#can't promise i can answer if it goes into *spoiler territory* but i hold this au close 2 my heart <

[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1108 - Initial Thoughts

And we're back

Some battle lines have been drawn and the Blackbeard pirates made a move, though some people are still in battle or still in pursuit. What more can Oda throw at Egghead? Let's see

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Colorspread of some lovely ladies in a dog manor, all in fancy red dresses (except Robin and Reiju). Would've been cool to include the likes of Vivi, Carrot, Bonney etc. but I'm not gonna be unhappy with seeing Uta, Reiju and Tashigi all getting to join Robin, Nami and Boa

Wonder if Reiju's a frisky drunk or just likes making Tashigi flustered, I'm sure all the fanfic writers are having a field day

We pick up where we left off with Caribou, begging for his life

Van Augur notes how even though it's a government island, they can't trust Caribou to not be after Blackbeard's head

To Caribou's credit Augur at least knows who he is

But there it is, Caribou states he has valuable information, information which will very much endanger Luffy's new territories and allies

Stick him in a fucking barrel

The Vice Admirals continue to lament fighting the Pacifista, and decide to target Bonney to eliminate the authority she has

Got some new Vice Admiral names though; Hound and Guillotine

And that was Vice Admiral Doberman! Looking worse for ware, and also is a stooge

Vice Admiral Tosa is still on the island, and is looking to launch a haki-induced 10-fingered Shigan at Franky and Bonney

Buuuuut rather than give Franky some shine in the Vegapunk arc, Tosa gets flattened by a giant

The giants don't recognize Franky, since he doesn't look like his wanted poster, so ask if they're researchers

Franky does clarify he's among the crew, and Bonney beseeches them to help Luffy, Sanji and Vegapunk - proving some validity to the statement

A scholar also mentioned Vegapunk so there's plans to bring him too

Atlas, Bonney, Kuma and Franky get an escort to the Giants' ship, wonder if this will be Oda's latest divided crew method

More names: Vice Admiral Urban and Pomsky, wondering about Tosa

Bluegrass hijacks a surviving weaponized sea beast and rides to the shore with Doll

Doll was Saul's subordinate 20 years ago, interesting thing to note

That's a thing, the giants can't exactly reach the labophase either way you look at it

Luffy wants to pick up Vegapunk and run, but he's bleeding out and accepted his fate

Luffy doesn't take that for an answer though he made a promise, Vegapunk asks him though to look after Bonney

As much as she has an army of pacifista her high authority still makes her a target for life

Also Saturn is looking more and more like a Yokai painting, probably going full Zoan form

Completely coated in venom, Saturn attacks, with Sanji picking up Vegapunk and Luffy easily dodges

Sanji eats a boot from Kizaru, but in dropping Vegapunk the admiral finally impales his target

Angered, Luffy goes giant and grabs Saturn and Kizaru in place so Sanji can run

Despite being stabbed twice, Vegapunk seems to be in high spirits

Oh we have a THIRD CONTINGENCY!

Vegapunk's got a message out to the world, he's about to spill everything

Like how Shadow the Hedgehog is a punk ass bitch who pissed on his wife

Well this may be the 'incident' part. Just how much can you censor when it comes from Vegapunk himself? Though it'll likely be vague, since I doubt Vegapunk will have all the details to trash the WG and say the Straw Hats were saving him. His word may not hold much weight as an enemy of the state too. Strange Shaka didn't follow suit though.

Alas, Sanji still isn't getting that Kizaru fight it seems, Luffy's going at the double, but I doubt he'll stick to fight. Saturn seems like he's gonna go even crazier at this stage, looks like a wild animal. Bonney may have more crew endorsement mind you, but I still think she deserves a childhood rather than more piracy.

Giants will be a help though, still want Franky to show off a bit, but with Vice Admirals circulating still there is time. The plan is to get off the island, but at the same time everyone's having the same plan, will the Buster Call even succeed? What about the Seraphim? The CP agents? The Sleeping Giant? York? Stussy? Kaku?

Still things floating around, not enough pages to cover them all atm.

[fiveminuterice]

First/Prev.

[kerra-and-company]

🌿For Cio!

🥀For Kerra!

and 💫For whoever you'd like to chat about!

(@uselessidiotsquad)

Sounds like a plan! :D Ty very much for the ask!! 🌿 What way does your OC show that they care without using words? What way do others show your OC that they’re cared about without using speech? Cio tends to turn to gifts to show wordless affection. Whether it's making something useful or something pretty, if you're someone important to her, you'll probably get a gift. She does also do things like give hugs or squeeze someone's hand, but anything that involves touch is something she does with an element of care to it for most of her life. She doesn't want to accidentally burn anyone via her hair. Post-Icebrood, she's a lot more tactile because she can afford to be less careful (in that specific sense) about it. As for showing Cio how much she's cared for, there's plenty of things people do/have done, but freely offering touch goes a long way in that direction. 🥀 How would your OC decorate a notebook or journal? What kind of things are written in there? Could you give an example of a nice entry? Kerra wouldn't decorate it very much at all. It'd be plain, maybe dyed-purple leather if she wanted it to be fancy in some way, but she'd rather any notebook/journal she kept be comparably inconspicuous. The one journal she does keep, canonically, consists basically of her writing letters to people she can't talk to (for a wide assortment of reasons). Most of said letters are usually bittersweet at best, but I'll give you one anyways. (I'll put the letter under the cut for spoilers, so it'll go after this last answer.) 💫 What is your favorite fact about this character and why? Random thing picker chose Nisha for this one! :) My favorite thing about xem is probably xyr growth regarding the way xe deals with xyr anxiety and xyr relationship with the idea of being strong. Xe started out feeling like xe had to be perfect and unbreakable and xe wasn't allowed to be afraid. Now, xe knows xe's strong, regardless of what position or power xe might hold. Being anxious still comes with the territory, so to speak, but xe knows how to deal with it and knows it's okay to struggle. Okay, letter under the cut as promised:

Hello, great-grandmother. I know you asked me not to try and save you. I'm not sorry that we tried. I always try. (It made my brother very angry several years back, actually.) I am sorry that we couldn't save you. There is a long list of things I'm sorry for, but I have a feeling you'd disagree on some of them. [Several things are written and scribbled out, illegible.] Regardless, I am sorry. I wish you could be here to help Aurene. I'll do the best I can to guide her. I may not be an Elder Dragon, but I am her mother and her champion, and I'll help her as long as I can. You made a difference. You said you were hiding in the factory, but you changed and saved so many mortal lives there. And it kept you safe for longer as well. At the very least, we--Aurene especially--got to meet you. The world without that choice would have lost so much. I hope you understood some of this before you left us. I think you did. And I hope some semblance of this message from one of your child's wayward grandchildren reaches your spirit, if it exists in the Mists somewhere. We'll protect the world you left us. I will.