Oh boy here we go.

Jecht: /disappointed dad mode

I need to get a quick mod check and I'm onboard

time 4 violent tantrumming eyyyy

It sure tf is!

Sorry for the length of my tag, but I can't collapse it since it's a reply

But Sweeney's in a mood

Poor Sweeney

You know how it is

It's beautiful

Jecht would let himself become a punching bag if it'd give any kind of relief. He's strong, but he still bleeds! So it wouldn't be like punching some bag of rice. But... he's fairly sure it'll be a bit before it could do that - since he doesn't know how long Tiernan's gonna let this go on, sob

He'll prolly try to do that once the unnatural negative vibes are stopped

We'll see how it goes. I'm not that picky. I know you have a lot of stuff on your plate, so I'm certainly not looking to add any stress

/slow bite of popcorn
Depends on how fast the ship and our dear Deacon get fucked over.

Oh it definitely wouldn't be stressful. I genuinely enjoy letting a tough character get beaten up. Catharsis in writing form

Depends on how interested in him being stabbed you are

Or damaged in general. But spear is his preference. Being disarmed by Jecht in particular is going to escalate some of his bullshit 'cause baggage

Sweeney no killing Azul's adoptive father.

/hums thoughtfully
so i know we have jamil's death planned and the hymn of the fayth, how do we wanna go about those things

There's no way he could do that. His whole 'I'm significant against everyone' is founded in truth

aerynaeacus

I have no assumption that a fight like that would even be competative.

Jecht would just demolish him

idk, jecht's not like. an immortal or something. he's still a fleshy person.

Yeah, but one that's an utter monster and neutralized a rabid Sweeney with zero effort

Sweeney might get a surprise strike, but after, things would be over

Jecht can handle being stabbed a Lot

Exactly my point

And he is immortal when they're regular weapons!

He just. Can still suffer pain

jecht no

don't make azul intervene?!

But no he'd be voluntarily letting himself get hurt some, since Sweeney seems like he needs that outlet

He wouldn't make it blatantly obvious he isn't trying at all... but he would be unarmed

And he wants a chance to show he wouldn't stop Sweeney in that same way

Since he said he wouldn't, and he's a man of his word

azul will be Displeased but not intervene

why you gotta be this way, not-dad

I'm fine with whatever works. If Jecht is involved with the main plot stuff, there's certainly no need to distract from him actively trying to do things

If they did fight, I'm also totally good with Azul getting in the mix, if only so Jecht has to tell him to back down

Nah, I have a thing with him helping Azul sorta early in, and then all I had planned for Jecht was him starting to go Final Aeon form.

Which... no real plans on how, and him letting Sweeney vent would weaken him, leaving ample room for it happening a bit later

And yes Jecht telling him that would happen!

Very gently like "no, no... it's fine, I promise"

oh god yeah if jamil happens BEFOREhand... he'll be. much more likely to intervene

That could be a nice moment between them

It could

Jecht just grinning and ruffling his hair

Saying he knows what he's doing

,,,tbh

He'd promise Azul that he'll be fine

azul would just yeet a novice he got to sign a deal between them LOL

a meatshield for jecht

Works for me. You have to protect the people you care about however you can

jaskdhkajlsdh Jecht just like "smh" at that...

Jecht shielding the meatshield would happen

this is how he shows he cares! by putting other people in harm's way so you don't have to be

you're welcome

JECHT NO

It's good cr development

It is

As an aside, are you looking at bringing Jecht onto the Barge?

now i'm just imagining azul getting fed up and like

outright jumping on sweeney's back, trying to wrastle him to stop him from attacking LOL

I am, actually! I'm planning to bring Jecht and Vi both as soon as Cloud graduates, since... I'm fairly certain it won't take too long

Do the thing if he would. I have zero issues with Azul addressing his feeling

GASP

Cool beans

... idk if jecht could come with brig knowledge but still. /chinhands

I'm not sure, either, actually

But I'll enjoy rebuilding CR or continuing it

I do believe they don't do CRAUs, however, and this would be kind of similar to that

yeah it could be. worth asking about!

the first time azul will be Genuinely Upset to really lose someone...

aww

Jamil will be similar, re: Tiernan

sad bois...

but ye i'm down to do either threads however. and i'm fine with handwaving as much as needed to keep tag loads down

Excellent

It would be epic if they ever did let us bring Triumvirate people over, tho.
"Yeah, their ships got fucking wrecked thanks to you feral strays so we're rehoming some of them with you now."

Will Kirei ever know he's the one who inspired this masterpiece? :')

I'll probably send him to Tiernan so they can drink wine and be evil together. Thinking he'll be unaffected by will save, which will honestly just piss him off because he wants to feel emotions, dammit!

EternalLie: right?

Come have wine with Tiernan, Kirei. Let him smile meaningfully at you.

He can realize wine tastes good when paired with violence. v_v

Ihdreniel shipoftheseus Is it safe to assume committing violence on random NPCs is greenlit?

yup

the Deacon is kind of the opposite of the nurse

Thank you so much

DO NOT BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE LED ASTRAY BY MERE OUTWARD APPEARANCE AND ACTION, THE PASSING VANITIES OF TEMPORARY DROSS, FOR IT IS THE INWARD DRIVE AND SIGHT WHERE THE TRUTH IS FOUND

(aka he doesn't care about what happens nearly as much as state of mind and Motive)

Tiernan: /horribly, quite possibly still in good standing after this, because if this isn't galaxy brain, what is?

the ways of the deacon are inscrutable

The terrible thing is, Tiernan likes the Deacon. But he's figured out the weird demotion pattern and he Disapproves and clearly the Deacon needs a little push on his own spiritual journey to get past this Hotel California phase.

And so Tiernan will fuck with the Deacon's status quo until he learns something.

Yeah I had Jamil murder someone on the first day bc of the very big lack of punishment for violence in the FAQ

There's nothing anywhere about there being no violence allowed, lol. Which is the very opposite of the other two ships

chaos boat!

Me: OH HEY... I can just do the thing, awesome!

is tiernan also going to be there for KO or just for jamil's death later on? just bc i wanna give hints of pre-OB

It could be Jecht for the KO and then Tiernan for the death?

I'm cool with that or having both there for one of them

I'm good with having Tiernan just there for the death since if he's there from KO it'll be a lot harder to kill Jamil.

yeah

He has so many spells to make people hard to kill.

smh