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[Voice/Action]: Friends need to stop getting owned

[Well after everything that has been happening as of late, Luffy has been thinking. A lot. Well maybe not a LOT LOT cause thinking too much would give him a fever, but ya know. A moderate amount. And while he wants to get stronger to protect everyone and free everyone from this prison, he can’t seem to do that without his friends getting hurt, or beat up. He can’t possibly watch all of them all the time. And if he could, he couldn't train.

Normally what he would do is just beat up the main bad guy, but here there are a lot of main bad guys. And they can teleport away. He can't kick their asses if they do that. While a good piece of his friends are fighters, the rest just kinda aren't. Or altleast not strong enough to fight against any of the opponents that he's faced here. He flips open his journal and starts to make an entry.

Oh, Luffy is on top of Community Building 6 too by the way. No particular reason, aside from the fact that it's not a lot of stuff there and not too many buildings and all that. Luffy can't think at all with distractions.]

[Locked away from the Strawhats, and all of his friends except Adell, Flynn, Nel, Moro, Ichigo, and Vash // ~~7% unhackable~~ Re-filtered to 90% unhackable]

Oi.

How do you protect your naka-- [Oh right. Almost forgot no one here knows that word 8|] --friends... when there's a lot of 'em?

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[Looks around a bit. Hmmm, which one was this building?]

Uh... I'm on top of Community Building 6 I think.

Edited 2010-02-07 12:42 (UTC)

Got it. Give me ten minutes.

[Aaaand run run run after getting some extra paper and a clipboard. Up the stairs and to the roof. He smiles and sits down nearby.]

Okay. I'll take care of designing your strategy. Tsukiyono Omi-- [Nod.] nice to meet you.

[Oh, there you are!]

I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meet ya too!

Okay. Step one: if there's anyone besides you and me that you're counting on for fighting, I'll need their names. [Ready with the clipboard here.]

[Give him a second to think... OKAY!]

Well there's my crew. They all can figh-- [Waaaiit a minute there Luffy. You've had to help a wounded Nami, and a bleeding to death Noel TWICE now. And neither of those guys were as strong as Kefka and Yuber probably. And if he puts her down, she might have to fight Kefka and Yuber or something. He doesn't know how this strategy stuff works. Hmmm.]

Can I start with the friends I met in Luceti first?

[Omi smiles, the very image of warmth and patience. He's not completely sure you know what you're doing here, but you struck a chord with the desire to protect people so he'll be helping all he can.]

You can go in whatever order you want.

Kay! In Luceti there's Flynn, Vash, Nel, Naruto, Ichigo... I have another one but she doesn't really like people very much. Does she still count?

[Omi scribbles down the names as Luffy lists them-- both of theirs already on the list.] Hmmm... Liking people isn't really the issue but... [He can't help thinking of Aya. Last candidate in the world for Mr. Congeniality, that guy, but he's an invaluable teammate all the same.]

Everyone needs to be able to work as part of a team. The idea here is everyone has an assigned job, and things only work if everyone is willing to do their own assignment. Can she cooperate like that?

[Laughs]

Nah, she would hate working with anyone except her daughter.

Then it's probably best to leave her off the official list for both your sakes. Who else?

That's all my friends in Luceti. As far as my crew there's Brook, Chopper, Sanji, Zoro, Usopp-- [He thinks about this last one] And Nami. I have more, but the rest of them aren't here...

...

Oi, can you make it so I handle all the really really strong guys?

[It takes Omi a few moments to realize Luffy doesn't mean he wants to be in charge of the strong guys on their side, but to be up against the strong guys on the other. You worry him, Luffy.

Even so, he's jotting down the names, but stops, eyes widening, at the last of them.]

Ehh? Nami-san is one of your crew?!

Huh? Oh, yeah, she is. You know her?

Y... Yeah. I do. I met her a little over a week ago. Tall and slender with shoulder-length orange hair, right? I thought she said she was a Commodore...

That's her.

Commodore? Nope, she's a pirate!

...Pirate?!

Shishishi. Yeah, we're all pirates.

Pirate... you mean you... [Trailing off there. And making a desperate attempt to collect the pieces of his shattered brain. Crap. Pirates? But Luffy didn't seem like a bad guy!]

Luffy-kun... [More serious voice now. Neutral, but serious.] What kind of person are you? I came to help because you said you wanted to protect people.

...But that isn't something pirates are much in the business of doing.

[So says the assassin. orz]

Edited 2010-02-08 05:58 (UTC)

But I do want to protect my friends! What does being a pirate have to do with that!?

[Silence while he tries to process that. And fails.]

N-nothing... I don't think... But. [Confused boy is CONFUSED. He'd had an argument a minute ago, but Luffy was right, wasn't he?]

...Sorry.

Edited 2010-02-08 06:15 (UTC)

Heheheh. It's okay!

[...K, best way past an awkward moment is sweep it under the rug and move on like it never happened. Right. Have a bashful smile, Luffy.]

Anyway... if that's everyone, then the next thing needed is what everyone is good at. And, just as importantly, what everyone's vulnerabilities are. The reason for this is because by knowing, we can place people so that the strengths of one will check the weaknesses of another. Which makes the risk of our side getting hurt as small as possible.

For example, I'm a long-range fighter most valuable sniping. I'll do you more good guarding the backs of the close-range fighters from a rooftop than I will do fighting on the front line.

[Okay he barely GOT anything you first said but he gets the second part]

Usopp's like that! He's my crew's sniper!

[Oh, good! Then this was making sense!]

Yes, so you don't want him two feet away from the enemy; twenty feet or fifty feet is better for him, right?

[Nod nod]

Yeah! A sniper isn't any good if he's up close. [--wait... OOOOHHH]

Oh, I think I get it now! This'll be easy if that's all you need to know!

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