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[gochuugoku]

[China's sitting comfortably near his low table with a puzzled look on his face.]

Last night I had a very strange dream. I was dressed in a female Beijing Opera costume and I was singing and dancing. Maybe I drank too much at the Lantern Festival, or something, aru.

[He pauses to drink some of his green tea, which was sitting in a teacup on the low table.]

By the way, what's this I keep hearing about memories? Are you saying the dream I had was actually a memory? [Guess who hasn't had any experiences yet.]

[OOC: Hey man, this is China. Anyone is free to view memories ranging from his (lonely) childhood, to his dynasties, the wars, present day, and the Christmas he spent with Stocking here in Discedo (since that's the first and only real memory he's recalled of Discedo so far).]

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[fierybluebird]

I see.... You're from 2011 now??

Ah... if he was very tall and muscular and had a crescent moon mustache large enough to hold 6 bananas on each side [What? No, but that really is how Oda measured Whitebeard's mustache.] -- then that would be my Pops.

If he had a scar up by his eye and punched me out of the sky, that would Ace's grandfather.

[gochuugoku]

2011? No. 2012. What, are most people from that year? [He tilts his head.]

Ah, it was the first one.

[fierybluebird]

Yes. Makes me wonder if time for your world keeps moving forward. Although some wind up farther in the past.

My Pops then. What was going on, if I might ask?

[gochuugoku]

Of course our world keeps moving forward, doesn't every world do so? And... I think I saw Eyebrows earlier, but he looked different, more tanned.

He was talking to what seemed to be his crew.

[fierybluebird]

I suppose.

Eyebrows, huh? So you stopped calling him Opium I see. Yeah, England's back at a pirate age.

[gochuugoku]

No, I still call him Opium, just not as much since I have plenty of other names for him. ...Are you sure he's not just putting up an act so he can cover up his "non-gentlemanly" manners. [Then again, China never saw England as a gentleman.]

[fierybluebird]

[Lineface.]

Very sure.

England and I have a-- [Decides he doesn't feel like revealing the phoenix thing yet.]

We're both pirates, so we speak the same language.

[gochuugoku]

Well, you seem more polite than him, which I appreciate very much, aru.

[fierybluebird]

Being a pirate doesn't mean one has to be rude. It's just occasionally a perk.

But thanks for noticing, I try. My brothers are usually the well-mannered ones, to be honest, but since they're not around, I have to pick up the slack.

[gochuugoku]

I know that, I had some pirates from my country too. I just didn't think the lifestyle suited me, though. Everyone has a different path, yes?

Oh? You have brothers? I wish I could meet them since you've already met most of my family, aru.

[fierybluebird]

Aye. Hong Kong told me a little about them.

1600, actually. And I wish you could as well. I miss them, and they'd get a kick out of this place.

[gochuugoku]

If only we had all our family members here. You still have to meet Vietnam, Thailand, Tibet, Mongolia, and my cousin India.

[Don't really know if China and India are cousins in canon yet, but that's what the fanon mostly thinks as well as myself.]

[fierybluebird]

[Another one China lost to England? :O]

I'd like that. You're always welcome to tell me all about them, eh? I'm certainly curious.

[gochuugoku]

[Ayup]

And you are always welcome to tell me about your family~! I'm just as curious, aru!

[fierybluebird]

[Aw ;;]

There's a lot to tell. And you probably wouldn't believe a tenth of it. [But he's instantly put at ease by this offer. Marco could go on forever about his family. Even to the rest of his family.]

[gochuugoku]

I could say the same to you.

[fierybluebird]

Except I've spent the last year best friends with Japan. I'm pretty acclimated, my end of it would be a bit more like throwing cold water on you, since it's all new.

[gochuugoku]

O-Oh, I see. [He looks away, feeling a bit disheartened.]

[fierybluebird]

[Oh damn, that wasn't quite the reaction he was aiming for. But Marco gives a light-hearted grin and poses with his glasses.]

This is the part where you tell me that in 4000 years you've learned how to handle anything I could possibly tell you.

[gochuugoku]

I'm not so sure anymore. For I've never experienced something such as visiting another planet. I've been to the moon before a few times, but there's no human life there.

[fierybluebird]

You've been to the moon? That's pretty impressive. What's it like?

[gochuugoku]

It's like not any other experience you can have on earth, that's for sure. There's no gravity to keep you down, so you're practically weightless in space, that's why we have special suits and equipment to keep us from floating away.

You can see the earth from there too. You can see the planet's oceans, landmasses, the blue sky, and even clouds. It's a beautiful site, aru.

[fierybluebird]

I see... sounds weird.

Ah well... speaking of which... Let's see. I'm not human, so that gives you a good starting point. Joz is made of diamond, and he's twelve feet tall or so. Actually all of my brothers are taller than me except Haruta and Ace. Haruta's the shortest of us. And has a frog prince motif going -- don't ask. Izou is only a little taller than me, and that might be just because he wears geta sandals. He dresses like a geisha, he's an okama, and even wears those getas into battle. Blamenco is a good ten feet tall but stores giant hammers inside of pockets on his chins, and the hammers are almost double his size. Namur is a shark fishman, and he loves the criminal clothing line made by a talking starfish from Fishman Island. It's a popular brand. Curiel is only about ten feet tall, but he's always wearing this headphones, I really want him to meet Japan because of that. He also like these watermelon bucket hats. It's cute. Fossa is awesome, he's insanely badass and uses his cigar to light his sword on fire.

Atomos and Blenheim are nearly 25 feet tall each, and Speed Jiru isn't too tall, which still puts him head and shoulders taller than me mind you, but he fancies himself a knight so he has a shield and tunic and fights with a lance. And Ace is our fiery hothead. Literally, he's made of fire.

I miss them.

1/2

[gochuugoku]

Made of diamond? But how is that possible?

"Frog prince motif"...?

Haha, yes, back home Japan often put on his headphones to drown out my voice. [He laughs dryly.]

You already know Hong Kong, Macau, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, but I still have to describe the others.

[gochuugoku]

Vietnam is the second oldest in our large family, so we share more memories with one another than we do with our other siblings. She lives south of my country. She used to be quite an obedient girl, like Taiwan, but then... you know, time brings changes and the like. Nowadays she likes to use my head as a target for her paddle and she's become quite wary of me. In fact, in the period of time where America is currently from, she's in conflict with him.

Tibet lives the life of a monk and does not appear to hold grudges, but that is only on the outside. I can sense that he's still alert around me whenever I come over for tea or to meditate alone in the mountains. His land is within my own borders.

India, is our cousin, as I said before and lives west of me. We've also known each other for a long time thanks to trading. However, during the Cold War things grew sour between us and we even fought a short war against each other during the Cold War itself. Ever since then he's been rather bitter towards me, though I can't really blame him. I would have been the same if I was in his shoes and he in mine.

Thailand is another younger brother and he lives near Vietnam. His favorite animal is the elephant, just like India, and he lets us ride on them sometimes. During the Cold War, things between us were rather tense, but during 1978 (still during the Cold War) we began to patch things up. I had to protect him from Vietnam and trading became a big part of our amending process. We still get along rather well today, too, aru.