#o kiku one piece

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Finally watched 1074 beyond the new OST and it had me tearing up. Luffy's a regular ole Tinkerbell. Not really into Messiah stories, but Oda's kinda keeping it real (as real as One Piece can get). Loved the samurai so willing to die for their family and country

especially Moonflower O-Cho, there, whose blue hair has probably turned mauve in the heat! compared with Usopp,

so willing to survive to save his friends, their family, and himself! (Like Hamlet, I like Usopp's style). Momonosuke and Kin'emon's impassioned remembrances and pleas about the role that samurai should be expected to play were tough.

Survival is the name of the game in One Piece, but not at any costs, but also at any cost (please excuse my not so great second Usopp screenshot there). Orochi rears his one remaining ugly head to face Hiyori down again. A pawn, once again, in men's games and pride (and I do mean men, not humanity as a whole). In the meantime

Kid and Law for the weary eyes. Both could probably survive the fire that's consuming the castle on Onigashima. Whether their crews could is another matter.

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i know i get pissed about the yamato gender discourse/general transphobia in the one piece fandom at least once a month... but how do you read this panel and miss the point. freedom is such an important concept in the series and, as we see from the newkamas, that includes the freedom to identify as whatever gender you want. you are actively ignoring and disrespecting one piece's values when you misgender yamato, kiku, or any other character. i hate people.

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Part 9 (Perhaps Zoro isn't always getting lost for no reason...)

Other parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Trans rights?

Trans rights !

Here O-kiku and Yamato, my two favorite trans character. I just love how they are literal walking pride flags

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Re: the One Piece poll

Guys OP has a s literal army of trans characters, it's actually a plot point, there's literally so fucking many trans and NB and genderfluid people in OP its kind of fucking insane

There's Bon Clay/Bentham from as early as Alabasta in March of 2000, 3 years after the initial publication of OP

Bon's powers let him transform into other people, and he's the only member of a bad guy group with male/female partners who doesn't have a female partner bc he's both the male AND female partner in his rank

He doesn't need one bc he's both

Bon is also consistently one of the best characters who helps Luffy, and who deeply respects the bonds of friendship, and he deeply admires Ivankov (next in the list)

Plus, Bon Clay is only one of two in the villain group to become good guys and befriends the main characters

There's fucking Ivankov, Queen of Kammabakka Kingdom an island full of drag queens and trans people, with his hormone powers that lets him trans all the genders for himself and everyone around him (aka the Newkama in Impel Down- a literal army of trans people who help Luffy break out of prison so he can save his brother)

AND he's the second in command of the Revolutionary Army, a group actively against the World Government that controls the entire globe, and is fighting against it's corrupt politics and ideals, such as allowing slavery for the higher classes, fighting the racism against Fishman it's held up for centuries, and all that stuff

Ivankov is one of the most important characters in the series in regards to the world politics and the fight for freedom against the oppression of the WG, and he works with what are unambiguously the Good Guys in the world, who are headed by Luffy's father

There's Okiku in Wano, who its 100% trans and even gets the horny Sanji treatment

(which is kinda important bc there was some Bad Trans/Queer rep earlier in the series involving Sanji running from drag queens who were harassing him and for a while Sanji was pretty transphobic and it was a whole thing, but Oda seems to have learned or educated himself by this point, so yay)

Plus Okiku is a super strong samurai, fucking powerful girl go off, and everyone treats her as one of the girls and she's the best tbh she deserves the world

She's so sweet and kind and strong af and is just as much a warrior as the rest of her group

Plus there's Yamato

Who, to be very clear, is not CONFIRMED as trans, but has a lot of gender fuckery going on that he belongs on this list imo, come to your own conclusions ig

Yamato is 100% confirmed as the biological daughter of Kaido, which is backed up in several other sources and even a colorspread with only biological women, but everyone in the story itself refers to him as he/him, Including Luffy who calls him by Yama-guy/Yamao

(something Luffy only does for men- he calls Ivankov and other more genderfluid or femme leaning queer folks by -chan)

and Yamato calls himself the Son of Kaido multiple times

Yamato saw someone be so awesome that he wanted to emulate that person and become them-

but as an apparently separate decision, he decided he also wanted to be a man, too! Not just because of Kozuki Oden, but because holy fuck look at that gender, I want that for myself!!!

His identity as Kozuki Oden and his identity as Son of Kaido seem to be separate things, bc Kaido, Kaido's forces, Luffy (our main character who helps us understand how to treat situations), and everyone else around him at least acknowledges that Yamato, is, in fact, the SON of Kaido, and everyone, regardless of which side they're on in the war, respects that and treats it as fact

Meanwhile, absolutely no one treats Yamato like he's actually Kozuki Oden

And there's no sign of Yamato being forced to become a man because Kaido wanted a son- 1), he was called Oni Princess fairly consistently as a child by Kaido's forces, and 2) he only became known as Son of Kaido after Yamato himself decided he wanted to become a man

Yamato has refused everything forced on him by his father, and has run away, hid, and fought back at every moment he could, and his gender and pronouns were the only real decision of his own that have been respected as all his other freedoms were taken from him

(Which doesn't say much about his horrible father- Kaido was guided by an incredibly strong female pirate at a young age, and he has plenty of strong women among his crew. Kaido doesn't care about what gender his kid is, or gender at all)

So yeah while Yamato is not confirmed in the text as trans like many other characters are in much more obvious ways, and several sources confirm that he's biologically female, he still goes by Son and he/him by the other characters and by his own choice, so make of that what you will

Please enjoy this spread of Yamato in the Men's bath (he refused to join the women's bc no mixed bathing), and Okiku in the women's

Anyway yeah op has tons of trans, genderqueer, and genderfluid representation in it, it might not look it but it's been there since basically March of 2000 when Bon Clay was first introduced and it hasn't stopped since

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Official promotional art of O-Kiku and Izou by Takashi Kojima

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Okiku!!

I enjoyed drawing this one so much!! ಥ_ಥ

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Pride 2023 Day 20: Kiku

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Qyuick Kiku sketch before I go sleep

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Heart Pirates Week 2023: Day 6: Uni: Home

AO3: Day 6: Uni: Home

As at home with a polearm as a pair of knives, Uni was grateful they'd made it to Onigashima in enough time to see the Whitebeard 16th Division commander, Izou, in battle.

Twirling and dancing, guns a-blazin', taking down one asshole pirate after the other, watching him fight was poetic.

Uni also was at ease with a weapon in either hand, and they weren't just for show. Place a knife in either palm and one blade or the other would meet its target if he wanted it to.

Izou's ties with Wano were a mystery, but it'd been an honour to fight beside him twice, even if it was from the sidelines the first time. One of the samurai they'd transported to Onigashima was his sister. She survived.

Monkey D. Luffy went to Marineford to save his brother, a sworn sibling of the Whitebeard crew. Whitebeard's crew descended to free him, Portgas D. Ace. The eldest always clearing a path for the youngest. The Polar Tang on stand by to ensure their safe journey.

@heart-pirates-week

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9

AO3 link will be live from approx JST 13:00, April 11

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Something I drew last night but was to tired to post

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Save me sword lady. Sword lady. Sav, ve me

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Fucking with different brushes while burnt out ( hooray )

[ikwhosmilk]

Forgot to post this here !! Yamato and his hot tall gf bought matching teddybears (and have matching bracelets)

And they had some fun at home 😋 (go on my twt to see it) 👇

https://twitter.com/_nsfwmilk?t=-I3i5VS6Vra_IWHVKHM_rA&s=09

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Yamato & O-Tama on the Chapter 1084 Colorspread —transphobes fuck off