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June 14th, 2025 - Chapter 181's 5th Anniversary

(celebrating with one Emma + one quote from almost every chapter)

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𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭

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let’s keep living, together 🌼

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For TPN’s finale anniversary

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Once more... SCREW DESTINY!

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i accidentally saw a spoiler of yakusoku no neverland, got curious and read the manga until the latest chapter. i love them, all of them,,

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal...

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I’m curious how old r u ?🎀💗

I'm... I'm old...

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One Piece Academy Chapter 58: Delinquent Leader (Part 1) Translation

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Law's Dressrosa Plan

Someone was complaining somewhere (I've forgotten now, I consume too much One Piece content) that Law's plan for Dressrosa was stupid and overly convoluted for no reason. Just kill Caesar and be done with it. I thought about it for a moment and sorta agreed at the time. It would quickly make it impossible for Smiles to be made without any problems or risk. Kaido would be very mad, Doflamingo very dead.

I had excused it as solely a facet of Law's character to be so harshly against taking a life clashing with his decision making. Law is a doctor, and we know that means he doesn't like killing. Even people who deserve it, he left Vergo to his own evil factory's explosion rather than finishing him off personally. Doflamingo points out that he would've just killed him rather than kidnapping him on the call with Vergo, so perhaps executions are a line Law will not cross. Not when Doflamingo's bullets are something Law remembers very well. Law is a sentimental man, after all. This is all still true but there is more to it as well.

I got to thinking about what Law's aims actually were. What had he wanted by making Doflamingo fall? Why go out of the way to maneuver Doflamingo into making a deal despite the danger of direct confrontation? A pincer maneuver of both the Navy and Kaido coming down on him would ensure he was screwed no matter what, sure—his two strongest supporters would be angry at him. Neither would be willing to intervene on his behalf. But Kaido was strongest in the world and could've killed him, involving the Navy was unnecessary. Doflamingo believes this too, shown not only in directly taunting Law about it later but because he was willing to even pretend to take the deal at all.

Then I specifically realized something. Law never wanted a fight to happen on Dressrosa. Caesar was the perfect bait to force Doflamingo into this position of not only losing his Warlord status but to come onto a different island where Law had told the Marines about the meeting. Assuming his plan went off without a hitch, Doflamingo would've been arrested on Greenbit. It was an assumed uninhabited island that would mean no collateral from the inevitable fight that would break out. He was saving up energy in anticipation of the fight here. Law specifically had the Navy show up on the island by giving Smoker that heads-up, and during this time Doflamingo's Smile Factory would also be shut down and no longer an option for anyone to use.

Even after his plan falls apart because of something unprecedented in the story at the time, Law still keeps the fight away from Dressrosa as long as he can. Unfortunately, Doflamingo brings him to it and from then on Dressrosa is turned into a battlefield. Law had tried to avoid that outcome from the start.

Law had gone out of his way to avoid bringing Kaido down on Dressrosa. He didn't want to, otherwise he could've made sure Doflamingo just never got his hands on Caesar again instead of going through with his plan.

When on death's door, an arm missing and threatened by the same gun that killed Cora-san, he is asked for anything and Law brings up two things. For Cora-san to come back to life and for Doflamingo to kiss the ass of every citizen here. Law cares. Law considers Doflamingo’s murder of Corazon to be one of his greatest evils and what upsets Law deeply and he then talks about Dressrosa's people too. He clearly cares. Fake-ass evil pirate.

Law's plan was unnecessarily convoluted if it was just to kill Doflamingo, but it was to stop him from being able to hurt the people Cora had tried so hard to save all those years ago.

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Law & the Voice of All Things

Oda's left enough back hooks that Law could be revealed to have the Voice of All Things at any moment and it would make not only complete sense but explain a confusing scene in Dressrosa that stuck out as being rather odd, both in manga and anime.

There have been a bunch of scenes that can be interpreted at hinting at VOAT for Law, but the thing that definitively made it stand out as plausible if not soft-confirmed is how the Dressrosan rooftop scene happened compared with Luffy's fall from Onigashima. Law communicates with Luffy in what appears to be telepathy, considering his mouth is closed and neither Doflamingo nor Trebol overhear anything. When the chapter first came out, people were wondering if it was perhaps the prelude to a flashback because it did not look like whispering. Weird, but ultimately ignored considering there were a lot more pressing things going on at the time and we'd yet to have Zou elaborate further on the Voice of All Things.

Then years later, Luffy falls off from Onigashima.

And suspiciously similar formatting appears. A telepathic communication that only the other can overhear in the exact same style of bubbled text. Law (unknown-speaker) and Luffy (VOAT-only listener) had communicated in the exact same way as Luffy (VOAT-speaker) and Momo (VOAT-only listener) did. Going even further, Law might've overheard Luffy talking to Momo as well (unknown-only other listener).

In 1015, when Luffy was telling Momo he's going to come back and kick Kaido's ass and Momo was translating that, only Kid reacts during this. Oda usually pairs him up with Law when doing this type of reaction scene so the exclusion is a notable choice. Immediately after that, Law's submarine and crew find Luffy. Then Law pops up and doesn't doubt it for a second, believing Luffy will be back up soon. It would make sense if he had heard it from Luffy already and knew he was fine.

It explains why Law wasn’t worried that time Luffy went down but then next time he was, because Luffy wasn't saying anything. And there's the fact both Law and Momo are shown reporting very specifically that Luffy's voice has gone out in that moment. It could just be observation haki but its incredibly suspicious to be tied together with Momo like that and the different reactions Law had despite Luffy, by all means, going down the same as before.

On a more meta level though, it's incredibly interesting that we have learned that Roger had a special way of hearing Poneglyphs that Luffy doesn't seem to replicate, meanwhile Law is off in the corner not saying anything and being a secretive D. who doesn't share with the class. Especially since Law has demonstrated the capacity to sense seastone since Punkhazard and "coincidentally" found the Ponegylph in Kaido's massive, sprawling castle.

Sensing seastone is probably the weakest point to mention since Poneglyphs are not made of seastone, but it is an interesting facet of Law's perception that I can't recall anyone else having. Since the VOAT is all about a unique talent of hearing both animals and objects, it is worth pointing out in my opinion.

This also explains how Law knew what chains on Punkhazard were safe to be enchained in if he is able to HEAR sense it. He can feel the energy of seastone and sneakily swap the chains about to be put on him with the identical non-seastone variety. He was able to send that note to Chopper without any noticeable Room or movement after all. Law is a sneaky dude.

Regarding hearing the Poneglyphs themselves, one of the odd things about Law instigating the Rockyport incident is that he was originally motivated by rumors of a Poneglyph being present on Hachinosu. Law having a prebuilt capacity to hunt down Poneglyphs by hearing them would give extra context to what he was doing looking for one, especially if he can glean anything from the voices within them like Roger could.

Shout out to the first scene that demonstrates just how shifty this bastard is and began to cause people to wonder; where Oda chooses to show he is conspicuously saying literally nothing ("....") while confirmed VOAT people are hearing things. Damnit Law! Telling us nothing and standing there suspiciously...

The evidence is not conclusive and most of it can be explained as different coincidences, but the allusions to Law potentially possessing it keep happening and that Dressrosa moment is suspicious. Trying to explain it away as "just whispering" isn't quite right, and seeing something similar occur between confirmed users of it made me genuinely believe Law has the Voice of All Things.

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I know Law is like THE Revenge Character of One Piece, and that it's over Corazon/Rocinante's sacrifice and death, but while I fully recognise why Law is fucked up and grieving due to that, I feel like a lot of people forget about his familys part in it?

As in, Law's birth family, his father and mother and little sister, and also his teachers and friends/classmates.

The point I'm trying to make here is how Law's upbringing and relationship with his family, and the terrible way he lost them, goes on to shape his relationship with Corazon and his reaction to losing him.

Law is a rare One Piece character who actually had a good childhood, for at least 10 years or so. He was raised by two loving parents, lived in a wealthy and comfortable home, was sent to a good shool to study something that interested him (medicine) and just overall had a pretty nice and peaceful life. His parents(?) or at least his father was a doctor, so I'm sure that Law was taught compassion from an early age, and I feel like that's something that sticks with him even as he goes through horror after horror: Kindness. Compassion. Mercy. All things Doflamingo tried to stamp out of him, and Corazon unwittingly fostered by showing Law all three.

Rocinante didn't make Law kind; he reminded him how to be.

It was a lesson taught to Law by his family first, but suppressed and forgotten about due to a need for self protection and survival. The world was cruel and called Law a monster, so he decided to be one, until Rocinante stepped in and shattered that by treating Law like what he was: a poor, sick, child.

I remember during the flashback of Flevance's destruction, one of Law's classmates say something like, "My parents are dead, but they'd have wanted me to survive. I'm going to live!" (He doesn't)

Meanwhile the Nun tells Law that the soldiers will let the children go (a lie), and that no matter how bad things get, there is still kindness and mercy in the world.

We then cut to the sight of their dead bodies, left spread on the ground where they were gunned down/slaugthered like animals. Law finds his parents in the same manner and watches the hospital with his little sister go up in flames, while she burns alive inside.

All this is to show us how Law loses faith in kindness and mercy.

Then Corazon, a man whose name literally means Heart, comes along and shows Law that no, those things do exist, (though Law will struggle to accepts this for years to come.*)

That's why Law goes on a revenge quest over Cora's murder. Because Corazon gave him his heart back: and I don't just mean the thinly veiled allegory in the form of a heart shaped devil fruit.

The big emotional break through in Law's and Corazon's relationship comes when Cora weeps over Law while he thinks that Law is asleep, and the show of compassion causes Law to cry, because no one else has pitied Law for his illness or misery before that: they've just tried to kill him.

Through his actions, Corazon comes to symbolise something Law had thought lost when he lost his family: unconditional love.

Cora's last direct words to him are, "I love you, Law!" While smiling a big bloody smile, because that's what he wants Law to remember: that he is loved. That even if Law lost the first people to love him, and then the second, Cora represents the hope that as long as Law stays alive, he'll meet more people and receive more love.

That's why you really can't seperate Law's relationship with and loss of his family, from his relationship with and loss of Corazon. The two become interconnected, and Corazon becomes a kind of figurehead representing Law's losses.

Law is just one person. He can't bring down the entire World Government, who caused the destruction of his homeland and the death of his family. But he can conceivably bring down Doflamingo, who symbolises many of the same things, and who killed Corazon.

Ahhh man, I just love the themes of Law's backstory so much. The main one being love and the shapes it takes: mercy, compassion and reciprocity vs. unconditional love, but also; freedom of choice.

They keep cropping up in real time with Law too: What was saving Luffy and Jinbe after Marineford? A whim, according to Law, but also an act of compassion and mercy. I'm sure he'd have saved Ace too, had it been possible for him to do so. Later that act of compassion comes back around to Law, when Luffy teams up with him to bring down Doflamingo-- Luffy becoming the one to finally break the shackles (or should I say strings) that are keeping Law a prisoner to his past, and setting him free.

During the Dressrosa showdown, when Law tries to stay behind, saying he dragged Luffy into this so he should either stay to witness him win, or die together with him if he loses, Robin informs him that Law couldn't have made Luffy do anything. Luffy is free, and is only doing what he wants. There are no secret terms or conditions tied to this.

Again, unconditional love, loss, compassion and freedom.

The other sub plots of Dressrosa are stock full of these themes too. Just looks at Rebecca and Kyros (and Scarlet), or Baby 5 and her whole deal with needing to be needed (to be loved)

*I believe part of Law's revenge is grounded in survivors guilt. After Dressrosa, when Law is still struggling to understand why Rocinante saved him, and brings up the Will of D, Sengoku tells him "Don't try to put a reason behind someone's love" and Law is seen holding back tears, looking like this is when he finally starts to accept it: Rocinante didn't want Law to succeed his mission, he just wanted Law to live, and to do so freely.

In short, Law is such a good character. 10/10, would torture again. I mean hey, it's not my fault that Law looks so pretty when he's covered in blood and suffering. Take it up with Toei/Oda. They know what they're doing

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Dressrosa was incredibly important for a number of reasons—obvious ones include the formation of the Grand Fleet, the abolishment of the Warlords, and the downfall of Joker and the underworld imploding. But it was also important for reasons more personal to Luffy. It directly validated the timeskip, showing not only that it was necessary but it worked.

You know how Luffy has to chase people down to make them accept his friendship and kinda forces himself on people. I find it fundamentally intriguing that instead of Luffy extending the hand first it was LAW who reached out. He was not thinking of it that way but Law unironically was unlike so many people by doing that and I think that he really played himself so hard there. We know Luffy hates being alone more than anything and often he’s the one chasing down the people he likes to make sure he has his nakama. Then here’s the awesome guy who saved his life and didn’t need anything coming back two years later asking to be friends. Luffy already thought he was a cool dude, he introduces Law to his crew as someone who saved his life just like Jinbe. Luffy introduces him in the same category as a beloved friend and future crewmate before the alliance was even offered.

Not just that, but so often Luffy’s people try to run away to protect him and only endanger themselves(Nami, Vivi, Robin, Usopp kinda, and especially Ace in this moment.) He has to actively fight to be able to help them because Luffy knows he is a strong fighter and can help beat up his problems. But Law asked for his help. Law came to him knowing he’s strong and can help fight his problems.

Luffy had all his specialist boy neurons activate there LMFAO

Ace and Law both isolate themselves from their crews in order to chase down revenge. They’re both on a collision course that will result in them caught and dead. Ace and Law don’t want anyone else involved. Both come across the Straw Hats by chance while pursuing that vengeance—Law doesn’t see Luffy as someone who needs protecting but instead a peer, an equal. He asks for an alliance to take down an emperor. I don’t think Luffy cared which emperor beyond it not being Shanks. Law was asking for help here and Luffy could clock that no matter how he tried to dress it up.

Flash forward to Dressrosa. Law is face to face with his enemy and loses. He loses hard directly in front of Luffy. Luffy is once again locked behind a seastone prison as Law gets taken away just like Ace was. Having to cross an island to reach him again and drag him out of his situation. Luffy refuses to leave him be, ignoring the protests from a chained up Ace/Law and going to fight this battle even if he wants to be left alone. He’s going to be there this time when the fight happens and he’s going to win.

We find out both Law and Ace faced discrimination for their birth, that people thought the world was better off dead and they were angry boys struggling in a world that hated them. They’re seeking revenge for loved one that got killed by a brother (whitebeard sons, donquioxte brothers). They don’t want other people to die for the sake of it and tried to isolate because of it. Luffy doesn’t let Law get away though, refusing to break the alliance and literally dragging him along.

Luffy couldn’t save Ace. Luffy could save Law. Gear 4th being how Luffy took down Doflamingo and the fact that he saved his clan this time directly validated the entire time skip by showing us exactly what Luffy trained for all that time. The power to protect his nakama. Timeskip Luffy could’ve saved Ace but he only existed in the first place because he couldn’t.

Luffy took on everyone’s burden and wills onto his own shoulders. There’s a reason no one died in Dressrosa, it was to show exactly what those two years have lead to. Things are different now. Luffy isn’t weak anymore. The world won against Luffy before—but not now, not this time.

Dressrosa was a turning point that the whole globe took notice of and now the Straw Hats are not only back but they’re going to change everything, whether the world is ready or not.

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Corazon is a man of contradictions.

He’s a celestial dragon. He’s worked to earn almost everything in his life (Sengoku isn’t on that nepo baby shit).

He’s outgoing and loud. He possesses the power to mute himself and struggles with standing up for himself (at least as a child and with the family).

He is brightness incarnate and is the silliest goose to walk the land. He’s terribly haunted by his past and carries it like a dark cloud over his shoulders.

He has seen death after death after death since infancy to his OWN death. He values life and places an emphasis on continuing to live despite these deaths.

He’s a highly intelligent and cunning spy who survived for years in a (metaphorical) vipers nest. He NEVER beats the ‘dumb blonde’ allegations. (Both in canon and in fandom).

He’s an incredibly kind and caring man who values others above himself in almost any situation. He has burnt down countless hospitals (patents still inside).

He blends into the crowd as a profession, and prefers to hide his presence. He is nearly 10 feet tall and dressed like a former member of Buggy’s crew.

He is a model Marine who has flawlessly performed his duties as a commander for years. He abandons his mission and betrays the Marines the SECOND a sick kid with an attitude problem reveals his name.

He can undergo and withstand truly Herculean amounts of pain without so much as flinching. If he were to receive so much as a paper towel with ‘you only sort of suck’ written on it in crayon (curtesy of Law ofc) he would spend the next five hours happy crying.

This crusty ass man probably bathes twice a week MAX. Somehow his lipstick game is unbeatable?

He’s the primary role model and (semi) parental figure of Law’s late adolescence. He was 27!!! He would have been at the club!!! Law’s the same age now and I’m never getting over it:(

This got more and more headcanon-ey as I kept writing, but I had fun and Cora lives in my head so I figured I might as well still post it.

Reminder that Cora is BOTH a buff, terrifying, dangerous man, AND a silly, clumsy, lighthearted loser<3

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based on this figure set because it made me wanna scream and sob

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old wounds and festering guilt

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h-have you ever drawn.. female law 🥹💦

I do like Law, and I’ve thought about drawing a female version of him so many times, but just haven’t really gotten around to it! This one was an old sketch I did ages ago, and I finally added color to it the other day 🤣 Hopefully one day I can draw her properly!