#helmsman stuff

[pii22lord]

do you remember any pros to being a helmsman?

wow you ju2t got riight two iit diidn’t you

ii don’t even talk about thii2 2hiit wiith my therapii2t

but iif you mu2t know... iimagiine thii2: you’re the galaxy’2 large2t and mo2t powerful 2hiip. you’re re2on2iible for poweriing and naviigatiing iit through 2pace, 2eeiing thiing2 that almo2t no other troll2 get two 2ee iin place2 mo2t troll2 wiill never be. iimagiine beiing the iinternet.

BUT beiing trapped iin a helm2column for thou2and2 of 2weep2 whiile beiing forciibly kept aliive long pa2t my natural liife2pan, wiith biiowiire 2hoved iin place2 nothiing 2hould ever be 2hoved whiile my power ii2 2iiphoned and u2ed two conquer and 2laughter hundred2 of planet2 all ju2t kiinda outweiigh2 tho2e pro2 there.

[sugaryexcess]

==>Sometime in the future...

>But not long from now.

>One of the techs noticed how rebellious the battery still is, and has been working with the code to fix it. It seems the helmsman, on purpose or just as an automatic defense mechanism, has been intercepting the punishment subroutines, pulling them into loops before they can hurt. No fucking wonder this thing's still being a little shit. She shakes her head and writes a workaround, smiling when her code runs and the helmsman starts screaming again. Ah yes, back in business.

>She goes to work on the schoolfeeding next, dialing it up a few notches. It'll be a little distracted, but that doesn't matter. It's just flying through empty space right now, it could probably use some distraction. Whistling, the tech returns to regular maintenance.

[sugaryexcess]

>Send your techs a message to punish your helmsman. They obey dutifully, sending his body into agonizing spasms, made all the worse because the biowires stop him from moving around too much. Besides the physical pain, they make him feel slightly guilty about the whole thing. Shouldn't he be nicer to you? You're just such a swell person.

[ghostly-squid]

Searching for a fic in an obscure category and finding one EXACTLY how you want it to be on the first try is the best kind of magic