💭 have you ever had a showerthought

[oathkeeper]

Type: Text
Sender ID: Oathkeeper (Sora)
To: Everyone!
Subject: Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you you would you
Warnings: Tba.

have you ever had a random thought come to your head when you least expect it and you just don’t know what the answer to it would be? but you just can’t stop thinking about it? and you’ve gotta say it to somebody?

stuff like…

[This is an impromptu showerthoughts network post where characters can post their random thinky thoughts and others can tag them with their commentary on it. Post your character, provide some showerthoughts and tag around! You can always use this reddit or tfln for some ideas.]

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Faris Scherwiz | Final Fantasy V | Corsair

[moremystyle]

[eh. sure, he'll bite.

not the real deep ones, though. of course.]

I often wonder who was the first person who decided to hang a sheet from a stick and turn a plain little canoe into a voyage.

Or the first who realized the stars above were a map.

[hellofishies]

Oh! Whoever did that first was probably a really adventurous person

[moremystyle]

Aye. It's a shame their name never got handed down--at least, not on my planet. I've not heard whoever the first sailor of Escordvi is either.

They'd be someone I'd like to know. Did the name survive where you're from?

[hellofishies]

I think it goes back so far that there's no real way to know who the first was. Even very primitive people had small rafts to cross water.

[moremystyle]

Aye, wherever there's been men, they've not been able to keep themselves in one spot. No more space to walk because of the great blue before you? Fine, we'll float across.

[hellofishies]

It's true. People are very innovative. You know what I really want to know? Who came up with the first sea songs!

[moremystyle]

Hah! There's a question I'd like answered myself.

Which one is your favorite?

[hellofishies]

Bones in the Ocean, even if it's sad. Or the one about the drunken sailors

[moremystyle]

[Oof, Bones in the Ocean. He's heard that one a few times.]

That's a good one to end an evening with, if you're of a mind to send everyone home sad and sentimental.

But the Drunken Sailor's a good choice. Especially when folk start adding their own ideas of what to do with the fellow.

[hellofishies]

Oh...I wouldn't want anyone to be really sad.

What kind of ideas?

[moremystyle]

Oh, it's all right sometimes. There are nights where a person might want to go out and sing to make themselves sad on purpose.

As for ideas for the drunken sailor... there's the rusty razor and the longboat, and more besides... but I like the idea "get him on the bow to scrub the dragon."

[hellofishies]

Wy would someone want to make themselves sad?

Oh! I like the dragon one. I'd want to scrub a dragon.

[moremystyle]

[Faris knows the answer to that question. She just isn't sure how to explain "sometimes being sad about a song is easier than being sad about something real" in human people words. So this reply takes a bit.]

If they're in a real sentimental mood, say. Singing a sad song makes them feel better about it.

Do you like dragons?

[hellofishies]

Oh. I usually do that to make myself feel worse.

Very much! We didn't have them in my world

[moremystyle]

What? There's no need to do something like that.

No dragons, eh? That's a shame. They're good creatures. Well, mostly.

[hellofishies]

Sometimes there is.

It is a shame! ...mostly?

[moremystyle]

[Faris isn't sure how to respond to that except by saying "no there isn't" which is 1. a bit childish and 2. obviously skimming over some deep dark waters... that he does not know how to navigate in person, never mind over text communication.

so he won't.]

There's plenty of them that see your average person as a dinner on legs, I won't deny that. But it isn't true for all of them--and if you can make friends with them, you'll never find a truer one.

[bardische]

I have wondered these, though I can fabricate scenarios where one might observe.

What I cannot wrap my head around is people who discovered how to eat poisonous foods, especially ones that require multiple processes to make them safe.

[moremystyle]

It must have been sheer desperation. Like the first man who decided that eating a snail was an option--no other choice to keep messing with the thing until you figure out how you can keep it down without it kills you.

Or oysters, for that matter. When you get down to it they're unappealing little blighters to the eye.

[bardische]

I would eat snail or oyster before things with toxins every day of the week, though I've had reason to eat that too.

I always thought it would be a strange thing to survive the battle to be killed by one's food.

[moremystyle]

Aye, I'd be right brassed off if I turned up in the afterlife for poison food, of all things, after all the danger I've fought through.

[bardische]

In honesty, I as well.

Perhaps daredevils or those who are culinarily obsessed are the ones who discovered. Or ones failing to poison their enemies.

[moremystyle]

[or certain PRINCESSES who are trying to save DRAGONS

but no the poison never gets to be harmless in those cases.]

Wouldn't that be embarrassing? You're sitting there waiting for your little murder plot to bear fruit and then it turns out all you've done is started a culinary craze.

[bardische]

That gave me a laugh, thank you.

I suppose an enterprising sort would ride their success and pretend it had been their plan all along, but I would certainly consider myself a failure til the end of my days. Not that I know much of poisons.

[moremystyle]

[Heh. Glad to be of service, Basch.]

I know a little too much. [wait. also wait he shouldn't have sent that UGH.] As a witness, not a practitioner.