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Shanks thinks, I was named a whaler, and a whaler is what I'll die. Family left at home - friends too, tumultuous partings aside - he and his men head north to the Arctic Ocean, summer falling away from them and the cold rolling in unseasonably early.
His men look to him for instruction, as they always do; those he's been with for years, those newer, those who have never sailed before. His men, his boys. The Red Force is a fine ship in the fleet, even if not the most famous - the wind in her sails and the coal in her engines take her out to sea, the noise of the crowd slowly fading away into the distance, to be replaced by the calls of gulls and the hubbub of a working crew.
"Away we go," he says under his breath.
"Away we go," he echoes. "To glory, fame, and fortune."
"Amen," Shanks says, and turns away from the shore after he takes his last look at the distant skyline of the city they're leaving behind.
The Red Force and her men are a whaling crew in the Arctic, in the late 19th century.
Famously, nothing bad has ever happened in the Arctic, not to those who believe themselves adequately provisioned and well prepared.
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And when she gets into bed and closes her eyes, Perona dreams of pink flowers; bursting through the soil in the first bloom of spring, and hanging down low from a shrub, bright against the plant itself, poison in every part of it.
Perona, Kuraigana. Spring and summer come once again, bringing with it the perfect opportunity to look and consider herself; who she was, who she is, who she could be.
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Once you were a boy, then a man; you are still a man now, of course, but the world is changing around you and the sea is rising to claim what it thinks of as belonging to it.
These are the times you will tell people about, when they ask what the world was like.
(or: shanks, briefly introspective)
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"Are you making bread?" Thatch tilts his head to one side as he answers his first question, putting all the pieces together.
Marco does briefly consider lying to him, even though everything is pretty clear. It's hard to pretend that he's doing anything except what he is.
"I might be," Marco says.
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"He could say that he hasn't seen Marco since he was a teenager. How Marco had been softer with him for the first time since he was a baby, had kept him with the few Whitebeard pirates who'd come to pay their respects. About the half-serious place he'd been offered on Whitebeard's crew, and how this secret he keeps close to his chest is one that he's still considering even now."
After Loguetown, Shanks runs into the few Whitebeard Pirates who'd been able to attend Roger's execution to pay their respects to their captain's rival. (Their captain's friend.) He sails with them back to the Moby Dick and even after that, until he's seventeen and feels ready to start his own crew.
As all choices do, this changes things.
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else he would forego his mortal nature by fab_ia
Fandom One Piece, One Piece (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2024
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Series title from The Human Seasons by John Keats
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"You know," the Phoenix said matter-of-factly, "we're pirates. We're all living on stolen time. However much of it you get, you should try to enjoy it."
"Guess you would say that," Zoro commented, returning to his drink, "at your age."
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- Part 3 of consider the hands
- Part 15 of The Name of This Era
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01 May 2026
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Maxwell's first year with Goddard: a collection of observations
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13 Mar 2026
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Two men crash a helicopter into an arctic snowstorm. One of them comes home, and Maxwell is left wondering.
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11 Feb 2025
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What happens after you cut yourself free?
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16 Aug 2024
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I just know I've got something coming, If I've got anything coming at all by Gay_as_fuck
Fandoms: Flesh Blood & Concrete (Video Game)
15 Nov 2022
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The phone rings thrice and goes to voicemail. Standing on the cracked concrete outside of their motel in Taishet, Lera grinds the nub of her cigarette into the ground. A few sparks flicker and die as the thin sound of her brother’s voice comes through;
or, Lera goes home.
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16 Aug 2024