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[mikangirl]

Who: Nami
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Nnnow-ish

[This is not happening.  Nope.  There were happy endings, and sunshine, and portals home, and she damn well walked through one.  Not only does this quiet, sterile place bear no resemblance to, y'know, a brigantine sloop or a crazy ocean, but she's turned up here alone.

She was pretty sure the animus were on the level with the whole going home thing.  The fact the Adstringendum communicator is giving her nothing but static when she tries to use it is, uh.  Not comforting, to say the least.  She explores the accessible area in due haste, looking for anyone she recognises.  Or anyone at all.  And then she sits cross-legged in the middle of the one hallway and tries to get the communicator working by prying at it with fingernails, hitting random buttons, and eventually just hitting the wall with it a few times before tossing it away from her with a huff.

Not happy doesn't really cover it.

She finds the broadcast system, staring down at the controls suspiciously.  She shouldn't know how to use this.  But, well.  In the absence of being able to do anything else-- ]

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This turning up in mysterious new places thing was old the first time it happened.  Where the hell is this, and what hoops do I have to jump through to get home?  [Sweet, sweet sarcasm.  But at least she's holding onto her temper.]  And where's my staff? 

And-- and who fixed my shirt?

[Serious question, that one.]

Comments

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[...weird memory loss exists here, too? How is this not still the same place? Not a conversation she's gonna get into with a-- what are you, ten? So instead:]

Me too. Maybe it'll be the one I come from.

[Video]

[jamminshield]

You come from an ocean pirate world?

That's so cool!! Do you have adventures?

[Video]

[mikangirl]

Mm, yup. More than I can count. [More than I want sometimes but let's not go there.]

Do you have pirates where you're from?

[Video]

[jamminshield]

Yeah, probably, somewhere out there! I just don't have them personally. Just toys and video games!

[Video]

[mikangirl]

People make toys out of pirates...?

I guess they're not a big problem for your government then, huh.

[Video]

[jamminshield]

Yep! They're almost as cool as ninja toys!

Ummm... Nope, I don't think they're a problem! I like to think that they're eco-friendly, you know?

[Video]

[mikangirl]

Eco--?

[Pfft.]

So you've never met a real pirate, then? They've got a bad rap, you know.

[Video]

[jamminshield]

No, I haven't met a real one yet. But I think their pirate rap is really good!

[He starts to rap quietly to himself.]

Dream it, don't give it up Luffy! Dream it, don't give it up Zollo!

[Video] 1/3

[mikangirl]

[Oh my god, he's singing at her. Well, points for enthusiasm, kid, but--]

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[--

Uh.

Yeah, that's not a coincidence.]

Re: [Video]

[mikangirl]

[AT LEAST SHE CAN COME TO A LOGICAL CONCLUSION don't break her brain okok--]

You have met pirates before! Who taught you that song?

[They got Zoro's name wrong. DX]

[Video]

[jamminshield]

No I didn't! TV taught me.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

TV?

[She draws the word out a little like she's not that familiar, though she knows what TV is. Well, that also makes sense. Sort of. Except in her world, anything on "TV" is a rarity, things like executions put on by the marines, and she can't see them making up a song like that. Also, they know damn well it's Zoro.]

What do you mean? When were we on TV?

[Video]

[jamminshield]

Um... It was a long time ago, but that was a dub. I remember it was a really fun cartoon!

...Wait, what do you mean 'we'? [He squints at the feed...]

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[What the hell is a cartoon :| Are we talking those funny little comics that turn up in the paper sometimes or--

Bah. Waving a hand impatiently. If you know Luffy and Zoro, it's even Stevens (hah!) you know her.]

Nami. Navigator of the Straw Hat Pirates.

[I AM SO STARING YOU DOWN.]

[Video]

[jamminshield]

[STARES HER DOWN]

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...Dream it!! Don't give up Nami!

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[Snort. But she's amused all the same.]

Well, I guess we're more famous than I thought. Never thought people'd write songs, though. [Not such terrible ones, geez.]

[Video]

[jamminshield]

Why wouldn't they?! You guys are such cool pirates!! I'm so happy you're real!

[Video]

[mikangirl]

Well... yeah. Of course I'm real. [Why wouldn't she be, kid. :|]

You know my name. What's yours?

[Video]

[jamminshield]

I'm glad! Does that mean everything on tv's real? I want to meet Lonely Blade and the Crying Breakfast Friends next... ooh, and the New Ninja Squad!

Oh, and my name's Steven. Steven Universe! It's really nice to meet you, Nami.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[Blink. Quite apart from that first bit that makes her think there's a rabbit hole involved here somewhere, that name pings her. She peers at him for a long moment.]

Steven? [It's not the Universe part, lol. Just that face with that name.] Where were you before this?

[Video]

[jamminshield]

Yep! Um... I was in an old wrecked spaceship! We were about to go back home.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[That doesn't sound like Adstring. Oh well.]

Sorry you never made it.

[Video]

[jamminshield]

[Your face doesn't sound like Adstring.]

It's okay! I'll make it back eventually. I just get a space vacation first! And Pearl's here, so things are gonna be okay.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[Correct. My face sounds like death threats and honey.]

Pearl? She's someone you know from home?