Because I've Never Posted Here Before...

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Title: In Which An Insult Is Given In The Most Subtle Way
Rating: PG-13 at most
Pairing: Zoroxyour choice. If you know me you'll know what 'my choice' is...
Topic: Monster
Words: 291

In Which An Insult Is Given In The Most Subtle Way…

Monster; monster; monster…ah, there.

Mon·ster n.

1. a. An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.

b. A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.

Zoro lowered the dictionary and scratched his head. Neither of those made sense; he wasn’t imaginary and he certainly wasn’t made up of some random mish-mash of animals. He supposed some people could have found him frightening, but he doubted that was the problem here. Maybe something else…

2. One who inspires horror or disgust.

Definitely not. And besides, telling him that dripping blood all over the deck after a battle was disgusting was not an insult; at least not to him. But it had to be in here somewhere…

3. A very large animal, plant, or object.

This was just getting ridiculous now. How could that be an insult to anyone? It was a compliment as far as he could tell.

4. An animal, plant, or other organism having structural defects or deformities.

Well, that was it. He was going to march right back in there and tell that idiot he had no idea how to properly use the term ‘monster.’ None at…wait. Defects…structural defects…plant…and suddenly he understood. Slamming the book shut he headed for the men’s cabin, a dangerous look in his eyes.

“Oi! Bakayarou! I swear that if that was a reference to my hair I’m going to send you straight through the wall!”

The snicker from the other side of the door only made him snarl, and he drew Kitetsu and prepared to enter, swearing that after this was over the only reason he would be referred to as a ‘monster’ would be because of his technique with a blade.


(The definition was taken from thefreedictionary.com but modified to fit the story)

Comments

[ohsnap9292.livejournal.com]

I like the structure of this. It's interesting how you put the definition right into the drabble. I can't believe he actually looked the word up though. Sometimes Zoro just fails.

[aoitsukikage.livejournal.com]

Thanks; don't know why but the idea just came to me last night. And I think it's less about implying that Zoro doesn't know what it means and more about the fact that he knew it wasn't an insult in the traditional sense of the word 'monster' so he wanted to check what other things you could use the word for!

[popkin16]

XD Nice!

[aoitsukikage.livejournal.com]

Thanks!