toujoursfluer | Log 003 [Video/Action]

Log 003 [Video/Action]

[Have an image of Robin, sitting at her desk, her cheek propped up on her hand as she smiles faintly into the camera.]

Well then, it seems that Luffy has returned home. So be prepared to have things be quieter than normal. Maybe he will return here one day and maybe he won't.

[She hopes for the latter. He belongs on the sea. In the New World. Not here in this landlocked experiment. This prison. A second chance at life or not, they are all just puppets here and anyone who leaves, Robin feels, will be better off. Especially her captain.]

I am sure we will all miss him. [Because there is that, too. She will, and she knows her nakama will, but partings are always the hardest.] But perhaps this is for the best, ne?

[OOC: Robin will be hanging around house 6 for most of the day though eventually she will go for an hour or two for the library. Feel free to spot her either place]

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

He has? I'm sorry, he'll be missed.

Mm. I don't doubt. Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be much of a comfort. [She was never particularly good at that sort of thing]

It is. [She rests her chin on her fist]

What sort of world do you come from? Earth?

He will be. But I would rather he be missed than he be here.

Edited 2012-07-15 04:15 (UTC)

I guess at least there's not many of us around to be hurt by this right now.

[...]

It's for the best anyway. I'm going out.

[She almost wishes you would stay. There aren't many of them around? It's true, but it hurts to hear and she wonders if they will all be pulled away in the end]

Take care.

[That is a little uncomfortable, so she will shift her leg away but rest it against yours lightly, liking the contact if nothing else. It's warm]

Luffy is gone. [And she should be happier than she is now]

...it's not that different from your's, when you get down to the details. There's no all encompassing ocean, but there's criminals and law officials...and the governments can be quite corrupt. We have no cool powers or anything that special, just our minds. That's all we bring.

I miss the freedom of it. I miss the open road.

Cool powers are worth very little if keen minds aren't behind them. [Though she shares his sentiment. His longing. And despite the few good times she's had here, there is nothing better than home]

Well, then, I hope you're able to return soon.

I hope the same for you. [He did, truly. She belonged on the sea with Luffy and whatever it was that they were after. 'One Piece.' He was slowly getting details from Smoker, but it was a long time coming.]

Take care of yourself and your friends until then, and good luck.

Same to you, Thief-san. [And gives him a faint smile before closing the journal]

Ah.

[Gently leans his leg back, just keeping in contact this time, and he gives a birdie head tilt trying to read her face. Not that such a thing has ever been easy with Robin.]

I'm sorry. [He wants to say something comforting, but anything he knows about her captain she surely knows better. Still, at first she hadn't seemed too bothered, but then, no matter how bothered she was, she wouldn't want to broadcast it to the world. He rests a warm blue hand over one of hers as comfortingly as he can.]

He's more than a captain, eh? [And that was definitely something Marco could understand. Luffy wasn't their father, but he was definitely their nakama, and their friend. He gives her a questioning glance, trying to get her to talk, or at least give her room to.]

[She takes her hand away. It's not the kind of comfort she's used to and it feels patronizing even though she knows he doesn't mean it that way. She gives him a cold look at the question]

Is it really necessary to ask that? [She can't explain what Luffy is and he should know. Because he knows Luffy. So he should know. But she isn't angry, at least not at him and tries to show it by nudging her leg against his, hopes he understands. She can't hold hands now. She can't treat this as if this were a tragedy]

It's for the best. He doesn't deserve to be trapped here. [And her voice is still hard]

[He wants to fidget, restlessness wanting to take a physical form, but instead he stays still, like a wary bird waiting for cues.]

It's natural to want the best for nakama, to want their joy and happiness. So it's great you want that for Luffy. But do you really think he'd want to be back there without you guys?

[A good captain protects the crew no matter what. Goes down with the ship and sees everyone else to safety long before seeking it himself.]

[Marco freezes even more and shakes his head. Perhaps that was too much. Robbing the Straw Hats of the biggest comfort they might find in having him gone was just cruel, and certainly not how he meant it.]

I'm sorry I don't mean that he doesn't deserve freedom, he does. So do you, and Ace, and Sabo, and everyone here.

But freedom is also the right to choose. And if he could, if the Malnosso didn't rob him of that choice, do you still think he'd leave? [Leave his crew to face troubles without him? Leave Ace and Sabo even though he can never see them again?]

[Marco's tense and he hates this. Lying to protect her isn't going to protect her, he doesn't like seeing her hurt and almost in denial about why, and he's still just avoiding having this conversation even worse with Ace when he gets home. He moves to get up, not sure Robin would really want him around after all this.] Sometimes the hardest part of trusting nakama is letting them throw themselves into danger, because if you don't, you're taking away their freedom, and that which makes them who they are.

[And Marco knew that better than anyone. Especially after Ace. Even in the war of Marineford they couldn't get Ace's little brother to just stay someplace safe. They couldn't get him to step back or stop being rash. The most they could do was keep supporting him, just like with Little Oars Jr.]

[No, she doesn't like it. Even though she knows what he says is true. The truth is the truth regardless of how much it hurts. He would return here for their sake, if he could. And there are others here who care for him as well. Is it selfish to think it's good he's gone? Is it selfish to wish him to return? She can't be sure.The answer seems to be both yes and no.]

The point is moot. He has no choice. None of us have any choice. [And that is the hardest truth of all] Luffy can return or never return. And when he does they can manipulate him how they will, manipulate us, tear us apart, stitch us back together. There is nothing to be done but to regret and--

[She presses her lips closed. This is fruitless. There is nothing he can do. Nothing anyone can do. She lifts her book, as if she is reading]

I'm sure Firefist-san needs your company more than I.

[He does want to leave, especially before he can say something that gets her to stop talking to him for a long time, or gets him into a fight. But he doesn't want to leave like that. Not while she's so obviously hurting, and not on those words. His eyes narrow at the last part before her dismissal.]

Regret? What is there to regret?

[She sighs and sets the book down, but it's a moment before she answers. The answer is foolish and she knows it isn't right but at the same time--how can she help but feel it?]

That I'm not strong enough to do anything about it.

[He can't help but tremble at that. Hearing the same thing he feels. But I'm not Pops. I'm not world's strongest, I don't want to be.

Whether he should or not, there's not enough willpower in the world to stop him from turning back and instantly giving her a protective hug around the shoulders. Not because she needed him to, she definitely didn't. But just because he wanted to hug her for saying something he felt and could never voice aloud. Something he would never let himself voice out loud. For the very fear that in so doing his brothers would worry. And if they worried, he'd worry even more, so it'd just be a downwards spiral.]

[He's extra quiet when he speaks up, and not just because they're in the library.]

Even the world's strongest have troubles sometimes. If your captain was here now, what would he want you to do while you're here?

Yes, it probably is for the best. Although knowing him, I doubt he's happy he made it home without his crew.

[In the evening, there will come a timid knock on Robin's door.]

[Robin is faintly startled at the sound. There is a book open but she hasn't been reading, just staring into the dark panes of her window and thinking. Remembering. She blinks and shifts a little at the sound]

Come in.

He won't remember we are here.

I don't know, we are talking about Luffy aren't we? For the time that I've known him I wouldn't say he tends to follow the rules all that often.

Edited 2012-07-16 23:05 (UTC)

Perhaps. But I hope he doesn't remember because there is no cause to. We are here and he is there and there is nothing that can be done.

Well, until then, let me know if there's anything we can do for you guys.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Page 3 of 4

Log 003 [Video/Action]

[Voice]

no subject

no subject

[Voice]

no subject

no subject

[Action]

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

[Action]

[Action]

[Action]

[Action]

[Action]

[Action]

[Action]

[Voice]

[action] - much later

[action]

[Voice]

[Voice]

[Voice]

Re: [Voice]