Date: 2023-11-08 04:46 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (nine)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[that makes her angry. just a touch.]

No. [she says stubbornly.] You wouldn't have.

[or else, is the implication here, help]

Date: 2023-11-08 05:19 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (ninety-five)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[there's a buzzy emotion of annoyance and that same betrayal from before, the awful anger that she can't get rid of.]

You wanna know why I built that stupid fucking treehouse? Because - I left Tiger dorm, and I told Danny I was gonna, and he was upset because he didn't want to be alone. [and it hit her in a very soft and vulnerable spot.] I built that treehouse for him, because I wanted to - I wanted to show him that I wasn't gonna turn on him.

[but like. he knows how it turned out. and so there's conflicting emotion - guilt, because she did turn on him, but...]

Date: 2023-11-08 05:37 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (sixty-seven)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[you know i don't know that anybody has told her that she didn't do anything wrong this whole time? nico maybe alluded to it, but hearing it frankly like that makes her throat get all tight.]

... You guys, you - you and Reigen. [she says, voice cracking a little.] I've never had anything like either of you before. And I lost both of you in one weekend because of him, even if Tiger told him to, and he - he wasn't ever going to tell me, he only told me because you guys practically did it for him.

[she shifts, turning to wrap her arms around ace again.]

... I could've probably gotten over the kill, I just - he pretended to be my friend.

[and ace of all people knows why that's really upsetting to her.]

Date: 2023-11-08 06:05 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (sixty-two)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[it's fine she's covered in sand 95% of the time these days anyway

she doesn't like that pang - she doesn't like it because she knows he knows what it's like. it's the worst feeling in the world, to feel like maybe it wouldn't have happened if you'd been different or smarter or had seen it coming, to know that someone you trusted used it against you, flipped it around on you.

she closes her eyes, her emotions shifting back and forth between anger and wanting to comfort him in some way.]


Nico said he was probably going to forgive him because it was Tiger's fault but... I don't think I can. [...] I don't want to.

[what a mess]

Date: 2023-11-08 06:11 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (fifty-six)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[no!! she wants to help!!!

... but it is nice. the half a joke makes her laugh, rubbing at her face. god did i ever heal her broken hand. i don't think i did. anyway.]


I can beat them up myself, Ace. [but there's the emotion of like - loved, feeling loved, because even if it's a joke she knows he has her back, and he's never done anything to break her trust.]

Date: 2023-11-08 06:22 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (twenty-six)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[HIS TWO EYEBALLS]

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.

Date: 2023-11-08 06:43 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (two)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[stop being anxious right now

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.]

Date: 2023-11-08 06:57 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (fifty-three)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[she's gonna beat him up

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.]

Date: 2023-11-08 07:33 am (UTC)
sharkgirl: (seventy-nine)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[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.

Date: 2023-11-08 05:02 pm (UTC)
sharkgirl: (thirty-eight)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[well, it hits her like a truck, is what it does.

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.]

Date: 2023-11-08 09:15 pm (UTC)
sharkgirl: (seventy-three)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[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.

[:D?]

Date: 2023-11-08 11:40 pm (UTC)
sharkgirl: (hundred seven)
From: [personal profile] sharkgirl
[the WHAT

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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