Kerthkessen wrote:
I agree with Anjuna about Hoban having some serious self worth issues. We don't know overmuch about the interactions on the ship before the night of the storm. From the fact Hoban made the comment about steering into a storm I think he has a pretty large amount of grief stored up. Since something as life threatening as a storm on the open sea would take a bit more than a single mediocre insult in my mind. Hoban could well have done it on purpose to punish the crew for being looked down on or not coming to his defence when he's being picked on by Linae. It's possible that he could have jumped ship on purpose out of either guilt, or a desire to escape possible punishment for his irresponsible actions as a navigator.
The thing that gets me about this however, is the fact most ships respect and appriciate their navigator as he does a job no-one else can.
Ah well, just throwing out a few more ideas for everyone to chew over.
SElf-worth, guilt, anger, build up, psychology! I think you guys are overthinking it on this one. Does TNT really expect us to go into psychology to figure out exactly what is going on? I mean, we're not all psychology majors here (heck, the general audience TNT is targetting is barely in high school!) so there's just no way TNT would make it as complicated as you guys are making it seem!
And whoever hopes that we'll have something to do the next time the ship appears somewhere new (which will be when? next week?), I wouldn't get my hopes up. I don't think we'll be doing anything but reading until we've heard from everyone on the ship. That means we've still got the Kougra, the Ruki, the Nimmo, and the Scorchio. So...if this plot continues at the rate its currently going (which is an update a week, more or less), then we'll probably be able to DO something (after hearing all the stories) in a little over a month. *Nods*
EDIT: Oh and I just re-read the comic. The pink kougra looks quite evil and barbaric in Bonju's rendition of what happened. Maybe he has something against her?
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