Tagged as Daud, The Whalers, Billie Lurk
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what if there are a bunch of penguins who made home in the flooded district
Corvo comes to tfd and just goes past a load a whalers snuggling some penguins like "I thought they were meant to be cold-hearted assassins??"
A Whaler stole them from the Academy's zoo on a Fugue Feast for shits and giggles, and now the penguins follow that Whaler everywhere whenever they're on-base.
what if theyre like liddol fairy pengiuns
jfjsjf what if theyre actually wicked endangered bc of the amt of industrial growth etc but for whatever fucking reason a colony set themselves up in the flooded district and the whalers have to keep fending off academics who literall dont give a shit about this occult gang nonsense they just REALLY want to study this MIRACLE POPULATION of critically endangered river penguins
alternatively: some of the whalers get very excited about ENDANGERED RIVER PENGUINS and petition daud to let the academics in to study them (daud's academic past kinda gets the better of him) and you end up with occasional gaggles of wide-eyed (or maybe blindfolded) baby natural philosophers being shepherded through the flooded districts by some equally excited (but trying very hard to seem stoic and mysterious and gang-member-ly) whalers taking them to the top secret penguin nesting ground
theyre baby natural philosophers doing their undergrad honours thesis and god was this the score of the lifetime. there is one (1) doctorate in estuary biology who is a jaded grizzled old woman, absolutely built like a truck, looks like she's wrestled pandyssian boar and has the scars to match, and shes the head of this group of undergrads and she is THE MOST excited out of ANY OF THEM.
she probably knows daud from his academy days and thinks his "little gang" is just enormously endearing and its so nice that he's encouraging today's youths to appreciate estuarine life and help preserve endangered species. she pinches his cheeks. she's tough as hell and scarred up and missing a pinkie (got bitten off by a river krust) and is in fact taller and broader than daud so he really has no choice but to let her. she started crying when she saw the penguins for the first time. she knows exactly what he's doing she just thinks the marine biology aspect is far more important
What if penguins in whaler gear. The whalers dress one up and RUN to Daud's office clutching it like SIR LOOK.
Archives:
Thomas: oh no!! Thomas junior has gone missing!!
All whalers: [gasp]
Billie: we have to go find him!!!
[The next day]
Daud, addressing the whalers: it's come to my attention that yesterday most of you skipped your watch duties and contracts to go into hagfish infested areas, which resulted in most of you getting injured, all to save thomas' penguin
homas, bandaged to shit: it's Thomas junior sir
Mrs doctor biology lady: aw you've started a cute little group of fellow people who care about river life!!
Daud, kicking a load of assassination contracts and weapons under the table: haha yeah