12 ☀ Day; Video

[savior_n_black]

[ Seems like a lot of these keep cropping up. Usually at the most inopportune moments. Today is no different, though all the video is showing is a bouncing, jostling blur of movement. Nothing but streets, buildings, and the occasional streak of blue sky as Ichigo alternates between plain shunpo, and mixing it with parkour

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[savior_n_black]

Maybe. But my limits don't matter, because I have to get past them, and be a lot better. Doesn't matter how much it might hurt, or how difficult it might get.

[ Ichigo has spent a lot of his short life keeping the entire world at arm's length. When he's confused, or pissed off, it's sort of his default. ]

Going home is what I need to do! It's what I've needed to do for months, and now it's getting worse back there! What am I going to explain that I haven't already said, anyway? That there's a crazy bastard with a god complex destroying their home? That his foot soldiers almost killed most of my friends before we ever even got out of there? Yeah, that'll help. Let's scare the shit out of my friends so that fear can mess with their heads, and make them feel even more trapped than they already feel!

[ Ichigo isn't wearing his mask. He hasn't worn it for months, now. ]

I do trust them, and I do support them, but this battle is my job. It's always been my job and everyone who's tried to stand beside me has gotten cut down. If I don't get a lot stronger, really soon, everyone I care about will die.

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[daienkai]

Don't act as though I don't know that - I just got back here at the start of the month, bleeding all over the place because I went home and I died. My friends, my crew, their allies and my little idiot brother are all fighting and for what? They came to rescue me from the Marines but I still died in the end.

[The palms of both hands rub at his eyes.]

It's not scaring them. It's preparing them. There's a way to do that involves actually acting rationally and calmly.

[It's not lost on him that there's something ironic or odd about him saying this; he is a pirate who can turn into and wield fire.]

You can't fight all the battles in the world on your own. Just ends up getting you captured or worse and leaves your friends with the mess, worries and doubts and targets on their backs.

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[savior_n_black]

Look, I'm not going to let my friends end up hurt because of me. I'm not putting them in danger, or letting anyone suffer because of choices I've made.
I'm not getting captured, and I'm sure as hell not going to die!

I don't want to fight all the battles in the world, and I'm not so arrogant as to think I even could protect the whole world. But I do want to protect a lot of people. Which comes back to the whole point of this, because I am going to get strong enough to do all those things!

[ Ah, stubborn teenage determination. But, then again, Ichigo is of the opinion that if he allows even a shadow of a doubt to enter his mind, even in the name of 'being prepared' he might lose. Therefore, no doubts. No questions. Just the hard truth of what he has to do, and no matter how many people tell him it's not possible, he won't believe them. He has to keep himself focused, and never even admit the possibility that he might fail.
Because then the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling. ]

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[daienkai]

No one ever thinks that until it happens. I ignored Pops - my captain - and the rest of the crew because I was so hellbent on doing what I thought was the right thing. I walked into a trap and forgot what it was like to be hit when the guy I fought could negate what I did.

[Ace remembers that well and it's only his Devil's Fruit that kept him alive like that although in the end, it helped lead to his downfall. Forgetting how much it hurt to take a punch? Yeah, that fucking cost him.]

Like I said, the way you're going, you're going to burn yourself out. You'll push them all away. You'll be a stranger to them and it'll all be your fault.