[That gets a soft grin out of him.] No, you're right. And most of the time now, I'm trying to tell Ace whatever I can. He gets mad enough to punch me when I don't, and Namur has a big-ass shark mouth, so he can't keep anything secret as it is.
[Glances back out at the ocean.] But this one.... is a bit more complicated.
[Since she promised though, he's trusting that.] There are weapons in my world named after ancient gods. Pluton, Poseidon, Uranus.... The world government is obsessed with doing everything it can to erase them from history. Just one of them could destroy half of the world, and two of them would destroy it entirely. There is an entire century they erased from history, the void century. Which I may or may not know anything about. [A weak grin. He's sticking to Logan's "memory issues" stories for now and no one can stop him.] The study of it is so banned, that the government has destroyed entire islands, entire civilizations, just to prevent its discovery.
We have an old family enemy, named Sir Crocodile. He's not in this world anymore, but for awhile he was. The woman I love -- mah, she won't talk about this kind of thing, so don't ask, but she pretended to help him to thwart him. She knows more about the weapons than even I do, but it made her a wanted criminal when she was only eight years old.
Ikki clued me in to the name similarities. He said they're planets in your star system, but named after the romanization of gods. Ikki himself works... reluctantly mind you, for a goddess. Athena. She defeated her brother Mars... Ares.
[He shakes his hair out yet again.] Coincidence, but....
But the pyramids of my world is where Crocodile went searching for his weapon. He's a sand devil fruit user, so I've no doubt that he just wanted a sandy nation to start over again with, but... those weapons are supposed to bring about the apocalypse. The end of the world.
If that symbol was in our world, the only woman who would recognize it is Robin. And I couldn't tell you if she'd even admit to knowing it if she did recognize it. I tried to ask her about my own name... Marco, eh? Named for a god of war, but sharing the name of planets and weapons... Mah, [Another headshake.] But she refused to discuss it. And truth told, it's not something I want to think much on. I don't believe in fate, and especially not the way Blackbeard does, so even if my name means something like that, then what matters is what I do with it, eh? And that.... [A small sigh.] Is probably obvious what I'm doing with it.
[He waves a hand.] But if what you said is all applicable, then maybe he is just waiting for the world to be ready to destroy itself to wake up.
And if that's the case, you ought to be very careful about waking him up even accidentally.
Robin has my love because she is so much like my father. She could destroy the world quite easily, but it's not what she wants at all. She just wants the love of a family and to protect her captain, as I do mine. I admire her because of how stubbornly she protects those things, the faint knowledge, even for all the struggles it brings her.
[Marco shoots a sideglance at Rogue.] Then again, Ikki warned me if I am like Mars, in mythologies he was fairly obsessed with the goddess of knowledge and wisdom and flowers. All of which describes Robin uncannily.
[Another sigh and Marco huffs on his cigarette, missing Thatch all over again.] It is what it is.
Like I said, there are some dots I cannot see to connect yet. Too many things to isolate the pattern, and I don't know what to do with them yet.
Logically I am sure this war would be here without me, that my brothers would have been in worse danger if I wasn't around to find them again. Logically, the sheer odds that this is all the doing of one single person.... shouldn't make me think it's more likely. But it does. Like I said before. If that is the case, it might explain some things... but it begs a lot more questions too.
Logan, I haven't told him any of all that yet. Because his regeneration is like my own, we have similar enough problems as it is. [Government experiment... oi. More things Marco doesn't want to think heavily about.] And truth told, I'm not sure any of it means anything yet. I said before the mind leaps to make patterns, maybe where there are none.
[He thinks more on it and nods to himself.] I'll need to ask Leanne about her goddess too. I know my anger troubles her, and ah... ask anyone on this ship about her island, and you'll get some very mixed answers. But if I remember correctly, there was an end of the world safeguard with her too, eh?
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[Glances back out at the ocean.] But this one.... is a bit more complicated.
[Since she promised though, he's trusting that.] There are weapons in my world named after ancient gods. Pluton, Poseidon, Uranus.... The world government is obsessed with doing everything it can to erase them from history. Just one of them could destroy half of the world, and two of them would destroy it entirely. There is an entire century they erased from history, the void century. Which I may or may not know anything about. [A weak grin. He's sticking to Logan's "memory issues" stories for now and no one can stop him.] The study of it is so banned, that the government has destroyed entire islands, entire civilizations, just to prevent its discovery.
We have an old family enemy, named Sir Crocodile. He's not in this world anymore, but for awhile he was. The woman I love -- mah, she won't talk about this kind of thing, so don't ask, but she pretended to help him to thwart him. She knows more about the weapons than even I do, but it made her a wanted criminal when she was only eight years old.
Ikki clued me in to the name similarities. He said they're planets in your star system, but named after the romanization of gods. Ikki himself works... reluctantly mind you, for a goddess. Athena. She defeated her brother Mars... Ares.
[He shakes his hair out yet again.] Coincidence, but....
But the pyramids of my world is where Crocodile went searching for his weapon. He's a sand devil fruit user, so I've no doubt that he just wanted a sandy nation to start over again with, but... those weapons are supposed to bring about the apocalypse. The end of the world.
If that symbol was in our world, the only woman who would recognize it is Robin. And I couldn't tell you if she'd even admit to knowing it if she did recognize it. I tried to ask her about my own name... Marco, eh? Named for a god of war, but sharing the name of planets and weapons... Mah, [Another headshake.] But she refused to discuss it. And truth told, it's not something I want to think much on. I don't believe in fate, and especially not the way Blackbeard does, so even if my name means something like that, then what matters is what I do with it, eh? And that.... [A small sigh.] Is probably obvious what I'm doing with it.
[He waves a hand.] But if what you said is all applicable, then maybe he is just waiting for the world to be ready to destroy itself to wake up.
And if that's the case, you ought to be very careful about waking him up even accidentally.
Robin has my love because she is so much like my father. She could destroy the world quite easily, but it's not what she wants at all. She just wants the love of a family and to protect her captain, as I do mine. I admire her because of how stubbornly she protects those things, the faint knowledge, even for all the struggles it brings her.
[Marco shoots a sideglance at Rogue.] Then again, Ikki warned me if I am like Mars, in mythologies he was fairly obsessed with the goddess of knowledge and wisdom and flowers. All of which describes Robin uncannily.
[Another sigh and Marco huffs on his cigarette, missing Thatch all over again.] It is what it is.
Like I said, there are some dots I cannot see to connect yet. Too many things to isolate the pattern, and I don't know what to do with them yet.
Logically I am sure this war would be here without me, that my brothers would have been in worse danger if I wasn't around to find them again. Logically, the sheer odds that this is all the doing of one single person.... shouldn't make me think it's more likely. But it does. Like I said before. If that is the case, it might explain some things... but it begs a lot more questions too.
Logan, I haven't told him any of all that yet. Because his regeneration is like my own, we have similar enough problems as it is. [Government experiment... oi. More things Marco doesn't want to think heavily about.] And truth told, I'm not sure any of it means anything yet. I said before the mind leaps to make patterns, maybe where there are none.
[He thinks more on it and nods to himself.] I'll need to ask Leanne about her goddess too. I know my anger troubles her, and ah... ask anyone on this ship about her island, and you'll get some very mixed answers. But if I remember correctly, there was an end of the world safeguard with her too, eh?