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[selfimmolation]

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[selfimmolation]

You ever actually do that? Can't taste good.

[ WHY IS THAT HIS BIGGER CONCERN but: ]

Hmm... It was a little bit after I set sail, so about three years now. I've been sailing under Pops for about two.

[ ignoring the grief there and also about because we are not counting months ]

[sharkgirl]

Once or twice. It's whatever, I used to eat animals raw so people aren't a lot different?

[sometimes you can turn into a bear and just hunt like... rabbits

anyway, just like every time there's the grief there's a responding emotion of desire to comfort. she doesn't say anything, but.]

So kind of enough time to really know the like, ins and outs and stuff of it but not forever. [...] Did you swim a lot before?

[don't mind her she's just curious.]

[selfimmolation]

Huh, I guess it wouldn't be...

[ hunting rabbits is fine. he would not personally hunt a people but it's fine he'll keep her fed so she doesn't have to

he nods a little ]

I was made second division commander pretty quick, so I had to know stuff. [ both with the fruit and with the crew he means. the swimmies question he actually nods ] Yeah. I had to fish out Luffy from water all the time, for one thing. Plus we'd hunt for alligator meat in the river on the mountains. I was a really good swimmer.

[ he doesn't sound like he misses it? maybe if he had a shittier fruit but. genuinely he thinks fire was worth it. ]

[sharkgirl]

[ace having to make sure both his younger siblings don't eat people

nodding a bit at that, though, rolling over to lay on her stomach, head on her folded arms.]

So like now, you just... can't swim? Do you get heavier or something? [she should probably know his limits, especially if they just get dropped in the middle of the ocean. this is edging around her like, upset feelings at having had to watch him drown, but she's doing her best to swallow those down.]

[selfimmolation]

I'm not literally heavier, but Devil Fruit users are called "Anchors" for a reason. Normal bodies float, but we just... sink. [ he's got his arms folded behind his head as he looks at the sky. he's got a similar kind of uncomfortable feeling about it, mostly because. yea he did drown. and that sucked. ] Powers don't work in water, and it drains all the energy out of you. But we're pretty easy to fish out. Deu did it for me all the time, and he was never the strongest guy physically. So long as I'm not submerged it's fine, though.

[ he can still fuckin bathe :T ]

[sharkgirl]

[good to know that he can bathe]

Okay. So I don't have to be a whale or something in order to move around. I could be a dolphin. [:thonk:] As long as you don't sink.

[sorry the idea just gives her straight anxiety the ocean is so fuckin big and it's been a long time since she's been anywhere but a forest. she'll be happy to be there once she's there, it's just a huge change.]

[selfimmolation]

[ um ]

Well, I do. But not any faster than anything else would?

[ there's a pause ]

But Deu could fetch me and he's as normal a guy as you can get, so you'll be fine. Plus I don't really fall in the ocean that much.

[ he can use fire to propel him around so he's really not worried about this normally ]

[sharkgirl]

[she meant in the sense of like "i just have to make sure that you don't fall off and drown" but this is also like, reassuring, so.]

Yeah, okay. [a beat.] Anyway.

[nyeh.]

Wonder if I could figure out an actual sea dragon form... [squints...]

[selfimmolation]

Do you need to see a form before you can turn into it?

[ THINKING SPIDER MAN MEME goes here ]

We've got plenty of Sea Kings you can copy.

[sharkgirl]

I don't really do like, fake stuff, but - if they're not fake where you're from, I could manage it. I just gotta look at it and kinda rotate it in my brain.

[a beat.] Is that what a Sea King is? Like a sea dragon?

[selfimmolation]

Some of them. They come in kind of all versions, but they're all at least usually serpent shaped. Taste pretty good too.

[ thinking about food ... but no he shrugs ]

I've seen some dragon like and I've seen some that look almost like sea serpent cows. They vary.

[sharkgirl]

Oh, I gotta eat one. [immediately this is a priority] I changed my mind, eating one is the only way I can turn into one.

[selfimmolation]

Like I was going to let you go without trying it at least once! [ he's laughing. it's silly. ] It tastes pretty good just grilled, so we can do that whenever.

[ because they won't have a kitchen .... for a bit... ]

[sharkgirl]

Yessssss. [grinning!!]

Does it tire you out at all to use your fire? [curious again...]

[selfimmolation]

[ blinks and tilts his head ]

Eventually? If I'm going all out in a fight for a long time, but then that's more about being in a fight...[ which. he did for five days straight once. and then continued to pick more fights. ] It's not so much that I'm using fire, I am fire. It's why I could travel the ocean on Striker by myself and not have any issues.

[ he's a flame man.... ]

[sharkgirl]

[ohhhh, okay. that makes more sense to her, to explain it that way - he is fire, the way she's shifting. he just is the thing, it's just easier to say the shorthand.

she nods a bit.]

You are fire. [she echoes, thoughtfully.] Cool. Not to be nosy or whatever, I just gotta know the limits, right? You can know all mine. So we really got each other's backs in a fight.

[selfimmolation]

I don't mind. [ ruffles her hair again. he's being terrible. ] The big thing is water, but anything made out of seastone can hit me too. Marines make handcuff out of that stuff, and that neutralizes me together.