17th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Voice / Written

[uccellodifuoco]

[Filtered against Kotomi | Unhackable 10%]

[One day he will be able to do proper filters. Today is not that day.]

Question for whoever isn't bored out of their bodies by this place. What kind of things do you do to not be bored? I mean, do you go to hang out at any place in specific or something? Specially when going with someone, assuming you don't spend every time just in each others' houses.

I assume dinner out is a good idea but I'm pretty sure there has to be something else to do in this prison.

[Yes, this is a request for ideas for a date. Hopefully he has worded it in a subtle enough way that no one will notice it. Bwahaha, behold his master plan.]

Don't bother suggesting the library, that one doesn't count.

[Filtered to Rin | Unhackable 10% | Written]

Rin,

Sorry for not answering your last letter in such a long time. I've spent most of the last month doing missions in an attempt to not drive myself nuts. Anyway I have a question for you: with whom does one have to talk to make a reservation or something where you work?

- Ikki

[Filtered to Kotomi | Unhackable 10%]

[This comes later in the day, actually at night. It's earlier than when he usually contacts her to wish her good night, but he knows that.]

Did you go to sleep already, Kotomi-chan?

Comments

[uccellodifuoco]

I would have thought that when crashing marine balls you would be more into the "crashing" than the "dancing" parts.

[Unless he means crashing by just being there, frolic around and then return to his crew.]

If you put it that way I guess it sounds like a good idea.

[Thinking. He really has no idea about how to do those things, why is he bothering anyway? Ah, right, he wants to make up for being gone with missions. Not that he needs to but... Whatever.]

[fierybluebird]

It's kind of more like, sneak in, spike the punch, get information, charm the ladies better than the marines can, and wink to highest official you can find while still getting out alive. Disguises aren't optional, and just causing war wouldn't be any fun.

Well, I can successfully say it's worked for me here. And I'm told Luceti is hard to grab dates in? [He's undecided about whether he believes it or not, but eh, sure.] Or however you want to word it. "Outings of a quiet nature with talking."

[uccellodifuoco]

I'm sure there are people who would disagree with that last part.

[Not him but he knows there are people in the world who enjoy wars.]

So you have done this before?

[fierybluebird]

Aye, but they're not clever enough to sneak into marine balls either, eh?

Yes, I have. Did you meet Chun-Li when she was here? [This is going to bite him in the butt later...]

[uccellodifuoco]

If war is what they find fun I doubt they actually want to sneak into marine balls.

[Who knows, Ikki may or may not use this kind of stuff later on, but normally it would require him to actually care about those things.]

I don't think I have. For how long was she here?

[fierybluebird]

Their loss. Though I'm told it's one of the only perks about being a shichibukai. Then again, Jinbei wasn't one to ever go, but Jinbei doesn't even like chairs. [There is a really long explanation to that; starting with what shichibukai are and who Jinbei is and how he's a fishman and the chairs thing might be a joke because Marco deadpans the weirdest things. But he doesn't give it. Enjoy that Ikki.]

[And all that has to happen is for Robin to find out the next part. Since Marco is not even as smooth as he thinks he is.]

Chun-Li was only here about a month and a half. I asked her on a date early though. Something of a promise to Ace.

[uccellodifuoco]

[He can just ask to Smoker in the future... If he actually cares enough for it, at the moment he doesn't so he just lets it slide.]

You mean you asked her on a date because of a promise to Ace, or that you asked her on a date for Ace?

[fierybluebird]

The first one.

It's half promise, half dare. He seemed to think I was incapable of getting a date before him, or without his help. So we each promised that when or if the other got kidnapped we'd try to meet more New Feathers so at the very least the one kidnapped didn't have to worry about the other one worrying or being lonely.

[uccellodifuoco]

And meeting new people stops you from doing that?

[Ikki finds that idea kind of stupid, sorry.]

[fierybluebird]

[Shrugs.] It keeps him busier.

[Both Marco and Ace would save face in front of other people, but it's not something Marco can admit to even to his phoenix bro.]

[uccellodifuoco]

Him. But not you?

[fierybluebird]

Aye, aye, me too, eh.

I probably pester him a bit, but I do try to give him some space.

[uccellodifuoco]

Why do you pester him?

[fierybluebird]

Because he's the only brother out of 1600 I've got here, we prank each other back and forth, and before Luceti I hadn't really seen him in months so it's like I get to catch up now.

[Not the whole story, but he's not going into Ace's death.]

[uccellodifuoco]

Prank each other, my brother and me didn't do that even when we were kids. Nor with the others. Though I suppose it may have been what some of them would have done.

[Seiya for example.]

[fierybluebird]

Like I said, I pester him.