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Ace D. Portgas ([personal profile] hiken) wrote in [community profile] high_seas2013-12-14 09:47 pm

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.
fierybluebird: (sly)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-18 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but I am going to say, maybe she wasn't as delusional as you thought. A guy who fathers children just as soldiers wouldn't have a problem lying to women and doing his best to deceive them either.

[He grins when Ikki explains the deal. Sounds like true romance to Marco.]

[And he flicks Ikki's forehead.]
I told you before, yoi. You don't get to decide what you deserve. Do you want Selphie to be unhappy, lonely, miserable, and exactly what you think you yourself deserve? She doesn't want that for you, but she thinks it's probably what she deserves for herself. And when you do things like reject her, that just reinforces her idea that she doesn't make you happy and therefore doesn't deserve you. So instead of trying to match up Ace's need not to be alone with her own, why don't you go keep her warm yourself? If we are attacked, do you really want her fighting while drunk or do you want to make sure she's safe? Quit being so selfish when it's only making you cranky and flustered. [Another forehead flick and Marco grins broadly.]

Now go down there and keep her safe, she's a valuable member of this crew and you're the only one I trust to be responsible enough for it. Got it?

And you're taking her dancing later. I'll make the arrangements when I think you're ready for it.
uccellodifuoco: Can't take this anymore." This heart breaks (003 - I feel like "Fuck man)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-19 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hn, he didn't father us to be soldiers, though. He probably didn't care at all, for good or bad, it was when he was trusted Athena that he decided to use his children to create a personal army for her.

[Ikki slaps at Marco's hand again when the other flicks his forehead.]

Stop that.

And don't talk as if I'm the key for Selphie's happiness, there are many people in this ship and the world. A girl like her wouldn't have problems getting guys to like her. She will find someone else.

[The logic at the part of keeping her warm and the risk of what could happen if they are attacked, though, is pretty convincing. He grunts and moves to start going down as told. Only because Marco was right on that and because he said that he trusted Ikki to keep her safe, first mate orders and all that.]

Can't someone else take her to dance?

[That didn't sound like a whine, nope.]
fierybluebird: (we are family)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-19 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
She could, but it depends. Do you want just anyone to dance with her or do you want someone who you know beyond a shadow of a doubt has the best intentions at heart and will do anything to save her and keep her happy and even learned to dance just for her to be with her?

Think carefully on that answer.

Because I could easily set her up on a date with Ace, but I told you before why I haven't and why I won't. I want the absolute best for her, and if you can really think of someone else you'd trust more, I'll take it under advisement. Until then, consider it an enjoyable duty.
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-19 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ikki stops as he hears that, looking up at the other with a growing frown.]

You're not talking about just dancing, are you?
fierybluebird: (plotting something evil)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-19 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not.
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-19 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Until then"... So what, are you telling me to go to her and then give her up the moment someone better appears?

[He can't do that. Give it up before he has it is one thing, after he has claimed it, though it's impossible.]
fierybluebird: (pirate leer)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-19 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I'm telling you there isn't anyone better so you better protect her so she doesn't have to settle for someone who won't appreciate her the way you do.
uccellodifuoco: As this last breath leaves me (014 - The way he held his heart)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-20 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You say that as if going with me wouldn't mean that she's settling for something bad. I don't remember ever saying that I appreciate her in any special way at all.

[He hasn't, right? It's actually hard to know, Marco seems to read him like an open book and right now it's getting annoying because he's basically repeating the things Ikki's heart tells him, which are the things he definitively doesn't want to hear.]
fierybluebird: (plotting something evil)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-20 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, so you won't? I tell you what. Start now, and if you ever give her less than I feel she deserves, I'll kick your ass into shape.

And I don't mean some convoluted unachievable ideal either. Start giving her your best and see if you don't get better with time. And if someone comes along whom you think could do better than you at it, make sure you do far better than he ever could so you never have to worry, aye?
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-20 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Either way all I hear is that you're set on the idea that we both should be together. Even though you have no reason to think that way. Are arranged marriages a thing in your world or what?

[Threats only make Ikki stand up for the challenge, not back down.]
fierybluebird: (put-out)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-20 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Marriage is barely a thing in my world.

[Well.]

[It's true.]

[Even if it doesn't get to the real point at all.]
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-20 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Arranged relationships then. Or whatever you have there.

[Don't avoid the point.]
fierybluebird: (Oh god you're an idiot)

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[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-20 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eye roll.] Real pirates only do what they want to. You can't arrange anything with them. I tell my crew, "Step back so you don't pass out," and they argue with me until they pass out.
fierybluebird: (take a walk on the wild side)

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[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-20 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
But they have full conviction in what they don't want to do. And they don't sacrifice what they want just to be a hero.
uccellodifuoco: How could he just forsake us? (004 - This is life that's so thankless)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-20 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Who wants to be a hero?

[He isn't one, neither wants to be one. Being an hero has nothing to do with Selphie.]
fierybluebird: (black grin)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-20 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Idiots.

Now go enjoy yourself, and don't be a hero.
uccellodifuoco: He'll know that he loved us (008 - And once we are just dust)

[personal profile] uccellodifuoco 2013-12-20 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ikki snorts and glares at Marco, cursing him inwardly for being so confident and reading him so easily. However he complies and climbs down to disappear below the deck. Though he's not yet sure what he's going to say or do with Selphie.]
fierybluebird: (hybrid)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-12-21 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Marco is pleased as a pickle with himself and leans back against the mast, whistling to himself until he remembers the cold.]


[Damn it.]