fierybluebird | 4th Wall Break Time!

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4th Wall Break Time!

[Wow, this is a lot of people. Marco gives up fighting his way through the crowd and just switches to hovering. Don't mind the half phoenix, half man above you, okay? He's relatively tame...ish. After flitting about for a little though, he gets tired of trying to spot everyone through the crowd.]

[He gives a sharp piercing whistle and yells out loudly:]

MARCO!

[One might wonder why he's calling his own name, but he's trying to see who will call back Polo. For science! Or you know, so he knows who will be interesting to go fly down to.]

[And later on, he'll be playing hopscotch, and that night he'll be hanging out on the roof of CH3 drinking and saying a toast to his father's memorial. Anyone care to join him?]

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Why not? [Seriously, he feels this is a good question.]

Because... it's complicated. Just trust me you won't regret it, eh? And even if all you do is talk to her a little at least you won't have wasted any time, eh? She has something in common with you and you have to meet her to find out what.

Because they aren't.

[Period. And he hates being social, haven't you picked up on that yet?]

I trust you. I still don't want to meet anyone. What's with everyone trying to make me meet more people!

[Grumble, grumble. Here he has an idea.]

Hn... I'm willing to meet her and that other person you mentioned. If you do something for me in exchange. And I don't mean meeting Kohaku, you can ignore her for all I care.

They could be.

Ah, all right, depends on what you want. And I want you to meet Leanne and Raven for their sake really, but you were saying?

I don't care for whose sake you want us to meet. I'll meet them if you write a letter to someone named Elicia.

An annoying rabbit thing has been bugging me about it. But if someone is going to bug me and make me meet people I prefer that being you rather than that rabbit or whatever it is.

[Basically you do his homework and he will do whatever you want.]

Elicia?

You mean Oswald?

Ahh... all right. So it's just a pen-pal thing, right?

Oswald, right, that was his name. He signed me up on that pen-pal thing without my permission, refuses to take me out and keeps bugging me about it. One day I'm going to just strangle him, I swear.

Okay, I'll cover your letter to Elicia. Should I write it pretending to be you, or does it just need to be a letter in general?

I don't know how Oswald keeps track of things but I guess pretending to be me is the best route. And in exchange I'll meet Leena and Raven.

[Yeah, he got the name of the first one wrong, excuse him.]

Leanne. She's a heron. Literally. She can switch back and forth like I can. And she sings.

But all right, sounds like a fair trade to me.

You really have a thing for birds, don't you? Anyway, will you give us a place to meet or should I search for them myself?

[He's fine with both, really.]

You'll have to search for them. Leanne lives just down the hall from me though, and Raven works at the smithy.

And aye, I love birds.

[ALL THE DEADPAN.] I don't know if you've noticed, but I kind of am one, eh.

I guess Raven will be the easier one to find.

[He's not going to go knock at someone's door to meet them. It's creepy.]

I keep forgetting and thinking that your intelligence is due taking too many hits to the head rather than having a bird brain.

[All the rude. That was supposed to be a joke, by the way, he actually thinks Marco is pretty clever and intelligent.]

[Snickers.]

Like hits even mean anything to us. Besides, do you think I'd go nuts every spring and roll around in flowers if I wasn't a little bird brained?

[Blinks and pauses.]

Wait.

You didn't see Ace film that did you? Damn. Never mind then.

Unless you get a little stir crazy in Spring too. In which case we can trade stories and share with the turtles. Freaking humans, eh. Always all "Oh that's so cute!" with no idea the brain chemistry involved. It's maddening, eh.

Then again Robin decided to date me for it, so I can't complain too much.

[Oookay, Ikki raises an eyebrow at that.]

You just made me wish I checked the journals more often. Was it broadcasted? I think I should be able to find it if I flip back the pages in the journal.

I can't say that I go crazy in Spring. But then again I honestly think my brain is too damaged for the chemistry to work as it should.

[At least he admits that.]

No. [He lies. It's really easy to find.]

That's a shame. Except not really. Going nuts just because it's spring is a pain in the ass. It wasn't so bad in the New World because I could just leave the island. Although, spring islands in spring always did make me a little intoxicated.

[He will totally be checking that later.]

Going nuts for any reason is a pain in the ass, period. I bet someone in your crew would say it was cute or something like that.

[He may not get nuts and he may go to check the video, but he's not going to go "awww cute" or anything like that at it. Losing full control of yourself, feeling intoxicated and prompted to do things you wouldn't or to do them more than you would... That's not a laughing matter, really and he gets that.]

Aye. Ace did. And a few others. Damned annoying, eh.

[He appreciates that man.]

I can tell. At least I can't complain when I get drunk and make embarrassing broadcasts, it's all my fault. But to do that without your permission isn't good.

[Pause.]

I still want to check on it though. Guess I can't beat curiosity after all.

It's really not that impressive.

[His blush says otherwise.]

I'm actually more worried what will happen this year. Now that I'm dating Robin.

You'll ditch her for a bunch of flowers to roll over, of course. I don't think she will hold it against you.

[Mating season, what's that.]

Ahah... No... Not so much...

[Drags a palm down his face.] More like I'll try to convince her to be the flowers with her hands devil fruit and --

[Clears his throat and looks away.]

I guess it'll just be me and the turtles.

I should have known eh, you don't hibernate either.

You don't look sleepy to me right now.

[Pause.]

I don't really get what you mean by wanting to roll over her hands. Your flames may not burn but that's going to hurt her.

It's the middle of the day and I'm outside getting sun. When it's cloudy it gets worse. And the shorter hours screw up my bird senses.

[Gulps. Nope nope, bright red now. And he clears his throat.]

She has...

She can...

It's not hands so much as that she can multiply any part of her she wants. And she can used them to make duplicates of herself or giant versions of things... and when she makes them disappear, flower petals briefly float. Like my sparkles? It's ah...

I'm just saying if I'm going to be rolling in flowers...

I wonder how I could even approach that to her...

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