[Video] In which phoenixes pirates and countries alike go exploring

[fierybluebird]

Did you know there's a bird of prey called a secretary bird for how ridiculous it looks? It's actually extremely dangerous though. Its legs are so powerful that rather than divebombing enemy like a falcon or eagle or strange bird pinky -- [Wait, what was that last one? Yeah screw your normal birds, One Piece has weird things as you might know from the rapahn.] -- Instead a secretary bird uses its wings for balance and kicks snakes to death. For fun since snakes are shitty prey. I always thought that was a pretty cool fighting style.

Speaking of birds of prey, can anyone tell me more about birds in their world? Or mythological ones? Phoenixes, dragons, rocs, thunderbirds, anything like that, eh?

We're about 2 days out of Discedo now, and I've decided to completely map out the lake for Kiku's map program, eh. There are plenty of explorers in my world, technically the first pirate king started out that way even. But I'm wondering about everyone else's explorers. Is the world you come from all explored? Who first ventured to those far unknown reaches? Come on, I'm sure at least some of you have that adventurer's blood in your veins, eh?

Oh, and everyone in Spero, don't forget Ace is captain!

Comments

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but sometimes they're late, so you have to plan ahead to be early. [Says the boy that was late to one of his own heists because the train was running late.]

[fierybluebird]

[Ouch.]

How do you plan ahead if they're late?

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Well they're usually only late by a few minutes when they are, so just don't take the train that would normally get you where you want to be with only seconds to spare-- take the one before that one instead.

[fierybluebird]

Oh, I see. Like a domino effect of time but with trains. [Nods.]

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

[fierybluebird]

Understood. Still, beats walking, eh. And if you miss your ship out of town... you're basically screwed.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Unless you're a really strong swimmer.

[fierybluebird]

There's seakings and storms.

I mean... Rayleigh might swim it, or some of the giants. But Silvers is kind of... a special case. He makes Shanks look like a two-bit poser.

[Making Silvers one of the very very few people in the world Marco might consider stronger than himself.]

Plus he kind of fails at steering ships. So it's that or get stuck on Sabaody all the time.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you don't want to be late then.

[fierybluebird]

You really don't. Not that I have that problem, wings and all, but still.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

That must come quite in handy.

[fierybluebird]

Always. There's only six devil fruit in my whole world that allow flying and I have the best.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Oh~? And what are the other ones?

[fierybluebird]

Hm. I think there's a guy in Alabasta with the falcon one.

Of course Golden Leo Shiki cheats because he can make inanimate objects float. And he's strong enough he can do it with entire chunks of islands, eh?

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

A falcon sounds pretty cool. I went to school with a guy that kept a pet hawk.

[fierybluebird]

[Mumbles.] Phoenixes are better...

Yeah? What did he do with it?

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

[A thoughtful frown.] I don't really know...

He used it like a carrier pigeon on one occasion, but I don't think I ever really heard an explanation for why he had it in the first place.

[Seriously. Thinking back on it now, I'm pretty sure that Watson was just a handy plot device. FAIL Gosho, fail.]

[fierybluebird]

I would think that'd be difficult to acquire. Unless your country uses everything except seagulls for that.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

He didn't get the hawk in Japan.

[fierybluebird]

So your town was basically full of weird imported birds? [Deadpan, but he's amused.]

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Ha. Guess so.

[fierybluebird]

This explains so much about why you attracted a phoenix.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Be... cause I know a lot of very strange and eccentric people? [Which is, really, probably the nicest thing that he could say about Hakuba.]

[fierybluebird]

Pretty much. Most people would get a little unnerved by it starting off like this.

[kurobakaitoukid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm pretty used to Hakuba doing weird and inexplicable things.