ACE

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(pirate noises)

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[ just mentally puts ace's face on one of those posters of sad kids that were deprived of all of life's joys growing up, even though he's so flippant about it. ]

Just bandits and pirates?

[selfimmolation]

[ it's like not entirely wrong ]

Yeah, pretty much. I had my brother, and my first mate back when I was captain ended up being my age, but it's not like I was seeking out other teens or anything when forming my crew.

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[ me going SABO out loud because all i WILL wave what little i do know about one piece around proudly in bracket text. it'll be really funny if it's not sabo at all. ]

You're 20, right? How old were you when you started captaining a pirate crew anyway...?

[ this is going to be one of those "one piece is weird and tama is from a world with laws about this shit" moments, but she will try not to be a total nag about it. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ :o ]

I set sail when I turned 17. So around then.

[ honestly for anime

not that bad ]

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[ O: ]

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Honestly, I was waiting for you to say 13 or something. Seventeen's only a year younger than one of ABIS's active agents.

[ sweet mizuki. ]

[selfimmolation]

Nah, I wouldn't have been strong enough at that age. Besides, I had a little brother to take care of.

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Right, Robin’s captain?

[ the pirate brothers …. ]

That makes sense, I imagine your ships aren’t running motors like the ones used back home do.

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We have sails and rudders. I don't know what fuel you guys even have that'd be a good idea to use on the seas for so long...

[ there is no petrol in one piece because the. the dinosaurs are alive. there's an island with dinosaurs*

*there might be petrol but no one fuckin uses it so who knows ]

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Yeah, stick to those. There’s a whole ordeal now because it turns out the fuel wasn’t good for the sea or anything at all, really.

[ every time you explain one piece the more lost i am. may those dinosaurs live very long, un-oiled lives.

[selfimmolation]

Is this like the thing where Danny says you guys don't have enough trees?

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Not enough trees, too many people and the ocean’s full of plastic. Yup.

[selfimmolation]

What did you guys do?

[ YOU, PERSONALLY, ]

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Hey, it was like this when I was made!

[ like every child from the 90s onwards. she inherited this mess. ]

Mostly capitalism and greed though. As always.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah, sounds about right. [ as a pirate he is inherently greedy and has no reason to say this but it's fine capitalism is still bad because rich people are the worst ] Still, I'm surprised dumping stuff in the ocean didn't get you guys attacked.

[ not everyone has sea monsters ace ]

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[ everyone everywhere except for dana’s iris’ canon: capitalism sucks ]

…? Attacked by what?

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I guess you guys don't have sea kings either, huh?

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Yyyyyyou’re not talking about the ones in the P*kémon video games, are you?

[selfimmolation]

No.

[ in a very "i don't know what pokemon is and i dont want to ask" ]

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[ mercy is taken ]

Then, no. No sea kings in our oceans. Just a lot of animals having to deal with all of our plastic.

[selfimmolation]

I guess our seas are a lot more dangerous than yours.

[ everything. everything is more dangerous, ace. ]

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Among other things. [ (ace voice) you mean you didn’t get mauled by giant sea beasts? wow ] I’d say where I’m from is pretty safe, even if my perspective should be skewed.

Most of our “monsters” are just other people, honestly.

[selfimmolation]

Oh, we've got plenty of that, too.

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Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. Where there’s people, there’s good and there’s bad.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah... And the same applies here, too.

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Well, yeah. There’s people here. Most of you suck.

[ there’s a laugh in her voice though. ] But it balances out with ones who don’t.