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Ace is somebody who inherited so much

I was reading the manga when we first met Ace in the Alabasta Arc so there may be a slight difference there.

The vibe we get from him initially is of someone who is chill and easy-going. He seems like somebody who takes everything in stride.

As we get to know him more, it makes more and more sense that Ace and Luffy are brothers. Even despite the clear difference in personality, they share similaries in both appearance and habits. He behaves like an older brother

Then in the Marineford Arc we find out this isn't true in the biological sense. They didn't even meet until Luffy was 7 and Ace was 10. Ace was the instead the son of the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger.

As we go through the arc, we see more of Ace's true personality shine through. The easy-going trait turned to a calm acceptance of his impending death. The anger he lets build up to throw harsh words, in a very desperate attempt to save his loved ones. The tearful gratitude that he has for being as loved as he is.

Then the flashback hits, and it makes sense.

So I'll seperate the things he inherited from those around, regardless of whether he wanted to or not.

Garp (and indirectly Luffy)

Garp is the first family Ace got. He may not have been his closest family, nor was he the family Ace valued the most. But he was family to Ace, and both of them are aware of this.

The habits, like sleeping mid-conversation and eating a gluttonous amount of food, are things that are clearly meant to be reminiscent of Garp and Luffy. You're meant to think "Oh, he's obviously related to them,"

Some of the stubborness, and Ace shows it can also be seen in bits of Garp, if I'm to be honest. They shout and scream, push and shove, if only to get their way (though Garp usually wins)

They also shared the 'tough love' attitude with Luffy, though Ace's is more verbal and Garp is both physical and verbal.

Dadan, the only real motherly figure in his life

Dadan was the woman who raised Ace since he was a baby. She was his foster mother and also the closest thing he had to a mother.

So I found it hilarious when I realise that his tsundere attitude was from Dadan. They both hide behind a shell of absolutely brutality and aggresiveness, trying their best to act like they don't care when they actually do.

They care deeply and value the people in their life strongly. They will cry for then, and they will fight losing battles for them.

Ace's aggresiveness comes from a lot of places but being raised by Dadan probably contributed to his zero-hesitation in showing it.

Sabo

Sabo was somebody that Ace initially found camaraderie with when they first met. They both wanted to escape the island they were on, leaving behind the connections and people they had there. They wanted to become someone new.

Once Luffy came into the picture, this list grew into protecting Luffy as much as they could. It was to look after him and be good big brothers.

After Sabo's 'death', Ace seems to try to take the weight of Sabo's responsibilities alongside his own. He already started showing signs when Sabo was forced to go back with his parents, but its more brutally obvious after Ace got the letter Sabo had sent them.

He took on the weight of being the kinder big brother, in Sabo's absence. He also tried to be more polite, and grow more responsible over Luffy.

It's seems like traits of his calm attitude may be attempts at replicating Sabo's level-headeness.

Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates

Whitebeard was someone who valued the idea of chosen famiy above all else. This is something tat allowed those who felt alone and lost to find comfort in his version of a family.

Ace was haunted by his bloodline and he never truly got over it until he met whitebeard. There, he kept fighting and pushing, until he finally realised he wasn't gonna be hurt. That Whitebeard meant it when he said Ace would be his son.

So Ace, after a long series of murder attempts, adopts Whitebeard's mentality of found family, and fully disowns Roger as his dad. He got to make that choice, and he stood by it intil his death.

Portgas D. Rogue

Yes, I used her full name because she deserves everyounce of respect that I can offer this woman.

She also passed down her stubborness and determination to her son. Her short screen time was deicated to showing just how farshe would go for her child. She never hesitated, she never panicked. She just held on, and then cherished her son for the short time she had with him.

Ace held this same determination throughout his life. When he stood on in the face of danger he was always calm. Something I'd like yo believe he got from his mother.

Roger

He hated Roger alot, but there were still traits of his that he carried, which are, by far, pointed out the most.

Roger is someone we still don't know much about. All recollections of him are second-hand and can lean towards bias often. But there are a few people that did seem to know him well enough.

One of those are Garp, who notes that Roger and Ace both share the trait of fiercely protecting the people they love and care for, refusing to turn back and run if they were wronged.

So even though Ace hated Roger (understandably so), he still carried a part of him that allowed him to protect the people he loved.

...and also get himself fucking killed in the process [gunshot]

Luffy

Luffy is Luffy, in the end. He is a very interesting character on his own, but he is still as interesting in the way of how he impacts other people's lives.

With Luffy, Ace found someone who wanted him to live and keep on living. But that's just a surface level view of it.

Luffy's character has a habit of forcing everyone around him to confront themselves and chase dreams that they initially thought were too improbable to chase.

In Ace's case, he did not know if he deserved to be born. If he deserved to live. He was the son of Gold D. Roger, a man hated by all those he came across. But that was not what defined him in the end. What defined him was who he wanted to be.

Luffy lives the way he wants, regardless of his connections, prophecies and bloodline. 'Do i deserve it?' is irrelevant. 'Do I want it?' rings true. Ace starts to imitate that. Because it does matter whether you deserve it. It mayters whether you want it and are willing to chase it.

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Ace is such a good character it makes you forget how little screen time he has...

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"Buddy Daddies" IS better than Spy x Family, but it left me with questions

First and foremoest: who is the audience?

I'm wondering because the concept screams of either seinen or fujo, but the foucs is run-of-the-mill shounen. We're throwing our heroes into a situation where they're forced to ask prickly questions about their values and their life choices, and we've got them making the expected discoveries and the obvious choices from that, but no effort is made to dig into the real question:

Why do Kazuki and Rei choose each other?

There are two possible answers to that question: One is a life-changing backstory, and the other is gay. And the singular thing keeping "Buddy Daddies" from greatness is that it never answers.

They're partners because reasons. They're living together because something about couch-surfing idk. They met each other when they were both at rock-bottom crossroads, but did minimally to pick each other up from there. How much do they even know about each other? They certainly don't seem to be particularly invested in why the other has lost at life. As the story begins, they're hardly coming across as friends, and to what extent they end there, it's because of the way Miri influences them, separately.

As such, Miri herself is little more than a plot devices setting events in motion. Too young to be a focal consciousness in a story centred on adult questions, the story never dwells on her and the harrowing experiences she goes through with little more than laughing. She's repeatedly separated from three different parental figures and meets that with nothing but the joy of a reunion, because of course she's not the interesting figure here. That'd be the daddies.

By the end, Rei wants them to be a "real family", but why does that family include Kazuki? By all accounts, that was just some co-worker crashing at his place and who dragged in a kid who changed everything. The show never once questions whether their family will involve anyone more or less: it's Kazuki-papa and Rei-papa and Miri; no talk about any possible new mamas except for the very first and the very last scene, nothing said about why Kazuki and Rei take it for granted that the other wants to raise this child with him.

And the thing is, the thing is, the answer is RIGHT THERE. Kazuki obviously thinks he cannot have the family he wants thanks to his job, or doesn't deserve it thanks to the same; Rei has been raised into the same job, deprived of any kind of parental love and is repeatedly told to "cast off" that weakness. What stands between them and the thing they want (Miri) is their profession as hitmen, albeit from radically different angles for them both. But the show never has them question their life outside of society; only when they lose Miri over it do they truly acknowledge that raising a child is incompatible with being a professional murderer, and even then they never reflect on what their career choice says about what kind of people they are.

It's a gimmick and an easy ticket to action scenes, but it is never challenged. We don't know why Kazuki chose this path and why Rei never broke free before, and when they decide to leave it, it is with the same narrative shrug as their choosing to make a family with another guy who they by all accounts isn't involved with.

And it is frustrating because they show - particularly in its latter half - seems to be hanging on the cusp of diving into it, in connecting the threads between these two lonely men with their differently ruined lives, their different pursuits of a violent lifestyle and the way this would explain why they'd each come to step out of it because of one little girl.

Don't get me wrong - the show is cute and the finale is satisfying in nearly every way I'd expect it. It's just so close to being super memorable, rather than another action-comedy buddy show.

If you want a show where Koki Uchiyama voices a gangster princeling forced into the choice between loyalty to the clan and the sweetness promised by his found family, where the questions about choosing a life of murder are pursued to their ugly end and where twelve episodes are plenty and then some for explaining why these kids are choosing each other, then let me tell you about our lord and savior kunihiko ikuhara and the buttplug kappa magical boy anime

And that one is not afraid to say gay

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No but we don't laugh enough at Kazuki going "It's our gene at work!" Kazuki doesn't only think that he birth Miri, he also imply that Rei is her biological father and his husband

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ok but it’s still so crazy how the straights were gas lighting us about mr queen and saying it was straight all along when bonghwan and cheoljeong were full on making out every episode 😭 “it was soyong all along that cheoljeong liked” even though he kept a dictionary of 2022 slang that he lovingly learns from mr bonghwan? does soyong know what a fcking air conditioner or “no touch” is? LIKE 😭 everything cheoljeong fell in love with ended up disappearing this story is actually a heartbreaking tragedy how dare they celebrate it. or when they say bonghwan never actually liked cheoljeong when bro lovingly looks at his portrait when he gets forcibly removed and CRIES 😭🥺 i HATE these gooner ass kdrama fans sm they didn’t even let us be sad in peace 😭😭

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This is the first time I love the japanese version of a song I already listened to in Korean. This song fits japanese lyrics better.

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One Piece got me in a chokehold this week 💕

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Its clear they never read SNS cheating fics because in most of them Sakura and Hinata are portrayed as victims and Naruto and Sasuke always feel super guilty. The girls arent demonized at all. I dont remember reading a fanfic where the fault is put on the girls.

Did you see on X that an SS fan wrote a fanfic where Sasuke cheats on Naruto with Sakura? She said it was a response to all those SNS cheating fics. I haven’t read it myself, but I was so embarrassed just seeing the post, and I couldn’t stop laughing. Like, as if Sasuke would cheat on Naruto with Sakura, lol.

From what I gathered from the comments, Naruto tries to humiliate Sakura by saying Sasuke chose him over her, but then she turns it around and humiliates him instead and Sasuke sides with her. They even used the hashtag #sasusakuinnarusasufields. I can't 😂

Hi!!

Yeah, I saw that drama even though it happened before I joined narutwt and honestly I think it's genuinely the most pathetic thing they've ever done.

Like I feel when we, sns shippers, say Naruto and Sasuke would have an affair we're doing it because we've read everything Kishimoto has written which leads us to conclude 1. they love each other more than anything else and 2. they're not happy in their respective marriages so of course we imagine and theorize they would end up in an affair because they won't be able to keep themselves apart from each other that long. We don't come up with this because we want to dunk or humilliate Hinata and Sakura like their stans claim, in fact in a lot of the conversations we don't even think about the girls sorry not sorry. We're also not trying to attack naruhina or sasusaku shippers when we say it, like the whole narusasu affair thing is really a thing we say for us, in our spaces when we discuss their adult dynamic.

But you can tell it stings them, it hurts them personally when we say that Naruto and Sasuke would pick each other above their wives (which they do in canon multiple times) and wouldn't mind that sort of betrayal towards them. When they say Sasuke would cheat on Naruto with Sakura and that sort of stuff, they obviously don't believe any of that, they're just not coming up with any meaningful narrative here it's just "eye for an eye" and no one really gives a shit, like okay girl, whatever you say.

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Accusing fujoshis of being male centered and pretending to only care about women and hating men then we look at your account and its mlf pairings. Then when y'all are confronted about it, y'all try to turn it into feminism "at least a woman is involved" 💀 Well what about 2 women?? Why cant y'all just admit y'all love to see a man and a woman together.

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I was laughing then I realized that's Reo and Nagi 😭😭

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Just noticed its when Naruto didnt replace his arm yet ❤

Official Illustration for Sasuke's birthday posted on July 22nd, 2025

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I think I am tired mentally. I feel like I am constantly worrying.

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How do people can never read between the lines? Nami slapped Sanji because she was scared. Sanji understood that and this is why he told her toward the end of the arc "Sorry for scaring you." When she slapped him, she really thought they lost him for good.

Some people need to stop projecting their hatred toward Sanji on other characters. Nami was the one who insisted the most to go to WCI in order to save him.

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Y'all spend more time fighting fujoshis then being mad at homophobes. Not even realising that some of y'all arguments validate their ideology.

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I hate the discourse around The summer Hikaru died.

"Its not BL." "Don't just focus on the relationship between the 2 boys."

Y'all are trying so bad to appeal to homophobes. Homophobes think queer relationships can only be sexual. They think just being gay is dirty. It's clear some people dont want it to be labeled BL because they dont want people to think lowly of the manga based on pre existing prejudices.

The thing is while y'all are fighting about it not being BL, there are homophobic watchers/readers who use this situation to erase the queer elements of the story, talking about how they wish the story was about a girl and a boy, how it's ofc just a story about friendship because "2 boys in love? Impossible!"

(I read that the author said it is not a BL and its not tagged as such anymore. But that's not really my problem. It's the arguments and the sentiments behind people acting like calling BL is a slur or something.)