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[Anyone who's met Jacobi for more than fifteen seconds would be forgiven in thinking that this isn't Jacobi. This isn't the same man who packed explosives gleefully while being a sarcastic brat all at the same time. But Jacobi knows this. He knows what this is. So he's cheerful in a way that he had to once be literally programmed into.]

Hey guys! This isn't so bad, right? We're definitely going to be alright, aren't we? I mean! At least we have some food and water and a place to sleep! That's progress and something we can look forward to! We just need to work together and keep our chins up, right?

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[It's easy to play the part when he isn't actually with anyone else. But Jacobi is frayed at the edges, and he knows that this won't last. There's even a time when he wishes for the regulator again. The very thing that had taken his freedom from him. And those times are when he paces his room like a caged tiger.

And that room is as much his prison as he makes it. Jacobi doesn't leave his room except when forced to work or forced to sing or forced to be social. He will take visitors, but he won't be pleasant to be around. He knows he can't graduate that way, but it just feels so good to be angry. Especially at first.]

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Okay but are you named after someone?

No, I'm just named that cause I'm a duck!

[ pause. wait. oh nooooooo she didn't want to say that. ]

Uh, um, ah I mean I'm just a girl! I'm not a duck! Nope, not at all.

[He jumps to his feet.]

You're a duck?

Yes? Kind of? But I'm not a duck right now! I'm a girl!

[ And, as if to prove her point, Duck pushes the door open to Jacobi's room in order to stick her head in and show her very girl head. ]

Oh heck no. You stay a girl. That's the best part of you. The part where you're not a horrifying monster.

Scuze you! I'm not a horrifying monster or anything like that, I'm just a duck!

[ This is possibly the first time in Duck's life where she's said the phrase 'I'm just a duck' with anything close to pride. ]

Same thing! Stay on that side!

Make me!

[ And guess who is trying to CHARGE INTO JACOBI'S ROOM so she can yell at him more in person. ]

Oh no you don't!

[He jumps up on the bed and presses his back against the wall.]

[ And there's a teenage girl, standing in Jacobi's doorway. She's looking over at him with a bit of a frown...and then realizes wait. This guy really is scared of her.

What the heck. This is weird. ]

You really don't like ducks, do you.

Yeah! I really don't like ducks!

[He has one hand on the wall and the other goes to his pocket for the explosives that aren't there.

He would absolutely blow up a duck if he could.]

Okay! Okay, okay, okay. [ Duck frowns, thinking to herself, before she points out, ]

Right. So obviously I'm not gonna do it right now! But if I get scared or surprised then I might accidentally quack and when that happens, I, um, kinda accidentally turn into an actual duck.

[He points to the curtain.]

Then get out before that happens!

We're on the same ship! [ Duck points out, as she starts to head out of his room. ] It might happen whether you want it to or not!

But not in my room!

[He shakes his head.]

It's big enough that you can go somewhere else when you're - that thing.

I'm a duck, [ she points out, with a little frown. ] Not a—a thing.

Everything is a thing. Even ducks. With their weird teeth and beady little eyes.

My eyes aren't beady!

Why are you even still in here yelling at me?

I dunno why either! Bye, you big jerk!

[ And Duck starts to storm out, very grumpy and angry and ineffective. ]

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