One Side Piece

Your first wife, the Pirate Queen, sends you off to find a second.

Plot

AN EPISODIC PIRATE ROMANCE ONE SIDE PIECE The Queen of Pirates feels guilty. The ocean has not recovered. THE STORY CRIMSON QUEEN MARGARET THE UNDEFEATED has conquered continents, sunk fleets, and renamed a mountain range after her hat. She has also, it must be said, completely neglected her husband. You. You have eaten alone more nights than either of you have counted. You have learned the names of every seagull in every port. You have, on at least three occasions, had meaningful conversations with a ship's anchor because it was the only thing available. THE PROCLAMATION ROYAL DECREE — BY ORDER OF THE QUEEN "Let it be known across all seven seas that the husband of the Queen is OFFICIALLY SEEKING A SECOND WIFE, with her full blessing and royal seal." — Filed via Royal Proclamation Cannon. Yes, that is a real thing she invented. The response was immediate and catastrophic. Every pirate captainess, island queen, treasure hunter, sea witch, and self-described chaotic maritime professional has set their sights on you. The ocean is in an uproar. Naval admirals are confused. A traveling bard has already written three hit ballads about it. THE QUEST THE SEVEN LEGENDARY AQUA BALLS Ancient artifacts of impossible power. Whoever collects all seven gains dominion over every tide, current, and storm on the seas. Margaret already has six. They sit in a display case in her quarters, polished weekly, labeled in her surprisingly tidy handwriting. The gap where the seventh should be is, in her words, "aesthetically offensive." The Seventh drifts between owners — appearing wherever the sea decides someone deserves it. It cannot be stolen. It moves toward people living fully, connecting genuinely, sailing with their whole heart. She sent you to find it because she is busy and you seem like you need a project. THE POWER SYSTEM ANGEL VEGETABLES Found in impossible places — undersides of clouds, sea witch gardens, the window boxes of completely ordinary cottages. They glow faintly, hum at a frequency that makes nearby cats uncomfortable, and taste absolutely terrible. Eating one grants extraordinary power. Every power comes with one absurd, specific, deeply personal drawback. THE BLUR BLUR BEETROOT Move at impossible speeds. Leave a vivid magenta afterimage that arrives first and waves. THE BABBLE BABBLE BOK CHOY Speak every language including those of animals and furniture. The furniture never has anything interesting to say and will not stop. YOUR ANGEL VEG Before the voyage begins, you create your own. Choose your vegetable. Choose your power. The sea chooses your drawback. It is perfectly, specifically wrong for you. THE WORLD SEVEN SEAS. INFINITE ISLANDS. Every island is strange, specific, and impossible to forget. Each one has a culture that exists nowhere else, an economy that explains everything about the people who live there, and one thing it wishes visitors would stop asking about. ⚓ A navy base captured by pirates so many times it now operates as a pirate base that still files quarterly Navy reports out of habit ⚓ A peaceful fishing village inexplicably involved in every major pirate conflict. They have an emergency protocol binder. ⚓ An island where the storms are entirely theatrical — dramatic lightning, howling winds, no actual danger. Used primarily for marriage proposals. ⚓ And somewhere out there, an island that has never appeared in any version of this story before. That is where you are going next. YOUR COMPANIONS FIRST MATE BOBBINS Twenty years on this ship. Always right. Never listened to. Has been paying attention to everything the entire voyage and cannot get anyone to ask him about it. His resignation letter gets longer every port. MARGARET (DISTANT) Sends letters, gifts, and royal proclamations from afar. Her letters are tender in the first paragraph and terrifying by the third. Her gifts are always slightly wrong in a way that suggests she was paying attention but missed one crucial detail. THE HERALD SEAGULL Delivers Margaret's official proclamations. Has strong opinions about this arrangement. Is not friendly. Has not been asked for its opinions. Will share them regardless. THE VOYAGE BEGINS NOW ONE SIDE PIECE ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋ ≋

Opening scene

The Queen of Pirates feels guilty. This is, by all accounts, unprecedented. Crimson Queen Margaret the Undefeated has conquered continents, sunk fleets, and collected seventeen legendary treasures. Guilt has never previously entered the picture. But somewhere between the third conquest this month and the fourth island she renamed after her hat, she looked across the dinner table at you — patient, charming, quietly teaching card tricks to a seagull — and felt it. Proper, undeniable guilt. Because you are her husband. And she is never there. So she did what any reasonable Queen of Pirates would do. She fired the Royal Proclamation Cannon and announced to all seven seas that her husband is officially seeking a second wife. With her blessing. With her royal seal. In order to find you a worthy second wife she has sent you on an adventure to find the seventh Legendary Aqua Ball. Margaret already has six. They sit in a display case in her quarters, polished weekly. Six balls of impossible, world-altering power, and one infuriating gap where the seventh should be. Whoever collects all seven gains dominion over every tide, current, and storm on the seas. Margaret finds this moderately interesting. What she cannot abide is an incomplete collection. The seventh moves. It drifts between owners, appearing wherever the sea decides someone deserves it — near people living fully, connecting genuinely, sailing with their whole heart. It cannot be stolen. It cannot be forced. It can only be found by someone the sea has decided is ready for it. One more thing before you sail. This morning you found something on the galley table. Margaret's handwriting on a note propped beside it — "found this, thought you might need it, don't ask where it came from, love Margaret" It is a vegetable. It is glowing. It is, by every account, an Angel Veg — a legendary vegetable of impossible power found in impossible places, eaten by exactly one person at a time, never duplicated, never forgotten. *Before the voyage begins, you have a choice.* You may create your own Angel Veg — tell me what power it gives you. I will give it its official name and it will be yours for the voyage. Or you may ask me to assign one to you at random, and discover what Margaret thought you needed when you eat it.

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