im gonna glance over canon and heroes first so

[one piece rap voice] there once was a man named gold roger

so. basic op lore is that gold roger (aka gol d. roger) is the old dead pirate king, he was executed and left behind the one piece which is the mystical treasure everyone is after and thats why theres an insane amount of pirates now all looking for it and have been for 20+ years etc, it's the title luffy wants, etc etc

ace is roger's son! roger was arrested by garp, luffy's grandpa (turned himself in really) so he told garp to take care of his kid because a child doesnt deserve to die because of their lineage

garp was like UGHHHH FIIIIINE because he respected roger so he did eventually get ace and raised him by. blackmailing some bandits on his home island to hide and raise him in the forest garp sucks

i say eventually because the government was like we think roger had a lover on this one specific island so we will murder all the pregnant women and children who fit the bill here. as the government does. so ace's mom did some bullshit thing and was pregnant for 20 months (i know) and thus has the most valid death by childbirth of any anime character

she lives long enough to name him and loves him a lot and thats when garp finally shows up to take the baby and dump him in the forest

anyway. ace is told the truth about his dad at a pretty young age and that uh. the entire world. wants him dead for that

he is also living with bandits who 1) arent being paid for this GARP???? YOUR CHILD SUPPORT???? 2) are at best kinda tsundere about it so even though his foster mom DOES care for him she is also the kind to get drunk and say awful things and he kind of grows up with this thing of. he has to earn his keep because he is a burden they did not ask for

so ace is being raised by criminals and also has crippling depression at like, 10, it's fine

the island he is on sucks i need to emphasize this too. the world of one piece sucks i dont want to go as deep into it as i did last time this will be 700 comments

anyway ace meets sabo at 5 and they bond over wanting to leave the island and are a duo of criminal children who steal to become pirates, sabo is the only person who cares about him but theyre awkward kids so i dont think they ever talk about it, then when ace is 10 garp drags luffy to the bandits

after some time where ace does not care for his new baby brother the three of them bond together and swear brotherhood on some stolen alcohol and then after more bonding sabo is taken from them and DIES when trying to sail out to sea to be free

sabo is not dead but ace doesnt know this so its fine

he has a letter to ace that basically says take care of our little brother our brotherhood is my greatest treasure xoxo meet you out at sea and ace gets sabo's signature tattoed on his arm its fine hes normal about this

but sabo's death and the subsequent events after it is what triggers for ace to kind of stop being a terrible brat and "step up" as luffy's brother (luffy is fine even when ace is terrible) so he learns how to be polite and nice and patient but like. he is always that feral kid deep inside i think

o hym gdo i skipped the important part of his bakstory SORRY ACE HAS ONE QUESTION IN HIS LIFE AND IT'S "SHOULD I HAVE BEEN BORN" BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE ENTIRE WORLD IF THEY KNEW HIS EXISTENCE WOULD WANT HIM DEAD RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE STREET SAY THIS

theyre like wow roger was the worst. if he had a child we should boil him alive (real dialogue)

anyway ace asks garp once when hes like. idk. six. if it's a good thing that he was even born and garp, worst parent of all time, goes idk thats something you will figure out for yourself with time

WHICH IS TRUE BUT HES A KINDERGARTNER YOU COULD AT LEAST GO IT'S NOT BAD

anyway. ace has a complex so he wants to prove himself to the world as more than just his dads son because he hates that guy AND he wants to know if his existence is worthwhile. he gets his own crew and goes on crazy adventures and eventually picks a fight with whitebeard who was like. one of roger's rivals back in the day.

wb is like (takes one look at this kid) i am going to adopt him and eventually he does join up with wb and even gets a high ranking position and everything is great being adopted is amazing

then someone under ace's division/command on the crew kills someone else and despite everyone going no, ace, dont go on a revenge quest, dad says its bad, ace goes IM GONNA GO ON A REVENGE QUEST

and he does and he gets his ass kicked because the guy is one of the big bads of one piece turns out oops and he is turned into the marines as an exchange and the marines/gov are like well! we know who his REAL dad is so we are going to fucking execute him

fun fact that i didnt put in the previous lore plurk when ace learns hes going to be executed he jus goes dont tell my brother i hate him so much

anyway. hes in torture prison (which is for torture) when he learns that luffy broke in to save him and he tries to fight but hes taken away before luffy can reach him and he thinks luffy is now stuck in torture prison forever because of him

and then when hes on the execution platform his entire crew (which is like 1600+ people) all their allies show up to save him he is helen of troy there is a war over his life, the government tells the whole world that ace is roger's son and thats why he needs to die

and then luffy shows up which is ace's true nightmare. and then eventually luffy does break him out of his chains!!!!!!! and they are escaping!!!!!!

and then some dude talks shit so ace turns back to fight. this is stupid, but the marine only gets one hit on him before he goes "anyway all pirates should die lemme demonstrate" and goes for luffy who is very tired and weak and fell earlier when ace turned back so ace gets in between to take the hit and fucking dies

this is the fastest i could get through aces canon lore without going on tangents be proud of me

anyway he is DEAD he DIES IN LUFFYS ARMS TONIGHT and then, in the mgcu, he wakes up in heroes and hes like hm i should be fucking dead. i am not going to question this

i know i have barely started but actually im gonna go take a break my brain is period mush again

the way my brain immediately read the (one piece rap voice) in the correct voice

was so hateful

comes in here at the same time to say this

our brains are haunted by it

Oh thanks for reminding me I started this I need to get back to it after work

(rap noises)

so to summarize heroes real quick ace spent the entire game knowing he was dead and also that he would probably... stay that way... because time wasnt passing + even if they could go to other worlds. he would not? abandon his family/crew? lit would rather die. and then told no one about this

he's always had a p fatalistic pov where it's like If I Die I Die but grabbing him post death was also a choice to make him a little more easy going... in a way...

and then the first murder was an accident and ace set up a whole jailbreak with 9 different people so how easy going was it truly

anyway obviously this was a mg it didnt work but this kind of bonding is actually necessary to unlock ace trust levels and i'll go more into that in the actual game meta. as i was saying the npcs in heroes were on the side of the law and they got arrested and mika still died but at least they? tried? yay?

theres a few weeks of more bonding and hating on the mg thing so okay ace sits on that "i am dead" thing until week 3, because after cyoa reigen calls him out on it since ace isnt the best liar and ace agrees he should tell people. then he still doesnt

he is outed by either memshare or by spilling the beans in the MOST dramatic fashion when it comes out one person on each team should do a kill for reasons and hes like well. i can take care of it it doesnt matter im dead and everyone is just i hate that

and then week 4 he had another cyoa and did a kill and he got caught, but honeslty i was using the cyoa side effects to make sure he didnt confess at 2pm because he. was never going to lie about it dskgdsm

so he gets executed and everyone has very good threads with him in jail and he like. tries to explain his deal a little in a death speech because he has trauma dump reflexes when he's dying and. death 2, right, he's aware people love him by now (twice over), and he goes maybe it doesnt matter if i shouldve been born i am glad i was so thats ok?

and then he drowns himself so saya doesnt have to kill him. hilarious.

anyway then the gy they are locked in one place (bad) and cant do anything or talk to people (worse) and the very little character development he had about his self-esteem kind of regresses because all he is seeing is people being sad because of him

(which is stupid they are sad because he's dead but he's like. he's stupid)

anyway then they come back on the final week and now it's like actually time is passing for this one week and for ace this is the realization that uh. actually he might fucking get to live actually which is something he did not let himself consider for 7 weeks and he has a very fraught time with it because

people went to war and died for him the entire world knows this one secret he has told exactly. two people. in canon. other people figured it out but he is so fucking unlikely to talk about anything by himself

anyway anxiety and he talked about it with a few people a little but didnt get in too deep but. in the end he was like if i am going to live then i am going to make things better and i am taking nimona and saya with me. fuck it. and then to make SURE he lives everyone wrote it in the reality altering book they won at the end that he did and he was

very touched and emotional about that even though he himself didnt want to use the book it's a whole thing about making your own destiny and earning things he has

(and why he wasnt tempted by items lmao it really is that he's like uhm this is cheating luffy is v similar and whenever he gets a free ride offer to his dream hes just NO. they are the stupid brothers your honor)

(also ok in canon whitebeard dies after ace but he is saying he'll stay and sacrifice himself for his crew when ace is alive and he is sick anyway so his death is a bit inevitable but ace and nimona had this conversation where she was like. write in that he's healed and lives. write it in. and ace loves whitebeard enough to do it for him but not himself)

(but this convo happened post endgame as we kept tagging the ending thread so how canon it was with the game ending was kinda wiggles hand so i just ignored the whitebeard part for this game lmao)

(just didnt have ace in mourning or think about his dad being alive at all its fine)

ANYWAY tl;dr at the end of heroes ace is like ok i get to live i get to go home i have to see how that goes

and then he is instead immediately dragged to a new mg because i refused to think about the consequences of my action on the one piece world

so he's a little stressed there and then the auditing thing where it's like. "we are checking to see if you DESERVE these things you got" was the funniest fake premise start because

well!

he sure as hell doesn't know that he does deserve these things actually! that is his entire life struggle actually!!!

tama's presence in the game really helped in that sense because like. of the people here he couldn't say for sure about the others but he knew tama did not deserve to be audited and had earned her ending so. by default. he did too

and its very funny because he was very upfront about thinking it was bullshit to other people despite his own self doubts because that is how he rolls

uh i didnt get into it but tama and ace were on the same team in heroes because ace didnt give a shit about the teams and competition really. and the same was true here despite my intense meowsandry number one life

ace is extremely loyal to his captain/crew to the point that he will die over it (literally) but it took a WHILE to get to that and otherwise he's kind of not. he had his own people following him he does not follow other people he's not interested in joining up with anyone unless they earn his respect, he just plays ball pretty well

he just happened to like most of meowsandry as people and he likes pranks/having fun so ....... he went along with it but thats why whenever they were that intense about winning he was just rolls eyes

he can be competitive, like very much so about things he cares about, but even as a kid in his intro scene with sabo, sabo's like aw you beat me in collecting treasure again darn it and ace is like who cares about that we're sharing anyway

it is very funny that sabo is more intense about this competition than ace is because it's one of the hints that in the future somehow. ace ends up the mellowest of the three brothers. and ace is still insane its just that luffy and sabo are crazier. this is unrelated to the game i just. love that

god what the fuck happened this game. anyway so in heroes ace was kinda unwilling to REALLY play ball with the npcs due to a mix of them being like heroes/justice aligned which is historically (stares at garp) not great for him

esp because the npcs helped arrest them during the jailbreak thing

in this one the npcs were upfront that they were like. in a similar boat from the rest of them, unhappy with what was going on, etc etc so he decided to give them a shot and did get some cute cr out of it

he is not the kind to go to anyone in authority for like. comfort or confession though. or like anyone at all ever

so that was not the relationship there and it would never be because the level of respect you need for that is impossible to achieve under normal means rip

anyway the team thing. ace was fine with it he doesnt put stock in that. i have nothing else to say on that front he really did just go along with things and think it was funny they were winning

BUT week 0 boothill ends up possessed, and ace liked the guy and thinks it sucks? he also liked essek so it's like. this blows. and anders is sad and everyone is drunk/drinking and they end up getting a little bonding earring

ace is not drunk he just doesnt think getting an earring is a big deal and it seems to mean a lot to anders (who he likes) so. goes along with that

so week one anders and vi both died and ace and vi had bonded on having a lot in common and he liked anders. i should mention ace's liking of anders is also related to ace being like hes just like me fr... without EVER telling anders anything they have in common

i just wanted to say that because ace is hilarious he couldve shared that to anders at any point but decided not to.

anyway he doesnt get anything out of trials even if they find culprits because the others are still dead (though they already know they're just somewhere else which means it isnt... AS terrible as when he thought people were permadead in heroes) and because it could always be possession

and he doesnt care for public executions in the first place nvm ones where someone wasnt even themselves

so for most of the game he went along with them but if it looked like the culprit was someone he liked he just

looked away

note: this was not the case for ryo's trial he did just get mixed up and not realize ryo was to blame for maya until too late to make a difference he wouldve thrown ryo to the wolves for a corn chip

he had a few good discussions about morality because ace is surprisingly honorable for a pirate and what have you but for him things like justice or whatever he doesnt think too hard about

he doesn't want the people he cares about to die and that is kind of all the deep thought he puts into it. fairness and justice and whatever is like. that is someone else's problem he does things based on himself not anyone else's gauge of things?

ace doesn't think he is a good person. partially inherently because of his issues but also just in general hes like im selfish and a criminal and i dont fit in that mold and i dont care to. so it is very easy to not get hung up on that.

its a very interesting thing to play out because he is both very moral and very much doesnt consider himself that so he doesnt like. grapple with choices. yes getting someone else scapegoated to protect the people he likes is fucked up. but that's the system they are stuck in and for him getting people you care about killed for justice is worse

but he doesnt begrudge anyone else doing it the way he never begrudged garp for just ... sitting by in his execution and even fighting off people trying to free him

for ace thats always like. people's justice and pov depends on the person and i might not agree with it but it's not up to me to dictate.

of course he did end up calling it out a few times anyway. hes funny

i dont know i am just babbling in general instead of specifies uhhhh

specifics*

im gonna take another break and get back to it i only got up to week 2 before getting distracted by morality talk and thats such a grey area for ace goodbye

oh going back into week 1 a bit. the tattoo thing. i mostly went with the crime thing because i thought it was funny to have birth on ace and this did get him some good talks with iris

in general ace's issues are fun to play with to me when he does go into them because outside of his canon people just go well you know being born isnt a crime or being judged for who your father is is fucked up or what have you, and it's like. that's true and that's a sentiment he does appreciate so much when it's said but

it was a crime when he was born! many people died for it! and being roger's son is ultimately what got ace on the execution stand instead of any of his own shit!

and like, midway through that execution one of their allies, a guy who drank and partied with ace and was generally his friend, turns on whitebeard because he believes the marine propaganda theyre saying (that wb is exchanging his crew + ace for his allied crews) but ultimately because ace is roger's son and roger killed his whole crew

ultimately the dude does turn back around and realize not only was he manipulated but its unfair to judge ace for that (whitebeard being like you dumb shit. i love you but that was dumb) but

ace watches a man WHO WAS HIS FRIEND stab his Actual Chosen Dad over his birth and a million other people are dying because of him(obviously not really accurate but yknow. pov and all that) and so for him it is never going to be as cookie cutter as

well that's wrong

i think thats fun because he also tells yamato when he meets him like. you cant choose your father but you can shake off the chains linking him to you or whatever the fuck. the point being he knows it is wrong he doesnt think he is to blame for anything roger did and it pisses him off that this is what his life is but the consequences

are still there

anyway this is relevant to the game because it came up in a talk with vi where she was like obviously you know thats bullshit being born cant be a crime and he was like WELL ?

[random person on the street voice] i think we should stab roger's potential kids in the eyeballs

anyway he still had a very good bonding moment with iris and vi over it but in general i was bad at remembering his tattoo because he will dodge the fuck out of talking about that shit if he can. he doesnt wanna. this is a recurring theme this game and so many people let him get away with it lmao

uh anyway week 2. what the fuck even was week 2

while i go find the week 2 stuff i should mention i spent a lot of this game ooc planning and organizing stupid meowsandry things that could not always be ace's idea so it is a bit like

schrodinger's cat on how much evil ace was personally responsible for. but i, personally

it was me. it was me a lot.

oh baby/au week. i just like playing baby ace

he is such a little angry brat and he kind of has a lot of ummm. derision? judgment? for his younger self

this goes up to like. when he was 17, even, it's a mix of ace generally not liking himself and that he did have a lot of character growth since being an angy child and also like. he wasn't liked by anyone but his brothers in his mind so. but it led to some fun things where he was like ha, sorry for being a brat, and people were like you werent that bad

which ngl shook him a little

not in a like how could this happen way just in a oh! i never considered thinking of myself as not the worst! that is weird. ace is not a person who is very nice with his current self and this only gets worse with his younger self i think

reaching the level of "i got better but that doesnt mean the person i used to be was not worthwhile" in self-acceptance is not going to happen anytime soon i think because hes not even aware hes so mean to his childhood self lmao

and also because he justifies a lot of his earlier childhood with well. i was a difficult child and a brat and stupid etc etc

this again didnt really come up in those conversations because ace is an expert at moving past stuff he doesnt want to discuss which is everything with himself My Type

oh yeah week 2 we had the metaphor cyoa i was like was that week 2 or week 3 help me

so first off being in a cyoa with tama he was a little on edge because he wanted to protect her, and also he was a kitty cat meow, and he was also like. very aware this was strohl's world so

he relaxed a little bit when we all joined up because despite there being More People he doesn't want injured now he was like well there's six of us. surely we will be fine with this number

spoiler: wrong

he got paired up with artemy which was worse for him in the sense that like. artemy and him were the fighters of the group and he was v aware of this so he was like stressed and it was all about dead children being eaten and he was mad and so they tragically killed a wolf

there was other shit but i want to harp on the wolf a bit because like. the whole racism/discrimination thing is p normal for ace so he just hated on that shit but didnt think much of it and like his reaction to fear and anxiety is to just. fight about it.

he is not above killing animals heck he hunted for most of his life but a big big part of ace's character and one i try to keep in mind whenever i play him is that he is kind

it's like, a big thing everyone mentions about him in canon, it's the first impression he gives (luffy also gets described as kind at some points the brothers of all time etc etc)

so him not even trying empathy on the wolf which was really just a regular starved animal was meant to show a bit how rattled he was by everything

anyway i think a few people told him he was kind in the game and i was always like yes hehehe yes even though ace always goes haha?? what??? no???? because he doesnt think of himself like that we love a only halfway self-aware king

uh but yeah so in the cyoa everyone ends up dying to the human once, either by being eaten or drowning, and for ace he got drowning........2!!!!

hilariously he is not as fucked up by drowning as far as dying goes because it's something he sort of chose the first time and also after you die from a LAVA FIST TO THE CHEST BURNING AWAY YOUR GUTS AND THEN IT STILL TAKES YOU AGES O DIE drowning is not as painful

but so he drowns and then he was faced with like. everyone ever from his crew!!! including some he had never met/were dead and also his girl from heroes!!! and they couldnt see him or hear him but he could see them and

he wasnt that fucked up about that, he was just happy to see these people because he'd missed them so, so much? but then the water level kept going up and they werent moving so he was like Actually Could You Notice Me So You Don't Die and then on top of that LUFFY WAS HERE AND DROWNING

(a childhood habit) and so ace had to rip out his own heart to get his brother and he did not even hesitate bitch

like i cannot emphasize the things ace would do for his loved ones in general and then with luffy its like. and dial that up to eleven. whenever i make a tier list i need you all to know. whatever tier is highest. luffy is above hat

anyway so he rips out his own heart and gets powers and then he can talk to his family and friends but again he knows this isnt like. really real. but even without that he is not too bothered by having to say goodbye because he knows he will see them again (probably) and he was just glad to be able to see them (even if they werent real)

he did not talk about this to anyone but ultimately as usual he kind of just came out of the cyoa feeling. so homesick

anyway they all got back with their new powers and kicked a baby's ass and that is the only part of the cyoa ace talked about because it would distract people and did not require mentioning feelings or dying seven times

also he lost an eye again which he was like (unamused) about but while in heroes he didnt care because he was dead ANYWAY here he was like. thank god we can heal these things. not having an eyeball would fucking suck

and then like eighty people died that weekend and while he did want to know who killed yoru he was also lowkey like. understandable of someone to WANT to kill her really. ace actually figured out the yoru devil and asa human thing way early on because of a few things yoru said hilariously enough

which is why he thought totty's explanation of asa letting them die made sense

uhhh he was sad about roxana because he liked her and then they kept sending mysterious letters to each other and i ended up too dead to tag ara that last week that is on me

im skipping ahead a bit but hilariously enough he wouldve been fine if totty had said the truth on why he killed yoru but when he learned it was a lie there were two options which was like 1) to save his own hide from revenge 2) to gain pity points and both of those are things he cant abide hes very like

take responsibility for your actions if you're going to do these things (like kill or scapegoat or what have you) or shut up lying about it is just pathetic

he learned this like. after totty was scapegoated for the record so he was like oh well. fucking karma i guess

i think totty doing it was hilarious personally but anyway for ace it made him lose any respect for totty but he didnt like. hate him or anything. again this was learned way later i just wanted to go over it now

o hshit i should go back a bit THE ICE SKATING RINK OPENED WEEK 1 I THOUGHT IT WAS WEEK 2 OK SO

THE FIRST TAMA/ACE KISS WAS ME SETTING THE PC IN THE KISSING RINK TO SEE IF I COULD TRAP BECKS INTO IT!!!

i just did not tell becks this i wanted to see if becks would go for it

i was being evil

i wanted tama to get a kiss even though i personally had no hope for the ship

i will explain why when we get to the ship which

is now actually week 3

so week 3 was memshare ace's favorite doxxing mechanic. once again forced to explain his death and tragic backstory as he sits there seething

week 3 is also when wahoo got to under 4 people ..... so they had that very dramatic

EXTINCTION EVENT warning

so ok to go back to the first kiss; ace had no idea that was tama's first kiss, and also was convince tama was dating ryuki. still. forever. so for him this was nbd and for tama it was like. /// a little. i think thats very funny.

and then that week 3 friday tama decided to try to show her feelings to ace when she thought there was a chance she might die and ace was

fully taken aback he had no idea

so the truth is. he is bad at realizing when people like him as a person and he has never considered himself a romantic option

he has fucked and he flirts and he is aware he's attractive, those are easy because they are physical and physicality is the one thing ace is confident at! hes like yea im good at fighting yea kissing and having sex is a good time and it doesnt have to be a big deal

now romance. well that is more complicated

his motther died because of who his dad was, having kids isnt an option because theyd be hunted down, he is a pirate and hes not interested in not being a pirate ever/settling down + it's not something he wants to do to anyone where their life is in danger just for liking him, and also he

has a tendency to think he is inherently unloveable

thank you ..... issues......

so like, he doesnt let himself think about romance

now in the novels there was a character that in concept was introduced as a potential love interest but in the end they scrapped that plotline, but the implication is still there that she likes him and ace couldve liked her back but they were incompatible and it kind of culminates in this really sad scene which i

got to memshare during the tama confession mess

because its like. tama kisses him and ace has to get past "are you not dating ryuki" (hilarious) and also through you like me?? me???? for real?????????

the memshare in question it is VERY long i was going insane rewriting this i hate the novels why cant they be in ace pov

anyway he has a lot of issues regarding dating and he had no idea tama liked him + thought she was taken so he had never thought about her in a romantic way because he doesnt let himself think of that, so when she asked he was like. i will think about this?

so he spent the weekend thinking about it and really evaluating his feelings and whether this was something that could work long term because despite not thinking about romance

hes actually really romantic lmao

he wouldnt consider himself such but thats just what hes like hes a diehard about everything including romance

so anyway he didnt talk to her about it again until week 4 and so thats a tomorrow problem but ok so sidebarring

week 3 trial was rin so ace was like thats nice. throws that away refuses to vote for him

childe and manwol killing each other also was terrible because he liked them both well enough and he was like i hate achievements this is so annoying and AGAIN because he was like hm. i need to move everyone away from rin immediately

and then they scapegoated siffrin which ace did not vote for him but he did feel bad about it

anyway he had a very longwinded talk with both the frees on sat and sunday about justice and why he did those things and kind of. pushed haru on the path of murder by doing that i think which is hilarious but yeah i was like

i hope spoon and nu dont think this is stupid sorry about the speeches

and then week 4 is for tomorrow ok bye

noogies this man

crawls out of my sunday mines. ok

week 4! alpha week! i will be honest that alpha week doesnt change much for ace he is a character that does whatever he wants whenever in the first place. he has self-esteem issues but theyre like. existential. so i didnt really take that into account

since the weekend was so crazy icly he did not think about his love life there (sorry tama) and did start considering it for real on monday

and part of his issues with this was that. well he's not a person that talks about his problems in the first place but he also didn't have anyone alive he felt he could talk to about this kind of thing anyway and combined with the cyoa he just

really missed his canon + heroes friends lmao

and then strohl sent that fake dating curse on the day i was like i think he would attempt to talk it through with tama now and i read the curse and went hm. the likelihood this fucks him up is very high

because the fake dating curse is very intent on being like. you have to convince everyone you are dating for the good of the world or whatever (in this case OR THE MOON WILL BE BACK which pissed him off so much)

and so they decided to skip talking about being in a relationship and just fake it and ace is a bad liar so it was very awkward in public and very funny

and then afterwards he just felt guilty because he felt like it was playing with tama's feelings without addressing things and he probably wouldve ended up saying thanks for caring but we shouldnt be together if she didnt initiate the talk the next day and kind of tried to walk through it with him

but before that i should mention he sent vi a letter because vi is the kind of person i think if she had been alive the whole time he couldve talked to about this kind of stupid thing, where he is very fucked up vis-a-vis romance and is still like. at least aware it's stupid to worry about this when people are dying and being tortured incyoas and whatever

but he cant put down his feelings in writing and like pointedly never writes letters in canon even though we've seen other people do it, it's just. not his style. anyway so he sends her a kind of vague letter and she answers back but by the time he answers that one he has his convo with tama

so he and tama talk and she acknowledges the problems he does share (he does not share the part where he thinks he's inherently unloveable and she'll realize that if they date because hes aware shed just get mad) and gets that he's aware they dont all apply to her because shes in a different world but is still something he has to contend with and shes like

okay but a lot of this is future stuff we could maybe go like. day by day.

which is very funny because ace isnt a character that worries about the future because. he very rarely can imagine himself having one. depressing layer to it but he lives a lot in the present because he promised not to have regrets of his life and he doesnt think he has a future himself

so putting it like that hes like. ok well. in that case thinking about it would i regret not giving it a shot because of potential worries

and the answer is yes

anyway throughout the entire conversation he did not tell tama

yes i like you but

which was the premise of his issues

so he kind of ends it with oh. i dont know if you got that. but i do like you like that?

and tama is like I HAD NOT THANKS and it is such a funny thread they are a disaster

i think lowkey ace does fully expect tama to break up with him at any point

esp since dating stuff is hard in a murder game. but anyway they agree to date!! yay kissing!!!

so okay the reason i mentioned vi's letter is he answers it and he has sort of (not really) solved his issues so he says its fine again and not to worry and she RIGHTFULLY SO ends up going god was this about you dating tama im going to kill you if you made me worry about something this stupid

and shes right it is absolutely stupid and he himself called it stupid but

its just very funny because ace doesnt talk about anything that troubles him EVER so mentioning a thing and being outright told its dumb actually just makes him internalize like oh. i shouldnt have talked about it it is stupid

so it just kind of shuts a door that was barely open and i thought that was funny because again its a totally normal response to think he is being very dramatic about something silly. because he is

but calling it out as stupid when he already thinks having and sharing his thoughts and feelings is dumb and he should never do that is

well anyway he ended up not super comfortable talking about his dating life for the rest of the game partitally because of one innocuous comment he is the funniest man alive how can you be this sensitive and als obrush off most comments pick a lane

anyway. he and tama are dating yay!!!

MAYA AND STROHL DIE

(and also scaramouche but like even though he got along with scara scara dying truly was like. understandable)

it is the closest he gets to being as pissed as he could get in heroes because it is two people he is close friends with and he throws his phone about it but then tries to reign it in because it happens in front of tama

ace is an angry impulsive person and he knows this about himself and is usually fine with it but he spent a lot of time trying to not be because a lot of people in the game he felt sort of like. a responsibility for in a hard to explain way?

like so many other people felt on the urge of a breakdown at all times he did not want to add to it so hed just vanish to have his emotions in private

anyway he didnt figure out ryo did maya until like. near the end of voting because he didnt know ryo's hilarious hateful grudge of maya and because ryo framing strohl wouldve been more obvious if strohl wasnt also a victim that week

so he confronts ryo and punches him in the face but he is chilled out by the fact that ryo 1) did not team up with scaramouche to do it despite evidence being messy so it's not AS bad 2) he does learn ryo was willing to die for it/was doing it for achievements and an incentive to bring back his world

2 would be less mildly understandable if he had known

ryo was responsible for that

world destruction

but the point is he is mad at ryo but not nearly as much as he wouldve been if it wasnt like. a storm of i get why it happened this way but fuck you

so he does agree that he'll kill ryo in a midtrial if he is still alive on saturday. and he tells haru and rupert that ryo did it because he doesnt think its fair to hide it from them as a team and its all very dramatic

and he ends up telling rupert he and tama are dating because he feels bad he sprung that on rupert with ryo in the room lmao

anyway maya coming back on monday of week 5 also makes him go. ok then. begrudgingly accepts that their local psychopath was not the worst about it but still holds a grudge

week 5! anders and yoru come back! he is more excited about anders than yoru but also we did the funniest thing and converted all the bedrooms to other shit for funnies that week so

ace: promise not to be mad,

he is not scared of either of these people it needs to be said he just thought it was very funny

but yeah the gy hosts and maya and anders and yoru all show up and its a wild week and then he is cursed with fake dating

again

BUT NOW HE THINKS HE HAS TO CONVINCE EVERYONE HE IS DATING HARU AND YORU BUT HE IS DATING TAMA AND WHAT IF SHE THINKS HE IS CHEATING ON HER? OR REALIZES IT'S FAKE BECAUSE THEY AGREED TO DATE? THE FATE OF THE WORLDS DEPEND ON THIS FAKE DATING GOING WELL

or whatever

so he goes to break up with her but it's emotionshare so she can

immediately

tell that he doesnt even want to do this

and they have the funniest fight where hes like sorry i have togo and shes just ? i refuse

hilariously a very luffy moment of her this happens in one piece with him so often

just thats nice! no.

and she has an undo curse so she puts it on him to not have to deal with her boyfriend being stupid and also at the same time we both are getting texts about doing a fake public break up and i was like well

shouldve sent that 20 minutes earlier

anyway hes cured and hes like. this is incredibly embarrassing and tamas like yea what a first fight. you know the best part of first fights. lets fuck

and thats how tama and ace first had sex i dont know what to tell you

then she made an omega booth and called him an omega and he got offended and also he had to pretend to fake date haru and yoru still because it was easier to just go along with it than to try to explain to them that they were cursed

just a wild day

anyway this day is part of what ace thinks about when he thinks of how tama will eventually wise up and break up with him. he is just enjoying the time he has with her in the meantime. THE OTHER THING that makes him think they are kinda incompatible happened over the weekend

which is that every murdered in that trial was a teen ace cared about (he didnt clock alex immediately because i forgot cola was an option but kazuki was up there so he as like ignores that one too!!!! anyway)

so he tried his best to obscure shit and also mentally went GET IT TOGETHER at anders and rupert poking at haru it was very funny to me

this is the one time he and yoru bonded and it was to throw ryo under the bus to save haru

then totty got scapegoated and he learned about the inkwell thing and again it was like well i dont feel good about this but lowkey karma ig. the important thing is that haru and rin and kazuki(wrong)/alex didnt get voted for because i have biases

but yea he and tama had a discussion about what voting and what feels right and he is very aware that

tama is a cop............................................. she is justice adjacent and their morality are p different and he doesnt have the best like

track record

with people on that side in his life lmao

he doesnt doubt that she cares about him is the important thing to note

he just thinks if it comes down to her other priorities/general life tama will not pick him and he thinks thats understandable and hes just kind of expecting it to happen someday

which is part of why he does things like tell her hes not going to quit being a pirate or whatever in that thread he thinks eventually tama will want something better. until then he is enjoying the time he has with her now but he really does lowkey think they are not fully compatible because of it its funny

his issues are vast and varied sometimes you downplay your importance in people's lives constantly

[ace voice] luffy has his crew so he'll be fine without me
luffy, after ace dies: i am going to fucking kill myself
jimbei, desperate: YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CREW???
luffy: yeah... thats true.... (is never the same again aces death haunts the narrative)

hilarious.

how are there so many more weeks left

ace...

how is he the stupidest man alive

The type of man to assume no one will leave flowers at his grave smh

beats him up without the bongy debuff

help

week 6!! thoughtshare!!!! i think i meant to play with that more than i did end up playing with it but i was on cyoa... 2 (4 for ace. hilarious) so i was appropriately distracted

his dragon age cyoa started off with him being publicly executed. he didnt DIE but he did get hanged for a little bit which is like. this is his third execution its always a good time (trauma)

his memories were messed with and he had his fire back but i think the most damaging part of that cyoa wasnt even like, the end choice we had to make to stay and fight because ace has never run from a fight ever and cant because hes like. hard wired to think if he does he will lose something/someone important. funny

but rather just that he died again and he vaguely mentioned this alex but you can only die so many times when you are not entirely convinced you shouldve been born before you start to wonder if maybe being dead is just what you should be

alex hilariously was like absolutely not. fuck you which did help

but like it is something that sticks in his mind and has since heroes which is just that should he be dead is he better if he is. ace died after watching people die and be maimed in his name on both sides. it was LITERALLY a war because of him. and thats a bit of trauma he doesnt acknowledge

because obviously even hinting that he feels fucked up about that gets people going shut up thats stupid but also its like. it feels like rejecting the sacrifices people made to save him to feel fucked up about it

complicated emotions

and also just in general despite being like should i be alive do i deserve to live is everyone else better off if im dead etc etc its very important that ace really really really does want to live

wanting to live/be free but not thinking you should/can is kind of a theme in one piece that destroys me

anyway

i am determined to finish this the last trial jacopo and artemy ace was more worried about trying to get jonas through it than anything else and then we scapegoated dante and his feelings with dante are

to go back to heroes, ace and dante did a murder the same week, ace because i got rolled and dante was the ac killer and siz had asked to step back so dante killed reigen and ace isnt the forgiving type on that kind of shit so

ace was caught and dante wasnt, and ace. does not care about that part. even though dante did point out it was ace the only reason ace wasnt confessing was that i was using cyoa brain soup as an excuse to not confess but i was also like [ace plays with his knife for twenty years]

so ace did not care about that part because he didnt want someone to be scapegoated for him

he cares that dante killed reigen, and he cares that dante then lied and played house with nico and will and nimona, because the lying is also a big deal to him

but all those people forgave dante and tried to give him a second chance and ace has a very funny pov of second chances because he thinks he himself was given one when he was bad so he is willing to give it to people

in the novels hes like you can turn your life around at some slavers because of it hes like well i was bad... and im like not equivalent!!!! NOT EVEN A LITTLE

(the slavers are like no??? and he kills them its fine)

anyway which means that in this game ace tried to play nice with dante but he both still holds a grudge and

also in general dante annoys him skjgsdm

it's the edginess and it's he way he was always like (SAD FACES IN HIS GENERAL DIRECTION) that pissed him off it is so funny

dante trying his best just drove him to annoyance

ace doesnt have the patience to teach people morals

anyway all this to say when dante was scapegoated ace was still like you dont deserve to die for thought crimes you fucking moron. this isnt karma. you are pissing me off worse

and then finally endgame week.................... i was sleepy i was so sleepy

oh wait

I FORGO THE EXECUTION WHERE HE SAW ALL HIS FRIENDS EXPLODE BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THEY SHARE FRIENDS

ace just refused to acknowledge he had feelings about that and made himself scarce but a few people came to him about it hilariously enough alex and jonas who had also both hit the guilt trip thing for curse pity so the entire thread was derailed by ace forever going i dont deserve cheese..............

so he did not really get to talk about his feelings about watching his friends die oops

ok endgame week for real. idk we planned some weird meowsandry pranks to use up all our points. i watched superman. i was so sleepy i could not focus on horses and ace had generic guilt about not contributing much to achievements while also being like

refuses to consider doing things just to earn achievements its pissing him off that was the whole game

anyway. horses.

i have nothing much to say about the endgame week i think. ace and tama had a threesome with jae-ha because it was funny and theyd both flirted with him week 0 and they are absolutely that couple that discusses people being hot

in the end ace was glad it was over and did not have a lot of feelings about the horse ghost and also meowsandry won which he ALSO did not have a lot of feelings over but was like haha neat. i own an airport now. i am going to make it their problem

but we won everything and now hes going home finallyl the end

i lost track of all my meta midway through

ace is mentally a mess but thats not unusual that was the full story gooby

flings him around like a rag doll

yay

no!!!

:'3?