Voice / Action for CH3 roof

[fierybluebird]

[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.

Comments

[fierybluebird]

Everyone needs a crew on the Grand Line.

Challenge, fame, money, it's all a type of power, eh?

[redjacketthief]

I've got one back home; A cool gunman, a latter-day samurai, and the trickiest babe that you'd ever meet.

...actually, she gets on pretty well with Robin, if that gives you a clue.

But...I never thought of it as power. It's a game, and the world is boring without something to liven things up.

[fierybluebird]

Latter-day samurai?

If she gets along with Robin, she must be nothing short of brilliant, and about as far from the law as anyone can get.

A game, eh? [Snorts softly. He does that too. Chess references in the middle of war, playfully deadpanning even up against lethal foes. But when it came to losing the islands, to losing nakama's lives? Too much was at stake.]

What's your view on revenge?

[redjacketthief]

There aren't many active samurai left in my world. Their hey-day was over a hundred years ago. And your right about my Fujiko-chan. She's a wild lady~

But yeah, it's totally a game. There's nothing much more fun than breaking everyone's rules. [Or taunting people when they got in his way. Or cheerfully having a gunfight with his friends.]

As for revenge? That's tricky...my only policy is that I don't like people who mess with my friends, and I'm not shy about letting anyone know.

[fierybluebird]

I see, we still have a few from Wano Island, but they don't leave that often.

Maybe I'll meet her sometime. [Lolnope, never gonna happen. As for breaking rules? Okay he gets that, but he's not about to admit he agrees on it.]

Hm. Protecting nakama is important, but you've never lost one then?

[redjacketthief]

[He chuckled on both counts. Rules aside, he had a feeling that he'd be terrified if Marco, Fujiko, and Robin all teamed up against him, and the fact that the Grand Line has samurai pleased him. At least something was obviously similar.]

Actually? No. We all can hold our own when the bullets start to fly. I have faith in them-- that's why we can shoot to kill eachother if it's called for.

[fierybluebird]

WHAT?!

[Oops. You lost him again Lupin. He's back to thinking you're the worst kind of pirate ever and that now at least Chun-Li's not around to point the finger at him for murder.]

[redjacketthief]

[He just grins in responce.]

We only do it because we know that we won't die.

[fierybluebird]

What kind of logic is that?! That's not trust that's just fucking insane!

[redjacketthief]

Maybe~

But, we're all the best at what we do, so we don't worry about it.

[fierybluebird]

We're the best too, we also aren't stupid enough to shoot each other.

[redjacketthief]

Eh. It depends on the situation~

You see, we're still thieves. If someone has a better job? We take it. That just means we end up working against eachother sometimes. [His tone was light--joking even, as if it were commonplace.]

It's just a professional hazard. Nothing personal.

[fierybluebird]

That's fucked up mate.

There is no trust in betrayal.

[redjacketthief]

Guess you pirates have different standards than my partners and I.

[fierybluebird]

There's an understatement. I can't imagine why you're proud of such a thing, however.

[redjacketthief]

Who said anything about pride? It's our job, and our life.

[fierybluebird]

And you take pride in neither?

[redjacketthief]

I guess I do. It's just fun!

[fierybluebird]

While I understand taking fun in life and one's job, betraying one another with the idea that "oh hey they're strong enough to survive so it's fine" hardly sounds like a game.

[redjacketthief]

Looks like we just have some different standards then.

[fierybluebird]

Don't say that like it's something so easy to adjust to.

I trust my family with everything, including each other's lives which are more important than my own, and apparently you and your friends just abuse that trust with each other and you say it only proves the depths? How am I supposed to respect that? I cannot.

[redjacketthief]

Who said I was asking for your respect, Mr. Bluebird? 'Different strokes for different folks'...or, don't you have that idiom on the Grand Line?

[fierybluebird]

I am all for accepting people as they are, but even I have limits.

I particularly don't want to hear that from someone who can't even handle the idea of okama.