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5th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

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[It's early in the morning-after a night of much boredom and little sleep- when Firo opens his journal.]

I've been wonderin': what kinda weapons do people use back where you guys come from? Where I live, people'll fight with anything from fists to tommy guns, but I figure everywhere's gotta have somethin' different.

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[Later that morning, Firo sets off running for the Battle Dome. He hasn't been too pleased with himself lately: he failed to be effective against the droids that attacked a few weeks ago, and then he couldn't even protect his friend from being mallynapped. Actually, ever since Ennis was kidnapped before his arrival in Luceti he's felt nagging feelings of uselessness. They've only been intensified by recent events.

He has to get stronger. The capos of his Family would be disappointed if they saw him like this. In the back of his mind Firo can practically hear Yaguruma berating him.

He spends most of the day at the Battle Dome, focusing on training until he's ready to drop (though feel free to interrupt him). Maybe trying to go so long without a break isn't a good idea, but that doesn't matter to Firo at this point. When nightfall comes, he wanders outside and slumps by the door, exhausted.

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If they've still got jobs, how bad can they be?

[There's a trace of irony in his voice; from watching the police back home, Firo doesn't have much faith in the abilities of any sort of law enforcement.]

[Just have a stare Firo.]

I keep forgetting how little people here know about things that seem so obvious back home.

G-5 is infamous for having the worst marines, that's why I wanted it. [MASOCHIST.... No, but he had big political reasons for that actually.]

Marines are outnumbered fighting all the pirate of the world, it takes some very strong injustices for a marine to get court-martialed and for the most part the general sentimentality is that a little overkill can be overlooked in the grand scheme of things.

If my men were here they'd probably be setting fires and hitting on every woman in sight. Which is saying something given the pirates we have here. [At least two pyros and 3 pervs...]

Why would you want that..?

So it's all worth it if the 'bad guys' get put away, huh?

[He can't say his Family members wouldn't be setting things on fire, but it still sounds like they have a lot more class than the guys Smoker's talking about.]

Because I'd rather deal with a bunch of men who despise some of the rules, than a bunch of boot-licking toadies who do everything by the book, following the letter of the law, but none of the intentions.

Some people think that.

Makes sense, I suppose.

"Some" people? And what do you think?

Quite a few of the brass.

It's a long story for what I think. Let's just say I know better. Real Justice isn't about executing every pirate and anyone associated with pirates. It's about keeping people safe. The rest is a means, but it shouldn't ever be the goal.

[That... actually makes a lot of sense. Even if Firo doesn't believe that it's possible to keep everyone or most people safe.]

...Interestin'. I can't imagine many other people you work with feel that way.

More than people expect. We're just not as loud as those who disagree.

[And his boss who did agree got defeated by one who believed killing pirates was the ultimate goal of justice; and more political stuff about the government who controls the marines preferring absolute justice over "real" justice due to political corruption, so there's that. It is actually quite involved like he said.]

It's easier to keep quiet than to risk losin' your job?

[At least that's what Firo imagines would happen. He doesn't mean the question to be particularly venomous; he has no soft spot for law enforcement but Smoker doesn't seem like a bad guy.]

While the fear of court martial does not motivate my silence, [If Firo knew how often Smoker gets in trouble for telling the brass to fuck off...] Dying doesn't win you wars. [And yeah, it's not exactly just getting fired... unless "fired" includes being melted by magma...]

Do you mean that as a figure a' speech or..?

[He thought only his line of work did things like that.]

No, I mean it literally.

Marines don't look kindly on desertion.

That sounds more like somethin' pirates would do.

[Sidelong glance.]

There's a famous example of that not working well for them.

Really? I thought they were famous for all that walkin' the plank and maroonin' people desert islands stuff.

What?

What plank? And marooning someone on a deserted island just means they'd be alive to plot revenge if they can find a way to escape. That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone bother with that?

Like a wooden plank, ya know, into the water.

And the idea is that they can't get off the island, so they starve or shoot themselves. They only get one bullet and all that.

To what end?

I've never heard of this, sorry.

[He sighs. It'd be slightly disappointing to find out that the elements of a proper pirate story are fiction.]

They show up in stories a lot, like ways to kill somebody who breaks the rules. Pirates you know really don't do that?

Pirates don't have rules. That's basically why they become pirates.

Well, I guess not to kill a nakama -- a crewmate. But even that has been broken.

If pirates want to kill someone, they're just going to do it, not give them creative chances to escape.

Don't see how you could keep a ship afloat without at least a few rules. Is that really the only one?

[Come on, man, he doesn't want all those grisly pirate stories from his childhood to be called fake. Though he can really get behind never killing crewmates, he's pretty sure Captain Hook had some other guidelines. He is a realistic pirate...isn't he? ]

They each hold themselves to different standards. You can't treat all pirates as exactly the same, because they aren't the same and they don't have the same rules for themselves. One crew might have some common sense rules about rations, another one might feel it's unnecessary and just trust each other not to be idiots. Most pirates make it up as they go along and think rules don't apply to them, they just do what they want.

So there's no "Pirate Code" or anything, either?

If there is one, it's different crew to crew.

Some crews might dictate that they all have to love music, some might prohibit purposely killing marines since it would draw unwanted attention; but other crews specifically target marines to drive their reputation up.

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