#astra-logia

[mianonnadellozen]

[sabo-has-my-heart]

Return Requester Here!

Can I get a Swap Au this time? Marine!Ace and Thief!F!Reader with multi-purpose #7 and fluff #2 would be nice. Thank you so much Astra 🥰💕💓

I wish you all the success, girl!

Warnings: Marine!Ace, fluff, attempted theft

Word Count: 1140

Sneaking into marine compounds usually wasn’t easy. That said, you knew a couple of secrets, particularly about this base. It was hard not to chuckle to yourself as you hid in the shadows until the low ranking marines passed by. You weren’t interested in such low ranking marines, you weren’t interested in the marines in general. Your prize was much, much bigger, the base had gotten their hands on a devil fruit and a good one at that. Further and further, you made your way inwards, taking a deep breath when you finally reached a door. If the blueprints you had were anything to go by and your intel was good, it would be in here. You weren’t surprised by the guards at the door, but the door wasn’t how you were planning to get in. 

Dropping down into the room from the vent, you smirked, marines were such fools to think that a few guards in front of the door would stop a world class thief. You quickly grabbed the red devil fruit, smiling as you stared at it. Feeling a pair of hands around you, you froze. Since when did they start having people guarding the room?

“Don’t think I'm letting you get away with that.” a voice said in your ear, holding you tightly. Growling lowly, you looked at the devil fruit in your hand. A logia type, the mera mera fruit. It was either the fruit or you. Elbowing the man behind you, his grip loosened enough for you to kick him off. Spinning around, you shoved the devil fruit in his mouth as he went to call for backup. 

“Sorry, cutie, can’t have you catching me that easily.” you said, winking at him before running for the window, shattering the glass as you jumped. The young man that had attacked you soon followed you out, your eyes widening as he tossed a fireball at you. Fuck, you’d just force fed him a logia devil fruit! The sound of sirens had you cursing your luck as you ran. You’d have more marines bearing down on you if you didn’t get out soon.

Ace sighed as he looked down at the map. It had been 3 years since he first met you, since he’d eaten the mera mera fruit. It hadn’t been his intention, but you’d shoved it in his mouth. Thankfully, Garp had gotten him out of trouble with that, though only barely. After that, he’d learned that this wasn’t your first time breaking into a marine base and had made it his mission to catch you. Or at least, that’s what everyone else thought. It was true that it had started out like that, but that’s not how it was anymore. Not since the day he’d actually caught you, not since he’d gotten to know you. So now he chased the infamous thief, Y/n, thwarting your every attempt on marine bases, and ‘protecting the possessions of the military’. He was a ‘hero’ for protecting such valuables and saving men from harm! A hero, ha, a hero wouldn’t purposefully let the ‘bad guy’ get away. A hero wouldn’t be feeding you information about where to hit next so that he could meet up with you again. You never caused much damage and didn’t hurt anyone, so what was the harm so long as he was ‘stopping’ you. 

Once again, he was the only one chasing after you, after all, he was the only one who could keep up with you. Again and again in circles, the same chases repeated as he followed you into an old, abandoned building far from his men.

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the marine vice admiral, Fire Fist Ace. One might think that a vice admiral would have better things to do than chase after a lowly thief.” your voice cooed, stepping out from the shadows and into the small amount of light that streamed through the boarded up windows.

“I think we both know that you’re more than just a ‘lowly thief’, Y/n.” Ace said, taking a couple of steps forward. In the blink of an eye, the two of you were rushing forward, meeting each other in a passionate kiss, his hands cupping your cheeks, your arms wrapped around his neck. Kiss after kiss, you pulled each other in one after another until you were both too breathless to continue.

“Fuck, I love you so much.” you whispered, fingers playing with his hair, his hands still holding your face.

“I love you too, Y/n.” Ace said breathlessly, resting his forehead against yours.

“I… I missed you. A lot.” you said, looking down. 

“I missed you too, which is why you should look at me right now, I want every moment we have together to be spent staring into your eyes.” Ace said, caressing your cheek, making you look back up at him.

“I… I’m a greedy woman, Ace. I want more.” you said, leaning into his touch.

“I know, I want to spend more time with you too, but I have responsibilities. I can’t just abandon my post, my men.” he whispered, pulling you close.

“I know. I just… I want more, more time, more of you, more of your touch.” you said, hands wandering down his arms before moving back up, gently gliding over his chest, before moving up to trace his freckles. 

“You can have more, you know you can.” Ace breathed, your hands pausing.

“At what cost? I’m a notorious thief, they wouldn’t just let me off the hook because of your say so.” you said, once more looking at the ground, tears pricking at the corners of your eyes.

“You’re right, they wouldn’t let you off the hook just on the word of a vice admiral, but they might for two vice admirals and a newly appointed admiral.” Ace said, making your head shoot up.

“W-what?” you asked, Ace smirking.

“They want to promote Luffy to admiral. I’ve told my brothers about you, they’d be willing to vouch for you. Please.” Ace pleaded, holding you tightly. You stared at him for a moment, unsure of what to do.

“Can… can I think about it?” you asked, Ace smiling and nodding.

“Take your time. When you finally decide, find a way to send this to me and I’ll meet you on the island where we first kissed.” Ace said, pressing his white and red bracelet in your hand. You smiled and nodded, giving him a quick kiss before slowly walking backwards towards the back door. It was time to part, but no matter your decision, you would always see him again sooner or later, you loved him. Besides, you were pretty sure you already knew your answer, you just needed time to take care of a few things and make sure that the life of a marine was what you really wanted.

[supernachtkuchen]

About the Zodiac

I hear all the time, “Astrology isn’t science!”  and “Astrology is nonsense!”

Is it a science? No. Is it nonsense? Also, no. What it is, is a personality test a la Meyers-Briggs. Bear with me a moment.

Early astronomers (Galileo, Kepler, etc.) also had to have a knowledge of the Zodiac. Why was this handy? Because it helped them apportion the skies and thusly locate certain heavenly bodies more easily. There’s the connection to science. However:

In attempting to make sense of the human race at large and the world around them, someone eventually would have discovered roughly 12 basic personality types. In further investigating, said someone would have discovered that certain personality types are common in people born in the same general span of days. People born in mid-April to mid-May are stubborn, people born in mid-October to mid-november are intriguing, people born in mid-May to mid-June are steady on the surface and emotional beneath, etc. There’s the connection to personality tests. But: 

Each planet and heavenly body was assigned a name and purpose. A planet in retrograde appears to be moving backwards in much the same way that a car you pass on the highway appears to go backwards as you pass it at greater speed. 

Thus, if Mercury (named for the swift messenger god of the Greeks) was assigned thought and travel, general ideas of swift motion, then Mercury in Retrograde would of course muddle thoughts, tangle words, foul travel plans, etc. 

Jupiter, named for the lord of the skies and thunderbolt hurler Zeus, was assigned notions of greatness, leadership, and plenty. Thus, Jupiter in retrograde would be thought to cause crisis, bad decisions, falls from grace. Science tells us Jupiter is stormy and hazardous. So was Zeus.

Venus, we’ve been told, was named for the goddess of love and beauty because when it is first seen in the night sky, it is beautiful to look upon. Thus, Venus in retrograde would play hell with one’s love life. Science has told us that it is not beautiful in person, but a tiger in a zoo cage has the same effect. Beautiful to look at, terrifying to be in range of its claws and teeth. 

These purposes assigned, and these personality types assigned, we get the basics of astrology, more or less. Logia (Greek, “truth”) gives us the base word of Logic. Over time, it also came to mean, “the study of” (psychology, etc.) Astra (Greek, “Star”) + Logia = Astrology. Therefore, “the study of the heavens”. At one time it was synonomous with science, but our knowledge and capabilities have evolved since then. Still, one does not dismiss an 8-piece jigsaw puzzle as utter nonsense because one has now learned to do a 100-piece. The picture must still be put together, bit by bit, however you do it. It’s fascinating to see the connections made and the intricate methodology. 

Thus, while it is not a science, Astrology is also not bullshit.