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Don't remind me. That Michael guy was REALLY upset. How was the Rest of that night, for you? [It was a very blurry night, but Koby's 95% sure there's only one person here with green hair, so he's preeeetty sure he saw Zoro in the club.]

I see. [Heh.] I can make yours match with hers. If you'd like.

yeah that would be good and it would probably piss the cook off :-) so i'm in

( That Night. )

oh yeah uh it was interesting. didn't really go how i thought it was gonna go because i drank a bunch of those fancy drinks they had and i was pretty fucking drunk you know, i thought i saw you but realized i was just seeing double crazy ass night at least we survived

Most of the things you do seem to, so I'm not sure what difference it'll make. [Text cannot fully communicate the level of eyerolling Koby is reaching right now.]

No, that was probably me. There's someone here with similar hair.

[And they were, in fact, doing exactly what Zoro may or may not have witnessed them doing.]

Are you okay? Some of those drinks were Weird.

yeah they were definitely weird that's a word for it

( yo, are koby and zoro about to have a sex talk rn... this is new territory... )

i'm okay are you? i mean i dunno what i saw really but

( if there really were two tiny pink guys going at it against a wall, well. )

Did anyone um Bite you? [Because how do you even treat that. He's just been slapping a bandage on and calling it a day.]

I'm okay. A little sore, but I think that's to be expected. Sort of concerned about I mean. Nobody used ANY protection.

[Sex talk and pregnancy talk, wow.]

? pretty sure nobody bit me

( apparently koby got up to freakier shit than sucking a stranger's dick and subsequently getting railed by one's girlfriend — good for him? maybe? he thinks?

this is why he doesn't talk about this shit. )

i was gonna say thank fuck we don't have to worry about that but maybe that's insensitive considering the cook but anyway i'm sure these rich people have fancy medicine if there's stds

( he doesn't Know, koby. )

Oh. It wasn't like back in the village, I don't think. I mean I'm maybe 80% sure he wasn't trying to drink my blood or anything.

[Oh.

Oh, wait. That's. Hm.

Koby takes a long. Loooooong time to answer.]

Zoro, I'm worried about MYSELF.

koby i really doubt you got someone pregnant no offense i didn't think that you did you have sex with a girl??

[Oh god.]

No, I did not. That isn't really something I'd do. But even if I did, I couldn't have gotten anyone pregnant because I'm not a girl. But for a while everyone thought I was and treated me like one. Because I looked like one. Does that make sense?

( sorry if it's, like.

a possibly nerve-wracking amount of time that passes before zoro answers. really, it's just because he rereads koby's message approximately ninety five times, which is a hell of a lot for a guy who doesn't read. )

i think so you weren't a girl but you were a girl but then you weren't a girl because you're a guy my friend used to tell me she was jealous of me because i was a boy and it always pissed me off

[It's intensely nerve-wracking, less because Koby's worried Zoro will be mean amd more because he's worried he'll need to get much more blunt. Maybe draw a diagram or something.

But no, finally, a response and a heaving sigh of relief.]

That's actually it exactly. I wanted Well, I knew. For a long time. Everything felt wrong until I changed my name and my hair and clothes and things and then it started feeling better. Why did it piss you off?

huh cool

( he's a Simple Guy — it's why he'll never fully understand people like sanji who have an incessant need to wring their hands and freak out over dumb shit like kissing a dude or having a pussy. )

because she said that being a girl meant she would always be weaker than men and she could never become the world's greatest swordsman which was bullshit and insult to injury since she beat me 2,001 times (yeah we counted) i don't know if it was the same thing as you but maybe things would've been different for her

[And that's -- well, that's it. Just "cool". It's such a Zoro reaction that it actually makes Koby bark out a laugh, right in the middle of the library.]

2,001, really? She beat YOU? She must've been the greatest swordsman then. I sort of feel like swordsman is it's own thing. [The three genders...]

But maybe if she'd known it was something she could do... Maybe it would've been easier, yeah. I've never met anyone else like me, but it's Nice to know there were. Maybe. Did you ever beat her?

yeah yeah hard to believe i know but no never beat her

( and yeah, she probably was the greatest swordsman, or at least on track to be. at the very least, kuina probably could've left a duel with dracule mihawk without a scar bisecting her torso. )

my sword was hers her dad was the dojo master who taught us and he let me have it when she died

( are they for real lore dropping rn..... this is also weird and new.............. )

Did that drive you crazy? Or were you less stubborn when you were younger?

[Wow, Koby, you're finally having a lore-sharing bonding-moment and you're being so rude.

And then, of course, he immediately feels guilty for being a brat.]

Oh. That's I'm sorry. That's terrible.

yeah but we promised each other that one of us would become the world's greatest swordsman, so if not her then it's gotta be me

( shrug, etc. )

besides who knows if i would even be here right now if it didn't happen might not know you weirdos if not

( he can be a brat, too!! )

i was even more stubborn then for the record and yeah it still pisses me off sometimes

Ohhhh, that makes sense. That's why it's so important to you.

[Koby thinks of Sanji and his cooking, Nami and her maps, Luffy and his -- well, his everything. How there's something else beneath it all, something that drives them, motivates them to be what they are: someone special. Zoro and his friend, his swords...it fits right in.]

I think you'd still have found your way to the crew. Luffy is sort of a force of nature that way.

[Koby doesn't dwell on the fact that, in the real world, he and Zoro wouldn't be friends. He tries not to do that, ever.]

It's a good thing your swords are here, then. So you can train. Have you ever I mean Not with swords but Have you ever trained anyone?

( damn, the koby stringboard is definitely going wild right now. )

yeah i miss that idiot not enough that i'd want to see him here but

( ha ha, unless ... )

no i haven't trained anyone probably wouldn't be good at it since i'd have to explain stuff why marine training din't kick your ass enough?

( ok time for feelings talk is over, thanks koby. )

Me too. I'd almost want him here, but. It'd be hard for him, I know.

[Oh, alas, so sad, what an impossible desire...unless...]

You could explain things. Or you could learn. It did, but I haven't exactly kept it up for a little while. [On account of Seal Reasons.]
It'd be nice to get back to it.

i don't know how to explain shit so i guess you could just like follow me and copy me if you wanted but i'm not stopping to tell you what to do deal?

Deal. I've been looking for somewhere to train, but I haven't found anything so I usually just swim in the lake or something. Or do 200 pushups. I hate pushups. Garp loves pushups.

you can do 200 pushups? prove it tiny marine

( 😎 back to cool guy mode for reals. )

300. On a slow day. Any day, any time.

[Koby you're going to Die.]

( Koby You're Going To Die. )

400 tomorrow after breakfast

Deal. If I win, you have to do whatever I say. If I lose, I'll do whatever you tell me to.

[Like he doesn't already.]

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