3rd Wave

[tentacruelest]

[Jones is a deep, deep sleeper but he wakes with the sunrise. Each day is a new, hellish experience on the Barge but he scowls and stomps his way through them regardless.

Imagine his surprise when this morning he opens his door - releasing a small flood of his usual seawater, which, thanks to Maintenance, is contained by a make-shift dam - and spots children running about.

Not the handful of children he knows to be part of the Barge. New ones. And smaller people are easier to bully than full-grown ones.

Resolving to go about his day unbothered by the mechanics of the Admiral, Davy instead storms his way to the mess hall, literally using his claw to forcefully swat aside anyone smaller than four feet]


I'll thank whoever remains their true, full size to keep the vast majority of whelps under control. I've a mind to toss them over the side one by one; no ship is in need of this many cabin boys. No navy is.

Mind your brats. Or I will.

Comments

[tentacruelest]

No; just woefully, gainfully informed.

[with_my_teacup]

You ought to have, Mister Jones. I do take rather a maternal view towards children.

I have been running out of patience with wanton cruelty for weeks and weeks, now. I will ask you politely not to add to the count.

[fuckvelvet]

How difficult information must be for you.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

That's right. And I don't like your justice.

[deadliestviper]

Most of them aren't.

If you must pick a fight, pick one with me.

[runslikethewind]

There's other ways to accomplish things aside from brute strength, sir.

So are you saying you only like women then?

[tentacruelest]

I suppose next you'll be breastfeeding the littlest ones.

Have ye? And what do these cruelties care for your patience?

[tentacruelest]

And I see the years have done nothing to dull my hatred of that slimy tone of yours.

[tentacruelest]

I only make justice on my own ship. Here, I deal out the cruelty of life as those should come to expect it.

[fuckvelvet]

I'd assume, if you hate the me that's a soldier, you'd hate the me that I am now more. At least soldiers have some discipline.

[tentacruelest]

A fine example you would set.

[tentacruelest]

Men as in mankind.

[with_my_teacup]

Physiologically improbable, and happily unnecessary. Though I believe that the thing has been done.

However.

I do take pains that this should not be like the prisons of my own frequent incarcerations. I thrive in those places, but I do not like them. I do not want this to be a place where the strong prey upon the weak, where the less fortunate starve.

I do what is in my power to prevent it, in fact, and that power includes both my own moderate strength and calling for help from greater powers like a rank coward. It is a great convenience to be able to completely swallow one's pride.

[tentacruelest]

If you've discipline, I've yet to see it.

[tentacruelest]

And who do you call for aid when you must swallow your pride, Riddick?

[runslikethewind]

[She's aware of what you meant. She was just giving you a hard time, like she's continuing to do.]

So how do you feel about other races then?

[with_my_teacup]

Miss Isley seems a likely sort-- and beyond her I would be a fool to name those I know to carry surprising weaponry concealed on their persons.

[And there's always Banner in a pinch, but yeah, he doesn't want to go there if he doesn't have to.

His knives and what he can improvise with a full kitchen are his first resort, of course.]

[deadliestviper]

By protecting children? Yes, deplorable.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You're a camel cunt who bullies other people.

[fuckvelvet]

I think I must have discipline if the version of me you know hasn't attacked you yet.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

They teach me real shit, not stupid pirate mythology. Who are you, Davy Jones?

[tentacruelest]

I don't suppose you mean those what reside in the West Indies and the African continent?

[tentacruelest]

This would be the green-skinned witch.

[runslikethewind]

I would say no, seeing as I've never heard of the West Indies or the African continent.

[tentacruelest]

Are you so hard-pressed for a sparring partner?