OP ch.345 & blatant capslock abuse

[xparrot]

--HOLY SHIT

Okay, show of hands - lots guessed Califa, but who saw that coming?!!?

...

...that's what I thought.

ODA-SENSEI~~!!! WE HATES YOU, PRECIOUS! How can you keep piling on the tension like this, week after week after week, unrelenting, it just keeps building - hidoi! how can you do this?! marry me?

and the rest - SO SO ***SO*** THE NEW NAKAMA!!! W00t! *waves Pauley flag*

Also, go read naye's new fic. Good stuff. And by good stuff I mean MOST FUNNEST OP H/C EVAH, YO! nope, I'm not biased *huggles her sin-chan*

Comments

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's such a Zeff and Sanji thing, which is why I think it'll Paulie, not Iceberg, who objects to him leaving. I still just can't see Paulie fitting in. But that's just me, some people say they can see him fitting in perfectly.

At the end, Kaku says they were never working for Iceberg, that they were working for the government all along. As to their skills, Paulie learned shipbuilding from Iceberg, so it's possible they all apprenticed under him. Which would be even more Ouch.

Possible reasons to fake a broken GM:
Gives the strawhats a motive to hurt Iceberg
Makes them think they can't escape on their ship
Distraction to keep them from going after Robin.

These all did happen, but weren't neccessarily planned. I wanna keep the GM, tho. If only because that means we keep Usopp. ^^

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

To be honest I'm not sure how Pauley would fit in with the crew myself, but then I wasn't sure how a two-foot-tall blue-nosed reindeer could possibly be a nakama, and now I can't imagine them without Chopper, so...

Ouch indeed. Poor Iceberg. I wonder how long they've been working under him...? (and yes, I agree it would be hard for Pauley to go...I don't think Sanji would've left so easily if all the chefs had suddenly turned on Zeff. Tho' depending on how the arc's resolved...)

Hmm, but why would CP9 care if Luffy-tachi escaped?
For that matter...why'd they shoot Iceberg to begin with? They didn't kill him because they weren't sure where the plans were, I'm guessing, but why give him that kind of warning? then they wouldn't have had to battle their way through half the population of the town keen on protecting their mayor. Unless they were hoping to flush the plans by scaring him enough to go running for them (and we still don't know where they are, do we...hmm...) (Or am I missing something totally obvious? I need to reread all the arc thus far, I keep losing track of details. there's a lot to keep track of here! ^^;)

and I'd like to keep the GM, too, but I don't think Usopp's staying is dependent on it staying...I sure as hell hope not. Losing the GM I can take; losing Usopp...not so much!

[ex-naye320.livejournal.com]

Didn't they just show up & injure Iceberg purposly to set up Robin as the attacker? And with her, the Strawhat pirates? That's what I thought... And now I'm all afraid of hoping the GM might come out of this okay, because I was just getting used to the thought of losing it. (Which hurt, but not as much as losing Usopp would!)

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

Yup, they were trying to flush out the plans. But Iceberg, fortunately, wasn't stupid enough to fall for that.

Well, I dunno. They could've gotten the straw hats to show up just by using Robin, so I guess we'll have to wait and see so far as the GM. But it certainly gives credence to Usopp's "You're trusting strangers!" remarks.

I trust that we're keeping Usopp, but for that to happen the GM thing has to resolve somehow, so that's just one way. ^^

[ex-naye320.livejournal.com]

That's yet another thing I never would have figured - Usopp wasn't just overreacting, he was right. At least about trusting the first shipwright they came across, even though he probably never imagined anything like this...

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, poor Luffy's gonna love hearing that... oh well, so long as it leads to make up sex.

[ex-naye320.livejournal.com]

BWAH! With fangirls around, what doesn't? ^_~