#he goes home. he throws wine at a painting and has several people beaten and executed. he does not feel better.

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i think it would be fun (for me and my schadenfreude boner) if Gortash was around for business when Kressa Bonedaughter was fuckin around with Durge. Maybe he's not in the workshop, and certainly he had no idea that his Durge was here as a plaything; he's here to discuss the new plan with Ketheric, or simply just trying to avoid Orin.

He never liked the place; necromancy isn't in his purview, and Durge hated necromancers anyways. But something about the place is holding him there. Some familiar undertone to the undead gibbering, at the same time compelling and repulsive. Kressa leaves her workshop, not bothering to shut the door all the way, and within, Gortash can see some poor sod laid out on the table. The floor is sticky with blood and bile, the victim's intestines pulled from their body and hung on a rack beside them, still attached at the ends. As he watches, the hands twitch unconsciously, the jaw snapping and gasping for air. Their head flops to one side, still gnashing with all the coordination of the shambling dead, and Gortash freezes. Part of their skull is crushed, with something twitching amongst the exposed grey matter, but he knows the eyes staring in his direction. There is no spark of recognition, no hint of life, but he knows those eyes.

He does not return.

#durgetash #durge #the dark urge #gortash #bg3 #heeeeheeheeheehee #he goes home. he throws wine at a painting and has several people beaten and executed. he does not feel better. #he convinces himself that it must be different. he fooled himself with wishful thinking. he was so desperate to see durge #that he INVENTED their face on a random thrall. yes that must be it. it has to br

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An updated version of Kitty’s backstory

Kitty was born on the hot and humid island of Romance Dawn, where her family has owned a pomegranate farm for four or five generations. Along with ordinary pomegranates, they made and sold pomegranate wine. The rise of the great pirate era, however, meant that the expenses to protect the shipments soon outgrew profits, and the farm threatened to go under. Kitty, only 9 at the time, didn’t know anything about their financial crisis.

Her father had the idea to take some of the crop and paint them to look like devil fruit. It took a long time of practice, and then of carefully getting the word out to the right people, before a wealthy buyer made an offer.

Kitty’s father accepted the money and shipped off the “devil fruit”, and all was apparently well. A few weeks later, a ship pulled up at the bay and marched upon the farm. The crew was pirates hired by the wealthy buyer, as revenge for conning him with a fake devil fruit. The pirates razed the farm to the ground, and dragged her parents to the ship to take them to the buyer. Kitty stood up to them, but predictably the pirates just laughed. They told her that her parents had swindled their boss out of fifty million berries, and they’d spent it before the boss realized the devil fruit was fake. Kitty offered to work to pay them back so that her parents could be free, and they grab her and drag her to their boss. He’s pissed that he was conned, but doesn’t see what good she can do for him. He throws her parents in prison, and gives her to the pirates to do with whatever they want. The captain decides he likes the steely look in her eye, and conscripts her into his crew. She asks that she be allowed to save money to buy her parents’ freedom, and he agrees.

Over the course of the next ten years, she works her ass off and saves up a moderate amount of money. At nineteen years of age, her crew is hired by the same boss from 10 years ago to search an island for a reported devil fruit. The boss tells Kitty, personally, that if she brings the fruit to him, he’ll pardon her parents’ crime and free them. She agrees.

The crew arrives at the island and they spread out. Kitty branches off on her own to search a wing of the ruins, and ends up falling into a trap that drops her into a sealed chamber. She’s stuck in there for several hours before she manages to find the hidden exit - but not before she succumbs to hunger and eats a small patch of berries growing alongside the wall.

Eventually all of the crew makes it back to the ship, frustrated at not having found the devil fruit. They drop anchor for the night, and it’s during that evening that Kitty discovers she has the sudden ability to summon sparks of electricity to her fingertips. She realizes to her dread that the berries she found must’ve been the devil fruit they’d been searching for. Frustrated at herself for eating the fruit without realizing its true nature, and knowing she’d probably be killed if her captain and the boss found out, and that her parents would likely be killed too, Kitty hides her new power as well as her inability to swim. She waits until after her captain has reported the failed mission to the boss, then quietly bows out from the crew.

Unfortunately, the boss has a suspicion of what happened, and he sends the crew after her. She’s been on the run from her old crew and boss for almost a year when she runs into an arrogant young man with tattoos on his arm and back finds her. She assumes he’s been sent to capture her and she tries to fight him, but he easily overpowers her. Turns out, Ace had heard about her through the grapevine, and wanted to see if she’d join his crew.

She agrees, if nothing else but so that she can have the protection of the famous Fire-Fist Ace. Over the course of the next two years, the Spades crew becomes her new family, and she becomes particularly close to Ace. He helps her train, and under his and other crew members’ tutelage, she improves her electricity skills considerably. Eventually, she and Ace end up sleeping together, and while it’s fun and she does really like him, she’s not emotionally ready for a real relationship, so she calls that off. Ace backs off, and they decide to just be friends, though their relationship is slightly strained from there on out.

After a time, Kitty made the decision to leave the crew and pursue getting her parents’ freedom and family’s farm back. She lost all of her saved money when she left her original crew, though she managed to get a fair portion back since. Ace drops her off at her home island, with the promise that she can rejoin his crew at any time.

Kitty sets out trying to rebuild the burned ruin of the farm. It’s hard, unforgiving work, but she’s made fair headway before a pirate ship comes up in the bay. To her horror, she recognizes them as the pirate crew that kidnapped her parents and razed the farm, then took her onto the crew. Knowing they could only be here for her, she hides, watching from a distance as the pirates terrorize the small bay village. She fully expects the village to give her up, but they don’t - despite the pirates’ cruelty, everyone claims they’ve been rebuilding it themselves.

This goes on for several days before a second pirate ship rolls up. Kitty fears it’s reinforcements, and barely an hour later the crew of the second ship shows up at the farm. Kitty panics and attacks, but is easily beaten back. They subdue her, and once everyone’s calmed down, they introduce themselves as the Straw Hat pirates (Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Nami). They’d stopped here for a resupply only to find the people there under assault by pirates. After beating back the offending pirates for at least a brief time, the Straw Hats were told by the grateful villagers about her situation, and they’d come to the farm to see if they could help.

Kitty is shocked, but sarcastically says that they could help her break her parents out of prison. To her incredulity, they agree without hesitation. They all go down to the bay village and soundly beat back the bad pirates one last time, then board the Merry and set sail.

It takes nearly a week to reach the island where her parents were taken, and over the course of that week Kitty learns more about the crew and their pasts. In particular, she bonds with Nami and Zoro - over money and swordplay, respectively. Nami sympathizes with her over their similar backstories, and the two women become close friends quickly. Zoro is of course a little more prickly, but his interest is piqued by her use of a single short sword. She’s not as skilled as he is, nor Brook later on, but her sheer determination impresses him.

When they finally get to the island, they have to be extra careful. Kitty puts on a disguise of Nami’s clothes, and they make their way towards the main square. They agree to meet back at the square in 3 hours, then  separate into groups to try and do some recon: Sanji and Luffy head towards the food markets, Zoro and Usopp head towards a weapons shop, and Nami and Kitty head towards some clothing shops.

They each have their various shenanigans, but manage somehow to get back to the town square on time. The crew has learned where the town’s boss lives, and they head there as a starting point. The crew deals with various minor henchmen as they make their way through the manor, and eventually find the boss. They confront him, and in the middle of the fight the boss lets slip the location of the prison where her parents were kept. Luffy and Sanji stay behind to fight the boss, while Kitty, Nami, Usopp, and Zoro head to the prison to break in.

Unfortunately, the boss called ahead, and the prison guards were expecting them. Kitty and the others fight through them, but in the mayhem get separated. Kitty and Usopp end up in one area, Zoro and Nami in the other. Both groups continue on, continuing to beat back guards as they go, searching for Kitty’s parents.

With the help of one of the other inmates, Kitty and Usopp learn which cell had her parents, and make their way there. However, the cell is empty, and they find that her parents were just moved to a different chamber, because of the news that the Straw Hats were on the way. Meanwhile, Zoro and Nami find out the same thing from a defeated guard - but also that it’s a trap for Kitty.

Kitty makes her way to the chamber where her parents are held, but knock-out gas makes them black out for a while. When they come to, they find themselves chained in a cage suspended over a vat of water. There’s another cage a little ways away - with Kitty’s parents inside. They have a tearful reunion before they’re interrupted by none other than the boss that her parents had cheated and Kitty had run from for so many years.

He monologues about how her parents shouldn’t have cheated him, and how Kitty should’ve taken advantage of the opportunities he gave her and not run off with the devil fruit, etc. He then offers her a choice: she can let herself and Usopp die, or she can let her parents die. Of course, Usopp and her parents all wholeheartedly agree that she (and Usopp by association) should live, but Kitty does the noble thing and sacrifices herself (and Usopp, with an apology) for her parents. The cage starts to lower into the vat of water, right as Sanji and Luffy burst into the room. A fight breaks out between them and the boss and his lackeys, though Sanji and Luffy are kept so busy they can’t come after her.

The cage hits the water and sinks beneath the surface. Usopp struggles to get free the entire time, while Kitty slowly drowns. Just as they’re about to pass out and die, the cage slices open and someone grabs the two of them up.

When Kitty comes to, the boss has been defeated. Zoro and Nami had shown up just seconds after Kitty and Usopp went underwater, and Zoro had rescued the while Luffy, Sanji, and Nami beat up the boss and the remaining lackeys. They get the sea prism stone cuffs off Kitty and give her her sword back. She immediately goes over to the boss and poises as if she’s about to slit his throat. With electricity crackling along the blade, she quietly tells him that if he ever comes after her family again, she will personally wreck everything he holds dear. The defeated boss accepts this, and the crew walks free with Kitty and her parents bringing up the rear.

They grab one of the boss’ ships, so that Kitty and her parents can go back to their home island of Romance Dawn. Luffy stops her and asks her to join his crew, to the other’s apparent lack of surprise. She refuses, saying she has to go home now that her dream has been fulfilled, but her parents urge her to reconsider. They say how she’s always been fascinated by the sea, and how now piracy was in her blood after her years of self-sufficiency. Kitty is torn, but eventually relents. She agrees to join Luffy’s crew, to everyone’s satisfaction.

The crew offers to go back to Romance Dawn to help finish rebuilding the farm, but her parents decline, saying it’s something they needed to do themselves. They and Kitty have a tearful farewell before they all get on their different ships, and part ways once more.

#my text #kitty mamakoto #one piece #one piece oc #long post