun coincidence that they've both ended up along the Promenade in some way overall, this morning. That aside, Jade surely wouldn't have any answers to offer himself, where the appeal of highly foamy coffees might concerned; the coffee he's nursing at the moment is about as plain and black as it gets, after all, and he doesn't have much of a sweet tooth anyway.
...To say nothing of how just imagining the captain's most frequent visage with foam on the mustache is, indeed, 'absolutely wild'. Honestly, if not for the dead seriousness of literally everything else about Skulduggery's series of replies here, Jade would be strongly wondering if his leg were getting pulled about now. ...Except, simultaneously, it still manages to also be infuriatingly on-brand of the captain all around. The longer one thinks about it, really......]
I don't even know why I get surprised at news like this anymore. Darcy has certainly had a hand in furthering the mystery, at the very least, where the captain's ridiculous unnecessary tastes in drinks might be concerned... [Literally why--ugh, whatever, no use trying to think on this too long either way.] So you brought her along as a scribe in this case, did you? As far as tests go, it does sound as if she managed to weather the encounter with flying colors...since it doesn't sound like a fight was picked at all, this time around. Quite the prescient decision on your part, too, to have a secondary party available to confirm your memories on these sorts of matters...
[Jade can easily take a guess why Skulduggery feels it necessary, yes, though it goes unsaid on both sides. And even besides Skulduggery's particularly unique mental case, Jade is of the opinion that confrontations with the captain might best be made with at least one other person as a form of backup at any given time anyhow. Dealing with the man sounds...very, very difficult, much less doing so alone.]
There are indeed many here that feel nothing but aggression towards the captain...and it's certainly not an unreasonable thing, for better or worse. Cruel deeds beget such responses in most anyone with a half-functioning sense of morality, and the man has been explicitly thriving on cruelty for far too long already. Personally, I'd be surprised if he indeed ever bothered with any other forms of emotional power besides pain to begin with...but, true, it's also possible he either grew too bored and impatient working with the other kinds, or can't relate to other feelings in general. An unhappy affair for us batteries, either way. ...The other batches of passengers fell into the aggression pitfall for very good reasons, and while I agree our best bet seems to be breaking the pattern...convincing everyone here is going to be far more easily said than done.
[But, huh, that is quite the connection just there--certainly not the craziest one to be made by far. Alas, it goes unheard, but Jade is making a thoughtfully approving hum to himself as he reads over the bit about Friday's role in the captain's affairs, and maybe it's somewhat tangible in the text all the same.]
Yes, Natsuno did tell me about this. It sounds like a very intrinsically programmed failsafe indeed; from what he informed me, she was on the verge of breaking down just from being pressed on the topic. [And we're very, very pointedly not going to think back to that time over a decade ago, in his own life, when Jade had just started dabbling in the external programming of human replicas himself--before things had rather abruptly come to a head on that whole stint of research, anyway. (This...is very unlikely to be anything similar to that, anyhow. Probably. ....Or so he very, very strongly hopes--)] I think you're on exactly the right track, where that connection is concerned. It seems very clear that Friday is a key component of the captain's existence here all around. Quite the juxtaposition, against how frequently and casually he seems to kill her for any manner of transgression...but I suppose when you're fully confident in your ability to put someone back together, it becomes more like a stress ball you occasionally hurl out the window. But always head out to retrieve, eventually, because you're still stressed all the same and it's all you have to work with...
[Or maybe he doesn't even remember making her a caretaker of some vital thing in the first place? Hmm. Much to think about all around. ...There isn't a lot more to say where the implications of the captain's previous master ever making an appearance might be concerned, either--it could indeed either pan out beneficial or disastrous, and would doubtless be a terribly volatile affair either way. Sure, such an entity would supposedly be able to potentially reign the captain back in...but there's still no reason to believe it would want to bother being any more benevolent to the passengers aboard the ship than the captain himself has been, either. They might very well just be qualified as useless toys hoarded by a disagreeable child, to be tossed out as part of punishment, if not some other even worse outcome...]
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...To say nothing of how just imagining the captain's most frequent visage with foam on the mustache is, indeed, 'absolutely wild'. Honestly, if not for the dead seriousness of literally everything else about Skulduggery's series of replies here, Jade would be strongly wondering if his leg were getting pulled about now. ...Except, simultaneously, it still manages to also be infuriatingly on-brand of the captain all around. The longer one thinks about it, really......]
I don't even know why I get surprised at news like this anymore. Darcy has certainly had a hand in furthering the mystery, at the very least, where the captain's ridiculous unnecessary tastes in drinks might be concerned... [Literally why--ugh, whatever, no use trying to think on this too long either way.] So you brought her along as a scribe in this case, did you? As far as tests go, it does sound as if she managed to weather the encounter with flying colors...since it doesn't sound like a fight was picked at all, this time around. Quite the prescient decision on your part, too, to have a secondary party available to confirm your memories on these sorts of matters...
[Jade can easily take a guess why Skulduggery feels it necessary, yes, though it goes unsaid on both sides. And even besides Skulduggery's particularly unique mental case, Jade is of the opinion that confrontations with the captain might best be made with at least one other person as a form of backup at any given time anyhow. Dealing with the man sounds...very, very difficult, much less doing so alone.]
There are indeed many here that feel nothing but aggression towards the captain...and it's certainly not an unreasonable thing, for better or worse. Cruel deeds beget such responses in most anyone with a half-functioning sense of morality, and the man has been explicitly thriving on cruelty for far too long already. Personally, I'd be surprised if he indeed ever bothered with any other forms of emotional power besides pain to begin with...but, true, it's also possible he either grew too bored and impatient working with the other kinds, or can't relate to other feelings in general. An unhappy affair for us batteries, either way. ...The other batches of passengers fell into the aggression pitfall for very good reasons, and while I agree our best bet seems to be breaking the pattern...convincing everyone here is going to be far more easily said than done.
[But, huh, that is quite the connection just there--certainly not the craziest one to be made by far. Alas, it goes unheard, but Jade is making a thoughtfully approving hum to himself as he reads over the bit about Friday's role in the captain's affairs, and maybe it's somewhat tangible in the text all the same.]
Yes, Natsuno did tell me about this. It sounds like a very intrinsically programmed failsafe indeed; from what he informed me, she was on the verge of breaking down just from being pressed on the topic. [And we're very, very pointedly not going to think back to that time over a decade ago, in his own life, when Jade had just started dabbling in the external programming of human replicas himself--before things had rather abruptly come to a head on that whole stint of research, anyway. (This...is very unlikely to be anything similar to that, anyhow. Probably.
....Or so he very, very strongly hopes--)] I think you're on exactly the right track, where that connection is concerned. It seems very clear that Friday is a key component of the captain's existence here all around. Quite the juxtaposition, against how frequently and casually he seems to kill her for any manner of transgression...but I suppose when you're fully confident in your ability to put someone back together, it becomes more like a stress ball you occasionally hurl out the window. But always head out to retrieve, eventually, because you're still stressed all the same and it's all you have to work with...[Or maybe he doesn't even remember making her a caretaker of some vital thing in the first place? Hmm. Much to think about all around. ...There isn't a lot more to say where the implications of the captain's previous master ever making an appearance might be concerned, either--it could indeed either pan out beneficial or disastrous, and would doubtless be a terribly volatile affair either way. Sure, such an entity would supposedly be able to potentially reign the captain back in...but there's still no reason to believe it would want to bother being any more benevolent to the passengers aboard the ship than the captain himself has been, either. They might very well just be qualified as useless toys hoarded by a disagreeable child, to be tossed out as part of punishment, if not some other even worse outcome...]