hollower | ☠ 3rd Haunt ☠ - [Voice | Filtered from Mihawk

[It's been some time since Perona had this discussion with Mihawk, which evidently ended rather...poorly. She's decided not to dare go back to her room in the second Community Housing building and has been, in effect, hopping from room to room in different community building and any available empty houses for the past few days just to keep as far away from her old home and angry neighbor as possible. She's even been scarce to visit her usual places of interest, just to subtract any unwanted chance encounter along the way.

Yes, Perona's avoiding a certain swordsman, and is rather frightened of said swordsman right now. She made a mistake and she knows it. And she understand just how much trouble she's in because of it as well as how big a bribe she needs for possible forgiveness. Hopefully she can find something suitable for the holiday season. However, there's something else she needs to find. She can't keep hopping around like this - into an empty house and apartment with nothing or no one to talk to. It's not the kind of life perona wants to have for any period of time, ever.

So, as she huddles in a corner of the library with many a good ghost story to keep her company, she opens her journal, throws up as good a filter she can make, and recites to Luceti--]

Mmhhrm...ah. I-Is there anyone willing to let me stay with them in their home for some time? There's a...problem. With my current residence. It's, ah--...become unsafe. For me. [She clears her throat.] I can sew and cook to a degree...if I must do something to earn my stay. I-It will only be for a short while! P-Perhaps until this coming holiday?

...Please?

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[OOC NOTE: I've already got a place/person for Perona to stay lined up, just so you all know! She'll be staying with Saleh for about a weekish, then with Law and Itachi for the remaining weekish. I've already spoken to all the muns and it's been set. So chronologically Saleh will be first.

You can still offer if you want, though! Or question Perona's reasoning and the like, though. /o/]

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[If nothing else, it cuts through his deadpan. His eyes flash dangerously, expression flickering briefly between anger and contempt, back to deadpan, and then narrowing into a glare before he can decide how he wants to react to it. He's deadpan, back to bored sounding, but with a thick undercurrent of antipathy he's never shown Perona before, even when he was discussing his despise for Gecko Moria.]

Do not forget your place either, Ghost Princess.

I hardly rely on just my ability to fly in order to avoid flightless swallows who depend on metal sticks to make their points for them, eh.

[Whitebeard's name might not mean much to anyone two years after the war, but Marco wasn't the right hand man to the strongest man in the world without earning a reputation for himself. On the one hand, he does wish he had Vista around so he could leave Mihawk for Vista deal with. However, Vista wasn't there and protecting his crew was Marco's job. Even against swordsmen if it was required. To be sure, Marco is overly arrogant, and antagonistically picking a fight where he doesn't need to, but if Mihawk is going to raise a blade against him or those Marco protects, Marco would prefer to know about it sooner rather than later. Luceti's shifts meant that something could come up to make Marco or Ace far more infuriating than Marco's current childish attempts at amusement. Of course, pestering Mihawk continuously until he snapped meant that Marco might also create a "final straw" effect, but Marco is of the belief that this is all a matter of "when" rather than if. Ergo, he'd rather do it on his time over something stupid. Not that this is particularly brilliant or anything.]

Shichibukai are not pirate emperors. Don't expect me to worry about the wrath of someone who doesn't live in the New World.

[Did she go too far again? Perona turns her head as if to scoff, and chews her lower lip again. She's so sick and tired of being scolded. She's not a child, damnit, and she's just about had it with being treated like one by people older or stronger than her. Her place? Her place can be wherever the hell she wants it to be! Arrogant piece of--....tch, whatever. He can do what he likes then. If it ends him, all the better for her. One less headache to deal with.]

Do not speak down to me, Commander. [She doesn't need a bad mood to take with her to where she'll be staying.]

...You can do as you like, but keep your wits about you is all I ask. And make it so that your bothersome little games don't begin to affect me as well. I have no plans to move out permanently, and I'll personally see to it you've a dent in that thick skull of yours if I truly must make such plans.

[Smirks cheerfully. The only person he doesn't want to be called a Commander by is Teach. Blackbeard can go fuck himself.]

I only prank people I like.

I'll make sure my attempts to get a more interesting reaction from him do not spill over into your own life.

[Marco, there really is something wrong with you. Perona gives you a disgusted look, then just snorts and raises her chin up. If he's saying he likes her, that's disgusting and she'll be sure to throw something at him the next time she sees him, but if he means he likes Mihawk....

.........

.................

Not going down that mental pathway.]

Why are you even trying so hard to antagonize Mihawk-sama?

[Or maybe it just means Marco doesn't intend to prank either of them, gosh.]

[Because trolling isn't pranking, okay.]

Just for fun, eh.

[He's lying, by the way.]

[So if that's the case, sicing her hollows on you wouldn't be "attacking" then, would it? 8) ♥]

You have a very strange definition for the word "fun", phoenix-san. ...Though I'd wish you'd jut leave Mihawk-sama alone. It's troublesome for me if I catch him in a bad mood! [And she just wants you to stop pestering Mihawk. B| Leave her not!dad alone, man, or she'll yell.]

[Oops. But that's correct. He wouldn't count that as an attack as much as severely unpleasant.]

Mah... [Rubs his chin.] Well, I suppose that's a good reason. But I've been trying to get under his skin since he arrived here! It's not something that can just be turned off. Besides, he always acts like I have no effect on him. So if I give him a bad mood, it'd be admitting that I'm winning, eh?

[...Honestly, this man.

Perona just sighs and rubs her face slowly. How even--...no. No, she's done. She's done contesting this. Marco's insane and anything she says or does won't convince him to leave Mihawk alone. Thank goodness he's a relatively patient guy, though there are very obviously ways to get under his skin.]

I can't change your mind, can I? [SIGH.] What a bothersome person you are... What did Mihawk-sama even do to deserve your peculiar little games anyway? Or are you really just without any wit at all?

[Arches an eyebrow. He wants to keep joking, but the humor has already become a moot point by now.]

Nothing more than simply be a nuisance, so I'm returning it with interest on behalf of the rest of my crew. Like the other shichibukai, he was at Marineford getting in between me and my own. [His eyes harden.] Suffice to say, that's a dangerous place to be.

[Perona purses her lips, irritated by the sudden chill she felt down in the base of her spine. Bastard...such a silly-acting person shouldn't be able to scare her that much. Perona grunts, then turns her head away with false indifference. Like she cares about all that!

...Though she is a little curious about what did go down between the Whitebeard pirates and some of the Shichibukai. The entire war, in fact, was heavily glossed by the papers. Leave it to the World Government to rule over what the people know and don't know; see and don't see.]

Revenge, then. I should have known...how foolish of me.

[Just a positively evil grin at that.]

It's what I'm famous for, isn't it?

[Again, the tingle up her spine, though Perona's outward appearance doesn't change much. She glances away for a second, but that's all. She won't let someone like you intimidate her, you ridiculous bird.]

Infamous, more like. But who am I to stand in the way of such a thing? If you want to bother Mihawk-sama because of your revenge, by all means. I won't stop you. [Or, well, if it just remains to be stupid little games and pestering. Anything more and Perona might have a word or two to say about that.]

Infamous is even better, eh.

Good, you wouldn't want to get caught up in the aftermath, I'm sure.

[EYEROLL.]

Well, as much a fan I am of blood, I'd rather not soil my dress or shoes wading through it. And I'd rather not have to remove feathers from my stockings.

Sounds kinky.

[No Perona, you do not give Marco openings. You know why? Because that is what he does with them.]

[Wow, she just threw up in her mouth a little bit. 8|]

I'm afraid I don't share your thoughts... [SHUDDER.] If you have nothing worthwhile to include, I'm closing my journal now, you're very bothersome.

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