immamartillo | 5th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

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5th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

[Voice]

[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.

[Action]

[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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Can't be much more ridiculous than the people who figure all those in a certain business are the same kinda scum.

[That's not a jab at Smoker, really- Firo has somebody from home on his mind, and he said that without thinking.]

[Snorts. He's totally used to it in Luceti actually.] I do find it suspicious that someone would purposely go into a criminal line of work without intending to do criminal things.

But yes, there are always a few exceptions.

Not exactly what I meant.

[He'd find that pretty ridiculous too.,/small>]

Just that it seems to me that there's a difference between different crimes, ya know? Stealin' and murder ain't the same thing.

There are people who treat that as the same?

They treat the people who do 'em the same way.

[Sometimes. He's being a little too harsh in his judgement of the police back home; he's never had a favorable opinion of them.]

Tch. That's just lazy thinking. By the same token, why not treat everyone who likes pie the same, or everyone who plays baseball?

Hey, I never said the people doin' it are geniuses.

Fair enough. There are obvious levels to any criminal activities, as with anything else. I can understand the thinking that no criminal level is acceptable, [Not to say his own thinking is that absolute, he just understands the mindset at least.] but a serial killer can hardly be handled the same as a mere kleptomaniac.

You'd think more people'd realize that, but there they are, sendin' kids up the river.

[Firo managed to avoid legal punishment for his childhood crimes, but he's heard of quite a few who weren't so lucky.]

Perhaps, but I think more people have gotten fed up with how many kids are becoming criminals and just want them to stop. By any means necessary.

[Before Akainu and his "absolute justice" gained so much political support and wound up taking over the marines, Smoker wouldn't have believed that the general populous was of that mindset. Now, however, he's gotten an unfortunate, but clearer picture.]

People will do a lot of stupid things if they think it will make them feel "safe" again.

Would I be wrong if I guess that you deal with "stupid people tryin' to feel safe" a lot?

You could say my entire world's government is based on that very idea.

That sounds like a treat.

[He laughs.]

I'd say we got some people like that where I come from. The rest are crooks, mostly.

Maybe it's universal. That's my world in a nutshell.

Maybe it is. Guess there's no real hope for people anywhere.

Tch. If people here can find a way to make basic things work, then there's hope for any world, even if the demographics are completely different.

You think so? I woulda' thought this place was the exception. It is awfully calm here, though. If you take away the experiments, I mean.

[Firo's mostly surprised by the fact that there are so many plain friendly people here.]

[A shrug.] For whatever reason or another, the Malnosso seem inclined toward grabbing people pretty accepting of diversity. Maybe it makes for easier test subjects.

Either way, a lot of them seem headstrong enough to be like this even in their own worlds.

It takes a heckuva lot more than a couple people to make things work. At least where I come from.

[Most politicians promising reform and the like get swallowed by politics and Tammany Hall.]

Eh, whatever. Doesn't really matter while we're stuck here, does it?

It's still a start.

Tsk. True enough. So long as we're here, it's completely moot.

That's one of the annoyin' things about this place- we got all the time in the world to think about things but we can't really do anything about 'em.

[Quiet for a bit. He was mallynapped with the express purpose of giving him time to think about what he could do in Luceti with regards to people from home. People he can't do anything about back there.]

You'd be surprised what you can do even a world away.

Yeah? Care to tell me what that means?

I'm not sure it's applicable to anyone else.

There was just something in my world I could never resolve there, but I've had a lot of second chances here. And thirds and fourths... Tch, it's a bit annoying really.

[He chuckles.]

So does that make you lucky or unlucky?