Daniel Jacobi (
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Who: Jacobi/Catcobi and Kepler and Tim and Also Open and then Annie!
Where: All around!
When: Flood times!
Warnings: Murder on the last day! Cat shenanigans in between!
Jacobi has never been more grateful to not be affected by a flood (so he thinks). Especially when all he wants is to go home. He’s just finished washing up when the door unlocks and he very eagerly makes his way out, zipping up his jacket along the way. While he’s pretty sure Tim will be there, he has a very insistent voice in the back of his head that says Kepler’s definitely going to be there, too. And, if Jacobi is really honest with himself, he knows that the choice to invite Tim along for the ride was a very, very deliberate one.
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It’s a rare moment that he emerges from his cabin. Living with a warden does have its perks. There’s a kitchen and a shower already and he doesn’t have to worry too much about meeting his needs outside of those walls. However, cabin fever gets him eventually and so he wanders out to do some menial tasks. Laundry. Collecting new books in the library. Dining hall for snacks. Always on edge. Always with his hands in his pockets. Always tense.
As a cat, Jacobi is much more relaxed. He wanders the hallways, enjoying hissing at most people who pass by. He even feels a little more confident wandering about on four legs. So sometimes he’s curled up asleep in the greenhouse after a hard day of chasing bugs or other small creatures. He’s climbing furniture in the common rooms. He’s standing outside of doors, waiting to be let inside of doors, only to want to go back outside of doors again. He’s jumping on the tables in the lounge, knocking things down while staring people directly in the face.
Living his best cat life.
Fuck. This. Flood. Jacobi’s already been through the wringer and he just needs a moment to relax. After his experience with the Horror-Formally-Known-as-Tim, Jacobi wants to sit and stare at some familiar four walls that aren’t going to switch and change and twist around him. He’s not ready to unload on Kepler yet, so his heads for his own cabin, stumbling towards the door.
Where: All around!
When: Flood times!
Warnings: Murder on the last day! Cat shenanigans in between!
[For Kepler and Tim]
Jacobi has never been more grateful to not be affected by a flood (so he thinks). Especially when all he wants is to go home. He’s just finished washing up when the door unlocks and he very eagerly makes his way out, zipping up his jacket along the way. While he’s pretty sure Tim will be there, he has a very insistent voice in the back of his head that says Kepler’s definitely going to be there, too. And, if Jacobi is really honest with himself, he knows that the choice to invite Tim along for the ride was a very, very deliberate one.
[Open to All]
It’s a rare moment that he emerges from his cabin. Living with a warden does have its perks. There’s a kitchen and a shower already and he doesn’t have to worry too much about meeting his needs outside of those walls. However, cabin fever gets him eventually and so he wanders out to do some menial tasks. Laundry. Collecting new books in the library. Dining hall for snacks. Always on edge. Always with his hands in his pockets. Always tense.
As a cat, Jacobi is much more relaxed. He wanders the hallways, enjoying hissing at most people who pass by. He even feels a little more confident wandering about on four legs. So sometimes he’s curled up asleep in the greenhouse after a hard day of chasing bugs or other small creatures. He’s climbing furniture in the common rooms. He’s standing outside of doors, waiting to be let inside of doors, only to want to go back outside of doors again. He’s jumping on the tables in the lounge, knocking things down while staring people directly in the face.
Living his best cat life.
[And then the last day -- For Annie]
Fuck. This. Flood. Jacobi’s already been through the wringer and he just needs a moment to relax. After his experience with the Horror-Formally-Known-as-Tim, Jacobi wants to sit and stare at some familiar four walls that aren’t going to switch and change and twist around him. He’s not ready to unload on Kepler yet, so his heads for his own cabin, stumbling towards the door.

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More volatile. Also, now she can divebomb people, and that's too tempting to resist.
She shrieks as loud as she can and swoops at Jacobi.
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Jacobi isn't used to looking above eye level for threats, but he manages to see the bird shape just in time to throw his hands over his head and duck under a table.
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"I should scalp you, you miserable gobshite. What the fuck did Connor ever do to you?"
Then, just to show him she can, she uses her nutcracker beak to take a chunk out of the table.
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Then she takes that chunk from the table and he swallows hard.
"It wasn't about Connor!" he insists, eyes wide. How can a bird like that be so goddamn terrifying?
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"If it weren't about Connor then why did you violate 'im like that, eh? To prove 'ow clever you are? I knew you were an arsehole, Daniel, but I always thought you were my kind of arsehole."
She thinks hard about how it would feel to drive her beak through flesh. To crack his bones. And she attacks the table again.
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Hey!
This is his leaf!
He hisses.
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Uh oh. He didn't mean for that to happen. He shakes out his paw in the most undignified way and jumps around a moment. Annoyed.
Goddamnit.
He holds his leaf-stuck paw up to the bird with a plaintive mew.
A very clear - help.
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She can even forgive deliberate harm, and a lot of it. If it's against her.
She has spent all week waiting to see if her mind will change, and a few times it did. And then she'd go to the Greenhouse and it came back, hardening like the layers of nacre an oyster builds up around its pain.
When she smells Jacobi and his misery she follows him on silent paws, and the moment he opens the door to his cabin she lunges. Her jaws can bite through a metal pole in a snap, and though she rarely changes forms anymore she will never forget how to kill. It's the first thing a wolf knows when they survive.
Her teeth tear at his stomach. She can almost hear Palo's voice: spill their guts, then a second bite to snap a femur, those are two of the fastest ways to fell a victim without letting them die in an instant.
cw: gore
At least he thinks he knows why.
Instinct has him tense and ready for a fight, though there's nothing to stop her. Blinding pain sears through him as his body starts to shut down at the first bite, but he reacts with hands thrown at her face, fingers and nails going for her eyes, grabbing a fistful of fur in the process. The snap of the femur is loud in his ears, but he's already on the ground, though he doesn't even remember falling. He had to have fallen at some point. That's usually how people get on the ground.
Weird. Shock is a hell of a thing. Heart beating too quickly. Brain losing function. Everything just a little too heavy.
He puts a trembling hand on his stomach, as if that absurd movement could keep everything together.
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"I don't care why you went after Connor, but you need to understand something. He matters. The people he hurt matter. And if you ever go after him again, if you leave a trail of bodies like you did? I will fucking eat you." She rests a hand on his throat, not squeezing, just...touching.
"There is nowhere on this ship you can escape me. You kill me, I'll come back, and I will find you. I kill you? you come back in motherfucking pieces. Nod if you understand."
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He just stares at her through heavy eyes, contemplating.
Memorizing.
His heart hammers too fast and there's rushing in his ears - god, dying the first time was so much easier - and he spits blood in her face.
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"Tell me right now why I shouldn't turn your laundry water into blood."
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Fucking fuck, that's horrifying. He thought everyone was going to be something - well, mostly real.
"Because red's super not my aesthetic," he says softly. "Goddamn, Norton. I didn't know you had been involved. I thought you would have enough sense to get out of the fucking way."
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"Hm. I'm tempted to accept the aesthetic argument, and that's very annoying. But it's difficult to get out of the way when there's no warning that anything's coming. Why did you do it? What was the point of it all?"
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He shoves his clothes in the washer beside Norton and turns it on.
"The point? The point was that everything seemed pointless, everything was bullshit, and I wanted it all to just...explode."
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He'd been angry. Now, he just wants him back.
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"I suppose you must be Kepler?" he offers, in lieu of any other greeting.
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He grins like he planned it and moves to interrupt any potential greetings with his own nonsense.
"You know, I thought two bodyguards would be better than one. Guess I was right with the flood and - well." He waves a hand. "Kepler - Tim. Tim - Kepler." He tries not to show any trepidation around Kepler. He's here. That has to count for something.
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"Timothy Stoker. From the same world as Jonathan Sims, Gertrude Robinson, Gerard Keay, and Martin Blackwood." In other words, he knows who he is.
Tim is not his priority.
He breathes out slow and easy. And then he stands, walks over to Jacobi, and doesn't wait. He'll sling an arm around him and pull him close, breathe in him and breathe out slow. Quietly, just for him-
"I missed you."
He knows Jacobi worked on his assignment. He knows he did. He won't doubt that.
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cat time
So there's a moment when he's pretty sure that Jacobi's on a different table that Hickey just bolts to the door. Nope nope nope he is scurrying out of here he does not want to be here anymore.
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That's just silly.
So when he sees that rat, he knocks down a glass and leaps down from his table to haul ass after that rat, claws out.
He's not going to kill it, but the rat doesn't have to know that.
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Hickey also hauls ass. Though he is hauling ass away from Jacobi, scurrying as fast as his tiny little legs can manage.
But oh! There's a cabinet over in that corner! Perhaps he can hide under that until this awful thing leaves him alone. Hickey continues hauling ass, but in the direction of said cabinet.
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He's going to catch his rat and then - well, he doesn't know what happens next.
But he's going to catch it.
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