Sending a Message

[fierybluebird]

Who: Spades & anyone who hops over
Where: The quickly ruining ashes of what once was a naval base + at sea with the Spades, Luffy, and anyone coming back with Logan and Rogue // AKA: THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS!
What: Coldly angry Marco lets all the navy men go free and makes sure they have enough supplies to sail with, but makes it clear he's burning the base down into the shape of a spade "to send a message"
Warnings: UH VIOLENCE? JUSTICE LECTURES? At least he's not feeling too bloody and murderous, but maybe that's worse, oops.
Status: Open!



See also this post and remember that Marco's usual reasons for holding in check (ie: Thatch, Nico Robin, Namur, Roxas) are gone or, in Marco's opinion more reasons to cut loose. Feel free to smack him upside the head, he won't retaliate.

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[fierybluebird]

[Was it what Whitebeard wanted?]

[Aye... and no.]

Pops would want us all to be free and go our own way. That's why I'm taking Ace sailing the stars. Until he's satiated enough he never wants for anything else. [And Ace was a demanding kind of guy, so that would be forever, as far as Marco knew, but if anyone had the time for that, it was Marco.]

Back in our world... I might take you up on that fight. Someday. But it'll be on my own terms, no one else's.

[That was really what pissed Marco off. He was almost completely surrounded in checks. Not in this world. Here he was usually so free he could everything and anything he wanted, and there didn't seem to be any dead-ends, so he never had to stop flying except to briefly rest. But in the New World, in the New Era that wasn't Whitebeard's, that was without Ace and Thatch, where Blackbeard had the darkness and earthquake devil fruits. Back there what choices did he have?]

Right now it's just enough for me to survive. If I had my way, that wouldn't be a priority. That wouldn't have been my priority in Marineford either.

But we're not the same style of captains. You sound more like Shanks or Roger like that, but I'd rather be one like my Pops. [If at all. Marco wasn't willing to disband them though. It wouldn't keep the crew safe, it would definitely endanger the islands, and no. He was going to punch back hard against every god damn rookie and Blackbeard, and Kaidou, and anyone else foolish enough to think he was only strong from his father. They didn't realize that Whitebeard's strength was his family. His family were damned strong even without him.] My selfishness would be to kill Blackbeard. But he is not our only foe and my brothers need me for more than just him.

Whatever the new era holds, I don't expect to like it. But --

[Marco, Mars, god of war. It all comes back to him again and makes him want to curl up into a ball of a phoenix in Robin or Thatch's laps.]

[He didn't believe in fate, not like Blackbeard did, not at all.]

[But it was too much of a stretch to dismiss it utterly as well.]

But I can't say yet what the future will hold. What I want is to be here now with all my brothers. I won't waste it.

[meatthefuture]

[he's glad that Marco will take care of Ace. Though Luffy wants to, too. If they go walking wherever they're going, how can Luffy see him again? He's not sure what he wants to do but it bothers him a little.

He won't worry about it. He won't worry about any of it right now because Ace is here right now. With his nakama and people that care about him and maybe back at home he'll meet Marco again and see how things are going and maybe they can fight and maybe they can party]

I won't waste it either. [not] But I wanna help if I can.

[fierybluebird]

[Lightly pokes him.]

Thanks kiddo.

Show Ace the status of your dream and courage in the future, eh?

That's what he wanted most.

[meatthefuture]

How is Ace gonna see it here? [he rests his chin on the lip of the crow's nest] I can't be Pirate King here. I don't wanna be. I want him to come back. [clenches his toes a little]

[fierybluebird]

Pops wanted to see how you'd do from a short glimpse.

Ace isn't so different from the old man, eh. So long as he sees you staying strong and happy, he'll know you're unbeatable.

[meatthefuture]

Unbeatable... [he wonders about that sometimes. He wants to say he won't lose again and he's going to fight his hardest wherever he is but--] Is there anyone like that?

1/2

[fierybluebird]

Depends on how you look at it.

Pops was.

Do you know one of the things Roger said at his funeral?

2/2

[fierybluebird]

"Someday a man will come along with indomitable will. So long as these things exist, so long as mankind longs for freedom, One Piece will be found."

You were pretty out of it I think, when Pops fell, but he said the same thing. He said One Piece is real, Blackbeard isn't the man Roger's waiting for, and that the World Government is just terrified of the changes finding One Piece will bring when it is found by the person carrying all that will.

You gave Ace the will to live and make it as far as he did. Now he just needs to see you'll make it the rest of the way.

Maybe it's not people that are unbeatable, but the convictions that send them to sea in the first place. Because it's like a crew. Even if one man falls, there's another one to take his place, and keep carrying the dream forward.