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Thatch ([personal profile] thatched) wrote in [community profile] witchesreign2013-08-30 06:48 pm

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Well since we're breaking away to begin with, why not go all the way and just become pirates? Floating the seven seas, waving our battle flag from the massive white dome. Pillage and plunder and the occasional panty raid. What do you think? Shall we put it to the vote?
fierybluebird: (lazily mocking you)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'm elitist. I like being the only pirate captain on this ship.

- Marco
fierybluebird: (take a walk on the wild side)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Or on your arm.

[Yup, that sure does make him sound girly, but he can't help being part bird and such.]
Edited 2013-09-03 14:38 (UTC)
fierybluebird: (deadpan heart)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
And a song in my heart.
fierybluebird: (can you believe this guy?)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's a little thrown off. The banter got mixed up somewhere and he's not sure what to say to that now. Truth told he wasn't even sure he did want one. If given a real choice, he'd run off to spend a couple of weeks with Toby in a cave to unwind and decompress everything.]

Are you sure you meant to send that to me? I know Ace would jump at the chance.

[Diversionary tactics pretty much never worked on Thatch, but he could try.]
fierybluebird: (hiding)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[asdlkjawlijadalisjdlakjwiljdlajdalsijqlijadlaiwjldiqjpotjalksjd]

[And diverted, Marco is.]

[Half a hair from freaking out and worrying that Thatch thought Marco was trying to create distance, thrown in with some of his own worries about how Thatch and Ace were handling things, added in with the "What does that mean?!!?!" mental cries of anguish. Yup.]


Not that anyone could ever turn down such an amazing offer from you.
fierybluebird: (serious face)

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[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does calm down. Like always, Thatch has that magic that works on Marco like that.]

[Still though, he feels lost. Normally he'd tell Thatch that. Only Thatch, or at least using some code only Thatch knew, but now he's trying to weigh it with everything else. Thatch wanted to be his first mate and so his job was also keeping Marco calm, just as they'd always done anyway. But Marco's Pops and Marco always took care of things that would frustrate the other without telling each other in order to keep everything running smoothly. Was that how it was here?]

[But he was still Marco, not Pops. And Thatch was still Thatch, not Marco.]
fierybluebird: (looking forward to the future)

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[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Come find me.

[Three words, but meant in twenty ways. Ways only Thatch could ever get.]
fierybluebird: (I whip my tail back and forth)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[He did notice, but Marco always took it to mean that the phoenix was the prince of birds, and he loved it.]

[He hops down in bird form at the sight of the pumpkin seeds, and unabashedly sticks his head in the bag to nom on them and tilts his neck for scritches from Thatch, already swishing his tail cheerfully.]


And this is why you're my favorite.
fierybluebird: (phoenix crow's nest)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ahhh that was confusing in context and Marco shifts, giving Thatch a head tilt at his use of the latter word, but eventually shrugs it off.]

I don't like trying to choose, eh.

Where to go, when to bide our time...


[Another hesitation. Those weren't the words a confident captain should admit. And indeed, Marco himself would usually never admit them out loud, but how many times had he wished Thatch was here so he could ask his advice? It'd be foolish to waste it on even more fear.]

We are already pirates, aren't we?
fierybluebird: (deadpan birdie stare)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Pirates. [That much he can assert confidently. It's not too much different from back home. Protecting the islands they wanted to, protecting the world if they wanted to, getting paid for it, sometimes in favors, sometimes in simple loyalty and trust.]

Do you really think I take anyone's orders? Or follow any rules I do not wish to?

Ask Espio about the first time the Garden suggested that non-humans should use that stupid drink if they wanted to camouflage in.


[That was probably a little confusing, so Marco flicked his tail and thought it over more.] I didn't think that was the reason at the time. I thought it was to force them to hide. Not give an option...

[He shakes his head and sighs.] Just not my style, yoi.

[He goes back into thought again.] I only accept the best of the best to be my nakama. A lot of them wouldn't know how to be a pirate anymore than they could be an enemy to the world or a hero.
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fierybluebird: (Phoenix snuggles for Thatchbro)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[It did soften it and Marco melted happily into Thatch's lap chirping and swishing his tail merrily. Until the final whistle, and Marco froze again.]

["Nothing, that was it," wouldn't quite work. Especially not now. Damn that man.]

[Marco's tail flips again, twitching more like a cat's.]

[This place was like a test run for him. A vacation, a second chance. He could afford to screw up here a little more. The stakes weren't as high, the end wasn't the end, and maybe that was wrong. He didn't like thinking of spending time again with Thatch and Ace as a test run for back home. A chance to actually learn from mistakes, but what choice did he have? Pretending he wasn't worried about the future at home, that he wasn't constantly analyzing how everything played out, how everyone made their decisions, wasn't going to change it.]

[And yet he can't answer Thatch either.]

[To tell him that it might as well be a test run? A scratch of paper so Marco could remember what not to do in their world? That would hurt them both. More than Marco could bear.]

[Maybe it was a test run for Marco, but for Thatch and Ace it was an epilogue. Chapters extra they couldn't have normally, but not necessarily something they could continue either. Eventually they'd be gone, and Marco wouldn't. Marco would carry on.]

[He winds up laughing softly in spite of himself.]
The same as ever. [He gently nudges Thatch's hand and chest to demand more pets.] I missed you, so I want to savor it all, eh.
fierybluebird: (phoenix nuzzle)

Okay reply-able now :3

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-03 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Marco nodded. That about summed it up, and he leans up to give Thatch some affectionate phoenix kisses.]

Aye.

[He wants to tell him that maybe he should be upfront with Ace, but instantly Marco can see eighty problems with that.] And the more you run, the more he pursues, eh?

[More thinking it over and Marco swishes his tail. If it took too long, eventually one of them would snap and it could get very bad indeed.]

Ace is like the sun, eh. Very intense. I think he is worried if he leaves your side for even a second or even a little, then you'll be gone forever. He's so difficult to get through to though. No matter how you explain it... [It was like rolling dice. Who could say what went on in that crazy wildfire's head sometimes?]

At the minimum don't tell him it's because you're old.

[At this Marco switches back to human and cuddles Thatch's back with his chin in the giant pompadour.] He'll see it as a challenge or that you'd be lonely without him and redouble his efforts.

Mah. And you know how Ace is. [Switches straight back to phoenix, perched now on Thatch's shoulders and with his beak poking through the hair.] He doesn't want to be left out or leave anyone else out either.
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fierybluebird: (Gentle grin)

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2013-09-12 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Marco just grins softly and hugs Thatch that much more, finally switching back to human for a bit longer now.]

You wouldn't be my first mate if you hadn't grown up a little, eh? And I wouldn't be captain.

Ace isn't the same either. He's been through a lot. Places I can't reach him. Maybe only you can, and maybe vice versa, eh? He doesn't love the Thatch from the past, he loves you as you, past present, future, and all alterations thereof. Just as I still loved Ace from the universe he was a marine.

Don't run away before he even has a chance to see who this newer Thatch is, eh?

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