First drabble
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onepieceyaoi100Hi! Newbie here, at least when it comes to actually posting a drabble. This prompt seemed a fitting way to start. ;)
Title: Taking Second Chances
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Introduction
Rating: G (or higher for strong language)
Characters: Franky
Pairing: None really, just Franky/Strawhats. And possibly Franky/Robin, so: fail. (I’d wanted hints of Franky/Usopp too but couldn’t find the room for it, alas.)
Summary: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Or do you?
There’d been no warning at all, just a loud explosion and then a gaping hole in the wall as the Strawhats had literally crashed their way into Franky’s life. And maybe he should have taken that as a telling sign, but he’d been flush with the triumph of this unexpected great windfall the guys had brought home – finally! – and this guy seemed pretty weak anyway and who cared what pirates thought? Wasn’t like they’d gotten it legally in the first place.
Iceburg said pirates were clients like everybody else, but Iceburg took money from the fuckin’ government, so why listen to him? No, pirates were just scum, pure and simple.
So he’d screwed that first introduction up pretty royally and had helped mess up their team rather badly, as he’d learned later on when he’d started to change his mind about these weird people. But stuff happened, and now he was just a few meters away from the only one of them he’d heard about long before. A tall figure in a leather dress, with long black hair and almond eyes in an anguished face: bounty picture plus twenty years.
Iceburg had introduced her into his mind as a woman of dark menace, a dangerous demon who cared only for herself. He’d carried that impression for five years until it was upended completely only an hour or so ago into its very opposite. Now the Puffing Tom was shaking and chuffing around them toward its destination, and fate seemed bent on giving him second chances with these guys and maybe it was time he took the bloody hint.
Maybe if she can do it, I can.
A plan took shape in his mind and he grinned slyly, cracking his knuckles. He could smack a few walls down himself, after all.
Title: Taking Second Chances
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Introduction
Rating: G (or higher for strong language)
Characters: Franky
Pairing: None really, just Franky/Strawhats. And possibly Franky/Robin, so: fail. (I’d wanted hints of Franky/Usopp too but couldn’t find the room for it, alas.)
Summary: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Or do you?
There’d been no warning at all, just a loud explosion and then a gaping hole in the wall as the Strawhats had literally crashed their way into Franky’s life. And maybe he should have taken that as a telling sign, but he’d been flush with the triumph of this unexpected great windfall the guys had brought home – finally! – and this guy seemed pretty weak anyway and who cared what pirates thought? Wasn’t like they’d gotten it legally in the first place.
Iceburg said pirates were clients like everybody else, but Iceburg took money from the fuckin’ government, so why listen to him? No, pirates were just scum, pure and simple.
So he’d screwed that first introduction up pretty royally and had helped mess up their team rather badly, as he’d learned later on when he’d started to change his mind about these weird people. But stuff happened, and now he was just a few meters away from the only one of them he’d heard about long before. A tall figure in a leather dress, with long black hair and almond eyes in an anguished face: bounty picture plus twenty years.
Iceburg had introduced her into his mind as a woman of dark menace, a dangerous demon who cared only for herself. He’d carried that impression for five years until it was upended completely only an hour or so ago into its very opposite. Now the Puffing Tom was shaking and chuffing around them toward its destination, and fate seemed bent on giving him second chances with these guys and maybe it was time he took the bloody hint.
Maybe if she can do it, I can.
A plan took shape in his mind and he grinned slyly, cracking his knuckles. He could smack a few walls down himself, after all.
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Date: 2008-04-22 12:10 pm (UTC)Aaaand this is making me want to go rewatch bits of Enies Lobby, yet again.
(Franky/Usopp :D maybe in a different one!)
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Date: 2008-04-22 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-04-23 08:16 am (UTC)(thumbs up for your icon!)
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