How utterly irreplaceable, there forever, placed atop the paper like a newborn.

A blot, a splash, a dot, a line,

Placed with every purpose of creation.

Here forever, and then, at the hands of the inevitable fire,

Dead.

Okay, so, um, apparently I can't post a chapter at less than 500 characters, so here's the stupid ass ramble I put together earlier today. It's over 2 000 words and follows my descent into madness trying to figure out the future course of a Buggy X Usopp fanfic. This is symbolism that ties together with the poem, btw.

Another time-skip? What to add here? We need them to buff up the both of them and establish themselves in the New World. Usopp as he is cannot be an Admiral and Buggy as he is cannot be a Yonkou. We also haven’t developed the Whitebeard stuff or the Benn Beckmann stuff… What Yonkous are there right now? Ace and Blackbeard are still alive and they have not clashed yet, so the dark-dark fruit is still just kinda around. Possible situation where Buggy gets his hands on it himself? In order for Buggy to become a full on Yonkou, he needs to pry the title from the cold, dead hands of a concurrent one. Also, we need a new fourth Yonkou. Right now, we have Big Mum, Kaidou, and Whitebeard. At this point in the story, there is no fourth emperor, and we kind of really need one, and I will not allow it to be Buggy. Not yet. But who? And why? Doing Blackbeard is the boring but obvious choice. Hmm. This is, whatchamacallit… Difficult. Aah. I’m tired. I wanna read my book… Anyhow, what other candidates are there? Obviously not the remnants of the Shanks crew, they be dead, lol. It would be kind of funny to introduce Luffy now, but no. Absolutely not. Any of the supernovas are too early out to make for a good foil. I can’t imagine any of his own mates to have a heel turn; they would have needed to be established as such earlier. Another choice would be to simply not have that plotpoint at all, and to just never mention that there’s a gaping hole in the plot, but I don’t want to do that. Yeah, no. Hrm. Sabo isn’t a revolutionary, though? Huh. Hm. But I don’t want to derail the plot. I agree that the fourth Yonkou position can remain in transit for a while. With Whitebeard, Blackbeard immediatly took his spot by fucking killing his ass. Which was… wack, but, yeah. That’s how it goes, I guess. Man, I just genuinly can’t think of anyone. Fuck. I thought Marineford had been the difficult part, but in reality, it was everything that comes after. In reality, we can do this, like… Simply. We can have briefer meetings, focusing on their romance rather than the plot, and then we can pick back up again once things calm down. For now, the story is as follows: Buggy and Usopp go on a date to marine base city G-4, where Usopp gets a pair of funky glasses and Buggy gets himself, like, a cape. I guess. It’s cute, and then something wack happens (Buggy gets discovered?) and Buggy has to return to his island, all the while Usopp pretends to chase them, all in good fun, and then they part ways. Usopp smiles at the meeting, and Buggy also finds himself laughing in delight. A cute date on Buggy’s terms. By the way, we should seriously do good on their friendship promise. Like-, oh. Oh. OH. Gosh, Ylva, okay, don’t need to go that hard! Right, okay, during Punk Hazard, once they find the kids, Buggy decides to call Usopp, acting on their deal (now we need Usopp to do the same with Buggy… But when?). You know what? I think, after Buggy enters Sabaody, Usopp will actually start going after other pirates, just like, on the side. To an outsider, it looks like he’s just really effective at cleaning up the New World, but to him, he’s helping pave the way for Buggy’s empire. Maybe they should make a pact that Buggy does nice stuff? Unsure, but this will lead him into his development into an actual Admiral. I don’t know what the requirements for becoming an Admiral are, but I want them to be steep. Also, btw, to differentiate Buggy from Luffy, maybe we should have him take on Big Mum instead of Kaidou? But that still leaves a spot open among the Yonkous… Maybe he should just take it, simple as pie, and instead have a complex about taking Shanks place yet being unable to properly fill his boots? His first thing to do when he comes back is to 1, fight Nami for the position of ring leader, 2, check out his new crew (it’s big), 3, find that most of Shanks’ territory was taken by the other three Yokous, with Big Mum taking most of the New World stuff, Whitebeard doing the Grand Line and the remaining being absorbed by smaller crews. To handle it, he scatters his crew more, spreading them across all seas, leaving them somewhat thinned but still capable. If he was more arrogant, he would’ve gone straight for fishman island, but he still doesn’t see himself as that. Btw, he finds out about being a Yonkou at G-4, which honestly just brings him despair, because, obviously. His crew has, in large, been able to survive only because of the reputation as being a yonkou’s crew and the infamy it brings. However, the other Yonkous (Whitebeard excluded) think he brings a bad name to the group and wanna put him in his place, showing the world the vast swath of difference there was in between them. But not without Buggy present. Only when he returns do they go out of their way to do anything, and for a while, he’s actually able to defend himself kind of properly! At least-, ok, random thought, but I think the catalyst for Buggy taking on one of the Yonkous should have to do with Usopp. To be clear, I think one of them, maybe Big Mum (because she thinks he’s a tengu??) kidnaps him, which in turn makes Buggy come running, and maybe this lets them finally, you know… Kissy kissy. Right. That’s actually not a bad idea! Okay, so, the story so far, is that Buggy goes out of exile, gets picked up by his crew, fights Nami, heads to the New World by sailing through the Calm Belt (CoC be wack) and eventually finds himself on Punk Hazard, where he calls Usopp and maybe absorbs Caesar into his own crew? I think they’d have a nice dynamic, and scientists are always appreciated. Most of this can be in passing, at least until he calls over Usopp, who comes rushing. But maybe word of the long-nosed marine (or sogeking?) spreads from him to Doflamingo to Kaido to Big Mum in a game of telephone that removed everything but ‘tengu’. Either way, after this, I kind of doubt Buggy would actually, like, do anything. He’d find out about Smile and be like “whoa, dude, can you make any of those for me?” and Caesar would be like “sure!” but then Usopp would clear his throat and Buggy would remember that, oh yeah, maybe not. Either way, in the end, his actions would piss off a whole slew of characters, including two Yonkous and a Shikibukai. You know, just for good measure. Buuuuut this will finally put him in enough conflict with Big Mum to send him down to Fishman island to finally free Jinbe! Maybe it would be cuz Robin told him about Poseidon, but he’d go there and resolve things and make Big Mum even more pissed. In the end, this would lead to an all-out confrontation with Usopp’s kidnapping, probably ending in escape rather than victory. Hmm. Otherwise, maybe, just maybe, enough time will have passed by this point for them to be strong enough to take her on, like, together? As? A team?? I don’t know. Whatever the case, the event will prove that Buggy is, despite everything, a Yonkou. The situation might also be what finally grants Usopp his final rank-up into Admiralhood. Past this point, another time skip. This’ll take Usopp from an Admiral to the kind of character we want him to be, and by this point, Buggy will also have a similar transformation, picking up waystones as he went, the both of them on seperate sides before finally clashing together once more for some reason, this time as a sort of… I guess, this will be the endgame? Aka, where Usopp becomes so disillusioned with the Marines that he takes off, eventually just sort of bumping into Buggy as he travels, and maybe staying on his ship for a while, at first as a “prisoner” and then as just a guest. Eventually, this will lead to him acting on Buggy’s side during the final war, but eh, I dunno. Then, they do stuff and this or that. Ya get me?

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Okay, so, uhhhhh. Tyred. Anyhoo. Ok, so, I think they should get together before the final parts, like, as he’s being rescued, things are so dire, and Buggy finally recuperates, and it’s wholesome and all. They promise to get married fully once everything is over and Buggy is Pirate King cuz then who’s gonna refute him? A couple of years pass and Buggy is making good progress (is Usopp forbidden from pursuing him?) towards Raftel, but Usopp isn’t in quite the same place. Following his confrontation with Big Mum, he was finally officially made an Admiral, but this doesn’t exactly make him happy. Once he’s on the second-highest level, he becomes all the more aware of how horrible the bureaucracy is. The marines are not a machiene for justice and the greater good, but rather a lapdog for the celestial dragons, who Usopp finds are horrible. Hm. Actually, yeah, that’s not a bad idea! Usopp, at some point, comes into contact with a celestial dragon, and he acts improper in some arbitrary way, and the dragon calls for his head and for him to be killed. To avoid doing a re-do of the Impel Down arc, we’ll have this happen far away, maybe even on Mariejois, and simply have Buggy rescue him from the ship. I think we should have Garp act as warden, but he kinda lets Buggy defeat him. I mean, they got attacked by a Yonkou, didn’t they? And how will Usopp take this…? Okay, he’ll be conflicted, obviously. Maybe he should even resist being rescued because then he’ll be a total traitor, but maybe Buggy kisses him and says he already is? Yeah, okay, fantastic. Usopp gets rescued, and he stays aboard Buggy’s ship as a prisoner/guest, being maybe a little low but eventually brought out of it by Buggy. By this point, he’s almost 30 and Buggy is like, 40. Something like that, I dunno. Eventually, once Usopp is in a better state, he sits down before Buggy and they discuss things not as lovers, but as Admiral and Yonkou. Technically, at this point, Usopp is more of a fugitive than an Admiral, but, yeah. He’ll eventually usurp the entire marine force, so it’s fine. Usopp basically tells him that the marines are corrupt down to the very chore boys, and that the only way to amend this is to destroy the celestial dragons. Ah! Ok, Ok, Usopp doesn’t throw away his justice coat because he still believes in Justice and what is right. Also his title is Midoritengu. Green tengu, because, lol. The admiral line-up at this time is Usopp, Kizaru, and… Maybe Smoker? I’m assuming Aokiji is still on the high seas, or, maybe, in this timeline, he won the-, nah, not as compelling character-wise. Better stick to our guns here. Usopp should have found the truth about his father’s death by this point, maybe by finally, after so many years, daring to read (braille) the full report. There, he’ll read what truly happened, and maybe have a confrontation with Akainu that in turn leads to him slashing with a celestial dragon, untintentionally leading to his exile. By the way, what is his form of justice? So far, we have Absolute Justice, Unclear Justice, and Lazy Justice. None of these are good. UHWIFFW BLIND JUSTICE OKAY YEAH SURE. That is so. Wow. Exactly what the marines would go with. Humane Justice… So it can be positive. Brave Justice would also work. Or Honest Justice. Maybe Courageous Justice, but that feels a bit too long. Then again, these are supposed to highlight the crux/flaw of these characters morals. Aokiji is lazy, not using his power to truly assert the justice he knows. Kizaru’s sense of justice is unclear—who knows if he even has it? Akainu has a black-and-white view of the world. Tora is Humane Justice because he is humane, even to pirates (a flaw to them). Usopp is blind both physically and mentally, unable to see Buggy’s sins. Either we do that or something like Observant/Vigil Justice, sort of semi-ironic. Ok! I think we have enough to make a proper planning, lol