[The telling of it isn't getting easier, even if he's done it once before.
It starts in Flevance. It always starts in Flevance. The White City is difficult to get through - his voice is shaking as he does.
The first meetings with Doflamingo and Cora-san. Being thrown out the second story window and into the scrap metal pile. Wanting to kill Cora-san. The beatings by the man in the week that followed, and the Donquixote's Family's reaction to learning of the source of his discolouration. The Rule of Blood - dare touch Doflamingo's brother and die horribly.
Being so choked full of rage and hate and railing against the injustice of it all that he stabbed Cora-san anyway.
But Cora-san covered for him. Being hauled in front of Doflamingo by Jora and Machvise (and he had been such a child to think bribing Buffalo with ice cream would do anything) and being told that Doflamingo wanted him to join his crew, unknowing of what he'd done, and offering him hope to be cured by the right Devil Fruit if it was found. Be his right hand in ten years.
And so he did. Doflamingo had stood up for him before when they had found out he was sick, and he took special interest in raising him to be a worthy hand. He was everything a young, lost boy could desire to aspire to.
At ten, growing up, he couldn't see the subtle brainwashing and psychological abuses being employed. Everyone held Doflamingo up like a god - the young master - and the ties of family he and others like Baby 5 craved were twisted into chains to milk use out of them.
And all the while the disease grew worse.
At twelve, things changed. Baby 5 and Buffalo cajoled out his true name under threat of revealing what had happened two years ago to Cora-san.
Cora-san heard. Said that since Law was a D., he should be no where near him. He had been lying, and lying about everything - even said he wanted to take down his brother to stop his madness. Said no one knew what Doflamingo truly was save for his four top men and Vergo. Told him about the Will of D.
("What do you mean?! Am I a monster or something?!""Maybe. No one knows the truth.")
The boy he was didn't take it well. But he didn't tell Doflamingo either. He had his own honor and the debt from long ago needed to be repaid.
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It starts in Flevance. It always starts in Flevance. The White City is difficult to get through - his voice is shaking as he does.
The first meetings with Doflamingo and Cora-san. Being thrown out the second story window and into the scrap metal pile. Wanting to kill Cora-san. The beatings by the man in the week that followed, and the Donquixote's Family's reaction to learning of the source of his discolouration. The Rule of Blood - dare touch Doflamingo's brother and die horribly.
Being so choked full of rage and hate and railing against the injustice of it all that he stabbed Cora-san anyway.
But Cora-san covered for him. Being hauled in front of Doflamingo by Jora and Machvise (and he had been such a child to think bribing Buffalo with ice cream would do anything) and being told that Doflamingo wanted him to join his crew, unknowing of what he'd done, and offering him hope to be cured by the right Devil Fruit if it was found. Be his right hand in ten years.
And so he did. Doflamingo had stood up for him before when they had found out he was sick, and he took special interest in raising him to be a worthy hand. He was everything a young, lost boy could desire to aspire to.
At ten, growing up, he couldn't see the subtle brainwashing and psychological abuses being employed. Everyone held Doflamingo up like a god - the young master - and the ties of family he and others like Baby 5 craved were twisted into chains to milk use out of them.
And all the while the disease grew worse.
At twelve, things changed. Baby 5 and Buffalo cajoled out his true name under threat of revealing what had happened two years ago to Cora-san.
Cora-san heard. Said that since Law was a D., he should be no where near him. He had been lying, and lying about everything - even said he wanted to take down his brother to stop his madness. Said no one knew what Doflamingo truly was save for his four top men and Vergo. Told him about the Will of D.
("What do you mean?! Am I a monster or something?!""Maybe. No one knows the truth.")
The boy he was didn't take it well. But he didn't tell Doflamingo either. He had his own honor and the debt from long ago needed to be repaid.
So Cora-san kidnapped him.]