#Donquixote Homing

[fennecco]

Always gold

[moonbaby26]

So in today’s Donquixote Doflamingo video essay I will…no, but really 😅. I’m rewatching Dressrosa (clip above). And every time I get to the emotional parts, I think about so many different things.

Sorry to victim blame, and heavy emphasis that I’m looking at this from Doflamingo’s POV here, not my own. But I really want to call out Homing in this moment. Because I think Doflamingo wasn’t all the way gone yet. Yes, even here. Not until he pulled the trigger anyway.

Why?

Because when Homing says Doflamingo’s name, the boy stops.

Right here.

He’s still listening.

Because he’s still a goddamn child. He is wanting direction. Just as we see him physically look to his father in the other flashbacks as well. He is always looking up at Homing as their lives continue to worsen.

He keeps waiting for his father to lead them. To protect them, to guide them, to do something other than to just be as useless and afraid as they are.

This instance here was the very last time Doffy waited for Homing to act however. Maybe only for a moment, but he did wait.

And how did Homing repay that very last hesitation of familial mercy from within his son?

Homing completely gave up. He accepted his own death as penance.

Because he still had no alternative to give his boys. Nothing but “sorry”.

Sorry I ruined everything.

Sorry I was so weak.

Sorry you have to become the man of our family at only ten years old.

In Doffy’s breaking mind, Homing may as well have spit in his face here, and Doffy becomes enraged just as he pulls the trigger. Because even in death Homing could only be weak. He could only fail them yet again.

And Doflamingo sees that replaying in Corazon as he reflects before heading out to kill his brother.

Homing chose to die.

But so did Rosinante.

They chose to fail Doflamingo and leave him.

They gave him no choice.

It’s not his fault. And he hates them for it.

[mastomysowner]

To protect or to destroy? by ♦️ﾖﾙ@Hv48eLl

[mrworldwidestan]

dq bros sketches + law bc i miss them so bad (girl who has not finished skypeia)

[amber-skai]

Maybe in another life, we could have lived as humans do...

And you wouldn't have to try to forgive me.

[bzbzbzzz]

"Ew..."

"Rosi!!! Our father fucked our mother at least twice!!! She isn''t pure and she isn't immaculate!"

"Never come near my mother again!"

[1000sunnygo]

One Piece Academy chapter 41: The Dark Bingo Tournament, part 1 (Quick translation)

The lore deepens..

source | previous chapter | part 2 | index

Cover page side note : Sanji-kun's morning starts with black coffee.

Editor's note: what was discussed while playing trump at the Doflamingo countermeasure headquarters?

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Everyone: An undercover investigation?

Cora: Yeah...

Cora: Doffy is supposed to attend a certain meeting tonight. Law and I will have an investigation trip.

Robin: 'A certain'...?

Luffy: ..Party with Mingo? I'm coming as well!!

Nami: They just said it's an investigation!

Law: Outside, it's a Bingo party with the Grand City enterprises.

But in reality... It's a meet-and-greet ceremony with the Dark World's residents.

Chopper: The Dark world... Meaning the bad adults? Er, Eleven-Back...

Robin: Eight-Stop (T/N: these are Daifugou card game terms)

Cora: It's all my intuitive prediction, though.

Doffy got himself his first new suit in a long time. There's something to this...

If they meet, it's possible that he'd sign a contract to become part of the gangs then and there. We have to stop this somehow.

Zoro: What do you mean 'somehow'? You haven't decided what to do yet?

Sanji: You want to stop them without being busted. It ain't a simple task at all.

Vivi: Definitely a high risque plan for high schoolers.... Triple Queen.

Cora: I'm one of the students who is given authority by the country and the school to 'investigate and use force'.

Coby: Something like Student council, or Public morals corps?

Cora: Right... Coby, you were part of the Public morals corps, aren't you.

Nami: Hey, Cora-chan... Was Doflamingo always like this? You've lived with him, haven't you?

Cora:....

Our family, the Donquixote Family "used to be" one of the great families of the world. We brothers were raised by kind hearted mother and father.

Vivi: The Donquixote Family! I've heart bits about it from Papa.

Cora: 'Cause Vivi-chan's Nefertari family is also one of those great families!

Usopp: That sounds like a nice family!

Brook: What do you mean by "used to be?"

Cora: A fall from a prestigious family to rock bottom... That's what I mean.

Father, unfamiliar with business, tried his hand at several private charity projects. Unfortunately, every single one ended in huge failure. Our family lost all its possessions, and we lost our social standing.

Those were terrible days, filled with hunger. There were people who's mock and laugh at us for getting the boot, kicked out of the town.

All of it was probably unbearable for my brother. He developed a deep seated hate towards the townsfolk and father.

Then, Doffy disappeared from the sight of me and family. As years passed on...

Cora: I discovered him in the streets as one of the thugs.

Sanji: I guess, he was royally messed up.

Vivi: So he has a past like this behind that perpetual jolly demeanor...

Chopper: Vivi...

Luffy: Corao, I'm bringing leftover food with me.

Cora: Bring with you? You're going somewhere?

Luffy: Why, at Mingo's party!

(Continues in reblogs) ⬇️

[kayessbeebeebeee]

[tavsianus]

Doffy would hate getting called daddy, I think. The moment you say that shit he be reminded of Homing, disgusted, thinking "Ugh! I'm nothing like that piece of shit!" and the mood would be ruined. Tha man would need a drink or three after that blow and sulk the whole week.

[gendervapor14]

could he hold on any tighter? could he crawl in any closer? could he slip between the cracks in his father’s ribs? could he live within his warm timbre and thrive beside the thrum of his heart? could the bullet claim his skull instead? would there be any life left to live? any heart left to love? in his dying act, a father saved his son. a flash and a bang and a father for a son. it must be this way. a father for a son.

artwork by @attyattlaw ♥ ~ prompt: gun

previous prompt can be found here

thanks for hosting this event @corazon-week !

[deadnamedblog]

My brain is a wonderous tool to recognise patterns and draw parallels.

I never expected it to tell me this morning out of the blue that there were parallels to draw between Kaya and Doflamingo-Rocinante. That maybe Donquixote Homing leaving the celestial dragons was not a first but something that happened sometimes...

... and that Captain Kuro's efforts were maybe not for just a few hundred millions berries.

[ideas-4-stories]

It would cute in a modern world like ours, if the Donquixote Family stayed together and that Homing and Matriarch were very kind rich people. That gave to organizations and places that needed it, from there it would circle back from the companies they own, making it a unless loop of money that they needed and give away. Teaching there kids that it would be better to have what you need, than have all. There Doffy and Rosie would stay together and being brothers.

Years later, Doffy would go onto adopting some kids that he found and needed homes. Of course, Homing and Matriarch would love to have grandkids. Then Rosie would take care of Law and Lami because their parents die, and he was good friends of them.

[mastomysowner]

Family by 子黑@zihei404

[asitrita]

Thoughts on the Donquixote's crucifixion.

Since today is Good Friday I felt like sharing this piece of interpretation of Donquixote family's "crucifixion". Throughout the series and Doflamingo's life I think we can see some symbolism, paralelism, or just vague allusions and hints to his nature being similar to that of the Antichrist (opposite of Christ) or the idea of Doflamingo as Lucifer or a fallen angel (we see something akin to The Last Supper with his "family", including his own personal "Judas" sitting at his left; his ideology of being the rightful king to rule the world, yet not being willing to sacrifiece himself for anyone, but actually expecting everybody else to sacrifice themselves for him; his agent-of-chaos personality; the entire idea that he is almost a devine creature that fell from Heaven to Hell, stripped of his rightful power, status, and legitimate possition above humans, betrayed by his own family and blood; the nickname "Heavenly Demon", etc.). However, I believe the moment in his life he comes to incarnate all these topics comes just after his and his family's crucifixion, or just right after the very moment he lashes out against the rabbid mob awakening and loosing his haki. Just seconds before we have this image:

Here we have Homing, whom we know is a good man, in the middle, at the centre of the scene. Rocinante is to his right hand side, and Doflamingo is to his left. As you might know, Jesus Christ was crucified together with two more people, often refered to as the good thief (traditionally named Dimas/Dismas), and the bad thief (traditionally named Gestas). The good thief was crucified at the right hand side of Jesus, while the bad thief was cricified at his left. Maybe I am looking to much into it, and I'm pretty sure someone else must have already realised this, but I can't help to notice the paralelisms and similarities. In this scene, while all Homing is concerened with is the safety of his children and doesn't mind begging and humiliating himself to try to get the mob to free them, to the point he asks the enraged mob to forgive his children, for they were only little kids, Doflamingo's anger gets the best of him and he lashes out at the crowd, not asking nor begging them to put him down, but threatening to kill them all for their actions, all while blaming his father for all his surffering and his family tragic fate. No forgiveness, no acceptance, but defiance and a promise of vicious and bloody revenge for his father and the craze mob's wrong-doings. Homing was willing to take in all the hate, die for the sins his kind had committed over the centuries, if only to appease the mob and get them to spare his children. He was willing to die for them (and he eventually did, though not in the best way possible, tbh), he was a good person and this scene perfectly shows that, despite his naiveté and the tragic and dire consequences of his actions, he acted out of the goodness of his heart. Doflamingo would not even lower himself to the point of asking for mercy, not before humans he believed were below him. We all know how the story goes, how Doflamingo and Rocinante turned out to be complete different people, with the whole good vs evil motive they have going on. Again, I'm probably digging too much into it, but I just like the Rosi/Dismas, Doffy/Gestas and Homing/Christ paralelism. More so considering how Homing will eventually willingly die for his kids' future, which sounds kinda biblical given we are all God's sons and daughters, and he (Jesus, God's son, God himself) died for us (even if in Homing's case he did die for nothing, as Doffy will not be accepted back among his kind); and how, just after Homing's (Jesus) death, it will be Doffy who becomes, in a way, the symbol of the fallen angel, of the gone-wrong-Jesus, of the anti-Christ, almost Satan himself (ruling the underworld, as his father's heresy took the throne above away from him). He replaces his father as the semi-Biblical almost Christ-like figure, but in a reversed, twisted and sick way.

Crucifixion by Giovanni Donato

[amber-skai]

Smol Donquixote Babies (◕◡◕-)

[starlightbelle]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Donquixote Homing & Donquixote Homing's Wife & Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante Characters: Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante, Donquixote Doflamingo, Donquixote Homing, Donquixote Homing's Wife Additional Tags: Corazon Week 2024, Canon Compliant, Light Angst, baby Rosi is scared and sad, the Donquixotes are leaving Mariejois, POV Second Person, POV Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante Series: Part 5 of Corazon Week 2024 Summary:

The Donquixotes are leaving Mariejois, and Rosinante is trying to be brave.

A very late submission for Day 5 of @corazonweek2024. I’m determined to share something for each day even though I’m well past the deadline. Still, I hope you enjoy!