Last we spoke he thinks he might find him here. I'm still talking to him though.
This isn't real. Sometimes it doesn't seem like Discedo can be either, but at least that's not a false life, somebody else's life, eh. It's still moving forward.
Because my father isn't John Newgate. My father is Edward Newgate, Shirohige, Whitebeard, the strongest man that ever lived. He adopted more pirates than anyone would normally conceive of doing just to give them a place to be. My brothers are still back home waiting for me to help them deal with the aftermath, and they aren't these people we've just met.
No life is perfect, but that doesn't make it worth turning your back on it for somebody else's. And that's all this is. You can't make the memories come to you, or reforge the decisions already cast. You can only keep moving forward to make the future better, and this isn't it.
You know in dreams when you're hurtling to the ground at lightning speed and suddenly there's no wings, and even telling yourself it's a dream doesn't make the ground stop flying at you faster and faster?
But just before you die, just before you crash, you wake up.
If you want to try to stay, give it your best kiddo. Otherwise I'll see you on the other side. [Though by the sounds of it, he expects to see her there whatever she does.]
Calm went out the window when they threatened to execute my friends. Granted, yes, they attacked and stole from a military depo, but it's to save the others from being experimented on.
{A pause here as he changes his voice to something less serious and more chipper at hearing she's well.} Good. I'm fine, all things considered. Thanks for asking.
I can't talk long, I don't want to get you in trouble too.
Oh jeez... [There's an odd huff. Anemone does not like the sound of that. (Especially since this was her first time hearing about it; she hasn't been following current events.)]
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-14 06:15 am (UTC)[voice]
Date: 2011-04-14 06:16 am (UTC)...but... what about his brother?
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-14 06:20 am (UTC)This isn't real. Sometimes it doesn't seem like Discedo can be either, but at least that's not a false life, somebody else's life, eh. It's still moving forward.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-14 06:23 am (UTC)What? Of course this is real. How is it not real?! It's just... weird.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-14 06:50 am (UTC)Because my father isn't John Newgate. My father is Edward Newgate, Shirohige, Whitebeard, the strongest man that ever lived. He adopted more pirates than anyone would normally conceive of doing just to give them a place to be. My brothers are still back home waiting for me to help them deal with the aftermath, and they aren't these people we've just met.
No life is perfect, but that doesn't make it worth turning your back on it for somebody else's. And that's all this is. You can't make the memories come to you, or reforge the decisions already cast. You can only keep moving forward to make the future better, and this isn't it.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 01:49 am (UTC)I... I don't want to be this Anemone, but... but I'm not going anywhere there either...
[Her friends, her family... back in the first Discedo... she's still weighing her options.]
I'm not going to die to leave.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 03:44 am (UTC)But just before you die, just before you crash, you wake up.
It's time to wake up.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 03:48 am (UTC)[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 04:12 am (UTC)This is like that.
[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 06:13 am (UTC)[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 06:27 am (UTC)[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 06:29 am (UTC)[voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 06:42 am (UTC)If you want to try to stay, give it your best kiddo. Otherwise I'll see you on the other side. [Though by the sounds of it, he expects to see her there whatever she does.]
[Text from a stolen phone]
Date: 2011-04-14 04:42 pm (UTC)[Voice]
Date: 2011-04-15 01:49 am (UTC)[Voice] The phone says Mark
Date: 2011-04-15 02:15 pm (UTC)I can't tell you that Anemone. But I'm safe.
How are you?
[Voice] Marco's totally keeping her informed. Stop being so troublesome, Ace!
Date: 2011-04-16 04:02 am (UTC)[She sighs.] I'm just peachy. How are you?
[Voice] What. What. Pirate :| Never.
Date: 2011-04-17 05:44 am (UTC)Calm went out the window when they threatened to execute my friends. Granted, yes, they attacked and stole from a military depo, but it's to save the others from being experimented on.
{A pause here as he changes his voice to something less serious and more chipper at hearing she's well.} Good. I'm fine, all things considered. Thanks for asking.
I can't talk long, I don't want to get you in trouble too.
[Voice] You're gonna get it.
Date: 2011-04-17 04:08 pm (UTC)Just... don't get hurt, okay?