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[jujika]

action.

( So he's laden with more information, upon waking up, than he really knows what to do with.

Normally, when there's a lot thrown at him, he finds a quiet place to think about it if he can get away with being alone. It's like when he first joined up with his nakama, when Thatch was positively teasing him, relentlessly. He had a lot to think about then, and now it seems like there's even more.

Sure, he has pamphlets and this new phone thing, but it's one thing to read the information and another thing to see it all. Ace is nothing if not practical, hands-on.

But he needs a place to live. He needs a job. He needs answers and direction.

So far, he should check out his new place, he thinks. He keeps moving until he gets where he needs to go, and finds that the groggy feeling is being replaced with something much heavier. Realizations, of sorts; he had died in his brother's arms, lifted from life just like that. He did not hear Luffy's screams and he did not see him grow and change.

It's painful to realize, for a moment. But then a smile comes, soft, because even if he was gone from his home and his brother and his nakama, Luffy will carry on. His comrades will carry on. The room he'll call his new quarters is small, and he doesn't stay there for very long at all. What's to see, really? He wants to keep moving, to see the world outside. It's not out of wanderlust, exactly, but rather just a need for answers, to make sure he knows where he's living now.

He walks for a bit, until he remembers the phone, and thinks about putting a post out there; maybe talking to someone in the flesh will give him better answers than the pamphlet. Ace pauses for a moment to do so. )

network // text.

soo i have a lot of questions and hardly know where to begin .
big one is where can a guy get something to eat?

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[Text] - Apologies for this idiot weirdo

[uccellodifuoco]

[This has to be a joke. Or he's managed to get himself drunk enough to hallucinate something like this.]

Hello Ace.

I'm not used to good things happening so I'm going to assume that you don't remember being here or anywhere similar. But I want you to know that I know you. I met you in another world, similar to this one in that it loves to take people away from their worlds.

And maybe you don't want or care to know me. And that's fine with me. Really. But in case you decide you want to I'm going to warn you. Just to be fair. Because, see, I don't just know you, Ace D. Portgas, but much to your misfortune I love you. Yes, I said that, and maybe you now hate me for that, I don't care, get over it. Here is someone you don't know but who knows you and loves you and would turn the world upside down for you.

Because you were my brother too when you knew me. Because you were my captain. And I'll gladly serve in your crew in that world or this world or whatever world you want, if you'll have me.

Normally I would try to be respectful, to give space and not force my way in or anything. But when we first met you gave no fucks and bulldozed your way into my heart. I have been here without you for months and it's still a far worse experience than dying a dozen of times in a row. I know it because I've gone through that too, because I'm a phoenix like Marco. But I'm not a pineapple. And I want to meet you again, I want to bulldoze my way in as well, I want you to get to know me and accept me as your crew, as a brother.

So if you don't want to. If you just think you want nothing to do with this weirdo here. Stay away from me. Don't talk to me, don't approach me and I won't chase you. I won't get close to you even if Marco, Namur and the others yell at me for it, if that is your decision. But if you do it, even once, know that I won't stop until you're my captain and my brother again and until it gets into your thick skull that I. Love. You. Because you deserve it, because I say so and I don't care if you decide to think otherwise.

Phoenix Ikki.