14 tightropes walked - accidental video/action

[freckleddoll]

Beast...Joker!?

[Doll is making her way through the crowds, being pushed and shoved around easily considering her small stature.]

Are any of you 'ere? [jostled again] 'scuse me.

Dagger? Jumbo?! [craning her neck, trying to see over the other people as she continues calling out her siblings' names in the hopes at least one of them will be there and hear her. She looks pretty tired, considering she spent much of the previous day looking for them as well]

If only I could see t'least one of 'em for a few minutes, t'know they're alright. [spoken to herself, low but not low enough for the device she doesn't know is recording not to capture it.]


((ooc: open for fourth walling! Network or action (just...don't hurt her |D). Anything goes, just no spoiling her past the point she's from i.e. chapter 28.))

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[freckleddoll]

You're...a...

[Still kind of staring but she starts back when he jumps to his feet.]

You're sure? I mean, you're...

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Oh no need to concern yourself for my little display earlier, I am simply so thin these days that the slightest breeze can send me tumbling. But that does not mean I am easy to injure either! These bones are as hard as iron, I shall have you know! Why I could throw myself into that lightpost again and again and mark my words, it would buckle before I did!

[He moves all around as he talks, waving his arms and spinning on his heels. He is a walking, talking skeleton and completely and utterly at peace with that, so he sees no reason why anyone else should find him disturbing either~!]

[freckleddoll]

[Doll, on the other hand, is finding a whole lot of reasons why she should freak out, but at the same time she's seen a lot of strange things since she arrived here.]

Really? You could? I mean...don' do that, you could 'urt yourself anyway!

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Oh well, if you insist my lady. Perhaps instead of inflicting self-harm then, I could ask you where exactly it is I have ended up now! I could swear I was trapped not five minutes ago in a desolate swamp-land drawing in people from all kinds of worlds, and now I find myself... someplace different!

[freckleddoll]

You're another of the new arrivals then?

It's called the City...s'a right strange place. Sorta kidnaps people from their worlds an' traps 'em 'ere.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

... Ah, now we are approaching familiar territory. And if I were to hazard a guess... there is no escape from this place, save if it 'allows' you to go?

[freckleddoll]

Yeah, that's it! You've been somewhere like this before?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

That, I most certainly have. In fact I am usually detained in a similar place, only it is less of a city and more of a, well, haunted swamp. If nothing else, the change of walking on solid streets instead of being ankle-deep in mud is quite refreshing.

[freckleddoll]

Blimey, an' I thought this was bad! Sounds like you've got it worse'n us.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Ah, I... well. I suppose you would be the judge of that.

But oh, where are my manners? My name is Brook, 'Dead Bones' Brook, musician of the Strawhat Pirate clan! It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance my lady, no matter how brief it might be!

[And off goes the hat and he sinks to one knee and bows, so that his head can be at about your height. This isn't easy when you're this tall you know.]

[freckleddoll]

Oh...s'nice t'meet you, Brook. 'm Doll. Lotsa people call me Freckles, though. [looking a bit surprised] You're a pirate, then?

Er...you don' have t'do that... [not that she doesn't appreciate not having to crane her neck upwards any more, but shows of manners directed at her always make her feel awkward.]

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

A pirate from to toes up to my skull, lady Freckles! And I most certainly do, simply because I am a pirate does not mean I can let my manners to go to waste!

[freckleddoll]

Well, if you 'ave to... [rubbing at the back of her head awkwardly, feeling a bit embarrassed]

You really sail on a ship an' rob other ships an' all that stuff?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

One would think that I would be used to this by now. Not quite so, my lady. In my world, pirate is the name given to anyone who wishes to sail wherever they please and damn the consequences. Whether those freesailers plunder or not is entirely up to them, but I for one sail to seek freedom... not as an excuse to plunder and hurt my fellow man.

[freckleddoll]

Sorry...didn't mean it as an insult or anythin', was just curious! Never 'eard of pirates like that...

Sounds like a good life though. Bein' free.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

It is, my lady. The best life that I know... so good that I kept on living it even after death! YOOHOHOHOHO!

[freckleddoll]

How did ya manage that?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Through an ancient artefact of my homeworld my lady, one steeped in mystery and legend... the Devil Fruit.

All who have eaten one of the fabled fruits are endowed with a supernatural ability, never the same ability as someone else. Mine was the ability to let my soul rise from the other side, and reanimate my fallen remains!

[freckleddoll]

Cor...musta been a right handy ability for ya t'get! You don' mind bein' a skeleton?

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

It is only due to being a skeleton that I have survived so far, so no... I cannot say I do.

[freckleddoll]

As long as you're 'appy, then!

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Well, I certainly have no reason to complain~! Do you, my lady?

[freckleddoll]

Well...'d rather be at 'ome with my family, but at least I got to see most of 'em today! An' it ain't that bad 'ere. 've got more things'n I do back 'ome, actually. So I really shouldn't complain.

[moveurdeadfros.livejournal.com]

Ah... I take it that your ordinary life is not quite as exciting as being a pirate on the open sea, or being constantly exposed to many hundreds of different worlds?

[freckleddoll]

Well, it ain't borin', but it ain't that excitin' either. A travellin' circus gets its own share of adventures though.