[written; private to Sabers]

[thethundersaid]

[Backdated to the night before May 15th.]

We need a name for the new ship.

We are not calling it Seakage.

Comments

Re: Voice

[thethundersaid]

[If Sasuke were in the habit of praising the gods, he would; as it is he just scrubs a hand down his face in unseen relief before speaking again.]

Then you should know that things like ships or the ocean don't have anything like that that would make them male or female. They're just things.

Re: Voice

[breaks_pots]

Deku scrubs don't either. They're still male and female. Deku Scrubs are plant people. So, it doesn't matter if the ships or ocean can't have babies, they can still be girls.

Re: Voice

[thethundersaid]

How do you know they're male or female if they don't reproduce?

Re: Voice

[breaks_pots]

They reproduce. They're plant people. They have seeds and nuts that grow into new people. And I know they're boys or girls because of what they say they are.

Re: Voice

[thethundersaid]

[This is probably one of the weirdest conversations Sasuke has had to have, and he's had some weird ones in his life.]

The ship didn't tell you it was female, though, your first captain did. Same with the ocean.

Re: Voice

[breaks_pots]

So? It doesn't mean he's wrong. All the people on the docks at Isla Empieza call their ships and the ocean girls. Some of them say she's the only woman for them or that they're married to her. The ocean has a lot of husbands.

Re: Voice

[thethundersaid]

[It's really tempting to say and all the people on the docks at Empieza are idiots, but somehow Sasuke restrains himself to a mere moment of closing the journal and letting go of a huge sigh before opening it again.]

Just because a whole bunch of people think it's clever to call an inanimate object male or female doesn't mean it's real.

Re: Voice

[breaks_pots]

Just because you don't think it's real, doesn't mean it isn't.

Re: Voice

[thethundersaid]

[He wants very much to slap a palm to his face and make an incredibly aggravated noise, a good sign that he's letting everything get to him too much -- including being seven in body, because that's not an older-Sasuke impulse -- and after a long moment of reminding himself that some shit just doesn't matter, he finally says --]

Fine, it's no lookout of mine if you want to believe in ridiculous things.