Manly Drinking Times

[fierybluebird]

Who: Marco, Thatch, Logan, Namur, Roxas, Vyse, Chandra, Natsuno, and anyone else who wants in on this drinking game
Where: The Sun! And the Moon! And all the ships in between
When: Sunday May 4th, pursuant to this hilarity
What: MANLY DRINKING TIMES
Warnings: Ehhhhh ARRRRR For Rum. And drinking. And war. And fuck who knows what else, remind me to update if needed.
Status: OPEN!!!



Marco quickly set up a couple of kegs at the ready for the drinking party. Because it was just plain necessary, and a lot like old times. The last two weeks were still weighing on Marco's mind. War, Peace, phoenixes. Was it a good idea to really enjoy war so much? Was it a bad one? Maybe it was inevitable, so he might as well enjoy it. Like life, right? Or should he not encourage it just because it was amusing?

It was too much of a headache, that's why he was just going to drink.

He also set up some non-alcoholic drinks for Leanne and everyone else. Green tea, fruit juices, but they were all clearly marked.

Marco gave a quick piercing whistle. "OI SPADES! Roll call and drinking games!"

And maybe drunk board games, he would blame that on Ace though.

Comments

[theartofboom]

"I take it the last one is not as good a guy as the rest?"

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[fierybluebird]

A calming breath, and Marco nodded, closing his eyes.

"He's one of the older ones I mentioned. Old enough to remember Roger. He fought back to back with us to defend Fishman Island... Fuck."

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[fierybluebird]

Marco dragged a palm down his face. "Some of it I still can't tell you yet, because I haven't told the others." He rubbed the bridge between his eyes. "But there's only one devil fruit of any given power at the world in a time. If someone wanted to be the phoenix like me, they'd have to kill me first."

Marco drank down his rum and moved to lean on the railing and look out at the ocean. It wasn't the right ocean in some ways. It smelled different, less salty, more squiddy, but at least it was ocean. "Teach spent thirty years hiding who he really was to all of us. That's why... mah... well..." a small sigh, and Marco ran a hand through his hair, "I suppose I've always been a little bit paranoid. It takes me awhile to warm up to people. But even I didn't think twice about calling him a brother or nakama."

He shot her a sidelong glance. He can't seem to form the basic words. For all that he's circling around it, spiralling like a hawk, actually diving into the depths of it seems too hard. Only one way to do it. "He stabbed Thatch in the back and stole the darkness devil fruit from him." Marco's jaw clenched hard, and then his fist which also lit up with blue flames. "You know how Ace and I feel about revenge. I've been getting revenge since before Teach was ever in the crew. He broke the only unforgivable rule no pirate can come back from. For what? Power?" Marco's shoulders ripple with blue flames, like a breeze pushing them from one side to another before he lets it all go.

"He was in Ace's division. Second. I knew him longer, but..." Marco looked back out at the ocean hollowly. "Pops was dying. If I left to hunt him down .... and then if Pops went...." he shook his head. "Ace went after him instead. We thought maybe he could do it because he's a D too, eh?" That wasn't the truth. But when they couldn't stop Ace no matter what, without chasing him down and locking him up, without stopping him from being himself, without risking everyone else too, the only thing they could do was have faith in him and lie to protect his pride.

[theartofboom]

A ton of information and a flood of emotion, and Chandra really has no idea what to make of it. Marco is clearly really...really strained by thinking of this guy. And hearing what he's done, she can't really blame him. This is the kind of guy she'd kill on sight, just for his views on power and perverting it.

"And that's when...everything went to hell for Ace," she finishes with a trace of anger in her voice.

[fierybluebird]

"For all of us," Marco nodded, looking distant again.

"There's another pirate emperor, one of the yonkou, like Pops, named Shanks. Red-haired Shanks. I've known him since he was ah jeez... ten or twelve. And that makes me feel old, let me tell you," he shook his head. "He gave Ace's brother that straw hat he's so fond of, and Marshall gave Shanks the famous three scars over his eye. Teach was always ruthless. The rest of us were just playing around, but Teach lost his temper and Roger got pissed." Another headshake. "That's ancient history. But when he heard that we sent Ace chasing down Teach, he sent us a rookie messenger to ask us to call Ace back." What a fucker. As if they even could. "Pops told him to come himself, and he actually did. Even though it risked sparking several wars, eh?" He rubbed his chin.

"When we heard Ace fell, Teach turned him over to the marines to earn their trust. Because they are really just that stupid, yoi. They put him in their prison version of hell, and laid a trap for us," Marco rubbed the back of his neck. "I still find Shanks a pain, but he helped me make the memorial for Ace after the war when I was dealing with a million things. And he even convinced the marines to let us have Ace and Pops back, eh?"

Ugh...these are so short and I feel so crappy about it.

[theartofboom]

"...wait, he worked with the marines? Teach, I mean." Excuse her, that's kind of blasphemous. "Shanks sounds different. A bit like this guy I know from another plane. Venser. Weird guy, but always tries to preach peace and negotiation."

PSSSSSH Don't XD It's just because Marco's are too long gosh

[fierybluebird]

"Kind of. Mostly he just conned them. They should have been smart enough to see that if he was willing to con Pops, he'd con anyone, but they're stupid. Beats the hell out of me how he still gets people to ally with him. He has a whole crew with him now, pirates are stupid." Marco's eyes flash irritably and he shakes his head, thinking about Shanks instead.

"Aye," he nodded his head, "Sounds like Shanks. He's always doing that too. He went to head off Kaidou from attacking us on our way out at least, so I guess it has some uses. Sometimes. The rest of the time it's just annoying like the rest of him."

[theartofboom]

"And sounds like you wouldn't mind Shanks turning up here," Chandra guessed. She already got that Teach...well, he'd be kill-on-sight.

[fierybluebird]

"Oh hell no," Marco scowled. "He's so damn annoying! And if he was here without his keepers he'd be as bad as Ace's little brother. Except without the Straw Hat crew to keep him busy!"

More scowling, "I wouldn't mind Dark King -- Silvers Rayleigh I mean, showing up. Nor Benn Beckman, if I had to have someone from Shanks' crew, but there's a lot of bad blood between their sniper and Vista. And Shanks is damned annoying. He's not all bad, just...." he spread his hands with a shrug, "A pain."

[theartofboom]

Chandra cackled and shook her head. "You know you jinxed it right? Shanks'll be here soon, just because you said that. And who the hell calls themselves Dark King? Are all of the people from your world going to show up with weird titles?"

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[fierybluebird]

Marco shuddered at the thought. "Don't say that," a face palm. "I don't know how to handle that guy. I'll just duck behind Ace and use him as a drinking shield I guess."

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[fierybluebird]

"And Ray didn't name himself that, the rest of the world named him that. Just like how they started calling Roger the Pirate King. Roger didn't actually set out to be the Pirate King, you know? He just wanted to go to end of the Grand Line. They called Rayleigh the Dark King because he was the brains of them. He's a good guy. A friend. He helps us stop slavery, did I say that?" Marco rubbed the back of his neck. "He's the only one who can really handle Shanks because he used to be in charge of him. It'd be like... if I retired and Ace was forty now and more like his little brother and --" no wait, that was too convoluted an analogy. Marco just shook his head. "Point is, the only one who can handle Shanks is Silvers. I have to use haki just to withstand that guy, but Ray could just kick his ass on a whim probably."

And now he misses Silvers. "Man I wonder what he's been up to lately... I haven't seen him in years though. 'Quiet retirement,' hah. He's probably got a dozen more girlfriends... I should ask Shakki... if I get back to my world and actually have the time before everything goes to hell and worse. I could probably use her insight on what to do about Fishman Island at least..." He gets lost in his own thoughts and shakes it off.

"Once someone gets strong or famous enough they start getting known by their title more than as a rookie. Mine's incredibly boring. Jozu's too. Blackbeard is just... Blackbeard, eh?" A small snort. "Pops is Whitebeard instead of Edward Newgate, Aokiji is Aokiji instead of Kuzan, see, even the marines have them. You'd probably get known as Fire-Hair Chandra," he stuck his tongue out.

[theartofboom]

The history lesson is again filed away, as is Marco's reaction. She'll totally mess with pineapple-head over that if she has the chance someday. Shanks seems like a cool guy in her book based on rep alone.

"What's your title? And Fire-Hair? Really? That's...kinda lame. I actually have one though. At least, one that was given to me by another Planeswalker. I'm the Firebrand."

[fierybluebird]

"Phoenix. Dreadfully dull I'm afraid. It's not like anyone else gets named as their species. Well... Sengoku the Buddha did I guess, but I don't think that counts. It shouldn't count anyway," a shrug. "Firebrand is a lot better though, eh."

[theartofboom]

"Dunno what a Buddha is, but it sounds dull." Chandra smirks. "Think we'll need to give you a new nickname besides Phoenix though. Maybe Pineapple."

[fierybluebird]

"A type of golden god," Marco shrugged, "Ace and Thatch's power types are known as logia. Mine is a zoan, but it's a mythic zoan. So is Sengoku's. He's the fleet admiral of the marines in my world. Or at least he was. With luck they demoted the bastard after Marineford." A face rub, "Although that means either Akainu or Aokiji would get promoted to take his place and I don't like the idea of either of them."

As for Pineapple? He makes a face, "If those are my only two nickname options, I'll stick with Phoenix. Or Xifer. I want to be Xifer. It has pizzazz and sounds like the sparkles."

[theartofboom]

"Gods, huh..." Chandra snorts. "D'you believe in those?"

And she pauses...and then just starts laughing like an idiot.

"And what the hell is a Xifer?"

[fierybluebird]

"No..." Marco trailed off and blushed slightly with a small pout. "I am. Well, that's what Roxas named my phoenix side. It's cute!" So cold Chandra, so cold.

[theartofboom]

Snickering, she shakes her head. "You let the kid name your phoenix side?"

[fierybluebird]

A shrug. "He hasn't figured out we're one and the same," he rubs the back of his neck in thought. "And then I kind of let it get away from me. When I was a lot younger I used to spend all my time as a phoenix. I still do, but I mean I wouldn't even talk to people." He rubs the bridge between his eyes. "You said that the order people tried to take away your power, right?"

[theartofboom]

Chandra's brow furrows, her smile fading. "...yeah. Why?"

[fierybluebird]

Marco has trouble articulating it exactly, and it's clear that he's struggling for once.

"There's a certain freedom in being a bird. People don't react the same, and if I say the wrong thing I don't piss them off so much so intentions count for more. And before you start too, I know... I know I have to tell him sooner or later, I just don't know how yet."

[theartofboom]

"Well...people aren't birds, obviously..." Chandra replies with a raised eyebrow. She's not sure what he's talking about, but...maybe it'll become clearer soon?

[fierybluebird]

He puffs his cheeks out and sighs. "It's like not wanting to be cut off from your fire. I'm me. Phoenix or pineapple hair."

[theartofboom]

"Well obviously?" She thought that was obvious anyway.