Sorry to fish like this but I'm genuinely flummoxed here

to clarify this is SPECIFICALLY if you have a vested interest in threading with Walter AFTER the attack and BEFORE the flood

as well as BEFORE anything... else... that might happen (I AM BEING COY!!!)

and likewise "I'm fine with no post" = "I do care Walter but I think it will be more efficient to continue with current stuff or something" not just "eh not much happening with my character and Walter right now"

god damn it I should have had this one be "Disclosed ballot"

so please explain in the comments if at all possible

I'm calling it a mini-post because there won't be particularly substantial "opens" (what I call "open prompts") and def not open network

what if 'I would like them to talk after the event and before the flood BUT I'm up with doing it as an inbox thread if you want to focus more on other things'

I think if in addition to your one point of interest there's a second then I'll be like ok let's just make post. honestly this would even count if it's just two points of interest from Danii's multiple characters

did Walter want to talk to John about the alien port? or Vincent on anything?

I would be interested in seeing a post? I mean, I am curious what he will say. And because this killed Trevor, Collins has a vested interest in the case. So will probably talk to Wakter about it. (Even if it's just bitching about circumstances together or something idk)

I would say the alien port is like something that could eventually get touched upon in the current JD&Walter thread but possibly a different angle could emerge if it were revisited after This Bad Weekend They All Had. Vincent S could be very interesting but if I had to make a starter I'd need some time to cook if that makes sense

Yes I want a post. Jinx is gonna be so bitchy but also... she's never been sick. She's gonna be whiny and bothering everyone she knows to make it their problem too

she likes Walter and that translates to "pay attention to me"

Walter is a "death toll is that bad" truther so... Jinx can get some attention...

COLLINS AND WALTER WOULD BE SO INTERESTING first of all I still absolutely gotta post Phantom starter (I am sorry, I often handwave by posting pseudo-starters) because IT HAPPENED. WALTER EXPERIENCED JOY. second of all though. post-massacre would be SOOOOO interesting cause surely by now Collins has noticed Pyotr is gone

Oh yeah! Collins is surprised but he will like it so Walter enjoying Phantom, too, is a bonus for their (awkward) relations.

this thing is up now

Oh definitely. He would run into Pyotr a bit here and there so. He gone. I guess he would know they were friends and maybe piece together Walter's slump with that? I'm not sure he'd bring it up but back pocket info. (I...on the other hand have the memory of a sieve.)

(Lmk if you specifically want it to come up though!)

...i got interrupted by work while typing that so if there was more I meant I forgot it >.<

at one point Walter said the main reason he was so pissed off around Christmastime was because "I was with Pyotr during the cold flood and he wore gloves" so I think Collins would be aware that he was one of if not the most close people to Walter. it doesn't HAVE to come up, just back in the July post "yeah he doesn't realize Pyotr is gone at that moment"

all good!

so like Collins and Walter do have plenty to discuss in terms of like "fuck this place", "look what happened to Trevor and Jinx", etc, more just Pyotr's absence is important context I wanted ppl to be reminded of

Pyotr hated / would hate Walter being so hung up on how Pyotr was ~a suffering victim~ on the ship but like if Walter can present relatively easily inferred information to get across how this place is so bad, then he will try to go about it

he has other examples but Fuck Cold Flood For Real

I love how that's his example for Worst Flood.

Walter has experienced almost no true floods while he was here. Dreamlands turned out to be a special event. VIP it's harder to immediately explain why it was quite bad (there were several "VIPs of wardens" who were aggressive and destructive). Trial for Sinners, yeah. Shoe Flood, he was coma. April 2025 was 4WD.

Ah, yeah. That was his worst flood by those standards then.

Still all suck, but yeah. (That is kind of funny.)

But yes! They can definitely discuss how this place sucks.

that doesn't really invalidate the "damn, he thought Cold Flood was one of the worst things that happened?" reaction, he just... finds it convincing for some reason

(Collins would direct him to Trevor wrt let's fuck this place up, but I think he knows better than to put them in a room together.)

omg i just read the Phantom tag and that is the happiest he's ever seen walter lmao

Oh is Collins on the let's literally blow it up train now. do it man. take your chances

I mean, yes. He's always been on this train. He just doesn't go quite as public about it as Trevor. Especially now that he's a warden.

Unrelated to - well, less related to mayhem, if you do put up a post-spree post, I'll shove Yelena over there to check in on him.

But he would absolutely go with a plan to destroy the place if they could find a way that actually works. (So if he's argued against it in the past, and I feel like maybe he has, it's for that intelligent reasoning at the time.)

Yes! PG you and I were talking about that before. If Yelena were down then they could definitely spend some time chilling out and trying to forget All That.

though they could also get into the Other Controversy eventually depending on the flow of things, we will see

Yeah, we can play it by ear.

I actually still haven't decided / been told how deep a wound Walter is going to receive. so this new post will not come before that is decided

Arthur will check on him afterwards to make sure he got out intact and saw a medic!

ARTHUR...

HE'S MAD ABOUT IT but you still got injured under his ostensible protection so he's gotta do a check-in

here

I'm going to be honest that I've been unsure that the physical rescue itself will have as big an effect as might be hoped because Walter is dissociating so heavily from a lot of types of violent experiences at this point but the visit will genuinely surprise him

Hey, welcome to team distressingly numbed to violence, the t-shirts come in blood red, bruise purple, and broken teeth white.

Walter: you know, as a kid I had a tiny bit of exposure to the Catholic doctrine that mortification of the flesh always pales in comparison to redemption of the soul, but I never thought it would be quite this real

magicom this has been brought to my attention and [slams hands on the desk] IT'S MY HUMBLE OPINION THAT "SISTER THREAD" AFTER THIS WOULD GO HARD GO CRAZY!!!!

um yeah man plus I have to get Malcolm almost killed when I get out of the nutcase of work so may be we can combine. Malcolm goes to LA with Will, comes back, gets almost killed and so does Walter....

Going to LA will be CONFRONTATION ism

So yeah. Some form of combine

but they gotta check on Lark!

Gotta check on Lark AND?

AND???????

That's it!

Lark's too mad to throw a party okay

but at least he knows his pups are good this time

(Malcolm told Walter that he made the decision to come to the barge in the moment he was fighting his father and not sure if the man was alive or dead, so ever since then Walter has been like YOU NEED TO GO HOME AND CHECK, and this will only intensify when he's told Malcolm's sister is historically ALSO IN HOT WATER)

NOT ANYMORE. She's fine! It's fine! Only Malcolm is in real hot water these days.

I mean she stabbed a guy to death brutally but he was able to eventually frame a dead person for that.

...Malcolm...

malcolm?? lmao

it's cool, that guy sucked

And Ainsley definitely committed that murder in her right mind and not ... say ... influenced by her insane father who might still be alive........ Right?

No that was a factor for sure; he straight up told them killing that guy was the only way to save the family

be cool, guys!

Well leaving them alone together is a great non cult influenced decision that Malcolm cannot be criticized for at all!!

They're not alone.

arthur saving walter like

THAT'S THE POST

oh, Walter also experienced stuck together flood. but that was basically the same reasons as cold flood but at least it didn't have the part where he SAW others/Pyotr suffer

Just he suffered bc he was stuck with Malcolm

Get in here losers