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[Appointment Post / Voicemail]

[Voice]
Hey, couldn't get to the comm right away, probably out kicking things. Since that doesn't last long, leave me a message and I'll get back to you as fast as I can, eh?

[Text]
Have a haiku.

There was a bluebird
Who was too busy for you
Leave me a message

[ooc: This post is a catch-all for threads that have to happen between posts. Start off with the Date & whether it's text/video in the comment bar and leave the IC message below.]

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[RIGHT. Totally a joke. He knows that. Maybe. After Japan hangs up, Marco just laughs softly to himself. Maybe he's really rubbing off too much after all.]

{At first he can't help but to laugh at all of this, the song is just... so ridiculously shitty and man Marco is just turning a bunch of shades of red he's never seen before.

But it was just a joke. That's all... or so he tried to tell himself.}

Huh, I don't know, maybe I should bow out and admit defeat. I don't know if I can top this one.

{Is he serious? WHO KNOWS! He sounds like he's got a laugh in his voice though.}

[Freezes when he realizes. Mentally keysmashes. Takes a few calming breaths and switches to video.]

Ace. [Oh he must be serious. Using his name. He's relieved Ace is laughing but he can't figure out how serious Ace is and that's part of what is driving him nuts. How can he delicately ask?]

Hey switch to video, I wanna see your shining face, eh?

{Hesitating, hesitating. He had to figure out if this was bothering him or not. He didn't want to make the wrong face and have you asking questions he couldn't answer after all.

But eventually the feed clicks on and he's raising his brows. But he seems alright.} I don't really shine. Sorry to disappoint.

You're always a star to me firefly.

What do you want from this world? Let's say, the scientists can't send me back until I decide to go and I find a way to make them let you stay until you're old and sick of this place. If I could give you at least that, what would you want to do with it?

{His brows furrow softly. This again? He cast his eyes off as if he's bored but Marco's words reach him and his expression softens. What does he want?}

I've been sick of this place for years but it doesn't matter.

{He sighed.} What I really want? I just want to live. This world... they've never heard of a Pirate King, they don't know anything like that so they can't condemn me for being who I am. I just--

I don't know. It's not the same as home but at least here I won't die because of my potential. And to be honest, I don't want to follow in his footsteps. Why do you think I wanted Luffy or Pops to have been Pirate King?

Maybe here I can be known for being me. Because here, the name Gol D. Roger mean nothing. But this place is such a mess, I don't think any of us can fix it and I don't want to be the King of dirt. I don't want to be responsible for all the lives in this world when there's no way to control what happens to them, or who is punished by being trapped here.

I'll help others to survive, I'll what I can but, I'm just one man. I can't fix this world. I don't even think the Scientists have come to terms with the fact that no matter how many people they bring here it will never get better. We're stuck and we can only make the best of it in any way we can until the Scientists get their heads out of their asses.

Freckles, I've known you for what? 4 years? 5 maybe? [Sighs.]

"King" of anything, is just a title. I don't want it. [Small wrenched gut look and steadies his voice.] I don't even want to be a pirate emperor, eh? That's not what I was asking. If your ambition is a city or the world, of course I'll help you, but I'm never going to tell you what will make you happy. I just want to see it through, eh? That is what I want. Your happiness. I can't bring back Luffy and I can't take you home, I'd love to, you know that. If I could, you wouldn't have to ask.

Fix the world, don't fix the world. I don't care. I want to know what will make you happy. Whether it's finding a woman and having kids, becoming king of your city, exploring this whole damn world and marking it as Pops' territory on a lark, anything like that. We all know the things we can't have, but that doesn't mean nothing else is worth doing.

[As for Gol D. Roger, Marco knows it bothers Ace, but he can tell him a hundred times the only one who matters is Whitebeard and yet it'll still haunt Ace. So he doesn't try this time. Ace will figure it out, or he won't. But so far as Marco is concerned, Pops was his Dad the minute Ace agree to it and nothing that came before or after changes that.]

It's no different here is it? I've always wondered why I was even born in our world and I don't even know why I'm still here either. I've always wanted to just make my own way, but since coming here, I've lost it...

I don't know what I want or what I should do. I just keep drifting hoping that someone will need me and that I won't be forgotten. I dread the day you all go home and I'm left here... alone.

Or I go home to disappear forever. Left in the memory of our world as the Son of the Pirate King. Cause, lets face it Marco, no matter how much I kick, scream and fight to convince everyone that Whitebeard is my father, there's no changing what Sengoku did to me. No one will believe otherwise, all they'll see is what's in my blood. They don't care what Pops has meant to me or otherwise.

I shouldn't care about what people think. But... the fact of the matter is I do. I've been fighting them since I was born. Struggling to live in a world that wanted to see me dead before I was old enough to sail.

{He sighed.} Despite how much of a shit hole this place is, at least I don't have to deal with that, so in the end I'm better off here. But hell if I know what I should do with this life if I'm going to be trapped here till I'm old and grey. What can I do?

{Wow this got depressing fast.}

I need you. And if I have to fight several dozen worlds to show you that you're Pops son, my nakama, I always will.

You're Fire-Fist. You can do just about anything you want kiddo. You've done things I would have sworn were completely impossible. You made a straw hat for Little Oars Jr just because you wanted to. You brought in Doma when none of us could talk to him. You made it that no matter what anyone thought of lineage and bullshit, they all remember your echo about Pops' era. You want to know what you can do? You're the only person I trust to do what's needed. What is that? I don't know. I'm no good at this. But I know you're smart enough to figure it out.

You know, I've always admired you kid, always. Do you really think you're going to let different world placement trap you anywhere? Do what you want to. You can do just about anything. Start a new adventure. Fuck the past for now, the only impact it has is what you let it have. Don't become the pirate king unless you want it. And you don't have to take responsibility for people you don't trust. But there are people here who trust you, eh? And always will.

If you don't know what you want to do, get out there and find it. Talk to people and figure out how you can cheer them up or make it easier or get them to stick together. That's the Ace I know and love. And if you don't think you're up to the task, that's okay. Japan, even Seifer, and I will all back you up one hundred percent of the way.

Although if you're going to tell me you want to be a farmer, I'm going to try to kick some sense into you. [Obviously joking.]

... {He's listening even if he can't quite look you in the eye right now. For a moment he closes his eyes and sighs, seeming to accept what you say. It seems in his tone and gaze that he's found some sort of peace in all of this but one fact still remains.}

I can't help but feel like... the weight of this world has fallen upon my shoulders and I'm not so sure I can be the one to carry it. I'm not ready yet but I feel like I have to be. I'm one of the last ones to survive this place for so long that can, or will take initiative to do something. And we both know that no one really wants Denmark to take over. Though I can't deny he's probably made the most progress I've seen in a long time.

I don't know... maybe-- I mean something needs to be done. We're all kind of lost like this and with so many people gone who kept everything going, like water or supplies or... damn near everything, we have to build up again from scratch for any new people.

I'm not going to lie that I'm worried about how we'll keep going here in Spero, if we should stay, if Discedo is inhabitable again, should we go back? I've been trying to work all this out while fixing up the Hardy. Someone's got to make a decision it may as well be me.

I brought these people here. They're my responsibility. I'm the Captain now which means I gotto take charge. I have yet to see anyone else try.

That's right, you're the captain. And you are the only one who can do somethings. I don't want to burden you Ace. If I could I'd take all that weight off you, but you're strong enough that you don't need that from me, eh? I'll just help wherever I can.

Time to face it. If we don't want to rely on the scientists for things, then maybe we should take over places that have them, eh? As for going back to Discedo, or staying in Spero, your call. But don't move everyone to Discedo until Japan and I get back because I don't promise we'll be in perfect condition.

Besides, the people here have never seen the New World. They think earthquakes and volcanoes are the end of everything, they don't know how to keep surviving beyond that. Show them. I know you can.

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