[Maybe it's the forest, maybe it's finally having a little bird sister.]
[Or maybe it's just everything at once, but he is drowning in emotions here.]
[He really would like to go visit her world, if he's completely honest with himself.]
[He'd give anything to fly to a different world where no one knew his name or Whitebeard, Blackbeard, the pirates, any of it.]
[But even that....]
[It feels almost like a betrayal.]
[Of course he never wants to forget Whitebeard, or the crew, and he'll protect them until the day he dies. Literally.]
[So the little bit of selfishness, in just wanting to explore and adventure with his brothers just a little longer, one more day, each day, every day...]
[And this forest with its peace...]
[Doesn't it know how hard that has to be fought for? How much people like Ace can't have it? Just because of how they were born.]
[No, it couldn't know.]
[And why is he blaming the forest anyway?]
[Marco gently nudges her with the top of his head.] I will. It's a promise. If I can.
[But the can is the hard part. There's a lot of "impossible" Marco can, will, and does do, but finding Leanne...]
[Would he be giving up on the rest of his brothers?]
[Vista, Curiel, Speed Jiru, Haruta, Izou, Atomos, Blenheim, there were so many and it was never fair. That they didn't get to share these times with Ace and Thatch. That Ace and Thatch couldn't go back to them.]
[Don't mind him... but Marco's just going to cry a little.]
[He still wants to rage and fight the forest's peaceful effects, but even that is confusing.]
[What does it mean to be a phoenix? A pirate? Marco himself? For the most part he's always been okay with going his own way, but before now he could always do it under the banner of his Pops and now, it really is his own.]
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[Maybe it's the forest, maybe it's finally having a little bird sister.]
[Or maybe it's just everything at once, but he is drowning in emotions here.]
[He really would like to go visit her world, if he's completely honest with himself.]
[He'd give anything to fly to a different world where no one knew his name or Whitebeard, Blackbeard, the pirates, any of it.]
[But even that....]
[It feels almost like a betrayal.]
[Of course he never wants to forget Whitebeard, or the crew, and he'll protect them until the day he dies. Literally.]
[So the little bit of selfishness, in just wanting to explore and adventure with his brothers just a little longer, one more day, each day, every day...]
[And this forest with its peace...]
[Doesn't it know how hard that has to be fought for? How much people like Ace can't have it? Just because of how they were born.]
[No, it couldn't know.]
[And why is he blaming the forest anyway?]
[Marco gently nudges her with the top of his head.] I will. It's a promise. If I can.
[But the can is the hard part. There's a lot of "impossible" Marco can, will, and does do, but finding Leanne...]
[Would he be giving up on the rest of his brothers?]
[Vista, Curiel, Speed Jiru, Haruta, Izou, Atomos, Blenheim, there were so many and it was never fair. That they didn't get to share these times with Ace and Thatch. That Ace and Thatch couldn't go back to them.]
[Don't mind him... but Marco's just going to cry a little.]
[He still wants to rage and fight the forest's peaceful effects, but even that is confusing.]
[What does it mean to be a phoenix? A pirate? Marco himself? For the most part he's always been okay with going his own way, but before now he could always do it under the banner of his Pops and now, it really is his own.]