catch-all: [zia, gritting her teeth] ace d. portgas

[squelching]

imagine having a shitpost

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[selfimmolation]

... No, it's real.

[ he looks unamused but certain about it. don't question it. ]

To be free. Being a pirate is the freest thing there is. ... The three of us promised we'd become pirates, and we'd be free. I'm pretty sure Luffy picked wanting to be Pirate King because he thinks that's the freest man in the world.

[squelching]

... You're sure?

[sorry but she will question it a little. it sounds wild.

she hums, thinking.]

I guess there's a certain freedom that comes with gaining all that fame and power. It's pretty ambitious, though. [...] I'm... glad. That you got to do what you wanted. At least, for a while.

[because he is now in death row and this seems like the opposite of free. and he was also already dead in his world, apparently??? rip.]

[selfimmolation]

... Yeah. The guy might've been the worst, but he wasn't much of a liar.

[ said with a kind of Ew voice. ok. ]

... I did. I've had a pretty good life over all, so I don't regret anything. Even the stupid choices I made.

[squelching]

You... really don't like that man at all, huh.

[ace's beef with a guy who died before he was even born... the unknowledgeable daddy issues.]

Good. [...] I don't regret that I got to meet you, you know. Even if things ended up like this. If there's another world after this one... I hope it's a little better for you.

[selfimmolation]

... It's complicated.

[ he really doesn't, but also, he had a habit of beating the shit out of anyone who talked crap about him, because. reasons. anyway he looks a little surprised pikachu at what she says and then immediately just kind of. horribly fond and touched. ]

... Thank you. [ ... ] I'm not lying, when I say I've lived a pretty good life. Because I met people like you.

[squelching]

[i am assigning them as still holding hands. which means she gently squeezes his hand, smiling a little.]

... People's lives are better because they got to meet you, too. Remember that, okay?

[he won't have to remember it for very long, but. look. they're all squinting at the newspaper by this point.]

[selfimmolation]

[ of course they are holding hands. it's necessary. but she says that and he stares at her a little ]

... You really mean that, huh. [ he says it quietly, like it's surprising, but he squeezes her hand back ]