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[fierybluebird]

[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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[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

That wwas your giant lusus you kept tellin me about... right? [He looks up at Marco with understanding eyes. The best kind of sympathy a troll could offer.]

[fierybluebird]

Yes.... [Oh that's moe. Before Eridan can refuse him, Marco tugs him into a blue-winged hug.] He was my whole world. He taught me what it was to love or be strong.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

He's big-[gkjskdgj He kind of pouts, a hug is really pushing it but he won't say anything.] I didn't think people could get that big... only lusus and beasts.

[fierybluebird]

My Pops wasn't quite a giant, they're a hundred feet tall in my world, but aye, he was huge. Larger than life. And he was my lusus... but a kind one. All he ever wanted out of life was a family.

You may not believe this, but Ace and I are almost the runts of my family. Haruta is the smallest, but most of my brothers are two feet taller than me. Some are almost as tall as my Pops.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

You a runt? Are you joking? I had a hard time just keepin your face abovve the wwater.[Implying Marco is fat. Possibly.]

[fierybluebird]

[LMAO, Marco is pretty scrawny for as muscular guy. Fat wouldn't faze him, he's more likely to be called a scrawny chicken as an insult.]

Hah... yeah... my brothers are sometimes three or four times my size. Even Namur and Vista are almost twice as big as me.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

Wwhat.[ERIDAN is genuinely shocked. Like, look at his slack jaw Marco!!! In his mind, he's trying to stack Marco ontop of another Marco just to picture the size of Marco's brothers. Oh god. This just makes him feel teeny and insignificant in this big vast world.

he is but an ant in the universe's collateral melting pot.]

[fierybluebird]

Yeah, I guess that's not as common in other worlds but man... you should see Little Oars Jr. He's the size of a small mountain. [Laughs and then loses all that cheer and shivers. A) it's cold and wet and b) he just realized now they might indeed find Little Oars Jr's corpse. And that would suck.]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

...Hey Marco, it's going to be okay. I mean, these bodies... they can't be real.

[fierybluebird]

Yeah... of course.

[But he looks troubled nonetheless.]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

Look, I knoww this because there isn't any wway the body I found of my owwn lusus earlier could havve been him. I wwas there wwhen he died, he didn't die from a harpoon.

[fierybluebird]

You found your lusus too?

FUCK. I hate this place right now. What is the point of this? Just to fuck with our heads?!

[As a pirate, it's not like Marco has clean language, but he does usually refrain from swearing that much. It's a mark of how frustrated he really is.]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

To get our guard dowwn. Luckily for them, I'm not. Exactly fazed by his body. I mean, he was crushed by a meteor and in pain...

[fierybluebird]

[Winces and tightens a one-armed wing-hug on Eridan's shoulders reflexively.]

Yeah... definitely not real.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

Plus, Marco. I don't think anythin here could havve killed your lusus. He's quite large and wwould go unchallenged around here, naturally.

[fierybluebird]

I suppose... that's how he was when he died though.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[Eridan sighs a little, and glimpses up at Marco. Had he been anything but a troll, it might have been some sort of sympathy. But instead it's just his own little warning before punching Marco in the arm.] Stupid... if wwhat I knoww about human lusus are true, he wwouldn't havve wwanted you to drowwn yourself!

[fierybluebird]

Yeah yeah... I know. [Switches the hug to leaning on Eridan's head -- careful of the horns.]

I wasn't thinking. Sorry for worrying you matey.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

...so you can't swwim?[dkgdkfj He is not a handrest!!! Rude!!!]

[fierybluebird]

Not at all. I'm a phoenix. Flames don't burn well in water, eh.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

Eh. I alwways wwondered if it wwas a univversal thing if land dwwellers can't swwim

[fierybluebird]

Of course not. I'm not a landlubber. I just had to give up swimming for flying and near immortality.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

wwell by land dwwellers you knoww i mean people wwho cant livve underwwater

[fierybluebird]

I can live in the air. Mostly. [Sticks his tongue out.] Besides I've been to Fishman Island plenty of times.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

Air breather. [Scoffs a little.] I can live underwwater, you knoww.