I fail. You're welcome. LOOK MA, NO ACE!
Title: Impulse Break
Words: 432
Rating: G
Prompts: Smoker & Sengoku, Snap
Warnings: Weird. A hint of nice!Sengoku as well, because he's doing all this shit for Justice, y'know~? Oh, and a title which probably won't make sense to you, but does to me. :3
Summary: Sengoku reflects; because Smoker hasn't snapped yet, but he will.
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Commodore Smoker, Sengoku knows, is the type of Marine who snaps.
Some Marines don't care about their work, knuckling down and following orders for pay and a steady job. Others believe in the truth and purity of Abssolute Justice, the harsh necessity which regrets that sometimes, innocents must fall to make a better world.
Some Marines revel in the power and prestige their career brings them, and some of those try to gain more by forgetting their duty, turning traitor - Sengoku deals with that sort swiftly and mercilessly when they are rooted out (unless, of course, they are more useful left alone).
Some Marines... some Marines are like Garp and his ilk. They don't believe in Absolute Justice, but they'll obey their directives, except when they think he won't find out, and then they let a slip of their own type of Justice shine through, until they go back to being Good Little Marines, heads ducked down. The Fleet Admiral mostly turns a blind eye - unquestioning obedience is all well and good in the lower ranks, but you need something more to be a good officer, and as long as it isn't outright rebellion, he can let a few incidents slide for the good of morale.
But Smoker... Commodore Smoker is the type of Marine who snaps.
He doesn't bend - he's too rigid, inflexible for that. Doesn't adapt well to things outside his worldview. He breaks, instead, with enough well-placed blows, and Sengoku hates that type - the ones with their own view of Justice, arrogant to the extreme, and combined with an assertiveness which thinks nothing of striking out on their own volition.
They carry on, obeying their orders with only an occasional slip-up, and finally, finally they're pushed too far by an order, or an incident, or... and then, next thing you know, they've snapped. Broken. Next thing you know, they're someone like X Drake, denying Absolute Justice and following their own path. Suddenly you've lost a promising, valuable Marine - and sometimes their crew with them - and you've got a new problem to deal with, a new pirate or Revolutionary or terrorist because they never just quietly retire.
It's not always the quiet ones. Sometimes it's the ones who are too damn loud.
Sengoku sighs, rubs his head, and signs Commodore Smoker's promotion to Rear Admiral, for actions above and beyond at Marineford. Because much as he knows doing such a thing will bring the day they lose him that much closer, there's a part of him that would rather see someone break than wither.
Edit: WELCOME ALWAYS HAD AN 'L'. *goes back to hiding* >_>
Words: 432
Rating: G
Prompts: Smoker & Sengoku, Snap
Warnings: Weird. A hint of nice!Sengoku as well, because he's doing all this shit for Justice, y'know~? Oh, and a title which probably won't make sense to you, but does to me. :3
Summary: Sengoku reflects; because Smoker hasn't snapped yet, but he will.
-~-
Commodore Smoker, Sengoku knows, is the type of Marine who snaps.
Some Marines don't care about their work, knuckling down and following orders for pay and a steady job. Others believe in the truth and purity of Abssolute Justice, the harsh necessity which regrets that sometimes, innocents must fall to make a better world.
Some Marines revel in the power and prestige their career brings them, and some of those try to gain more by forgetting their duty, turning traitor - Sengoku deals with that sort swiftly and mercilessly when they are rooted out (unless, of course, they are more useful left alone).
Some Marines... some Marines are like Garp and his ilk. They don't believe in Absolute Justice, but they'll obey their directives, except when they think he won't find out, and then they let a slip of their own type of Justice shine through, until they go back to being Good Little Marines, heads ducked down. The Fleet Admiral mostly turns a blind eye - unquestioning obedience is all well and good in the lower ranks, but you need something more to be a good officer, and as long as it isn't outright rebellion, he can let a few incidents slide for the good of morale.
But Smoker... Commodore Smoker is the type of Marine who snaps.
He doesn't bend - he's too rigid, inflexible for that. Doesn't adapt well to things outside his worldview. He breaks, instead, with enough well-placed blows, and Sengoku hates that type - the ones with their own view of Justice, arrogant to the extreme, and combined with an assertiveness which thinks nothing of striking out on their own volition.
They carry on, obeying their orders with only an occasional slip-up, and finally, finally they're pushed too far by an order, or an incident, or... and then, next thing you know, they've snapped. Broken. Next thing you know, they're someone like X Drake, denying Absolute Justice and following their own path. Suddenly you've lost a promising, valuable Marine - and sometimes their crew with them - and you've got a new problem to deal with, a new pirate or Revolutionary or terrorist because they never just quietly retire.
It's not always the quiet ones. Sometimes it's the ones who are too damn loud.
Sengoku sighs, rubs his head, and signs Commodore Smoker's promotion to Rear Admiral, for actions above and beyond at Marineford. Because much as he knows doing such a thing will bring the day they lose him that much closer, there's a part of him that would rather see someone break than wither.
Edit: WELCOME ALWAYS HAD AN 'L'. *goes back to hiding* >_>