#paulie the shark

[maxhpart]

🏄‍♂️ The Gnarlacious Rhodey Slater 💦

Wax it up, wave hogs and hoggettes—here comes the primo surfer dude himself, Rhodey Slater! He's a "fan* favorite", an avid enjoyer of F.A.T.A.L. (and being organized), and a shredder of those bodacious waves 🌊🦈🌊

Happy April Fools from @artists-guild-of-exandria, and hang loose brah 🤙

[revvethasmythh]

they way laura can't even LOOk at sam

[ikkaku-of-heart]

@bleuwalk​ and @72654​ asked:  ღ  // for my boy here but also maybe paulie 👉👈

Inbox me a ‘ღ’ and I’ll rate you with the following (Still Accepting!)  

For Sanji: 

Romantic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Sexual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Aesthetic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Sensual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme  

"Sanji is the kind of handsome that you can’t help but admire, especially when he’s in his gentleman mode. It doesn’t matter to me if we’re banging, dating, or just hanging out as friends; he’s a gorgeous man inside and out and I truly believe he deserves the world. I’d gladly go out with him as his date or as his wingman, so long as we can later hang out together and just joke and cuddle. He’s a damn fine man.”

For Paulie:

Romantic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Sexual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Aesthetic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Sensual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme  

"Paulie’s pretty attractive, but honestly he’s kind of adorable when he gets all flustered because I’m showing some skin while I work. Like, honey, the work is hot, and I’m hot. Of course I’m gonna unzip the boiler suit a bit. He’d better be careful calling me a ‘lewd woman,’ too, because I’m not afraid to show him how to really use those ropes of his. Honestly, he’s lucky he’s hot, otherwise I would have Sparta-kicked him off a dock for telling me to cover up.”

[hellsite-hall-of-ex-girlfriend]

*creams into the yaoi*

hi just following orders 🫡

anyways hello i am here to bother you!!!! what's your favorite bird of paradise? what's your least favorite movie/series you've seen in the past year? how many types of shark can you name off the top of your head?

you come into my house, cream into my yaoi, and then demand questions of me?

you’re lucky i’m a gracious and i shall answer your questions!

1) i don’t know… chicken?

2) in the past year i watched Pinocchio: A True Story (with Pauly Shore) so id have to say Dune: Part Two

3) hammerhead, great white… Bruce the Shark from Finding pNeumonia

[rollinouttahere-writes]

I SAW YOUR POST AND I ALSO LIKE PAULIE SM!! HE'S JUST SO CUTE <3 With that, I rlly hope u write a one shot of how he would react with a s/o whose love language is physical touch. Hope u have a nice day and I rlly rlly am a big fan of your writings, you're so amazing 🥹💗

Touchy

Paulie x GN!Reader

1k words

Dating someone like Paulie was an interesting experience. He was far from the most conventional boyfriend you’ve ever had, but that helped to endear him to you. It was funny how flustered he would get over the littlest things. Wrapping your arms around him would turn him bright red. Kissing his cheek would have him flailing and acting like you just accosted him, only to gently trace his fingers over where you kissed him once he thought you weren’t looking.

Simply put: he’s adorable.

There was a slightly less cute quirk of his. It leaned more into being funny. His ongoing evasion of debt collectors was more than a little amusing. It could get annoying when he abruptly ducked out in the middle of a date because he got spotted, but you’ve learned to roll with it. Watching him jump through hoops and hide in odd places never failed to make you chuckle, so you found it easy to forgive the transgressions. 

Tonight, though, it did scare the hell out of you. It was late, and you were just about to head to bed when you heard the window in your kitchen get opened and saw someone coming through it. You damn near cracked Paulie over the head with a frying pan before you realized that the person crawling through your window like a raccoon was actually your boyfriend and not a robber. He’s lucky you recognized the way that light reflected off his goggles. 

Unsurprisingly, his reasoning for doing this was because he was on the run again and hoped to lose the loan sharks by hiding out in your home until they either passed or gave up for the night. You were happy with this, despite the late hours. It wasn’t often that you could get Paulie to overlook the intense scandal of it all to visit your home in the late night hours like this. You would have fun teasing him about this later.

For now, though, you contented yourself with cuddling up to him on the couch with your legs thrown over his lap. Your arm was propped up on the armrest, with your chin resting on your fist. Your other hand busied itself by playing with the hair on the nape of Paulie’s neck.

Paulie had one of his arms resting on the back of the couch, and his other hand rubbed up and down your thigh absentmindedly while complaining about his debt as if he hadn’t been the one to take out those loans and is the true victim in this situation. “I keep telling them I’ll pay it back when I have the money! I don’t get why they can’t just wait.” Paulie huffed, exhaling the smoke from his cigar.

“How long have you kept them waiting now?”

“That’s irrelevant!” Paulie’s face tinted red and he shot you a glare that was dripping with embarrassment.

The glare does nothing to intimidate you. You chuckle and start gently scratching at his scalp, making him shiver under your touch. He groans and makes a half-hearted attempt to swat your hand away. He grumbles under his breath, “Quit trying to seduce me.”

That made you laugh. “Trying? Given that you’re my boyfriend, I think I’ve already succeeded in doing that.” 

His hand moved from the back of the couch to clamp over your mouth. Much to your amusement, his ears were tinged red. “You know what I meant!” Smoke puffed out of his mouth as he huffed. You smirked against his hand, and his eyes narrowed at you, wondering what you were up to.

Covering his hand with your own, you gently kiss the palm of his hand while maintaining direct eye contact with him. His entire face and neck turned ruby-red and he wrenched his hand away like you just bit him. He sputtered for a moment before shouting in a humorously high-pitched voice, “You harlot!”

You cackled at his embarrassment. Making him flustered was the highlight of this relationship for you. The hand you were previously using to play with his hair moves and pinches his cheek affectionately, “Calm down, baby. I’m just teasing you.”

“I know! That’s the point! You’re always teasing and trying to tempt me like a siren!” His voice was loud, but lacked any real weight behind it. Paulie was the definition of all bark, no bite. For you, at least.

Another smirk spread across your face. You lean forward, “You can’t mind it that much, sweetheart.”

Paulie grumbled and averted his eyes, “Of course I mind. Why else would I be telling you off?”

“Are you sure? Because the fact that your hand is still stroking my thigh is sending me mixed signals.”

He stiffened and looked down. His grip on your thigh tightened, but he distinctly didn’t let go. Paulie drummed his fingers on your thigh and ground his teeth as he floundered to save face, “It’s not my fault you’re walking around looking like this. You put your legs in my lap. What else am I supposed to do? Especially when you’re wearing such tiny shorts. They aren’t covering a damn thing.”

You cocked your head to the side, feeling confused as to what he’s talking about. “Shorts?”

It was now Paulie’s turn to look confused. “Yeah, shorts. You’re definitely not wearing pants right now.”

“I was just about to go to bed when you came in. This is all I wear to sleep.” Grabbing the hem of your oversized sleep shirt- that you stole from Paulie- you lift it up, revealing that you’re just wearing underwear underneath. 

The cigar in Paulie’s mouth falls onto the couch as he stares at you slack-jawed. Before you can so much as blink, he’s yanking your shirt back down while shrieking like a scandalized grandmother, “Harlot!”

Again, you laughed at his distress. You loved every second of his extreme reactions. It’s not as if he actually disliked any of this. Afterall, he hasn’t thrown you off his lap yet. Or let go of your thigh, either. He wasn’t fooling anybody, much less you. He loved this just as much as you did, he just hasn’t figured out how to say it out loud yet.

[quinloki]

How many shots for kiedo, Pauli, jinbe, and robin?

(Idk how to spell that dudes name😔)

-💧

Hm...

For Kaido... idk really. He's not my cuppa, but I'm not like yeeting him into the sun.... ah... no, no, I just don't think I could. He's such a weepy drunk I can't get over that. I'd have to pass, not enough shots for that one XD

Paulie? Oh Paulie is going to be the one needing shots for hooking up with me. That easily flustered rigger won't know what hit him honestly. I hope he gets flirty when he drinks, cause i'mma need him to focus. Paulie might need a couple bottles, but I can handle him sober.

Jinbei - probably 1-2 shots just to relax things. He seems pretty chill, and kind of has vibes similar enough to Marco. I know I could trust Jinbei to take the lead, so I wouldn't need to worry overmuch. Plus, I mean, Shark Fishmen, ya'know?

Robin.... oh I love her but she's so intimidating. I'd be half a bottle deep before she'd have to take it out of my hands, and take over. she's got a great fruit though >.> Very good for a hookup. I bet it'll be a lot of fun =3

[ameth18blog]

Comic collab with my deviant art friend SirinaTheHedgehog. Page 4 and epilogue.

As you saw in the previous page, the main characters of tribe 2 received gifts from their respective mates, and they show them (or talk about them) to their respective friends. Panel 1:  Amy shows her friends Tikal , Sally , Cosmo , Cream ( who is accompanied by her pets Cheese and Chocola ) and Rouge the bracelets that Sonic made for her. Panel 2: Fox shows his friends Fara , Lucy , Bill and Slippy the spear that Falco made for him. Panel 3: Jack and Louis talk to their friends Kibi , Tao , Bill and Pina about the food Legoshi made for them. Panel 4: Flaky shows her friends Cuddles , Toothy , Truffles and Handy the tiara that Flippy made for her. Panel 5: Retsuko shows her friends Washimi , Gori , Fenneko , Manaka , Hidarin , Migi and Puko the flute that Haida made for her. Panel 6: Michiru shows her friends Nina and Nazuna the hair ornament that Shirou made for her. Panel 7: Judy shows her friends Sharla , Gideon , Clawhauser and Gareth the new outfit that Nick and Jack made for her.

Later, now that the couples have gotten a little closer since they started dating, and by this point they decide to have their first kiss in one place, but not realizing that certain " bad guys " are watching them.

Main Couples: Sonic x Amy / Sonamy Falco x Fox / Falox Flippy x Flaky Nick x Judy x Jack / Wildehopps, Savagehopps, Wildehoppssavage Haida x Retsuko / Haidsuko, Haisuko, Retsaida Louis x Legoshi x Jack Shirou x Michiru Secondary Couples that appeared before this page: Paulie x Brenda James x Vixy Peppy x Slippy Sneaky x Mouse Ka-Boom Stu x Bonnie Retsuko's father x Retsuko's mother Yafya x Gosha Tao x Kibi Gem x Melissa

Tikal The Echidna, Cosmo The Seedrian, Amy Rose, Cream The Rabbit, Cheese The Chao, Chocola The Chao, Rouge The Bat and Sonic The Hedgehog belong to SEGA.

Sally Acorn belong to DIC Entertaiment.

Fara Phoenix, Lucy Hare, Bill Grey, Slippy Toad, Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi belong to Nintendo.

Flaky, Cuddles, Toothy, Truffles, Handy and Flippy belong to Mondo Mini Shows.

Ms. Tarantula, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark and Mr. Piranha belong to Aaron Blabey.

Judy Hopps, Sharla, Gideon Grey, Benjamin Clawhauser, Gareth, Jack Savage and Nick Wilde belong to Disney.

Retsuko, Washimi, Gori, Fenneko, Manaka, Hidarin, Migi, Puko and Haida belong to Sanrio.

Kibi, Tao, Bill, Pina, Jack, Louis and Legoshi belong to Paru Itagaki.

Michiru Kagemori, Nina Flip, Nazuna Hiwatashi and Shirou Ogami belong to Trigger.

[kilannad]

As the Stars Burn On Chapter 25

Masterlist. Ao3.

Rocketman

“Lucy!” Gajeel skidding to a stop on his knees, pressing his hands against her face and tilting her this way and that. “I thought you said you were fine.”

“I am.”

Laxus dropped down next to her, burying his face into her shoulder. Even muffled, she could hear his worry. “Then why the fuck can we smell your blood?”

She cringed, looking away. The absolute smack down they'd received at the hands of CP9 still smarted; she didn't care much for the pain outside of how it might slow her down in the coming fight, but the fact that she hadn't even managed to get a hit in ate at her. Surely after how far she'd come, she should be able to do better.

“Chopper's already patched me up,” she promised. She ran her hand through Gajeel's hair, coming back soot covered. Laxus, now that she looked, was similarly disastrous. “What the hell happened to you two?!”

“We helped evacuate the docks,” Laxus explained. His face shuttered, something haunted in his eyes. “It...wasn't pretty.”

She swallowed, closing her eyes. She prayed whatever souls had passed would find their way to peace. Next to them, the train roared to life with a rumble that echoed her own rage. Likely hundreds dead, all so CP9 could leave without being seen.

Kokoro had directed them all towards another underground storage area. Unlike Franky's base, this one was filled, though not with a ship. Instead, a short, gleaming silver sea train with a pointed shark figurehead awaited them. Rocketman had been a prototype to Puffing Tom but Kokoro got it up and running and was certain she could get them through Aqua Laguna and to Enies Lobby. Chopper had patched everyone up best he could, and Nami had sourced food and booze for them all to refuel on. All that was left was for Luffy to give the order.

“Oi, wait!” Zambei, Franky's right hand, stumbled in with the twins right behind him. “Straw Hat, is it true? Was big bro really taken?”

“Yes,” Lucy answered, Luffy busy stuffing his face. “But we're going after our crewmate anyway, so we'll bring him back.”

“We can't let you do that alone,” Kiwi argued.

“He's our big bro!” Mozu agreed.

“Let us come with you,” Zambei added. “We just need to hook are King Yagara's to you and the Franky Family will have your back.”

Pursing her lips, Lucy considered the offer. It would be undeniably helpful to have more people, yet she didn't think the Franky Family had the high level fighters the Straw Hats boasted. Enies Lobby wasn't any marine base; it was one of the three pillars of the World Government, a fortress of fighters and tactitians. In short—the Straw Hats were going into a death trap.

“Eh, sure,” Luffy said. “Why not?” The three dismantlers took off before Lucy could argue the point, but in the end it wouldn't matter. What Luffy said, Luffy got. With a contented sigh, Luffy stood with a stretch. “Yoish! Let's go.”

“Before you go,” Paulie announced, stepping down the staircase. He tossed something over to Luffy. “Give that to Lucci. And tell him he's fired.”

“You aren't going to insist on coming?” Zoro asked.

“Normally I would. But Water 7 is a mess and we need all the help we can. As Vice President, I have to stay.” He bit down hard on his cigar. “But make no mistake. You make it clear that Galley-La will kill any of those CP9 assholes that show their faces again.”

“Noted,” Laxus said. “Good luck.”

“Says the man sailing straight towards hell.”

With all the interuptions taken care of, the remaining Straw Hats loaded onto Rocketman, Kokoro settling into the conductors room. “Alright, pirates! Rocketman is taking off, final destination the Judicial Island, Enies Lobby! When I get us on the tracks, we'll be set. Until then, hold on to your everything.”

“Here,” Nami announced as the doors closed. “I got everyone a change of clothes.”

Rocketman began moving, steam building and releasing with a loud whistle. Laxus and Gajeel both downed the pills Chopper gave them like two men dying as they went flying out of the warehouse and down into the ocean itself. Rocketman traveled above the water, Kokoro masterfully handling him as she guided him towards the rails that floated just under the water. The storm was a full living thing now, filled with wrath and hatred as they went straight into the heart of it. The Franky Family, with two massive, sea king-sized yagara's, attached themselves to the rear of the train.

Laxus and Gajeel changed into the clothes they'd warn to meet Franky in, while Lucy switched into a black skirt and purple sweetheart cut shirt with a white shawl over it. Zoro had taken off the shirt he usually wore under his haramaki and thrown on a tan leather jacket he wore open; Nami had switched to a crop top and jean jacket with a skirt and Luffy, in true Luffy fashion, had only another version of his usual shorts and shirt. Usopp and Chopper, similarly, had stuck to their old comfort clothes, adding only a cape and pink vest, respectfully.

After everyone had changed, Lucy realized that Usopp had retreated to a back corner, face buried in his hands as he trembled all over. She took a step, only to have Laxus hold her back, shaking his head as he approached Usopp himself. Trusting him to have it in hand, she checked on the rest of the crew. Zoro and Luffy had gone outside to deal with an incoming wave, just as Rocketman landed on the rails, speed quatrupling easily. Kokoro joined them in the main cart, easily revealing they were now on a runaway train with no chance to stop. Lily was comforting Chopper while Nami checked her Climatact.

With nothing else to do, Lucy started prepping her own arsenal.

☉

Sanji hissed a breath between his teeth, cracking his spine. Cipher Pole agents were no joke, and these idiots weren't even the big wigs. The boxer, shitty as he was, had gotten a few too many good hits in, leaving Sanji aching and bruised. Puffing Tom pierced through the storm easily, sending them all closer and closer to Enies Lobby and Robin's execution. Lucy had dropped contact with him, opting to save as much of her magic as possible; it meant he was going in blind, the calvary charge to rescue a lady in need.

Six seas, he hoped she was okay. And if she wasn't? Not even the fire of hell would stop him from exacting vengence.

☉

Jonathan was glad that he was taken to one of the upper offices in the Tower of Law. It was well known among the upper ranks that if you were called to judgement by Judge Baskerville, the decision had already been made. Instead though, he sat down with a very severe looking but pleasant CP1 agent. While CP1 was likely the weakest in terms of strength, they were especially hated by marines for one simple reason; they conducted internal affairs.

“Vice Admiral 'Chessmaster' Jonathan,” Agent Linna began, serving tea. “Why don't you start by telling me how you managed to let not one, but two captured POI escape your prison?”

Ah. Perhaps not as pleasant as he hoped.

☉

Sanji slammed into the wall, groaning. The smell of ramen was nearly overwhelming, second only to the offence he felt at this CP7 idiot daring to use food as a weapon. He'd had a fairly good feeling after he'd managed to free Franky and the two of them had disconnected the last two cars; of course, then he'd walked in to someone who'd dare to call himself both a cook and a fighter.

Needlessly to say, he'd sent Franky ahead via the top of the train car. This idiot was his.

☉

“Is that the sea train?”

“No way,” Nami countered. “It's way too soon.”

Laxus tilted his head, focusing his hearing in. He could make out two floating train cars, but as he sorted through the noise they were making, it quickly became clear it wasn't any of their people. “Only marines.”

“Okay,” Luffy hummed. “Zoro, cut it.”

“Sure.”

It probably said a lot about their life that no one even blinked at the order—

or the following destruction.

“Hold on,” Gajeel called, pulling his head back in the car. “There's someone walking up ahead on the tracks.”

“Huh,” Laxus grunted, listening to the truly empassioned rant of someone who announced himself as Captain T-Bone. “I didn't realize there was such a thing as a marine that actually cared about civilians.”

Above, standing on the tip of the train, Zoro tied his bandana on. “Too bad he's standing in our way.”

☉

Franky grunted at the slash of razor air to his chest. The weasel looking freak—Nero, some rookie CP9 ass—was too fast for him to hit but too weak to do any real damage. It left them in an awful standstill, neither able to get something over on the other, but equally unwilling to back down. Franky was doing his best to conserve cola, but there was only so much he could do.

☉

“Nico Robin is still unsconscious in the first car,” Corgy announced. Kaku didn't say anything, only watched as Lucci dismissed him. With Nico still sedated and them closing in on Enies Lobby every second, it was only a matter of time before this mission was over. He'd be assigned another soon enough.

He closed his eyes, only to have blood flash behind his eyelids. Kaku had killed and been witness to enough death that few things haunted him anymore. (A lie he told himself to get through the day.) Iceburg...Iceburg might be the only one he regreted. He hadn't spoken against Lucci when he'd decided to kill the man—they had a mission and they would complete it at any cost. He just wished things had turned out differently.

He hoped his next assignment had something to do with ships. He'd enjoyed being a shipwright more than he probably should have. It was dangerous, they'd always been lectured, to get attached to a cover. They were just faces and weapons on which any story could be told. Getting attached to somewhere meant getting attached to someone and that meant weakness. Weapons with weaknesses broke and the World Government didn't waste resources fixing them.

Across the isle, Kalifa caught his eye. They'd grown up together, had gone on so many missions that they could talk without a single word passing between them. Lucci trusted Kaku as his second but Kalifa was probably the closest thing to a friend Kaku had.

This is our job, her eyebrow said.

This mission is shit, his rolled shoulder pointed out.

Our lives are shit, her pressed lips shouted. He had to conceed the point. Kalifa was a legacy CP9 agent going back three generations; the second she was conceived, her life had been chosen for her. Kaku, as the bastard result of a CP7 agent disobeying orders and going AWAL, had been paying for his father's sins since he was dropped on River Island at five. They'd been forged for the sake of justice and, as Lucci was so fond of reminding them, Justice was what the Government decided.

He tilted his head, the barely there movement conveying more than he could ever bring himself to say. Kalifa looked away, recrossing her legs. It was the only response she could give.

Do you ever wonder if we could be free?

Dreams don't come true for monsters.

☉

Lucy rerolled her whip, as ready as she'd ever be. She'd learned the extent of Hóu's abilities when she'd brought Shé out earlier; Gemini knew their job should the worst happen; she'd rested and conserved as much of her magic as possible; and Chopper had stuffed her full of more pain pills than he'd wanted, knowing as he did that her sitting out wasn't an option.

There was still a miniscule chance of Sanji managing to grab Franky and Robin both before they caught up with the sea train, but they all knew how likely that was. The sheer power of CP9 couldn't be overstated; they were stronger than anyone she had ever seen before, except Gildarts and Gramps. She trusted that they would win, though. A second failure wasn't an option.

☉

Kuzan pulled his sleeping mask down, ignoring the saluting marine at his door. The marine—one of Garp's newest protogees—didn't seem to care.

“Admiral Aokiji, sir! Fleet Admiral Sengoku would like you to report to his office.”

“Tell him I'm doing paperwork.”

The kid, admirably, did not point out how this was a bold-faced lie. “He says it has to do with Nico Robin, sir.” Kuzan went very still. When it was clear he still wasn't going to get up, the kid added, “He, uh, also told you to say, quote 'He can either help bring Nico Robin in or he can take her place in Impel Down' end quote.”

Kuzan considered the likelihood of that being an exageration compared to Sengoku's tendencies to be a hardass.

With a sigh, he got up.

☉

Sanji slammed into a wall; he was honestly getting sick of the feeling. He and Franky had managed to defeat their opponents and get to the second car, where all of CP9 was stationed. The only problem? When wonderful Lucy had warned him that CP9 was strong, she had undersold them. They were downright monsters and there was no way he and Franky could get through four of them. Franky seemed to have the same idea.

“Your crew is on the way right?”

“Yeah. We're not letting them keep Robin.”

“Alright. Then this probably won't kill you.” Before Sanji could react, Franky had picked him and tossed him out of the train, straight onto the tracks. Unable to stop, Sanji landed in the ocean, coming up sputtering, just in time to see Kaku restrain Franky as the Puffing Tom sped away.

Cursing, he found the train tracks and held on desperately, fighting against the storming ocean. Luckily for him, it didn't take long for the Rocketman to become visible and for Luffy to offer him a hand up.

Getting in was easy, but facing the reality that he'd failed? That was harder.

“I just don't get it,” Usopp spit out. “Why take Robin specifically? Or Franky?”

“Pluton,” Lucy murmured. “They...They asked Franky where the blueprints for Pluton were.”

“What's Pluton?” Zambai asked.

“It's a battleship,” Nami explained. “But not just any battleship. One of three ancient weapons from the Void Century said to be able to destroy the world.”

“Did Robin tell you?” Lucy said.

Nami nodded, sitting down heavily. “Yeah. Her nightmare that I saw it...it was horrifying. She told me, the next night when she woke up screaming, what the story was.” Tearing up, she shook her head. “There is nothing that scares Robin more than the World Government hurting us. Especially CP9.”

“But why?” Sanji demanded. “She has to know we'll always come for her.”

“Because she's already dealt with CP9 before,” Nami told them. “When they destroyed her home island with a buster call.”

☉

When Nico Robin was two years old, her mother left. If she ever had a father, she didn't remember him. Professor Clover took care of her sometimes, but he was old and more of a crazy uncle than a true dad, so her mom left Robin with her aunt and uncle. Uncle Oak was kind, and gentle, but he let Aunt Roji take control and Roji hated Robin. It was not a nice childhood and when she ate her Devil Fruit it got even worse.

Ohara was a beautiful island in the West Blue with an easy going mayor and scholars that stayed cloistered within the five thousand year old Tree of Knowledge. None of the civilians knew what a Devil Fruit was and the other children called her a freak for her powers. She spent all her days at the Tree, learning to be a scholar and archiologists just like her mother in hopes that, one day, she would go out to sea with her. But Ohara had a secret and it was a deadly one.

The scholars studied all history but what they studied most of all was the Void Century using the Poneglyph they'd hidden away beneath the tree. Robin, being curious and with her powers, had long since learned of the stone and taught herself to read to secret language in hopes of impressing her professors. It didn't work out so well.

Professor Clover was furious and terrified when he'd learned what Robin had done, just after she'd officially been declared a scholar of Ohara. He and the rest of the professors stopped letting her in the tree or encouraging her curiousity. She was truly and deeply alone.

Which is when she met Vice Admiral Jaguar D. Saul.

Saul was a giant and a marine that had gone AWAL in objection to the execution of Nico Olvia's entire crew and her own arrest. But when he met Robin he didn't call her a devil or freak or any other nasty thing. He was her friend and he taught her to laugh even when times were hard.

There was one problem though; CP9, led by an awful man named Spandine, had discovered what the scholars were researching and had come to put a stop to it. In pursuit of that, they called a buster call; a marine attack featuring ten battleships and five Vice Admirals with the soul purpose of annihalating everything in their way. Usually, only Admirals and above had the power to order one using special golden den-den but just that once, CP9 had been given permission. Every man, woman and child on that island was killed, Olvia, having just returned, included. Saul was frozen by then Vice Admiral Kuzan but, in keeping with Saul's final wishes, let Robin escape.

Eight years old, having watched her mother and everyone she had ever cared about killed by the so-called Justice of the world, Nico Robin ran. And for the last twenty years, she hadn't been able to stop.

☉

Nami paused, wiping at her eyes. “That's the story. That's why they want her so bad. She's the only survivor of a genocide they commited and they're set on finishing the job.”

The entire train wobbled with the force of Luffy's punch. His face was cast in a dark shadow by his hat, visibly steaming in anger. “They're taking her to Enies Lobby?”

Lucy nodded sharply, pulling her hair back into a high pony tail. She felt raw and exposed, like someone had peeled back her skin. There were few things she hated more in this world than slavery but she decided that the World Government just went to the top of her shit list. “Two gates block the way into the central island, where 10,000 soldiers are stationed; beyond that, we need to access the courthouse to drop down the bridge to the Tower of Justice which guards the way to the Bridge of Hesitation. From there, the Gates of Justice from which there are only two destinations; the underwater gallows, Impel Down, and Marine HQ, Marineford. Either is a death sentence.”

“Do you all get that?” Nami asked sharply. “If Robin crosses the Gates of Justice, it's over. She'll be out of our reach.”

“Got it,” Luffy announced. “Laxus?”

“Right. Lucy managed to get her hands on a map of Enies back on Navarone, and it llookssomething like this.” Nami offered up the loose sketch of an island for Laxus to spread on the floor before them all. Of course, what Nami declared mediocure sketch, Marine cartographers declared their magnum opus. Laxus dragged his finger across as he talked. “The island is floating above a giant hole in the ocean, nd is made of two parts. But step one is crashing to a stop.”

“We're crashing?!” Chopper shreeked.

“There aren't any breaks,” Zoro pointed out. “Besides, best way to do it.”

“Sure, except it's not that easy. There's a seastone fence that surrounds the entire entryway. Lily will fly himself and Gajeel over and pull it down.”

“Hate to say it, but I can't break seastone, and it'll take too long to eat it.”

“You don't have to take it down all the way. Just angle it.”

“So we can use it as a ramp,” Sanji concluded. “Smart.”

“That should get us past the island gate. While Luffy goes ahead—beccause we all know he's not waiting around—we'll help the Franky Family clear the inner gate. Half of their numbers will stay behind to hold the exit with one of their yagaras. The rest will move forward through the island to take the courthouse. The Straw Hats will spread through the streets and rendevou there, so we aren't a sitting target. We're not sure what the mechanic for dropping the bridge is, but we'll need to find it so we can get over to the Tower of Law. This is probably where CP9 will be holding Robin—and Franky—until the escort from Marine HQ arives and opens the Gates. We spread out and take them down, one by one.”

“The pigeon guy is mine,” Luffy snarled.

“I have dips on Discount-Usopp,” Zoro added. At the various raised brows, he said, “He's a swordsman.”

Lucy didn't know how Zoro knew that, but she wasn't about to argue with him. The same way they all knew Luffy always got the strongest oopponent, Zoro got the swordsman.

Laxus nodded. “So be it. Lucy will gather what information she can as we move through while Usopp moves to the top of the Tower. You're our lookout; if they get Robin on that bridge, you use a mini-den den to call Lucy, and she contacts the rest of the crew. Buy us as much time as you can, Usopp.”

Swallowing heavily, he nodded. “I'll do what I need to.”

“What happens when we get Robin and big bro?” Kiwi asked.

“We retreat,” Laxus said immediately. “We aren't reavers—our objective is to save Robin and Franky and get out alive. This isn't like G-8, where there's only a single high-ranking officer. There is no telling who or what is on that island outside of CP9. We take one of the ships and circle around to pick up the Franky Family before getting out of dodge.” Pulling back, he looked up at Luffy, deadly serious. The tension spiked. “Before this, we've been pests in their ears, just another crew of pirate rookies. But this?” He waved his hand at the map, the crew, the invasion they'd planned. “This might as well be a declaration of war.”

Luffy didn't flinch. “They took Robin.”

It was as simple as that. The Marines had taken one of theirs, and they weren't leaving until they got her back.

“I'm glad that's all settled,” Kokoro declared with a laugh. “Because we've reached our final destination. Welcome to the Judicial Island, Enies Lobby!”

“Whoa, it looks really cool!”

“Meow!”

“Chimney! Gombei! What are you two doing here?!”

[mtwiind]

@euloges asked:

“You mind if I crash here for the night?”

it was late when he heard the knocking on the door, to his surprise it was paulie. looking around him for a moment to see if there was anyone else, the man had to wonder why he was here asking to stay the night.

but then it hit him.

"does this mean that the loan sharks finally took your house?" he wasn't upset or anything, more worried over the state of the other's well being. he moved aside nonetheless, letting him into his home. "you can stay as long as you like, i can put on some tea or something..i don't have much for booze though." assuming paulie needed something stronger than both tea and coffee combined right now.

[carlosroborto]

Carmine Persico spit the bullet out of his mouth - and his protégé, Pauly 'Walnuts' Gualtieri!?

The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part of a local street gang. His first arrest was at 17 in the fatal beating of another youth during a melee in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. When the charges were dropped, he was recruited to the world of organized crime — working in bookmaking and loan-sharking operations. By his mid-20s, Persico was a “made man” in the family headed by Joe Colombo, and worked his way up the hierarchy.

[queenofthequillandink]

Pictured: Liam considering filing for divorce.

[yurimage]

mí pobrecito <3

[musiciansguitarsnaturesbeauty]

EVH Guitars

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[thatjordynfever]

my series in my painting classes has been hockey players and today was the final evaluation/critique of my last art class in college! in the lineup we got martin jones, braden holtby, marc andre fleury, matt murray, and thomas di pauli! the little last minute baby painting of matt murray was the fan favorite! (even though it beat my ass in a dark alleyway-i messed up and had to start over sjdhsijdbdod) please enjoy