Gift-piece for @ghosts-of-rishi for some ideas we were playing around with. Fives discovering Echo is alive but possibly even more cursed than they already were.
They say there’s no good that can come from making deals with the Piper, but what Jango’s after is hardly what most people’d call ‘good’.
(Featuring Cursed!Jango, who went looking for a son in the wrong places, made a deal with a sea-god, double-crossed said sea-god, and now has three million cursed children.)
“Flesh and blood, you said,” the sea-witch taunted, gloated, condemned. And they are, they are — Jango’s split up, every bit of him, flesh and blood he never even had, divided between every blessed child — but no amount of clever carving of meat can account for a soul, and that’s the real curse. It is not Jango, not Jango alone, who is caged within the unnatural ribs and skull and pounding veins. “Watch them grow, fool; nurture them.” The sea-witch sentenced, and Jango does, he does; silently screaming, unable to separate himself from a single one, unable to sleep even when they sleep, too split up in too many inhuman ways to speak or think beyond wishing it was over… but they know he’s there, and speak to him sometimes. He can hear them cursing, over three million souls better left dead at the bottom of the seas, plucked and borrowed and wiped clean with new flesh sewn together. Why didn’t you leave us be? One is sobbing because he knows he should be dead and they say that’s as good as being at peace, and he is neither of those things.
His children are his spitting image, but they have old, old eyes and no memories of how they came to be that way, and there are three million of them — and not a soul that ever knew Jango Fett before — before — before — can explain it. He watches them all try through six million eyes.
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“Miscommunication” - Lmk Pirate Au comic.
Ko-fi — LMK Pirate Au Masterpost
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Redson: Ms. Long, I demand that you grant me back the samadhi fire.
Mei: Is that all you ever think about?! Mk is hurt, and the first thing you talk to me about is that stupid fire?
Mei: Time and time again, I watched as Mk tried to vouch for you. Even after we found out YOU started this mess.
Mei: And all you ever talk to me about, is the weapon that almost took his life?!
Mei: I hope you’re happy making your parents proud hurting the people who care about you the most.
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Have to say, watching Donkey Kong beat the living hell out of Chris Pratt Mario was incredibly cathartic.
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So to break down some stuff:
- In the intro cinematic, it’s stated in the narration that this story isn’t about the pirates of the island but rather whatever is happening ON the island right under their noses
- Recruiter CPK states that both he and the factions higher up representatives have absolute knowledge of everyone on the island. Including Martyn, who is a dimension hopper who hasn’t existed in this world before today. Whether or not P!CPK is included in C!PKs OWN canonical dimension hopping lore isn’t confirmed but still worth noting because of the suspicious behavior towards P!Martyn.
- Martyn is interested in finding the “artifact” which he believes may still look like a crystal and is told that Guqqie is an expert in crystals. This helps convince Martyn to join the kestrels.
- Recruiter CPK declares that the first mission of the newly welcomed pirates is to go check out a suspicious island.
- There’s weird purple growths all over the island as well as a tiny purple creature that resembles a sea urchin.
- Mysterious hooded figures show up to the island, claim that they will handle things and that they only need one volunteer of the pirates who they will pay generously.
- Kyle is the first and most willing to accept the challenge. The figures instead direct their quest towards Guqqie specifically, despite her not being as vocal, but she accepts anyways because she’d also like some money.
- Aimsey, who suddenly ran into the mysterious islands depths during this conversation, does not come back out before the rest of the pirates depart. He also does not return to the faction isles the next day.
- Guqqie, who is seemingly assisting the mysterious figures, does not return by the end of the night. They also do not return to the faction isles the next day.
- The strange sea urchin shows up on the Kestrels home shore. It’s unclear if it’s the same exact creature.
- Sausage states he’s suspicious that the hooded figures offered money to try singling out a Kestrel as a volunteer (which is backed up by the fact that they ignored Kyle’s offer to get Guqqie specifically, but were trying to not be TOO direct about it)
- The Pirates twitter account declares that both Aimsey and Guqqie have “fallen”
- There is also still supposedly a 5th “secret faction” we know nothing about. (possibly the hooded figures? or a chance to bring Aimsey and Guqqie back as a “Risen”/undead faction?)
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Law thought he'd need to change the world to honor Cora's sacrifice
But he was already living Cora's legacy: Simply by being with the people he loves, the family he created for himself in the wake of Cora setting him free
You'd almost expect Law to wander alone for years after Cora's death. And in a different story? I think that's likely what would've happened so the MC could finally show him what love means
But Law met Bepo and the others within a few days of Cora's death
And so Law fulfilled Cora's dying wish — continued to fulfill that wish everyday after that, even — without ever realizing it. There is something so devastatingly beautiful about that
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not all the annoying each other even has to be an intricate ritual to touch the skin of other men. they dont tell you this in school but mutually delighting in fucking with each other is actually a love language bc it requires a mutual understanding of limits and mutual trust to not cross any important lines
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