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I’ve actually touched upon this a little in the past, but I don’t think Law tried to throw his life away… he was prepared to die, as he should have been, going up against Doflamingo! But the way I see Law’s character is someone who values his freedom over his life. And there’s no way I’d believe that Doffy would ever let the op-op fruit go, and Law would know that.

So he was bound by Cora-sans sacrifice and his own need to be “free”. Free from Doflamingos influence and reach, free from his (perceived) debt to Rocinante for having to pay for Law’s life with his own.

Law technically had other choices as a child. He could technically have hidden himself, as well as the fact that he had a devil fruit, from the world. But would it have been anything other than a cage in Law’s eyes? To never be free? To never get to do what he wants, when he wants?

Law has the ability to make someone immortal, just like Robin, he needs to be strong enough to fight for his right to live. He probably has to assume anyone can, and probably will, betray him unless incentivized to do otherwise. Or he knows them well enough to know that their loyalty is beyond question. Or knows what type of person they are and technically owes him a life-debt… point is; Law doesn’t seem like the type to trust easily.

I once read someone talking about how Luffy and Law were the ultimate duo because they balance each other out. Luffy is too rash, to impulsive and trusting. While Law is too cautious, too careful and distrustful. Luffy makes Law more impulsive, more true to himself and more “playful” in his interactions with Kid and Luffy, making banter and silly fights and even trolling them.

As for the whole “the weak don’t even get to choose how they die” I always felt like it wasn’t really something that Doflamingo taught Law, as much as it was Doffy putting into words something that Law had already internalized, namely the destruction of Law’s home and country. They had been weak, gullible and used only to die a miserable death at the hands of the world they believed in. It was an acknowledgment of the brutality of the world he lives in, as well as a reminder to himself the fate that awaits him should he be unable to break free from his fate of just being another victim of the world he lives in.

This got super long…😅

I've been thinking about Law and Doflamingo each saying that the weak don't get to choose how they die, and one big difference between them in this regard. Law was still planning to throw his life away at the point he said that. While Doflamingo would never do something that like to appear strong.

When Law says that about weakness, it feels as though he's valuing the choice of deciding how he dies above the methods and above his own freedom. There is a contradiction to what Law was going to do. His plan for his death in Dressrosa would not be something Doflamingo views as strength, merely because Law chose it.

Usopp has a similar stance as Cavendish's, when he protects Kin'emon and Kiku.

I believe then, that part of the reason Doflamingo says what he does about who gets to decide how they die, may be another thing he does to control others.

If Doffy can get his followers to believe in his words, about the value of choosing how you die and that equaling strength + earning his praise, then they will be more willing to throw their lives away for the sake of furthering his goals.

Though if Doffy truly valued and encouraged the individual choices of others, he would never ask them to die for him, as he did to Monet. He's hypocritical about that belief to some extent too.

The illusion of strength vs true strength. Perhaps Doffy feels a need to have a backup method in case any of his crew would ever defy him.

If he sees any rebellious behavior in them, or thinks they may become powerful enough to challenge him, teaching those views about the strong getting to choose how they die to his crew gives him the ability to have them "prove" their strength by choosing their own way of dying. Thus eliminating them as potential threats to himself/his goals.

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Some very self-indulgent headcanons about Law…

I’m a manga reader, I’ve only recently (like a couple of years) watched the anime (in the form of reaction content) and in the manga Law has the same dark dot as his pupil that Oda use to draw the overwhelming majority of male characters so at the beginning I always saw Law as having dark eyes. I later was introduced to Laws anime design with his much paler, steely-grey eye color and went “hmm, that’s kinda nice actually…” but I still thought of Law as someone who had dark eyes for the most of the time.

And then I came across that apparently Oda’s eye color on Law is a like a yellow/amber-like color and went “😍” and now it’s my only canon lol.

But it did give me pause, what if Laws eyes actually ARE dark brown, but his much lighter, almost yellowish, colored eyes are a case of contamination from the white lead (he had) and it’s still some left in his eyes to this very day?

The thought of the potential angst is enough to make me swoon (sorry Law, I swear I love you 😅)

Like originally Law was determined to remove it, but he couldn’t just remove it all at once because it would create empty pockets in his eyes and I’m no doctor but I don’t think having air pockets in your eyeballs sound like a good and/or safe thing to have, you know? And every time he’d try remove whatever small amount he could safely remove it would require him to stab himself in the eye like a 100 times to get it out properly and I feel like having a first and second pov of slicing your own eye into tiny teeny slivers would be extremely taxing in the long run. So eventually Law just went “fuck it, I guess I have yellow eyes” and even years later when he definitely knew easier ways to “fix” it he didn’t bother because it wasn’t hurting him or effecting his eyes function. Nor did he want people to question why (and more importantly how) tf he suddenly had a different eye color.

Which leads us unto another hc; namely that Law hid the fact that he had a df for at least a couple of years from the authorities. He wouldn’t use it in fights or in situations where it was at risk of being reported back to the authorities (ie, if he was fighting marines). If he was in a fight he couldn’t win, he’d try running away (and once out of sight, disappear under mysterious circumstances) or get caught and then disappear mysteriously once he got the chance to do so “safely”. In fact, the belief that he didn’t have df abilities saved him and his crew a bunch of times because seaprism stone is both rare and extremely expensive and nobody use it on people who isn’t df users unless they are strong enough to ripp apart steel with their bare hands or something, as it’s one of the stronger materials out there.

I have two hc when it comes to Laws tattoos, well I have a bunch of hc actually but two I want to bring up here; we know Law only had DEATH tattooed on one hand when we first meet him at Sabaody, and due to Oda’s attention to detail and the fact that you can’t see parts of his chest-heart tattoo even when you definitely should, I firmly believe that he doesn’t have it at that time. But I’m also 100% sure that the smiling faces on his chest is Cora-san and is definitely among the first tattoos he got, if not THE first, and this happened at an illegally young age and he got it at the same time he got the sun-looking ones on his arms.

I shouldn’t have to get into the significance of the smiling face and why he’d want it (his own little way of trying to keep Cora-sans promise that they’d travel the world together). Instead I want to focus a little on his arm tattoos.

They don’t seem to have any specific significance to Law (the way a smiling face or the symbol of an heart has) it is however in a very visible spot if you, let’s say, are waking up after sleeping. In other words, it’s an immediate reminder that he’s cured in case his sleepy eyes are seeing white spots on his skin… something I imagine would be very traumatic to Law; for even one second believing that he’s back in time, slowly dying in one of the most horrific ways possible.

Law is the only pirate to offer severance pay if someone wants to leave his crew. He insists it’s because it’s the logical thing to do and not because he’s kind or anything like that. It’s just enough money to last them a couple of days/a week or so and it’s just so that they don’t have to desperately take a bad job that exploit them in a time of need. He’ll also let them come with if they don’t want to stay on whatever island they are on (they do however need to work for food and board). He insists that it’s because he has no use for them if they don’t want to follow his orders and sticking around because they don’t want to risk starvation or a shittier job isn’t what he wants so it in everybody’s best interest to make sure that if someone wants to leave, it’s as easy as possible.

Law’s love language is being a little shit. It’s also pushing people away out of fear of losing them. But after that it’s being a little shit and taking care of them. As such Laws crew is extremely spoiled.

Law has issues with being touched. It’s a combination of internalizing how people viewed him as a child (as something dirty, a plague), the excruciating pain he was in constantly and how being touched only made it worse and the who knows how many hours he lay in a pile of bodies to escape Flevance.

The last part is also why he is difficult with smells and likes grilled fish over grilled meat.

There’s a reason why Ikkaku is the only girl on the crew, and it’s because the Tang is mostly communal. There are curtains on her bunk bed and for one of the showers in the shower room, but she has no room for herself as the Tang lack the space (Law has used all the space to turn the ship/sub into a mobile hospital) and most girls/women don’t agree to that arrangement.

Law never threaten to kick his crew out, he will however remind them that they are free to leave if they don’t want to follow him. He does however threaten to chop them up, and his worst threat is to be “crated”, which is when he chops someone into pieces and store them in a box or a crate or something similar. And that will be for several days if you’re unlucky… he has used it on other people, and his crew are not willing to risk it so him telling them something like “if you do x, I will crate you” it pretty much guarantees that they won’t.

Law finds it amusing to get carried by his crew and will let them carry him across streams or shallow rivers as long as they can do it without getting him wet/dirty. It started with Law being a brat towards Shachi and Penguin, often cheekily demanding one of them carry him across as to not get dirty or ruin his shoes. It is one of the only times Law is okay with being touched outside of the Tang and it’s highly popular and the ones that are capable will quite literally trip over themselves in their haste to offer (and get the honor) to carry Law across 🤣

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he’s so…..

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My body may be gone, but not my love

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My depressed ass throwing on some pasta water so I can eat some spaghetti for dinner: Maybe I am a pasta gremlin…

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Yes❤️

Hes so babygirl failure I love him

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We're crying out to your humanity—please don't look away. Speak about us. Stand with us. We're not okay. We're trying to survive.

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Halp!!!

Due to a comment I read my mind is slowly sub-coming to Ancient Greece x One Piece AU…

Any kind people out there that want to draw Law’s reaction to this ->

I took one look and went “omg Bepo” and we all know Laws reactions to cute shit is adorable!

Please consider helping a girl out as I get further pulled into madness 😭🙏

(I know it has nothing to do with the AU plaguing me, I’m trying to escape it)

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I did iiiit 😆

Onigiri is done ~

Not really sure about the tongue…

Pic for comparison (nabbed from the opwiki)

Not really sure if I should try making it again… I have some ideas on “improvements” 😅

If anyone is interested I could post how to make your own little Onigiri xD

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So I was looking at this video https://youtu.be/djHHDbnsqYU?si=3_VbeO-rLeSrOXeC

And I thought to myself;

“I bet I can do Yumi (my dog)!”

And…

😭

It’s Onigiri…

So I decided to try and actually make Onigiri… 😅

Not happy with the face, but this is what I got at the moment (wip)

Will post proper pictures if I manage to get it right xD and it’s actually finished…

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Not me dedicating SEVERAL MINUTES looking for a scissor only to find the little bastard roughly 5 CM TO THE RIGHT of the spot I already patted down SEVERAL TIMES. It wasn’t even under anything! I can only conclude that I temporarily became scissor blind bc wtf???

…And this is why you don’t crochet in bed, people.

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Pls, sir, that’s my emotional support cringe-fail-hot topic-bby girl-loser and I will need him back

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Alright! My inability to sleep has seriously pissed me off so I’m gonna blow off some steam by ranting angrily about a subject I feel strongly about! And that’s…

Trafalgar Law is a Disney Princess

It might sound like a shit-post but I firmly believe that just like how you could say that Usopp is Oda’s version of Pinocchio and Zoro is his take on Zorro, Law is his take on a Disney Princess!

Magic powers? Check

Poisoned/cursed? Check

Imprisoned or confined? Check

Animal companions? Check (if you count Bepo, also Penguin and Shashi are literally named after animals)

Hunted by others wishing him harm? Check

Evil step-parent/adult in authority? Check! 🦩

Saved by someone else? Check!!!

The only thing my bby gurl is missing is the classic poofy dress!!

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❤️❤️❤️

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My anxiety: kys

Me: do it yourself you lazy fuck 💢

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Don’t know who needs this… you’re welcome 😘