fierybluebird | Voice / Action for CH3 roof

[All right, this is not easy. Marco's a nervous wreck, so he goes pacing, and to find Chun-Li... who isn't home. After a few calls to her journal and looking around, he realizes she's gone home. Again. He greets the morning up on the roof of CH3, smokes a cigarette, and with the Whitebeard flag flying behind him, that's where he is when he makes a post.]

For those who knew her, Chun-Li's gone home. Luceti's lost a great teacher, but I know back in Hong Kong she'll teach kids how to fight and help police up her world. Say a prayer, light a candle, toll a bell, whatever your tradition is.

I have letters from her for Tenten, Spencer, Punzy, Lupin, and Robin. And one for the marine if you could take that to him Ikki?

For the rest of Luceti, I guess I have a question for you, though I guess I should explain with a story first. The first time Chun-Li left, it made me a lot braver. I realized I couldn't take my time for things I wanted. Here, and in my world, everything is fleeting. I'm the type who's not great at taking chances. My Pops and my brothers are great at it. But I always worry about the risks until the chance is gone. And the times I've taken a chance can really hurt, eh? Here I learned that it hurt more to miss those chances and get stuck wondering. Ace is always telling me to braver, to get stronger, and that encourages me a lot to be more like him. If your loved ones were here, are there chances they would tell you to take? Or do you think they'd remind you of the risks instead? [He's still a nervous wreck, but he's at least steady in his voice and more convicted in his decisions.]

[Filtered from Robin:]

To the Straw Hat crew, and those close to her, tomorrow's a special day for Robin, so I'd like to take her out just the two of us. Don't come looking, but I'll bring my journal if you need us.

And to the Straw Hat crew.... [Deep breath! He can do this!] Normally this would be something I'd ask her captain, but you are all just as much her family and so it affects you all too. I have something important to ask. I can do it here, or in person, but please get back to me before tomorrow.

[Filtered to Ace about 50%]
Shit I'm an idiot. Help.

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Nami, look.

It's...

A promise. [Gulps.] That no matter what happens, even if she goes home tomorrow, I won't forget, and I'll do whatever I can to make it work, whatever world we're in. She already knows that, but I want to make it official. And that definitely requires permission, eh?

Sorry.

[There's a long silence.

...but only because Nami is trolling him. That being said, she does have a serious question:]

If this proposal were happening at home, would you try luring her to your crew?

[A soft grin and he shakes his head.]

If she was the type I could lure away like that back home, I wouldn't be in love with her.

I had a lot of plans for how the crew, my family, would do things. To run the islands and some back up plans in case Pops went, but none of them can work now. The world is too different, and in some ways, maybe that's a good thing. I'm tired of rule of emperors. Of the politics involved, eh?

I want her to find the real history and reveal it to the world. That's something that will shake up the world in a good way. The way my Pops would have appreciated. In a way I can appreciate. And she can't do that staying with my crew.

No. She can't.

[She's thoughtful now. Tradition does have it that he needs to ask Luffy, she knows. But Luffy isn't here, and this place is a special case besides.

She still thinks it's utterly stupidly pointless for a marriage, though. But again, neither of them will listen to her opinion on the matter.]

Luffy would probably stare at you blankly and say he doesn't care, as long as you're not stealing his nakama. [Would he? It sounds like a Luffy thing to do, but he's surprised her often in the past.] You go home, we're back to being rivals on the sea again and the marriage has never taken place. If you can live with that, then that's your call.

I know, and I will.

I'm taking a gamble, Nami. Pops and Ace believe in Luffy, and so do I. But this is a bet to believe in myself. That's why it's so hard.

You don't believe in yourself...?

Believing in loved ones is a lot easier.

I can't let them down, so I don't, and I trust them not to let me down either. Trusting myself not to let me down though... aye, that's difficult.

You might want to work on that. I can't see Robin staying with someone who doesn't believe in himself for long.

...good luck

[And she cuts the feed.]

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And then I found lost tags at the bottom of my inbox

;) thanks for tagging it XDD

np!

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