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onepiece_300Title: Not that Different at All
Prompt: Black and White
Media: Fic
Characters: Usopp. Zoro, lil bit of Chopper, Robin and Luffy
Rating: T
Word Count: 297
Warning: Mentions of racial discrimination(please don't kill me)
Usopp raised his hand in front of his face.
“It’s normal here. Just like Sabaody.” Robin explained with something remorseful there.
It was the hand of a sniper and a pirate.
“It should be fine.” Chopper assured, applying salve and voice shaky with tears. “Definitely fine.”
Of an artist and a tinkerer.
“LET HIM GO!” Luffy screamed furiously, fighting through the crowd with everyone.
Already too late.
A storyteller and a liar.
“How dare you touch any of us like you have the right!” The townspeople sneered derisively at him.
A whip cracked. Usopp screamed.
It was a helpful hand; one he hadn’t realized held any difference from anyone else. So he thought nothing of it when he went to aid that young blonde to her feet.
“What do you think you’re doing mongrel?!”
Today, he learned it was also the hand of a black man.
He turned it this way and that, so focused on trying to find how it was unlike Franky’s, or Luffy’s, or Sanji’s, that he didn’t hear his crewmate approaching until he was already there.
“You know you’re not any different to us.” Swords clanged gently together, Zoro leaning against the railing where he sat.
Usopp nodded; said nothing while fidgeting with the bandages. Thought darkly of what was underneath.
“Wear them proudly.”
He frowned quizzically, “What?”
“They’re,” Zoro placed a hand to the scar on his chest, “A sign of a battle worth winning.”
Usopp wouldn’t soon forget it; the island they upheaved and the people they had freed – the people, he yelled as he set fire to the whips, who were just the same as everyone else.
The light in their eyes as they tasted freedom for the first time.
He smiled, hand curling into a brave warrior’s fist. “Right.”
Prompt: Black and White
Media: Fic
Characters: Usopp. Zoro, lil bit of Chopper, Robin and Luffy
Rating: T
Word Count: 297
Warning: Mentions of racial discrimination
Usopp raised his hand in front of his face.
“It’s normal here. Just like Sabaody.” Robin explained with something remorseful there.
It was the hand of a sniper and a pirate.
“It should be fine.” Chopper assured, applying salve and voice shaky with tears. “Definitely fine.”
Of an artist and a tinkerer.
“LET HIM GO!” Luffy screamed furiously, fighting through the crowd with everyone.
Already too late.
A storyteller and a liar.
“How dare you touch any of us like you have the right!” The townspeople sneered derisively at him.
A whip cracked. Usopp screamed.
It was a helpful hand; one he hadn’t realized held any difference from anyone else. So he thought nothing of it when he went to aid that young blonde to her feet.
“What do you think you’re doing mongrel?!”
Today, he learned it was also the hand of a black man.
He turned it this way and that, so focused on trying to find how it was unlike Franky’s, or Luffy’s, or Sanji’s, that he didn’t hear his crewmate approaching until he was already there.
“You know you’re not any different to us.” Swords clanged gently together, Zoro leaning against the railing where he sat.
Usopp nodded; said nothing while fidgeting with the bandages. Thought darkly of what was underneath.
“Wear them proudly.”
He frowned quizzically, “What?”
“They’re,” Zoro placed a hand to the scar on his chest, “A sign of a battle worth winning.”
Usopp wouldn’t soon forget it; the island they upheaved and the people they had freed – the people, he yelled as he set fire to the whips, who were just the same as everyone else.
The light in their eyes as they tasted freedom for the first time.
He smiled, hand curling into a brave warrior’s fist. “Right.”
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Date: 2013-02-22 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-22 05:21 am (UTC)And yeah they totally would xD The Straw Hats are awesome like that
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Date: 2013-02-22 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-22 08:21 am (UTC)omg I'm awful) so this prompt was the perfect way for me to work with it! I'm always so... awfully intrigued by Usopp's ethnicity... (Still awful)And I'm glad you think so 8D I try very hard to keep everyone in character but I feel I come up short most times xD;; Thanks so much!
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Date: 2013-02-22 07:57 am (UTC)I like how you made his hand the main focus of the story. It really has impact, especially in this line "It was a helpful hand; one he hadn’t realized held any difference from anyone else."
And when that hand became "a brave warrior's fist" at the end, it was a nice touch, symbolising both Usopp's growth and the resolution of the conflict.
Racial discrimination is truly the most irrational social problem we have now. Why look at a person's skin colour, when what truly matters is inside?
Great work!
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Date: 2013-02-22 08:54 am (UTC)Oooh, I'm glad you picked up on that. I rewrote so many sentences to get that last bit to fit (and then ended up having extra words anyways after all the revisions lol). I thought it was a nice way to end it ^^.
Totally random comment here: Since every word counts, I love how drabbles really make me work so hard xD I can't believe how many times I can rewrite the same sentences in different ways.
And, heh, sadly isn't any discrimination like that?
Thanks for reading and giving me such a lovely review!