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Defend your Blurbo poll #1

There will be two polls for the Defend your Blurbo post next week. The winner will be posted. Number two will possibly be posted. I have a busy week coming up

All these characters are from One Piece

Fyi, there are now two dyb entries for Akainu, and yes, Beckman has had one before, so there will be a part 2

[kookoofufu]

Kaido: Yamato identifies as a boy and I couldn't be more pleased! I want the future ruler of Wano to be happy and secure with himself, it sets a good example for the slaves. Big Mom: You let go of a perfectly breedable young girl! You'll regret that, don't you want grandchildren? Whitebeard: Who cares? It's better to have a boy as an heir anyway. Big Mom: Wow, I didn't know you were such a sexist pig. Whitebeard: I'm sexist? You are such a snowflake- Shanks, blitzed out of his mind: Did everyone try the blunt? I thought the blunt was lovely.

[lolhex12]

i noticed someting funny when put into perspective so i thought i'd share

so these are the old emperors and who came after them:

WB -> BB

Kaidou -> Luffy

Big Mom (??) -> Buggy (??)

(Shanks = Shanks)

Then you realize BB killed WB and replaced him, Luffy defeated Kaidou and replaced him...

Meanwhile Buggy got Big Mom's emperor seat even though it was Law and Kid who defeated her.

It's funny when u think about it bc Big Mom wouldn't have come to Wano and ally with Kaidou if Luffy hadn't angered her by messing with her tea party to get Sanji back.

So, in a way, Law and Kid cleaned up Luffy's mess (while he dealt with the main objective aka Kaidou) by taking down Big Mom (an Emperor), and who took that spot in the world? Fucking Buggy The Fucking Clown.

Law and Kid lowkey both lost to Buggy who profited off of their hard-earned win over an unexpected powerhouse who should not (and would not) have been present if it weren't for Luffy's antics :/

[one-piece-user-boxes]

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Going Down On You - Part 4

Summary: how they go down on you

Characters: Katakuri, Marco, Kaidou, Killer, Heat

Genre: pure smut

CW: NSFW // oral sex, shameless dirty talk, Kaidou is drunk (as usual)

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Katakuri: 

There are two versions of this man: the brutal, serious, and fearsome general who never shows his face, and your husband. Though it took a long while for his walls to come down, they didn’t come down slowly. Rather, they crashed and burned, and the first time you saw his face, you also learned he had a voracious appetite, his desire to taste your cunt stronger even than his craving for his favorite donuts. 

“The tastiest treat in all of Totto Land, and it’s all mine.”  

You quickly become his merienda. He’ll create a mochi shrine to hide the two of you away and pull your bare cunt onto his face, lapping happily at your folds, humming as he does. He fully expects you to be available to him, particularly in trying times, as he needs the taste of you to fully recharge. He becomes extremely annoyed if anyone interrupts the two of you during his afternoon, resorting to brute force if anyone disturbs him. 

He prefers to lay on his back, thus the need for such privacy, as he would rather die than allow anyone to know how vulnerable he is at this time. Worse still, he’s sweet, kissing your cunt between licks, only tongue fucking you for a few seconds at a time before he’s licking up your juices and kissing your clit, every pet name and sweet nothing in the book spilling from his lips as he indulges in you. 

“Better than donuts, my sweet little wife’s pussy.” 

Marco: 

He’s normally so relaxed and calm, always in control without having to assert dominance as it rolls off him so naturally. He doesn’t want to be a Warlord, doesn’t want to be an Emperor, just wants to go with the flow and have some adventures with his family. But when he gets your panties off, he goes a little feral. Sure, he’s methodical in the way he starts with your lips, spends time on your nipples, and kisses his way down your body until he’s lapping at your cunt, but he’s also an animal about it. 

His nails dig into your thighs as he pries them apart. He grips you so hard you’ll have bruises in a few hours. And he’s merciless in tonguing you, working as many orgasms out of you until you’re begging him to stop, and when he does stop, it’s only to fuck you because tasting you makes him rock hard, the sort of hard that won’t simply go away unless you’re there to do something about it. 

He’s been known to tie you up so he can work in peace without having to hold your legs and arms down, freeing up his fingers to twist your nipples or massage your precious g-spot, but the thing is, he almost never ties you up in bed. If he ties you up, it’s going to be in his office or another location that’s private but where you run the risk of being discovered. The guys all know what that bundle of rope in his office is for, but none of them are brave enough to say anything. 

Kaidou: 

Kaidou often gets drunk and demands your presence, ordering you to strip down for him while he watches in begrudging approval. When you’re naked, he’ll tell you to do things like turn around and bend over so he can enjoy the view, sometimes making you stay that way for several minutes. When he’s especially drunk, though, he doesn’t bother going through all of that, just ripping the kimono straight from your body. 

“Do you wear clothes just to inconvenience me?” 

And when he’s decided he can’t hold back his appetite any longer, he’ll grab you in both of his massive hands and hold you where he wants you, burying his face in your cunt while he grunts like the beast he is. He enjoys the size difference, gets off to the sight of his massive tongue running through your folds. 

“This is worth living for, my favorite girl’s pussy.” 

Sometimes, he gets so drunk he forgets to dismiss his men and attendants. Sure, they all scurry off once you either remove or he rips your kimono off, scampering out of the room for fear of retribution should their emperor realize they’ve seen his favorite girl naked, but everyone knows what he does to you on those drunken nights. If they haven’t seen him strip you without warning, they’ve at least heard your whimpers and whines echoing from his chambers while he growls at you to stay still. 

Killer: 

It’s not often that the mask comes off, but when it does, it’s always in the dark of night, usually in his cabin when it’s just the two of you, and he always goes down on you. He doesn’t ever give you any warning, saying aloud that he’s going to take the mask off putting pressure on his shoulders to perform a certain way, so it always comes as a surprise when you feel his bare cheek pressed against your abdomen as he kisses his way down your body. 

“Our secret,” he mutters, turned on by just how much the two of you know about each other that nobody else does. 

He goes slow, savoring every last second of the intimate moment. He spends so much time sucking on your nipples you almost cum from that alone, whimpering as he refuses to finger you while he works. He moves slowly down your abdomen and nuzzles your thighs for a long few moments, so taken by the feel of your soft skin against his cheek he considers leaving his mask off permanently. 

“That’s my girl, so fucking soft.” 

When he finally starts prodding your hole with his tongue, working it inside you, he’s moaning as loud as you are. He always starts by tongue fucking you, eager to taste you while stretching you, and when he thinks you’re ready for his big fingers, he moves his tongue to your clit, going back to your hole every thirty seconds or so to lick up your juices. He’ll work several orgasms out of you that way. 

Heat: 

Actually so gentle when you finally reach a point where you trust him enough to let him between your legs. He takes this privilege very seriously and is worried he might do something to mess it up. After all, everyone has always told him what a monster he is, and sometimes, he really is a monster, so gaining access to your most sensitive area truly does make him a little fearful he’ll upset and even hurt you. 

“You won’t regret it,” he says in your ear, voice almost a whisper. “I’m gonna make you feel so fucking good.” 

He lays you down and gingerly pushes your legs apart, slowly but surely, and it takes him a minute to lean in because he’s so overwhelmed that you trusted him enough to let him do this to you. And that’s all while your panties are still on. He can see the wet spot, can see the outline of your cunt- he just knows your pussy is so perfect- and his mouth waters as he realizes he’s the one who gets to taste it. 

Something about pulling your panties off feels a little overwhelming, so he gently pushes them to the side, breathless at the sight of your glistening pussy. His tongue slithers from between his lips and pokes nervously at your folds. You end up reaching down and holding your panties to the side and your outer lips apart for him as he gently tongues your cunt. He slowly increases the pressure until he’s devouring you, the most lewd sounds surely drifting under the door and into the hallway. After you’re finished, he’ll nuzzle your inner thigh a bit. You two wind up staying in that position for a while as he basks in your presence. 

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Hope you enjoyed it! If you want more, you can check out my masterlist here!

[1000sunnygo]

Vivre Card translation : Law

this is the second page. Artur already covered page 1 which has the basic information.

Law is "approximately 1.1 Luffy" tall.

Essence

Consecutive battle against the Emperors to learn the History! What becomes of the surgeon's Checkered fate?

Law challenges Big Mom to uncover the meaning behind the fate of the "D". Even with grave injuries, he secures a narrow victory alongside Kidd with the power of devil fruit awakening. He acquires a copy of the Road Poneglyph. However, after setting sail from Wano Country, Law is ambushed by the Blackbeard Pirates. As a fierce battle breaks out over possession of the copy, he is defeated (Kanji used: 敗北, "defeat").The ship sinks, the fate of the nakama remains unknown. Will Law be able to resist the unfortunate twists of fate that keep befalling him...?

Awakening that makes abilities even stronger. After piercing the enemy with "Anesthesia", he generates an internal flow of current and delivers a shock. A power that makes even an Emperor writhe in pain.

Inherited Name of a Move

Naming a move after a 'magic' from the late benefactor who changed his fate, he carves out the future once again.

Following Robin's movements, he obtains a copy of the Road Poneglyph. Perhaps due to his morally upright nature, he shares it with Kidd's group.

Feminization transformation by Doc Q's ability. While the crew is utterly captivated by the beauty, he breaks free from the 'sickness' with overwhelming Haki.

Escape from Blackbeard due to Bepo's quick wit. However, as a Captain, he couldn't leave his precious nakama behind, so he commands to return to the battlefield while barely clinging to life.

History

Participates in the Onigashima raid. Engages in combats against Kaidou and Big Mom.

Forms a temporary alliance with Kidd and defeats Big Mom together.

Bounty increases to 3 billion.

Learns about the secrets of Wano and the Ancient weapon Pluton from Kozuki Sukiyaki.

Obtains a copy of Wano Road Poneglyph.

Dissolves the alliances with Kidd and Straw hat pirates, and departs from Wano.

Defeated in a battle against Blackbeard Pirates and the ship is sunk.

[crossguild]

there are a lot of bad takes floating around in op fandom but whitebeard slander is always the worst because oda took such care to craft a narrative in which this ONE character fits every mold of a platonic ideal of a father figure and i'm STILL seeing (thankfully not many) people misinterpret and take him in the worst possible faith and hold him to insane standards to which no other OP character is ever held

"he's sexist because he doesn't allow the women on his crew to fight"

word of god, not canon, also explicitly retconned with the presence of whitey bay on his crew in the oden flashback. there are also women who captain subordinate fleets who were clearly fighting alongside him at marineford. shanks's crew has no women at ALL yet no one ever comes at him about it??

even if it wasn't retconned, he served on the same crew as buckingham stussy, charlotte linlin and gloriosa. man knows women will fucking murder u.

he's very much portrayed as an old-fashioned 'dad' figure and OP's world is one in which sexism still exists. it's misguided but not unexpected for him to insist that his 'daughters' aren't put in even more danger because of his orders because he wants to protect them, but honestly given what we've seen of him if they wanted to fight he could NOT stop them lmao

"why would he raid marineford for ace but not avenge thatch or oden?"

ace is still alive. he didn't raid marineford for vengeance but to preserve a life that can still be saved

thatch and oden are dead and attempting to avenge their deaths would have racked up countless more casualties not just from facing off against kaidou or blackbeard's crew, but because in that big fight, he would be vulnerable to attack from other emperors and also the world government.

kaidou specifically used the raid on marineford to try and attack his flank, and was only stopped because shanks stepped in. wb only took the risk of raiding marineford because he felt that the life of one of his crewmembers was worth it, and he's explicitly pointed out that he would do the same for any other crewmember.

the fact that the navy only ever had the guts to try and execute ace because of his lineage speaks to how serious wb is about that particular threat.

"why didn't he listen to shanks??"

shanks wasn't telling him anything he didn't know. he already tried to stop ace, i don't doubt they've tried to call him back, but ace is also a pirate and whitebeard told shanks to butt out in order to preserve ace's reputation and autonomy. he respected ace's wishes to do what he felt was necessary and then he took responsibility for it on ace's behalf.

ace failed! he fucked up! ace felt ashamed enough, and whitebeard knew that, so he took the blame on himself as his father so that at least in the eyes of the world, it was his own reputation that took a beating and not his son's. i know a lot of people don't recognize that, but it is very much a selfless act of love and care. allowing his kid to make a mistake and then taking responsibility for it and helping him recover from it is the role of a good father

"he's too arrogant and trading on reputation and not actually that strong!"

he maintained order in the new world for 20 years after roger's death. he was a terminally ill dying man whose mere presence stabilized hundreds of islands because people were so afraid of him. he isn't overconfident or arrogant at all, he's more than earned any confidence he displays

he is BOTH trading on reputation AND monstrously powerful, but even he says that he's no longer at his peak and people don't live forever. it's well established that he knew he would probably die at marineford, and given the shrewd choices he made all throughout that battle, it's more than reasonable to assume that he prepared the crew for that possibility

"ace would have been a good captain/ace should have been the captain"

ace got them into that mess. he sure as damn hell would not have been a better captain, nor did he WANT to be a captain. ace never wanted to be captain or find the one piece or whatever, he wanted a family and he found it with whitebeard. ace was doing exactly what he wanted as whitebeard's 2nd division commander and all whitebeard wanted for him was to do what he wanted to, not force him to become PK

ace turned back because he couldn't shrug off an insult to whitebeard, and i'm mad at him for it, but it's also completely understandable why he did that. he's a sympathetic, nuanced, great character exactly because of that.

it takes a LONG time to train up haki, ace obviously wouldn't have had the opportunity to properly learn it when luffy could only manage it because one of the most refined users of haki who had all the time in the world to spend training him took luffy under his wing for two years. how the hell was ace gonna learn haki under whitebeard when whitebeard has 1600+ members to take care of and numerous territories to defend. he was growing at a very reasonable rate, it's not ace's fault nor whitebeard's that luffy's pace is so wildly accelerated

"marco didn't do a good job leading the crew"

they were together for a YEAR after marineford and still mustered the forces to fight a war. the story that circulated is that they attacked teach out of vengeance for whitebeard, but marco explicitly says that they moved on blackbeard because he was invading sphinx/other territories

marco is a careful, thoughtful guy. sphinx looked just fine. we heard the WBPs got scattered, but we didn't hear about any mass casualties and he also did not seem all that torn up about what happened during the payback war. actually, the fact that plenty of them and their allies were still alive and kicking for weevil to attack in the timeskip speaks to them being pretty okay after the payback war, if scattered. there's a lot that's still unrevealed about that conflict and i'm not casting judgment until we find out what

"whitebeard doesn't act like an all-powerful captain and he couldn't control the crew"

he's their dad. a dad doesn't exist to impose his will on his kids and force them to follow the path that he wants them to, his parenting is clearly in the style of 'give them a place to grow and thrive and don't worry about that other stuff, with some ground rules like don't be trafficking drugs or slaves or killing your crewmates'

the operation fell apart because blackbeard betrayed every ideal of whitebeard's and took advantage of his trust and kindness. so it's the betrayal of the ideal of 'family' that hurt them, not a problem in how the crew itself was run. it did, after all, function well-- better than any other operation in the new world-- for several decades.

[grainjew]

Nikaposting Pt 4: Sun God Tropes

This is the fourth of a series of posts about Nika & associated religious practice in the One Piece world. As I write and post the rest of the series, I’ll add links to this header.

Pt 1: Crypto-Religion | Pt 2: Symbology & Syncretism | Pt 3: Joyboy was Shandian

Enormous credit to @oriigami for being my discussion partner through all of this and having a substantial influence on the final product. Check out our ao3 series Joyful for a narrative rather than analytical take on the Nika tradition, and definitely go read her OP blog @kaizokuou-ni-naru for meta and translation fun facts.

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#JustLittleSunGodThings

So Luffy’s a sun god, or the embodied power of the wishes for one, or whatever. But does he do mythological solar deity things?

Yes actually.

This post is the fourth and last (as of now) in this series, and it’s entirely for fun. I’ll almost certainly miss things as I go down the list here- if you can think of other solar or dawn deity things he gets up to, please add them in the replies!

With no further ado, here is a list of sun god things Luffy has been known to get up to, & which will no doubt inform the mythology developing around him in the One Piece world. (How many people were deifying this guy even before he awakened his devil fruit? Like it was definitely not zero is all I’m saying.)

Getting eaten by snakes

What started this whole list was me turning to @oriigami in the middle of the night after we’d been rewatching Little Garden and trying to make an accurate count of how many times Luffy’s been swallowed whole and going “you know what’s sun god shit? getting eaten by snakes.”

Sun gods are often doing this. Take Apep in Egyptian myth, who tries to devour the sun god Ra every day. Or Rahu, the Hindu shadow planet and serpent, who swallows the sun to cause solar eclipses.

Luffy is also often doing this. The most notable example is of course the Nola Incident in Skypiea arc, but if we expand the definition of snake to include generally snakeish sort of guys, he also gets briefly ate by Kaidou very shortly after awakening, and just now by Mister Sandworm in ch 1110. (And by Kaidou fish-fish fruit equivalency I’d argue we can also count the Little Garden goldfish and the crocodile that ate him as a kid here but obviously that’s more tenuous and mostly just funny.)

Slightly more tenuously as well, there’s Amaterasu of Shinto lore retreating into her cave (a cave is a kind of snake), as well as the Norse wolf that chases the sun Sköll (occasionally merged with Fenrir), the Javanese god (described as an ogre) Batara Kala who eats the sun and moon to cause eclipses, and the alchemical Green Lion that devours the sun.

Storm and sky gods are also often interacting with, killing, and being eaten by snakes, which is less relevant here except that Nami is storm god coded and she also got ate in the Nola Incident. So that’s fun!

Having a chariot that circumnavigates the world

Many sun gods, especially in the Indo-European sphere of traditions, have some sort of chariot or boat that they ride from east to west each day to carry the sun across the sky. Often they have attendants (sometimes dawn and dusk gods; or sometimes these gods have their own chariots or horses as well) to help them with this.

If you want a list of sun vehicles the wikipedia page for solar deities has a whole bunch of them. Have fun.

I think Thousand Sunny speaks for herself on this front: not only is Sunny a ship designed, destined, and dreamed up to herself circumnavigate the world with Luffy as her captain, but she also has the Sun on the front as her figurehead in a manner that does kinda remind me of some depictions I’ve seen of the sun being carried across the sky in such a chariot. Also, she can fly!

Association with royalty

Kings and emperors love to use sun gods to give divine legitimacy to their rule. This is in no way universal (there’s lots of storm gods out there who also do this, just off the top of my head) but take Amaterasu (Shinto), Inti (Incan), Amun-Ra (also Aten) (Egyptian), Sol Invictus (Roman), etc.

Obviously Luffy is going to be King, and is currently an Emperor. But also, he tends to go around and toppling kings and gods and tyrants and vaguely lending legitimacy to whoever is stepping up to the throne in their place. He’s got the Mandate of Heaven (this is a joke mostly but we HAVE all read Loguetown)! And also distributes it to people he likes. Thanks Luffy.

Solar discs, radiate crowns, and beetles

A solar disc is a flat circle, sometimes with rays, that symbolically represents the sun or the sun personified. If you have read pt 2 of this series, you will recognize the Nika symbol in this description.

In the same vein, when applied to a personified depiction of the sun, the solar disc has the habit of becoming a halo or a radiate crown (such as the one worn by the Statue of Liberty - the radiate crown used to be an emperors and sun gods thing and has since become associated with personifications of liberty. So That’s Fun). Obviously Luffy is not in the habit of having either of these representationally, except of course for. The hat that encircles his head in gold.

The final note on symbology I have here is that the Egyptian god of the morning sun, Khepri, is associated with scarabs/dung beetles. A fact that I think known beetle-lover Luffy would appreciate. Get this guy some scarab symbolism stat. Check these bugs out!!!

Bonus: descending into the underworld and eclipse stories

Katabasis, that is, a descent into the underworld, is in no way a sun god exclusive, although solar myths do often involve the sun god, having traveled across the sky by day, needing to find their way through the ocean, the underworld, or some other sort of nether realm to return, overnight, to their morning home in the east. And it’s very fun to look at in the context of Luffy, eclipse myths, and the Marineford saga.

So obviously the Impel Down arc is is a very literal katabasis. It’s Hell, it’s got all the Dante’s Inferno theming, and, like in so many katabases, Luffy descends to the depths in pursuit of some goal, eventually emerging miraculously alive but unsuccessful (see, for a very quick shortlist of katabases of this type, Orpheus & Eurydice, Inanna, and Izanagi & Izanami).

So that’s delightful. But I think it’s even more fun to think about the Marineford saga in general, eventually culminating in the timeskip, as a prototype for an eclipse story.

Solar eclipses, though predictable, are something like a rarer and more frightening form of night, and so their associated myths have a general tendency to involve a more dramatic and/or violent symbolic death of the sun- see, for example, the various devourers of the sun mentioned in the first bullet point of this post.

So, we have the timeskip. The fire goes out. The sun, having descended into the underworld and pushed himself past his own limits, is defeated, disappearing completely from the world for two years. Until- In a way that was, technically, predictable, if you had the correct sphere of knowledge, he returns, miraculously renewed.

I’d incorporate that into my belief system, is all I’m saying.

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Thank you all for reading! This is all for the series so far, but not, I hope, forever. Many more thoughts to have and webs to weave!

Have a lovely week!

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Hi Meredith! I'm a huge Buggy fan and I LOVE your analysis about the manga and I want to share this idea with you. I found myself thinking about Ace, well, we know he met Shanks when he was still with the Spade Pirates and wished to see his "little brother savior", but his meeting with Buggy was a totally different story. At that point years had passed and he was in Whitebeard's fleet as a "son" and commander, looking for revenge on Teach. That makes me wonder... was it really some casuality that he showed up in the Big Top or maybe, just maybe, he was curious to see the other man that was raised by his real father? I mean, I'm sure the old Newgate told something about Roger's past to him, even if Ace denied his origins. if I were in him I would be intrigued, plus it is clear by his acting on the ship that he percives no treat in Buggy, he's clearly not there because he's worried for Luffy, rather he enjoys the meeting very much.

It might be just my fantasy but I'd like to know your opinion.

Love!

[on ao3]

“you’re bold as brass, kid, i’ll give you that,” marco the phoenix said, the twentieth or thirtieth time he patched ace up. “fight a warlord for five days straight for a chance to meet your first emperor, lose impressively enough that pops offers you a spot on his ship, and what do you do with that? try to kill him every day for months.” smiling, he shook his head in a way that infuriated ace, like he thought knew better than ace how things were gonna go.

(he had, of course. ace was hardly the first hotheaded kid marco had seen make the transition from enemy to son—though ace did take the longest time about it.)

“not my first emperor,” was all ace bothered to say in response.

“oh? who else?” marco looked ace over and decided, “not kaidou, not if you attack all emperors on sight. he’s not half as nice as pops.”

ace snorted, grimaced at the spatter of blood this threw across the bandages marco had just finished tying off, and, wiping his nose with the back of his hand, said, “no, it was shanks. and i wasn’t there to kill him.”

marco startled. “oh man, i keep forgetting that kid’s an emperor now! time flies…”

ace sat up. “you know shanks?” he couldn’t help but be curious—he didn’t know much about the man who’d saved, and inspired, his baby brother.

“yeah, i’ve known him nearly thirty years.”

oh, he had meant it when he called shanks ‘kid.’ “…was he a whitebeard pirate too?”

marco laughed. “can you imagine?” he asked, glancing down the deck to look at whitebeard, lounging casually in his oversized chair, like ace hadn’t flung a half-dozen bombs at his head twenty minutes ago. the old man didn’t turn to face them, but his mustache twitched, a sure sign that he was grinning. “no way, that kid was roger’s start to end.”

the name hit ace like a punch to the gut—like the one whitebeard had landed on him nineteen minutes ago, actually, blunt and out of nowhere. “roger?” he asked, breathless.

”oh, yeah, you’re young enough you wouldn’t know,” marco realized. packing away the last of his supplies, he said, “gol d roger didn’t have a fleet like pops, just the one ship, and just two apprentices: shanks and buggy.” scratching at his chin, marco said, “what’d you always call them, pops?”

“red-hair and red-nose,” came the response.

“that’s it.” marco chuckled. “roger’s red boys. hey, if you met shanks, you must’ve seen buggy too. blue hair, bad attitude, and—well, pops is right, you can’t miss that red nose.”

“uh…” ace thought back, or tried to—the memory of shanks, luffy’s friend and savior, was being overshadowed by this new knowledge. a warm smile in a snowy cave—a smile worn by a monster’s pupil. surrounded by men with wary looks at an upstart with an interest in their captain—a captain whose former captain was that man. were any of them blue-haired? had any of them looked at ace, seen a demon’s spawn, and been glad at the sight? “doesn’t ring any bells.”

“no?” marco looked disturbed for a moment. “well, it’s been a long time. i guess even those two might’ve gone separate ways.” marco gave ace a pat on the shoulder and got to his feet. “alright kid, you’re in as good a shape as i can get you! try not to ruin all my hard work by going after pops again tomorrow, huh?”

but he said it like he knew ace would. again and again, until the siren song of the word “son,” genuinely meant, grew too strong to withstand.

it would be years before ace thought of that conversation again. he had other conversations with whitebeard—with his pops—about roger which lingered more in his memory. the fact that there were two people out there in the world who were, essentially, raised by that man… ace put that knowledge out of his head.

at least, he put it out of his head until, running dangerously low on supplies while hunting down teach, he spotted a ship with a red-nosed jolly roger.

“a red nose, huh?” ace brought striker into the larger ship’s wake, considering climbing aboard. if shanks had known ace for who his father was, he hadn’t mentioned it. this buggy guy would probably be similarly ignorant, or discreet. and if he did know, maybe he’d feel obligated to feed his old captain’s son? ace’s stomach growled painfully, a reminder of what single-mindedly hunting down a traitor could do to a man.

a delicious aroma drifted downwind, along with a raised voice shouting something about “strawhats” and that clinched it. between his brother, his father, and his hunger, ace needed to see what this red-nosed buggy was about.

[hopeworth]

inside an open grave

law & doflamingo & rosinante | teen and up audiences | roleswap au | 16.3k words

Trafalgar D Water Law loses his home, joins a pirate crew, gains two sons, reclaims his home, becomes an Emperor, sells drugs, loses two sons, and is thoroughly miserable the entire time. Naturally, this goes well for exactly nobody. (The life and crimes of "Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar D Water Law, Emperor of the Sea.)

this is part 2 to the emperorswap au that @oriigami @grainjew and i have been working on where we roleswap kidd and law with kaidou and linlin. check out the other work in the series and bookmark or subscribe for future installments :)

[overtaken-stream]

I have a feeling that even if Queen didn't directly experiment on King like very harsh experiments akin to one's in Punk Hazard, he definitely did SOME kind of experiments on him.

Also when you mentioned in your headcanons that King's first instinct to do when he finds out reader is pregnant is to hide them away - and now that makes me think that one of the people he's hiding his pregnant s/o or lunarian s/o is Queen, because who's a better target for experiments than his s/o who's either a lunarian or carrying his lunarian child.

This is the same guy who worked alongside Vinsmoke Judge, it's not bellow him to experiment on King's s/o or child.

Oh definitely, Queen will be the last person who hears (IF HE HEARS) about Kings s/o and his kid, and that will be when the child is well over their 30s and powerful enough to handle the mad scientist.

But even if Queen finds his pregnant!S/o the patience that King has is finally snapped, he has been tolerating Queen because of Kaidou, but if he lays a single finger on his s/o? King is ripping that arm off and roasting the man alive in front of everyone, I think Kaido will be pissed but understanding.

``oh, what? You murdered my third most important man because his hand accidentally landed on your s/o's? It's ok everyone makes mistakes🐉🥰 `` - Drunk out of his mind, Emperor of the sea.

[ultramarine-spirit]

Yesterday I finally received my copy of Butterfly and Empire 「蝶と帝国」! Manga and novel. The standee is one I commissioned myself, for personal use only and with the blessing of the author. I couldn't be happier... In this post, I'll review this masterpiece of a manga!

My loved ones, my way of life,

To whom should I point the anger for everything that I've lost?

God? The Emperor? Or the revolution?

Set in Imperial Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, this is a novel depicting the love and revenge of women at the mercy of the malice of the times.

Original novel by Yoshitaka Nanboku, adapted to manga form by Minoda Kaidou (MNDH) (also here on Tumblr!).

All pictures were taken from publicly available tweets and my copies of the manga

This is an absolute masterpiece. A story that's not just about the romantic relationship between the main leads, Kira and Elena, but also about Russia's turbulent state at the time. It's so refreshing to read an historical piece with lesbian characters, and to see their relationship be crafted with such seriousness and care. I cried many times. The setting is also so carefully depicted, I'm absolutely amazed by the attention to detail.

Keep in mind that this manga is intended for adult readers! Not only are there sexual scenes (also very refreshing to see in a yuri manga), but most importantly, the story deals with very serious topics, such as violence, antisemitism, sexual abuse, war, and more. I've seen it be described as "a yuri that could never be published on Yurihime", if that tells you anything. In other words, it's a heavy read, but one I can't recommend enough.

You can read a free preview of the manga here. If this wonderful story interested you, please support the authors by buying the manga here and the novel here. English translations... you can probably find them, somewhere!

Oh, also, if you are interested, we've commissioned a couple of fanarts (with the author's blessing). You can find them here, here, and here. More to come in the future.

Now, I will go cry again...

[the-bar-sinister]

Deicide: A Test of Wills (4633 words) by thesavagesabretooth Chapters: 1/1 Additional Tags: Screw Destiny, Smart Monkey D. Luffy, Action/Adventure, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Manipulation, Reveal, Revelations, Akuma no Mi | Devil Fruit, Background Relationships

Summary: After leaving Wano the Straw Hats find themselves pursued by a ship their captain recognizes. The Red Force. Finally, now that Luffy has become an emperor, it's time for Shanks to acknowledge him as a great pirate.

Unfortunately 'congratulations' isn't all Red Haired Shanks has to say. And Luffy discovers a truth about his idol he never wanted to know.

-

They were a couple of days out from Wano and Luffy was dozing happily on top of Zoro's chest when he was nudged awake. Drooling and murmuring he opened his eyes, blinking to find Usopp kneeling down next to him.

"You didn't have to wake me up if you wanted to snuggle," Luffy murmured sleepily. He reached up to tug him down in the pile.

Usopp grimaced though, and shook his head, his dark curls bouncing as he pulled away from his grip. "Sorry, Captain. There's something you should have a look at."

"Mmm?" Luffy rubbed the sleep from his eyes and yawned so wide he felt his jaw stretch. He tried to wake himself up faster– Usopp only called him captain when there was something really important happening. "What is it?"

Usopp offered him a hand up and he took it, snapping to his feet like a rubber band. He let Zoro sleep– for now, anyway.

"There's a ship following us. A big one."

Luffy blinked as Usuopp led him over to the rail, and pressed his spyglass into his hand. 

"A big one?" Luffy asked, extending the glass. "Is it Kaidou's? Or maybe Jaggy's?"

Usopp shook his head. "I couldn't see the markings at this distance, but it's definitely not a silhouette I recognize."

Usopp hadn't recognize it at the distance, but Luffy recognized it almost the moment he had the glass to his eye, searching the horizon. He would never forget the silhouette of that ship. Not in a million years.

"It's Shanks!"

-

Nami was greeted by the familiar clattering sound of Luffy's sandals as he raced toward her to where she was working on her charts at the forecastle.

Her chart of Wano, even now that they were so far ahead of it, had been going well. Meticulously crafted as all her maps were, and detailed in both the land masses and the sea-charts and currents.

She was tracing the path of one, towards their current location with her tongue poking half out of her mouth when she finally noticed Luffy's presence, looking up with a smirk. "Coming to make sure I eat, or something more fun?" 

That brought him up short and he practically skidded to a halt in front of her, cocking his head and staring at her with his big, dark eyes. "Have you eaten?"

"Probably," Nami said with a grin as she brushed shavings from her seachart with her feather. Honestly, yeah, she had— at least a few bites of one of the many snacks Sanji was ready to bring at a moment's notice. "So what's up, Captain?" 

Luffy's grin was suddenly blinding. It almost took up his whole face. 

"Shanks' ship is following us!"

There were two important things Nami knew about Shanks.

One, Luffy had known him as a child and he'd been one of his inspirations in becoming a pirate. The infamous straw hat had belonged to him.

And two, he was one of the four emperors. In fact, the only one of the original four emperors standing from the beginning of their journey after Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaidou had all fallen.

Nami knew Luffy was over the fucking moon about that, it was obvious in his face. He was a big figure to him, right? His personal hero.

However, Nami on the other hand, felt herself starting to shake a little bit at the idea of the last of the original Emperors rolling up on their ship in the wake of their recent—to put it delicately— absolute massacre of his rival's power structures.

"Does he look pissed?" she asked, trying to laugh it off. 

Usopp peeked out from behind Luffy's shoulder where he had been slumping. "Couldn't see at this distance."

Luffy just laughed. "Why would he be? I came over to tell you we should wait for him to catch up!"

Nami laughed with a shake of her head. "Geeze, Luffy. He's an emperor of the sea, and we just beat up his two biggest rivals in like, one fell swoop. He could be riding in to say 'hey what the fuck'?" 

"Yeah!" Luffy's grin hitched wider in a way that was only possible with a rubber face. He posed, flexing his bicep. "He might want to fight me, even! I said the next time we met I'd be a great pirate, and this means he's finally acknowledging me!"

Usopp looked a lot more dubious.

With a sigh and the pinching of the bridge of her nose, Nami shook her head in bemusement. "Does nothing ever worry you, Luffy? I mean. You can beat him, obviously, but can we at least make sure he doesn't trash the ship?"

"Well, yeah! I'd rather he didn't open fire on the Sunny…." Luffy chewed on his lip. "Run up the friendly flag so he knows we want to talk first, sound good?"

Usopped rubbed the back of his neck. "Are you sure we shouldn't just outrun them and pick meet up for a fight another time, Luffy? I mean you only recovered from fighting Kaidou a couple of days ago, and if anything Shanks could be even more powerful…"

Nami rubbed her neck before she glanced at Luffy. 

"Luffy wants to say hi to the guy. I'm probably gonna try and avoid him, myself. But I'll run up the friendly flag and stop the ship to let him catch up. I mean…" She grinned at Luffy, "he's your friend, right? He'll play nice." 

Luffy beamed. "I know he will! I told you the story about the lack of a bar brawl, right?"

Nami had heard the story several times at least. To hear it told, Shanks really didn't sound like the type of pirate who'd fire on a vessel flying a friendly flag.

"You've told me a few times, yeah." Nami leaned near her map. "About how they dunked beer on him and mocked him and he only fought back when …what? When they messed with you, right?" 

"Yeah! He saved my life! And right after I'd stolen his fruit too." Luffy smiled remembering it. "Shanks will want to talk— even if he wants to fight, too."

"I hope you're right about that, Luffy," Usopp murmured. Nami watched his hand go to his ammo bag reflexively.

Nami's eyes trailed the movement, her own hand resting near her climate baton "If he's not, we'll deal with it, just like we dealt with all that crap on Wano."

She flashed a smile to Luffy. "But I think it'll go just fine." 

-

Everyone had kept their distance when Red Haired Shanks rowed over in a longboat and climbed up onto the Sunny.

Everyone except Luffy of course, who had run over and stood proudly in front of him, beaming. None of them heard the conversation, but they did hear when Luffy shouted that the two of them were going down below the deck to share a drink and talk.

Zoro had followed them.

He had stayed to guard the door outside while Luffy and Shanks had their drink. He knew it was probably pointless, after all, Luffy had been eager to see Shanks since they'd started their journey together. 

Still. He was technically an enemy. A rival emperor. Who knew what the hell he might do?

If only as a formality. Zoro stayed, swords at the ready.

He was glad he did.

The room had gotten quiet. And then suddenly he heard raised voices.

Just as he was moving to enter the room, the door flung open almost in his face and Luffy rushed out of it, pursued by Shanks.

"Shut up!" Luffy yelled behind him as he ran toward the stairs to the deck. "Don't tell me that, I don't want to hear it!"

Shanks followed, and Zoro followed after in silent pursuit, assessing the situation.

As they got up to the deck, in the bright sunshine, everyone stared at the scene between Luffy and Shanks who stood opposite one another, as if any split second they were going to burst into an all out brawl.

There wasn't going to be a fight, though. Zoro understood that as soon as the first wave of opposed haki between the two emperors nearly doubled him over on his knees. He grit his teeth, and stayed on his feet– barely.

Shanks took another step forward, unsheathing his sword with what Zoro could tell was his off-hand. His only hand.

He was trying to bait Luffy into a fight— but Luffy wasn't responding. It looked in fact like Luffy was doing everything in his power to hold himself back from responding. He was shaking, almost vibrating.

What the hell had Red Haired Shanks said to his captain?

"It's your destiny, Luffy." 

"I don't want it!" 

Luffy stayed rooted to the spot, dark eyes blazing with fury as he stared down the man that he'd always spoken of so highly. Treated like a mentor.

No, not a fight. Instead, what happened on deck was a clash of pure haki; the Red Emperor's will, awash in righteous inevitability, against Luffy's will— Zoro's captain's haki— shot through with stubborn, incredulous, incandescent rage.

The air felt tense and electric like the moment before a lightning strike.

-

Vivi felt the world lurch around her. The crash of haki was nearly too much, even for her and her own increasingly honed conqueror's haki. She staggered but stayed standing as she watched in confusion. Why in the world was Shanks, the person Luffy constantly talked up as his mentor, yelling about destiny?

"That's too bad! It's been your destiny since the minute you ate that fruit." Shanks' fingers were tight around his sword, and the sunlight shone off it.

Since the moment Luffy ate his devil fruit? Vivi's altered devil fruit body shuddered under the waves of energy, dissipating briefly into a curtain of stars and darkness before she wrangled it back into her usual shape.

Devil fruits could change you, warp you more than just physically. Was Shanks somehow saying that they could warp your destiny, too?

"I don't care! Someone else can do it!" Luffy snarled. He didn't seem to be paying attention to Shanks' aggressive stance, like he didn't care if he attacked or not.

She tried to move, to take a step forward to help him only to feel the world lurch again under the wave of haki. Her fingers curled and she shuddered out a soft breath. Luffy wasn't going to fight, was he? Was Shanks, his hero, ready to strike him down? The thought made Vivi sicker than the waves of power washing over her did. 

"You ate the fruit, Luffy! It's already decided." Shanks' expression was intense, and the air crackled around him.

Shanks was an idiot if he thought that'd change anything. Even as her body dissipated again and quickly recombined with a start, she knew Luffy would never accept something that had been 'decided' for him. Luffy never accepted anything he didn't want.

He'd taught her how to be selfish, for her own good. Not even his hero could change that strength of his.

Luffy stomped his foot petulantly, and another wave of haki clashed against the Emperor's."No it isn't! I decide who I'm going to be, and I'm going to be the King of Pirates!"

-

So that was what the fight was about. Usopp felt like he was playing catch up. One minute Luffy and Shanks had gone down below deck to share drinks, and what seemed like the next minute they'd both come racing up the stairs, screaming at one another as Zoro followed behind them.

The initial burst of haki was so powerful it had knocked Usopp prone on the deck, staring up at his captain's boots as the two kept yelling.

"You're the sun god! The one who will free us all! Isn't that better?"

A god. So Luffy really was supposed to be a god. For all that it had become a joke on the ship and in the papers to call Usopp 'god', it really was Luffy's destiny.

Just like between the two of them, Luffy was the one who became captain.

But unlike that, Luffy didn't want it.

"It's not me! I'm not a hero. I don't share my meat! I'm not the god of anything and I'm not here to save anyone!" Luffy scowled and took a step backward as Shanks advanced. He raised his chin toward him defiantly.

Usopp couldn't blame him. Being a god was a miserable deal, and he thought anybody would probably want to avoid it. 

-

This couldn't be happening. When she'd decided to slow the ship down and run up the flag for parlay with the fucking Red Haired Emperor Shanks, Nami didn't expect him and Luffy to get into a screaming match as something as utterly insane as a destiny— or about Luffy being a god.

Luffy wasn't a god. Luffy was their slightly insane, off-kilter, determined and heartfelt captain. The man who placed his hat on her head when he walked off into the sunlight to beat Arlong to save her from a life she hated— couldn't possibly be a god. Because a god is untouchable, but Luffy was someone who held her in his arms.

"Ace would have done it. Ace would want you to do it." Shanks kept advancing on him, and Luffy kept taking steps backward. Still, the haki around them boiled and bubbled like the roiling sea itself, tense and grasping.

She wobbled again, falling back and only limply catching herself on the bannister under the new wave of haki, her teeth gritting together as she tried to force herself back up. How could Shanks do this when Luffy trusted him so much? How could he stand here and tell him that he was supposed to fight for everyone's freedom but his own? Bastard, the absolute BASTARD. Her mind hissed, even as her body betrayed her. 

"Don't talk about Ace! Ace isn't here! He gave his life for me, and he'd want me to follow my dream!" Luffy clutched his head, grimacing, his eyes alight with anger.

Ace. Nami felt her eyes stinging with tears. Just like she'd lost Bellemere, Luffy had lost Ace during a time when none of them could help, and Shanks brought him up just to hurt her captain?

"Just listen—"

Nami was fighting, desperately fighting to shake off the effect of the haki so she could kill him herself. 

-

Yamato was no stranger to the clash of will and power that was happening here. Time and time again, he'd stood against his father to the clash of red lightning and waves of haki washing over and incapacitating the Beast Pirates on Onigashima.

But this was on a level even he struggled to act in. The weight of Shanks and Luffy's combined power hadn't staggered Yamato, but it certainly made it hard for him to move more than a little even if he had felt good about interrupting a duel between men. He'd never liked it when others interfered with his own.

Still…something about this clawed at him with a tense familiarity. A god– the god of the sun, Nika. A name Yamato had heard whispered here and there among the prisoners of Onigashima.

Was Shanks saying that was Luffy?

Luffy whipped his head up and staggered forward, his will almost tangible as it aggressed on Shanks'.

"No! I'm not gonna listen! I heard that thing in the fruit whispering to me while I was fighting Kaidou, and I didn't listen then!"

It was like a shot went through Yamato, his head snapping up even under the weight of the increasing pressure of their wills to look at Luffy with a teeth-baring grimace.

It whispered about my father?

"What did it say to you?" That seemed to give the emperor pause for just a moment.

What did it say about my father? Yamato's whole body was shaking now, his attention rapt.

"It wanted me to kill Kaidou!" Luffy yelled. His expression, though stubborn as ever, was pained. Conflicted. "Even though he and King are just like me and Zoro!"

The god of the sun that the people of Wano whispered about had wanted to kill Kaidou? It'd been trying to push Luffy to kill Kaidou. Yamato's father. The complicated, twisted knot of a situation between them writhed in his chest as his jaw tensed.

Kill him. A god wanted his old man dead, and Luffy saw himself in his father and King.

Yamato hated his old man— but Yamato didn't want him to die. All of a sudden he was starting to feel sick. His own conflict mirrored Luffy's as he leaned on his club with a low and canine whine. 

"That's ridiculous, you're nothing like–"

-

Clearly Shanks hadn't gotten to know Luffy at all if this was his play. Robin's distaste for the way the man talked about Luffy sat heavy in her heart as she stood her ground against the onslaught of haki as best she could.

Telling Luffy the exact thing he'd feared, and expecting him to just roll over and accept it with a smile was naive at best, malevolently stupid at worst. Luffy was a lot more like Kaidou than Shanks knew— a lot more like Crocodile, too.

He had a habit of facing off and taking down men who stood in the dark mirror to him. Challenges …challenges…

The barrage of haki disrupted her concentration, shredding her internal musings to pieces as she attempted to bloom limbs that instantly dissipated into petals. 

"I am! I am though! I'm not a good person! I'm not even a nice person! I know everyone calls me a hero behind my back, and I'm not! That's why I left Wano even though they were throwing a party!"

Exactly that. Luffy faced challenges against men that he could have easily become with just a few differences. Men who could, with a bit of effort, find the spark to live life to the fullest like Luffy did .

Luffy was a capricious, often violent and sometimes cruel young man. Labeled with the cry of 'hero', he was at best a charming rogue who happened to find himself embroiled in conflicts he cared little about save for the few connections he'd made there.

He was a pirate. It was one of the things that Robin loved about him. She once more tried to bloom limbs only for them to shudder and wither away, shattering her concentration again. 

Luffy took a step forward, the conflict melting away from his face, leaving only fury and resolve once more in its place.

He balled up his fists as he took another step towards Shanks. 

Robin felt her heart beating in her chest, exhaustion weighing on her with every ill fated attempt to raise her power to help her captain. Her eyes narrowed, trained on him as if to convey her feelings without words.

Show him what kind of man you are, Luffy. Prove him wrong.

"People act like I saved Alabasta. Like I saved Dressrosa, but I didn't! That had nothing to do with me! All I did was beat up some people that my friends didn't like! If I met Crocodile first, I probably would have beat up Vivi's dad!"

Miss All Sunday knew in her heart it was true. She smiled thinly at him as the words hung in the air. If Crocodile had met him first, if one of Doflamingo's men had befriended him before Law or Rebecca— Luffy would have laid waste to their enemies for hurting them.

Luffy was a pirate, Luffy was a good friend…but he wasn't a hero.

And from a villain, a demon like her, that was exactly the reason she'd follow him to the ends of the earth and to the depths of hell itself. 

-

As Sanji grimaced and fought against the waves of power trying to take him out, supporting the swooning Carrot as she barely retained consciousness, he couldn't help but remember his and Luffy's conversation.

Luffy was afraid of losing himself to 'Gear 5', which turned out to be some kind of 'god of the sun' or whatever, just like Sanji was afraid of losing himself to the Vinsmoke treatments that had awakened inside him.

His captain was pissed, understandably so. Sanji was pissed for him. Here was the guy he talked about in the same kind of breath that Sanji talked about Zeff, basically telling him that he never mattered and all that he was supposedly came from a fucking devil fruit and a god.

That surrendering to that power was the righteous thing to do.

"Luffy, you can't be serious."

Shanks stepped backward again, and his back touched the rail of the ship.

"I am serious!" Luffy howled. "Get off my ship if you think I'm a hero, or a god! I'm Luffy, the man who will be king of the pirates!"

Sanji grinned sharply at his captain, arms tightening around Carrot as she weakly reached for her sword. 

This was going to be over soon. She didn't need to draw the sword at this point. It was going to end exactly as it should, with his captain knocking out anything and everything that told him he had to be something he wasn't…or that he had to stop following his dreams. That was just the kind of resolve Luffy had.

You tell 'im, Captain.

"But–"

Shanks' haki flickered, and crumbled and collapsed entirely.

-

"Get! Off! My! Ship!!" 

With a sudden rubber snapping sound, Luffy grabbed Shanks without warning as the Red Emperor's haki collapsed completely in on itself. 

With a swing of his elastic hands, the captain catapulted Shanks off of the Sunny and back toward his own Red Force just like he was skipping a stone across the water.

He turned to face them all, breathing raggedly, his dark eyes full of anger— almost malice.

"None of you think I'm a god, right?"

Before any of them could even respond, he crumpled. He slid down to his knees on the deck, crossing his arms over them, and laying his face against them as he dissolved into hiccuping sobs.

There was only a moment's pause, a stunned silence as the weight of haki finally left the ship's deck. Just long enough for Robin to rush forward and bloom a pair of arms from the deck of the ship to wrap around Luffy in a hug before she dropped down to her knees before him.

Nami, Sanji— the whole crew hurried to their captain in concern, but Robin held him tight as she murmured.

"Nobody thinks you're a god, Luffy." she whispered. "Just like we talked about when you heard that voice. You're still, and always will be, you." 

Luffy took great, shuddering breaths against her, his scarred chest heaving, and he clutched at her shirt, pressing his head against her chest. 

The rest of the crew voiced their agreement together.

"I can't believe this whole time—" Luffy's voice was choked and rough. "He never believed in me. It wasn't me he bothered to save. It was a god. He was always telling me I wasn't cut out to be a pirate right up until— until that day."

Zoro bent down beside her and Luffy and put a hand on his side, just under Robin's hand. "Doesn't matter what he thinks, Captain, does it?" He looked up at her.

Robin nodded, her arms tightening around him as she met Zoro's eyes for a moment only to turn her stare back down to Luffy. 

"He's a fool if all he cared about was some god in a fruit, Luffy." she murmured. "The man in front of me is worth saving more than any god is. If he can't see that, it's his loss."

Sanji stood over them, before bending down and placing a hand on Luffy's head. "Besides, haven't ya proven him wrong? I mean. You've gone from 'not cut out to be a pirate' to one of the damn emperors, Luffy." 

"I have," Luffy agreed raggedly. He took another sharp breath and looked up from where his head was hung in Robin's chest. His intense eyes were red, and full of tears. "I have, and it wasn't because of him. He was wrong about me. I think— I think he might be wrong about everything."

Jinbei, who was lingering nearby sighed. "It's hard, sometimes, to come to grips with someone you've considered an idol as a person instead, flaws and all. But it's better that way, just the same."

Usopp squinted and rubbed the back of his neck. He'd only just managed to stagger back to his feet. He took a breath, and Robin thought he was going to speak, but he stayed quiet instead.

Carrot hurried over with Chopper, the rabbit mink looking dazed and dizzy as she tried to find the words to help, only ending up rubbing her arm with a murmur of, "you're just Luffy to me, Captain."

Chopper bent down, near Robin, and asked him quietly if he needed something to give him a shot of energy.

Robin mostly tuned it out as she stroked Luffy's back soothingly. 

"I know he said a lot of frightful things," she said quietly "but not a single person here on your crew believes them. Your only destiny is the path you choose for yourself." 

He wiped his face with the back of his arm, and nodded. Luffy smiled at them all, but it was a wan, crooked smile, a pale shadow of his usual bright one.

"Thanks everybody," he murmured. "I'm really glad."

From the back, Franky muttered. "Good. And I'm really glad we heard about all this ahead of time. Can you imagine if this was the first we heard about it? Super fucking awkward."

"Yeah." Usopp nodded, sharing a glance with him. "But we're with you one hundred and ten percent, Luffy."

Vivi bent down, smiling nervously but genuinely down at him as she flowed like liquid starlight to settle near him. "That's what a crew's for, right?"

Yamato's foot tapped against the deck, his eyes turned out towards where Shanks splashed into the ocean. "I know I'm still new…" he said "but I'm with you too, all the way, Captain. Want me to chase the guy down?"

Robin chuckled quietly, tugging at the locks of Luffy's springy hair. "We promised not to let whatever it was inside you devour you, after all. Even if it's a god, it won't take our captain from us."

Luffy took another breath, and he squeezed her, and then Zoro, and then Sanji before he started to stand up in the center of the pile. 

"That's what crew's for," he agreed. Luffy closed his eyes, just standing there for a moment. "I don't want to chase him down. Let's just… let's just get the hell out of here and go back to our adventure!"

Nami spoke up, her voice cracking a little with a sharp hiccup of barely choked back tears before she ran over and scooped him into a hug. "I'll get us back on our heading, Luffy."

Chopper nodded, his hat bouncing on top of his velvety head. "Aye aye, captain! But you ARE gonna drink something to replenish your energy after that, doctor's orders!"

Yamato punched his hand. "Hell yeah! Jinbei! Lemme help get the rigging. Let's get outta this place as fast as—"

A hand placed on his shoulder from where it bloomed out of his back. "Have Franky prep the coup de burst," Robin said with a thin smile, "so we can leave this sordid little mess behind faster than the wind can take us." 

Luffy nodded. "Do it, Franky. Let's put this behind us."

[japeneselunchtimerush]

I talked about this in the ask thingy but it was too interesting so I decided to make a separate post about it.

Saiki would take one look at Akashi and be like hell no. Appears to be perfect like teruhashi?No Has another person inside their head?Double No Wears his school jacket like a cape?Triple No

Akashi would be way to extraordinary for Saiki and hes friends with Kokomi. I also think it would be really funny if Saiki used telapathy and heard Bokushi and Oreshi conversing in his head. He would be flabbergasted imo

I also want to see the showdown between Kokomi "gods favourite" Teruhashi and Akashi "I am absolute" seijuro. Akashi would definitely be the perfect pretty boy of the school. He would have a version of the Kokomins as well lmao.

He would definitely be a gentleman to her and would probably protect her from her creepy brother.

People(aka Nendo) would mistake Akashi for Saiki and Saiki would be pissed lmfao.

(Excerpt from the ask thingy)

Can you imagine a scenario in which akashi and saiki play rock paper scissors? Akashi obviously uses his emperor eye and saiki reads his mind but both of them keep finding out what the other is going to do.So they keep changing their signa until the last seconed.

Now I dont really know who would win in this scenario but it would be so funny if it was a draw. Neither of them have ever lost in a rock papet scissors game before so both of them would be shocked.

Kusuke sees this and is infront of them in 2 seconds flat because even he has never gotten a draw with kusuo. He asks akashi whether he can fiddle with his brain a bit and akashi politely declines lmao.

His aura is probably huge as well tbh something like a cape and crown. She probably thinks akashi is her Mr. Right until she finds out his initials are S.A and not S.K

This has already been discussed in this post but yes kaidou and akashi can complain about their overbearing parents.

Hairo finds out that he is good at basketball(and a few other sports if he trys) and then never stops inviting him to practice(Akashi finds it very hard to say no to him)

I assume that the akashi corp still exists so akashi and saiko have probably met in one of their fathers business meetings(akashi is probably one of the only people that saiko respects because of his money)

Well thats all I could think for now, I might add on more later. Please talk to me about this au

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Princess Mononoke Au

Kuboyasu, a prince of the disappearing Delinquency people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters Kusuo Saiki, a young human esper fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Teruhashi, who is trying to destroy it. Kuboyasu must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Cast:

Prince Kuboyasu, the last Prince of the Delinquency Tribe

Kuboyasu's traveling companion is Kaidou, a blue-white elk.

Saiki, a young esper who was raised by the wolves and feels hatred for humans, but eventually comes to care for Kuboyasu.

Kusuke, a giant wolf god and Saiki's adopted sibling.

Amp, an orange cat that Kuboyasu used to feed with no care for the rules of the village wanders up to Kuboyasu to gift him a crystal dagger necklace.

Lady Teruhashi, the ruler of Irontown who continually clears the forest. 

Hairo, Teruhashi's short-tempered but loyal buff bodyguard.

Toritsuka, a monk and mercenary who befriends Kuboyasu on his journey to the west. 

Aiura, the wise woman of Kuboyasu's village. 

Akechi, a blind boar god.

Metori Saiko, the emperor that employed the monk, Toritsuka.

Chono the magician, an ox driver.

Midori Nendo, the ox driver's wife.