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[Fujiko is chilling out in what people might recognize as decorated pretty much like Lupin's apartment. She's singing softly to herself and tinkering with something strange, albeit mechanical.]

They tried to draft us
But we don't wanna go
The man can't keep us down
Cuz oh yeah we know....

[She pauses and gives up on the song, focusing instead momentarily on snapping a spring into place, though this gets a quiet little "banzai!" of delight. Success; whatever it was.]

Tie em, push 'em down
The Energizer Bunny
Just keeps on runnin'
But there ain't no cure
For Luceti Winter Blues

[Cute frown and a pout.] No wait, that line's terrible... [Sighs and runs a hand through her hair, then taps her little mechanics into device, which mostly just looks extremely dangerous and flashes knifes and other cutting utensils on swinging springs before she taps it it again with a pen to make it stop and settle down.]

Writing music is really hard. "But there ain't no cure --
For Luceti's Barrier Blues??" [She just shrugs.] Someone else should do this, it's too hard. Tell Elvis I quit. Anyone want to write a protest song? I am going to stick to making earrings.

[Earrings. Yes, apparently that death trap from hell she's playing with? It's an earring. Of course it is. Who wouldn't wear such death traps on their ears right next to their head and necks... it's so shiny. And then the other "earring" goes off and just starts smoking.] Uh-oh... guess I shouldn't have borrowed Lupin's gunpowder. [She's just gonna... try to blow that out.... yeah... be back shortly; experiencing technical difficulties and all that.]

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[Shakes her head no.]

We don't have fishmen. And mermaids are... really really rare at best. Almost extinct. And they used to eat people.

[Did they? Or was that just standard propaganda? And it seems strange to her that there were mermaids and not Fishmen. But it is a different world so perhaps it is true]

How unfortunate.

[What a strange, sad little world you come from]

[Nods!]

I always wanted to ride a dinosaur.... [Wistful sigh, but no, this is true. Fujiko has the weirdest dreams.] Our world is pretty lacking in animal diversity. A lot of things have gone extinct and even a lot of the species left are endangered because of human hunters and habitat destruction. [SHE SAYS... despite being a city girl. Well, she's very contrary.]

They can be quite entertaining. The sauropods especially. Dinosaurs are mostly extinct however but live on a few islands still. It is truly sad about your world, though

[she rests her head in her paws

Perhaps you could move to another

[But she's not entirely serious about this]

Sauropods really?! [EXCITED. STRAW HATS. You live in a world with dinosaurs that still exist and never tell anyone?! WHY IS THIS.]

Hah... if only it was that easy, hm?

If only it were. [but then she wouldn't be here.]

Perhaps the Malnosso will bring us dinosaurs. Though the carnivores will be a little unfortunate

[But thrilling]

BUT THEN WE COULD RIDE THEM!

[Because... that is what you do with T-Rexes. Not run. Not scream. Not shoot. Ride.]

Actually my boyfriend here got turned into one kind of once! Not Lupin I mean. Raph. He was shifted. [Small sigh.] But I couldn't ride him long. He was too worried about hurting me. [Spreads her hands. She's aware of how that sounds with sexual innuendo. Seriously, she is. She doesn't care.]

Boyfriends can be fun to ride in any form

[If cats weren't naturally in smirk mode you'd definitely see one now]

But more when they're big dinosaurs.

[She will grin for you. Even if she's a little skeeved out by the cat-thing still.]

Or have you experienced something better?

Much better. He's very talented and knows just how high he can take you

[She considers for a moment]

And dinosaurs are much too big and slow in comparison

[FFFFF. Okay she has to bite back a laugh at that.]

Wow, sounds like you lucked out. Most men I meet are idiots. Or, if they're good with heights, they've got some other fatal flaw. [Like being ruthless dictators. You know. Totally normal.]

Everyone has a fatal flaw, Trap-san. There is no one perfect. If you wait for it you will die lonely.

[She wraps her tail around her feet]

I try to embrace the moment, yoi.

[She thinks about that a little. Waiting for the perfect person? No, she wouldn't say that exactly. But she wants to believe there has to be something in between "not perfect" and well... as fucked up as her situation with Lupin.]

So long as you're both happy Robin-chan.

I think there are some flaws I can live with. A -- [Commitophobe like her isn't one? But she's been getting along better with Lupin and they are actually sharing an apartment for a change.] I simply have a hard time accepting others. But it's really nice to know someone was able to make it work. Is he here in this place or back in your world?

[She is happy more or less. Or perhaps not quite happy per se but feeling secure. That there is someone to talk to even though... it should probably be her own nakama. That made more sense, didn't it? Did being off a ship really make things more tenuous? No. Marco was still close with Ace...but then Ace had so little left to hold on to.

She's so caught up in her thoughts that she nearly misses Fujiko's words]

People are how they are. [as she's not accepting as all that either]

He is in both places at the moment, though we don't know each other at home.

Oh, that's pretty convenient then.

Maybe you can meet him when it's all over. That's what I was planning with Raphael. [She just has to remember: New York City Sewers.]

Raphael?

[Where is that name familiar. Oh. Of course]

The painter or the angel?

Turtle, actually.

But he's named after the painter. Master Splinter named him and his brothers each after one of the four Renaissance artists. Donatello is still here in the village. Raphael left a long time ago.

[A turtle? That was certainly a new one. Though she supposes it's just as valid as a talking pony or lion or the myriad of other beings that find their way to Luceti]

I assume you're somewhat purpotional to each other?

[If not, she's not sure how the logistics of that would work. In her, to be honest, rather limited experience, turtles came in three sizes. Small, Banchi sized and Island sized. None of which seemed viable relationship material]

Does Thief-san know about him?

Er... mostly. Raph was about a little shorter but a lot stockier. [Holds her hands out pretty far to demonstrate. And she nods her head.] Big shell and all that.

Raphael went home about a month before Lupin came here. Wow... it's been a long time now.