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[allendsmeat]

[there is silence a moment, just the sound of the sea to let you know the journal is open and then:]

I've decided I don't care about dating or that kind of stuff anymore.

[sent mostly to Ace and Smoker but he doesn't know how to private it or even if that's a thing really. Anyway it seemed a lot of people hadn't wanted him to think about that kind of thing in the first place so he should let them know]

I wanna be Pirate King and have all the friends I want and all the meat I want.

[and the rest of it... it didn't matter. Nothing could be better than nakama anyway. That done, he closes the journal and goes to find Smoker. He wants to spend more time with him before the race is over]

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[justicereigns]

Don't tell me what to do.

[Smoker gets moving too, to find his own out-of-the-way corner where he can pretend to be invisible again. He says it more out of habit than any real emotion though. For all his protests, he does relax slightly. Straw Hat isn't happy, but it's not the same petulant misery they both felt before. At minimum, he seems to get it more now. And that doesn't remove the cloud over Smoker's head, but at least he can breathe again with the cloud constricting his lungs.]

When you're ready, the world should be afraid.

[He partly means it in the world changing kind of effect Luffy has on everything, but also that he acknowledges that Luffy can and will do whatever he wants, and it'll be on the world to brace for it or get trampled in his wake.]

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[allendsmeat]

[he pauses on his way to the figurehead]

Smoker...

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[and then looks back with a shadowed grin, the cigar still clamped between his teeth]

The world is shaking now.

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[justicereigns]

[Okay, credit where credit's due... that was fucking badass. And an incredibly Roger thing to say besides.]

[He's half tempted to let Straw Hat just have that moment, and half tempted to try to say something to make the kid laugh again. But a reference to Whitebeard would be out of place, and he's not sure Straw Hat would understand it. Especially since Whitebeard's era was something Portgas yelled about as he died, and Straw Hat isn't that far yet. "Gurarara" = no. "So what will be the new era?" = no.]

[He thinks about it and takes out his jitte to twirl it around with his wrist.]

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[justicereigns]

[And firmly sets the jitte down to make his stand.]

Then I'll steady it.

[With Blackbeard shaking it up in the future, between Straw Hat and the other forces of the world, that was Smoker's ambition, so that was where he made his stand.]

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[he likes that a lot. It feels calming somehow. He grins and nods at that, liking Smoker more than ever, then continues on his way to tuck the cigar securely in his pocket before belly-flopping on the figurehead and closing his eyes. His mind was so tired]

[justicereigns]

[Stupid cute brat.]

[Smoker watches quietly, keeping his smile to himself for a second before nodding and going off to find his invisible spot again.]

[It was what it was.]