genessia | action /video

[dogs. dogs everywhere. Genessia, Attleton, Nova City, Everglades, Fayren, wherever there is a pound or animal shelter, they've been sprung from them and are now baying through the streets or sleeping on doorsteps or rummaging through trash.

Through Genessia proper though, there is a pack of them, charging through the streets, baying excitedly. In the middle of them is one shirtless hat less pirate, rolling along on a skateboard despite the fact that his hands are cuffed behind him. At intervals, he'll throw back his head and howl as he goes along]

[a little later, he's sitting against a wall, breathless and excited, comm propped between his knees as he grins wildly at the camera though it, dogs sleeping all around him and a pooped pug on his head, snoring upside down with her legs twitching in the air]

Yo! I'm here. I'm back. Anyone got food? Or a key? Marco? Namur? Adela? [his grin widens] Taisa? Come find me. I'm free.

[Locked to whoever is in Namur's apartment]

[at some point, at Namur's apartment, this same certain pirate may be seen sleeping against the outside of the window, as if he was trying to jimmy it open with his teeth and conked out during the attempt]

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It's just kind of hard.

[his hands are cuffed behind him after all. He frowns and lightly headbutts Namur's stomach]

Sorry for being a pain.

Ohhh now don't y' start that... shit...

[No, really this time he's waking up and that headbutt seems pretty damn real and those are definitely handcuffs on his brother what. the. hell???]

Shit!

[Ace gets hauled into the apartment, the door flung closed behind him. Namur plops him on top of the small table and grabs at the handcuffs.]

Ace! 'S really you? Why the hell y' in handcuffs?

[He tries to break them, but they're solid. He tries again, this time with haki, and one of the chains bends a little. Namur leans down and sniffs.]

Seastone handcuffs?!? What is goin' on here?

[yaaay! He's being fishmanhandled! Namur's forgiven him. He grins as Namur frets over him and tries to pull the chains apart]

Just got caught by some Marines back home, no big deal. [he tilts his head back to grin at his bro] Miss me?

Some Marines, huh? Usin' full on flippin' seastone cuffs? These ain't the everday shit either. An' if yer the Ace that was jus' here a couple months ago there weren't a hell of a lotta time for y' t' get caught by some random Gullboys 'fore y' faced off with Teach an' got sent t'...

[Namur pushes Ace's head down, making the cuffs pop up behind a little, and checks the band. And there it is: I.D. molded into the side. Namur lets his brother sit up, and sits down himself on a backwards chair.]

How far'd y' get?

[he looks at him before flopping back on his back]

Ahhh who cares about stuff like that, Namur? I'm here and I'm tired and I'm hungry.

[a beat and then]

Has it really been that long since I've been here?

I do, dumbass, else I wouldn't ask y'.

[Get bonked on the head.]

Sit up, I ain't done with these things.

[He will freaking chew through seastone to get them off. It'll be fine cuz they've got time.]

Not a hunnerd percent sure. Kinda checked out m'self for a bit. But yeah, more or less.

Just... hanging out with Jimbe in a cell, that's all. Jiijii was coming. [he shrugs] I already know what's going to happen. [more or less]

Is everyone still here? [he sits up to let Namur do his work because he really hates this kairoseki shit]

[Namur starts on the chain link that bent, gnawing through it a little at a time.]

'S how I keep track a which one a y's which. Since y' already know the rest we ain't gotta get int' it.

[He chews thoughtfully for a few minutes.]

'Dela's gone an' come back differnt an' gone 'gain. Marco an' Grell's still 'round but I don't see 'em much. Don't see anyone much anymore, really. Guess I'm gettin' borin'.

Oh... [he guessed that made sense. He frowned at the idea of Adela being gone though. Here and gone and here and gone. Maybe she was looking for him? Nah. But still, she was his first friend here and now -- what was he going to do...

And Marco and Grell]

It's because he's married. He's settled down. It's not you just, you know, this place drags people apart. [because it wasn't the sea and they weren't relying on one another and... it was just a mess]

Guess Taisa is still around too, huh.

[Namur shrugs, the chain nearly chewed through.]

Brought me an' Thatch closer'n ever. Not Genessia but other places. Probly ont' somethin' though. We all got differnt goals an' shit now. Like, none a us really gives a damn 'bout Grell's orphanage or whatever, an' she don't give a shit 'bout what we're doin' so long as it don't get in her way, an' Marco's happy t' go 'long with whatever, so... whatever, I guess.

[One more hard bite, and the link in the chain is split. It's enough to at least let Ace move his hands around while Namur tackles the denser cuffs one at a time.]

Grell has an orphanage? [weird. That makes him feel weird. He sighs and frowns deeply at the mention of Thatch. The loss felt like a cold knife through him]

I'm glad you got to see him again... Sorry that... that what happened... [but he can't even finish it]

[Lord of the Sea, that guilt in Ace's voice is enough to piss Namur off, and he bites extra hard through the chain, finishing it off with a snap and nearly shattering his own teeth in the process. Good thing he'd had them coated in haki.]

Ace. What happened was somethin' Teach's been thinkin' 'bout an' plannin' for years. Had a chance t' think back on it, an' there was shit he was sayin' t' me I shoulda picked up on forever 'go, 'fore y' was even part a the crew. None a us blames y', but we know how y' feel. 'S why Pops said he'd sent y' even though he didn't, cuz we get it, Brother. An' we're gonna get 'im back, show that bastard he can't jus' screw with the family an' 'xpect t' get 'way with it. Even if it takes us a hunnerd years, I guarantee y', we're gonna pay 'im back. Understand?

Now gimme yer arm, workin' on the cuffs is gonna take awhile. Ain't gotta pee or nothin', do y'?

[he squirms a bit. He can't accept it completely. It just hurts. They were brothers. They had been brothers and brothers just didn't do that. It hurts. It pisses him off.]

Yeah... [he sighs. Anyway there's nothng he can do about it. He hands out his arm.] Nah but if you open the bathroom door just in case I can probably make it.

[a kind of weak joke but...]

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