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Are you tired of me pointing out the Sanji & Usopp parallels yet? Well too bad! Here's more.

Gee, I wonder why Sanji, the guy who was told by his family he should "just leave" for being weak when he was a kid, got so upset when Luffy was about to tell Usopp, who was clearly feeling insecure for being the "weak" one of the group, to "just leave".

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Oda's continuing emphasis on the importance of food within a society is one of my favorite things about the series. No amount of money & power can save you if there is nothing to eat. A King will starve just the same as a slave.

Perhaps this is why Luffy is the one who will save the world & become King of the Pirates. He knows this better than anyone else after the One Piece.

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Actually, speaking of the whole Sanji & Usopp Meta again (I won't shut up about it ever) and the common complaint of "why wasn't Usopp in WCI?", the more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that it IS because they are foils.

It's kind of a joke I've seen around that "WCI wouldn't have happened if Usopp was there" but I actually genuinely believe that. Do you think Sanji would have the guts to lie out of his teeth (the whole pretending he was a cruel haughty prince this whole time) to drive away his crew during that carriage scene, if the Certified Crew Liar who Lies to Protect Himself and Others was there? To call him out? To immediately recognize that behavior? Do you think Sanji would have it in him to FIGHT LUFFY, if Usopp, who was deeply scarred by his own brawl with Luffy, was there to watch them? When Usopp reminds Sanji of his past self? Would Sanji find the strength or the courage to make Usopp relive Water 7 in that scene? Would Sanji find it that easy to lament about his weakness compared to his powerful siblings during the entirety of the arc if the "guy that survives being the Weak Human in a world of Monsters" was there to remind him it IS possible to survive? Especially when you accept the help of your friends?

Usopp wasn't in WCI cause it would have been over like ten times quicker lmao. Sanji needed to feel isolated and desperate in his solitude for the arc to work, and the best way to do that is to separate him from one of his major foils. And I think it's the same reason his other two parallels, Zoro and Robin, weren't in it either.

(An addition to this to clarify further)

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With camie's life on the line and the threat of navy admirals, their options were limited. Nami then decide the best course of action is to BUY camie back. Getting her out of there is their top priority

This also debunked the argument that "if sanji wasn't just being a simp why didn't he ask nami to buy everyone?" Bc when they got there SHE WAS THE ONE BEING ON THE STAGE. and the next thing they knew they were too busy beating people up so none of it mattered anymore lol

"but nami and chopper hit him so he clearly wanted to buy her for impure reason" nami did the same when sanji told her he refused to kick a woman even if it might cost him his life. she and chopper were aware of this weakness of him and reminded him to focus on getting camie out

Insinuating that sanji, a crew luffy holds in high regard, someone who has fought alongside luffy to help liberate people, was interested in getting a slave for his own entertainment and subjecting women to cruelty feels like an intentionally bad faith interpretation of his char

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GUYS GUYS SOMEBODY SAID THAT SANJI ALWAYS LEAVES HIS RING FINGER OPEN

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Girl time

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Sir🦋

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some strawhats being silly

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There was a kid in East Blue who said the same thing Captain Roger did. Those exact words of our Captain…!!

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WBP but in Gold movie ✨

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One Piece: Marineford

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This was supposed to be a quick doodle and then I just kept adding to it lol. I debated making Ace’s expression more embarrassed, but nah- he’d be proud as hell for everyone to know WhiteBeard as his dad.

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Finding out that there are people who are critical of Whitebeard's recruitments methods is so funny to me because like,this man is a fucking pirate. The strongest one on the planet after Roger's demise.Of course he will do questionable shit he is not a damn saint.

Ace went out of his way to pick a fight with this man.He failed and then proceeded his assassination attempts for a 100 fucking days. By all means if this was BM or Kaido,Ace would either be dead or rotting away in some prison cell rn but WB took one look at the kid trying to kill him and said "you're funny, I want u on my crew" and then had a battle of stubbornness against Ace and won.

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Yamato's image spot when he basically merges two stories he heard/read - one from Ace's childhood with Luffy and one from Roger preparing to go to Laugh Tale - creates this weird, dream-like situation. Yamato saw some resemblence between Ace and his brothers and the three great men from Oden's journal, and came to conclusion that ASL are the new generation that would continue the dream of Roger, Oden and Whitebeard.

And from the way Ace talks about Luffy - from the belief that Luffy will be a strong pirate - Yamato thinks that maybe Ace also beleives that Luffy can become a Pirate King.

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explaining the (canon & fanon) one piece family drama to someone like

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Sorry I dropped my One Piece old men yaoi