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Trial of the Spades
Who: The Spades Crew + Anyone wandering by or onto their ship.
Where: Isla Empieza, The Sun
When: 12/15 - 12/21
What: Shenanigans! The Cold Curse, Sailing, Etc
Warnings: None so far. Possibly violence, given this crew.
Style: Prose/Action. Either or!
Status: OPEN
Threads below! Feel free to drop in your own, just remember to date them. More 'general' threads will come up after the crew sets sail.
Where: Isla Empieza, The Sun
When: 12/15 - 12/21
What: Shenanigans! The Cold Curse, Sailing, Etc
Warnings: None so far. Possibly violence, given this crew.
Style: Prose/Action. Either or!
Status: OPEN
Threads below! Feel free to drop in your own, just remember to date them. More 'general' threads will come up after the crew sets sail.
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Want some spiced rum, chickadee? Anything to eat? [better say something while he's standing]
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[Another chirp for no and he puffs up his feathers to keep Thatch warm.]
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What's our crew count up to now? How many more clowns to the idiot brigade?
[wait...he meant that to sound more teasing than it was]
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I like it. It's nothing close to even one division, yoi.
Are you just sad that none of them have good hair for your to steal?
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I wanna go home. [not pouting or any Thatchie feetie flails.] Let me go back to my boys. You don't need me around.
[Not with Namur. He could handle it all, really]
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[Time has come.]
[Marco switches reluctantly back to human and keeps both his arms wrapped tightly around Thatch's shoulders.]
If you do, I will never see you again. You know my worst fear is seeing you all die mate, well I've done that. You have many days ahead of you, but if you don't share them with me here, then for me they'll be lost forever, understood?
Do not leave, and that is an order I will never rescind. I cannot help but be selfish on it. Perhaps it is unfair you did not get to have a younger me by your side here, but for me, it means the world.
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Maybe I'll just stage a mutiny and go back anyway, eh? I'll hide behind Pops and you can't get me. [so what if he's acting like a kid. He is compared to Marco anyway.]
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Do you think I would say this if my sanity did not depend on it?
Do you think I have been depressed simply because of being here?
Do not be such a coward brother! I need your strength right now!
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You cut my lip, bastard. [he can taste blood. Not that it's a big deal but it's the principle of the thing. Anyway it was only a little streak of rebellion before he says what Marco was really after]
Aye, sir.
[but he'll still glower at you, damnit. He's not cowed at all. He just cares for your sparkly ass]
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[Marco switches back into a phoenix and curls up in Thatch's lap. You don't even know man. You don't even know.]
I'm still strong, Thatch. But I've missed you a long time. Even Ace is gone. How can I let you leave so easily? [Hides his head in Thatch's shirt, he doesn't want to talk anymore.]
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Well stop living so long, damnit.
[if he sounds a little choked up it's only because he is. He doesn't want to think about Marco spending all that time alone. Stupid phoenix didn't even know how to die. Still he nuzzles the feathers in appreciation and apology and pulls Marco against his chest, buttoning his coat around him so he's warm all over and burying his face against the flamey neck]
But you can't make me like it. [grumbled. But he'd find a way he supposed. If he had to. But he didn't have to like liking it. So there]
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[Nuzzles and gently preens Thatch wherever he can, all the phoenix snuggles ever.]
So be nicer to the hatchlings, they will grow on you and you have to be the one to keep me from slipping into bad habits, got it?
[Yeaaaah don't mind Marco if he still wants to cry damn it. It's been a rough rough time.]
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But he will. Because Marco needs him and Ace needs him and Namur--needs him and thank god for the Fishman, too. And so do the rest of these idiots]
I will...bastard.
[he hesitates and then]
Teach me how to trust Ace. [he mutters this and feels seditious even as he says it but it's not if he's trying to learn, is it? He's always believed in Ace as Pirate King but as Captain... as Captain it's so hard...]
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Give him time. We avenged Sora, got him back, avenged and rescued everyone else and no one has died since. We won't let it happen again. He is already proving himself, mate, you just have to be willing to open your eyes to take peeks enough to see it.
And do not expect him to be Pops. Even Pops wasn't Pops at first. Just let Ace be Ace and help him.
Mah... it's not easy for me either, eh? But we'll get there together, because we're family.
[Congratulations Thatch, you now have the manliest hair ever.]
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Aye... [he will open his eyes more. See what's really going on. Try to...become part of this crew for his nakama's sake but...] Is it...I ... want it to be Pops. I love Ace. You know I do but... I miss the old man...
[it was just hard not to hear the deep grumbling Gurarara at least once a day or see him drinking or trying to drink as the nurses or Marco scolded him...and speaking of which...]
Can we at least get cute nurses?
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[But he nods and whistles cheerfully enough that not even Thatch could tell otherwise.] Of course, idiot. And just because he's Captain doesn't mean he's not our little brother. I'm still going to prank him and stuff him into things, yoi.
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He took a deep breath that shook only a little. So he just buries his face against the side of Marco's neck]
What kind of prank should I plan? Hmm? Where shall we stuff him?
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Let's just dress him up pretty and stick him in various beds, eh?
[There's a brief hesitation. And Marco quietly nestles into Thatch's hair.]
He is worried you are disappointed in him. Even if he never shows it. He has been through a lot. That is why his tattoo from Pops is messed up. I think he's hurting a lot Thatch, and I'm proud of how well he's doing, but there are some places I know only you can reach.
[It's a lot of pressure though, so he tightens his hug on the man.] Sorry yoi. I didn't want you to do it, but I do not think I can do it myself.
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Why the hell would I be? [he cam't believe the tattoo is messed up just because of him. Though he knows what Ace has been through. At least here.] I'm sure you do a lot. Don't undersell yourself...
But it's true I haven't been paying him much attention. [faint sigh...] Sorry, yoi. [another little tail tug]
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[He coos and chirps at the pets but gives an irritated swan growl at the tug.]
I cannot say. But you know it's true because if I were going to lie, it'd be in the opposite direction, eh? Just help him out. He finally realized some big things about himself and truthfully, not even I know what he'll do with them now.
[He swishes his tail up and down in thought and then curls up around Thatch's neck again like a giant feathery sweater of love.]
No regrets, aye?
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I only regret the women I leave behind... [but that was a man's regret and, he figured, they deserved a little of his guilt for all they out up with.]
Maybe I should make more regrets here, aye? A longing heart in every port? [he grins] Soft voices calling me back? What do you think?
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Aye. To wherever the winds and flames may take us.
And we'll leave a trail of scattered memories and good times along the way, eh?
[Proof that Marco might have even mellowed a touch when it came to girls.]
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But I won't tolerate any voice but yours keeping me here, understand? Even if you're immortal, you have to be the one to call me home. Promise me.
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