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onepiece_300Title: New Spaces
Rating: G
Media: Fic
Pairing/Characters: Usopp, mentions of Kaya and Strawhats
Word Count(if applicable): 300
Prompt: Family
Usopp had no family, but he hadn’t been alone. He'd been lonely sometimes, especially right after his mother's death, and visiting her grave wasn’t comfort when she was gone. Instead, he'd found comfort in his father, who was waiting faithfully each morning at the horizon for Usopp to tell all the villagers that pirates were on their way. He'd found a different, strange comfort as the villagers slowly switched from pity to tolerance to outright irritation at him. Starting from that, he'd built a little space for himself to call home. He spread out as the island would let him, claiming it as his territory, sneaking in where he was forbidden because a pirate didn't pay attention to walls or guards or words like 'private property.' He found another space for himself, and Kaya had joined him in that space, a little universe that was built out of imagination and transferred back and forth through an eagerly opened window.
He had been so afraid he could barely move, but Usopp had known he had to fight, to protect each dawn's new arrival of imaginary pirates and to protect the little space he and Kaya had made. Even Kaya had rejected him, and though Usopp hadn't been alone before, he suddenly and painfully was. That was terrifying, worse than the enemy, worse than his own guilt.
He'd expected to die when instead, absolute strangers had come to his rescue. They opened a door he'd talked about for years but never quite felt ready to step across. But with their invitation he leapt across the threshold into a new, larger world, and although he was leaving behind his old comforts, he wasn't afraid of being alone there.
Pirates had come, and for the first time in years, he had a family again.
Rating: G
Media: Fic
Pairing/Characters: Usopp, mentions of Kaya and Strawhats
Word Count(if applicable): 300
Prompt: Family
Usopp had no family, but he hadn’t been alone. He'd been lonely sometimes, especially right after his mother's death, and visiting her grave wasn’t comfort when she was gone. Instead, he'd found comfort in his father, who was waiting faithfully each morning at the horizon for Usopp to tell all the villagers that pirates were on their way. He'd found a different, strange comfort as the villagers slowly switched from pity to tolerance to outright irritation at him. Starting from that, he'd built a little space for himself to call home. He spread out as the island would let him, claiming it as his territory, sneaking in where he was forbidden because a pirate didn't pay attention to walls or guards or words like 'private property.' He found another space for himself, and Kaya had joined him in that space, a little universe that was built out of imagination and transferred back and forth through an eagerly opened window.
He had been so afraid he could barely move, but Usopp had known he had to fight, to protect each dawn's new arrival of imaginary pirates and to protect the little space he and Kaya had made. Even Kaya had rejected him, and though Usopp hadn't been alone before, he suddenly and painfully was. That was terrifying, worse than the enemy, worse than his own guilt.
He'd expected to die when instead, absolute strangers had come to his rescue. They opened a door he'd talked about for years but never quite felt ready to step across. But with their invitation he leapt across the threshold into a new, larger world, and although he was leaving behind his old comforts, he wasn't afraid of being alone there.
Pirates had come, and for the first time in years, he had a family again.
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:06 pm (UTC)Instead, he'd found comfort in his father, who was waiting faithfully each morning at the horizon for Usopp to tell all the villagers that pirates were on their way.
Ow, that's a great line.
That was terrifying, worse than the enemy, worse than his own guilt.
I could well see that. (I really like it that you include Usopp's feeling guilty, because that's something about his introduction story that tends to be forgotten - I know I do it myself at times.)
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-05 05:16 pm (UTC)And yay first post! :D
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:07 pm (UTC)It's intimidating, everyone here has such good fics. XD;
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Date: 2009-02-05 05:33 pm (UTC)A great first post, huzzah! ♥
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-06 02:08 pm (UTC)