[ did he know you were a girl? excuse me? do u know who you are talking to. ]
you ever considered taking a bath?
i'm not a shitty marine. i don't arrest people. i'm a pirate, and i'm the best cook in the east blue. if you thought you were gonna be arrested, why'd you tell me you stole my knife?
( so: no, not unless someone is going to make her. )
Oh. ( pirate?? ) If I knew that I probably would not have told you, but maybe left it on your doorstop? I do not think pirates usually have much sense of justice. Anyway, I thought you were kind to me, and most people are not. I did not think you should be punished for that.
we have a tub. you could use it to bathe. every night, even. then more people would know you're a girl. you were covered in dirt when i saw you last.
[ that much he remembers.
he's not going to go around spouting luffy's "i'm different" narrative, but being kind to a child, unfortunately, is different for a pirate. sometimes it's even different for a not-pirate. ]
i don't have any sense of justice, so don't piss me off. that's not your whole punishment. you're gonna have to learn how to catch a fish yourself, and then how to use the knife properly.
I have heard it is safer to be seen as a boy, because little girls can be hurt worse. Please do not tell anyone I am a girl.
( she will show up washed and with shoes, though. it's probably time she remember that she's a lady and a princess, and not someone who should go around with dirty feet and knotted hair. plus, sanji won't like her if she stinks badly. )
Okay. I will do this. Is it difficult to catch fish?
i don't let people hurt girls. but i won't tell anyone if you don't want me to.
[ because his opinions are fully formed around the things whatever female in the nearest vicinity asks of him. ]
no. i'm catching one now. you just need patience. sometimes you get one right away, and sometimes you have to wait hours before anything bites. the difficult part is not letting it slap you in the face when you get it.
because it's a rule of the universe that men aren't meant to mistreat women. if you screw up that badly as a man, then you're just an asshole that deserves to be hated.
[ he would rather die than become someone that zeff despises — though if he knew what he's already done, the blood on his hands from the mothers, he would. he's broken zeff's rules, and maybe whatever love zeff had for him at the same time. ]
as soon as you want to give my knife back. are you hungry? i can cook this for you now.
don't lump me in with the rest of those shitbags. the north blue is a scary place. there's a big military there that can threaten people across all the seas. what are you a princess of?
it's more complicated than that. there are good and bad people everywhere, no matter if they're a pirate or a prince or in a big scary military. they don't teach you how to take a bath in buck?
is it someone good or is it that arseface mihawk? you can always come to me, too. or anyone on the crew i'm on.
That is not true. Sometimes all people are bad. I have never been to Buck, but I would imagine that they bathe. I bathed in Withywoods, but then my mother died, and then I was kidnapped.
( this is bee's attempt to guilt sanji about assuming things about her, just because she smells a little, and hates baths. )
I think Mr. Shanks is very good. He doesn't find me too strange. Your crew is here?
then it's your job to be someone who isn't. mine's dead, too, and then i got locked in a dungeon. i still know how to take a bath. nami has nice things to wash with that'll make you smell like vanilla and tangerines. i'll get you some.
[ he's gonna throw you into a lake himself. ]
shanks, huh? only some of them. nami and zoro and luffy. if you see the one with the green hair, he's a big idiot.
What did you get arrested for? No. They kidnapped me because I am the White Prophet. No one knows I am a princess, really. I did not know until I was eight.
You seem to have a very obvious favorite. I can meet them?
the dad that i was born with decided he didn’t like me very much, so he told the whole kingdom i was dead and hid me in the dungeon so no one would discover his lie. i’m not supposed to be telling you this. it’s the one thing i swore to him when i finally escaped. that i would never tell anyone where i’m really from or what happened to me. my real dad has a floating restaurant in the east blue. he taught me how to cook. he taught me everything. that’s where i’m really from. that’s why i’m gonna teach you how to gut a fish. what the hell’s a white prophet?
sure. do you want me to tell them that you’re a princess? it might get you some perks.
That’s ( very similar to her own father, really, who supposedly died as the traitorous bastard prince in the false king regal’s dungeons. obviously he didn’t though, because he eventually had to grow up and have bee who, despite everything, is very much real. ) awful. What a horrible person. Fathers should always love their children, more than anything else. I am glad you escaped, Mister Sanji, and lived long enough for me to befriend. I won’t tell a soul, I promise. I see that cooking is very important to you. I will be a good student, if your father’s honor.
The Whites can see futures in their dreams, the things that will come true. The White Prophet is someone who will use those dreams to set the world on a better path. At least, that is how it should be, or how it once was. Now the Whites are corrupted with greed, and only seek deepening their pockets with the prophecies of the world. They are the all bad people. Worse than all bad.
Maybe they should just believe I am a boy, for now. I don’t really know anything about being a princess. I was just trying it on when I said as much to you.
my father does love me. that other man isn't my dad. my other family... something happened to them. they're strong in a way that other humans aren't, but they lost their emotions. they don't feel anything when they hurt people. my mom made sure i didn't turn out like that, but it made me weaker than them. that's why they didn't want me. and that's why you can't say all people are bad. you don't know if something happened to them, too. my mom tried to save all my brothers, but she could only save me. it's not their fault.
do you know a lot of whites?
you can be whatever you want, princess. but just know that once you start a lie, you're committing to something. i've lived with mine for ten years now. so think a little harder about what you want to be first.
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i don't fight girls, either.
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( this is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to her!!!!! )
It does not seem like a punishment.
I was expecting to be arrested for my crime.
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you ever considered taking a bath?
i'm not a shitty marine. i don't arrest people.
i'm a pirate, and i'm the best cook in the east blue.
if you thought you were gonna be arrested, why'd you tell me you stole my knife?
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( so: no, not unless someone is going to make her. )
Oh. ( pirate?? ) If I knew that I probably would not have told you, but maybe left it on your doorstop? I do not think pirates usually have much sense of justice.
Anyway, I thought you were kind to me, and most people are not. I did not think you should be punished for that.
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then more people would know you're a girl. you were covered in dirt when i saw you last.
[ that much he remembers.
he's not going to go around spouting luffy's "i'm different" narrative, but being kind to a child, unfortunately, is different for a pirate. sometimes it's even different for a not-pirate. ]
i don't have any sense of justice, so don't piss me off.
that's not your whole punishment. you're gonna have to learn how to catch a fish yourself, and then how to use the knife properly.
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( she will show up washed and with shoes, though. it's probably time she remember that she's a lady and a princess, and not someone who should go around with dirty feet and knotted hair. plus, sanji won't like her if she stinks badly. )
Okay. I will do this.
Is it difficult to catch fish?
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but i won't tell anyone if you don't want me to.
[ because his opinions are fully formed around the things whatever female in the nearest vicinity asks of him. ]
no. i'm catching one now.
you just need patience. sometimes you get one right away, and sometimes you have to wait hours before anything bites.
the difficult part is not letting it slap you in the face when you get it.
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( people were nice enough to her in chalced, as a little beggar boy — at least, until she stole from them. then it was jail time. )
I will hold the fish away from my face, if I should catch one! I don't want to get slapped.
When should we fish?
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if you screw up that badly as a man, then you're just an asshole that deserves to be hated.
[ he would rather die than become someone that zeff despises — though if he knew what he's already done, the blood on his hands from the mothers, he would. he's broken zeff's rules, and maybe whatever love zeff had for him at the same time. ]
as soon as you want to give my knife back.
are you hungry? i can cook this for you now.
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( bee ur nine )
I am always hungry. I will come meet you.
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don't bring women into this, you shitty kid.
i'll have this one ready for you. then you can watch me fillet the next one on a full stomach.
you can't learn anything when you're hungry.
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Okay.
I should warn you, I do look a bit different from the last time we met.
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sure. and i’m a prince of the north blue.
[ will this egregious truth come back to bite him in the ass? unknown. ]
did you change, too?
when?
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What is the north blue?
Yes, a few days ago now.
I do not look like you.
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the north blue is a scary place. there's a big military there that can threaten people across all the seas.
what are you a princess of?
did someone help you, like you helped me?
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Buck. The capital of the Six Duchies.
( a hesitant tap tap tap of her pencil's tip on the page ( she stuck with a blue one ). eventually she picks it back up. )
No.
But someone is helping me now.
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there are good and bad people everywhere, no matter if they're a pirate or a prince or in a big scary military.
they don't teach you how to take a bath in buck?
is it someone good or is it that arseface mihawk?
you can always come to me, too. or anyone on the crew i'm on.
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I have never been to Buck, but I would imagine that they bathe. I bathed in Withywoods, but then my mother died, and then I was kidnapped.
( this is bee's attempt to guilt sanji about assuming things about her, just because she smells a little, and hates baths. )
I think Mr. Shanks is very good. He doesn't find me too strange.
Your crew is here?
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mine's dead, too, and then i got locked in a dungeon. i still know how to take a bath.
nami has nice things to wash with that'll make you smell like vanilla and tangerines. i'll get you some.
[ he's gonna throw you into a lake himself. ]
shanks, huh?
only some of them. nami and zoro and luffy.
if you see the one with the green hair, he's a big idiot.
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They gave you a bath in the dungeon?
( to the tone of: you guys are getting paid? )
Are they ( hmmm ) very scary pirates? Or are they nice like you?
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food. baths. books, now and then. they kept me alive.
did you get kidnapped because you're a princess?
nami's nice. she's the best and smartest person on our crew, and she's also the prettiest.
luffy's a good man too, but he's an acquired taste.
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No. They kidnapped me because I am the White Prophet. No one knows I am a princess, really. I did not know until I was eight.
You seem to have a very obvious favorite. I can meet them?
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my real dad has a floating restaurant in the east blue. he taught me how to cook. he taught me everything. that’s where i’m really from. that’s why i’m gonna teach you how to gut a fish.
what the hell’s a white prophet?
sure. do you want me to tell them that you’re a princess? it might get you some perks.
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I see that cooking is very important to you. I will be a good student, if your father’s honor.
The Whites can see futures in their dreams, the things that will come true. The White Prophet is someone who will use those dreams to set the world on a better path. At least, that is how it should be, or how it once was. Now the Whites are corrupted with greed, and only seek deepening their pockets with the prophecies of the world. They are the all bad people. Worse than all bad.
Maybe they should just believe I am a boy, for now. I don’t really know anything about being a princess. I was just trying it on when I said as much to you.
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my other family... something happened to them. they're strong in a way that other humans aren't, but they lost their emotions. they don't feel anything when they hurt people.
my mom made sure i didn't turn out like that, but it made me weaker than them. that's why they didn't want me.
and that's why you can't say all people are bad. you don't know if something happened to them, too. my mom tried to save all my brothers, but she could only save me.
it's not their fault.
do you know a lot of whites?
you can be whatever you want, princess. but just know that once you start a lie, you're committing to something. i've lived with mine for ten years now. so think a little harder about what you want to be first.
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