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toujoursfluer) wrote2013-09-17 02:52 pm
toujoursfluer) wrote2013-09-17 02:52 pm
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Log 17 [video]
[Robin looks quite serene today, though those who have known her will notice a certain glint in her eye that spells trouble. It is high time she gets one certain thing straight in her life]
Hello, Luceti, and new feathers. Welcome to our little town where you will both make wonderful friendships and suffer traumatically for making them. However, that's life, ne? It will all work out in the end. [after we break them in half like twigs]
Speaking of trauma, however, I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to kidnap a certain longnosed sniper, who is fond of elaborate stories but not so much of mushrooms. I was thinking a baited trap of some sort and briefly considered an arrow to the knee but that may be going a bit far. I do want to keep him around, after all.
[in other words, Usopp... 1, 2... Robin's coming for you. There is nowhere to run.]
Hello, Luceti, and new feathers. Welcome to our little town where you will both make wonderful friendships and suffer traumatically for making them. However, that's life, ne? It will all work out in the end. [after we break them in half like twigs]
Speaking of trauma, however, I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to kidnap a certain longnosed sniper, who is fond of elaborate stories but not so much of mushrooms. I was thinking a baited trap of some sort and briefly considered an arrow to the knee but that may be going a bit far. I do want to keep him around, after all.
[in other words, Usopp... 1, 2... Robin's coming for you. There is nowhere to run.]
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It's nothing. Just a game.
[and she whistles softly come sit with me?]
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[He is the manliest. You don't even know.] How are you holding up? [Gently tickles under her chin.]
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She's not interested in the conversation that answer will bring. No one seems to want to remember how it was. Or can remember. And looking at him now, she knows not even he is a constant. If he is sent home and returns, yes he might come to remember in time-- perhaps even resume how it is right now...
But if he returns from before Whitebeard died... would he really be so concerned? Or would his thoughts be toward home as they should be? She knows the answer, and doesn't blame him for it--yet at the same time it feels inevitable now.
She strokes his jaw lightly and smiles]
We may need a lot of rope if we want to keep our longnose-kun in the house.
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That can be arranged. We can rob all the shops of belts if nothing else.
[Sometimes he can't tell how much she's kidding. Most times, that just makes him love it even more. In this case, it's not that he thinks she isn't kidding, but he feels he better keep honing the point in.] Though I find it best to let their natural desires keep them coming, eh? What sort of things would keep your sniper's curiosity piqued?
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[she can think of all kinds of things, course. Little tricks and traps to keep him around but-- in cases like that, as soon as you stopped, the need vanished and so did the prey. She wants to kidnap him, (or at the very least tease him about it) just for fun--but the reality of the aftermath... She is selfish enough to want him to stay just because of her.]
It makes me want to be completely selfish...
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Maybe he just needs to know how much you want him around, eh? Mah, sometimes even you are like a wild bird. Not just a cassowary, but a robin. All I want do is build you a nest and keep you safe, but I know you need your freedom too.
[Kisses her cheek.] He will grow to love you again, because you are you, not because you're nakama. You don't need your captain to be the one who links you all together, eh. But I am sorry that it will hurt until then.
Until then, just trust him, eh?
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She should trust him. She should be connected to him. She is linked to him even if he doesn't know it. And she can protect him here a little. If not from the Malnosso than other things. She can protect his heart and his spirit but...]
He'll leave again... [and forget again. She swallows, and sucks in a soft breath, sitting up straighter] ...and will forget. And if you are sent back and...and taken from when Whitebeard is still alive--you will have forgotten, too.
[and even the people here who--who had been-- They had been a family-- had either left or seemed determined to forget what it had meant. As if feelings like that didn't matter. She wipes a tear from her face with the back of her hand, angry at it for even daring]
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[He pins her down, but in a warm blue hug.] You don't know that will happen. You fear it. Trust your nakama to be stronger than those fears. This ring, [Taps it with a finger where it is on her hand.] isn't just because I want to marry you, eh? It's my promise that even in our own world, I'll do my best no matter how many memories I forget to always remind you and always give you my best.
Besides, even if I came back here from Whitebeard's time, I'd want to romance you all over again. Even when I had the memories of over thirty years ago here, I wanted to sneak away and steal you for my own. To rescue you from your ivory tower and black thorns.
That ring is a promise that you can always steal me back. Because you would, whether intentionally or otherwise.
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But...She smooths a hand along his neck and wipes her eyes, looking at the ring shining in the light. It was a symbol just like Luffy's hat was--that they were bound together through more than just time and space and Malnosso...]
If I... [her voice breaks and she swallows] If they let me return...and I come back... and I've forgotten... Remind me, ne? Of...of everything...
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[In Marco's case, he doesn't care if everything is different. A chance to rewrite everything anew, no matter how different it is, is still an opportunity unlike any other as far as he's concerned. Perhaps it's a blessing from being a phoenix. Or a curse.]
I will. But I'll take my time and go at my own pace. Give your nakama a little bit of time too, eh? Even if you don't trust yourself to be as lovable as I know you are, you have to trust them.
And if all else fails, we'll just steal them back before they realize it, eh.
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I will.
[She rests in his arms a moment before nudging him aside and standing]
I need to clean and air out the rooms. Help me, ne?
[she wants them to feel welcomed when they do arrive. But also as if they belong here already. She wants it to be safe and warm like the decks and rooms of the Sunny...or the Merry.]
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If they do move back in here, do you want me to go back to the apartment until Luffy comes?
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Whatever you wish.
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You are never that, love.
[and her face flushes a bit at the sentiment]
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Then I'll stay.
[Beside, it was fun to troll her crew by convincing them that his being around was a perfectly normal thing.]
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Strip the beds, will you, Bird-chan? I might as well do laundry while I'm at it.
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