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i think i have a problem and/or obsession with drawing this freak in scenarios (mini submission for @sanjiartcollab)

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Where this goes, part 4 (aka the rest of it)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

DID DRAWING THIS ENDING MAKE ME CRY???? AND SOB??? YEAH BRO

If you made it to the end, thank you for reading this! Drawing it was very tender and soft for me and I'm glad I did it.... i hope it wasn't too difficult to read

i love wanpis 😭😭😭And these two characters very very much

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Where this goes, part 3.

Part 1 (Start), Part 2, Part 4

valid questions???

I love playing with silence in comics

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Where this goes, part 2.

Part 1 (Start), Part 3, Part 4 (End)

LAKSDJFLASKDJFLAKSDJFALKSDJFLKADJLKJ

i was really messing around with panel flow for these couple pages, i wanted it to feel mushy... rip

Screaming and kicking my legs

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Where this goes, part 1.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (end)

Hrrrrmmmmm okkaaaay soooooo

this is a sketch comic i drew last year (November 2023) shortly after finishing Ennie's Lobby and starting a new full time job. I didn't really write a script for it and i finished it in 2 weeks... this is completely unedited and just how i made it a year ago (lol rip good luck)

when i tell you i have never responded to anything more passionately in my life that is the truth... idk i fell into a coma or something, it was crazy

there are some things about this that I think are quite nice, which is why I'm sharing it!!! But also please note that it also deserves a good helping of "HE WOULD NOT F***ING SAY THAT" and i understand that 😂 i hope you are able to enjoy it anyway, i said what i said

I'll go through and link all the parts appropriately and work on the alt text once they're uploaded, please be nice to me :0 Read from right to left!

UPDATE: Alt text has been added! Sorry for the bad handwriting. Also added some description for the silent parts for potential text/audio only folks

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Yes please!! Explain more! I’m so invested in the story and kids!!!!! Also thank you for being kind 🩷

No problem!!

welp, okay, put extremely simply and probably just a little bit wrong too because its been a hot minute and I have the memory of a goldfish, here’s the gist of it:

Sanji was born the prince of a kingdome called Germa (though it’s really more of a glorified mercenary group with delusions of being a kingdom) in the North Blue, the third of four quadruplet sons. His father king judge fancied himself a scientist and wanted to make his children into supersoldiers (via genetic modification) that could lead his armies and destroy his enemies. He wanted them to be super strong, fast, have impervious metal skin, be totally obedient and have basically no emotions. Perfect soldiers!

His wife Queen Sora was not stoked about this, especially after seeing what it looked like in their firstborn daughter Reiju, so when Judge tried to pull the same thing with the quadruplets she drank a special syrum to counteract the conditioning. Unfortunately it only worked on one of the princes, Sanji, and the other three (Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji) came out modified and were trained by their father into being perfect little monsters that made Sanji’s childhood a living hell. Sora was super sick fter all that and eventually died when the princes were very young. Long story short Sanji eventually escaped with Reiju’s help, got picked up by Zeff after Tragic Backstory 2: Starvation Rock Boogaloo, and eventually joined the straw hat pirates. Fast forward some more and there’s this whole *thing* that happens with his birth family trying to blackmail him into a political marriage blah blah blah blah he’s eventually rescued but now he’s very worried that due to certain circumstanced, his genetic modifications might have just been dormant and are now awakening within him, and eventually he’ll turn out just like his siblings, which is like, one of his worst nightmares. It hasn’t fully happened yet, but who knows!

So that’s all what happens in canon. What I’m doing in my own little fankids au is imagining that the genetic mutations are in fact dormant in Sanji and while they never fully materialize in him, they do pop up in one of his children, because genetic. So Kuina has black hair (because the mods include hair color changes and if Sanji was fully modified there’s evidence his hair would’ve been black) and she has unbreakable skin and enhanced physical abilities and she has… I guess what can be described as an empathy disorder? Like she experiences emotions differently and isn’t great at understanding/mirroring emotions in others. However, I don’t believe that makes someone a monster. Sanji’s brothers are absolutely terrible people because they were raised to be that way by Judge, who is absolutely a monster himself, entirely of his own volition. Reiju is not as bad as her brothers, because she had some positive influnce from their mother Sora. Kuina is gonna grow up absolutely surrounded by love and a lot of very honorable moral conviction, so while there will be ups and downs, I think she’s gonna be all right.

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I fear I’m a little stupid….what dormant genes did she exactly inherit? Sorry 😭

you’re not stupid! It just involves some pretty major spoilers for Sanji’s Super Secret Second Tragic Backstory, are you sure you’d like me to explain it for you? No problem if you do, I’m not a huge stickler for avoiding spoilers myself, I just wanna make sure first

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That blonde emo guy and green fella you draw a lot should kiss or smth idk

Merr crizmiz

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Animal abuse ，employment of child labor😤

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Baby Kuina is so cute ❤️

Thanks! I gave her a baby mohawk because I had a baby mohawk and all art is biographical

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Is merman!Sanji based on a orca? Or perhaps a black butterfly koi? 🤔 Could also be a redtail catfish. Much to think about

Mersanji is perhaps most broadly based on an Orca, but to be more precise he's based on nothing but my very vague understanding of shark/cetacian anatomy and making color choices based on nothing but what feels right.

I wanted him to be black and white kind of like a suit, and so he could have the moniker Black Tail Sanji, and I also wanted him kind of dangerous looking, like he could really hurt you if he whacked you with his tail!

Everything else, from fin placement to size to pattern, is all down to whim. I'm just making shit up

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Mermanji

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Starting to think Kuina is the way she is less because of Germa mutation and more because Sora hogged all the bombastic energy and chaos Zosan had to pass on and left nothing for any other possible kiddo... like using all the hot water in the first shower of the day. 😆

Sora got diagnosed with ~✨️Cool Guy Syndrome✨️~

And now he has to take ~✨️Adderall✨️~

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Howdy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUINA!

*gives chocolate egg*

*Resive lil figurine*

Have a good Day!

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Like, whenever I see Kuina I think she's doing the 🥺 because of the eyebrows and pouty lips 😭😭, it's her and Sanji. The thing she actually inherited from Sanji was the sad wet eyes resting face 😔

Ehehehe yeah, she definitely inherited her big ol’ eyes from Sanji, and the germa genes are responsible for the eyebrow curls and black swoopy hair. The rest of her face though is all Zoro, the nose, the mouth, the general structure, etc.