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[Donatello has been hiding out in his apartment for most of the past two weeks (i.e. his entire time in Luceti) because, well, that's what mutant turtles do. And also because 90% of his fellow inmates, including his brothers, seemed to have gone insane.

Now, though, a semblance of normalcy has been restored, and Don has decided to test this thing whereby it seems to be more-or-less safe for giant humanoid reptiles to walk about in broad daylight.

He's sitting by the fountain, finishing up the stack of books he borrowed from the library. His journal is open beside him, and now and then he'll dictate an interesting passage into it.

He'll probably be here until he runs out of books or daylight, whichever happens first. Go ahead and bother him.]

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That's one of the best things about them.

That's true. ... I'm not very good at making them up, though.

I bet you could be, though. And the more you tell, the better you get.

[ /knows from experience ]

Maybe. There are good storytellers in my family, though. I'm kind of the designated listener.

You have to be pretty good at listening too, sometimes. Besides, no one has to be designated.

My family is just like that sometimes.

Well that can't be very fun, a lot of the time.

This can be a good place for trying different things out, at least. If you ever want to do that.

It's complicated.

I'm trying something different right now, actually. Just sitting outside like this is pretty exciting for me.

[ He can dig the complicated thing. Can't not, with the crew he's on. ]

Is it?

It is! I never get to do this!

... It's not safe for me, in my world.

Are ninjas outlaws or something? That's how it is sometimes for pirates- we're not doing anything wrong and then all of a sudden someone's shooting a cannon at us or something. [ Stupid Marines. ]

[What, how did Usopp know he was a ninja.]

[Oh well. He probably has his brothers to blame for that as well. Way to be stealthy, guys.]

It isn't that simple. And it isn't because I'm a ninja. People shoot at me because I'm ... not human. I'm ... [Sigh.] I'm less than illegal. As far as the law is concerned, I don't even exist.

[ Yeah, he can thank Mikey and Raph for that one. ]

[ That answer is enough to give him pause, because that's the kind of thing that shonen guys absolutely can't stand and must therefore be very decided about. May or may not have to do with the fact that he's reminded of just about every canon arc ever. ]

They shouldn't do that. You're still a person, even if you're not a human. Nothing wrong with existing, right?

[Friendship +5!]

I wish more people would think that. Unfortunately, they tend to think other things first.

((For example, the Cloud thread, which mun will assume happens after this conversation. +10 IRONY.))

[ All right! 8Db ]

Most of the people here are good about that kind of stuff, though. Since everyone's different and we're all stuck here together. Can't let something like that get in the way of making friends, anyway. My crew would probably all be dead if we did that.

((O-oh the irony. He can just hang at the Strawhat house until he feels better.))

It's interesting how extenuating circumstances draw people together. Almost makes you wish disasters happened more often...

This place would be a lot worse if they didn't. [ ;; ] I-I'll pass on the disasters, though.

Probably a good choice. [It's kind of odd how he can get nostalgic for disasters, since when they're actually happening, they're, well, disastrous.]

Definitely. Things get crazy enough here anyway.

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