Thinking about the ship in the In-Between Realm (the Inbetween?) again
We first see it in the opening scene of O Titan, Where Art Thou, when King is sorta projecting there in his dreams.
It bears more than a passing resemblance to Salty's ship (which King and co. are currently riding), with the same shape, the same fixtures, and even some of the same clutter, like those ropes behind and to the left of King, and those barrels and crates with a toolbox on top on the other side.
(although, some of the finer similarities may just be a matter of animation efficiency; re-rendering the same background shot of the ship's deck so it can be reused, rather than drawing the whole deck twice)
It never comes up again with King, even with his continued trips to the Inbetween, via dreams and other lapses in lucidity. In fact, the next (and final, that we're shown) time King dreams himself physically in the Inbetween, in the opening scene of King's Tide, the airship he's currently riding on in reality is nowhere to be seen.
So, for some reason, the boat came with him into the dream, but the airship didn't.
The only clue we get as to why that's the case (or as close to a clue as we can get, anyways), is actually one of the last shots of the Inbetween in the whole show, when Papa Titan is saying goodbye to Luz in Watching and Dreaming.
King has little-to-nothing to do with Luz's trip into the Inbetween here, but that same ship (or at the very least, one just like it) can be seen wayyyyy in the background of this shot.
I think it's reasonable to assume that— even in a place as nebulous and unreal as the Inbetween— if something is consistent across visits, it's probably a real object, physically and measurably THERE, much like Luz was in Yesterday's Lie.
So then, how did it get there? And where is its crew?
