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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[At the first part Marco grins wryly and nods. It's completely true and that's all there is to say about that.]

[He settles down to listen, and reflects over it a bit. Honestly, it sounded like Ace. Ace was dumb enough to tell everyone to get out of Marineford and go live a normal life without him, completely forgetting that they were only there because they chose to be and they weren't going to be happy without him. Idiot.]

[Marco reaches over and ruffles Ikki's head again as reassuringly as possible.]

People with that much guilt are a pain in the ass to deal with, eh? Especially if you love or need them.

[Ikki shakes his head though even if he initially accepts the ruffle, another head pat or something similar and he will start thinking Marco is definitively treating him like a little brother.]

Don't get me wrong, I hate her and I don't need her. None of us actually really like her that much, though I suppose Seiya had finally grown up past the stage of pulling hair. He's probably the only one that comes close to love her. I suppose Shun also has come to like her, but that kid likes basically anyone or at least is polite enough to stand them all... No, I wouldn't say any of us, with one possible exception, love her or care her as a person.

But she's Athena, she has proved that, and despite her background in our lives, Athena as a goddess is... At least she doesn't aim to kill humanity.

[Ikki is reticent to claim that she's really good, but that's due his personal beliefs.]

But as I said, protecting her is all we have. And even if we had a chance to have a normal live... What's the use of it if in a few days the world gets destroyed because her Majesty couldn't protect her own ass? So we ignore her claims and guilt of convenience, because honestly, if she was really guilty, if she really wanted us to have normal lives and was sorry, she could have done much more far earlier than she did. But she didn't. You can't rip someone away from a normal life, force them into another one and then try to discard them back to the normal life depending on if you want to have your conscience clean or not.

And you never told her any of this yourself or does she just not listen?

She doesn't think and listening to others that weren't her "lovely" grandfather was never a skill she could brag about.

Sounds a little like Ace when he first joined us. It took him forever to grow out of it more, eh.

Maybe Athena will too eventually.

... To be frank, at times I doubt we really know or have ever seen Athena. It's just Saori all over the place trying to act as the goddess she's supposed to be.

[He grimaces at the thought.]

While it's clear that she is Athena and has her Cosmos and all. I don't think the person acting most of the time is really Athena, she has never transmitted the same feeling as her Cosmos does when she talks or acts most of the time.

So rather than grow up, she should just stop playing pretend and become the real Athena completely.

What if she doesn't know how to do that? Maybe that's why she tried to send you all away, because she figured she wasn't capable, eh.

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