(catch-all/open) i'm your future, past and present, i'm a fine line

[invinciblemikey]

Who: manjiro sano (mikey) & you
Where: dojo, a club in the entertainment district, the shops
What: playing with the glitches & organizing the obon festival in august
Warnings: drinking, profanity, violence maybe i will warn on the subject line i really never know

for once, aldrip is not set in worsening manjiro's evil disposition. instead, it is taking him to simpler times - or, well, not really, when has it ever been simple?

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[joyboys]

[ ohhhhhh yeah that's true. he doesn't need to warm up because he's rubber, that's true!! he never really thought about that.

he nods his head so empathically that it bops a bit weird. ]

Dojo, yeah!! [ but oh that also makes sense. though — ]

Kyo...kushin karate? Oh, is that like fishman karate? It's really cool! The helmsman of my crew, Jinbei, he uses it, and he's amazing!! So you punch people too? [ like, as opposed to fighting with something. ] That's great! I don't like to fight with any stuff.

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[invinciblemikey]

... No idea, but, sure.

(will he ever understand luffy? probably not, he knows, but it's actually fine, because he can ask about these things in a bit.)

I mostly kick, because I'm... This size. But I also don't like fighting with any stuff. You gonna fight, be it with your own hands.

[joyboys]

Ehh, what's wrong with your size?

[ he blinks, like this is genuinely something that baffles him, before he blinks again and says, ] Oh, huh, I guess I can reach better because I can stretch and jump more and stuff.

[ to demonstrate, he pulls his fist back, before letting it sling through the air, stretching until he can touch the wall (not hard enough to do harm to anything, though, he's careful enough to do that), and then lets it recoil back with a snap. ]

[invinciblemikey]

Nothing wrong, it's just below average, which means I gotta stretch to reach pretty much anything important.

(like temples, necks, ribcages, so forth.

his eyes do follow the sling, and while he thought he has seen about everything by living in aldrip for so long... clearly, he was wrong. his eyes goggle a little bit and he has to check something.)

... If I take your wrist and bend, does it break? Where are your bones?

[joyboys]

They're there, [ comes the answer, like it's obvious. duh. where else would they be?? ]

They're just rubber, too. And no —

[ grabbing his own hand, luffy just bends it backwards, then stretches it and ties it into a knot. and then waves his whole arm around for good measure, laughing like a loon. ] See! It's all fine! You can hit me haki for reals, though.

[invinciblemikey]

(there's just intense slow-blinking from manjiro now, although it soon changes into laughter. okay, yeah, he can live with that, actually pretty dope.)

How do we break you? That's cheating, dude.

[joyboys]

Armament haki, [ comes the answer, accompanied by a grin — he has no qualms about explaining exactly how to actually fight him. and because he's figured out it's probably good to demonstrate this, too: he holds up his arm, then concentrates, and the whole arm, fist and all, suddenly takes on a black glint. ]

It's hard like steel, now, so it can actually punch fruit users, too. [ he tilts his head; he's not sure if those here can learn it... technically, everyone should have the capability, so maybe? ] Or just throw sea water at me!

[invinciblemikey]

(okay, he has to address it, because he finds it so funny that this guy really is explaining everything so thoroughly to a stranger... although the arm thing? freaking dope.

his own hands go on the boy's shoulders as he chuckles.)

I don't get a thing you're saying.

[joyboys]

[ that's okay — the blunt words just make him burst out laughing, shaking with it as he then grins at mikey, sun-bright. ]

That's okay!! It's all pretty weird. I didn't even know anything about haki until I was seventeen! [ with not a waver in the grin, ] So, we gonna fight?

[invinciblemikey]

And what is haki? Is that food?

(because it sounds like food. didn't he say something about fruit? see. with his head, he'll nod towards where they've begun - the training space of the dojo.)

Yep, go.

[joyboys]

[ go he does!! ]

Nah, it's — ugh, I don't wanna explain, I'll show you sometime, okay? When you've got your usual strength back!

[invinciblemikey]

Yeah, okay, now punch me in the face.

(AND HOPEFULLY BE NORMAL.......)

[joyboys]

[ with a grin, luffy squeezes his hand into a fist and pulls his arm back — and though he can't help his rubber everything, as promised, he doesn't use haki or anything else... but damn if he doesn't hit hard anyway.

after all, even if it's sparring... what's the point of holding back, right? but it goes both ways, so he expects mikey to give as good as he gets. ]