Silly Whaler Headcanon - evil children edition
Daud has bad knees, unstable even at times, and if there’s one thing that makes him jump it’s the overseer’s music. The whalers know this very well and exploit it when they can - especially in autumn/winter months of Dunwall when the financial district floods excessively with water. One morning - one, because this was the only time this exact scenario would work - after the mid winter holiday, and Daud wakes up hungover, and goes to have a ‘comedown’ shot of whiskey and a cigarette on the balcony joined to his quarters. When Thomas, Billie, and a small handful of skilled whalers sneak up on Daud with his dulled senses and blast - for only a moment - the overseer’s ancient music. Daud stumbles out of his chair, backwards, his knees unsteady and stiff from a long night, his heavy eyelids cracking themselves from one another suddenly as he walks unwillingly backwards from the music, his heels and eventually his toes passing the edges of the balcony. He falls backwards onto the lower balcony that connects Daud’s base to apartment buildings that were opposite of the Kaldwin Statue. He falls, and hits a hollow, rubber weaved, spring tensioned, elastic circle (modern trampolines weren’t invented until 1936 so this is best description I have of earlier ones????) and launches into the air. Much to his chagrin and far greater to the hilarity of the Whalers as they watch him fall and sail through the sky again, only to plummet with a loud and resounding splash into the water some 15 meters below. Thomas falls over shrieking with laughter, he’s genuinely holding his sides from laughing so much, and Billie is holding onto Thomas’ shoulder, having dropped the music device she’s coughing, her lungs unable to fill themselves with air after roaring with humor. “THERE HE GOES!” the accompanying whalers howl. “Ahhh, we should make sure he doesn’t drown...” Billie finally calms down enough to speak, her face the same color as a ripe tomato. “We should leave so he doesn’t drown us.” Thomas finally wheezes in between snorts of laughter.
