I'm too scared to be pissed. I'll be pissed later, when we're all safe again. Quentin voted for one of the Targaryens. They're terrifying and violent and they hold grudges. Alicent promised they wouldn't retaliate, not while the game is happening, but I can't think about that. I can't think about anything happening to any of you and still do what I need to do.
[There's the core of it -- that the both of them have some past that's marked them down to their bones. That Koby doesn't go a day without hearing Alvida's voice in his head, telling him all the ways he has failed, will fail. That Nami carries her village, her family, the horror of those years with Arlong etched into her skin. They both hate pirates, hate their reckless, destructive, soul-crushing violence, hate that being owned by them feels as familiar as breathing.
And yet.]
You're right. I thought that from the beginning, when I only knew you from Shell's Town, from when I didn't go with you. Luffy finds people who are special, like him. [That voice, again, whispers: that's why you didn't belong with him, Koby. You know that. You knew it then, you know it now.]
You did. It was one of the first things you ever said to me. It was the thing that made me think we could someday be friends.
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Quentin voted for one of the Targaryens. They're terrifying and violent and they hold grudges. Alicent promised they wouldn't retaliate, not while the game is happening, but
I can't think about that. I can't think about anything happening to any of you and still do what I need to do.
[There's the core of it -- that the both of them have some past that's marked them down to their bones. That Koby doesn't go a day without hearing Alvida's voice in his head, telling him all the ways he has failed, will fail. That Nami carries her village, her family, the horror of those years with Arlong etched into her skin. They both hate pirates, hate their reckless, destructive, soul-crushing violence, hate that being owned by them feels as familiar as breathing.
And yet.]
You're right. I thought that from the beginning, when I only knew you from Shell's Town, from when I didn't go with you. Luffy finds people who are special, like him. [That voice, again, whispers: that's why you didn't belong with him, Koby. You know that. You knew it then, you know it now.]
You did. It was one of the first things you ever said to me. It was the thing that made me think we could someday be friends.