ACE

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(pirate noises)

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Anyone can pull off cutesy if they really try! [ they can.... ]

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Good to know? But it's not like I want to either.

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Okay but.


It would be really funny if you did.

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[ well, he laughs, but; ]

I'm good. Can I move? I don't know what you're doing with the hoodie.

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I never said you couldn’t. These are nice quality, you should get one.

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No thanks! It's pretty warm in the city, and I don't want to cover up my pride.

[ ........ has not explained he means his tattoo so feel free to assume he means his titties ]

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[ she does just looks at his tits and then back at his face like ‘literally, mine are bigger’ ]

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[ HELP HE'S LAUGHING but he turns around to show off his tattoo ]

Hey, hey, what are you thinking-- I'm talking about this!

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[ hers are still bigger. ]

Oh?

[ the way i just googled the tattoo and lost it at the ‘tache. help. ]

… You know sun exposure makes a tattoo fade faster, right?

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[ the mustache is the most important part. ]

I'm not worried about stuff like that. [ that is a later problem!! ] I'm not going to hide Whitebeard's mark unless I have to.

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[ it’s amazing. ]

You named your tattoo Whitebeard?

[ it doesn’t have a beard…… ace… ace… it doesn’t have a bEA— ]

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That'd be pretty messed up! [ he's dying ] No, that's my captain! I'm part of Whitebeard's crew, and this is his jolly roger. Our flag.

[ in case she doesn't like. know. pirate terms. ]

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[ ……………………………. ]

Like a … pirate?

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Did I not say I was? I haven't exactly been keeping it a secret.

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It hasn’t come up. [ arrests him immediately — no. ]

The Golden Age of piracy ended nearly 300 years ago where I’m from.

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Huh. [ huh. ] Well, the Great Age of piracy's been going on for... about twenty two years.

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[ huh. ]

So you’re from… the 1670s…?

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We don't count years like that, so I'm pretty sure I'm just not from your world at all.

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[ she pulls a face. hhrbrrbrbrbrbldgljdf. ]

There’s a ton of alternate world theories out there, but it is weird to have literal proof of it right in front of your face, not just pure speculation.

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I don't know anything about those. Temenos was the first one to mention it was probably the case when we talked geography. I was pretty shocked.

[ says it like haha silly :) like there was no mini mental aaaaaa??? ]

But everyone's worlds seem to have a lot more land than mine does. We've only got one continent and it's the Red Line.

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There are people out there who believe the word is a simulation. And I mean a lot of people — some who want to leave it behind, and others who want to remain in the simulation to act without consequence. People’ll believe anything.

This is a little more solid though. There are definitely no pirates where I’m from — or, not to the extent there were in the past.

[ … huh. ]

The world is something like 70 per cent or more ocean. You’re saying yours is more?

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[ what the fuck is a simulation. but anyway he shrugs and starts to look around the university store curiously ]

I don't think anyone has ever made a percentage like that? But the world's never been fully mapped out either. [ lol. ] Everyone lives on different islands scattered across the world. From what I got, that's not common?

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… If you want to get technical, every world with land and oceans are just a bunch of islands surrounded by water. But we tend to define ‘islands’ as the little land masses, not the huge ones.

[ picky. ]

Can’t imagine the world not being fully mapped though… I know mine wasn’t at some point in time, but it’s been mapped for long enough there’s not a person alive that remembers a time it wasn’t.

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The way I've heard it described, a lot of you can live way too far from the sea to count as an island.

[ don't nitpick his basic idea of geography he never went to school ]

Is that why there's no more pirates? It must be pretty boring having nothing new to find.

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... Tokyo's not landlocked, but there are definitely parts of Japan that are. Although we are classed as an island.

[ that sounds like a him problem. ]

Oh, there's plenty to find. People have just moved on to sciences, technology and the stars.