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dethoratsTitle: 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-01-20 12:56 pm (UTC)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?)
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Date: 2009-01-22 01:10 am (UTC)XD Swimming skills would have been smart. Oops.
(I don't think so and that's what makes him extra awesome, because he has such a ridiculous vulnerability for a pirate and he knows it too)
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Date: 2009-01-20 03:12 pm (UTC)People need to just sit back and give the guy a chance to actually BE president before they start whining.
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Date: 2009-01-22 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-20 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-22 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-20 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-22 01:13 am (UTC)Anyway, the game play is really a lot of fun, the leveling is interesting, and the storyline is FANTASTIC! I'm having a lot of fun and usually I get tired of having to fight random battles all the time and give up after 12 hours or so into an RPG but I'm at 20 hours now and still have 2 more discs to look forward to.
I highly recommend it!
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Date: 2009-01-20 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-22 01:14 am (UTC)Lovely. What a bunch of jack-offs.
Even more than idiot teenagers though, I curse irresponsible chaperones. I mean, they're supposed to be in CHARGE and to be the babysitters, not me. Ugh. Double ugh when they go out and come back drunk and I have to handle them AND the kids.
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Date: 2009-01-20 09:48 pm (UTC)Also, the fic made me smile. :D
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Date: 2009-01-22 01:16 am (UTC)XD I'm getting old and crochety I guess but I just don't get kids these days...
Even though it was inspired by Napoleon Dynamite or perhaps because of?
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Date: 2009-01-24 06:05 am (UTC)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