driftfleet | Urge to Kill... Rising...

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Urge to Kill... Rising...

Who: Nami
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport. Or the planet's surface, I guess.
When: Now

[So Nami had been intending to grow her hair out again, but recent events have proven it's gonna take a little more time. As of a week ago, her hair has been carved back to its short status for reasons she hasn't bothered sharing, and she's been in a terrible mood for the entire time. Which has much less to do with her hair and more to do with her two temple runs and the treasure (or not) that she found.

On the other hand, this sponsor delivery she's just found in the Bloodsport's cargo bay really just rounds off the feeling she's being picked on.]

...cute. At best, you're late.

[Sup, Flooters. This is Nami kicking a crate-sized box over, sending glittery, silky hair ties and ribbons and combs and assorted accessories bouncing across the floor, her voice that cheerful sickly sweet that will rise the hackles of anyone who's spent too much time in close proximity with her.]

Free to a good home! It's in the Bloodsport cargo bay, come and take it by all means. [Be warned, though, this pile of hair accessories are the kind you'd expect to find in a kiddie aisle that's been painted obnoxiously pink.] I'm not gonna be here. I hope they're all gone by the time I come back.

On that note, I'm going up to the surface. I doubt anyone else is heading up that way, but I'm going up to test some stuff and that'll make the area hazardous to suddenly turn up in, so. Fair warning, just avoid the area around these coordinates. [Coordinates given. It's a freaking planet of water, there's plenty of surface area, but her luck is inconvenient at best so let's avoid anyone haplessly surfacing in the middle of a lightning field, yeah?]

I hope everyone else is having a better week.

[Now excuse her, she's off to vent her frustration with a waver and a glorified storm stick.]

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[He thinks for a moment, wondering if it's true that there is corruption in every world and every government. Maybe it's an unavoidable fact of life, no matter the universe. That makes him sad in a way, but it is also a little reassuring because no matter the universe, there are people like Nami and her friends who evidently stand up to the injustice.]

So less of a pirate and more like a... [What's the word?] unofficially licensed hero.

[That makes her burst into snickering.]

He hates being called a hero. But I think you've got the general idea.

[He's a little shocked at first at the outburst, but soon joins in with his own little chuckle.]

I see. If he should ever appear here, I'll be sure to refrain from calling him as such then.

People can be so interesting. They do wonderful things, but still wish to be called the villains anyway.

[He says, thinking of Crowley and Hijikata and like a thousand other people.]

Luffy's of the opinion that if he's a hero he has to share all his food. [Grin.] Though it's probably more he just does what he pleases and doesn't want anyone to have expectations of him.

He was here very briefly, about a year ago. He's better off back home.

Freedom in its purest form, I suppose.

[He wonders what that would be like... Something like living here, he guesses. Although he still has to do a lot of lying and pretending here as well.]

But, while it would make me sad, perhaps someday soon you will be able to return home with him as well. That's the goal of this place, is it not?

Supposedly. But yeah, I figure it'll happen eventually. I've already been here longer than I was at the last place, though... it's kind of frustrating.

[But she'll spare him a smile for the being sad comment.]

[Another one.]

Where were you before?

A place called Adstringendum. Or Adstring for short. [She glances up.] Have you heard much about that kind of thing? It's pretty common here.

[Another one from that place.

He notices her looking and he quickly switches back to his usual smile and happy face.]

Only a few rumors here and there. That there are other places people can go before they arrive to this place.

[That there are monsters, the possibility that people are sent back to those locations instead, the idea that they leave here and go to a different place entirely, but never home.]

[For a moment she wonders about that smile. And then Nami rolls with it and moves on.]

This place seems more of a nexus for leftovers from other weird worlds, some days. It's why I don't quite buy the Atroma line, because it's too convenient that the "rules" of this place so closely mirror others with entirely different--- settings, I guess.

That being said, I think most people agree the Fleet is a lot less harsh than some of the other places.

[So then he's likely one of the outliers - someone who came directly from their homeworld with no memories of other places. Everything he's heard so far says that other worlds are dangerous and mostly deadly, and yet here he is, floating through space getting hair lessons instead.]

I will count myself lucky then as I know only this place and my home.

I'll hope that's as far as it goes for you. I mean-- some people prefer being stuck in places like this, and if their own home sucks I can't blame them.

[He can't imagine that himself, but then he has a mission to fulfill at home and people waiting for him. That might not always be the case for all people.]

If their homes were terrible, I suppose I couldn't blame them either.

[Saizou appears from between the boxes dragging a stray ribbon over to Nami, bumping into her foot.]

Although mine is relatively peaceful in comparison.

[She starts at the sudden bump, looking down. And then grins.]

Mine is... not exactly peaceful, but I love it anyway. Being out on this fleet is a waste of my talents.

Is it okay if I pet your pig?

[Saizou chews on his sparkly ribbon and sits on his back haunches, grunting, and Okita laughs a little.]

He seems to be alright with it, so certainly.

But what talents do you have that are wasted here?

Well, I'm a navigator and a cartographer. Both of those are pretty much useless out here-- space is a lot more complicated to navigate than the sea, even if the Atroma didn't have us on a fixed course. There isn't even any weather out here that I can get a read on.

I mean, I'm far from useless here, but...

That's unfortunate. [Although, the water planet must be great for her.]

Although here, you must be having a good time again. The sea is as wide as the planet for once.

Is that what you went above the water for? To navigate again?

The horizon never changes, so it might get old after a while. But yeah, I did have fun while I was up there. And we routinely go to places with lakes and rivers and oceans, so...

I didn't go up there for that, though, no. I went up to test my climatact.

That's good then. ...But a climatact? [He goes slowly to parse out the new word.]

What exactly is that?

The weapon I carry. [She won't pull it out, but he won't have missed the fact she has three pieces of blue staff sections holstered at her hip. Especially when she taps it lightly.]

It affects the weather.

[So that's what that thing was. He'd been curious about it from the moment he saw her, but pointing it out wasn't the purpose of this trip.]

A weapon that can affect the weather? Is it made of magic?

Science! Though it's of a nature nobody seems to be familiar with, so I guess you may as well call it magic. [From the easy way she says it, Nami doesn't really care either way.] It didn't show up with me. The Atroma fed it to me in pieces over the last year.

[Something she's still pissy about, but going up to the surface and venting has helped a whole lot.]

[I mean...even if she had explained it to him, he would have stuck with calling it magic. Just "magic science" instead.]

Oh! When did you finally complete it then?

Yesterday.

[There's a 180 mood for ya.]

[Well, she can be a grumpy gus, but here is Okita being happy as ever. He gives her a biiiiiig smile and waves his hands a little. If he knew they were jazz hands, he'd call them that, but instead, it's just wavy hands.]

Congratulations then~!

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