Smoker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
justicereigns) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
genessia2016-08-05 02:23 am
justicereigns) wrote in genessia2016-08-05 02:23 am
Entry tags:
Text / Action for Misc.
Other than going cold turkey, what can you do to deal with an addiction? And how do you know for sure that it is an addiction? Especially if it's something you still need in your life? Like work, or exercise, or food, or sex, or whatever.
- S
[A is for Action: At the Sycamore Cycles, Smoker seems pretty well focused. Nothing out of the ordinary going on with him, even if he is wearing the leather jacket despite the heat, that's still not that unusual for Smoker. And it's a lot cooler this week than last. This time it's not jazz on the radio, but rock instead, although he doesn't appear to be enjoying himself any less. However, upstairs, he keeps playing with a pen, apparently trying to chew gum and smoke at the SAME TIME, and fidgeting about with wanting to make coffee... and not wanting to. Weird. Even for Smoker.]
[B is for Baseball: At the batting cages, Smoker cranks up the speed to as high as it will go, and despite wearing very dark motorcycle goggles at night, he does seem to be hitting the balls fairly regularly. It's cheating though, he's just got the rhythm figured out, and he needs a pitcher. Preferably not like Garp though, no one needs to practice batting cannonballs, not even someone who wants to catch the future pirate king.]
[C is for Carp: And then he's just fishing. And he looks really really out of place with it. Like he's the fish debating whether to go for the bait despite the obvious hook or leave it be and look somewhere else. Decisions, decisions.]
- S
[A is for Action: At the Sycamore Cycles, Smoker seems pretty well focused. Nothing out of the ordinary going on with him, even if he is wearing the leather jacket despite the heat, that's still not that unusual for Smoker. And it's a lot cooler this week than last. This time it's not jazz on the radio, but rock instead, although he doesn't appear to be enjoying himself any less. However, upstairs, he keeps playing with a pen, apparently trying to chew gum and smoke at the SAME TIME, and fidgeting about with wanting to make coffee... and not wanting to. Weird. Even for Smoker.]
[B is for Baseball: At the batting cages, Smoker cranks up the speed to as high as it will go, and despite wearing very dark motorcycle goggles at night, he does seem to be hitting the balls fairly regularly. It's cheating though, he's just got the rhythm figured out, and he needs a pitcher. Preferably not like Garp though, no one needs to practice batting cannonballs, not even someone who wants to catch the future pirate king.]
[C is for Carp: And then he's just fishing. And he looks really really out of place with it. Like he's the fish debating whether to go for the bait despite the obvious hook or leave it be and look somewhere else. Decisions, decisions.]
text; PRIVATE
Fine.
What are you having trouble with?
text; PRIVATE
He has no idea that he's an open book oops.]Catching pirates. I still want to. Even though it's kind of pointless here.
And I can't avoid them completely because they're not going to avoid me, and I promised to keep a few of them out of Weiss & the police's hair. And most of them would try extra hard to get my attention if they knew it would work.
text; PRIVATE
[ He'll never be stopped. ]
I don't think that sounds like an addiction. Maybe a strong sense of justice that doesn't adapt well to situations like these.
text; PRIVATE
Yet even knowing that some pirates could do more good than harm if left to their own devices, I have an insatiable craving to hunt them down to prove I can. It's a nuisance.
Also what is Lol?
text; PRIVATE
This does sound like a complicated issue, though. I don't know how you might kick that habit.
It means "laughing out loud". Pretty convenient, right?
text; PRIVATE
But he loves it.]Very.
[To all of that.]
I suppose I could give up trying, but I hardly need anything making me even more of a pirate than I already am.
text; PRIVATE
You're too much of a marine to be a pirate, Smoker. Even though you were never a traditionalist.
[ not much of a traditionalist, aka so verging on anarchy he still kind of wonders how smoker got so high up in rank. but it's probably a good thing. smoker's always had a very good moral compass, regardless of what unorthodox steps had to be taken to stay in line with it.
put a standard or overly power-driven marine into this place, and that relative peace would be falling apart in a day. jurisdiction or not. ]
Maybe it's time to pick up a few more hobbies.