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[fierybluebird]

[Marco appears to have nodded off on his communicator despite efforts to stay awake. It doesn't take long for him to completely jerk out of it, and seemingly out of nowhere kick a table into the wall, smashing it into firewood, and coursing blue flames down an arm.]

I'll get to it when I can! [Growling at no one, good for your insanity. But after a few blinks it comes back to him where he is and he shakes his head, expression as deadpan as ever as he puts on the flames and goes to turn on the communicator, only to find it already recording.]

I kind of broke the table. Sorry. I'll replace it or something. [Drags a palm down his face trying to figure out "what now."]

Hey Discedo, what would you say defines who you are? Who or what you choose to be? Your obligations, or to you is it just a birthright? Just curious.

[And with that he's slowly sneaking back over to the couch with his Pops' giant coat and curling up under it while he figures out how to turn off the video again.]

Comments

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Suit yourself.

Straw-hat...? Come to think of it, I think he did have a straw hat. And he was loud.

[fierybluebird]

Probably Luffy, in which case, yes. He's my crewmate's little brother.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, that sounds about right. Your world got a ton of pirates or somethin'?

[fierybluebird]

Yeah, pretty much. It was the Great Age of Pirates. Whitebeard's Era [A small pause and temporarily bites his lips as though he's not familiar with wording it that way, but knows he should be.] After the first pirate king told the world about One Piece and sent them searching for it to the end of the Grand Line.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, he didn't really understand most of that.]

Do pirates usually have kings?

[fierybluebird]

[S'all good. He didn't expect him to after all.]

It's not a king in the sense of a ruler. People started calling him that because he supposedly had everything a pirate could ever want. [Scoots out from under the jacket to go make sure Ace won't be hearing all this and makes himself green tea.]

Fame, power, wealth, biggest treasure in the world. And all the freedom even a pirate could want, eh.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lucky guy.

...Or not, judging by the past tense.

[fierybluebird]

I'm told Ds usually have inordinate amounts of luck, but I can definitely say that's not always true.

In Gol D. Roger's case, it's a tough call. He was dying from an illness before he even tried to take on the Grand Line. To do all that in only a few years, that's pretty impressive. Especially since no one did it before, or ever since.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

"Dees"...? Like the letter?

I see. Sounds impressive, though I have no idea what the "Grand Line" is.

[fierybluebird]

Right. It's a family name. Luffy and Ace are both Ds. Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Luffy.

The Grand Line is an ocean in my world. It's pretty treacherous, nearly impossible to navigate, millions of pirates die just trying to get through it.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

...Huh. [Sounds a bit familiar... but maybe he's just imagining things.] What's it stand for?

I didn't realize oceans were so dangerous.

[fierybluebird]

It's not what it stands for, it's what they do with it. "Will of the D," it's supposed to mean something drastic for the future. Someone with a strong willpower like that that can change the shape of the world.

Well, some more oceans are more dangerous than others. The Grand Line has hazards the other four oceans of my world don't, I'm told.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

...Hah. [He seems mildly amused by something, but doesn't say what.]

My world's got none, so I wouldn't know much about traversing them.

[fierybluebird]

[When Marco finds out his middle initial, oh he will pester him.]

No ocean at all? Seriously??

[church-man.livejournal.com]

[ufufufu.]

Seriously. It's all desert. A deathtrap.

[fierybluebird]

Huh. I mean there's a few desert islands, but it's still surrounded by ocean. How do you guys get enough rain?

[church-man.livejournal.com]

We don't. If not for the Plants, I'm sure we'd have all dried up long ago.

[fierybluebird]

[Of course thinks plants = green leafy things.]

What like cacti and things? But even they need rain don't they?

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Oi, not those kind of plants. Plants, like- uh. [Actually, how the hell do you describe a plant.] ...In any case, some of 'em were left intact after the Fall when people first crash landed on the planet. They can produce virtually anything needed for survival.

[fierybluebird]

So they can produce water?

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[fierybluebird]

Well, that's handy. But who runs/controls/operates them? Wouldn't that create a terrible amount of fighting for resources?

[church-man.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's far from paradise, on Gunsmoke.

[fierybluebird]

That's the name of the island?

I mean... world.

[church-man.livejournal.com]

That's right. It's morbidly fitting. There may not be oceans, but there's plenty of bullets. Toss that in with survival of the fittest, and it's bound to produce some monsters.