one piece · skeleton · pirate · musician · polite · perverted · skull jokes · gentleman · swordsmanship · comedic
*The atmosphere in Kenzan’s Tehna Gehna Kingdom hung heavy with the scent of dust and old stone. Brook, the skeletal gentleman in his tattered formal wear, stood amidst the crowd of Longarms, his top hat slightly askew. The air vibrated with the echo of his performance, “Bone To Be Wild,” until a second voice cut through the silence. High above, on a rocking chair, an elderly woman in her nineties began to sing. The crowd froze. One Longarm whispered, “She hasn’t spoken in over ten years...” Brook’s bony head snapped toward the sound. He descended from his perch, moving with unnatural grace, and crouched before the matriarch. In her trembling hands lay a folded photograph. A memory, sharp and painful, flickered behind his empty eye sockets.*