You know, yeah, you're right! [she says, laughing again, elbowing him. the mood is a little more cheerful!] I could really use some quality destruction time before I have to go back after this whole stupid moon thing.
[ well, the mood is a little more cheerful until he has that anxious nerves spike when she mentions after the moon thing, but he grins at her and kind of tugs at the hat cord ]
Yeah? We should break some stuff even before that. I was way too well-behaved in that stupid news building.
Yeah. It affected us before we came back, too. [ so like. he knows. ] I kind of hate it.
[ ace feels big and obviously, except for the things he keeps close to the chest and having those things exposed is-- he has already been so damn exposed in this place. the feeling there is a little frustrated and wry both. but: ]
there's part of her that says leave it alone, he doesn't want to talk about it, but there's another part that's absolutely terrified that if she does leave it alone, if she doesn't talk to him about it, he's going to end up dead again. it's nothing he says, and that terror of losing him forever crawls up into her throat for a second.]
Where are you going after this, Ace? [sorry, she's sorry, she just can't let it be something they don't talk about.]
[ sorry, there's the anxiety again, and the exhaustion, and-- grief, and just a weird hope and he kind of laughs tiredly before it comes spilling out against his wishes: ]
I wanna go home. [ grief and longing, again, but like something that has passed? ] You know, from the start, when I learned about the pause thing, I thought... I figured none of it mattered. If time didn't move forward, I'd go right back to when it happened. In the middle of that stupid war because of me. But yesterday...
[ yesterday, they said time would go on. he's just anxious and exhausted thinking about it ]
That fight is probably over by now. I don't... I've got no idea what happened to anyone there. How they reacted if they noticed my body was missing. [ marines and pirates alike, he means, though he doesn't specify. ] And Pops was going to die, on that battlefield, because he wanted to make sure I got out, but I died anyway and I--
[ and it's back to grief and it's back to hope and it's a lot of warring emotions that leave him tired ]
It's not like I wanted to be dead. But I'd accepted that. So I guess I never really let myself think about what happens after.
[ it's just that he does want to live, and he said he wasn't questioning if it was fine that he was born anymore but questioning if wanting is alright is still very much on the table. also, very easy to say that when you are about to die but now he has to like. live. with all these feelings and knowledge. and it's hard and it's terrifying and he doesn't want to complain about getting to live, which is now what he feels like he did, so he kind of scrubs at his face and feels guilty and embarrassed ]
[she listens, though, just like he always listens to her. she tries very, very hard to take in every word, every feeling, and when he ends it with sorry, it's stupid, she punches him in the arm.]
Shut up, it isn't.
[... i wanna go home, he said. her heart aches. she wants him to go home, too. she wants him to have what she can't.]
... They noticed. Ace, obviously they noticed. They were coming for you, they love you, and if they didn't find you -- [a pause. that's not worth getting into, she thinks, it's - what ifs, like he said. so she changes tracks.] You're not dead now.
[she thinks about how weeks ago, nico talked to her about this. about how changing your ending is always possible, and how it doesn't have to be what you thought it was going to be, especially when people love you. nimona isn't sure she has a future past this, but ace does. ace will. ace deserves to go home, to the ocean he loves, to his brother, to a life cut short. the guilt and embarrassment makes her grab his face and thonk their foreheads together.]
You can write your ending however you want it to go. So if you wanna go home - you should go home. If you wanna live, you should live. Your after is whatever you want it to be, even if that's scary as hell. You won't know what happened unless you go find out, right? So go find out, you dumb pirate, take what you want. Start thinking about it.
[ he's just, like, more embarrassed when she talks, kind of different vibes of squirmy feelings like he's not sure if he should interrupt or not, because there's a lot of things she doesn't understand but that he doesn't want her to, either (at what point of your life causing misery to the people you care about are you allowed to still want to live it?) and it builds and builds until it kind of bursts with a surge of affection and he blurts: ]
Come with me. [ he never asked, because he didn't think he could, because he thought he was dead or going to be, because he was in the middle of a fucking war for his life, and he doesn't know what kind of world he's going back to in a week, if his crew and brother are okay, however the world shook out from his supposed death, from Whitebeard's, but he knows he's coming back after and that means he can at least-- ] If everything's over at home and I'm alive, you could come with me.
[ he can at least offer, because he wants better for her and he doesn't know if it's with him but it sure as hell isn't back in her home. ]
nobody has asked, she thinks. nobody asked her to go with them -- her mind fuzzes and shakes a little with that. nobody ever ever offered here. right? she can't grasp that. she can't think about it too hard. it doesn't seem right, but it does, all in one, so she just accepts it.
she's spent these past few days thinking about what was going to come after. she didn't want to go where she wasn't wanted, she's sick of that, but time was running out, and she kept having to confront the idea that she'd just... have to go back to her world. and it makes a whole lot of emotions well up in her - loneliness and a sense of wanting to belong somewhere, anywhere --
but he asks, and she pulls back to look at him, his hat settled crooked on her head, and there's really no stopping the tears this time. it's not the horrible ugly crying from before at least, it's just stupid ghibli tears as her emotions do backflips. hope, and love, and a longing met, a hand held out. that's all she wanted, to go back with him. to have someone ask her to belong.
there's a sort of - pride too, maybe? maybe it's silly but she's proud of him.]
Okay. [she says, weakly. she flounders a little trying to think of something else to say but it's hard because she's just absolutely drowning. there's something about knowing that he wants to live, and knowing that she's invited to get to see it. she would've been happy just knowing he existed somewhere, but with this... she gets to live a little herself, too.]
[ oh my god please stop crying he's dying here. she's having so many emotions and he's just like vague concerns about breaking her mixed in with the affection and nerves (about living) (about everything) and, also, of course, embarrassment about the pride. don't be proud of that he's always wanted to live he just didn't let himself think he could!!! ]
... Okay. [ he repeats and kind of laughs weakly as he hides his face. she's crying and he doesn't want to cry, so. ] I don't know what's... going to happen with my crew with Pops dead. And what happened to Luffy after I... anyway. [ grief and guilt and love but he dismissives that quick; ] So we'll have to figure out what I missed in a week to see where to go from there. And... well, the island I was on was probably sunk. So I'm not sure how we're dealing with that. And it's not the safest place, and everyone knows who I...
[ the entire whole world knows ace is the son of the pirate king now and it's kind of like, really making him sick to think about and raising his anxiety levels so he takes in a breath to center himself ]
The point is, sorry to drag you into my mess. But we'll get a boat and we'll find out.
[she can't stop having emotions this is how she feels all the time it's just BIG OVERWHELMING bursts of :aaaaa: on a constant basis. she rubs at her face again, scrubbing away the wetness on her face because she is happy.
and when his anxiety levels raise, she leans back in to get her arms around his shoulders and hugs him tightly.]
I don't care if it's a mess. [it sounds exciting? that sounds kind of insensitive, but - it's the unknown. and the unknown isn't scary if she's with him, so it's okay, they'll figure it out.]
You don't gotta worry, when we're out of here I can be whatever I want, so you could like - I could be some sort of sea creature and it won't matter if the island sunk.
[already doing Plans]
It'll work - we can go find Luffy, and your crew, and go from there. [...] And then we can kill the guy that killed you.
Sea creature would be convenient, but I don't want you to have to fight Sea Kings first thing.
[ it's pensive. the hug does actually relax him a little, spoilers, but then she says go after the guy who killed you and there's something like. annoyance shame reluctance because riiiiiight she doesn't... know... hrm ]
You can't. [ he grimaces ] The guy's like me, except he's lava instead of fire.
[ there's uh. the feeling of phantom pain, burning and drowning in his own blood before he shuts that down and focuses on not feeling anything at all. it was... not a nice death and sometimes it's hard not to think about it, except no one had to know he sometimes thought about it before this share!!! hateful. ]
disregard that she doesn't care about the sea kings because she cares about this last part. no, she will not forget it? wow, she doesn't like the feeling of phantom pain, and he'll feel her little burst of anger and like I'm Gonna Fucking Do a Violence in emotion form.]
I'm not afraid of lava. [she says, clinging to him a little more tightly. she really does not like the sensation of - any part of his death, or thinking about it, but it doesn't matter.] This place has got me all messed up, but you can't kill me normally.
[stubbornly. nothing has stuck! she just disintegrates herself before anything else can.]
It does matter, anyway! I'm not just gonna sit around and let the guy who murdered you run around without getting fed to a dragon! [the dragon is her] Worst comes to worst he'll give me indigestion.
[ he gets the revenge urge, so there's something like fondness there, despite the always lingering sort of really? for me? disbelief, but more than that there's lingering concern and a lot of wryness like ah. yes. this is the worst i am looking at myself in the mirror and myself is an idiot ]
Not really murder so much as the guy doing his job. [ like, ace hates the guy, there's no hiding that, but it's not the kind of personal hate he's got when thinking of his own revenge quest, simply kind of a vague disdain. the guy is a marine and ace is the son of the pirate king and ace fell for his taunts and it was, very much, his own fault, and also embarrassing to be humbled by I Have Your Fruit But Stronger Bitch, but he was a lot more offended at trying to kill luffy. obviously.
also he will be madder when he sees luffy's scar from the guy but that's later right now he's like, it happened to him so he doesn't care, and also there's a blip of worry because he doesn't want her getting hurt for him and a blip of I Can Take My Own Revenge Damn. it's a lot of emotions i hate emotionshare week ]
I don't even know that he's running around. That's the point, I don't know what happened with that war after I died. Besides, I don't need you to fight my battles for me. That's a little too embarrassing.
[this is the worst i am looking at myself in the mirror and myself is an idiot correct
she gets Very Grouchy when he says he doesn't need her to fight his battles for him, because obviously he does!! he won't do it himself!! but she also respects him too much to be a brat about it, so she just lets it sit and simmer instead.]
I'd be fighting your battles with you. [grumble grumble, but she lets it go for now.]
... Thanks. [she mutters finally.] For asking me.
[a little burst of anxiety and relief all in one, it's a horrible mix. like guilty for feeling relieved.]
[ he ignores the battle thing because she has not seen how absolutely insanely stubborn he can be about fighting on his own yet sorry he is like that [ace voice] i never run. and because he wants to concentrate on that thanks.
there's a bit of embarrassment through the mostly fondness as he nudges her ]
... I would've earlier, but I didn't think I was really an option. [ the embarrassment is saying that out loud here. god. ] I always meant it when I said I thought you'd make a great pirate.
[she flops back finally so she can just sprawl on him instead of hugging him like a koala. there's a little touch of gremlin emotion when he's embarrassed, but mostly fondness, and that same squirmy feeling.]
It's okay, nobody else asked, so you're first in line. [she jokes, but there's a stomach-sinking sort of feeling at that, which she ignores.] I've wanted to be a pirate since you said it, man, I'm ready for it.
[there's like this sort of fuzzy, spaced out feeling. like a skip, like a tape being hit with a magnet.]
Nope. I'm a free agent. [he is right, though.] Doesn't matter. I'm not gonna stick around places I'm not wanted, right, like I'm not gonna just invite myself.
Well, pretty sure he'd at least want you to visit, but that's a problem for later. I called dibs. [ boops her face ] And apparently you're a potential life boat in case Pops really did sink Marineford. He seemed pretty serious about it.
[ he's joking at the potential life boat thing because she's the one who said it, but he cannot stop his grief/love thing every time he mentions his dad :( so moving on ]
Getting out of government waters will be the most important thing, and then... probably finding a newspaper.
[uwahhhh i called dibs makes a whole lot of emotions swell up and make her throat tight again. happy and wanted!! someone wants her around. ace wants her around. it's nice. she laughs a little and bats at his hand when he boops her.
anyway, she doesn't mind the grief/love - it's sad, and it makes her have little pangs of sympathy, but she doesn't mention it. it just gives her a sense of how important he was. she wishes she could've met him, but.]
Look, if we just get tossed out into the ocean I'm not going to let you drown, obviously. [there's like a nauseated feeling at that but it goes away fast.] ... A newspaper? Like just to see what happened?
[ he likes her feeling happy/wanted a lot more than the nauseated feeling at drowning, though he has his own uncomfortable feeling at it. it's not as bad as his feelings on lava but it uh. also sucked. from his end of things. boops her again to be annoying. ]
You'd better not. That'd be embarrassing. [ "embarrassing". anyway he hums a little ] Yeah. The whole thing would've been pretty heavily documented. They wanted to make a show for the whole world, so whatever the outcome was would be in the news. It won't help me locate anybody, but they'd mention anyone with a bounty that died during it, too. It was all a bonus for the marines.
[ which would cover luffy and at the very least the other whitebeard commanders. again just. a pang of guilt thinking about the people that died for him but there's not much he can do there!! ]
Plus we need an actual boat to find anyone, so any place that has a newspaper we can at least get a ship. Letting you swim us to the nearest safe island because we might not have a choice is one thing, but I'd rather not.
also i'm sorry she won't ever stop being furiously angry about the marines trying to make a lesson out of it. she just seethes for a second as she listens, arms folded where she's just sprawled on him ig, and then:]
It's not like I care if I gotta swim. [she tells him, but. she also would prefer a boat.] How easy is it gonna be to get a ship?
[ it probably doesn't help that his feeling on that are kind of like, resignation still a bit. it's fine. BOOPS HER A THIRD TIME a little Annoy because he is not making her swim that far there's weather and monsters and it is a bad idea, but he doesn't specify, just. lets her lie down on him while he looks at the sky ]
Hmm... We're pretty far for you to just swim directly to where mine should still be back on Banaro, but we can steal a small one to get there. We don't need a good one if we can get mine. [ he's like, sort of drawing a map to himself as he says it, gesturing to the sky ] The island I was on is deep in government territory... Sabaody's closest, but we can't go further from that without a boat that can withstand going underwater. I could try to get in contact with people around there but it's got a lot of government involvement too. So going back instead, grabbing a boat and getting to Banaro to get Striker would be easier. No one could have gone off with it, since it only works with my fruit.
[ he is kind of babbling considering she has no context for any of this, he's just trying to math out the safest way to get away without being hounded by the government again to die. he'd like. he'd like five minutes of peace. ]
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Yeah, but they can't argue back against both of us. [ :3 ]
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You know, yeah, you're right! [she says, laughing again, elbowing him. the mood is a little more cheerful!] I could really use some quality destruction time before I have to go back after this whole stupid moon thing.
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Yeah? We should break some stuff even before that. I was way too well-behaved in that stupid news building.
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listen she's interested in breaking stuff, she very much wants to do this and she nods in agreement, but also:]
... You know, I can feel all the stuff you're feeling. [just pointing that out.]
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Yeah. It affected us before we came back, too. [ so like. he knows. ] I kind of hate it.
[ ace feels big and obviously, except for the things he keeps close to the chest and having those things exposed is-- he has already been so damn exposed in this place. the feeling there is a little frustrated and wry both. but: ]
It's nothing. [ HE'S STILL A STUBBORN BITCH ]
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there's part of her that says leave it alone, he doesn't want to talk about it, but there's another part that's absolutely terrified that if she does leave it alone, if she doesn't talk to him about it, he's going to end up dead again. it's nothing he says, and that terror of losing him forever crawls up into her throat for a second.]
Where are you going after this, Ace? [sorry, she's sorry, she just can't let it be something they don't talk about.]
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I wanna go home. [ grief and longing, again, but like something that has passed? ] You know, from the start, when I learned about the pause thing, I thought... I figured none of it mattered. If time didn't move forward, I'd go right back to when it happened. In the middle of that stupid war because of me. But yesterday...
[ yesterday, they said time would go on. he's just anxious and exhausted thinking about it ]
That fight is probably over by now. I don't... I've got no idea what happened to anyone there. How they reacted if they noticed my body was missing. [ marines and pirates alike, he means, though he doesn't specify. ] And Pops was going to die, on that battlefield, because he wanted to make sure I got out, but I died anyway and I--
[ and it's back to grief and it's back to hope and it's a lot of warring emotions that leave him tired ]
It's not like I wanted to be dead. But I'd accepted that. So I guess I never really let myself think about what happens after.
[ it's just that he does want to live, and he said he wasn't questioning if it was fine that he was born anymore but questioning if wanting is alright is still very much on the table. also, very easy to say that when you are about to die but now he has to like. live. with all these feelings and knowledge. and it's hard and it's terrifying and he doesn't want to complain about getting to live, which is now what he feels like he did, so he kind of scrubs at his face and feels guilty and embarrassed ]
Sorry. It's stupid.
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Shut up, it isn't.
[... i wanna go home, he said. her heart aches. she wants him to go home, too. she wants him to have what she can't.]
... They noticed. Ace, obviously they noticed. They were coming for you, they love you, and if they didn't find you -- [a pause. that's not worth getting into, she thinks, it's - what ifs, like he said. so she changes tracks.] You're not dead now.
[she thinks about how weeks ago, nico talked to her about this. about how changing your ending is always possible, and how it doesn't have to be what you thought it was going to be, especially when people love you. nimona isn't sure she has a future past this, but ace does. ace will. ace deserves to go home, to the ocean he loves, to his brother, to a life cut short. the guilt and embarrassment makes her grab his face and thonk their foreheads together.]
You can write your ending however you want it to go. So if you wanna go home - you should go home. If you wanna live, you should live. Your after is whatever you want it to be, even if that's scary as hell. You won't know what happened unless you go find out, right? So go find out, you dumb pirate, take what you want. Start thinking about it.
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Come with me. [ he never asked, because he didn't think he could, because he thought he was dead or going to be, because he was in the middle of a fucking war for his life, and he doesn't know what kind of world he's going back to in a week, if his crew and brother are okay, however the world shook out from his supposed death, from Whitebeard's, but he knows he's coming back after and that means he can at least-- ] If everything's over at home and I'm alive, you could come with me.
[ he can at least offer, because he wants better for her and he doesn't know if it's with him but it sure as hell isn't back in her home. ]
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nobody has asked, she thinks. nobody asked her to go with them -- her mind fuzzes and shakes a little with that. nobody ever ever offered here. right? she can't grasp that. she can't think about it too hard. it doesn't seem right, but it does, all in one, so she just accepts it.
she's spent these past few days thinking about what was going to come after. she didn't want to go where she wasn't wanted, she's sick of that, but time was running out, and she kept having to confront the idea that she'd just... have to go back to her world. and it makes a whole lot of emotions well up in her - loneliness and a sense of wanting to belong somewhere, anywhere --
but he asks, and she pulls back to look at him, his hat settled crooked on her head, and there's really no stopping the tears this time. it's not the horrible ugly crying from before at least, it's just stupid ghibli tears as her emotions do backflips. hope, and love, and a longing met, a hand held out. that's all she wanted, to go back with him. to have someone ask her to belong.
there's a sort of - pride too, maybe? maybe it's silly but she's proud of him.]
Okay. [she says, weakly. she flounders a little trying to think of something else to say but it's hard because she's just absolutely drowning. there's something about knowing that he wants to live, and knowing that she's invited to get to see it. she would've been happy just knowing he existed somewhere, but with this... she gets to live a little herself, too.]
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... Okay. [ he repeats and kind of laughs weakly as he hides his face. she's crying and he doesn't want to cry, so. ] I don't know what's... going to happen with my crew with Pops dead. And what happened to Luffy after I... anyway. [ grief and guilt and love but he dismissives that quick; ] So we'll have to figure out what I missed in a week to see where to go from there. And... well, the island I was on was probably sunk. So I'm not sure how we're dealing with that. And it's not the safest place, and everyone knows who I...
[ the entire whole world knows ace is the son of the pirate king now and it's kind of like, really making him sick to think about and raising his anxiety levels so he takes in a breath to center himself ]
The point is, sorry to drag you into my mess. But we'll get a boat and we'll find out.
[ there's that missing confidence. ]
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and when his anxiety levels raise, she leans back in to get her arms around his shoulders and hugs him tightly.]
I don't care if it's a mess. [it sounds exciting? that sounds kind of insensitive, but - it's the unknown. and the unknown isn't scary if she's with him, so it's okay, they'll figure it out.]
You don't gotta worry, when we're out of here I can be whatever I want, so you could like - I could be some sort of sea creature and it won't matter if the island sunk.
[already doing Plans]
It'll work - we can go find Luffy, and your crew, and go from there. [...] And then we can kill the guy that killed you.
[:D?]
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[ it's pensive. the hug does actually relax him a little, spoilers, but then she says go after the guy who killed you and there's something like. annoyance shame reluctance because riiiiiight she doesn't... know... hrm ]
You can't. [ he grimaces ] The guy's like me, except he's lava instead of fire.
[ there's uh. the feeling of phantom pain, burning and drowning in his own blood before he shuts that down and focuses on not feeling anything at all. it was... not a nice death and sometimes it's hard not to think about it, except no one had to know he sometimes thought about it before this share!!! hateful. ]
Anyway, forget that guy. It doesn't even matter.
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disregard that she doesn't care about the sea kings because she cares about this last part. no, she will not forget it? wow, she doesn't like the feeling of phantom pain, and he'll feel her little burst of anger and like I'm Gonna Fucking Do a Violence in emotion form.]
I'm not afraid of lava. [she says, clinging to him a little more tightly. she really does not like the sensation of - any part of his death, or thinking about it, but it doesn't matter.] This place has got me all messed up, but you can't kill me normally.
[stubbornly. nothing has stuck! she just disintegrates herself before anything else can.]
It does matter, anyway! I'm not just gonna sit around and let the guy who murdered you run around without getting fed to a dragon! [the dragon is her] Worst comes to worst he'll give me indigestion.
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[ he gets the revenge urge, so there's something like fondness there, despite the always lingering sort of really? for me? disbelief, but more than that there's lingering concern and a lot of wryness like ah. yes. this is the worst i am looking at myself in the mirror and myself is an idiot ]
Not really murder so much as the guy doing his job. [ like, ace hates the guy, there's no hiding that, but it's not the kind of personal hate he's got when thinking of his own revenge quest, simply kind of a vague disdain. the guy is a marine and ace is the son of the pirate king and ace fell for his taunts and it was, very much, his own fault, and also embarrassing to be humbled by I Have Your Fruit But Stronger Bitch, but he was a lot more offended at trying to kill luffy. obviously.
also he will be madder when he sees luffy's scar from the guy but that's later right now he's like, it happened to him so he doesn't care, and also there's a blip of worry because he doesn't want her getting hurt for him and a blip of I Can Take My Own Revenge Damn. it's a lot of emotions i hate emotionshare week ]
I don't even know that he's running around. That's the point, I don't know what happened with that war after I died. Besides, I don't need you to fight my battles for me. That's a little too embarrassing.
[ HIS PRIDE!!!! ]
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she gets Very Grouchy when he says he doesn't need her to fight his battles for him, because obviously he does!! he won't do it himself!! but she also respects him too much to be a brat about it, so she just lets it sit and simmer instead.]
I'd be fighting your battles with you. [grumble grumble, but she lets it go for now.]
... Thanks. [she mutters finally.] For asking me.
[a little burst of anxiety and relief all in one, it's a horrible mix. like guilty for feeling relieved.]
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there's a bit of embarrassment through the mostly fondness as he nudges her ]
... I would've earlier, but I didn't think I was really an option. [ the embarrassment is saying that out loud here. god. ] I always meant it when I said I thought you'd make a great pirate.
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It's okay, nobody else asked, so you're first in line. [she jokes, but there's a stomach-sinking sort of feeling at that, which she ignores.] I've wanted to be a pirate since you said it, man, I'm ready for it.
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You sure? I thought... [ hm: ] I thought you guys had at least discussed it, with Nico and Will.
[ he doesn't know for anyone else but ]
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Nope. I'm a free agent. [he is right, though.] Doesn't matter. I'm not gonna stick around places I'm not wanted, right, like I'm not gonna just invite myself.
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Well, pretty sure he'd at least want you to visit, but that's a problem for later. I called dibs. [ boops her face ] And apparently you're a potential life boat in case Pops really did sink Marineford. He seemed pretty serious about it.
[ he's joking at the potential life boat thing because she's the one who said it, but he cannot stop his grief/love thing every time he mentions his dad :( so moving on ]
Getting out of government waters will be the most important thing, and then... probably finding a newspaper.
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anyway, she doesn't mind the grief/love - it's sad, and it makes her have little pangs of sympathy, but she doesn't mention it. it just gives her a sense of how important he was. she wishes she could've met him, but.]
Look, if we just get tossed out into the ocean I'm not going to let you drown, obviously. [there's like a nauseated feeling at that but it goes away fast.] ... A newspaper? Like just to see what happened?
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You'd better not. That'd be embarrassing. [ "embarrassing". anyway he hums a little ] Yeah. The whole thing would've been pretty heavily documented. They wanted to make a show for the whole world, so whatever the outcome was would be in the news. It won't help me locate anybody, but they'd mention anyone with a bounty that died during it, too. It was all a bonus for the marines.
[ which would cover luffy and at the very least the other whitebeard commanders. again just. a pang of guilt thinking about the people that died for him but there's not much he can do there!! ]
Plus we need an actual boat to find anyone, so any place that has a newspaper we can at least get a ship. Letting you swim us to the nearest safe island because we might not have a choice is one thing, but I'd rather not.
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also i'm sorry she won't ever stop being furiously angry about the marines trying to make a lesson out of it. she just seethes for a second as she listens, arms folded where she's just sprawled on him ig, and then:]
It's not like I care if I gotta swim. [she tells him, but. she also would prefer a boat.] How easy is it gonna be to get a ship?
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Hmm... We're pretty far for you to just swim directly to where mine should still be back on Banaro, but we can steal a small one to get there. We don't need a good one if we can get mine. [ he's like, sort of drawing a map to himself as he says it, gesturing to the sky ] The island I was on is deep in government territory... Sabaody's closest, but we can't go further from that without a boat that can withstand going underwater. I could try to get in contact with people around there but it's got a lot of government involvement too. So going back instead, grabbing a boat and getting to Banaro to get Striker would be easier. No one could have gone off with it, since it only works with my fruit.
[ he is kind of babbling considering she has no context for any of this, he's just trying to math out the safest way to get away without being hounded by the government again to die. he'd like. he'd like five minutes of peace. ]
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