#luffy and his parents

[green-crocs12]

really lazy quick sketches of luffy and his parents bc i haven’t posted in forever lol (yes i believe in the crocomom theory) i hc luffy actually looks a lot like crocodile so

also i think dragon would have been a good father

[humans-are-tasty]

[sualne]

father.

(timeline)

[chinelacanta]

i just know he’d be a really awkward but supportive dad (< delusional)

[extrashortshorts]

Luffy's mom

And luff

[moonchild-nissa]

Soulmates

[pointycorgiears]

While Luffy is training with Rayleigh, he sometimes goes to sit on the beach or the cliff edge during downtime, and just gazes out at the sea.

One time, during a break of a rather hard training session, he sits there and thinks about his crew. Wherever they are. He thinks about Ace...and suddenly he just feels all that weight again.

He couldn't save any of them. Because he wasn't strong enough.

His body trembles and something stings at his eyes. He refuses to cry in front of Rayleigh, but when he's on his own, he'll let a few tears fall as he thinks about his crew and his brother, and how he could not stop what happened to them.

"It's so hard...what if I can't get stronger? WHAT IF I CAN'T SAVE THEM!?" he yells at the wind.

He shudders, tears rolling down his face, while the waves crash below him.

Then, after a while, the breeze lifts. It rises up the cliff edge until it rolls over the top and around Luffy.

And then it embraces him.

It coils around him, pressing his arms against his sides. It ruffles through his hair, brushing loose strands out of his face. It is warm and comforting on his skin until he stops shaking.

There is nothing you cannot do, a light, yet deep voice whispers in his ear, laced in the breeze. He breathes deep and his lungs fill with a crisp air smelling of sea salt and seaweed. His eyes become dry as the wind blows away his tears.

It's okay.

He feels a calm envelope him.

Keep going, the wind says. You will become one of the strongest yet. Keep going.

The breeze rises up to the trees and then falls back down again, brushing the top of his head and pressing into his cheek like a soft hand. It rolls back over the water and spreads out to the sea.

Luffy stares at the ocean, both eyes and mind now clear, and he waits for Rayleigh to come fetch him.

[1000sunnygo]

IMO a lesser mentioned reason behind Luffy's overwhelming success as a protagonist is Oda's extreme overprotectiveness. Like he'd rather jump off a cliff than let Luffy be controversial.

Marineford is an easy example. An arc heavily featuring Luffy's low point, but Oda didn't make him responsible for Ace's death. In 1000+ chapters of screentime, I can't think of an instance where Luffy did something irredeemable in fandom eyes. Only controversial scene that comes to mind is picking a fight against Zoro in Whiskey peak? Maybe Oda had the luxury to let his guard down back then bc online discussions weren't a thing PFFT

It's not like Luffy doesn't make mistakes, but Oda makes sure Luffy is immediately called out by someone in the story so he stays grounded and can apologize if he has to.

And that's not all, Oda is vocally supportive of Luffy in the polls, he can't not include Luffy in magazine covers even when the editors press him to, he made the timskip 2years bc he wanted Luffy to stay a child during story's runtime, he doesn't let a single character outshine Luffy in an arc, he cushioned Luffy's past with TWO brothers and kept one alive after taking away one of them.. he's spoiling Luffy rotten and I love to see it bc that's the right kind of spoiling, that's what keeps Luffy the happy boy he needs to be, shonen authors should take some notes methinks

[buff-muffin]

I love the idea that Sabo and Ace commonly call Luffy a brat. But not in a mean way just annoyed. Because it’s always Luffy’s way or the highway. He has to get what he wants or he’ll whine whine whine. Well at least that’s how it feels when they are the ones making sure every animal in the forest doesn’t kill him. And Luffy does not care at all about the name he probably doesn’t even know what it means, that or he’s just been called it so much it means nothing to him.

but when Sabo returned home and met Stelly, a real brat. He got a taste of just how much of an amazing and compassionate kid Luffy really is. A brat doesn’t run to you excited to show you the bug he found. Or gives you part of their blanket so you’re extra warm. A brat doesn’t want to hear stories by candle light and wants to hug you every second of the day. Luffy is an amazingly kind person. And Stelly will never be that and the fact his family wanted him to felt wrong. No one will be his little brother besides the brat who would demand to fight him every damn day.

[eroguron0nsense]

Luffy and Garp after Marineford, Egghead

Minor, very vague spoilers for Egghead I have been pretty vocal in the past about my simultaneous fascination with/visceral hatred of Monkey D. Garp but I spend a lot of time wondering about how Luffy feels toward him nowadays. How he must feel knowing that his grandfather had a hundred different opportunities to defect, to resist, to try and intervene in some capacity to save his brother, and Garp didn't do shit until it was much, much too late aside from acquiesce after mild resistance and feel sorry for himself. That complete strangers and former enemies cared more for him, were willing to risk so much more to help him, than his flesh and blood, the man who "raised" him and his brother, the man who claimed in some fucked up neglectful capacity to love and want the best for them. Just sitting there on the goddamn platform watching things unfold, stewing in a misery he made for himself and a conflict of love and duty that shouldn't be a conflict at all, unable to do a thing for these wonderful, kind, innocent goddamn children, these beautiful kids who bring light to everyone they meet, who he took in and vowed to protect, out of some disgusting misguided sense of duty to a fascist military. That this horrendous thing that killed his brother and ruined the lives of multiple people he loves meant more to Garp than either of his grandchildren ever did. I wonder how Luffy's going to feel knowing that if/when he hears about Garp was willing to do to save Coby in Egghead. I can't imagine he'll ever want to see Garp again, or be able to forgive him, but Luffy knowing that his Grandfather would risk so much more for his friend than either of them when they needed him, when one of them was dying–even though he'd likely never hold it against Coby–is such a horrible thing to imagine

[zentriii]

trans dragon who chose not to medically transition vs trans crocodile who got a dick from iva before they got to luffymaking. is this anything?

[miramelo]

Sea puppy au

Au where Luffy is taken to be raised in the marine headquarters after Sabo's death because Garp believes is no longer safe to have the rest of his grandkids together in one place

He learns early on about who his dad is and becomes lowkey angry and resentful because he didn't come for him(he does NOT want to be a marine but his grandpa told him he could help Ace that way) and also because PROPAGANDA✨🫡

I AM GOING INSANE!!! I NEED TO DRAW MORE!!!I can't help it

I like something and I have to create an au that's SO indulgent to me. I saw a lot of OP au stuff where people were making luffy a Spinel so I said BET.

Anygays, I like how I drew luffy in thisvvv

[a-bit-of-cest]

tfw you spend a full 24 hours thinking your captain is dying only to find out you're getting another crew mate

[yuripira4e]

I love the trope of “kid without a mother/father figure discovers magical world and gains 4 of them”

[fucktheroyals]

One Piece isn’t actually about Luffy, it’s about Shanks & Buggy. Luffy is the just Shank’s son, who is unintentionally getting them back together. I said what I said.

[1pcii]

Scott pilgrim x one piece au where Luffy fights all of shank's evil ex's to claim the title of "pirate king' you will always be famous to me <333