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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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...

[Why are you getting red, man.]

I'm familiar with how Robin powers work and look. Smoker spent a week or so face-palming five times at the same time thanks to that. It was... Entertaining.

But even if she can multiply any part of her body, won't it hurt her if you roll over said parts all the same? Your flames don't burn but still...

[Hi, my name's Ikki and my brain really can't relate sex with love.]

[/Sobs. He really doesn't know how to explain this.]

I'm saying there are other things she can do with it, eh? In sex. And kinky things. And it'll be spring. Spring isn't just flowers, it's... fuck. Just.

Never mind. I'll control it fine probably. Hell with my bad luck, the Malnosso will kidnap her all of spring so it won't matter.

[Nope, still bright red forever okay.]

[And here's when Ikki finally gets what Marco means... And doesn't take it well, in fact he frowns angrily.]

I thought you said you loved Robin! Why do you want to have sex with her?

[And he says the word with as much poison and disgust as he can.]

[Marco just stares in absolute confusion.]

You've lost me.

Usually that's when people have sex. When they love each other. Romantically.

Like hell they do.

[And he sounds all guarded and stubborn and probably very childish about it.]

I may have been a brat back then but I saw it, I heard it and I know what came after that. All that sex gave my mother was pain. All it brought to the mothers of all my half brothers was pain and death. Just because they had sex with that man and they got pregnant, he just got rid of them the moment he needed the children as canon fodder.

There was no love there. What people who love each other do is make love, not have sex.

[Guess who is convinced that "making love" is totally different from "having sex".]

Whoa.... hold on, eh? [Rests a hand on Ikki's forehead and gestures inside to the bar.]

Come on, let's grab some drinks from the bar and find a place to sit outside away from people, aye?

Making love is just what people call sex to make it sound less vulgar and more removed of lust. What you're describing... [He nicks about as many bottles as he and Ikki can get away with carrying and gestures to the teleporter. Less people by the beach.] That's not love, that's not even mutual sex, that's rape, all right? Making love is still sex, it's just got different connotations because of language. You know that, right?

[He just follows Marco, grabbing the bottles in silence and frowning and almost even pouting. You're going to fight twenty-two years of malformed ideas, on a very stubborn phoenix, that's not going to be easy.]

I know what rape is. I've seen that too and I will admit that it was worse than sex. But it was different. My mother brought him home, she was happy, she was willing. And the next morning she was alone, crying and... She couldn't think well.

[Crazy, is the word, but Ikki will never admit it even if he knows it's probably the only way to describe it.]

That's... still rape.

Or at least...

[Sighs and rubs the back of his neck. Because in his world, in his definition, if there are regrets, than it's wrong.] What they wanted was not the same.

[Opens a bottle and hands it to Ikki before opening one of his own.] Look, not every single partner I've had I was in love with. I'm a pirate, and I've had my share of wild times. But I wouldn't have sex with someone who'd regret it the next morning. That'd be belittling to myself. So if someone was going to have sex with me thinking that we'd run off and get married, I wouldn't sleep with them until they understood why that can't happen. Some guys might just sleep with a girl anyway and let them think whatever they want, but like I said, that'd be belittling to me. I don't want sex just for the sake of sex, and if the next morning the woman wakes up and regrets the night before, that's on me just as much as her because it means I messed up somewhere.

[ikki just takes the bottle and without really paying attention actually downs a full quarter of it in one go. This affects him more than he thinks and his frown remains in place even as Marco explains.]

And if they understood you wouldn't run off and get married the next day... Then you would have sex with them even if you don't love them?

[His tone isn't judgmental at least, it's just... Confused.]

I think it depends.

All right there's... my phoenix side, and then being a pirate. As a pirate I'm more inclined to say selfishness is fine as long as you can keep it enough in check to still protect your nakama, eh? But it can get out of hand. If a partner wanted more than I could give them, she'd be upset that I was only taking and not giving enough back. So I wouldn't get into that kind of relationship because it's not worth it. One night stands aren't that bad as far as I'm concerned; but only if both sides are on the same page. And if you end up with a kid, it shouldn't be a one-night stand, because no matter what you've done something more and there's responsibility that goes along with it.

[Snaps his fingers.] That's life that got made. Like Sophie. My friends all look after her, but her parents aren't even in Luceti anymore, but Sophie still is. I get it, eh? The parents might have been really in love and done their best and hoped as hard as they could that they'd stay here with Sophie to watch her grow up, but things happen. Here or another world, they could have died, or something else could have happened. But either way, that kid still exists. She's here and a sweet kid, but people have to look after her. So that's not a "one-night stand" thing. If here parents were here, they'd still look after her. Ideally, that's because of love. So already, you can't say sex never has anything to do with love.

People can have sex and not be in love. It's... physical and lust and it's not necessarily always bad. But if they're going to do that, they're still getting into something. If they want just sex and literally nothing else attached, they have to make sure nothing else happens. Both sides do. Openly and clearly. And there's still a small act of trust. [He runs a hand through his hair thinking back on one-night stands and the like.] I can't... most... women who'd die to protect their kids, they wouldn't let a man they didn't trust anywhere near those kids. It goes against instinct, eh? Look, aye... I've had sex without love. But if the woman was going to regret it, I wouldn't have. No way in hell. Because it's like amounting both of us to quick drug highs. And I'm more than that. I want more than that, I need more than that. I wouldn't let someone fuck me either if we were wanting different things in life or from each other.

[Ikki listens, still frowning, still looking confused, still drowning that bottle. He understands what Marco says, he understands the worlds and such but... It just doesn't make sense.]

Hn... I don't think I really get it, why would you want to have sex if you don't love them and you don't aim for kids?

[The only lust he knows is the one for blood and combat.]

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