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[foreverphantom]

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[foreverphantom]

It's...a side effect.

[selfimmolation]

Makes sense. My body heat got way higher after I got mine.

[foreverphantom]

Has it lowered since coming here?

[selfimmolation]

No, but I'm still mostly fire.

[foreverphantom]

[




goes to poke him right in his shirtless chest. IS HE??? ]

[selfimmolation]

[ no it is solid muscle right now. enjoy ... that? ]

If I turn into fire now, I'd burn you. [ don't use your HAND? ]

[foreverphantom]

[ waves his hand dismissively ]

I could pass through it anyway, it wouldn't hurt me.

But alright, sure. Hands off. [ he holds both his hands up as proof that they are not touching Ace ] Let's see it now.

[selfimmolation]

How am I supposed to know that? But sure, alright.

[ actually he will take back the little toy train because this is the closest thing he has to demonstrate. which is to say he takes it, throws it up in the air, and then turns into flame and wow it passes right through him. wow. incredible. he dodged a toy. and now it is a singed toy. wowee ]

Ta-da.

[foreverphantom]

Huh.

Can you hold onto anything when you're like that?

[selfimmolation]

Yep. And it doesn't affect my clothes or anything, so I don't have to worry about burning off any items I've got on me.

[ so the shirtless thing is not because of fire. it is a choice. ]

[foreverphantom]

Huh. So our powers are the same in that way.

What about...can you go through walls like that? What would the fire even do to the wall in that case?

[selfimmolation]

Can't go through walls! But I can't do that at home either. Fire's still pretty much solid.

[foreverphantom]

Huh.

So what's changed about it here?

[selfimmolation]

[ a little sadly; ]

I can't attack at all. It's just the defense thing. Which, sure, it's a huge plus of being a logia, but I am fire. I can't even send out one measly fireball here.

[foreverphantom]

...what's a logia?

[selfimmolation]

Oh. Basically-- I got my powers from eating a Devil Fruit. Each fruit has its own unique abilities, and they fall under three types. Elemental like me are called Logia. Sand, smoke, fire, ice-- [ he sort of hesitates like he's going to name another one but he shakes his head abruptly ] Anyway, anything you can think of. You become that element. Then there's Zoans-- animal transformation. You get a couple of forms and whatever power the animal has. And finally there's Paramecias, which are for... everything else. My little brother's power is rubber, so he fits into that one.

[foreverphantom]

...huh. So you can...still turn into fire, but you can't throw any of it around?

[selfimmolation]

[ sighing again ]

Yeah... I mean, I can still handle myself in a fight just fine, but it's annoying as heck.

[foreverphantom]

Mmm. That's more or less how I feel about it too. [ sighs ]

[selfimmolation]

I don't get why, either, if the whole point of this thing is for us to help save their city from... whatever.

[foreverphantom]

Exactly!!

This whole thing doesn't make sense from the start, anyway. Either someone screwed something up...or someone's lying.

[selfimmolation]

They're definitely not telling the whole truth, that's for sure. But we kind of don't have anything else to go off of right now.

[foreverphantom]

Ugh. I hate not knowing what to fight.

[selfimmolation]

You and me both. Not much we can do about it right now except wait.

[foreverphantom]

Horrible.