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[fierybluebird]

[Marco appears to have nodded off on his communicator despite efforts to stay awake. It doesn't take long for him to completely jerk out of it, and seemingly out of nowhere kick a table into the wall, smashing it into firewood, and coursing blue flames down an arm.]

I'll get to it when I can! [Growling at no one, good for your insanity. But

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[church_man]

[Looks like someone was having an unpleasant dream. But he'll go ahead and gloss over that. And what the hell is that thing, a tent? Anyway.]

That's a pretty personal question. Are you really just curious?

[fierybluebird]

Mostly just curious, yes.

[church_man]

I didn't have much choice. But I did what I could to protect what's important to me, despite that.

[fierybluebird]

No choice? Sounds rough.

[church_man]

Life's rough, whaddya gonna do.

How about you, then?

[fierybluebird]

A mixture of many complex factors. [Something of a cheeky grin. Yes, it was a trap question.]

I call myself Marco and a Whitebeard pirate because I choose to be. It's who I am. As for the rest, I'd like to think there's still choices of what I choose to ignore about myself or not.

[church_man]

[He half expected a vague answer like that, seeing as he was pretty vague himself.]

Tch. Ignoring stuff? Sounds pretty irresponsible of you.

[Hold on a second, though. Pirate, pirate...]

Say, you wouldn't happen to be from same world as... what was his name? That weird kid...

[fierybluebird]

I don't have to be responsible on anything I don't want to be. Pirate like I said.

Weird kid could fit a lot of people in my world. [Like every single person in the world really.] Straw-Hat and giant grin? Or did he have freckles and fire?

[church_man]

Suit yourself.

Straw-hat...? Come to think of it, I think he did have a straw hat. And he was loud.

[fierybluebird]

Probably Luffy, in which case, yes. He's my crewmate's little brother.

[church_man]

Ah, yeah, that sounds about right. Your world got a ton of pirates or somethin'?

[fierybluebird]

Yeah, pretty much. It was the Great Age of Pirates. Whitebeard's Era [A small pause and temporarily bites his lips as though he's not familiar with wording it that way, but knows he should be.] After the first pirate king told the world about One Piece and sent them searching for it to the end of the Grand Line.

[church_man]

[Yeah, he didn't really understand most of that.]

Do pirates usually have kings?

[fierybluebird]

[S'all good. He didn't expect him to after all.]

It's not a king in the sense of a ruler. People started calling him that because he supposedly had everything a pirate could ever want. [Scoots out from under the jacket to go make sure Ace won't be hearing all this and makes himself green tea.]

Fame, power, wealth, biggest treasure in the world. And all the freedom even a pirate could want, eh.

[church_man]

Sounds like a lucky guy.

...Or not, judging by the past tense.

[fierybluebird]

I'm told Ds usually have inordinate amounts of luck, but I can definitely say that's not always true.

In Gol D. Roger's case, it's a tough call. He was dying from an illness before he even tried to take on the Grand Line. To do all that in only a few years, that's pretty impressive. Especially since no one did it before, or ever since.