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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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What do you mean you wouldn't be you then?

[Keiichi just assumes that healing was something Marco got after birth, or at least not for so long that it's definitively part of who he is.]

I am a phoenix. Who would I be were I not? What would that mean? My whole life would have been different. Would I have even met my father? Would I even have the piercings or tattoo? I would not have had the chance to have it removed the way it was by the Malnosso, so I would not have needed to return it so either.

Well, it's normal for kids to meet their parents, I don't think being this or that matters there.

[Here's someone who thinks the father part is literal.]

Still I guess that makes sense. I thought the healing thing came from some powers not from... Your species?

My father adopted me, so I would not have met him if not for being a pirate and phoenix. [This might be all lies. Because a) he's being a jerk and b) evil ~~and c) canon needs to explain this already.~~]

My species is my power.

What about-... Forget it.

[It doesn't matter anyway. Keiichi sighs.]

I'm going to assume you wouldn't do it without your power, pouring ink on such a wound doesn't sound like a good idea.

You sure you're not going to get poisoned or anything due that?

That would be impossible and I already checked for clean ink.

What do you mean clean ink. It being dirty or not wouldn't make it any more dangerous. Actually, wait a second, ink is ink! It's always dirty!!

[You don't make any sense man.]

Do not worry so much, it hardly entered my bloodstream, yoi.

Hardly.

[He just repeats that, yeah, no, you're crazy man. Crazy!]

It did not circulate.

Ah, good, that fixes everything.

[IT DOESN'T.]

It's still bad!!!

[Flipping tables here.]

[A chuckle.]

Why do you worry so? You do not even appear to like me much, so I doubt it is all for the benefit of my well-being.

This has nothing to do with liking someone or not, hurting yourself like that is bad even if you can heal yourself. Broadcasting it and doing it in a public place is even worse!!

I told you already there are people here who don't need to see others hurting themselves like that.

[And he's indeed very serious about it.]

[He folds his arms.] Who are you protecting from such a visage that is so incapable of protecting themselves?

What the... And how do you think can anyone protect themselves from such a spectacle?? By not looking? It's easier said than done, by the time they would realize what they are about to see it would be too late for it to not have consequences! Heck the shock may just make them unable to stop even if they wanted to!!

Truly? [Arches an eyebrow.]

How docile of a world do you come from that such a thing is so horrifying? Better that they learn the lesson now than out on the battlefield, I say.

[Keiichi just rolls his eyes, anger boiling inside of him as the other proves unable to just get the point. He sets his next reply on private, just in case.]

You have no idea what kind of world I come from or what kind of shit we both have had to go through. Just because I don't want more outside of a battlefield doesn't mean we don't know our "lessons" as you say.

[His tone is angry but calm, annoyance and disapproval laying right under the surface of it.]

I guess there is no point in arguing. You don't seem like the type of guy who gives a crap about what consequences his actions have or who gets hurt. I bet you would just laugh and enjoy the sight of a child having a mental breakdown and tearing apart her own throat in panic because the sight reminded her of things she has been trying to forget in order to live on, wouldn't you?

[His eyes narrow. That's not completely the case, no. He's pretty apathetic to the plight of other people around here, and he's pretty sure he did a perfectly fine job of keeping it from kids, but still... This clearly goes personal for the younger man.]

Let me ask once again, is there someone you are specifically protecting from that exact thing?

[His words are crisp, each one individualized and separate, just so that they are extra clear.]

If so, I will apologize. I believed myself to have taken enough precautions, but to protect one's loved ones or family from such a thing, I can, and do respect. However, if that is not the case, and this is merely based in a groundless fear and supposition: Get. Off. My. Back.

I will not apologize to those merely disturbed at the sight of this when I already locked it away from children, and you are clearly not a child.

I'm not protecting her. I already said that I can't protect her from something like that unless I lock her in her room without her journal and take turns with Ange to keep an eye on her. And I know I can't protect her completely from everything either, it's just...

[He sighs but his tone doesn't lift.]

You believed to have taken enough precautions? That's funny, I keep thinking the same every day about many things and yet I've enough experience that there's never "enough" with that. You're out in the open, do you at least realize how many things could have happened that made your filter useless?

[This kid...]

[He's a kid protecting an even smaller kid. And even warped and fucked up like this as he is, Marco really does feel a lot of sorrow on his behalf, despite still being brutal and cutting.]

You cannot protect her from everything, no. You cannot save her from seeing things, nor stop her from going out into those battlefields and wars.

What you must do, is help her to be as strong as she can before those things happen, and help to heal her after those things inevitably do.

Striving to prevent those things from occurring at all is impossible and a waste of your energy. A natural urge, aye, but useless.

I am sorry for worrying you, however. No children saw, I promise. I do not wish to have children around me this day, I am too raw and angry right now, but even I would never hurt a child. Not even accidentally. My father would be disappointed in such a thing.

[As if he doesn't know all that already. He knows too well how fucked up things can get even when everything seems to go the way one expects and how limited he is, both here and back in Hinamizawa. But he can't just give up, he can't just shrug at it and say "I can't do anything about it" when something happens, he can't prevent things from happening most of the time, but he can try to prevent them from repeating. One would say that then he should probably try to convince this guy to not hurt himself like that again, but honestly he sees no point there. Keiichi will just have hope that next time this guy will do it in his home or somewhere more secluded besides locking it.

There's a long pause on his end before he sighs deeply and it sounds just as if he has shifted whatever weight he's carrying. His tone is slightly less angry, or at least the anger is more drowned and not directed to Marco.]

I know all that. And she's strong, she can do many things without me protecting her, even if she's sent to a draft I bet she won't just crawl in a corner and cry. She will just set traps everywhere and ask for equipment for them and then trick a whole squad into falling in her traps and be defeated by an eleven years old kid.

[There's a faint ting of amusement as he clearly remembers something, though it's quite overshadowed.]

You know, if you had broad-casted yourself killing someone? That would have been better, even if you killed them in the most gruesome way, it would have been better. Because then it could be explained as you being some crazy evil guy and we could just say that everything will be fine so long as she doesn't get near you. But self-harming is far worse than that for us.

[Even if he's sure that Satoko doesn't remember, even if she hasn't seen them hurting themselves... He doesn't know if she ever saw it or experienced it before he arrived to Hinamizawa. And even if she didn't, there's no guarantee that she will remain oblivious and won't one day remember things as well.]

And why does the explanation that I am just some crazy evil guy no longer apply?

I am a pirate, and a phoenix besides, after all.

Because you hurt yourself. And you yourself have said that you're raw and angry right now.

[There's little difference between that and being on the verge of a level 5 outbreak.]

Look it's just that... No, forget it. Just next time try to do it at the lakes or at home, even if you still show it on the journals.

[A pause.]

Please.

I will make sure there is no next time.

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