@ikkaku-of-heart Asked: "Have You Been To The Doctor?" / [miscellaneous Angst Starters.]

@ikkaku-of-heart asked: "Have you been to the doctor?" / [miscellaneous angst starters.]

❝ is that your polite way of asking if i'm clumsy because i might have brain damage? ❞

　rosinante's tone was dry, but he wasn't offended if that's really what she was getting at. he had heard worse but, honestly, he couldn't blame anybody for thinking that. his clumsiness was a sight; it almost seemed to defy the laws of physics sometimes.

there's no way a man should be thrown that off-balance by a simple friendly shove, yet somehow could participate in combat exercises with the crew just fine. there's no way a man should be that bad with stairs, yet could somehow scale his way up a wall by just upper body strength & the friction of his books. there's no way their captainーa man that was calm & moody but undeniably cool in his appearance and demeanorーwould think so highly of this over-zealous, sunny idiot.

it didn't make sense. he didn't make sense.

　❝ well, if i didn't before all this, i must have some by now. but it's not so much my brain as it is my body, if that makes sense. ❞

*looks away* the sea is in the blood. but i'll be more than happy to share cigarettes while Thaddeus terrorizes Law~

law babysitter! law babysitter!

half her bags are already by his front door but since she was raised with manners here's the formal request gjhj

she has already moved in, yes. he is excited to be her chocolate taste tester and help her sell them in town!

is ace child ...

ace is child! he is goofier than law, and he is so excited.

uta is sorry she isn't law but she's small and cute

he will accept that she doesn't like law right now, but this is gonna have to change. guess it's time for the 'get along' shirt.

META + Celestial Dragons

　he has neer once held a grudge against a single commoner that abused him.

he wouldn't go as far to say he 'deserved' it because he was just a child. a child who was too tender-hearted to ever harm a single person even before they left the holyland. but he understoodーbecause the common people didn't deserve what the celestials did to them, either.

he was by far the easiest person for the angry mobs to catchーthe youngest, the clumsiest and, as i've written about before, [constantly injured]. and in between the worst beatings he's ever received, between the forced starvation, waterboardings, and being dragged around by ropesーhe would be told stories. horrible stories.

he was too young to understand the concept of guilt back then, but when these people told him it was his fault, he believed them. he would cry, and apologize, and do as they asked. the ones kind enough to release him after they got to blow off steam for a whileーallowing him to return to the rundown shack his father & brother were living in, bloodied & in agonyーrosinante would never reveal who did it. he wouldn't give a name, or a physical description, he would even start lying and say he fell, he did it!

it wasn't until he was a teenager when he fully understood the politics of the world around him (in combination with those horrific stories the mobs shared with him in his childhood) that he could probably say he genuinely hated them. with the exception of his parents (and, against his better judgement, his brother) he hated all of them. himself included. so, if someone decided to hate him for who his ancestors wereーhe wouldn't blame them.