[Action/"Voice"]

[mikangirl]

[Nami for her own part is content to either stay with her mother or go out exploring with Sanji for the first day or two she's home. It's bitterly cold out there and she doesn't like it much at all-- it's nothing like Cocoyashi-- and her feet are a little red from early barefoot adventures in the snow, but luckily she doesn't catch cold. She's more grounded and less restless than Sanji is, because Bellemere is here. And that means she can let Bellemere take care of things. Because after all, didn't mama say that they wouldn't be here for very long? She misses Nojiko, but if it's only for a little while, then maybe she'll just treat this as a holiday.

Then the second night passes, and Nami turns 10. And everything changes.]



[She's had nightmares before. And the last night was unsettling with the dreams she had, but they weren't bad dreams-- just ones that feel like she's lived a lifetime in one night. Or...one year, as the case may be.

The second night, she wakes up with a wail (muffled brutally by shoving the blanket up to her mouth, because nobody likes a crying human) and tears and her arm hurts but mostly all she can remember right now is Bellemere and the screams when they stepped on her arm and the blood and the way Arlong just shot her down--

die for your pathetic love--

--and everything that followed. And she knows why her arm hurts, but that doesn't make any sense, and Bellemere is right upstairs and Nami just spends the next ten minutes crying into the blanket and not daring to look at her arm. And when she can separate dream from reality just enough, she slides out of bed and doesn't even bother to dress properly, running for the stairs to the next floor in an oversized tshirt that hangs off her arms and going straight for her mama's bedroom.

She eventually falls asleep again and further returning memories distance her from the shock of that death, but none of them are good memories. And now she's confused to boot, because sometimes when she closes her eyes she expects to open them somewhere else entirely. And Nami grows to like the cold, because as long as there's snow outside, it means she's not at Arlong Park, and that means that maybe she can put it all aside as an especially bad nightmare and it didn't really happen. Because it didn't. Because Bellemere is here.

Anyway, distracting herself from darker thoughts is a damn good idea, really. Best to try and not think about it and just...stick with Bellemere a lot today.]

["Voice"]

[So in the afternoon, Luceti, there is a little girl staring back at you from the journals. And doing the most awesomely intelligent thing:



[Yeah. Because making faces at you all is really mature. She just wants to see how many people notice her, because damn this magical journal is fun.]

[Action]

[If people want to run into Nami at varying ages, she can be found:

-- At the library on Monday when she is 12, trying to reach that top shelf of navigation books;

-- At Good Spirits on Wednesday when she is 14, trying her luck at being served underage drinks (look, she can hold her liquor okay B|); and

-- Pretty much anywhere on the following Friday when she is 16, because she's smitten with a severe case of wanderlust; a rooftop, a shop, the forest, the battledome...anywhere. Chances are if you run into Nami today, she might attempt to pickpocket you just because she's got the suspicion she's damn good at it. And those ships out at sea hold her attention for a fair while, because...well, wouldn't it be nice to sail one away? These dreams, man. 

For ages 17 and up, well... there'll be another post much later.  Just to avoid confusion.]

Comments

[generalflirt]

...I don't actually know! Probably not?

[But... you never know]

[mikanthief]

Ahhh, well. I'm sure if I'm with you any leftover muggers won't be a problem anyway. Shall we?

[generalflirt]

Noooo~ problem at all. And if you [Snap] insist! There's a lot to see after all. We can try to go in a building! [Wave at one of them] Jump a car! [Wave at one of them] I can see if this program has Sunshine City!

[Raises both arms]

[mikanthief]

I'd like tot ry going up to the top, if that's okay! It looks like it'd be quite a view. What's Sunshine City?

[generalflirt]

The "City within a City." Buuuut, it's got nothing for height on the stuff around here.

[A turn and- let's try the door of one of these office buildings... that one. Okay, to the door and-

Wow it opened cool he wasn't sure he was expecting that. Well then, lobby floot]

[mikanthief]

So you can go in them after all. [She peers past him into the floor beyond as if expecting muggers around every corner.] So you've never tried this before?

[generalflirt]

Last time I went into a station. But that's pretty different than a building. [After all, he cares about the station. But okay, lobby so let's look for the elevators...]

[mikanthief]

[She's never seen elevators before, either. But once a few moments go by without ambush, Nami follows him through to see if any of the doors she can see open.]

Hey, if I wanted to fight pirates in this place, would they be on that list, d'you think?

[generalflirt]

[Most of the doors aren't going to go anywhere. Generic looking hallways, minor flaws in the simulation designed mostly for the streets. But he finds the elevator hall and pushes the button to summon one once there. But as for her question-] Pirates? I don't see why not?

[mikanthief]

[Open. Boring. Close. Open. Boring. ...ho, really?]

Great!




...really weak ones?

[generalflirt]

[He folds his arms behind his head about them, waiting to see if it'll actually descend]

...Haaah, I didn't catch that last part, Nami-chan?

[mikanthief]

Nothing! It's just... ahh. [She smiles after a second, a little sheepishly.] I'm not much of a fighter. Not without a weapon, anyway.

[Perhaps you noticed.]

[generalflirt]

Really, I thought that one throw was very insightful.

[Teasing. With a smile.

come on elevator hurry up]

[mikanthief]

..."insightful."

[There's a crooked grin.] I see.