VIDEO ☠☠ 001

[nishishi]

[The first image you'll get to see on this particular video feed is pretty much a real detailed view of someone's eyes. They're way too close to the screen and you can almost see the individual flecks of deep brown when the image isn't blurred thanks to this guy moving more than a little bit. The individual responsible for such a sight is trying his damndest to figure out how the hell this thing works, how you can send messages or even videos on something that's very pointedly NOT shaped like a snail, and how you even know if it was working or not.

Eventually it seems like he's stopped caring, or decided that on sheer force of will alone that it's working. Because the feed pulls back and you can see this very 'good dog' expression on a very simple-looking man. A scar under his eye, and a rather ratty old straw hat perched atop his head.]

The food's really good here! And I wasn't even yelled at when I ate a lot, either, and I like that. [The crowd hadn't been the most fun, but who needed fun when there was food involved.]

An' yanno what? I don't like being away from my crew an' home, but if there's an adventure--Nihihi, then I guess I don't mind stayin' around! [And then that 'good dog' expression melts, as if exposed to heat very suddenly. A frown on his face.]

But there's so much land everywhere! And the ocean is so far away! There's too many buildings and I was told that there aren't any pirate ships here??

[Seriously.]

What's up with that??

Comments

[nishishi]

Yeah, those jerks. Like the one with the weird candle powers--oh, but there was that one kind of neat guy that could change his face...

[Man, he still can't believe a guy that nice was a bad guy. Sighs.]

Wait, how does Coby know about that?

[soru]

I read the navy's files on the incident.

[ past tense, all past tense. ]

You forget, I'm pretty informed now.

[nishishi]

[Coby has a lot of faith in Luffy if he thinks he's going to pick up on tenses.]

Oh yeah, that's right. You're with those guys after all.

Marines are pretty quick to record things that haven't finished yet. I'll beat him, just you wait.

[soru]

[ he honestly doesnt know what he should be expecting.

it's one thing to idolize look up to a guy for the better part of your career, but it's another when you remember, very intimately, that he has cauliflower for brains. ]

I have faith you will, Luffy-san. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to meet me in a fight.

[nishishi]

[He's got a few mental gaps in his brain but at least his heart is in the right place. Right? Right???

Who even knows how Coby has the patience he does with this boy but bless him for having it anyway.]

Nihihi. That's the spirit.

You wanna be able to beat me one day, right?

[soru]

I get closer by the day, I can guarantee it.

[ alabasta. that's fairly early on in luffy's journey, going by time alone.

could there be a discrepancy in their strength now? ]

[nishishi]

Well, you know. The closer you get, the more I walk forward too!

[While this... would normally be true, the fact in the matter is that Coby's had two years to catch up--while Luffy's quite literally stuck in the past.

Chances are... they're closer in strength now... with even the possibility of a nice gap in the way where it wasn't before.]

[soru]

I'm very fast. You'd better start running, or you won't catch up.

[ he knows the breadth and depth of his own strength now, he's kept a very close eye out. he's promised himself, something like marineford's not going to happen again.

he thinks, he dares to think, that luffy as he is now is just a neat step behind. ]

[nishishi]

Whoa, hey. Getting cocky, aren't you? You shouldn't boast what you can't bring, Coby!

[As... far as he's concerned, Coby's still... that little kid he left with the Marines, after all. He has no real idea how far his friend has come--and how far behind he's been left.]

[soru]

It's not cockiness if it's based on facts. If the time is right, I wouldn't be adverse to measuring up to you.

[ oh boy are u gonna be some kinda surprised ]

[nishishi]

Are you saying you wanna fight?

[You can hear the childishness in his voice.]

[soru]

Yes. Maybe not right now, but definitely.

[ just as well; you can hear the grin in his. ]