#—misc. parallels

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I oscillate between "Buggy is going to unintentionally pull something really big off and start an insane chain of events/inspire a bunch of people" and "Buggy is going to die(I front of Shanks and it would be tragic as fuck)" because idk his design similarities to Roger (and Shanks' to Rayleigh) just have to be deliberate in some way (and also because Buggy feels to me like a more important part of the endgame, like an out of nowhere clown ex machina)

you know, i hadn’t ever noticed the shanks-rayleigh outfit similarities before? but in present day they do both wear capes, sandals, and patterned capri pants. that’s interesting—not least because rayleigh didn’t really dress like that in his roger pirates days, he had that black shirt/patterned undershirt and sash look back then. so… did rayleigh style himself after shanks? were they both inspired by a third party? where did the red-haired pirates' thing for capes come from?

(other people have made the comparison between buggy and roger before; the way buggy dresses as an emperor definitely feels inspired by roger’s style.)

anyway, i don’t know that i would draw story role parallels between characters because of outfit parallels. but i am on board with the rest of your ask!

several characters introduced early on in one piece who didn’t go on to join the main cast have developed/advanced in parallel to luffy &co, koby and buggy most notable among them. it makes sense to me that these characters will continue to be part of the story until the endgame, one way or another.

that first possibility feels like a very natural extension of buggy's storyline. the contrast between public perception and reality has always been a theme in one piece, usually in a "government cover-up" way, but with buggy we've been shown a comedic take on the theme. his followers think he's great, the marines think he's a charismatic threat akin to roger, and it's only people who actually know him that know different. it's very easy for me to believe he could accidentally inspire a new era of pirates, once again unintentionally following in roger's footsteps… or he finds an enormous treasure and accidentally gives it away or shares it with the world…

and while buggy dying in front of shanks is obviously… not an ideal outcome, for me, i sure would lose my mind over it. (and then probably write fix-it fic where buggy lives & teases shanks endlessly about the way he reacted to buggy's apparent death, the same way i'm planning to cope if shanks eats it.)

heck, why not both?! buggy dies in such a way to inspire a new pirate religion! he lives on in history and stories, larger than life and never remembered for who he really was… that'd be a real tragicomic ending for a character like buggy.

[logray]

THE SHINING (1980) HANNIBAL (2013-15) THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

[mzminola]

Ned was doomed before the beginning of the story; the direwolf has already choked on the stag antler in time to be found as an omen, Robert & Ned's fates are intertwined, Jon Arryn died from what he swallowed and Robert chose Ned to be Hand of the King, there is no way turning down a royal offer like that works out safely, and no way accepting it works out safely either. Ned was doomed, the gods just gave him a heads up.

But he became doomed in a particular way the moment he swung the sword down on Lady's neck.

The gods said hey, you're doomed, but here's the symbol of your house given mortal form to aid your children, and Ned killed one. His king gave a cruel, unfair order Ned disagreed with, that would hurt a child under his protection, his own daughter, to end the life of a creature that had done no harm, not for meat or furs to survive the winter but merely to satisfy the royal family's sense of offended dignity, and Ned carried that order out personally.

Ned killed Sansa's protector. He killed a gift from the gods.

Of course his own life ends on the royal executioner's block, a sword swinging down.

[shesnake]

Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir. Justine Triet // Interview with the Vampire season 2 episode 7 (2024) dir. Emma Freeman

[ryoun]

kdrama parallels [9/∞]

brewing love x love scout

[emliyarmstrong]

Six Feet Under (2001–2005) John Tucker Must Die (2006)

[fourthgem]

atom doing his best gemini impression 🥬

[lemonwrap]

Thinking about Ghostsoap but with Ellie’s “Everyone I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone—fucking except for you!”

[kosmo-5]

Seong Gi-Hun: If I had a nickel for everytime i got close with player 001 without knowing who they really are i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happenned twice.

[splat-details]

the parallel canon masks are so cute, big eyes!!

theyre awesome creatures to me. yippee!!!

[bigswigrollerexpress]

A whole bunch of attacks directed to @ocaroon!! Thank you again for such an awesome ArtFight :]

[stevie-petey]

outline eps 3, 4, and half of 5 today feeling so frail rn

[logray]

GET OUT (2017) US (2019) NOPE (2022)

[mzminola]

These parallels aren't going anywhere they just give me emotions.

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Something about Mac's need for a rigid identity, for things to be in neat checkmarked boxes, something about Dennis' need to keep things unlabelled and out of the box. Something about cats in boxes (walls) and cats outside them. Something about whether the cat is alive or dead or in the wall or out, it's still a cat. Identity is a spectrum, but Dennis has always been Dennis, Mac has always been Mac and when they fully see each other and themselves for who they are... well.

[ryoun]

kdrama parallels [7/∞]

twinkling watermelon x brewing love