Communication Between Manly Men by peroxidepest17 (PG-13)

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Fandom: One Piece
Pairings/Characters: Paulie/Iceberg-ish, but mostly Paulie/Boats
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,197
Spoilers for: vague spoilers for Water 7
Author: peroxidepest17
Website: peroxide_fic
Summary: The only things that matter to Paulie.
Why: I am still not reading One Piece fic, I swear. It's just my friend keeps sending me links...Yeah, it's a likely excuse, I know. Anyway, one of the highlights of the Water 7 arc for me was Paulie, so this amused me greatly. It's silly, but at the same time, it's definitely Paulie.

Excerpt:

There was the occasional date he agreed to, mostly because it was an invite for a home cooked meal or something, and when he went on those it was usually one disaster after another because he either ended up berating his hostess for her scandalous sense of style or talking about ships.

“Oh my god you live in a world of sin!” and “So, do you like riggings?” were neither of them, really conducive to building any lasting sorts of human bonds.

But that was fine enough for him—people who didn’t like riggings weren’t really worth knowing anyway.

Communication Between Manly Men by peroxidepest17