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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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Aye. Twenty thousand and one hundred. Thanks for understanding.

[Small pause of silence and just a quieter tone.] Indeed. When someone no longer cares about it... It's just that people often do care about their countries, no? And thus nearly immortal.

Si, si... I don't understand it, really, but whatever. I doubt Giappone will even ask me.

[She has her own pause for a few seconds] It... depends. People still remember the Roman Empire but when it collapsed, my Nonna went with it... I suppose it's because she had us, me and Venezia to take her place in Italia.

He stalks my conversations, so you never know.

Aye. It's not so much that they're forgotten, as replaced. The future keeps progressing forward I suppose.

... Strange. He doesn't seem like the type to do that if he's anything like Gia... Sakura.

Si... that's basically it. If we don't keep up we're left behind.

Oh? Well, he basically used to ah what's the word, "ship" me with someone. And now that we are close allies, I think he still sometimes gets worried; or he can't believe it. But it's cute, so I don't mind.

Yes. That's how the world works I suppose.

... 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.

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.

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.

... 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)

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.

They're 14. What is their world permanently stuck in the middle ages? 14 year olds shouldn't be having relationships.

...they predisposed to killing everything? What, are they German?

Yes. After 14 they go to other planets to explore and conquer.

Eh, humans tends to be pretty violent too Chiara. After all, how many have your people killed? This keeps their numbers a little saner.

....idiotic.

And we don't all need people to stop us from mindless killing. It's different.

How so?

Most people don't need to rely on others stopping them from going on killing sprees.

And if we're talking about me personally, I've only killed people who have harmed my people and land. I've done my duty as their nation.

Heh. I do. And I've known plenty of kids who need need a little extra help getting their rage under control.

Maybe that's just my world though, eh.

It is different. They don't need someone constantly, and only for that.

Mm... perhaps.

Oh... I don't know about that. It's basically the purest form of best friendship. That's just the responsibility that goes with it.

And what if they get tired. It is hard work being responsible for someone.

Of course it is. That's way they have someone likewise in charge of them.

Edited 2011-11-21 04:47 (UTC)

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