QUASIPLATONICROMANTIC NOT-MESS

[chanteuser]

i'm still wheezing y'all

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[chanteuser]

[ get it numi, that's girl power. ]

They're all pirates?

[antaressnipe]

Numi is a thief, though she later becomes a pirate at Lumpy's prompting.

[I HATE THAT THERE IS NO QUESTION I CANNOT ANSWER, AND THEREFORE CHIRON IS ALREADY AN EXPERT]

[chanteuser]

...

[ it's like he's saying words to her, but they make no sense. ]

... I guess that's just changing your workplace from land to ocean, huh?

[antaressnipe]

Indeed. Though I think they are less literal pirates in the sense of what I know, and more... freedom fighters who want to live their own way. They don't seem all that interested in stealing, for instance.

[TIME TO SAY MORE WORDS]

Lumpy is only a pirate so he can be the King of them, in fact.

[chanteuser]

[ chiron didn't you just start reading this how do you know so much ]

I didn't realise pirates had Kings.

[antaressnipe]

Neither did I. That is still a mystery I'm trying to solve.

[Chiron is attacking this manga with the fervor of a scholar. Horse off the string]

But he must travel to different islands first. The way it works is there is an island with a treasure on it, that will make him the official King -- but finding it is extremely difficult. You need a special compass that will lock onto the magnetic field of each new island to progress, else you will sail the seas forever and die.

[chanteuser]

[ with his new found powers he will be king of the pirates he's gonna be king (one piece dub intro voice) DREAMIN' DON'T GIVE IT UP CHIRON ]

... So he has to... gather a crew, find the compass, find the island, claim the treasure and... then he's just acknowledged as the best pirate?

[antaressnipe]

Supposedly... but given the depth of storytelling at work, I assume there will be other complications.

[Chiron already has One Piece theories. God is truly dead in this timeline]

Like for instance -- the Marines oppose his crew and make it difficult to progress, so he must survive his every encounter with them. And then every crew member has their own struggle to overcome.

[chanteuser]

[ if there is a god all of us will die before end game it's fine ]

...

[ wow. chiron stans not-one piece. ]

So it's a very long, winding and complicated heroes journey. Where there's no A to B, just A to E but via B, C, D along the way...?

[antaressnipe]

Yes. Very much like the Greek stories of my day. Perhaps that is why I'm a bit... invested.

[chanteuser]

Oh, are they this kind of—-

[ length? babbly and rambling? involve a guy spending five years on an island sleeping with a goddess while panicking that his wife might not be being faithful to him? (enters a classical studies college class rage flashback ]

—- sprawling, long tale as well? I’ve never heard any of them before.