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What makes someone a good leader? Is it caring about the people they're in charge of? Or is it more making sure they can all get out of an impossible situation alive? During those times do numbers count, or is any single loss an unacceptable failure?

And when it comes down to it, how do you know if you're a good leader until something directly happens?

I've always considered my Pops the best leader there ever was, but he was the strongest man in the world on top of caring about all of us. So I guess he had both qualifications covered.

Just curious as to thoughts on it, if you will.

- Marco.

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Yeah, good job saving your version of me, you magnificent heroes.

Oh, wait.

HE DIED.

[He's just staring and blinking at the screen in confusion.]

I didn't tell you that...

When... how...?

Ace... we...

I can't believe you. You're actually gloating over... that.

Did you also happen to know that you died saving your little brother? And that we got him out alive? Or do you just not even care about that?

Don't act like you understand us Ace. You might still be you, but whoever you met in the marines that changed you from the raging fire kitten we all knew and loved, also made you a lot more an asshole.

And it's not even frustrating. Just pitiable.

Do you even know why and how you got into that situation? Or do you just not give a damn?

Firstly, you don't seriously need to write out ellipses as though you're speaking a dramatic monologue. It just looks fucking stupid over the BBS.

Secondly, I'm happy to gloat over the death of any pirate, even if he happened to look like me, but I was actually commenting on your Captain's inability. However, if it pisses you off more to think I was gloating over your Ace's death, feel free. It makes me even happier.

Thirdly? I don't know that other Luffy. I have no right to any feelings about him or any interest in him. I care about my Luffy, and considering how different I am from YOUR Ace, I don't even know how similar our Luffys are. In my view, your Luffy shares nothing but the same DNA as my Luffy.

And finally; 'situation'? The only situation is that I apparently have a sense of duty, while your Ace didn't give a shit about anything more than taking care of himself and whoever he was close to, like a selfish bastard.

I like the way I am. I'm glad for it. And seeing that other Ace just made it all the more clear how thankful I should be that I grew up to be sane rather than a victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

Go fuck yourself.

Ace didn't have Stockholm Syndrome dumbass. He just realized that killing Whitebeard wasn't going to erase the past from people's heads and that it wasn't really what he wanted.

What is it you want from life Commodore? To be a good little marine so people don't hate you? Some people will always be pricks. It doesn't matter what world you're in. -- Oh let me amend that. "Respectable people." Yeah. The respectable people who torture other people on a whim and sell fishmen into slavery for being an "inferior species." Sure. Fine. That's grand.

Good luck with that goal Ace. Whatever you think of us, we wouldn't have been at his execution to rescue him if he just had Stockholm Syndrome. Kidnappers don't do that. Nor do they give their kidnappees freedom. If you are really and truly happy in the marines, then I am glad. Because hopefully it will last longer. But the Ace I knew always valued that more than anyone else. We never put chains on him or made him stay. He stayed to try to kill Pops and because his friends were there.

And you really know nothing.

You trash drove him into joining you. It was his choice to be a pirate in the first place, but to be part of your crew? Hell, no. You'd realise it yourself if your entire crew wasn't fucked in the head.

It isn't only that kind of people who end up hurt or dead at the hands of trash like you. I'm a Marine to protect people, and yea, I AM happy with that. Because you know what? That's a far better goal than attaining a bounty and ending up dying pointlessly.

I know everything I need to. And if all this means that you'll finally leave me alone, then thank any god there might be, because FINALLY.

Have a miserable day! o7

You're terribly mistaken if you think this will alienate me from you.

There's no greater crime in my book than killing my family, and attempting to kill and insulting them is only just under. But like it or not Ace, you are Ace. Not just from black hair, freckles, and genetics. You can't change your essence whether you're a marine, space alien, fishman, or anything else. You still act like him. You talk like him. You seem to think like him. You joke around like him. You think I haven't had my Ace lash out at me? Even though you insist we only won him over through brainwashing?

And here I've always thought you to be smarter than you looked.

Wise up brat. I don't care what happens or what you say to me or do, you will always be a nakama. I've volunteered to give you space, and I still will, but if that's truly all you want, why do you keep coming back to try to insult me? Justice?

Edited 2010-09-06 22:33 (UTC)

I'll 'always be nakama'? No. Fuck that. When are you going to get it through your thick skull that if you gave a damn what I wanted, you'd stop thinking like that? I want you to hate me, so hurry up and do it.

I insult you because it's so easy it's hard not to be tempted. Everything you stand for is wrong. It's like you're begging to be punched, and a few insults is the least I can do.

I can't hate you. That would be turning my back on everything I stand for. Whether you consider it wrong or not, it's who I am. Yes, I want you to be happy, but I'm not so foolish as to kill myself or crew over it.

Then insult away. I don't worry about the yapping of government dogs. You protest that I'm morally evil, and maybe I am. But you refuse to bother to try to understand what my views are, instead letting your preconceived notions speak for you. How am I supposed to take that seriously in turn?

What really grinds me is that you have the stupid gall to think you're stronger mentally and emotionally than my Ace. He would mop the floor with you, marine.

I'M not what you stand for. I'M nothing to do with you. Love your own Ace, I don't give a shit about that. But HATE ME.

You never bothered to consider my views, why the hell should I consider yours? You insult everything about my beliefs, my loyalties, and expect me to listen and be unbiased about yours? Fuck you. You mocked my dream and ambition and everything I worked to achieve. I'm only giving the same back.

I AM stronger than him, in every way. You know how that is? Because I'm stronger than a rotting corpse. Surprise! Your Ace is incredibly FUCKING DEAD.

I have bothered to consider your views. Aside from my own dislike of marines and Sengoku trying to make a sacrifice of my best friend just for being related to someone, I've been trying to call you Commodore, simply because you're right. You have earned that position and I'm sure it was difficult. I'm TRYING to get your justice. Just because I can't completely capitulate to all your standards doesn't mean I'm not trying. I don't blindly say all marines kill babies, even though we both know some did. This is part of why I insist you're still you Freckles. Because wherever you go, whatever you join, I know you'll still follow your values.

You aren't. Strength isn't just about being the last one to survive. Why do you think the World Government is still afraid of Gold Rogers and One Piece? He's been dead for 22 years. It's because people don't have to be physically alive to continue on their will. And the other you knew that. I believe it's why he wanted to avenge Thatch. And I know I can never make up for losing either of them, but we all did our best to carry on his will. How many artists are only recognized once they die? That's part of what Ace realized about killing Pops. I don't think my Ace was afraid of death. On the contrary, he was so reckless, we all thought he had a deathwish. People who spend their lives clinging it to desperately, too afraid to do, won't be fulfilled. Everyone dies Ace. Accepting it and doing what you can with it is a far bigger strength than you seem to grasp.

Yeah, I'll follow my values. Values which are completely different than your Ace's. If you cam across a third Ace that followed the values of slaughtering civilians for amusement, would you count him as nakama because he 'followed his values'? Bull. The values themselves matter, not just the fact they're being acted upon.

Uh, actually I was just pointing out that your Ace is really, really dead, and therefore devoid of every strength. Stop reading bullshit into it. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, pirate.

Obviously that would be following whims, not values, Sparky. You're in the marines, as you've insisted over and over, to protect innocent people. You stayed with the Whitebeard pirates even when defeated to protect your Spade Pirates who were loyal enough to stick around as well. And unless you as a marine, or you as a fishmen no longer wanted to protect Luffy and people you were loyal to, then yes, I'd count that as following those values.

Still too naive Commodore

Let me ask you something else, Ace, if I may. If I could be a marine too, would you still hate me? Would you always think it was just to use the marines for some wily pirate trick?

Not if he considered it a worthy goal for some reason. And I don't want to only protect 'the people I'm loyal to'; I want to protect every damn civilian who might find find themself a target, not just people I personally know. If you're only out to protect what makes you, personally, happy, then you're selfish, and I refuse to be that type of person.

If you were a Marine, of course I wouldn't hate you. Well, unless you were corrupt, or whatever. Why would I hate you? That would be stupid.

How do you know who I'd protect or not Ace? Fact of the matter is, you don't actually know me. I don't try to protect the whole world, but we get our nurses and more crew members through means other than just hiring mercenaries off the street. We pride loyalty, and that's something that has to be earned, not bought.

I don't mean if I was always a marine. I mean if I became one now. Though really, I have to wonder. Do you think being a marine just automatically makes someone more moral? What then, if your friends in the marines were pirates? Does that mean there's nothing redeemable and they only deserve your hate?

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