Log 003 [Voice/Video]

[toujoursfluer]

[The camera is set on a view of Chopper's room. What medical supplies he kept in the house are gathered together as well as several other belongings. The setting sun casts everything in a soft orange light.]

[Robin's voice is smooth and sounds faintly amused.]

It seems Chopper-kun has been sent home. It's probably good he left so many bandages behind

Comments

[Action because nakama]

[mikangirl]

[Nami is leaning on the doorframe behind you as you finish, Robin.]

...I guess we're all dropping like flies.

[Action]

[toujoursfluer]

So it seems.

[Robin shuts the journal and rests her chin in her hands, staring at Chopper's things. It doesn't seem enough for someone with such a big personality. It seems too much.]

The house is dying.

[The fading breaths of nakama everywhere. Who will be next? Tomorrow even Nami could be just a faint memory.]

[Action]

[mikangirl]

Five of us still left. [...it's a lot by most people's standards. Instead, Nami just feels lonely.]

[Action]

[toujoursfluer]

It's an insidious form of torture, isn't it?

[Who will be next? Who will be left alone? What a horrible fate for any of her nakama...]

[action] nakama-in-law. Or.....something, yeah.

[hiken_ace]

......another nakama left.... [Luceti, fuck you.]

Will you be all right?

[action]

[toujoursfluer]

[She glances at him briefly. People like to ask that question and she's never entirely sure of the answer. Is she alright? No. Will she be? Not as long as she is trapped here. Is there anything anyone can do about it? Possibly not.]

I suppose I don't have a choice.

[action]

[hiken_ace]

[Excuse him if he doesn't buy that.] You do, actually. You can.....miss him. It not wrong or anything. Being sad is fine.

[Hell, he still misses Thatch.]

[action]

[toujoursfluer]

[She has spent most of her life missing thank you. She knows what it's like to long for the people that never come back. It wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed to be like this.]

I...decided...to live.

[She wants to speak calmly but can hardly speak at all.]

I decided that. This...is...not..living

Voice

[cuteobsessed]

...Nico-san, you okay?

Voice

[toujoursfluer]

Are any of us okay in this place?

Voice

[cuteobsessed]

Guess...not. But I meant more on a... yanno, personal level. Askin 'bout you. He was your friend, right?

Voice

[toujoursfluer]

He is my friend. I will miss him. But I am glad that he's home. So yes, I am okay. I hope he never returns to this place.

[Voice/Action]

[gomugomunopwn]

[He hates hearing these entries. You would think he would've grown used to it after all these years but still... they never get any easier. None of them do.]

...thanks Robin. [For making the entry that is. That'll probably be all he adds to the entry unless she wants to add anything else. If she wants to talk to him in person he'll be around the house! You know, all mopey and stuff.

Chances are he's probably in his room laying down! With the usual hands behind his head and staring up at the ceiling scenario.]

[Action]

[toujoursfluer]

[She is at his door but she doesn't think she wants to see him. It's not his fault. It's not anyone's fault. But his voice breaks her as it always does and she wants to see him.]

[But no, she really doesn't.]

[Still she pushes open the door and watches him for a moment, lying on his bed like a lonely island. Three years... How many times has he had to say goodbye?]

[Action]

[gomugomunopwn]

Hn?

[He lifts his head up just a little to see who's there. He'll smile once he see's it's her. It's important that he still stays thankful for still having the nakama he's got here.]

Ah, Robin! [And then he sits up.] What's up?

[Action]

[toujoursfluer]

[She is surprised at the smile even though she shouldn't be. He is Luffy. He can smile at any thing. He can do anything...]

[...almost, ne?]

[She comes and sits down on a nearby chair, watching him with her fist propped up on her hand.]

Does it ever get easier for you?

[action] because nakama etc etc

[gearsandcola]

[Franky will be waiting for Robin once she's done recording her message.

First Sanji, now Chopper... what with how Luceti seems to enjoy picking them off, who knows which one of their nakama could be next? Still, it's good that they're gone - doesn't stop it from hurting any less, though.

He won't ask if Robin is okay. He won't try to reassure her of anything. He won't talk down to her, and he won't trivialize anything she's feeling. Robin is a grown woman, and he knows she can handle herself. What he will do, however, is be there for her. Because they're nakama, and they should always be there for one another.]

[action]

[toujoursfluer]

[She finds Franky easily, or rather doesn't mean to, but does and he is annoyingly hard to ignore once spotted. He fills up the space with his being. She will miss him when he goes. And there is a when. There is a certain inevitability with this. You are together and then you are torn apart.]

[She folds her arms and leans against the wall nearby.]

[It takes a long time for her to say anything.]

It would be almost easier parting now, don't you think?

[Living separately, never having to wake up to the shock of an empty room, the knowledge that a part of you has been pruned away like you are nothing but an errant rose bush. The faint jealousy. The helplessness. They are not in control here. Nor will they ever be.]

[action]

[gearsandcola]

I don't think I'd want to get used to it.

[The pain is unfortunate, but it's better than feeling nothing whenever one of them leaves. Franky doesn't want to get used to the thought of being separated from his nakama, because to him that sounds too much like no longer caring. And that's the last thing he wants to do.]

[action]

[toujoursfluer]

It's not incredibly difficult.

[After a while everything numbs and the only thing that matters is living one more day-- Surviving for just a bit longer]