[So he just CLOSES THE BOOK FOR A BIT: throws an entire mini-temper tantrum out at sea and flails about until it's out of his system.]
[See also: calling Ace names, calling it all kinds of bullshit, venting to Namur, etc.]
[UGH. He doesn't know how to do this without calling Ace an idiot.]
[And Ace or not, he doesn't want to call his captain an idiot. And maybe that's the problem. MAYBE HE SHOULD. Only he doesn't want want to.]
[More tantrum-ing.]
[Okay so in D. logic, protecting people = selfish? But still, destruction with no point is very much against the Whitebeard way, and Marco doesn't have the patience to go into some weirdass D-thing just because Ace is being weird.]
Be selfish then, but if your selfishness comes at the expense of destroying islands rather than protecting them for your own selfish use, then that makes you the opposite of Pops, and I taught you better than that, brat. [It's too much like Blackbeard. Blackbeard, who gives no fucks about what he wrecks with Pops' earthquakes, Blackbeard who isn't meticulous at all, Blackbeard, who is only selfish.]
[Nope, Marco isn't about to allow that.]
Ace... [No. Just because Blackbeard's theft of Whitebeard's devil fruit is weighing on Marco's mind every time he accidentally thinks of it, doesn't mean he should tell Ace about it. To what end? So Ace and Thatch can blame themselves more? Just because Namur thinks he should? Marco paces about the deck of the sailboat.] Our selfish wants are at conflict with one another. I just want you to be happy, and you're too selfish for that. How do we settle it?
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[See also: calling Ace names, calling it all kinds of bullshit, venting to Namur, etc.]
[UGH. He doesn't know how to do this without calling Ace an idiot.]
[And Ace or not, he doesn't want to call his captain an idiot. And maybe that's the problem. MAYBE HE SHOULD. Only he doesn't want want to.]
[More tantrum-ing.]
[Okay so in D. logic, protecting people = selfish? But still, destruction with no point is very much against the Whitebeard way, and Marco doesn't have the patience to go into some weirdass D-thing just because Ace is being weird.]
Be selfish then, but if your selfishness comes at the expense of destroying islands rather than protecting them for your own selfish use, then that makes you the opposite of Pops, and I taught you better than that, brat. [It's too much like Blackbeard. Blackbeard, who gives no fucks about what he wrecks with Pops' earthquakes, Blackbeard who isn't meticulous at all, Blackbeard, who is only selfish.]
[Nope, Marco isn't about to allow that.]
Ace... [No. Just because Blackbeard's theft of Whitebeard's devil fruit is weighing on Marco's mind every time he accidentally thinks of it, doesn't mean he should tell Ace about it. To what end? So Ace and Thatch can blame themselves more? Just because Namur thinks he should? Marco paces about the deck of the sailboat.] Our selfish wants are at conflict with one another. I just want you to be happy, and you're too selfish for that. How do we settle it?