More dark!Lawrusso
In which Daniel finally snaps and loses his shit.
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The next time Johnny saw Daniel was after school, sitting in the grass. Johnny was supposed to meet Ali after school because he wanted to take her to the new pizza place down the street, but she hadn’t arrived yet. Johnny was beginning to think that she had blown him off.
And then he saw LaRusso, and all of Johnny’s anger boiled over. Daniel was lying on his back, his arms crossed under his head like a pillow, staring at the clear sky. He was totally unaware of Johnny approaching until he felt Johnny’s sneaker bump against his head.
Irritated, Daniel sat up. He didn’t meet Johnny’s eyes as he said,
“What gives, Johnny?”
Filled with an inexplicable need to bite someone’s head off, Johnny snapped back,
“You seen Ali?”
“No,” Daniel spat, narrowing his eyes. What the hell was Johnny’s problem? He had been minding his own business, trying to clear his mind before he went home, but apparently, a guy couldn’t catch a break. “Why you askin’ me?”
“Because you’re always up her ass,” and that was it, Johnny’s last bit of self-control dissipated. “It’s a buzzkill.”
Daniel knew what Johnny was trying to do, knew that Johnny was just hurling words at him to get under his skin and that he should just let it roll off of his back, but Daniel was quite frankly, sick of Johnny and the Cobras’ constant harassment of him. There’s only so much a guy can take.
He didn't think as he stood up and inched into Johnny’s space, not backing down even when Johnny stared daggers at him. Daniel’s voice was poisonous when he said,
“And what if I was up her ass? What are you gonna do about it, Johnny?” Daniel sneered, his upper lip pulling back to reveal his teeth. “Maybe I’m up her ass every day. Maybe she likes having me up her ass.”
None of this is true, of course, but Daniel was tired of holding back. Fuck what Johnny thinks.
“Shut the fuck up, LaRusso,” Johnny warned, his voice low and cold.
Daniel stepped even closer, until their chests were touching, Johnny’s heaving with his erratic breaths, and whispered darkly,
“Make me.”
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pov: you have maladaptive daydreaming disorder and hallucinations /neg
awh, I'm sorry. I hope you guys figure it out eventually and I'm wishing you the best <3 (/platonic)
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The worst part about trying to figure out what Crocodile's deal is that because he's so fucking irredeemably evil in Alabasta... Like... Yeah he's just irredeemably evil. Like I love him but he did cause countless casualties, a ton of pain and suffering and literally attempted to blow up a million people
Like no amount of theoretical "trying to do it to save his son from the Government" or "trying to stop the Government from hurting anyone else" or just "doing it for the greater good" is going to make him any less of a mass murderer
But also Robin absolutely 100% helped with all of that shit simply because she wanted to read the Poneglyph for herself.
No amount of her intending to betray Crocodile from the begining and sabotaging his plans erases the fact that Robin also caused countless people to starve to death and die in the civil war. Her sabotages only succeeded out of sheer luck, and only spared the lives of the people at the final battle. She has the blood of countless innocents on her hands. Because she wanted to read history.
But her crimes were swept under the rug because she has a sad backstory and her sabotages worked out just at the nick of time by sheer dumb luck
So Croc??? Just??? Is there a chance??? At all???
But also he did literally intend to sell Buggy into slavery
Like, fuck Buggy, but jesus
What's also killing me is that we like. Don't know what Luffy thinks of Crocodile right now. Which really is like. The thing that will decide how we, as the readers, are supposed to feel about Crocodile. Luffy is our POV
Like we don't know what Luffy's opinion of Crocodile is after he helped save Luffy (and spared Ace once) during the Summit War. Like Luffy clearly fucking hated the man in Impel Down and the two interactions they had during the War weren't like positive (in the sense that Luffy himself didn't think of the interactions as particularly positive. Defending Whitebeard from being attacked once and then being like "wait what HIM?!" when Crocodile defended Ace. To be fair, in the midst of the chaos, there wasn't much time to spend on Pondering On Such Things because Ace needed to be saved, and Oda goes out of his way to not show us what's going on inside Luffy's head, because it's all meant to be out in the open anyways. Regardless, these weren't like "yay it's Crocodile! :)" moments for Luffy is what I mean)
But also Luffy was very grateful of Law for saving his life and was willing to put his trust into Law for their alliance- of course, they weren't explicitly enemies to begin with, rivals at most, but still. Luffy respects those who help him.
But also Luffy grew during the timeskip. Like he's not that clueless anymore (like he finally understands Hancock is in love with him etc), and similarly Luffy gets that Buggy is an absolute loser now. But also Buggy did also help save Luffy's life (even if it was by accident), and while IDK if Luffy is aware of that, I don't think that helped improve Luffy's impression of Buggy
So like. The fuck does Luffy think of Crocodile, at this moment? Even with the Cross Guild reveal, he didn't even really comment on Croc and just focused his energy on being confused about Buggy being "the leader" of CG. IDK it feels almost intentional or something, that we don't know what Luffy thinks?? Especially since we did get Zoro's opinion on Mihawk in the situation?? Or am I delulu??
(Sidenote. I'd love to know what Robin would have to say about Crocodile helping save Luffy's life. What Jinbei might think of the final words Crocodile left him with before blasting them out of Akainu's reach. But mainly just Robin's thoughts)
Like IDK my best guess would be that Luffy still hates Crocodile just the same but is like grossed out by technically owing him one??? In the classic
-kinda way, you know? And that he'd be just kinda confused about it?
Because I can't fucking imagine Luffy being like "oh we're cool now" with Crocodile, let alone "Yay Crocodile :) He saved my life!". But also like. Luffy does kind of owe Croc one. Kind of. And Luffy is usually very respectful of that kind of thing. Aaaaaaaa???
(Also does. Does Luffy even know it was Crocodile who yeeted him and Jinbei out of Akainu's reach to begin with. 'Cause he was unconcious. Knocked the fuck out. Does. Does Luffy even know. Did anybody tell him???)
I just.
There's the reasonable part of me that knows Crocodile is an irredeemable evil dickbag and everything he has ever said and done up to the most recent chapters support that. He is too far gone.
And then there's the absolutely delulu part that loves a tragic villian who gets a heartwrenching redemption that's looking for any fucking sign that could indicate Crocodile could maybe be one
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