Time Capsule - a container storing a selection of objects chosen as being typical of the present time, buried for discovery in the future.
One of the biggest things that gets me about this au is the fact Sabo doesn't know his brothers anymore, and he's metaphorically a time capsule to them. He's the exact same he was before he died, he hasn't changed one bit for better and for worse. It's bittersweet, he barely knows his brothers anymore and they barely know the real him to the one they've been remembering all these years. (The memory of a dead love one gets warped sometimes, its human nature. We'll always forget their flaws and little annoying traits to keep them in a good light in our memories...)
Some thing's to note!
The flowers at Sabo's feet are forget me nots, which symbolize remembrance! Blue roses can mean an assortment of things but I went with resilience and uniqueness (a unique and complex situation their in). The birds are dead canaries, because Sabo has always felt like a caged bird. The birds are free but they've died, just like Sabo did when he set out to sea. The flames resemble the fire in his ambition, the fire that made him run away again, and the fire of his ship when he was first shot at.
Inside his chest 'the memories ' a bottle of sake for the brother ceremony, the ASL flag they used to fly, a beaded bracelet I imagined Ace to have as a kid, his infamous pipe, his goggles, the handle of a hunting knife, and pictures of his brothers stacked together!
So about that one au where Sabo actually died but got resurrected after Ace survived Marineford?
The horror of having your brother, who was only three months younger than you when he died, coming back to life twelve years after you've grown and mourned him, unable to recognize your adult self, because he doesn't know you anymore.
i apologize for the people who followed me because I drew the ASL as cats and they got this instead HA
Time Capsule Au continues to plague my life, the complex situation of resurrection of one's sibling is making me FERAL i'm rattling at the bars of my enclosure you don't understand
also apologizes if i ever tag too much, its a habit from ao3 :P