Welp We're Here and That's What Matters

[ahelpingpaw]

[Perhaps it's tradition by now, he doesn't know. Still, he does send a note to everyone some time after the trial. Simple and to the point:]

Because everything on this ship is awful, I think a drink is needed. Come get some at the bar, it'll do you some good as long as you don't drink too much

Filbo (pawprint)

[Indeed, if you come to the bar you'll find there's one of everything. Filbo seems to have asked literally every drink he knows or has at least heard about, and lined them up from the most mellow to the strongest. There's one of each, so it's limited, take yours before it's gone! Or...ask Jimmy Buffett for more, he's right there.

Should he be encouraging drinking? He's not completely certain, but he had to do something! And this is as good as anything -- not festive because this is no time to be festive, but also social enough to encourage coming.

This will do.]

Comments

[ahelpingpaw]

Right! Your Jack... [Reika's Jack, Jack the Ripper, infamous serial killer. When put like that it sounds difficult to imagine, but Reika sounds so genuinely fond of her Jack. Filbo wonders...] I hope it won't sound like a rude question, but did your Jack ever tell you why she did that?

[Maybe it was was a moment of empathy. Or maybe that Jack is like Reika in that she's really distant but then tried to reach out at someone else, for whatever reason. Or maybe she was lonely...there are many reasons]

Cw: child death and mentions of abuse

[leaveittomother]

She didn't but I know. Due to the nature of our contract I often saw her memories in my dreams. [Sometimes she wishes she hadn't but she knew better than that. She pauses looking at him.] It was in her nature. She wanted love that was denied so they tried taking it. That sounds cruel but Jack wasn't human. She was...

[Reika glanced around once.] An evil spirit created formed from the many children of London's poor that died unloved and thrown away. She, they, targeted women in particular to try to gain the love they never had.

[ahelpingpaw]

[Oh grump, how do you even respond to that, Filbo thinks. He just stares at her for a moment, wondering if maybe the whisky he just drank had already gotten up to his head and some words got scrambled. Welcome to the Pandora's Box that's talking to Reika about everything involving her and Jack]

...wow...

[For a moment that was all he could say. It takes him a few seconds more to think of something else]

...that's...

[......]

You...you managed to be in good terms with her--with them. Despite everything. That's gotta be...something extraordinaire.

[Maybe he should have drunk more before hearing that, goodness, hah]

[leaveittomother]

They saved me from dying. It didn't matter to me what they were. I didn't even know that at the start. All she wanted was a mother and if I was the one to be that role for her, why not?

[Maybe that's why she reacted so strongly to both Alice's and Lorna's deaths. She easily could have been in either situation.]

Sometimes love is a difficult emotion.

[ahelpingpaw]

That's true. I guess it really...does come in all forms!

[Even this one. Well, as long as it keeps them happy and preferably without killing anyone.

As if, Filbo]

Sorry if I seem at a loss for words, this really is--it's unlike anything I had heard before. No surprise there, right?

[leaveittomother]

I think I would be worried if you had heard about something like this, honestly.

[She says that earnestly. After all, Fate backstories are tough to handle and no one deserves them.]