Too late now ya gotta tell us about the speculative scenario and your oc pls! Sounds cool!
well okayyy teehee
well, since arachnids can survive weeks without water and even longer without without food, scroop would have been floating at a steady pace through the etherium for quite a while!
in this scenario, he just so happens to drift into the path of a passing trade ship. of course, seeing someone adrift, the ship's captain calls for the stranger to be rescued and brought aboard. of course, being literally tangled in a torn-up pirate flag, it quickly becomes pretty obvious what he is once he's dragged onto the deck. instead of seeming scared or disgusted, an almost sadistic look appears on the captain's face. she tells her crew that they'll wait for the next port so they can schedule a proper hanging. another notch for her holster.
scroop curses himself. of all the ships he could have been rescued by while he's weak and emaciated, of course it had to have been the one that belonged to Captain Cordelia Plantanelle; she was known by name in the recesses of the galaxy for her bafflingly intense hatred for pirates one better befitting a bounty hunter than a trade captain, famously having run multiple ships aground just to end any stray vagabond she'd come across. and it seemed for scroop, he'd be no different than the others.
that is, until, he hisses out silver's name during his last prayers, or, rather, his last curses towards anyone he could think of that had ever done him wrong. the captain tenses. she crouches down closer to where he lays on the deck, and her sadistic smile widens as she asks him if he knows captain long john silver. perhaps she'd keep him around, at least for a little while. at least long enough for him to provide some information to find the pirate that gave her that scar.
