piecing together an early canonpoint luceti app

[nosenobounds]

Y- you're just too lazy to rewatch all of those adventures, aren't you? I wanna know about those, you know! What do you expect me to do from so early?!

It just won't work! Pick a time with a bigger crew! Better ammo to defend myself with! The Grand Line! [ DREAMS. MAN'S ROMANCE. Stuff. Things. ]

AT LEAST PRETEND YOU'RE CONSIDERING IT, ASSHOLE.

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[goldenglasses]

I've been watching those adventures with my mun lately! I must say you were very manly in them Captain Usopp. [Oh Vash, your terrible liar streak is showing again.]

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[nosenobounds]

[ He's even worse at lying than I am.. ]

[nosenobounds]

[ This is unsurprisingly okay with him. ]

Yeah, aren't I? I'm turning into a real warrior! [ ACTUALLY BY HIS PERSONAL STANDARDS, he thinks it's a pretty legitimate assessment. ]

[goldenglasses]

Yeah! You really are! Thanks to you a whole country was saved! That's pretty warrior like!

[nosenobounds]

It would be great just to get to Little Garden! Real giants! [ Even though that also looked really really dangerous. Alabasta looked even more dangerous, though.

Everything looks increasingly dangerous, now he thinks about it. ]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash goes ahead and backs his own thinking up a bit. So he was before even all of that.]

Really? Like real man eating, bone crushing, tall as the tallest mountain giants? Are you going there to get them to join your crew?

I bet they'd need really big boats.

[nosenobounds]

[ Giant crewmates that would be so amazing--

(But what is this mental image of an enormous foot accidentally knocking Merry's ram's head clear off in excitement? He can imagine it so clearly. He can imagine a lot of disasters so clearly, but still.) ]

W- WE BETTER NOT BE! Do those giants know what we went through to get that ship?! It would be like a toy to them, they'd break it!

[goldenglasses]

HAHAHAHAHAH! Yeah! I guess it would be like a little toy they take into a bath, wouldn't it! HAHAHAHHAHA! Choo-choo!

[nosenobounds]

Why are you making train sounds?!

[ GOSH, VASH. This is a serious situation!!1 ]

[goldenglasses]

Well, I don't actually know what boats sound like. Ah- beep beep?

[nosenobounds]

You're definitely no pirate. [ Tut tut. ] Ships don't make sounds like that! They hardly make any sounds at all. Creaking! Maybe splashing!

[goldenglasses]

Maybe splashing? But don't they sit in the water? Shouldn't they always make splashing sounds?

[nosenobounds]

Well, it's not exactly the boat, it's the water around it doing the splashing. I don't know if that counts.

[goldenglasses]

Oh. I don't know either. Never been on a boat. Seems like it would be fun though.

[nosenobounds]

What, never? Not even a fishing boat or something? [ They're not as cool as pirate ships, but they're still on the water. He figures it's worth a shot. ]

[goldenglasses]

Never I'm afraid. There's not exactly a lot of water where I'm from. All desert actually.

[nosenobounds]

Aa, that sounds kind of boring. [ But you know. In a really friendly way. ] I've been by the ocean my whole life, though. It's hard to imagine anything else!

[goldenglasses]

The ocean does sound like a lot of fun. I hope I get to see one some day.

[nosenobounds]

There's an ocean in this Luceti, right? I can take you out on the water anytime! Piracy is in my blood, so it wouldn't be any trouble!

[goldenglasses]

Really? I've been out by the ocean a few times, but never actually sailed on it before! That would be great!

[...]

How are we going to remember this plan once you get in Luceti?

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[nosenobounds]

That's easy! We'll just-

[nosenobounds]

-just...

[nosenobounds]

Just.

[nosenobounds]

[ WELP, SORRY VASH, HE'S OUT. ]

Think of... something...

[goldenglasses]

THAT'S PERFECT! I knew I could count on the great Captain Usopp to think of something! [Eh, he'll leave it up to his mun and just hope for the best.

[weathervain]

Yeah, you tell her! You need to come here from much further along.

[SHE NEEDS SOMEONE TO HIDE BEHIND. She'll settle for you. She guesses.]

[nosenobounds]

Oi, oi, and yours can't do that with you? [ Because he was planning on a reverse situation hmm. Life without a monster to hide behind is already getting challenging. ]

[weathervain]

You'd think that, but no. Muns are nothing but trouble, Usopp.

[nosenobounds]

[ Siiigh. ]

I remember when life was simpler.

[weathervain]

You mean before or after some idiot rubber captain came along? [Not mentioning any names or anything.]

[nosenobounds]

Before. [ Instant answer. ] I knew it wouldn't be boring when I joined up, but... the rest of the chapters look so dangerous... no, I'd rather just get it all over with now!

[ Who wants to be stuck in some place for months not knowing anything that really happens on their super official pirate voyage? It's terrible. It's unimaginable. It's just plain rude. ]

[weathervain]

Does it help if I tell you you get really buff later on?

[Totally cheating on peeking ahead, here. NO NEED TO TELL HIM about everything that happens before that right >_>]

[nosenobounds]

Of course I do! [ 100% unexpected. ]

I'll have you know that I'm already widely regarded as the strongest man in my village. [ Lucky he's not a straight-up cartoon or his arms might waft in the gentle breeze of bullshit. But what a friend, Nami, skipping the in-between. ]

[weathervain]

[Hey she's trying to make up for the general amounts of horrible snark likely to be coming your way soon in Luceti. NO HARD FEELINGS, BRO.]

Of course you are. [Widely regarded by whom, she wonders. Could make a crack about how the men in this village must be pretty weakass th en, but let's not mock each other's hometowns.] Then I suppose you're well on your way to becoming a brave warrior of the sea already.

[nosenobounds]

[ Got that hometown respect down pat. And the ego boosting, but that's no surprise. ]

Well, it does feel more like stepping up into my natural role sometimes. Every day's another step closer to realizing my dream.

[3d2y]

I can tell you about our adventures, Usopp! Do you want to know? [ considering they've went up against admirals and a kraken and shichibukai you probably don't ]

[nosenobounds]

Yeah! Definitely!

Or- n-no, wait, don't ruin any of them for me, you jerk!

... Unless they're really great! [ OR EVEN IF THEY'RE LAME lbr he's on board for this. So many chapters he hasn't lived through. ]

[3d2y]

Ohh, they are! We tamed a Kraken! [ well, luffy did while usopp was freaking out the whole way but same thing ]

[nosenobounds]

A- a kraken! Whoa, really?! [ Totally the same thing, don't be silly. also SHIT MAN THAT'S COOL, SPARKLING EXCITEMENT RIGHT AT YOU, BRO. It gives him... an odd sense of reversal somehow... fourth wall timeline stuff sure is weird. ] At least six hundred feet long, right?! Did we save any lost sailors from its stomach?

[3d2y]

Nope, but we saved a shark! That Kraken's name is Surume, and he really helped us out on Fishman Island.

[nosenobounds]

That's still pretty good! [ Usopp what are your standards. Ah, he can just embellish it on the retellings or something. ] Not just any crew can say they tamed a kraken and worked with it. You probably have to be a really special exception.

[justicereigns]

I think I'd trade you. This many years later and the only reason my mun's picked this later point is to torture me with moral ambiguities.

[nosenobounds]

Ohh, is someone messing up your sense of justice? [ Ttly weeping on the inside. ]

[justicereigns]

[GIVES A LOOK.]

Yes. [Hey, you leave his perfect and truest justice out of it! He'd take going back to his Loguetown days almost any day of the week over being beat up by shichibukai right and left, okay.]

[nosenobounds]

[ WHOA HEY MAN YOU WANNA FIGHT- who is he kidding. A guy this size, smoking two cigars at once? Wouldn't stand a chance against that.

He hadn't expected such a straightforward answer, though. ]

Oh. Well, is that gonna be good or bad for Luffy?

[justicereigns]

[He just shrugs.]

Who can say? [But seriously. He doesn't know. He hopes bad. But he kind of doubts it. And moreover, good or bad for Luffy, does it matter? Straw Hat will do what Straw Hat will.]

[nosenobounds]

You'd think you could. It's your opinion.

[justicereigns]

My opinion is that it will be mixed results and end poorly for me.

I don't have an opinion on how it will affect Straw Hat, that's his call, not mine.