genessia | Helloooooo Genessia [video/action]

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[With absolutely zero apologies to anyone who sees this, Bartolomeo spends the first 30 seconds of the video feed looking into the camera with a dubious expression and picking his nose. Just. Placidly staring, digging for gold. Enjoy the prolonged video study of his fangs, nose ring, goth makeup, and bright fucking neon green hair. Best first impression ever.

When he gets bored of that, his finger drops and he just bares his fangs into the phone's camera.]

This is stupid. Get a job? Hah! Jobs are for losers. And this jewelry is ugly. I'm so over this place, look at it. This little town is way too pretty. [he grins widely] It needs a special touch, I think. Maybe it's time for a new Barto Club, eh?

[he drops the video away and forgets to turn it off right away, so for a moment it just swings wildly back and forth in his fist as he walks. In the process of this vertigo-inducing view, it also picks up his last mutter to himself:]

Ain't as much fun if Luffy-senpai isn't around. Che. Ugly-ass town, no ocean, nothin'...

ACTION

[Bartolomeo is not at all interested in going to the employment office or getting an apartment. No, first he wants to have a look around, and even though he really did read the pamphlets and maps - which are now hanging out of his pants, shoved in his belt - none of that shit matters at the moment. Without his ship, his crew, his bounty, and his beloved great captain Luffy to follow after (that he knows of), he's been left adrift. His dream of sailing as a member of the Pirate King's fleet, put on hold. His purpose for getting stronger, derailed. Oh well, there's always mob work to fall back on. A pretty place like this just deserves to be torn apart at the seams by a gang or ten.

Barty can be found sauntering lazily along any street, hands in his pockets, insulting people at random, spitting on the sidewalk, flipping the finger at vehicles who honk at him for jaywalking, trying on clothes but never buying them, and overall being a nuisance.

By evening, though, he's hungry and bored and looking for a bar with good bar food and beer. Help a pirate out, man!]

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Huh?

[he looks up and sees the people plastering themselves to the barrier. He doesn't feel like running anymore.

Well that's fine. He pulls some money out of the pouch on his leg-- probably enough, and sets it in front of the barrier before whapping Barty's shoulder in what was meant to be a friendly way but he's still kind of annoyed]

Come on.

[He watches the peculiar movement, and then finds himself internally weeping. WHAT A GREAT GUY! But he still keeps the barrier up and backs away, following Ace's lead until they're out of sight. That's where he drops it and turns to tag along, trotting at Ace's heels]

Ah, sorry, sorry. I did say you could ask me anything but maybe there's stuff you don't wanna know.

Is it about Luffy?

[sharply. He wants to know everything about Luffy even...even if he can't do anything about it]

No, not at all! Luffy-senpai is great, everything I know about him is awesome!

[there's no sense of a lie at all, quite the opposite - Barty is happy to brag about his hero!]

Like. I don't know what you know about him, or how much time has passed...

[geez, awkward. How do you talk to a dead guy without mentioning his death?]

[well as long as it's awesome... Ace tries to sort out things. What he does know. What he doesn't. What they don't want him to know. Everyone is hiding the details from him, even Marco-- and he's glad about that and while he feels like a coward on one hand on the other he respects their need to protect him.

...At least in this]

Just tell me what happened after I died. [a pause] The awesome stuff.

[because if he hears about Luffy crying he's just going to have to punch him]

[good thing he doesn't know about Luffy crying!

Barty tags along at his heels, stuffing his hands in his pockets]

Uh, let's see. I set out to sea right after reading about Marineford, so... [not that he's the awesome stuff, but...context] Everybody thought the Straw Hats had been defeated somehow but they were just underground, biding their time. They popped back up after two years, after my crew already got into the New World. The papers lost track of 'em until they suddenly came out with an alliance with Trafalgar Law. That was literally a day before I met Luffy-senpai on Dressrosa! Man, it's been an exciting week, best week of my whole life!

Mm. [he knew that much. More or less....

Wait...]

Marineford? What the hell was he doing at Marineford? [and more importantly how did he get out of it?]

No. [don't tell him. He'll just be more pissed off at Luffy going somewhere like that to begin with]

What happened after you met him?

[yeeaaaahhh no he's not telling Ace anything about Marineford that he doesn't already know. Barty's not that dumb.

Besides, Luffy's awesomeness at Dressrosa is much more interesting and sends Bartolomeo into a tizzy]

Ahhhh he asked me to help him and I did! He had to get to the palace to rescue that idiot Trafalgar who got himself shot up, but he had like five other things to do at the same time so I helped out. I made sure Robin-senpai and Sogeking-senpai were safe and got where they needed to go, and that Rebecca girl he met. He trusted the crew in my hands so he could go punch the living daylights out of Doflamingo...

[which just leads to more rambling about how awesome he was going up there even though Barty saw none of it and can only extrapolate by intimate knowledge of Luffy's general awesomeness just how awesomely awesome it must have been.]

[it sounds amazing, even with the guessing. He doesn't doubt that Luffy did all Barty said and more. At some point he stops to lean against a wall and listen, hands in his pockets as he looks away down the street. He'd've like to have seen it. To have been there. Or even just read about it. To see how the world saw his baby brother. To see how he was changing it.

It was hard to remember that he wasn't going to be there for that. But he tried not to think about it]

And he won that huh? His nakama take care of him?
They seem happy?

[oh geez Ace way to turn the fanboying into overdrive. If Barty spits on you while he babbles, it's your fault]

The Straw Hat crew is just as amazing as their captain! Yes, yes, they took him somewhere safe to let him sleep it off, and me and the other guys in the fleet made sure no one found 'em there. When the Marines started to move, I got 'em out of there and we all worked together to escape the island safely.

[he completely wibbles for a moment, swaying back and forth like he's caught in the throes of a wonderful dream]

They're all so powerful and so good together, Zoro-senpai and Robin-senpai and Cyborg Franky and Soge...I mean God Usopp, aaaaahh~! They all gave me their autographs, I'm so happy!

[he's just gonna... poke a finger against Barty's cheek and puush his head to the side. Sprinkle somewhere else.

But all of that is good to hear. He doesn't know about though the name sounds kind of familiar.Oh maybe he's thinking of Yasopp. The guy said he had a son about Luffy's age--repeatedly-- so Ace wondered.

Well maybe he could ask Luffy about it. Mostly he was just glad they were happy and good together.

And also that they had a cute little fan.

Have a head ruffle Barty.

.... and then he's just going to wipe his hand on his shorts]

Let's go celebrate...

R-really?

[excuse him a moment, Ace, his heart just stopped in his chest. He does not even know how to deal.

There's tears for a moment, but he manfully sniffles them back. Come on now Barto, that's not going to impress Ace-sama!]

Uh huh, okay. Yeah! Sure! Let's go!

[he might not be making the noise but his eyes go kyaaaaaaaaaaa all the same]

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