Memoirs of an OC - Omake: Otaku
What happens to a girl when she realises the one she thought she knew the best is acting strange?
Transition, Omake, Otaku
Or:
The Day Fuu doubted her own Brother
...
THOUSAND SUNNY, GIRL'S CABIN
Okay, brace yourselves. More scripted stuff that sort of sounds like it's ripped directly from an IM-conversation... Yay.
Fuu: *pausing a bit after the previous conversation* By the way, Clow…
Clow (inside his big communication mirror): *raising an eyebrow* Yeah?
Fuu: I think… you've been acting… strange... recently…
Did you just turn into a robot? … with a broken voicebox?
Clow: *raising his second eyebrow* Strange?
Fuu: Well, I mean… *breathes deeply* Okay, I'll say it straight: how come you're acting that way around Luffy and the others?
What are you talking about?
Clow: *clong, mouth wide open* W… what?
Fuu: I mean, how come you're not desperately trying to see them? To talk to them? To touch them?
Yikes. What the hell kind of question is that?
How come you don't use the pretext of me being on-board to come and visit and hang around with them? How come you speak to them with a perfectly cool tone?
Uh, because he's actually not a complete drooling, frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy? Because he realizes that such behavior would be totally creepy, and would probably get him punched?
Clow: *still a bit confused* Hum, that's…
Fuu: Are you really feeling okay? I don't understand you! They're your HEROES and you just speak to them as it if you didn't care at all! How come a huge otaku like you behave like that?
Like I said, because he realizes that just because they're his heroes, it doesn't mean he gets to fawn all over them like some crazed stalker?
Clow: *crash, face collapsing under the shock* I… see…
Fuu: *sulking* What happened to my cute little brother who was running all over the house each time something was happening in One Piece?
... Are you starting to feel old, Fuu? At the ripe old age of twenty-something?
Clow: *tilt* Since when am I your 'CUTE little brother'? We're only one year apart! And already GROWN UP, for God sake!
Fuu: *sulking even more* And where is the fanatic otaku crying of joy at each revelation while calling Oda-Sensei a genius, a god and everything? Give me back my real brother!
Wow... Uh, you know, I sometimes miss the time when my sisters and I were younger, but this is... kind of creepy.
Clow: *tilt* That's ME, you big baka!
Fuu: *crossing her arms and still sulking* No way! My little brother is not some kind of arrogant author who just meet with his idols without at least squealing…
... People change, Fuu. And even though he may have been bouncing off the wall in the real world, doesn't mean he'll act the same way when he actually gets to meet the Strawhats.
Clow: *snap* What the…? Squealing is for fangirls! Don't put me in the same basket as them, don't you dare to!
Well, there's a similarity between the two of you.
Fuu: *blinking of surprise* You're… not…?
Clow: *roar: Of course NOT!
Fuu: *deep sigh* Well, I still think it's weird not to see you acting all otaku around Luffy and the others… without showing anything special…
You know, it might not be the first...
Clow: You know it's not the first time I met them, do you?
Yeah, what he said.
Fuu: Hum… Yeah, there was the moment when I regained my memories, on the Moby Dick… Now that I think about it, it was even stranger at the time: everyone was there, Luffy, the Mugiwaras, Marco, Ace and the WhiteBeard's Pirates, and you acted as if you felt nothing… NOTHING! You acted all cool and mighty, lecturing me and all…
What? Uh, it didn't occur to you that Clow didn't lose his memories even though you did? I thought that was pretty damn obvious.
Clow: *smirk* You needed a good lecture!
Fuu: *sulking* Well, I guess… But that doesn't explain your reaction…
You're really an idiot, aren't you? It just keeps amazing me how stupid you are, Fuu.
Clow: It wasn't the first I was seeing them either…
Duh. *rolls eyes*
Fuu: *surprised* Oh, true, they told me you had contacted them by mirror before, but even with that, they're your idols, come on, between seeing them across a screen and meeting them, you should have felt something!
I love it how she just tells him what he was feeling at the time. Here's a hint, Fuu: Just because you're completely void of emotions most of the time doesn't mean that the same goes for everyone else.
Clow: *a bit embarrassed* You can't even imagine how it was hard to keep my cool!
Fuu: *arching an eyebrow* So you forced yourself to look cool?
Clow: *even more embarrassed* Of course… I can't show a stupid otaku expression to my heroes… Tsk, kakkowarui…
What is up with the random Japanese? Can't you just say 'uncool'? Spouting fan-Japanese just makes you look stupid.
Fuu: *stunned* You wanted them to think you're cool while you're the one idolizing them?
Clow: *flushed* N… not really, but… It's just… try to understand…
Uh, yeah? Isn't that normal? You want your heroes to think that you're cool too, because if they thought you were uncool, they wouldn't want to be around you, right?
Fuu: *dark glare* Try to understand that you felt more touched by seeing your heroes in flesh than by the fate of your sister who had loss nearly all her life energy because of the stupid Devil Fruit you gave her without prior warning?
He didn't make you overuse your powers, you know.
Clow: *averting his eyes* Well, you DID want to teleport everyone out…
Why is he acting like he's ashamed? She overused the powers herself. He didn't force her to use her powers, he simply gave them to her.
Fuu: *sighing* Well… Yes… *whisper full of guilt* Thank you for giving me another chance… *tilt* Hey wait, don't change the topic!
AHA! I smell retcon.
Clow: *sweat dropping* I didn't change it on purpose, and I can't really see where the problem is…
Fuu: *persistent* So you came to pick me up on the Moby Dick, right? So you met Luffy, Ace and WhiteBeard, right?
Clow: Yes I did… *seeing his sister's anticipating expression* But I didn't behave like a crazy otaku, I swear!
Fuu: *pouting* Liar!
Just because you probably would hump the leg of your own heroes until the cows came home doesn't mean that the rest of us would.
Clow: *snap* I'm not lying! Like you said, there were more important things on my hands at that time! So didn't even need to force myself to keep my cool… *calming down* Though it was harder when I saw Luffy and the others when coming to see you in your cabin after the Buster Call…
I can just see the guy seeing his heroes and going “EEEEEEE! 8D” in his head. It's actually kind of cute.
Fuu: *suspicious* So you DID feel something?
... Oh god, YES, Fuu. He had emotions. You know, I'm concerned about this. Are you completely unable to realize that other people have feelings, and that they sometimes don't want to show their innermost feelings to everyone around them?
Clow: *offended* Of course, baka! Even if I met them before when calling them and asking them to come and pick you up on the Moby Dick, to suddenly see the Mugiwaras in flesh, and all together after so long…
Fuu: *tilt* After so long?
Clow: *starting to get frantic* Two Arcs without them, can you even imagine the anguish of a true fan?
Oh, boy...
Fuu: *stunned* …
Clow: *more and more frantic* Two complete Arcs since Sabaody during which we only followed Luffy and not the others! Can you imagine how many chapters it means? No, of course you can't, you're not even aware of how long we need to wait between each of these fantastic pieces of manga art to get released…
Uh, I think she does know. After all, she's the one who has to go to Jump's website to check announcements if One Piece is late one week.
Fuu: *world-weary* …
Clow: *completely frantic* One week! One week between each of these magnificent chapters!
Uh, yes. That's actually a pretty damn fast schedule. Have you ever seen what kind of week-schedule a manga artist can have? It's amazing that not more of them work themselves to death.
And these two long long Arcs during which we didn't see the rest of the Mugiwaras lasted from chapter 513 up until now… Can you imagine?
... Okay, Clow, you're scaring me again.
Fuu: *resigned* …
Clow: *fist trembling of contained happiness and relief* More than 60 chapters, more than one full year of patience and anguish, and they're finally back together… It was so… magic to see everyone united again, sob sob… *starting to get teary*
Yeah, I can just imagine that you were climbing the walls and ceiling during the four week hiatus before the timeskip. Some of us were doing something productive, like reading twenty chapters of the series a dayjust for fun in order to catch up with the hiatus.
Fuu: *sweat drop* Okay, now my otaku brother is back…
DOOR OPENING WIDE
Luffy: *enthusiast* Fuu, a new Island, a new… *realizing, wide grin* Oh, Clow, what's up?
Clow: *turning his mirror towards him, immediate change of behaviour* Hi Luffy, I'm quite fine, thanks… A new Island you said, then I mustn't detain you too long: send my regards to everyone else… *bright and polite smile*
Fuu: *thought* I can't believe him! This stupid two-faced brother!
Oh, so the girl who makes a point to narrate about how she puts on a brave facade and can't show what she's really thinking, and who keeps secrets from her friends all the time has the gall to call her brother two-faced. Great.
Anyway, we're done with the transition chapters now. Onwards to Story V!... Which apparently is... a Disney crossover, from the looks of it. Well, hopefully it can't be worse than the Narnia crossover. We'll see.
Onward to: Story V, Chapter 1
Back to: Luffy's Birthday
Table of Contents
Transition, Omake, Otaku
Or:
The Day Fuu doubted her own Brother
...
THOUSAND SUNNY, GIRL'S CABIN
Okay, brace yourselves. More scripted stuff that sort of sounds like it's ripped directly from an IM-conversation... Yay.
Fuu: *pausing a bit after the previous conversation* By the way, Clow…
Clow (inside his big communication mirror): *raising an eyebrow* Yeah?
Fuu: I think… you've been acting… strange... recently…
Did you just turn into a robot? … with a broken voicebox?
Clow: *raising his second eyebrow* Strange?
Fuu: Well, I mean… *breathes deeply* Okay, I'll say it straight: how come you're acting that way around Luffy and the others?
What are you talking about?
Clow: *clong, mouth wide open* W… what?
Fuu: I mean, how come you're not desperately trying to see them? To talk to them? To touch them?
Yikes. What the hell kind of question is that?
How come you don't use the pretext of me being on-board to come and visit and hang around with them? How come you speak to them with a perfectly cool tone?
Uh, because he's actually not a complete drooling, frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy? Because he realizes that such behavior would be totally creepy, and would probably get him punched?
Clow: *still a bit confused* Hum, that's…
Fuu: Are you really feeling okay? I don't understand you! They're your HEROES and you just speak to them as it if you didn't care at all! How come a huge otaku like you behave like that?
Like I said, because he realizes that just because they're his heroes, it doesn't mean he gets to fawn all over them like some crazed stalker?
Clow: *crash, face collapsing under the shock* I… see…
Fuu: *sulking* What happened to my cute little brother who was running all over the house each time something was happening in One Piece?
... Are you starting to feel old, Fuu? At the ripe old age of twenty-something?
Clow: *tilt* Since when am I your 'CUTE little brother'? We're only one year apart! And already GROWN UP, for God sake!
Fuu: *sulking even more* And where is the fanatic otaku crying of joy at each revelation while calling Oda-Sensei a genius, a god and everything? Give me back my real brother!
Wow... Uh, you know, I sometimes miss the time when my sisters and I were younger, but this is... kind of creepy.
Clow: *tilt* That's ME, you big baka!
Fuu: *crossing her arms and still sulking* No way! My little brother is not some kind of arrogant author who just meet with his idols without at least squealing…
... People change, Fuu. And even though he may have been bouncing off the wall in the real world, doesn't mean he'll act the same way when he actually gets to meet the Strawhats.
Clow: *snap* What the…? Squealing is for fangirls! Don't put me in the same basket as them, don't you dare to!
Well, there's a similarity between the two of you.
Fuu: *blinking of surprise* You're… not…?
Clow: *roar: Of course NOT!
Fuu: *deep sigh* Well, I still think it's weird not to see you acting all otaku around Luffy and the others… without showing anything special…
You know, it might not be the first...
Clow: You know it's not the first time I met them, do you?
Yeah, what he said.
Fuu: Hum… Yeah, there was the moment when I regained my memories, on the Moby Dick… Now that I think about it, it was even stranger at the time: everyone was there, Luffy, the Mugiwaras, Marco, Ace and the WhiteBeard's Pirates, and you acted as if you felt nothing… NOTHING! You acted all cool and mighty, lecturing me and all…
What? Uh, it didn't occur to you that Clow didn't lose his memories even though you did? I thought that was pretty damn obvious.
Clow: *smirk* You needed a good lecture!
Fuu: *sulking* Well, I guess… But that doesn't explain your reaction…
You're really an idiot, aren't you? It just keeps amazing me how stupid you are, Fuu.
Clow: It wasn't the first I was seeing them either…
Duh. *rolls eyes*
Fuu: *surprised* Oh, true, they told me you had contacted them by mirror before, but even with that, they're your idols, come on, between seeing them across a screen and meeting them, you should have felt something!
I love it how she just tells him what he was feeling at the time. Here's a hint, Fuu: Just because you're completely void of emotions most of the time doesn't mean that the same goes for everyone else.
Clow: *a bit embarrassed* You can't even imagine how it was hard to keep my cool!
Fuu: *arching an eyebrow* So you forced yourself to look cool?
Clow: *even more embarrassed* Of course… I can't show a stupid otaku expression to my heroes… Tsk, kakkowarui…
What is up with the random Japanese? Can't you just say 'uncool'? Spouting fan-Japanese just makes you look stupid.
Fuu: *stunned* You wanted them to think you're cool while you're the one idolizing them?
Clow: *flushed* N… not really, but… It's just… try to understand…
Uh, yeah? Isn't that normal? You want your heroes to think that you're cool too, because if they thought you were uncool, they wouldn't want to be around you, right?
Fuu: *dark glare* Try to understand that you felt more touched by seeing your heroes in flesh than by the fate of your sister who had loss nearly all her life energy because of the stupid Devil Fruit you gave her without prior warning?
He didn't make you overuse your powers, you know.
Clow: *averting his eyes* Well, you DID want to teleport everyone out…
Why is he acting like he's ashamed? She overused the powers herself. He didn't force her to use her powers, he simply gave them to her.
Fuu: *sighing* Well… Yes… *whisper full of guilt* Thank you for giving me another chance… *tilt* Hey wait, don't change the topic!
AHA! I smell retcon.
Clow: *sweat dropping* I didn't change it on purpose, and I can't really see where the problem is…
Fuu: *persistent* So you came to pick me up on the Moby Dick, right? So you met Luffy, Ace and WhiteBeard, right?
Clow: Yes I did… *seeing his sister's anticipating expression* But I didn't behave like a crazy otaku, I swear!
Fuu: *pouting* Liar!
Just because you probably would hump the leg of your own heroes until the cows came home doesn't mean that the rest of us would.
Clow: *snap* I'm not lying! Like you said, there were more important things on my hands at that time! So didn't even need to force myself to keep my cool… *calming down* Though it was harder when I saw Luffy and the others when coming to see you in your cabin after the Buster Call…
I can just see the guy seeing his heroes and going “EEEEEEE! 8D” in his head. It's actually kind of cute.
Fuu: *suspicious* So you DID feel something?
... Oh god, YES, Fuu. He had emotions. You know, I'm concerned about this. Are you completely unable to realize that other people have feelings, and that they sometimes don't want to show their innermost feelings to everyone around them?
Clow: *offended* Of course, baka! Even if I met them before when calling them and asking them to come and pick you up on the Moby Dick, to suddenly see the Mugiwaras in flesh, and all together after so long…
Fuu: *tilt* After so long?
Clow: *starting to get frantic* Two Arcs without them, can you even imagine the anguish of a true fan?
Oh, boy...
Fuu: *stunned* …
Clow: *more and more frantic* Two complete Arcs since Sabaody during which we only followed Luffy and not the others! Can you imagine how many chapters it means? No, of course you can't, you're not even aware of how long we need to wait between each of these fantastic pieces of manga art to get released…
Uh, I think she does know. After all, she's the one who has to go to Jump's website to check announcements if One Piece is late one week.
Fuu: *world-weary* …
Clow: *completely frantic* One week! One week between each of these magnificent chapters!
Uh, yes. That's actually a pretty damn fast schedule. Have you ever seen what kind of week-schedule a manga artist can have? It's amazing that not more of them work themselves to death.
And these two long long Arcs during which we didn't see the rest of the Mugiwaras lasted from chapter 513 up until now… Can you imagine?
... Okay, Clow, you're scaring me again.
Fuu: *resigned* …
Clow: *fist trembling of contained happiness and relief* More than 60 chapters, more than one full year of patience and anguish, and they're finally back together… It was so… magic to see everyone united again, sob sob… *starting to get teary*
Yeah, I can just imagine that you were climbing the walls and ceiling during the four week hiatus before the timeskip. Some of us were doing something productive, like reading twenty chapters of the series a dayjust for fun in order to catch up with the hiatus.
Fuu: *sweat drop* Okay, now my otaku brother is back…
DOOR OPENING WIDE
Luffy: *enthusiast* Fuu, a new Island, a new… *realizing, wide grin* Oh, Clow, what's up?
Clow: *turning his mirror towards him, immediate change of behaviour* Hi Luffy, I'm quite fine, thanks… A new Island you said, then I mustn't detain you too long: send my regards to everyone else… *bright and polite smile*
Fuu: *thought* I can't believe him! This stupid two-faced brother!
Oh, so the girl who makes a point to narrate about how she puts on a brave facade and can't show what she's really thinking, and who keeps secrets from her friends all the time has the gall to call her brother two-faced. Great.
Anyway, we're done with the transition chapters now. Onwards to Story V!... Which apparently is... a Disney crossover, from the looks of it. Well, hopefully it can't be worse than the Narnia crossover. We'll see.
Onward to: Story V, Chapter 1
Back to: Luffy's Birthday
Table of Contents