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there was a fire in this heavy heart

Law needs to get out of this thrice-damned box. Cora-san is dying. Doflamingo had shot him. And then just left him there! And he’s dying, and Law is stuck inside this fucking box, and he needs to get out right now! Cora-san said he wouldn’t shoot him. Cora-san promised. Cora-san lied. But every haggard sob, every pound of his fists against the wood is still silent, and the silence brings with it a wonderful, terrifying, horrid awareness-- -- Cora-san is still alive...!

my god. i posted this yesterday and totally forgot to make a post about it over here. anyway hey guys there's a new entry in d clan dragons!

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New Garp time travel AU chapter 👍

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bleeding heart

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the point of fanfiction is that you can write whatever the fuck you want forever and no one can stop you. #thepower

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Women...

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Necromancer AU pt. Doffy, continuation of my last post

I didn’t intend to draw so much of Cora and Doffy but I really liked the idea of Doffy being a ringmaster. I think it suits him. More details under the cut

The Donquixote brothers were separated after their father gave up their noble status, only to meet years later after Doffy had already set up the circus. Rosinante found out what his brother was doing and went to stop him, but ended up Doffy’s unwilling right hand man. He’s been there about five years by the time Cora meets Law, and is more or less resigned to his fate.

The circus itself is well known and loved by all in the North, and because of that Doffy is able to get away with a lot of smuggling and dirty work. Members of the Donquixote Family oversee different acts in the circus, while all being powerful magic users themselves.

I didn’t mention it well in the previous post, but in this AU you essentially get one type of magic that you’re born with, most people born with little to none at all, other than the magic that makes up their soul. Those in the D clan have the special ability to directly affect the soul, hence Law’s necromancy. Law is capable of powerful healing magic too, however, which is what Doffy originally kept him for after he escaped the purge of Flevance.

Cora is given charge over Law, as Law rises to be the primary healer for the Family, and they eventually find solace in being stuck there together.

Anywho I’ve yapped enough for one post. If you’ve got questions, I’d love to answer them!

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Cold hands, warm embrace

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couldn’t decide which fic to comment this on so i figured i’d just send it here but your writing is so chewable, i want to eat it

Thank you very much!!!!! I hope it makes a nice snack!

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I came up with this au this morning and haven’t stopped drawing since lol

I have more to say abt it but I’m so tired rn. Bonus sketches under the cut

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This is going to do something terrible to me, I just know it.

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The age-old question of whether Cora is wearing makeup or tattoos has been solved. Its Nyx Epic Wear eyeliner. This shit would not budge even if I was bleeding out in the snow.

Unrelated question: anyone got any recommendations for really, really good makeup remover?

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Handsewing for four hours straight seems fun until you have to sit down and do it. Except it doesn't actually seem fun. And now my hands hurt. But I'm ALMOST done this shirt.

There's always a point in the "starting the cosplay less than a week before the con" process where you realize it's gonna be. Not bad, per se. But not exactly phenomenal or screen accurate or maybe good. And you must come to terms with this realization. Because you need the goddamn cosplay and frankly youre out of time. And by you I mean me, of course. You're probably smart enough to have started your cosplay sooner.

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hi i know the question comes from nowhere. but how will doffy react if he sees luffy use gear 5, or a very strange AU where luffy wakes his devil fruit in the Dressrosa arc.

This is such a beautiful concept. I am holding this idea so close to my heart. Because oh my god-- that would be hilarious.

Like, we could debate about whether or not Doflamingo has heard of Joyboy or Nika in canon (unless I'm forgetting something that confirms he has/hasn't. Entirely possible, OP is far too long for me to remember every detail). Maybe it was a scary story back in Mariejois, like the Ds. Maybe he heard about it in the context of searching for the One Piece. Either way, I'm choosing to believe he's run across the concept at some point, in enough detail that he can recognize gear 5.

The funny thing is, this would have to start out as a pretty heavy AU, because gear 5 only originally activates for Luffy when he's near death-- or possibly Actually Dead? So this has to be a situation where Doffy manages to kill Luffy, which I don't think is out of the realm of possibility; it was a pretty close fight. Luffy is near-dead, Law is presumably incapacitated and probably near-catatonic with the horror of watching his ally get killed by Doflamingo, and Doffy himself is getting ready to kill Law. Victory is out of reach, they've all failed, and now they're going to die.

Until--

Drums, drums without source. Without obvious source, that is. The first to realize what it means might be the Revolutionaries, who have certainly heard stories. Sabo won't know it yet, but he hears his brother come back before he ever knew he was dead.

Doflamingo doesn't take the drums as a warning. He's not the sort to listen too closely to stories of old, dead gods unless they share a name with him and besides-- he's won. He has nothing to fear. I'd say this is his first mistake, but we'd be somewhere in the triple digits by now if we were counting mistakes that led Doffy to this moment.

For several long moments after Luffy gets back up, Doflamingo will not know what's happening. First, because it simply does not fit into his world as he knows it. He's already won; now the fight is continuing? How dare this brat get up; he's supposed to be dead!

He probably realizes that Luffy has had an Awakening, once he resigns himself to Luffy's continuing survival. But the magical makeover will probably continue to throw him off. Logically, Luffy's awakening should lead to him being able to extend his rubber-like abilities to the world around him. What does white hair and red eyes have to do with any of that-- oh, shit he's just been punched.

Lying in the ruins of a building, Doflamingo is going to look up. He sees Luffy, silhouetted against the sun. Denial and survival instincts war for a moment, as what he knows is true is confronted by the reality-- a parable made real-- in front of him. Survival instincts win out, and Doflamingo has to laugh, because: how absurd. What a farce. Fine. He killed him once, he can do it again.

Two gods, painfully human, look at each other and know they are enemies.

And then Doflamingo gets his ass kicked Looney-Tunes style. He might be good enough to beat Luffy at gear 4, but 5? Nah, no way. It's hardly a fair fight. I mean, it's just embarassing for Doffy at this point. Really, really humiliatingly outmatched. I'm just gonna take a moment to revel in it.

Afterwards, at the bottom of a whole new crater, the sun just barely visible above, Doflamingo has to grapple with the fact that he just lost to a creature out of scary stories for children. A hero from a fairytale told by humans.

(Does he think about his brother, even for a moment? Does he wonder what Roci knew, that he didn't? It can't escape him that this, all this, is Rocinante's fault. Roci saved a single pathetic child, who returned for vengeance and brought a would-be legend with him. Usurpers and god-killers, wearing the name Doflamingo gave Roci. Fighting under a banner of fratricide and betrayal. How fitting.)

I'd like to say that his defeat makes Doflamingo question some things. Perhaps he sees the fallacies in his own worldview; perhaps he wonders if he was wrong. But it's not to be. Doflamingo is far past the point of no return. He swears revenge against Law and this damnable Strawhat Luffy, who dares make himself a god.

The irony is lost on him.

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Another Cora-san Lives AU!

Cora-san Lives! But under the worst possible circumstances!!

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not looking to pick fights so I'm not rb-ing but it's not parasocial to interact with an ao3 author and to respond to what they say in author notes or comments, that's just being social

ao3 authors aren't content creators, that's a real person sans public persona just sharing a cool thing they made

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Make a shirt, they said. It'll be fun, they said. You LIKE sewing, they said.

There's always a point in the "starting the cosplay less than a week before the con" process where you realize it's gonna be. Not bad, per se. But not exactly phenomenal or screen accurate or maybe good. And you must come to terms with this realization. Because you need the goddamn cosplay and frankly youre out of time. And by you I mean me, of course. You're probably smart enough to have started your cosplay sooner.

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Okay so there's also always a point the day right after you give up and decide to let it look bad when you realize that actually you are still way too much of a perfectionist, unpick everything you did yesterday, and do it all over again. And then it looks so much better and its like. Damn. When they said measure twice, cut once, they really meant it.

There's always a point in the "starting the cosplay less than a week before the con" process where you realize it's gonna be. Not bad, per se. But not exactly phenomenal or screen accurate or maybe good. And you must come to terms with this realization. Because you need the goddamn cosplay and frankly youre out of time. And by you I mean me, of course. You're probably smart enough to have started your cosplay sooner.