A/N: This? This is a character introspective. For each word, I am to write exactly one sentence. Nothing more, nothing less. Just to get a better grasp on the multi-leveled character that is Usopp. Excuse the huge amount of commas, please.
1. Book - They think that it's just a book filled with blue-prints, with ideas for new weapons and improvements on the ship; Usopp knows that it's more, that inbetween those bits of knolwedge and idea, his life is being written.
2. Cool - It's what he has always wanted to be, what he never will be, what everyone around him is - cool and strong and powerful.
3. Cold - Sitting there, with shackles around his wrists and chains around his ankles, bound and gagged and blinded by the hot ash, Usopp wonders if it's normal to be this cold.
4. Young - They are adults by the time they reach the Grand Line, aged by weather and battles, and suddenly Usopp is aware that he has never truly been young.
5. Wrong - It's wrong and Usopp knows it, being out here with all these powerful fighters and going up against all of these strangers with weird powers, and all he has is his wooden slingshot and his wits.
6. Gentle - Their words are sharp on most days, their gazes angry, but Usopp knows that, underneath it all, they are gentle and caring and would never leave their nakama behind.
7. Last - This will last, the sniper insists, it will not end, the marksmen states, this place on the crew will not be lost, not like everything else in his life.
8. One - It is amazing, Usopp finds himself thinking some days, that he is the one that Luffy chose as a sniper when, really, there were countless men who were stronger and braver then he.
9. Thousand - People say that a good story-teller can weave a world in only a few words, Usopp thinks that his stories, with thousands of words and millions of characters, are still something to marvel at.
10. King - He will be king and that is a certainty, when he is Zolo will be the worlds greatest swordsman and Nami the first person to chart the entire Grand Line and Sanji the chef that everyone will die to have serve them, and Usopp, well, Usopp will just try his best to survive the trip.
11. Learn - There is so much to learn out here on the sea, so much that Usopp has to take in - sewing; because wounds don't close themselves, cooking; because they have yet to find a chef, building; for the Merry has to be kept in perfect condition, or Kaya would never forgive him; sometimes, he thinks that it's a little too much.
12. Blur - To begin with, every fight brings a different nightmare, a different wound that is forever etched into Usopp's memory - but, somewhere along the way, it all begins to blurr together and merge into one twisted picture.
13. Wait - "Hold it,' the sniper mutters to himself, voice hoarse and mouth tainted with his own blood, vision blurred but hands still, dilated pupils locked onto the oncoming onslaught of marines - then he pulls back and lets loose and his weapon flies straight into their ranks, exploding in a display of fire and blood and charred bodyparts.
14. Change - The change is subtle but it is there, masked by words of concern and helping hands, yes, they see a change in Usopp after Enies Lobby and they don't like it at all.
15. Command - Commanding isn't in Usopp's blood no matter how much he wishes it is, somedays though he just wants them to listen when he speaks.