Marco the Phoenix (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fierybluebird) wrote2013-01-26 11:31 am
fierybluebird) wrote2013-01-26 11:31 am
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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?]
[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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Right. Sophie's got the big wings that will be able to fly someday.
This really is a strange world, eh.
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[Yoh laughs at that. This one is just stranger... Or maybe worse because of the enclosure thing.]
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Everyone who hears stories about my home world usually calls it the strangest of all, so I guess it's just the familiarity thing, eh?
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What was your world like?
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Ah, I guess there's much less nature back there too, there are many big cities that are basically nothing but buildings like the ones we have here with apartments. Though there are small villages too. The air isn't as clean either, nor the water in rivers as clear unless you travel far and reach very hidden places.
[A pause, he says it all with a calm smile, almost as if he's enjoying remembering it all. He doesn't.]
There are many more machines than here, and in the cities there's often like a layer of grey color all over the place due the smoke from those machines. There are big places with lots of nature, though! Most of them are protected nowadays so they aren't destroyed to create new cities. And we have a very big ocean, eh... My world has the nickname of Blue Planet for a reason after all. Most of it is water, but there are huge amounts of land too.
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He composes himself and goes back to the silly carefree smile of always, but for a minute he was completely with his guard down mentally speaking.]
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What is Punk Hazard?
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Punk Hazard used to be an island. Now it's just destroyed. A world government scientist was trying to make a weapon and it blew up in his face.
I've heard there's more going on there lately, but in my time, it's just destroyed, eh.
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He keeps smiling and laughing calmly and care-freely though. Acting dumb like he knows.]
Humans in my world prefer it if their lives are easy and comfortable. They don't really care if there's no forest around or if the water is dirty and contaminated so long as they have concrete roads to walk on an even ground to not hurt their feet. And if they have warm water at any time of the day without having to watch out for how much is left. They don't care if their cities end filled with a grey, toxic smoke so long as they can use their cars to get somewhere without having to walk, even if it's just five hundred meters away from where they are. And they certainly don't worry about if tomorrow there won't be enough trees to keep the air clean and breathable, they are too busy with the today... Even if they have children who can do nothing but look for that tomorrow and wait for it.
[Terrible is a word he doesn't expect to heard from people when talking about his world, at least not from people who aren't shamans. But even so, it's actually quite an understatement. His world isn't terrible, it's sick, infected and it's dying a quick death that gets accelerated more and more each day.]
Ah... We has some of those too in my world. Not islands but regions of land, cities and their surrounded area, everything destroyed... Most of the time it's on purpose though, not an accident like that one.
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My world is pretty messed up. Enough that I love it here, but animals and humans live alongside each other. There were a few places that had a lot of problems, but those places are the heart of what's wrong with my world. Even Impel Down doesn't screw up the whole world, just tortures the pirates within it. Hell, even the World Government just claims they're trying to keep pirates from poisoning the rest of the world so that everyone else can live in peace.
A world with that much poison... I can't even imagine. Were you here when they had the treasure hunt? That grey city.... and a lot of your world was like that?
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None of that slips from his mouth though, he just smiles and shrugs lightly.]
Like that and worse. Remember the desert? There are very big areas that are nothing but desert by now. And I mean really big areas, big enough to fit more than a thousand of Lucetis. Deserts that aren't natural but the result of nature's exploitation by men's hands. Where nothing grows anymore and water lies hundreds of feet under tons of sand and ground. With villages scattered around it, with just a small bunch of habitants but who still fight to survive, with no education, with no route to escape from that village and reach somewhere else, with no protection against a blazing sun that fries your skin with a mere touch and that burns your eyes no matter what you try, with barely any food. And that's those who are lucky, those who aren't will have all that and be in the middle of a war zone on top of it between groups that don't care about them or about the land they are in, who will throw bombs and explosives to the area and damage the world even more, kill even more.
That grey city? That grey city is a heaven compared with most of the places in my world. And humans, the ones in my world at least, like it that way. They care not about what happens in the deserts even if they are at the same distance we're from the beach right now. They don't care about the sun getting angrier and more ferocious, setting flesh on fire and making eyes explode at certain areas of the world.
[He pauses, because even if he's still smiling and showing a carefree attitude and tone, his words are getting cruder and darker. He continues after a beat.]
Not all humans are like that, though. Many don't think it's alright to keep doing those things, to keep building cities and machines that poison the air. Many actually realize that it's killing the world itself. So they try to fix it, thanks to that we have several protected areas where nature is untouched and animals can live without being hunted... At least not legally.
[That doesn't stop humans from destroying those places though.]
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Are you serious??
That's terrible! I take it you're among those that are trying to fix it? How did all that happen?
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[Yoh chuckles an humorless laugh.]
You know, for the humans in my world, the world is like a plant your mother used to take care of, always watering it and talking with it, making sure it was always healthy and perfect... But you never saw her do those things because you were at school or playing around, all you know is that the plant is always there, that it gives pretty flowers from time to time, and that you don't need to do anything for it to do so. And then your mother dies and the plant is left at your care but because you were always busy you never learned how to take care of it, you don't even know that it needs to be taken care of, and thus you ignore it, expecting it to remain as always and give flowers when spring comes. And for a long time it does, although slowly it starts to take longer for the flowers to come and they last less time, and the green leaves look less green and bright, but it's a very gradual change, you eventually die and the plant is still there and your kids do the same as you did, which is nothing but ignore it, and so do your grandkids until eventually the plant finally dies. And by then... The people in charge of it don't even know why it's there or if it was important so they just throw it to the garbage and go out to get another plant and only then they will realize that the plant was special because it was the only one they could ever have.
They didn't let die the plant on purpose, but they take it for granted and forget that it needs to be taken care of, that there are things you mustn't do and things you must do... It's no one's fault, it's everybody's fault even those who have long since died.
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My world... doesn't really have schools except for the very rich, eh? So I guess that's why we don't get so busy that we miss out on these things. But I never thought that was a good thing, as much as an inequality before.
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[His tone is almost curious as if asking Marco to tell him more about the pirates of his world but without asking it directly.]
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A lot of pirates are just outcasts with no place left to go so they take to the freedom of the seas where the only rules to be obeyed are common sense and captain's orders. My Pops couldn't stand for the slavery that the government just turned a blind eye to so that their nobility could do whatever they wanted, so he told the world he took over Fishman Island so that we could protect it. He was best friends with the king and he told King Neptune that if any pirates like the one you described bothered the kingdom to send them our way so we could deal with them.
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[It's foolish to expect a world where there aren't conflicts or bad people, as horrible as it is, it's needed for balance.]
Mm, your father sounds like a good man, is he the captain of your crew?
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Aye, he was my captain as well as my father. He adopted all of us in his crew. His allies too.
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That's a very curious thing to do... He must have wanted a lot to have a family. Or his sense of loyalties is very particular.
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Say, what is it in your world that makes others say that it's very strange? Pirates like you are from fiction on my world, but I wouldn't say it's that strange.
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