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Nami ([personal profile] mikangirl) wrote2012-02-04 11:17 pm

[Action/"Voice"]

[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.]



mikanthief: (pic#2390807)

[personal profile] mikanthief 2012-04-01 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hoo?

[She leans back against the rocks, closing her eyes.]

I look forward to remembering it, then.
alabastajewel: (lean)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-06 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Vivi studies Nami for a moment, trying to judge her current age. By this time it seemed both she and Sanji were aging at about one year a day; that, combined with how she looks, and Vivi estimates her at right about fourteen or fifteen now. In a careful, curious tone, she asks:] What sort of things have you been remembering lately?
mikanthief: (what are you doing?)

My icons ran out, pretend she's younger

[personal profile] mikanthief 2012-04-06 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Nami's expression flattens the instant before she reaches into the water and cups it in her hands, dropping it over her head.] Nothing exciting. I'm getting better at holding my liquor.
alabastajewel: (giggling)

NEVER

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-07 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vivi mentally translates that to "nothing pleasant." She probably should've known better. She dips her fingers into the spring and flicks some water Nami's way, laughing.]

Aren't you a bit young for that?
mikanthief: (I can too have fun)

BUT BUT D:

[personal profile] mikanthief 2012-04-08 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
A--hey! [But she takes the splatter with good grace, grinning as she flicks some right back.] I'm a pirate! You're never too young when you're a pirate.
alabastajewel: (hot springs)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-09 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She answers that with another giggle and a mild shake of her head.]

You'll stunt your growth.
mikanthief: (hot springs!)

[personal profile] mikanthief 2012-04-11 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's fine. Being small is handy for a thief. [Grin.]
alabastajewel: (at peace)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-16 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vivi leans back a bit, stretching her legs out into the water.]

I lied. You'll be about as tall as me when you grow up. A little taller. [Not exactly towering, but a pretty respectable height for a woman.]
mikanthief: (looking back)

[personal profile] mikanthief 2012-04-19 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hooo, really? [She leans back as well, closing her eyes blissfully.] Am I as pretty as you?
alabastajewel: (smiling)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-22 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Vivi shakes her head fondly.] You can't be surprised by that. You're already very cute.

[And she laughs, still shaking her head.] Dare I ask what you have in mind?
alabastajewel: (lean)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-24 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Vivi tsks and shakes her head.] How terrible for the kingdom.
alabastajewel: (hot springs)

[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-04-25 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vivi just laughs, and aims a splash Nami's way.]