#ep87

set 1 is the way he comes in and stops when he sees her doing housework (that his mom is forcing her to do) and she can see he’s about to step in--cause he always steps in for her--and she shakes her head no and that’s why he doesn’t speak up, cause she asks him not to

set 2 is *so* delicious cause he’s watching her do this work and he can’t speak up and like one of the biggest ways he shows his love for her is by protecting her, and in this instance/situation he can’t. phew!

and the deliciousness is tapping into the whole cinderella wicked stepmother thing cause what hae ran’s doing is so underhanded and sneaky, but cause this is a makjang she’s actually doing it to her own long lost daughter she’s been looking for her whole adult life. 

This is a narrative summery of part of the battle in Ep87, from Percy's perspective. It borrows heavily from the actual words of the show. I hope to go back and put the rest of the battle into prose.

I have a great love of people trying to pull off shit from cheesy romantic stories, and harsh reality fucking it up. I will always grab the popcorn and watch that train wreck happen. I loved watching the bright-eyed delight of Percy pulling off the first turn of adventure novel heroics, and almost pulling off the second turn before the dice turned it into a hilariously spectacular failure.

These turns are why I believe in making people roll for things and playing out the consequences. The comedy of the failures is part of what makes a good D&D story. The plan going perfectly is a boring story. Succeeding all the time is boring. The D&D stories you tell for years are the ones where someone tries a crazy plan, a lot of things go comedically wrong, but you pull off victory anyway.

I've had the great privilege of getting to sail for a couple hours on a replica tall ship, the Lady Washington. She played HMS Interceptor in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but spends most of her time sailing up and down the US West Coast with the Hawaiian Chieftain, teaching history. I highly recommend going and seeing them if you can, historicalseaport.org. This scene got tangled up with a lot of good memories that helped me visualize it.

Their ship, Drensala Vis, was being boarded after she'd sailed into the magical fog emanating from the pirate ship. Vex had dropped Percy off from her broom into the crows' nest of the enemy ship. With the skill of an old life, he starts to climbs a few feet down through the ropes. Amid the fog below, he can barely make out figures in dark green and black leathers.

One of them starts to step across the chain. Percy takes out Animus, and places a careful shot in the pirate. The man loses his footing, plunging off the side of the chain, vanishing into the fog with a splash.

"Next!" Percy yells. "I love boats!" He shoots another figure off the chain. The man barely catches it with his finger, but his grip slips on the wet metal, and he falls back into the drink. Percy fires at the fish-creature pirate, restrained by the thorny vines wrapped around it by Vex's arrow. Its yell marks the hit.

Through the swirling white, he can barely see Keyleth crawl over the edge of the pirate ship. He hears her cry out in pain as a blurred-grey shape strikes her, but she gets on deck.

She gleefully calls out, "Guys! Real Pirates!"

Keyleth raises a hazy light above her, blue-turquoise like the skin of the fish-like creature. The sea rises in a tidal wave around her. She starts to pour it into the enemy vessel, filling the bottom. It begins to immediately list to one side.

From their ship, he hears the war cry of Captain Adella and ringing steal. The ballista twangs followed by a rattling hiss of chains, and the viscous thud of heavy wood splintering on impact. He sways in the ratlines as the ship pitches hard towards the port-side from the hit. Terry calls out from near the impact, "You should have worn boat shoes!" Another body splashed into the water. He hears the chain on the bolt ratcheted back. The ship is pulled starboard again amid the sound of boards torn apart.

Tary pulls himself over the railing, the glimmering of his gemmed armor through the mist at odds with his boat shoes. He looks towards Keyleth, eyes glowing as she pours water into the ship, and says, "So cool! So cool!" He calls back to his construct Doty, "Get rid of the grappling hooks!" He throws something at the fish-creature. At the sound of breaking glass, Percy smells the sharp bite of acid. Smoke rises from the creature and it's viney bonds. He hears a gurgling distressed wail. A glittering orb of energy surrounds Tary as he hollers, "Sorry! Sorry! I don't know how these things work!" Metal creaks under strain on the Drensala Vis. Percy thinks, "Knees, not back. God! Robot!"

The fish-creature turns to the other ship. He opens his mouth, and a bust of extremely accelerated water fires through the fog out of sight with a spiraling glow of greenish energy. Percy hears Vax swear before another plunge. A different splash follows. Vax swoops onto the pirate ship, water raining from his black feathers, plunging his dagger twice into the fish-creature, to great effect.

Percy sees Vex fly in below. The fog glows orange, illuminated by the blaze of her bowstring and its fiery missile before it sinks into the fish-creature. A second arrow, lightening crackling off of it, hits the same mark. She flies back into the fog behind him. Trinket's growl reverberates across the water.

With a grinning thought to the heroes of romantic swashbuckling tales, Percy wraps his hand in the rigging line next to him. Through the silvery swirl, he marks where the rope passes in front of the beleaguered fish-creature. He fires as he jumps to swing out on the broken line. But Animus jams, and it psychic blast sears into his brain. His vision goes white, as his body goes numb, the pulse of pain blocking out the world. He's not even sure that he's holding the rope anymore. He hears Tary call out muted, "No! New best friend" And Keyleth faintly respond, "I'm sorry, your best friend!?"

I know maybe it’s weird..but I ship them.

I see them having soft and gentle relationship, in which they will have a fairly intimate connection with each other, but intimate in the meaning of relating to the area of the deeply personal, innermost; sincere, close.

especially this-

I see Koharu in their relationship like a supportive one, she helps Regina.. let’s say.. socialize among other people because she never had other friends before (i’m not counting glaceon because it is pokemon and we are talking about socialization among people)

They will grow closer to each other, and maybe not realizing their connection at first, but accepting it later

They support each other in complicated situations, a least try to comfort if they don’t understand the problem.