( koby being less petty than her completely tracks )
we'll get through it. that's all we can do. quentin's a tough guy. i mean — people wanted to talk about our block vote, but didn't even mention that whole family tipping the scales. love double standards.
you're special, koby. you're the only marine i'd ever associate with. you have no idea how big the first hurdle was when we first met up in the village, but you walked over it like it was nothing.
yeah. she was a marine. but then she saw me and my sister abandoned and dying, and she left her post so she could be our mom. i'm just saying, sometimes you can leave the responsible thing and do the right thing. if you couldn't, i wouldn't be alive.
[It’s his dumb “believe the best in people” instinct acting up again.]
You’re right. It has to end eventually. The house needs us, I think – that’s a theory I have, about why we’re here. The witches took us for an army, but I think this place took us for some other reason. Well. They’re very loud and very open about how they’re willing to stab people. They’re the sort of people who use intimidation and fear to keep people in line. [Not you, Alicent, you’re an angel and we’re happy you’re here.] We don’t do that, even though Zoro is the greatest swordsman alive and Sanji can kill people with his feet and Shanks is Shanks, and that’s not even touching on how Luffy can somehow get out of ANY fight without a scratch on him. I haven’t really seen Usopp fight, but I’m sure it’s the same. And you’re the most powerful woman in the entire multiverse, so. People don’t understand that you COULD force them to submit. But you won’t.
[Sometimes Koby hates that starved part inside him that greedily, hungrily gobbles up every bit of praise, every bit of approval. Nami says he’s special and he should be humble, he should deny it, but he leans into it like a cat into a caress.]
Well, we got off on a better foot. I threw up on Zoro when we first actually talked to each other, in the village. And you were Luffy’s crew, and I knew I was dead if I didn’t somehow stick close to you.
Right. That’s incredibly difficult to do. The Marines don’t take kindly to people leaving their post, for any reason. [There are a thousand burned villages, a million orphans, but – these two, these tiny, helpless, starving girls had been the ones to prompt Nami’s mother to turn away, to abandon her oath. As a (former, current, past?) Marine, Koby should condemn her for that. Instead he just fervently, wildly wishes he could meet her. Tell her Nami’s still safe, still okay, still being brave and warm and bright. Promise her he’ll keep her that way.]
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we'll get through it. that's all we can do.
quentin's a tough guy. i mean — people wanted to talk about our block vote, but didn't even mention that whole family tipping the scales. love double standards.
you're special, koby. you're the only marine i'd ever associate with. you have no idea how big the first hurdle was when we first met up in the village, but you walked over it like it was nothing.
yeah. she was a marine. but then she saw me and my sister abandoned and dying, and she left her post so she could be our mom.
i'm just saying, sometimes you can leave the responsible thing and do the right thing. if you couldn't, i wouldn't be alive.
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You’re right. It has to end eventually. The house needs us, I think – that’s a theory I have, about why we’re here. The witches took us for an army, but I think this place took us for some other reason.
Well. They’re very loud and very open about how they’re willing to stab people. They’re the sort of people who use intimidation and fear to keep people in line. [Not you, Alicent, you’re an angel and we’re happy you’re here.] We don’t do that, even though Zoro is the greatest swordsman alive and Sanji can kill people with his feet and Shanks is Shanks, and that’s not even touching on how Luffy can somehow get out of ANY fight without a scratch on him. I haven’t really seen Usopp fight, but I’m sure it’s the same.
And you’re the most powerful woman in the entire multiverse, so. People don’t understand that you COULD force them to submit. But you won’t.
[Sometimes Koby hates that starved part inside him that greedily, hungrily gobbles up every bit of praise, every bit of approval. Nami says he’s special and he should be humble, he should deny it, but he leans into it like a cat into a caress.]
Well, we got off on a better foot. I threw up on Zoro when we first actually talked to each other, in the village. And you were Luffy’s crew, and I knew I was dead if I didn’t somehow stick close to you.
Right. That’s incredibly difficult to do. The Marines don’t take kindly to people leaving their post, for any reason. [There are a thousand burned villages, a million orphans, but – these two, these tiny, helpless, starving girls had been the ones to prompt Nami’s mother to turn away, to abandon her oath. As a (former, current, past?) Marine, Koby should condemn her for that. Instead he just fervently, wildly wishes he could meet her. Tell her Nami’s still safe, still okay, still being brave and warm and bright. Promise her he’ll keep her that way.]
What was her name? If you
Want to tell me.