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[It's Marco's voice, but somehow with a darker tint to it. And it looks like his hair's been dyed black? That's not the strangest change though. The tattoo on his chest is completely removed. There's a rough scar where it used to be though, it's not bleeding, but it's clearly still healing.]

Can you believe the arrogance of those fools? First they drag me away, then they removed my father's mark, and gave me a mockery of it. [Oh yeah. He's deadpan, but it doesn't take a lot of knowing Marco to recognize that he is thoroughly pissed off. More angry than he's ever openly shown in Luceti for that matter.] But the joke's on them, oh yes. [His eyes glitter darkly, burning blue for a second, as they might have done before.] Just because my healing is slowed here doesn't make me any less a phoenix. They can remove my tattoos and piercings but that's a simple thing to restore.

Watch and learn fools. Watch and learn.

[LUCKILY the next part is filtered away from kids ten and under, though no doubt many adults would have preferred not to see it either.]

[Marco props the book up on the edge of the fountain, and leans back to lowers his neck into the water and uses a knife to carve an old school manji symbol in it, line by line. Those familiar with the nazi swastika and not the manji symbol might confuse it for that. Marco doesn't make a sound however, but his blood is clearly revolting against the treatment, blue flames trying to battle the water, and the most they can do is hold back the damage. As he finishes, Marco smirks, grabs a bottle of blue ink from a broken pen and pulls out of the water to throw the ink into it. At that he lets out a feral sound, something like a loud crow's caw, and he shakes off the rest of the ink with a smirk, the skin already still stitching over his chest and trying to cover his neck, but hitting a barrier where it's inked.]

[He fiddles with the journal again to turn off the filter and grins.]

There. I don't know about you, but I feel better already! Now who wants to get on my good side and help me find some earrings?

[[ooc: Marco's returned from Mallynap in "evil" mode! He'll have black hair, be a lot more emo/depressed/dark, and comments will come from

evilfierybluebird and

fieryblackbird respectively!]]

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I did once. With the flag. This time, however, the flag was the one on my neck, not the roof. Although you're right, I should check on that too.

The flag is safe. Still standing in place and with empty jugs around it when I checked last time.

[Which was a few hours before you decided to put a blood show on the journals, Marco. Not that Ikki will say unless asked. And it's not as if he took it as a duty to make sure the place was safe and all while you weren't around.]

[That's okay, he saw through it anyway and gives Ikki a grin.]

Thank you, yoi. Do you really think I went overboard with this display then?

[He pauses and sighs.]

I think they took from you more than just the tattoo and earrings. To be precise, the mask you put on when dealing with others, specially with people who aren't like us. People who may not react positively to our raw selves, or something like that.

[Ikki has no real issue with it except for Kotomi's sake and because he's sure Marco won't appreciate it once he is "normal" again if something happens in which he traumatizes someone.]

[There's a genuine frown at that.] Raw, eh?

[That seemed apropos. He felt raw. Like he'd been scrubbed with acid and blades with no time to regenerate.]

Do you ever shed in spring?

Only ever since I got here.

[He doesn't really have feathers even if he raises his Cosmos and takes the form of a phoenix. And his Cloth's feathers are kind of metallic.]

Aye... Normally it is not such a problem in my world given that "spring" is just dependent on the islands.

[Annoyed sigh.]

You mentioned before how spring wasn't so annoying back there since you could stay on the ship or go to another island.

[Which reminds me... How would a raw-Marco be when spring starts to affect his behavior? Will he just be content with chirping and rolling around the fields?]

... Wait, so then you also shed even back at your world? How does that work? Unless you remain in your bird form the whole time.

Usually I just try to avoid it entirely.

[Hahaha no. He'll be back to normal before spring really hits him though. Raw!Marco would be uncute and more vampiric-like in a dark/seductive/weird way. It's uncute.]

I thought so, but you said it as if you knew you shed when spring comes, and not due the wings this place has given us.

Aye. It happens if I can't avoid it sometimes. Very irritating.

And unavoidable here, it would seem.

Even if you don't turn into your phoenix form?

[He just doesn't stop being confused about this.]

We shall see.

But that is what the Malnosso were experimenting with.

[That makes him pause and eye Marco before he sighs. So what, did they make him shed even the masquerade of his personality? It's all completely sick and pointless and he doesn't care if it's just some of the Malnosso or not, at the end they are all the same.]

Fine. You'll recover, and I'm sure your tattoo will come back on its own as well. If it doesn't we will carve in them an even bigger wound that what we're going to do once we have the chance.

[He points to his neck.] I got my tattoo back already, yoi.

[He just blinks.]

I meant the one on your chest.

The fake one they gave me to mock our symbol?

[That makes his eyes narrow as a frown comes to his face. Just to make sure, Ikki retraces the tattoo he has always seen on Marco's chest with a finger over his own.]

Before you were kidnapped the symbol of the crew that you always wore on your chest was this one. Not the one you have drawn on your neck.

[His eyes narrow.]

That's impossible. Why would it be anything different?

... Maybe you really shouldn't go check the flag until some time passes.

[Because the symbol in the flag is the same one Marco now claims to be fake.]

[His eyes narrow. Oh, he's replacing that mock flag all right. D:<]

Che... This is such a nuisance.

[If Marco touches the flag Ikki's killing him.]

It is, it also makes me wonder what other details have been altered. Though at least you're still you overall.

[OH HE IS. He replaces it by the time of his thread with Robin. OOPS.]

[And a sigh.] I don't even know how to tell the difference.

[He can count on getting a punch then. And having the flag replaced for the real one after that. With another punch and a "stay still!" for good measure.]

If you could it wouldn't be funny for them. Even we can't really tell until you start speaking, the hair could just be you deciding to go gothic due all the crap this place has thrown at you at once.

[Normal Marco appreciates that and will tell Ikki to get a tattoo.]

Hah. I did dye my hair after Thatch died and Ace left. Back in my world I mean.

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