[He's not even surprised somehow. Not with everything else he's seen and dealt with by now.]
[The fact that she trusted him with the accidentally manipulated betrayal of her team doesn't go unnoticed either. Marco's reminded again of Chameleone, who could borrow other people's powers too, but the difference again is that Rogue is completely upfront with everything. Her goals, what bothers her, what happened. Things that neither Chameleone nor Blackbeard ever showed, even when Marco had them cornered. Even when they could have trusted the crew, had they not been intending betrayal from the start. No, intentions may not mean as much to others, but they were the world of difference for Marco. He could forgive a screw-up every single time, but never someone who purposely crossed the lines laid out before them. Not even once.]
In your world, eh? It strikes me that it's probably a different set of circumstances each time.
Same person or not, if he's skipping about worlds and times, and needing to recharge, then it might have gone in a loop, eh? [He gestures with his fingers.] From your perspective he was sleeping, got charged by you and woke up. Then you trapped him again. But for all you know, if he went back around in a timeloop using other worlds then he would need to set a same set of circumstances to charge him back up again, aye? Or it could even be where he went back, charged himself when everyone thought he was sleeping and skipped off to another world to try to take over, or needing another set of events to fall in place for him to get what he wants.
It's hard to explain, but to use Crocodile again, he tried to become the pirate king, but in our section of the ocean, he got his ass kicked pretty badly and had to start all over again, without a crew or friends or anything. That's why he was looking for one of those weapons. Because nothing else would be strong enough to help him reach his goal.
If Apocalypse is here, he might be waiting for the right things to charge him up again or release, or wake him. And what better way to do that than to convince the person who did it the first time?
Worse. Let's say there's different keys in every world, eh? What better way than to gather all those people together using a completely different proxy.
[A sigh and he closes his eyes.] If Chandra was here we could ask her. She's traveled between worlds and knows more about that and magic things, than anyone else I've ever met. Although I half suspect wherever she is, she accidentally messed something up... because I know she wouldn't leave without me and my brothers, and she's not as foolhardy as my brothers about slavery. If someone tried to get one of those collars or cuffs on her, we'd have heard of an entire island blowing up first. Her temper is almost worse than Ace's like that. But she did accidentally turn a chicken into a lizard thing, and she has done some crazy stuff with experimenting with her magic, ever since we were on Leanne's island.
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[He's not even surprised somehow. Not with everything else he's seen and dealt with by now.]
[The fact that she trusted him with the accidentally manipulated betrayal of her team doesn't go unnoticed either. Marco's reminded again of Chameleone, who could borrow other people's powers too, but the difference again is that Rogue is completely upfront with everything. Her goals, what bothers her, what happened. Things that neither Chameleone nor Blackbeard ever showed, even when Marco had them cornered. Even when they could have trusted the crew, had they not been intending betrayal from the start. No, intentions may not mean as much to others, but they were the world of difference for Marco. He could forgive a screw-up every single time, but never someone who purposely crossed the lines laid out before them. Not even once.]
In your world, eh? It strikes me that it's probably a different set of circumstances each time.
Same person or not, if he's skipping about worlds and times, and needing to recharge, then it might have gone in a loop, eh? [He gestures with his fingers.] From your perspective he was sleeping, got charged by you and woke up. Then you trapped him again. But for all you know, if he went back around in a timeloop using other worlds then he would need to set a same set of circumstances to charge him back up again, aye? Or it could even be where he went back, charged himself when everyone thought he was sleeping and skipped off to another world to try to take over, or needing another set of events to fall in place for him to get what he wants.
It's hard to explain, but to use Crocodile again, he tried to become the pirate king, but in our section of the ocean, he got his ass kicked pretty badly and had to start all over again, without a crew or friends or anything. That's why he was looking for one of those weapons. Because nothing else would be strong enough to help him reach his goal.
If Apocalypse is here, he might be waiting for the right things to charge him up again or release, or wake him. And what better way to do that than to convince the person who did it the first time?
Worse. Let's say there's different keys in every world, eh? What better way than to gather all those people together using a completely different proxy.
[A sigh and he closes his eyes.] If Chandra was here we could ask her. She's traveled between worlds and knows more about that and magic things, than anyone else I've ever met. Although I half suspect wherever she is, she accidentally messed something up... because I know she wouldn't leave without me and my brothers, and she's not as foolhardy as my brothers about slavery. If someone tried to get one of those collars or cuffs on her, we'd have heard of an entire island blowing up first. Her temper is almost worse than Ace's like that. But she did accidentally turn a chicken into a lizard thing, and she has done some crazy stuff with experimenting with her magic, ever since we were on Leanne's island.