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[every-god-usopp]

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[every-ace]

[every-chopper]

[every-nami]

[denjhenge]

Ohhhhh Asa...

our poor cringe fail girl freak.

[sobamilk]

Dabi and Toga

[helloworldjj]

rui has zero thoughts in his head fr

[yazzydream]

I really like that Yuuji was a well adjusted and popular kid. He's highly athletic with good social skills, high EQ, perceptive, and has an overall good personality. His physical prowess doesn't dictate how he acts or treats others in his daily life.

But then he got in way over his head.

What an unusual shonen hero! He's by far the most normal shonen protagonist I've ever seen. He's not maladjusted, a weirdo, eccentric, gloomy, an idiot, a genius. He doesn't have some grand ideal or dream. He's just. A decent guy.

He's likable and brave and kind. He's not a pushover. He can get annoyed and mad like anyone else, but it's not exaggerated or overblown.

But then life shits on him constantly.

The most "heroic" characteristic you can say of Yuuji is his determination— that he's constantly pushing forward. And even that wasn't especially excessive.

At first, it was because of his positivity; his naivete that let him get past desperate situation after situation. Until it got to the point where even he couldn't ignore the unrelenting traumatic horror his life's become. Then, it's because this is life. This is it. What else is there to do but live? (The alternative is to stop. And it's not like that option wasn't constantly hovering over him anyway.)

Resigned? Kind of. Acceptance... may be closer. He went from optimist to realist. His realization that he's a cog in the machine... it's based on the fact he was that normal guy.

He already was a normie cog, even if he hadn't consciously thought of it. Then he got exposed to this idea that he was part of this grand destiny; that there was something only he could do.

(And he kind of was. Kind of wasn't. *hand wavy* Because it was all deliberated by Kenjaku. Not that Yuuji's entirely aware of that yet.)

But he was disillusioned, those thoughts bitterly crushed.

So, he pushes forward, step by step now, as part of this... existence. This world.

It's really entertaining.

[s4no]

hello there 👀

[onepieceanimals]

He...

Gremlin...

[every-god-usopp]

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

usopp has given up

[every-ace]

[every-chopper]

[every-nami]