meme 001 ✽ the pirate au meme

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ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH - okay, who finished the rum?
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ღ Meme originally from amuse_box but I did add #13 for a wild card. 
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1. Boarded: Your ship has been boarded, and as captain you've been captured! Better hope the other captain gives quarter. Alternatively, it's a nice warm day for a swim. That plank was made for walking.

2. Victory: You've captured another ship! You knew those extra cannons would come in handy. And let's hope they've got lots of swag! Where's the captain? Are you the decent sort, or are you going to rub their face in it for a bit?

3. Swab the decks: You're a cabin boy! It's a good thing you don't mind doing all the dirty work, right? Anyway, the captain's calling; better see what they want.

4. Marooned: For a bit there you'd thought you were in Davy's Jones' grip, but somehow you've washed ashore with the driftwood. As you stare dazedly up from the surf, you have questions. Where are you? And who's that already on the shore?

5. Buried Treasure: Sink me! You've really found the mother lode. . . but you're not the only one. Who gets to take the treasure back to their ship? Better make sure it's you.

6. Rum: Rum, everywhere.

7. Swordfight: It's that person you can't stand! And they've taken your most valuable possession, that one of a kind thing you just can't live without! Better get that trinket back before it and your nemesis are gone over the side forever. Let's hear some swashes buckling.

8. Mutiny: The tack is full of maggots and this drinking water may as well have come from the gutter. There's one person to blame for this, and you're here to make especially sure that they pay for it. The captain does always seem to take the best treasure before everybody else.

9. Kidnapping: Don't they look rather peaceful, innocent even, sleeping so soundly there with their fancy nightclothes and pillows. Brings a tear to your eye, it does. Better take them aboard and send for a ransom.

10. Take a Gamble: Gotta spend your loot somehow, but it must have been the rum that had you bettin' everything at once! You've lost to your hornswagglin' shipmate; what did you lose, and what will they make you do now?

11. Under the Sea: You are now a Mermaid/Merman! That sailor over there sure looks appealing; let's see if you can lure them in with your charms. Don't forget that they can't breathe under water! You do seem to always forget, don't you. . .

12. The Doldrums: Can you say cabin fever? The sails haven't moved in weeks. You're about seeing if your mates can relieve this awful boredom.

13. Wild card. What do. Your choice. It doesn't even have to be here - wait why am I even explaining this to you YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.

Comments

[yatagarasu]

[She pauses...waiting with bated breath as he rolls over, and quickly putting her hands behind her back. Still, it would be pretty difficult to explain why a girl like her, obviously a pirate lass, was in his cabin tonight.

Kay exhales when he remains asleep. Then she continues walking closer until she's right by his bed. Should she wake him up now, or...]

[truthsnomiracle]

[On one hand, he clearly isn't waking up by himself. On the other, unless he's a very heavy sleeper, just trying to tie him up where he is would probably disturb his slumber. What do, pirate!Kay?]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay spends about a few seconds thinking about this, her arms falling to her sides. Now, why couldn't her comrades have sent reinforcements?

She stands on tiptoe and tries to peer at his face. Only one quick glance is enough for her to suddenly step back, but since she was on tiptoe...she trips.

And falls onto her behind, knives clattering onto the floor.]

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[truthsnomiracle]

[Predictably, that noise is enough to startle the prosecutor awake. After his eyes pop open with a gasp, he sits bolt upright and looks straight at the teenaged pirate.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[And he clearly doesn't like what he sees.]

What are you playing at by breaking into my room, young lady?!

[yatagarasu]

[Kay gasps, and instinctively grabs both her knives. She jumps to her feet...but doesn't point her weapons at him. On the contrary, she sheaths them and stares.]

I -

[Wait, wait, he couldn't be the lawyer they were searching for! This man...this man...]

Wait, now I remember! Do you?

[truthsnomiracle]

I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. All I know is that an armed girl whose outfit brags of association with piracy has stolen into my room with probable ill intent!

[yatagarasu]

[She quickly stuffs her blades back into their sheaths, but he's already seen them anyway. Not only that, she was indeed wearing a bandanna, a slightly worn pink shirt, short blue pants and brown boots.

Kay bites her lip, looking very much like a small animal caught in the headlights of a large truck rolling toward her.]

Wait! Let me refresh your memory!

[Her hand plunges straight into her bag, and she fishes out a length of pure white cloth.]

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[truthsnomiracle]

I can't imagine what you could show me that could possibly --

[truthsnomiracle]

...

...K... Kay? Kay Faraday?

[yatagarasu]

[She nods, offering him the cloth. The cravat, that is.]

I knew I'd run into you again someday, but...not like this. Now do you remember what happened seven years ago?

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth accepts the cravat, bewildered.]

I... I do. Your father's murder at the hands of the woman who ultimately claimed to be the captain of the Yatagarasu...

[yatagarasu]

[Kay nods, suddenly looking sad. She glances down at her boots briefly.]

Yes...I'm looking for that ship. I've been looking for it for a long time...

[She clenches her hands into fists, completely forgetting that she still hasn't explained why she was in his cabin, armed and dangerous.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[And since the initial shock is wearing off...]

As far as I'm aware, pirate ships are impossible to find in the bedrooms of prosecutors.

[yatagarasu]

[She blinks, and raises a hand like a schoolgirl.]

Uh...about that...

[Should she tell him what - or rather, who - she was looking for?]

Actually, I was...ummm, kinda also looking for someone else.

[truthsnomiracle]

HOLD IT!

Looking for them in someone else's bedroom -- while armed?

[yatagarasu]

I got the wrong bedroom! And...ummmm, he's dangerous!

[...not as dangerous as you are, Kay.]

[truthsnomiracle]

I live alone, and this isn't an apartment building.

[yatagarasu]

...A-Anyway, I really need to find him! He's escaped us for too long!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Yeah, this is reeking of a question-dodge, but he'll play along in hopes of finding a thread to pull...]

Who, precisely?

[yatagarasu]

...

[Well, Edgeworth was a big help to her seven years ago, and returning his cravat was too small a favor to be considered payback. Kay owed him a lot more. But if he found out what she was up to...her quest for the Yatagarasu would end here.]

There's a corrupt prosecutor who needs to be taught a lesson, especially after he's sent so many pirates to the gallows.

I mean...for the littlest things. I understand if it's for murder and stuff like that, but still!

[truthsnomiracle]

The "Demon Prosecutor"?

[Nothing else comes to mind that would fit her story and her presence together, after all.]

[yatagarasu]

That's right! But you can't be him...right? There's gotta be some mistake...

[truthsnomiracle]

There is no mistake -- I was that very man.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay steps back, her hands hovering over the handles of her knives. But she doesn't draw them out...she just stares at him, completely speechless.]

Wh-what? But you can't be! You...you helped me out seven years ago and we...you even figured out who killed my father...