-17.6 ml- [Voice | AU!Discedo]

[pilot_princess]

I'm not going to die to leave.

[Stubborn as ever, that's all she says before angrily clicking it off.]

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[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Look after Ace for me if he doesn't change his mind?

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

Him too?

...but... what about his brother?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

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.

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

Really? I haven't heard from him... I figured if Luffy was here, we'd just... know. [And she sighs.] I hope Ace doesn't do anything ridiculous...

What? Of course this is real. How is it not real?! It's just... weird.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

We'll see.

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.

[Text from a stolen phone]

[dontcallmegol.livejournal.com]

What do you plan to do? {He's curious mostly, cause he's not sure how to handle all of this going back to Real!Discedo nonsense either.}

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

It might not be ours, but... but this isn't fake...

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]

[pilot_princess]

Ace? Ace, where are you?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

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.

It's time to wake up.

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

This isn't a dream. We're... we're not dreaming.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Yes, we are. You ever wonder what happens when people go in a coma or lose consciousness for days? Where they're dreaming, but kind of not?

This is like that.

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

We're not dreaming, Marco! This is... it's too real to be a dream.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Dreams always seem real until you wake up.

[voice]

[pilot_princess]

Shut up, Marco.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Sorry princess.

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.]

[Voice] The phone says Mark

[dontcallmegol.livejournal.com]

{He switches to voice.}

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!

[pilot_princess]

Hmph. You're causing so much trouble! What happened to laying low and trying to figure things out calmly?

[She sighs.] I'm just peachy. How are you?

[Voice] What. What. Pirate :| Never.

[dontcallmegol.livejournal.com]

That's kind of the point.

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.

[pilot_princess]

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.)]

Just... don't get hurt, okay?