lucetilogs | There's just no good time to break bad news

Who: Strawhat Pirates
What: Robin needs to have a little chat with her peeps.
When: During the day Dec 17. Morning, afternoon, evening, it's up to threadstarters.
Where: House 6 (or anywhere else peeps wanna be)
Summary: War being the buzzword of the week reminds Robin that there's a bit of catching up to do with her nakama.
Rating: G to R (for potty mouths). Nothing racy here, though. Emo warnings.

It's been a few days since the draftees returned, and Robin still hasn't managed to find a good way of bringing up what she knows of the pending separation, once they all return home.

Still. It's something they ought to know about. She isn't concerned about discussing it with some of her crew, but others- Luffy in particular- well. She doesn't imagine it will be a pleasant conversation. She wonders if he'll even understand why he chose to disband them for so long. She wonders if even she understands it fully.

Today is the day, though. It seems Luceti is determined to keep its residents on their toes, so waiting for things to settle down for a few weeks before upsetting her crew appears unfeasible. And the longer she waits, the harder it will be.

So, fellow Strawhats, Robin's looking for you. Where she finds you, and when, is up to your discretion.

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So his fears were true. She was from the future. He gulped hard in his throat knowing that he was not going to like this conversation one bit. A part of him wanted to just leave. To get away so he wouldn't have to listen to what he feared was coming next. But still, why would he just up and disband them? Did he really give up on the whole crew right there? He couldn't imagine how that was possible, he would never just up and give up on them. The being defeated at Marineford part he could possibly believe but not that.

"Disbanded!? So that's it? I lose and then I abandon you guys!? I would never do that!! Even if it's a me from the future!"

Robin makes an almost inaudible choking noise in her throat, realizing the extreme implied in her words. She puts her hands up soothingly, shaking her head.

"Not abandoned. Not completely," she explains. "You were likely dead, Luffy. No one knew what happened to you. There was no body, and no evidence you'd gotten away. There were rumors that the Marines had completely destroyed you, burned you to ash or sunk you in the depths just to be rid of you," her voice wavers at this.

"I don't know if any of the others were able to contact each other, but I was... otherwise detained. In East Blue. If Kuma could send me there, then it's likely the rest were similarly scattered. Whoever saved you, kept you hidden for so long, they knew this. The fact that you lived, and returned to Marineford to send a message across the world is a sort of victory in itself."

In a way it pissed him off that so much stuff happened that he had no idea about. It was hard to digest it all. So much so that he really didn't GET most of it. He could understand the words that were coming from her mouth, but it all just seemed so foreign. He LOST? But how, who beat him? He made sure to keep his priority mostly on Ace. To not waste too much energy on fruitless battles. He had been so careful. Possibly more careful than he's probably ever been. How did he just fail? There was a lot of thoughts going through his head right now, but he decided to stick to something a little closer in the time line to where he was.

"Yeah, but-- Ace! What happened to Ace!? He's okay right? Even if someone beat me The Old Man and those other guys could've saved him!"

The set of Robin's jaw could have been answer enough.

"I can only assume that their deaths are legitimate, based on your later actions. If returning to the site and paying your respects to them is a subterfuge, it is a good one."

He stays silent for just a little while before he gets his lion suit again and goes over to the closet. He starts to just slowly... hang the lion suit back on a hanger. Very slowly. It's taking forever to do it actually. And it might be parly due to the fact that his hands were shaking. Why this? It takes a lot of will just to stay in this place and now this too on top of it. He manages a fake unseen smile to try to sound at least somewhat legitimate about his words.

"A-ah, so... so there's no guarantee then. I could've just been doing that for Bon-chan... Ace might still be alive somewhere..."

"It isn't likely. But without a more definite source, I wouldn't completely disregard the notion. The newspapers speak of Firefist and Whitebeard's deaths as absolutes. There are reports that Blackbeard did something to Whitebeard's body and possibly now possesses the old man's ability, as well as his own. It seems the one here comes from a point in time after that, so perhaps he'd have more information..."

"... I already knew about that." His voice was beginning to sound more and more distant as he felt his body stiffen. He had already heard all of this before. And the fact that Robin had heard about it had made things a lot worse. "Smokey told me what he did to the old man..." The sound of his voice barely showed any signs of immediate anger, but even so he still implanted his fist into the nearby walls. He clinched his eyes closed as tight as possible to try and stop any of the upcoming tears in vain.

"I-I go back home.. just to fail again... I'm still that weak!?"

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