#should I tag sabo? sure why not tbh

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cannot stop thinking about this scene. luffy may not have inherited his looks from his dad but he did inherit his world ending capacity for love and devotion. it’s just that dragon is far more circumspect about allowing himself to feel it and act on it than luffy ever has been. dragon loves luffy with such intensity and force that he knew the only way to live without regrets was to love his son from a distance, as an idea and not a person; any closer and he’d inevitably have to choose between his son and his ideals, and he values his ideals too highly for that choice to end in anything but pain. so instead he makes the decision before it can hurt luffy; before it can hurt dragon more than it already does. lots of extremely incoherent thoughts to be said about how sabo fits into this - all of dragon’s ruthless pragmatism and obsessive devotion with none of the distance, and about exactly the same person too! thankfully this has so far just resulted in sabo being clinically insane about his brothers but that’s for another post.