That's... [Honestly Ace is overwhelmed a bit by that. Smoker just keeps surprising him.] Thanks, Smoker.
[Also mentally thanking him for not adding anything to the Sabo comment at all, this is stressful for him.]
I was so damn mean to Luffy when he was little. And kids need someone kind, someone stable. I'm... [Ace sighs.] I'm scared. I want kids someday really bad, but I still can't get it out of my head that I'm cursed and shouldn't even be alive in the first place. And I know, I know, I'm not. But I had it pushed into me so long and I'm kinda scared that I'd corrupt a kid somehow. [And that's not even touching on his trauma that comes from knowing how many pregnant women and unborn babies were sacrificed in the search for him.]
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[Also mentally thanking him for not adding anything to the Sabo comment at all, this is stressful for him.]
I was so damn mean to Luffy when he was little. And kids need someone kind, someone stable. I'm... [Ace sighs.] I'm scared. I want kids someday really bad, but I still can't get it out of my head that I'm cursed and shouldn't even be alive in the first place. And I know, I know, I'm not. But I had it pushed into me so long and I'm kinda scared that I'd corrupt a kid somehow. [And that's not even touching on his trauma that comes from knowing how many pregnant women and unborn babies were sacrificed in the search for him.]