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[The lack of Zoro may have only been felt by a select few, but the angry looking child walking around the village proper should be of some interest to anyone just kind of hanging around. Clad in a slightly raggy outfit, leaves sticking out of his hair, he doesn't look like he's had a proper bath in days. But don't worry, folks, moldy green is his natural hair color. Strapped to his back is a familiar white katana; on his face: an equally familiar dark scowl.

If he looks a bit twitchy, forgive him. He's been hiding out in the forest and Luceti hasn't been very kind to him these last few days. He'll just be wandering around town, peering curiously through shop windows and trying to pretend he wasn't lost.

At some point in the day, he's gonna find that he's hungry enough to go ~~begging~~ demanding food at Seventh Heaven ~~or wherever Sanji is at the moment orz~~. Maybe they'll let him chop wood in exchange for a meal. Hmm, hmm.]

((ooc: The boy arrived September 30 so feel free to run into him when/wherever. Replies will be coming from

zorichan this time around. Have at!))

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Weirder than you know. [... True story.]

Eh, pirates are supposed to do whatever the hell they want. It's just that a lot of pirates take that as a license to be assholes. I find it more entertaining to simply defy expectations.

[... suuuure.]

Or you're fakin'. [Not that it matters. Pirates always struck him as a dishonorable bunch, nothing he was really interested in outside of fights.]

[That makes him narrow his already droopy eyelids.]

I don't let people fake this tattoo.

[It's a sticking point with him. Right down to beating Chameleone silly.]

If you say so. [He takes a good long look at the tattoo. His expression is, for once, unreadable.] So that tattoo means you work for that Whitebeard guy, huh?

Aye. [Slightly distant look as though he could see the flag on CH3 from here.]

He's my Pops, my father.

Eh?? Is everyone in your family a pirate? Even your mom?

I don't have a Mom. But all my crew are adopted by Pops, so they became family, eh?

Oh... ok. [Give him a second, he's thinking...] Do you have girls in your crew? Like... girl pirates?

Of course we do. Haruta and a few others. [Oda don't prove me wrong on that please.] And Norma here.

Although mostly Pops just collects nurses. He likes the way they look better than doctors.

[... Yeah. Nurses are pirate swag. Deal with it.]

[Zoro makes a face like he's trying to understand but is... failing miserably. His brain would have started smoking if Kuina hadn't already beat it all out of him.]

I don't think nurses count.

Haruta's a division commander. She uses a sword.

[!!!]

Is she strong? [He looks around him, as if he was expecting her to just suddenly appear out of thin air, swords blazing.]

Of course. You don't get to be division commander without being as strong as a hundred men.

There's 1600 of us altogether and only sixteen commanders. Only the strongest and best leaders can become commanders.

[Again with the thinking. This time, he just goes quiet. 1600 people in one crew. He doesn't even think he's seen half that many people, ever.]

Don't worry, it's just me and Ace from home right now.

Although we've got Sabo, he's about your age, and Norma, here in Luceti.

[Does he look worried to you, old man? He's just... thinking about the implications of the kind of power you just described to him. In his own cluelessly childish way, he can sort of appreciate just how long and hard his own path is going to be now that he knows there are people out there with crews that number in the quadruple digits.]

Ehh, what do you mean? Where's the rest of them?

The New World.

You're in Luceti, remember anything about that?

[You're gonna make him do all kinds of mental gymnastics today, aren't you.]

No. Is that the name of this town? [So nonplussed. Someone's a little too obviously used to being lost.]

[Yes, yes he is Zoro.]

Yes, kind of.

[Small sigh.] You're not dressed like a New Feather. [Which means the obvious has happened.] So I'll give you three options, [Holds up fingers and ticks them off] the truth which might not be nice, something comforting instead, or I'll surprise you and you won't know which it is.

The truth. [The "duh" kind of goes unsaid. He doesn't wanna play your mind games anymore than he has to. And the faster he learns where he is, the faster he'll be able to get back to his training.]

You've been in this village before, but when you're a lot older than you are now.

[Seriously, people should never ask Marco the truth, when will they learn this? His truths are always a thousand times more ridiculous than the lies.] What's your name kid?

... eh? [He can't even think of the right question to ask, that whole sentence just had way too much nonsense.] How was I... how would I...?? [Frustrated, he turns to his default emotion:] Tch! I think you're just messing with me! You don't know anything! You don't even know my name, how can you say I've been here before? [In the... future, or whatever.]

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[Uncaring shrug.]

Because they did the same thing to me last month and have done it to my brother, and a bunch of others here. I did try to warn you that it might not be very comforting to know.

[At least he wasn't all "Oh and your Dad died."] Tell you what, ask me what you want and then you can go verify it with other people, eh? If I'm lying, you lose nothing and gain the information that I'm extremely untrustworthy. [Which he is when it comes to telling the truth, but not on this.] And if I'm telling the truth, better that you know right away, right?

I can't ask questions if you don't make sense. [B|a] How can I be here from before but... when I'm... older...?

[He's trying, he really is.]

This place is Luceti. You're not from here, but you've been here before. The organization of people that brought us here, called the Malnosso, conduct some experiments every now and again. One of them being turning people back in years, memories and physically. Arguably so that they can learn more about the effects, but I'm convinced they're just sadists.

[It doesn't help Zoro that he's a skeptic gosh.] You probably have friends here who can help explain the situation better, but I don't know you are so I don't know who they are.

Does your village have a lot of ninjas? [He's figuring he's from Itachi/Temari/etc.'s world.]

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that icon of yours, lmao. looks like someone forgot to do their taxes this year

lmao XD I always figured it was basically that and then they made Marco fix it XDDD

pirates and paperwork. they all look adorably incompetent asking big bro for help

lol ikr? Clearly Marco does it all just to save time at this point ;)

and, thus, all "bird brain" jokes have to be put on hold

Obviously "bird-brain" = compliment

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