#((*pats roof of Lor* this boat can fit so many love in her))

[interdimensional-ship]

Hello Lor! I'm curious to hear about how well you get along with Magolor. Are the two of you in good accords? Is there some negativity mixed in? Are there any intolerable traits between you and him?

“>I’d say we get along pretty well! Stuff was a bit shaky at first, but that was mostly because one day I was just minding my own business and suddenly this egg manifested in a heap on the floor and that’s how we first met. There was a lot of confusion for the first several months, mostly because he knew things about me despite us being strangers from my perspective, but what he knew didn’t really account for me being my own person. And I, uh… Also had some character development to do at that point.”

She then failed to elaborate. In all fairness, what she used to be like is not something she is particularly proud of. Let the past stay in the past now that it’s not relevant anymore.

“>I think we mostly started on the path to where we are currently… Around two years after we met, when life had settled down. In a fit of sleep deprivation he accidentally slipped up and called me mom, which. I don’t know how I would describe it other than just… making me feel like I could have a real purpose again in looking after him? As cheesy as it may sound. It reframed my view of things from “living with and helping out a stranger who showed up out of nowhere and didn’t leave” to the found family situation it is now. I can’t speak for him, but I imagine he probably feels better about things too; I haven’t pressed for details about his personal life, but I know from things he’s said that he left a loving family behind when he took off with me. I’m just hoping I can at least fill some of that void.”

Lord Farqaad pointing memes. The boat has fallen in love with the idea of being a loving family to Magolor because she knows what it’s like to feel like an outcast surrounded by people who don’t like her due to poor choices that seemingly nobody would let go at all! The boat has fallen in love with the idea of finding solidarity with someone else who was also navigating an unexpected brand new life that is so different from how things once were! Found family can be something that is so important.

“>There’s of course some negativity sometimes, but that’s just normal for relationships. Not everyone gets along all the time, as great as that would be. I think the worst of it was a few years ago, when I found out about all the important information he hadn’t told me. Specifically, why he excavated me and the events that took place after he crashed me here in Cookie Country. Up until then all I had known was that he made some bad choices, there were traumatic consequences, and people really didn’t like him. To put it lightly, after that conversation I was… considerably angry about how much he had kept from me.”

Her tone of voice doesn’t really hide the fact that, evidently, the subject still stings. Maybe it was just the sense of not being trusted enough for him to say something to her? Or the thought that he might have never said anything had someone else not brought it up in front of her. Regardless of the what-ifs, it’s an experience the Starcutter doesn’t remember fondly and something she’s glad has been sorted out.

“>However, I’m not the sort to hold grudges, and while it did take a bit, I’ve since forgiven him. Dwelling on being wronged after it’s been righted as much as it can be just seems unnecessary; in most cases there’s a point in the healing process where you just have to accept that something happened, deal with the emotions, and move on. Granted, I am biased, because if he hadn’t done what he did, I would still be sitting in a volcanic cavern collecting dust back on Halcandra’s original island. I also wasn’t one of the ones he personally wronged beyond lying by omission, so I have an overall very different perspective.”

The ship pauses… That sure deviated from the original question, huh? Tangents can be very easy to follow when you have so many words in your you.

“>… Uh, to get back on topic. I’m not sure if there’s anything I would call intolerable? He has a habit of lying that’s pretty annoying, but at the very least I know it happens less when I’m around. Elsewhere, though, I’m not sure. After all I’m a boat mom, not a helicopter parent. I hope he’s more honest but at the end of the day that’s his choice, and his consequences to deal with if he chooses poorly. On the other end of things, I think you’d have to ask him– he’s the sort to just sit and be annoyed instead of letting me know when I’m getting on his nerves. Which I guess is another thing, communication can be difficult sometimes. But it’s nothing we can’t handle together.”