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Title: Pirate Skills
Rating: G
Character: Luffy
Word Count: 397
Prompt: Skill



Before he left Fuschia Village, Luffy did one rather smart thing. He made a list. A mental checklist to be precise and on it he included all the characteristics of what he considered to be an awesome pirate crew. He needed to have someone with sword-fighting skills (because Shanks was awesome with his and there was no way Luffy was coordinated enough to take up the art himself). He needed someone with navigating and sailing skills (because Luffy had a lot of trouble reading maps and his main sailing skills involved rowing and dropping anchors). There would have to be a person with sniping skills (because Shanks had Yasopp and all good pirate ships had cannons) and definitely someone with cooking skills (because Luffy liked meat but there was something called scurvee or the like and maybe his other crewmates would want – although Luffy didn’t see why – more to eat besides protein).

And all good crews needed an individual with doctoring skills (because being a pirate could be dangerous and Luffy had no idea how to fix, say, a severed limb). It would be nice too to have someone who was smart and knew all about pirates and old treasures and stuff like that, book skills, (because Luffy was sure he would want to find buried treasure but he had no idea how to even start to look for some) and he would certainly need a person who could keep his future pirate ship in good repair with carpentry skills (because Luffy’s experience with hammers tended to end up with giving someone else a headache when he inevitably hit his thumb and his rubber body sent the hammer rebounding into the air). Music skills – a musician - were also a necessity (because it could get boring on the ocean – Shanks had said so – although Luffy didn’t really see how) because it was fun to sing and dance and he would need a person to sing sea shanties to him just like Lucky Roux had.

And he had rubber skills and meat-eating skills and Pirate King skills – whatever those were but it didn’t really matter because he was going to be the king of the pirates and therefore would have them – enough skills to be a pirate captain who could get to the Grand Line, find Shanks, and ultimately get the One Piece and become the Pirate King.

Date: 2009-01-20 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serrende.livejournal.com
Wow, those are pretty beautiful lyrics.

I note that Luffy forgot to add "swimming skills to pick me up so I won't drown" to the list. XD

(Seriously, does ANY fighting shonen protagonist need his life saved as often as Luffy?)

Date: 2009-01-20 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyrat13.livejournal.com
Yeah whats up with that??? Listening to the radio this morning, ALL the callers were people bad mouthing Obama.

People need to just sit back and give the guy a chance to actually BE president before they start whining.

Date: 2009-01-20 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brian-kun.livejournal.com
I didn't even think that he thought that far into the future.

Date: 2009-01-20 05:12 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-20 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scribe-protra.livejournal.com
Oh god I feel for you on the idiot teenagers. (Judging by my work one of them decised it would be hilarious to stuff it with non dissolvable paper towels.)

Date: 2009-01-20 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shake-the-stars.livejournal.com
Dude. That IS a shitty evening, literally. I would loathe and despise teenaged kids 43v4h were it me. (I'm starting to loathe them in light of the fact that a couple of them called me a bitch when they thought I couldn't hear, due to my UNACCOUNTABLE and AGE-DISCRIMINATORY refusal to sell them a can of compressed air due to store policy, which is that it's for the 18+ crowd only.)

Also, the fic made me smile. :D

Date: 2009-01-24 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shake-the-stars.livejournal.com
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure you never crapped up a toilet like that and then demanded that your room be comped. Then again, someone who can torch Watchtower magazine is clearly capable of ANYTHING XD

I don't care for one of the prevalent attitudes in childrearing here, which is that Baaaaayyyyyybeeeeeeeez Is Speshful Little Miracle Angelz From Jeeeee-Zussssss, and as such it is CRUEL to discipline them EVER, even in non-corporal ways. Also, there seems to be some sort of massive concern on the part of parents that their kids might not like them, which is bollocks. You can be friends with your kids when they're grown. When they're young, they need you to be an authority figure. I was afraid of my father and by God if I were going to have children, I would see to it that they were afraid of me.

Actually, I haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite yet, so I'll go with "in spite of". Yes, I know, I'm an era of geologic time behind XD

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