#iceburg

[mintaii]

one piece characters! suggestions were taken from here and twitter 🤠

[huyandere]

peer talk

[jakkenpoy]

[zewarudo]

https://twitter.com/Blink_Mints

[sibmakesart]

Breaking news : new mayor's assistant worse than the last one (the assassin)

[multifandomnonsense]

Shout out to some of the good One Piece parents

[99kahoy]

[bluestation]

[glitchraph]

one piece redraw:3333

[pocketwei]

collection of wanpis cards I made to send to my friends this new year <3

[ravendgie]

some characters that were requested on instagram! i didn't think i would enjoy drawing Arlong so much hahaha

[jjjeny]

the problem of sizes

[koobiie]

can you tell my favorite arc is water 7

[jakkenpoy]

[opbackgrounds]

So Oda's doing the thing here where he has a character spell out another character's entire motivation and development, and while that can at times be a sign of bad writing, here it works really well. Franky's in some deep denial here (ironically kind of like how Usopp was when they had their conversation about the Merry) and needs to hear what Iceburg's saying. And again, it's more effective because it's Iceburg who's saying it. Their history has been so fraught, but they're still brothers.

It doesn't hurt that the message itself is so, so important. Franky undoubtedly contributed to Tom's death, and everything he's done since then has been a form of self-punishment trying to atone for that mistake. But that's not what Tom would have wanted. It's not anything Iceburg or Kokoro or anyone else demanded of him. The only thing keeping Franky from living his dream is a cage made of his own guilt.

One Piece is a series that prioritizes freedom above all else, but the road to that freedom is usually blocked by what seems like insurmountable obstacles that can only be cleared with the help of others. Sometimes those obstacles are external, but just as often they're internal barriers that prevent characters from pursuing their own happiness. And for all the issues Iceburg and Franky have had in the past, this is what Franky needed to hear in order to unlock that cage and live his best, freest life.

[sibmakesart]

i may have reached water seven in my reread

maybe