justicereigns | Log 002

[She slowly drifts to awareness, feeling slightly heavy. The scent of tobacco lingering in the air. Has she been teleported to Sanji's bed again? She raises a hand to her forehead and stops. Her hand is too big. Her arm moves in a different way, a strange way and there is something...... off. Very off. Her body is not her body. Robin opens her eyes and finds herself in Zoro. ...Or, maybe not, though it certainly looks like Zoro minus the scars. Hmm. Pulling back the blankets she lifts the hem of her boxers and checks. Not Zoro then. Unless he has a very interesting dye job. The boxers themselves are white with a Marine logo on them.]

Interesting.

[Was that her voice? No...no of course not, it was his. Smoker, obviously. Who else? She can't seem to access any of his memories though, pity. Though on the other hand.... She concentrates for a moment and feels the changes, as if she has hands that can feel every square inch of air, sensitive to movement, air pressure, incredible power. Though it takes more effort to reform herself, himself? And when she does she finds she has left the boxers behind and it is another interesting sensation all together.]

Well, then.

[A moment later she is dressed and with practice acquired from a similar event, lights one cigar and then, remembering, the other, as she stares at the mirror and Smoker grimaces back at her.]

[This should be interesting.]

[Ooc: Robin will be everywhere today trying to see what trouble she can get into.]

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Because I think the odds of this being a problem are so very minimal that if you're going to worry about him dying, you should worry about diseases, shifts, or some Third Party attack as all of those are far more likely to really be a problem.

I don't worry about my ship getting eaten by seakings either, even though it is technically a possibility. Because if I'm going to worry about an oceanic death, it's a lot more likely it'll be a storm.

Shifts come and go. Diseases can he dealt with as long as there are doctors and even without them they may be harmless. And I can kick the ass of whatever Third Party tries to attack. But if I'm sent back I won't be able to come and feed him.

And you're the one who worries that your world is going to be thrown into chaos and despair if the assholes running it are overthrown, ignoring that there's a possibility that if the good people like you actually stepped up and stopped ignoring them the change could actually be for the better. I honestly doubt that those assholes being overthrown is more probable than you falling into the ocean and drowning.

[There's a deeply contemplative look on Robin's face as Smoker thinks this over. Two years in the New World changed a lot for him. He knows now Akainu really did become Fleet Admiral -- which Smoker had thought was a slim possibility. Was the world better for it? With men like Blackbeard rising in power and the "Worst Generation" trying to take on the pirate emperors? It was even even worse than Smoker imagined. So when he speaks up in Robin's voice it's pretty quiet.]

I still oppose Akainu's ideas of justice. The corruption runs rampant, but there isn't an alternative system of government that would just cure those things. It's a disease that runs in the heart of all men who'd seek power for their own gains. I don't trust my own brass, but they're still not as bad as the pirates we're facing. And between the two, I'll very grudgingly deal with Akainu and keep trying to convince more men like Tashigi to follow their own sense of justice.

[He would roll his eyes if he could.]

If I was in your world, based on what you a Marine, have told me, I would probably be a pirate. Or a bounty hunter. But I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Marines and the World Government. With pirates and criminals you know what to expect, but with your government you're just gambling on being lucky to meet a decent man that knows what justice really is and doesn't rule the world by killing anyone who dares to even frown in his general direction.

Pirates are dangerous and chaotic and I know there are many monsters among them. But that doesn't make the monsters on your side any better, just because they are the ones on the top. In fact, I'm sure many monsters among the pirates are there just because basically the ones on your side created them.

[Well, now they're getting into the monsters his government really did create. Nico Robin included, isn't it? Smoker knows now he never got the full story even from Aokiji whom he trusted. Then again, in Aokiji's position, would Smoker have done the same? No, he wants to insist that a child left to wander in the world? He'd have done more. But what? It wasn't like Aokiji leaving the marines would have solved it. If Aokiji had, then men like Smoker definitely wouldn't have been around.]

You'd join Dragon's Rebellion, and good luck to you. I'm sure putting each country into a civil war hoping that no matter which side wins, neither would sign up with the World Government is just a great governing policy. Never mind all the dictators, and pirate warlords who'd come into power by taking advantage of it. Never mind all the children left orphaned in the wars, because surely that will cure the government, right?

Tch. I repeat. It doesn't matter what government replaces ours, it will still be corrupt, it will still have problems, because men aren't perfect. Nothing they create will be either.

If I have to choose between my justice and the law, you know I'll break the law every time. I'll shatter it into a thousand pieces if need be. But simply fighting Akainu because his justice is corrupt? At least he has some few stupid standards. How many do you think Blackbeard or Big Mam or Crocodile have? Crocodile wants the power to destroy the whole world so he can hold it in check, Blackbeard very well might destroy the world just on accident, and Big Mam will consume everything she can in the aftermath.

I don't trust one one-hundredth of what the government does, and I distrust the monsters they make even less, but at least they're not the ones lining up children and charging them a fee for living. Ask any of the pirates here in Luceti and they'll tell you themselves most of the pirates in our world are far worse than most of the marines. Both sides want power, and both sides are willing to sink to some unbelievable lows, but at least the marines and government have to pretend to follow their own laws. Pirates don't even do that.

[He doesn't know if he's failing at making his point come across or if you're just too proud to open your ears and listen to what he's saying.]

Oh, okay, I get it. The lesser of the two evils, rather than bother with trying to get rid of both evils. Because humanity is scum anyway so why try to aim for something better? No wonder you jump right into apocalyptic ideas the moment you consider the government changing, it doesn't sound any different from how Gods in my world defend the idea of destroying humanity and start anew.

I would like to know how the heck you get a salary and how your government maintains itself economically if they don't charge people for living. Oh, wait, they probably claim those are taxes for protecting them from pirates, right that's much better. And if you don't pay your taxes you're a criminal and get punished or if a whole village doesn't pay the protection on them is lifted or something like that. That's so much different than charging people for living.

Look... Just try to not end being killed by a good man who actually has the guts to hope that humanity can do better than how it is doing and who decides to take action and kill both evils, the pirates and the corrupt government. Because if that happens you won't be able to help anyone to reach a better future, you won't be even a memory for most.

[How did an argument about how to raise a stupid wolf evolve into this argument anyway? Whatever, Ikki's done here and he doubts Smoker wants to keep arguing about this so he's just... Going to head to his room and hope that Hyoga hasn't heard them, the swan probably has enough questions as it is.]

[A small stare. He's not really sure taxes can compare to literal stick-ups of "your money or your life." Surely that's hyperbole. Smoker just shakes his head as Ikki stalks off.

If a pirate is going to decide to kill both sides, it's not going to be to save humanity. It'll destroy everything. Isn't that the World Government is trying to prevent? They wanted to make sure the weapons buried deep and hidden far away couldn't be dug up by anyone, it wasn't that they wanted to use them, right? Then again, small memory about C.C. nagged at him. There was a lot Smoker still didn't know about what they were planning. But then... if they did go too far, wouldn't it be better to try to stop them from the inside. Keep your enemies close.

Oh well, justice wasn't easy.]

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