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[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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Or maybe you just don't have guts to charge through certain things.

[It's also a possibility.]

If Grell has the body she wants and she's happy, what does it matter if you're in the wrong body? You're still you and love isn't just about banging the other at any chance you've got.

[Even in an alternate universe Ikki seems to have issues with the idea of sex, maybe because here his parents divorced, his mother married again and had a trillion of kids with her new husband as if it was a must.]

[Facepalms with one hand... which then sprouts into three. He still doesn't have the hang of this.]

I'm aware. [Oh his gosh, he's not blushing even though he'd normally be lobster red! SCORE. One perk to being Robin.] It's just more...

[Sort of waves and rolls about eight hands. God this is harder than it looks to control.] Okay I'll try to come up with date ideas to take her o--

Oi! What do you mean I don't have the guts to charge ahead on things?

[Ikki just settles to eat his breakfast and starts munching.]

I said "certain things", not everything. How far have you gotten with Grell even under normal circumstances? I know that Labrador vanishing was a hard hit, but you're an adult man and still have one daughter. And Grell loves you a lot.

[It's the world upside down, Ikki trying to give love advice?]

You're now in a body you're not comfortable with. Guess what? That's Grell's everyday life. And I don't see why you can't get creative if you really wanted to go through.

Edited 2012-05-28 14:03 (UTC)

[Nods. Damn it Ikki why are you better than Smoker at relationships? It's because Smoker's made of fail, isn't it?]

Point well taken. [Even if his concern is more that he does have the body Grell wants him to have, crazy as that sounds.] I'm not sure I'm the creative type, but I'll come up with something. We were flirting a year long before anything ever happened so... [A shrug.] Keimi's been dying for a double date with us and Daisy too, maybe that will work. Make it a girl party.

[It's the experiment, Smoker, remember than normally Ikki is too much in denial and too prideful to be good at his relationship with Kotomi.]

Hmm... Wait, what?

[Ikki looks at you with an eyebrow raised.]

You sure it's a good idea to go on a double date with your daughter and her girlfriend?

I think it's a terrible idea and I try to keep the part of me that thinks of Keimi as my daughter and Daisy as her girlfriend as separate as humanly possible, but if you've ever seen Keimi happy you know it's really hard to disappoint her and say no.

And I do want Grell and Keimi to get along. They both love fashion... which is over my head.

And Grell keeps saying I need to give Keimi more confidence... [Which he has no idea how to do. At all. At all. He tends to think "get stronger = get more confidence" rather than vice versa.]

Don't be stupid, Keimi is your daughter, you can't stop thinking of her that way. You're not that type of person.

I don't really see how going out with both of them is going to give her more confidence, unless you somehow manage to not act as a policeman and don't watch over them like a hawk... Which I doubt you can do.

[Ikki has so little faith in you.]

Anyway, first you should settle yourself with Grell properly before worrying about her relationship with Keimi.

[OTL.]

Can't I just hide away until this is over?

[No, no he can't.]

What do normal people do on dates again? [This is a perfectly reasonable question, okay.]

Won't it be the same even if you're in your normal body?

[Ikki shrugs. If this was normal Ikki he would say that there's nothing good to do in this place anyway. But this Ikki has other ideas.]

Depends on who your partner is I suppose. With Kotomi our dates tend to be walks around the village, visits to the library and maybe eat something together. Just spending time together, but I suppose Grell will be a more active type.

Probably.

And yes, she is. Which is fine, because so am I... except... [Except physical things like baseball that he likes, he kind of doubts would be Grell's thing. And walks around the village right now just seem hazardous. And hide and seek without his own body seems extra ridiculous... and pointless.]

Ice cream's normal, right? Damn, maybe I should see if anyone wanted to carry through on that playhouse thing, she'd love that. Oh! What are those... video den den mushi things call? Like recorded plays that people show over journals sometimes?

[You had him until the "den den mushi" thing.]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Taps the journal.]

When the journal records people doing things, like a camera but with motion. They have recorded plays like that too, right?

[Thinking hard now, what was it called that week he was a reaper... it was so vivid and yet almost instantly gone. Wait, but Grell's mentioned it another time.] Film reel?

I see the experiment has messed up with your head a bit besides the body thing, huh?

[How else could Smoker forget what a movie is?]

Yes, movies are also a good option if you get them, a television and a player.

[Smoker's never seen a movie.]

Movies! Right. That's the thing... Where would I...

[Oh, now he has an idea about asking Lupin. Because if there's anyone in this village who likes to make big flashy things for the purpose of entertaining people? Definitely Lupin.] Okay, I think I have an idea.

People eat popcorn at movies right? I think I read that in a book.

[No really, that is where he heard of this. You have a book-worm type don't you Ikki. Only explanation.]

What, you have never watched a movie? I know you're not a television person but, really...

They don't have them in my world. Den den mushi can be hooked up video den den mushi, and the prisons do that for security, and the government did that for Marineford -- to give news or warnings to Sabaody -- but no one's every recorded plays on them. They don't really "record" either. It's just live feed. And it's not something everyone individually owns. Even if people have a den den mushi, they usually just use it for business voice calls, the video den dens are as tall as I am and five times as wide, so it's not something people could just... own.

[Yeah... Okay, stop that.]

Your world? I've known you since I was a kid and movies exist here since longer. They aren't something too common but still... And I have never heard of those den den mushi things.

Maybe it's better if you don't do anything until the shift wears off. You sound crazy right now.

[Oh Right. That Shift. Smoker just facepalms. Success! Only one hand this time!] I guess this Shift is just affecting me hard.

I'll ask Lupin about setting up a big movie screen thing. But it might take until after this Shift is ended if he's being... Red or something weird. Or maybe he'd be even better at it then.

Seeing how it's getting to your head maybe it won't be a bad thing if he takes until the end of the shift with this.

But I should still do something in the meanwhile, right?

Yeah... Just try to not sound crazy, you don't want her to think you're not right up there, right?

Yeah, exactly. I'll make sure to act extra sane.

[As he mentally sighs.]

Talking about dates, I should get Kotomi-chan to one, it has been a while.

[Dare to ask how often he thinks he dates her?]

Really? How long?

[He dares. If it's been 5 hours though he's going to get exasperated.]

We were together on Monday, though it wasn't a planned date.

[See, it's more than 5 hours. And he's not counting their chats through the journals as dates.]

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