PC: ACE 💀

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[ it startles a laugh from him. ]

Seriously? Couldn't he have found a better way to do that?

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Apparently he was aiming for his eye and missed! When I said I had to thank Shanks for saving Luffy's life, it's not just that one incident, you know! He's completely reckless.

[ :D ]

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[ okay now he actually is laughing because what the fuck. ]

How do you miss? [ luffy please. ] Maybe I severely underestimated what kind of a person Luffy is.

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He was really uncoordinated as a kid. [ hehes ] He never thinks before he does anything.

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...yeah, I know a guy like that. [ both exasperated and fond. ] All the more reason it was important to surround himself with good friends, I guess. People to look after him in those reckless moments. Am I supposed to take that as he's not still uncoordinated?

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He can mostly control the rubber thing now, so it's a lot less embarrassing to watch.

[ MOSTLY? ]

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Mostly? Why does hearing that actually fill me with mild regret and fear, Ace? Isn't it sort of all or nothing?

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[ JUST LAUGHS? ]

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[ he stops holding hands long enough to just kind of slap his arm. ]

Laughing isn't an explanation!

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[ that makes him wheeze laugh harder. the man is dying tomorrow he should stop ]

I mean... it's still rubber, you know? [ hehe ]

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[ he hates this thanks. ]

The bounceback?

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Yep. These days he's definitely more of a danger to others than himself, though. I think he forgets people around him aren't rubber too.

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I can't decide if I would love or want to fight your brother if I ever actually met him. That's what I'm taking away from this.

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It's usually both. [ don't just say that!! ]

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[ that gets a laugh, even if it's small and uncertain. ]

That's the worst possible endorsement.

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[ grins a little because he likes the laugh. despite. everything else. ]

He grows on you. Like mold. [ saying it fondly. horrible. ] That's probably worse, but it's true.

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Pick something less gross to use as a simile, please. [ no he still thinks it's funny. ] But I get it. I know a few of those people myself. No matter how much you ignore them, they just...spread until everywhere you look, there they are.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's a great way to describe him. [ saying it with a soft laugh ]

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It's always weird to think people can just...be like that so easily. [ but it's not bad at all. ] But you're gonna tell me he's always been that way anyway.

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Sort of? He was such a crybaby. And so annoying and clingy. [ it's fond but like. incredibly rude. ] I guess he did grow on me like mold at that age already...

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Didn't you tell me you met him when he was, like, seven? I think that's normal kid behavior. [ he doesn't entirely remember being a child. ]

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Is it? I wasn't like that when I was seven.

[ YOU WERE NOT A NORMAL CHILD ]

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[ deadeyes. ]

Knowing what I know about your childhood I think there was a very specific reason for that, Ace.

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Sabo didn't cry that much either.

[ ALSO NOT NORMAL ]

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No matter what I say you're going to find a way to make fun of Luffy, aren't you.