[voice] A stormy question

[justicereigns]

[Hello Luceti, is the nice little ice storm distracting you from post-Valentine's woes? Don't worry, here's a grumpy marine asking questions to painfully reminds you all.]

Seeing as we're all stuck inside -- [Once again, an usually feminine voice from Smoker's journal account.] -- I've got a question for everyone affected by the event.

Are there normally lines you won't cross in relationships that the Malnosso seem to cross for you? Or do they seem to take those into consideration instead? Since they seem to know us pretty well, it begs the question whether they're using our weaknesses, or if it's completely random.

And if anyone needs help out there in the storm, let me know. This weather is good practice.

[ooc: and feel free to threadjump like the dickens. It might be the only time Smoker keeps quieter than not, seeing as he's a girl now.]

Comments

[justicereigns]

No... it's just automatic. Once someone brings things up, hard not to think about.

[uccellodifuoco]

Sure.

[He has no problems stopping thinking about stupid stuff, Smoker.]

[justicereigns]

[That's because Ikki's special. Smoker has killer hearing and overthinks everything. It's a problem.]

What, you never hear someone say "Hey let's grab some rum cake?" and then in the process of deciding if you want some, think about having rum cake.

Now I want rum cake.

[uccellodifuoco]

I don't.

[To both the question and the rum cake.]

[justicereigns]

Huh. Great... now my entire life is throw into question.

[Except not really, because he doesn't care that much.]

[uccellodifuoco]

As if you cared that much about it.

[He knows you.]

[justicereigns]

[GRINS.] Yeah, all right. I don't care if I'm the only one who thinks that way. Though it's weird to hear other people probably don't.

[uccellodifuoco]

We can blame it to you having too much free time to think.

[justicereigns]

Always. [Lights up a pair of cigars.] Damn it, at this rate I'll be worse than Lupin.

[uccellodifuoco]

That's the second time you mention that Lupin, who is he?

[justicereigns]

Zenigata's prey.

Some world's best thief. He's annoying. Before I was kidnapped he was trying to get my attention out of boredom. When I got back, he wanted my help with something. [Shrugs.] I can't get rid of him. [But he's growing on him.]

[uccellodifuoco]

I bet that annoys you a lot indeed. You sound terrible annoyed.

[Not.]

[justicereigns]

He reminds me of Straw Hat. [Folds arms over his chest.] But he's one of the few people in this place worth a decent conversation, and he's not under twenty.

No offense.

[uccellodifuoco]

Why should it be an offense? I'm not under twenty.

[He's 21 going for 22.]

Unless you were trying to say that I'm not worth a decent conversation.

[justicereigns]

You are. I said other than you.

[Shrugs. He can't figure out if/why Ikki's touchy and what things to avoid.] Plus with him, we don't really care if the other hates each other because we're already on opposite sides of the law and beliefs. It's kind of refreshing. In a fucked up way.

[But Ikki's still his best friend. Rare is the person Smoker would be willing to share his space with.]

[uccellodifuoco]

You are the one who said "no offense", as if I could be offended by something you just said.

[He wasn't, until that was added. And now he's worried about what the heck he meant. Oh well, whatever.]

Agreeing to disagree or something like that? You could do that with the pirates here as well, or is it because he's not your prey?

[justicereigns]

Because he's Zenigata's. Maybe I should let Zenigata at Straw Hat and see what happens. [A shrug.]

Tsk. More than that, the pirates and I ... can't seem to get along. One I do, but that's a mess. And the other we keep irritating. I should see if she's still in for Poker nights though. Even if she does wind up with most of my cigars.

[Tilts her head to the side thinking it over.] I think with the pirates from my world there's the mutual understanding that anything either of say or do, we still might use against each other when it's convenient. Tends to stem off most conversations.

[uccellodifuoco]

Well, I don't know if I would bother to talk with the Specters or the Marinas if one of them even appeared here so I can't judge. But I don't see why we would fight unless they started it.

[Though since they won all those battles there's also the factor of knowing that he can defeat them if he has to. Smoker's conflicts are far from over.]

[justicereigns]

It's complicated. Straw Hat and his crew don't want to pick a fight with me... generally. [Nico Robin sometimes did, but she has many problems with marines as they did with her, and he hadn't forgiven her for everything she did to Tashigi.] But we're hardly friends. And even the unnamed truce is tentative. Since if they step a toe out of line I'll be there to kick their asses.

[uccellodifuoco]

Why would they do so here anyway?

[justicereigns]

[Shrugs.]

To protect a friend they declared war on the world government. They do insane things sometimes.

[uccellodifuoco]

If it's to protect someone then I can sympathize with them. That's what I do as well.

[Though Smoker should know that already.]

[justicereigns]

Hn. I'm not sure letting the world devolve into murderous chaos is such a good thing, whatever the reasons.

[uccellodifuoco]

I said I can sympathize, not that I think it's a good thing to do that. But I killed the God that ruled the underworld, also known as the afterlife which basically destroyed that place leaving souls with nowhere to go. Basically all of them ended in Hell though, no matter how good people they had been because Hades refused to accept any redeeming things, but I'm sure many would say that it was a bad thing to do.

[justicereigns]

No. There should be exceptions to such a thing. But the whole world isn't... [Rubs the back of his neck. Some islands are in danger, but others are like Alabasta or Drum Kingdom where a spark of revolution could be a good thing and change things that needed to be; without destroying everything good.]

It's nearly the same though, isn't it? By just saying to destroy the World Government, it's saying the government doesn't do anything good for anyone; no redeeming qualities. And I don't believe that.