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[video] Back with the chocobos / All the jokes

Nov 24, 2011 09:16

[In a scene that might be familiar to some, Marco is back in the barn, with five baby chocobo. Not quite so baby now, he might be able to fit one of them in a bag on his back, but not all of them. He can't even fit them all under one wing, but that's all right, the others he's dealing with in different ways. It might not be immediately obvious, ( Read more... )

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[action?] asideglance November 24 2011, 18:32:22 UTC

[Even in the middle of his salt lusting he can pause to realize Marco might need company. ...So he will temporarily abandon the salt stash that has accumulated in the apartment and head for the barn. TEMPORARILY. Sob.

Poking his head in...]

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 20:01:42 UTC

[Too distracted in the midst of singing a chocobo a lullabye to notice. No really.]

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 21:00:32 UTC

...

[What even. But he will just step further inside... A little.]

Marco...

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 21:57:25 UTC

[Stops instantly though he whistles quietly and carries the chocobo in a blanket over to Japan.]

Bushido. Bored with the mountain of salt? [Teasing words, but a gentle smile, there's clearly no malice behind it, just amusement.]

[action] 1/3 asideglance November 24 2011, 21:58:48 UTC

[Bored...? Hardly. When he thought about all of the salt he collected, and how much he had had already, but how it wasn't enough, he just wanted to run back and--]

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 21:59:38 UTC

[NO THERE WERE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DEAL WITH. ...He could continue his quest after. Right. After.]

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 22:00:22 UTC

No. [A sideglance, but it slides right back to watch the pirate]

But is Marco truly alright?

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 22:09:58 UTC

No? When will--

Ahh... [Hands him Vista. Then hugs Japan.]

I'm furious and I have nothing to direct it at. He kept saying none of us belonged here. If there's such a thing as an afterlife... maybe it's better? But I want him here. Where I can still be with him. Where I can just... [Truly distraught expression and just sighs.]

I'm all right.

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 22:15:18 UTC

[Ignoring the salt part, he holds the chocobo and stands there in the hug.]

I hope Marco can realize that while it is fine to be upset and miss someone... They can be at peace this way. Of course his death was not ideal, but... I like to believe that Ace was someone who was happy with his life by the time he passed away. [Man he sure isn't hesitating to make sure on details anymore. Oh well.]

...I miss him, too. But... I believe he would not want us to be so upset.

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 22:26:18 UTC

[Clenches his fist and walks back to the others.]

I'm tired of him getting to decide how we should feel. Big damn heroes. Living on is...

[Leans against a barn wall and whatever emotion he had is quelled again. The rage turning back into sad, masked over with deadpan, and Marco's a million miles away mentally.]

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 22:29:00 UTC

[Japan moves closer quietly and kneels to let go of the chocobo he had been holding.]

Living on is something good. Something Ace wanted as well. But all things come to an end. When given that sort of fate... Wishing for Luffy-kun and Marco and the others to live on even more than he could is natural, isn't it?

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 22:34:12 UTC

My enthusiasm for living on in void of those fallen wears thin. [Dry tone, but shakes his head.]

Everything ends, but he had a chance here. It's ridiculous to miss something I never had, but still, I do. People should get more than a few minutes of realizing they're loved before dying. And here... he never had time to even work out what he wanted. Always how things go for him.

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 22:40:30 UTC

[He stands up and just stares sort of sadly at Marco from where he is.]

His time here was nice, but... to be trapped in a world where your friends are constantly in danger that even your powers cannot always help, and know still that back at home... You died? [. . .]

Ah... Forgive me... I do not believe my words carry my thoughts. ...Ace's death is sad. It has always been sad. But... [Shouldn't that be inspiration to live on? Or something like that. He really can't voice his thoughts very well. And the tension coming from Marco is hard to address, too.

And maybe he was speaking too much. This level of comfort he'd grown into in this place... Maybe he should realize there are exceptions to it and stay silent. He's still not sure.]

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 23:03:41 UTC

[Congratulations, you have the most morbid Marco ever on your hands.]

You've died before, right? What's it like?

[action] asideglance November 24 2011, 23:07:10 UTC

[He completely stills at that. Yes, he has died. Multiple times. Oh gosh and now he's remembering it, and... It was just... nothing. Lonely...? No, he didn't want to think about that. And what if it was only in this place, where death was only a waiting room for life once again?

After a bit of stunned silence, he folds his arms and looks away.]

K-knowing whether it was paradise or hell or something in between will not stop this sort of pain Marco is feeling.

[action] fierybluebird November 24 2011, 23:20:46 UTC

[Glances back at him with piercing blue eyes.]

Then what will?

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