3rd Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action

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[For once Ikki has decided to try to hang around the village itself instead of going to the mountains or the forest. Even he can get bored of that, after all.

He will be seen calmly sitting at the plaza or having a drink at the Good Spirits or the Seventh Heaven, depending on the hour. At one point he will "find" the flower shop and will get a flower -only one- before heading for the forest to a more or less secluded area.

Nothing terribly curious or interesting. Though he will have his Pandora box with him the whole time, as big as half of his body. Not that that's out of normal in Luceti, right?]

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[justicereigns]

Ikki.

[Nods head and is drinking a rum.]

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[Many would probably complain about a minor drinking, but Luceti isn't a place to watch for those things and in his world he probably is old enough for it anyway if they can drive with fourteen. And Ikki isn't a person who would care about that anyway. He nods back at Smoker.]

Smoker, how have you been?

[justicereigns]

[Smoker was the kind of kid who probably was a hard drinker by 15. So he's definitely not about to complain.]

Good, you?

Now that I think of it, Ikki already is sixteen even lol

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki shrugs a bit.]

Can't complain, things have been quite calm for a while.

[At least on his part. The last thing he did that seemed even a bit out of the ordinary was finding a boy turned into an icicle.]

It seems we got new people around again though. Anyone you knew among them?

heh, convenient

[justicereigns]

More knew of. A fellow marine. He wasn't in my crew, but he was at the Battle of Marineford; most of us were.

Anyone for you?

[uccellodifuoco]

Fortunately not. Neither people I know, nor people I know of.

[He sounds almost amused by that.]

That Battle of Marineford sounds impressive just by its name.

[justicereigns]

It... was a world changing event. To put it mildly.

It has another name, but that one just seems strange here.

[uccellodifuoco]

The mildly way of putting it is to describe it as a "world changing event"? That sounds worrisome when considering what would be the more severe way to put it.

[He snorts almost amused. He has had his own share of situations that, put in a mildly way, would be described as "world changing". Even if many of them are unknown for the world itself.]

The word "strange" is overrated in this place where normal people without any kind of power are the strange ones to find. What's the name?

[justicereigns]

[Stares at, unsure whether to answer, but fuck it, it's not like he actually wants to HELP the pirates or make life easier on them.]

The execution of Portgas D. Ace.

The battle was almost completely televised with his crew fighting to take him back, including their allies; and more strangely still, a bunch of escaped prisoners from Impel Down which, until then was nigh impenetrable. Even for Luceti standards, it was strange.

[uccellodifuoco]

So much ruckus just for the life of one man?

I have seen Gods die with far less effect in the world at first sight.

[And at second sight. It's not as if Hades' death changed the way the world moved or anything. People still died, still got injured, still suffered. Just, instead of dying and be sent to an eternal hell they... Well, he doesn't know what happens now with those who die, but even if it's eternal aimless wandering it's better than any of the hell prisons they would have been sent otherwise. It's not as if he actually believes anyone ever got to be able to go to the Elysium after all.]

[justicereigns]

Strangely, it wasn't even about him, so much as his father.

Fear is a powerful thing when people worry about the destruction of life as they know it.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki just grunts at the first part. Not about that Ace but about his father, huh? Ikki has his share of the shadow of a father obscuring everything else. He won't abandon Athena and the others, but he will never stop thinking that none of them would have ever even moved a finger to get involved in all that if it hadn't been because of their father forcing that fate on them. Not that they would have even existed in the first place without that man's scheming but still...]

And the death of that man represented that? Curious that the people in your world would consider the death of a criminal a bad omen for their lives. Or did it actually have some kind of symbolical meaning? Like burning down a flag being a declaration of war or something like that.

[justicereigns]

No, I mean they wanted to eradicated everything and anything having to do with Gold Roger, the Will of the D and anything that could revive One Piece.

Portgas was considered something of the price of blood to pay for that.

[uccellodifuoco]

I heard about Gold Roger and the One Piece, but what is the Will of the D?

[The price of blood? Like a sacrifice?]

[justicereigns]

Beats me.

Something Gold Roger, possibly Dragon and Straw-Hat all carry. It terrifies Sengoku, but since he has to deal with Garp on a frequent basis, that could be why.

[uccellodifuoco]

Well, in general terms, willpower can be a worrisome thing when it's at the opponent's side. Though I suppose it doesn't have to really be something related to willpower.

So I take this Battle of Marineford had all of you Marines gathered on it?

[justicereigns]

It could. It's also a potential for haki so it's possible.

Yes. It was to fight the Strongest man in the world and his entire crew.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...Oh look it's the flame throw-- why does he have a flower? He can't help but want to look into this. He jogs on over closer to the guy-!] Oiii! Ikki!

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[Can't a guy full of anger and hate get a flower? Ikki stops and turns to Haruki, eying him closely, he could already feel that he was alright but a visual confirmation never is a bad idea.]

You seem to be doing better.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah. Much whatever-

[He waves a hand dismissively at that once he's made it over] Anyway, what's with the flower?

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki arches an eyebrow and looks at the flower, almost as if he hadn't noticed it.]

It's just a gift for someone. Why?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Who's it a gift for?

[/bugs bugs]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki eyes Haruki for a moment, why is he asking that? Does it matter to him? Or is it just curiosity? Ikki never talks about Esmeralda... But then again he has never had a reason for it, no one has ever asked him, because no one even knew of her existence.]

Someone who isn't in this world.

[It's ironic that he can't describe Esmeralda as anything else than "someone". She was more than a friend, but they weren't a couple or anything like that. She was his light while stuck in hell, a light that was turned off suddenly leaving him blind, but that still managed to illuminate enough for him to eventually find other lights to guide his path.]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...Huh. That could either be personal, interesting, or boring. The first one is bad, second is good, third is bad again. Given that it's two of three for "let's not ask" he decides to take his own advice in favor of not pursuing the topic. He shrugs]

Fair enough, I guess.

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[It's personal, and probably boring for those not related. Not that Ikki cares about if it's boring or not. He crosses his arms and looks at Haruki.]

And you?; What are you doing?

[Besides poking at other people's business.]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Just looking around town, of course. >[He just... shrugs at this. He's been doing a lot lately, but today is a slow day. It happens]

[uccellodifuoco]

Not much to do? Not even with your Brigade thing?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Oi, oi. I've got plans in the works for them. I'm not not acting yet.

[uccellodifuoco]

So you don't have anything to do with the Brigade at the moment, after all.

[Arching an eyebrow, he sounds amused. And he is amused. Why so defensive Haruki?]

What plans are those?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Not of your business. [HE IS TSUNDERE everything is defensive]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki chuckles at that.]

I suppose not. Children games are something more akin to Seiya or Shun after all.

[Yeah, he's mocking it on purpose.]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

You're the one with a flower and a box on your back.