Sometimes I think... maybe only phoenixes can get it. That's why...
This world gave me a lot more than I could have ever gotten otherwise. I wouldn't trade a single family member for anything, but there is a lot they can't understand either.
Back home...
Pops would want me to be happy. All of us. Ace too...
But I can't. Not because I'm stuck in the past, or scared of the future, but I can't be free. I'm trapped in trying to do things I can't, trying to be more than I am, trying to keep my family safe, cornered by enemies with everything important right behind me. I'll take all the damage. Everything. But it hurts. Losing them, not being able to stop it. I can't be everywhere, I can't protect my treasure.... ahhh... [He runs his hands down her shoulders just marveling in the simple beauty of the extra arms. He really loves her devil fruit. Like a safety net, flowers, and she can be in multiple places at once, watch over her nakama a bunch at once.]
I don't want to talk about this anymore. It sounds like I'm feeling sorry myself and I don't. I love my family. I'm honored, lucky to have so many and be the one they depend on, eh? But... [He takes a deep breath, breathing in her scent deeply and reassuring himself.] To love someone that much... I'd die for them, and this is a place I can still do something. Just by being here.
[He looks up into her eyes and gently places a kiss on her lips.] Even Ace isn't that happy here, but at least I can keep trying to make it easier on him, eh?
[And for all the Malnosso tortured people, experimented on them and left them to die only to force them to live again.... so far as Marco was concerned, it was still less than what the World Government, Vegapunk, Doflamingo, and so many others did. The Malnosso tortured for knowledge, the world government and pirates did it to break people.]
[February 3rd, Action]
Sometimes I think... maybe only phoenixes can get it. That's why...
This world gave me a lot more than I could have ever gotten otherwise. I wouldn't trade a single family member for anything, but there is a lot they can't understand either.
Back home...
Pops would want me to be happy. All of us. Ace too...
But I can't. Not because I'm stuck in the past, or scared of the future, but I can't be free. I'm trapped in trying to do things I can't, trying to be more than I am, trying to keep my family safe, cornered by enemies with everything important right behind me. I'll take all the damage. Everything. But it hurts. Losing them, not being able to stop it. I can't be everywhere, I can't protect my treasure.... ahhh... [He runs his hands down her shoulders just marveling in the simple beauty of the extra arms. He really loves her devil fruit. Like a safety net, flowers, and she can be in multiple places at once, watch over her nakama a bunch at once.]
I don't want to talk about this anymore. It sounds like I'm feeling sorry myself and I don't. I love my family. I'm honored, lucky to have so many and be the one they depend on, eh? But... [He takes a deep breath, breathing in her scent deeply and reassuring himself.] To love someone that much... I'd die for them, and this is a place I can still do something. Just by being here.
[He looks up into her eyes and gently places a kiss on her lips.] Even Ace isn't that happy here, but at least I can keep trying to make it easier on him, eh?
[And for all the Malnosso tortured people, experimented on them and left them to die only to force them to live again.... so far as Marco was concerned, it was still less than what the World Government, Vegapunk, Doflamingo, and so many others did. The Malnosso tortured for knowledge, the world government and pirates did it to break people.]