shellphones | Looking for Crew (in all the wrong places)

Type: video
Sender ID: GentlemanPirate
To: Public
Subject: Crew!
Warnings: Stede

[the video is blurry and out of focus and cuts off the top half his face so only his nose and mouth and chin are in view. He's also speaking very loud because he has no idea how this works and volume can't hurt]

Hi all!

My name is Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate. I'm sure some of you may know me, but if you don't you soon will! I'm currently looking for crew to sail together and have many adventures while we're here. Duties include looking after one another, talking it through, mending experience a plus but not necessary and someone to take notes. If you're interested, or know me! Please reply as soon as you can.

Also if anyone has seen Blackbeard or a tall man named Ed with long salt and pepper hair that is incredibly handsome and charming and probably the most amazing man I've ever known, please let me know.

And...if you're here, Ed, if you can hear me... [his voice breaks and he clears his throat] I've got some things to say to you as well. Starting with... I'm sorry.

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[ ...Oh. This guy was...

Dojima could be a bit dense but this guy was... serious about Blackbeard-- who he was guessing was 'Ed'--

...Ah, right, wasn't his real name 'Edward Teach'?

Dojima would switch to video, showing him sitting in what looked like a ships cabin. ]

Sorry, can't say I've heard of anyone calling themselves Blackbeard as of yet, and I keep a pretty close ear to the ground rumour wise.

[ ...And, well. He should clarify. ]

But, I should give you a heads up that when I say I've heard of Blackbeard, it's not from the newspaper or anything. It's because he's in the history books. I'd say I'm from about 300 years into your world's future, it being 2012 for me.

[ Sorry to drop that on you, buddy. ]

Oh... [oh well that's... unfortunate. His hopes are a bit crushed]

Really? From the future? [Stede is a lover of fantastical tales, and this seems a bit hard to swallow but...well, who knows? This whole situation is a bit hard to swallow]

I mean...what do the History books say? Do...do they mention anything about the Gentleman Pirate perhaps? Dashing rogue? Charming adventurer? And so on?

If I do hear anything about a Blackbeard, you'll be the first to find out.

[ Least he can do for the guy, but. Damn, did he have to look like a sad puppy? ]

I should warn you though, with how this place is, it may not be the Blackbeard you know, personally. It's... a pretty wild place that way. Different worlds all crossing with one another here.

[ Please ignore the robot looking penguin that just walked onto the screen, on the table, leading to Dojima sighing loudly, picking it up and putting it down on the ground again. But, he needs to think a second. Gentleman Pirate?...Did he...? ]

...I... think so. My teacher in school had an thing for the Age of Piracy, but it's been a few decades since I was in high school. You guys were partners for a while, right?

[ Dojima wait do you mean 'partners' or 'partners in crime' or both. ]

Oh gosh, I'm in the history books? Really? I've made it? Me?

You're not lying right? You're being honest aren't you? That I got in right? I'm part of it? Three hundred years in the future? Right? Right? [he's not so much tearing up as actually crying]

And yes... yes we were... does... does that mean we're not now? does... [and now he's crying for another reason] Is it really all over? Is it really all done?

H-hey...

[ Okay, is this a European thing? Because that Teddie kid tended to break down in tears too more often than Nanako, and now he had a crying adult on his hands-- ]

Take, a deep breath, alright? [ What the fuck is he gonna do-- ] I wouldn't lie about it, you and him are remembered. But I meant... that in the past tense for me, since you're... historical figures to my time, you know? I don't remember much more of that class since it was 20 years ago for me or so...

[ Deep breath-- ]

Take anything I say other than 'you were remembered' as a grain of salt?

Do...do you mean there's a chance? Do you mean you could have misremembered? [he can take that. He can do a million things with a chance. But with the last page already written it feels hopeless. Everything feels hopeless and overwhelming all of a sudden and he just wants to go back to his own cabin on his own ship and know that Ed is there nearby and that he can see him again whenever he likes]

--Yeah, I do.

[ He's not exactly lying. He never thought when he read that fact about Blackbeard and the Gentleman pirate working together, that those two could be ... intimate with one another. And he couldn't remember everything he'd ever read history wise. Just that they'd both worked together, and been execu--...

...

Yeah, he definitely would keep mum on that part. ]

I definitely could've misremembered, and you might not even be from the same timeline as me, so whatever I know may not even occur in your future. It's pretty... unstable that way.

Right. Right. I mean, anything can happen, can't it. Anything is possible. And you know, even if it isn't, I'm not going to let that stop me because --because I refuse. I've faced greater odds. [not really]

Listen... [this man seems like an individual who is at least kind to Stede if anything else] Would you be interested in signing on with me?

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