#[thank u johanna for sending this deliciously terrible ask]

[chivalryburdened]

🫁 - would your character cannibalize someone? would it be for survival or because they like it? is it for religious reasons? something else?

horror asks.

also asked by @chatcambrioleur

yes & no. it would really depend on the situation & whose involved. but no matter what, it'd be out of survival.

as a child, say when he was stuck on the rock with zeff, if zeff had unfortunately died before him, he probably would have be inclined to eat him after a few days mulling it over, since the decision itself would be really hard to make right at the time. but he didn't want to die, after everything he had gone through. he'd come to a slightly quicker choice of yes, if was able to make a fire right then, because any raw meat will tear up your body & sanji could not afford to get violently ill in any already bad way. it'd be one of the hardest moments of his life, but after finally escaping germa, sanji would refuse to die so easily; despite how bleak everything was going. if it ever came to that, he would not do it again after being saved by that passing by ship. it'd definitely haunt him for the rest of his life. his relationship with food would become unhealthy, potentially he'd never eat meat again or be able to stand the sight of it, cooked or not. maybe he'd drop his passion of becoming a chef as well, especially since he had no one to teach him.

as an adult, he would ultimately offer himself up first if worse came to worse. especially once he joins the strawhats, his self sacrificial tendencies would be at an all time high. sanji would not give himself up as easily for a stranger, though, not until it was clear he would die first & then have no say in the matter. ironic that his last hurrah would be feeding himself to someone, rather than cooking for them. but if he had the choice, he'd gladly do it.

as for eating someone out of pleasure...... it could also happen, but not be as likely. plus, it'd be more out of spite than anything, but if sanji had stayed with judge & his brothers; all the stress & abuse in the early development of his life would fuck him up. eventually, I could see him snap under the pressure & somehow decide if he can't be as strong & cruel as his brothers by strength alone, maybe if he began to eat others "weaker" than himself (with some kind of incident kickstarting this thought process), judge would get some joy out of his desire to cook. sanji would have some control over his life, finally, & be able to take out his poorly maintained emotions on someone other than himself. maybe judge would encourage it, both disgusted & intrigued at how sanji had twisted his own love of food into something vile & desperate; all for a single scrap of positive attention from his family; primarily his father's. then sanji would find delight in the act & continue to do it.

good thing this is all hypothetical.