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don't lie to me guys. luffy and usopp absolutely WOULD have a ghost hunting youtube channel ...

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overprotective brother ace is OUT the original professional luffy-enabler ace is IN.

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Joy Boy / Nika, The Sun God ✨✖️⛅

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i feel like gear 5 doesn't really transform luffy into a different person, more than it just amplifies everything about who he already is

like gear 5 doesn't make luffy scary since he was already going around scaring the shit out of people, particularly his enemies, every time he squares up with a wide grin on his bloody face. every time he keeps coming back up for another round even when they thought they finally got him to stay down. bloody and beaten and bruised, he doesn't know how to give up and that level of stamina in a fight is terrifying.

the only thing that gear 5 does is give luffy the freedom to be even more unapologetically himself. he doesn't respond to nika or joyboy because they have nothing to do with what he's doing, he doesn't even know those guys. awakening doesn't make luffy scary. he was always more than capable of doing that on his own.

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Physical affection

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Liberated🥁

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Sun god

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first batch of hugs!

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POV: you're a bug

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One Piece Animator He Ziwei shared a beautiful art for episode 1119:

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brothers, wherever we are

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Okay but Gear 5 representing how under facism the simple act of laughing of being happy becomes a powerful political weapon because the number one thing facists want is for everyone they don’t like to suffer and die

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watching Gear 5 Luffy isn't enough. I need to chew on him like a polly pocket dress

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Out of all of the many many reasons I love gear 5, one I haven't talked about yet is how much Luffy so obviously loves gear 5 as well.

It is honestly revolutionary to have a shonen protag's final form be enjoyable for them. To not be something born out of anger or hate; a thing born out of strict necessity that has to be unlocked by painful emotions/the loss of someone they loved (temporary or otherwise) but rather born out of joy and a desire for freedom. To have them want to be in that final form, to have it spit in the face of the idea that the only way to be powerful is to be serious, edgy, ""mature"" and to abandon joy and happiness in favor of that.

I LOVE that Luffy's final power-up doesn't come at the cost of who he is as a person, and instead amplifies and uplifts who he is. It uplifts his carefree nature, his goofiness, his creativity, his sense of wonder. And as such, the form is something that he enjoys more than any other gear he has used. It allows him to be the freest version of himself, allows him to bend the world around him to his whims, of course he's going to love it.

It also (in a weird way) acts as a message of self love. Luffy does not have to abandon who he is to become stronger, but rather has to lean even further into who he is. The traits that make him 'weird' and 'strange' by pirate (or hell, even just by regular standards) are the very things that boost him up and allow him to win against his foes.

A "ridiculous power" Kaido called it, and yet it was that power that sent him hurdling to the center of the earth, toppling his reign over Wano with the very thing he robbed from its people.

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Something something Luffy laughing through his teeth (shishishi!) as if it's spilling out of him, something too great for his body to contain rushing up and pushing its way out through the cracks in his teeth vs Joyboy's laugh being a traditional hahaha that demands an open mouth and throat and lungs, the kind of laugh that's all percussion and booming air, unrestrained and uncontained and free

Also something something Gear 2 (which is Luffy making his heart beat faster and louder as he circulates blood more quickly through his body) making his body heat to the point of steam rising from his skin, and Gear 5 using the Gear 2 pose and making his heart beat the Drums of Liberation and condensing that steam into clouds, and shishishi being a hissing sound like steam escaping through a vent, and the prevalent themes of fire and heat and the way steam only makes that kind of noise if it had been under extreme pressure and how that pressure is usually caused by high temperatures

Something something Luffy swallowed the sun as a child and it sits burning in his belly and he laughs like steam hissing its way out of a vent because his joy is that of a god's and his body is a very small vessel for such awesome power

And something something I don't really have anything coherent to say here this is just me wildly overthinking and drawing connections where there probably aren't any but like you get it. The themes.