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[Marco's voice starts off cheerfully enough.]

Hey everyone, I think I found the place where the cave-in for the train-thing is. The currents here are pretty weird so if we can get ... some ... strong swimmers then...

[He starts trailing off, obviously seeing something.] Pops...? [His voice is quiet, barely audible. It's not possible, he knows it's not, he watched the man die. So it's just like Luffy's food and an illusion. Has to be. But then it gets stronger.] POPS!! [He starts running, sandals hitting the wood of the deck.] Pops... [This time he just sounds anguished. And then suddenly there's a splash. Uh where did Marco go?]

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Is that how it sounded? I meant nothing of the sort.

[... As no one ever believes that. I WONDER WHY.]

You must be telling me to behave then, yeah?

[ Wow, Marco. Wow. Put ideas in his head, why don'cha! ]

Of course. Would I do anything but that?

[Pfft... Marco could write a book on how to creatively misbehave.]

I don't know, would you? You are a pirate and all.

[ Hong Kong has probably read that book already.... ]

I'm sure we just have an undeserved bad rap. [He's such a Liaaaar.]

Hey, I think you're pretty cool. But that's the dangerous part, yeah? Wanting to emulate you and all.

... He... that sounds insane. How can you be a ship with someone, it makes no sense. Sometimes... sometimes you have to wonder if they were isolated for too long...

Si, si...

[Chokes back his laugh.] It's short for relationship. The trolls do it too, although theirs is more sophisticated.

Aye. I have been known to lure people into a life of crime, eh.

But not me, because for some reason, you're encouraging me to be good. Right?

It still sounds stupid! If he means relationship, then why doesn't he say that... how can you even relationship someone with someone.

...How is there's more sophisticated they... sound like children, most times.

[Spreads his hands as if to say he would never ever have any thoughts to the contrary.]

But of course. [Why does that sound so unbelievable. Is it the French accent? Is it the piratical nature. Who can really say.]

I'm not even sure it's his word. He tends to borrow others.

They have quadrants to deal with friendship allegiances and feelings of hate or the need to balance each other out.

... Everyone does that now. Inghilterra started it.

That sounds overly complicated. If you are friends you are friends, if you hate people you hate people, and people who... mediate are just that.

Oh?

Eh, simple, but in human terms confusing. There's a lot of overlap and too much ambiguity I think. Take France and England. They've killed each other in this world, hate each other so much they drive each other to ridiculous heights, but at the same time have a special sort of bond that made them allies against you and Japan. In troll terms, that's a kismesis. Someone you live to hate, who makes you stronger with constant fighting, who you unleash extreme rage towards, and who you wouldn't actually permanently kill because sometimes all you have is each other. Love-hate.

Friendships are also complicated, there are so many types, and it's easy to be in love with a best friend, but ... For a troll moirail, they keep each other in check, and you never fall in love with yours because you need them to keep you from going on a killing rampage.

I'm probably explaining it badly, but I find it very useful.

I... it sounds strange though. Why does a relationship like... Francia and Inghilterra's need a name. It is who they are, si, but Spagna and Inghilterra do the same but Spagna feels no love for Inghilterra.

In fact most people are constantly fighting with Inghilterra. Even when they have alliances with her... him. Either one.

...and what if you have no one to fill all those things. Are they needed? Can you not be whole without all of them?

In troll society, everyone has a moirail, and by the time they're approximately fourteen in our years, they have to find a kismesis and matesprit, or they're deemed too dysfunctional to survive. Although that's changes what with their world being destroyed.

That's sort of too bad though. I'm pretty determined to do bad stuff, seems like.

Got your acts of mischief planned out already? Because if it's all just doodles of Japan and me having sex, I should probably give you some authenticity pointers, eh.

I can't turn down tips from a firsthand authority, now can I? They should be glad. Doodling like this keeps me from going out and doing it for myself. That kinda seems to terrify them.

Why is that anyway?

... So they get destroyed because they're not in a relationship, with two people at the same time. At the age of 14. And this is more sophisticated then a normal relationship?

[This tone says Marco are you craycray?]

Edited 2011-11-03 13:05 (UTC)

I don't know, really. Seems kinda backward to me.

The relationships have different purposes. For trolls there are two predominant emotions; pity and hate.

They don't have wars and learning to control the urge towards killing everything is what having a kismesis is all about.

Aye. It's not like they're all virgins.

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