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high_seas2014-08-13 07:43 pm
fierybluebird) wrote in high_seas2014-08-13 07:43 pm
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Sending a Message
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.
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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It's not.
There are billions in my world too. I'm not exaggerating about Blackbeard. He has the unheard of...
[He cocks his head to the side.] Mutants in your world, are they ever born with more than one power? In my world, a second devil fruit will make you explode. But Teach... Blackbeard, he has a special kind of body. He did the impossible. That's how he could destroy the world, and entirely on accident. He's not even trying to wake up those weapons I mentioned, but if this Apocalypse needs to be woken with keys and one of them is to charge him with powers... then Blackbeard would the idiot to charge him. Because he's running around stealing devil fruits and giving them to his own crew in the future I'm told and...
[A heavy sigh.]
Aye, I have sixteen hundred brothers in my crew. Not to mention some fifty thousand allies Pops called his sons and daughters all the same.
And several dozen islands of millions and millions of people he used to protect from slavers and the like, but even keeping my own family alive is a trial and a half. [He traces the giant tattoo on his chest.] This used to protect us, but now it's a target on all of us, and I'm supposed to turn it back into protection. [Gestures out to the ashen spade.] That's why I'm so dramatic, eh? [Switches the arm back to human to point to the spade tattoo.] Because it's a lot easier for me to promote my family's name than my own.
But no matter how many lives you think you're saving, no many how many worlds you think you'll save, you can still only do it by dying permanently once. If he's somehow in every world with signs of him, then who is protecting all those worlds? It can't just be you alone. If we still have all these stories of it, and all these dots to connect, then it might unravel things all the same. Time is a mess. And...
At least talk to Ikki first. He's actually died and been through hell itself more than once, because that's what phoenixes are cursed doing, eh? And he's promised me we'll beat up time itself together to get it where we need. And he connected the gods name thing for me, and knows more about that kind of fight than... anyone else. He hasn't traveled multiple worlds other than this one and his own yet, but he doesn't have my centur-- decades of losing people to color his vision either, eh? [Although he did also have brothers who willingly threw themselves into reckless martyrdom without the blink of an eye, but Marco doesn't share that, since he figures if anyone can talk Marco himself into letting Rogue do as she plans, it'd be Ikki.]
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She can't talk about mutants with more than one power. Because it's hard to tell with mutants. Because there are layers of powers, secondary branches. Jean comes to mind, but those are connected.
Still. It doesn't really matter.]
Apocalypse ain' the real problem. Killin' him? Prob'ly won' do much. Not if he's all I think he is.
[All he's been shown to be capable of. All that power. That's not what she's worried about. That's not how to stop him.]
Me killin' him?
That's more a distraction than anythin' else. Keep 'im busy.
'Cause what needs t' be done?
The Eye of Ages.
[She turns to look at him, focused.]
That's how he does it. How he moves. Between worlds, between times.
That's what I need. If we find 'im here. If I draw 'im out.
I can take 'im down. I ain' afraid of that.
But I can't take out the Eye.
[She takes a step forward.]
If I find 'im, I need you an' whoever's with you t' take it out. Destroy it.
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But you have to let me and the others try to destroy that before killing him, eh? At least if you're sure it'll require your death in return.
And I'll warn you now, if Chandra wants to use it to travel herself, I already promised to let her. I'm selfish, eh? If it means sending Ace and Thatch and the others I care about back to their deaths, I won't do it. Not while I can still try anything else.
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[She paid enough attention to everything talked about with it -- and her own success in trapping Apocalypse again -- to know that.]
It works off life force for anythin' more than a short trip. That's why Apocalypse is easy t' trap in it.
Because it uses his power t' power itself.
[Plus, well, not knowing much about Chandra... there might be another problem to someone else using it.]
An' she'd need t' be a telepath t' use it.
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We'll just destroy it then. Chandra says she uses other things for her power sources. "Mana," something like that. She said Leanne's island was a well for order mana, so I think it comes from worlds, and lands, and the structures between chemical bonds more than up here. [He taps his own temple.]
But no recklessly dying, eh? I can't stop you from dying entirely, but at least make sure you're really ready.
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[Not that there aren't times she wants to. Moments when her feelings are too much and she hates her powers and despises what she does. But she's not in a hurry to die.
She's simply an acceptable loss if it comes to that.]
I jus'... I need someone t' know. If it comes t' it.
That I can do it. That I will.
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Like I said, I can't stop you, eh?
But I've known a lot of damned martyrs. Loved all of them. Still do, most days. But sometimes I hate them too.
[He looks back at her again with a small frown.] You're too much like Ace. If it came down to it, I've no doubt that you would jump in the line of fire and never think twice. My only job as his first mate here, it seems, is to drag him away from trying to do that again on every single island we run into.
[He waves a hand.] Bad enough that Thatch still does the same thing, damned bastard. The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that the only reason he's caught by slavers at all is because he wanted to sacrifice himself to free the others. [Clenches his jaw.] When you meet them, you'll understand. Not even a phoenix's luck or the Will of the D itself seems to be enough to keep them alive.
Even if loved life, it's still because of the people you want to protect in it, eh? And I don't get nearly a selfish enough vibe from you that have anything to worry about kiddo.
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[She believes it.
She wouldn't put herself in the line of fire. Not for most people. Not for the Spades. Not yet. They aren't her family. Now, for Logan? For Scott? For Jean? For Kitty? For Kurt? Yeah. Every time.
But Logan didn't need that from her.
But for billions of people who can't fight for themselves? Just like she'd fight for her fellow Institute kids. For the ones she needs to protect.]
I'm jus' willin' t' do what I have to.
'S what I know. Been told it several times, an' I know it.
We all do what we have to.
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You aren't convincing me, eh.
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[One of Xavier's lessons had gotten through. Acceptable losses. Greater good.]
I'm what I was taught t' be. An X-Man.
Any of my team'd do the same.
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Not so much on the greater good. We're pirates, we're allowed to be selfish. They just convince themselves it is selfish... and they're half right anyway. It's still bothersome, yoi. But like I said, maybe I'm just jealous.
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[She can't help but smile. Because, well, it's just something she can't help but think. Especially all of this.]
I just can' decide who.
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[Then again, he wouldn't be surprised either. Marco makes terrible impressions on people all the time.]
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[But, then, a look at her -- at her face when she says it -- and it's a good bet that list is pretty small.]
But no one I hate.
[Because he's talked like Magneto. Reminded her a lot of him. But not in a bad way. Made her feel like maybe, just maybe, Magneto had the right idea.]
Might've changed my mind 'bout someone, actually.
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To be fair, I wouldn't trust me either.
[Which is OBVIOUSLY reassuring, right?]
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Hey, better than someone sayin' they can be trusted. Those? Y' never know.
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The only times Thatch and Ace say to trust them is when they're about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous that they know I'm going to have to rescue them from.
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