witchesreign | Daba Dee Daba Da

[Oh Marco is pissed. Aside from being a zoan who considers himself almost more phoenix than human, he's spent decades on the Grand Line fighting to protect fishmen and merfolk or okama who have to hide who and what they are from humans who can't handle the idea of someone being different or having more power than them. So you can bet that he'll be signing up for tons of missions to get his damn rank higher, and doing them all as a phoenix (as much as possible since talking requires human form or at least hybrid) in protest. Of course, since most people mistake him for a blue GF, this probably won't matter much, but it's the thought that counts.]

[He's still really furious though. He's never been able to adjust to taking orders from anyone other than his father, and really, he nearly came close to trying to kick Squall's ass on the principle of it. Now he's being restricted, and yeah, Mr. Phoenix doesn't do so great with that. He earned his place as the first division commander and 2nd in command to the Whitebeard pirates, and he kept it specifically because of Whitebeard's trust and respect in him. So this would do the exact opposite of cultivate loyalty and it undermined a lot Marco felt the Garden (or at least Headmaster Cid) had always been striving for.]

[Not to mention the sheer indignity of all of it. Rank 6? Rank 6?! Did they even know who he was or what he was capable of? That clearly had to be a clerical error. 26 maybe. Oh yes, his pride is rankled. Compound that with his purposeful hatred of hiding his phoenix side, his attempts to show to others it was okay to be yourself, and yeah, Marco was probably less furious when he was trying to chase down black holes and volcanoes he thought came from Blackbeard and Akainu respectively.]

Option A:
[And so it is that Marco is just kicking the shit out of anything in the Training Center... and finding that so less than satisfactory. He'll just have to go out on another mission just to kick things in the face.]

Option B:
[And true to his protest, unlike the human versions of his friends walking around the campus to try out the potion, Marco struts around in phoenix form. Purposely snagging attention. Normally he'll just laze about and read or sit in a tree and watch. Not this time. This time he's being downright impetuous, sneaking up on humans and stealing pens or scattering papers. Or he'll sit and stay for a pat on the head if you're nice. Still, if his non-human friends have to suffer, he'll make the humans suffer along with them! Hope you didn't want that tea, because he might just stolen it. Bonus: he can't recognize all the nonhumans in human form so he might just wind up antagonizing them too........ oops?]

Option C:
[And finally, finally when he's no longer being held back by his wife from kicking through the Commander's office and possibly rioting or at the minimum, mutinying; he'll post to the BBS.]

It seems there are a lot of phoenix feathers offered as rewards for the missions, so just where are the phoenixes that these feathers come from? They can't all be GFs. Has anyone even seen a phoenix before? I thought they were made of fire, how do they even shed feathers?

[Never mind that Marco himself goes through a horrible awkward shedding state each and every spring. Mm-hm.]

If the phoenixes are being held hostage, clearly they must be freed immediately.

Thank you.

- Marco

[He does NOT sign with his rank, because clearly that is a mistake they will go about fixing shortly. Or they will learn.]

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Devil Fruit? With a name like that, it's no wonder it's bad news.

It's all in how you use them. My father used his to protect entire islands and fight off slavers.

I see... but if it's just a power source, how did it get a name like that?

[The questions just keep coming!]

It's also a curse.

So in other words, there are side effects.

[You wouldn't take a talking purple magical unicorn for a skeptic, but nope, curses aren't real]

Yes. Drowning, eating two makes a person explode, and there are other social or individual prices that devil fruit users have to pay.

Some devil fruits are so rare that people murder for the one they want.

I'd assume that the exploding would be caused by the interaction of the different energies needed to accomplish using powers like that, and the variety of abilities possible using one would mean each has its own consequences, but how is drowning a common side effect? Do they make you forget how to swim or something?

It sounds like the fruits themselves also vary from one another from how you worded that, but gaining that kind of power doesn't justify murder.

Physically unable to swim. Even if you knew how, you'll never be able to again.

Of course it doesn't, but that's part of why they call it a curse. Because the power drives people to do horrific things for such a weak reason.

Somehow I get the feeling that just the thought that something like that exists would give Jecht chills...

I think that's all the questions I have, though. Thank you!

You think so, eh? [Oh if you could only see his devious grin. But yeah, no, there's a reason he's glad that swim classes are optional. Or he'd die. Just. Literally.]

I'm glad to be of help.

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