#Donquixote Homing

[fennecco]

Always gold

[amber-skai]

Smol Donquixote Babies (◕◡◕-)

[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)

[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) ⬇️

[iukasylvie]

"Consequences? In This Narrative?" – A Comparison Between Revolutionary Girl Utena and One Piece

It honestly blows my mind that so many characters in the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena commit absolutely vile acts—emotional abuse, manipulation, gaslighting, cruelty for entertainment—and yet face zero lasting consequences for any of it. Where is the fallout? The severed bonds? The shattered reputations?

Let's run through just a few examples:

Anthy Himemiya stabs Utena Tenjou in the back (literally and metaphorically), facilitates Akio Ohtori's grooming games, and walks away into a hopeful sunset.

Touga Kiryuu lies to Nanami about their biological relationship just to mess with her and plays psychological games with everyone he meets.

Kozue Kaoru dates random guys just to upset Miki.

Shiori Takatsuki strings along Juri Arisugawa while manipulating her feelings out of petty resentment.

Kyouichi Saionji, Ruka Tsuchiya, Akio Ohtori... the list goes on.

And yet... nobody loses social standing. Nobody is exiled. Nobody even really gets called out, beyond some poetic ambiguity and symbolic gestures. It's as if the show's dreamlike tone excuses everything.

Compare this to the manga One Piece—a series often accused of being cartoony or lacking "depth"—and you'll find actual characters and systems that get confronted and rejected:

The Celestial Dragons, despite being protected by the World Government, are widely despised across the world.

Even Donquixote Homing, a former Celestial Dragon who tried to live humbly, is still persecuted and brutally punished for the atrocities of other Celestial Dragons.

That disapproval is systemic, social, and violent—not just "symbolic." Characters like Sabo, Fisher Tiger, and even Donquixote Doflamingo's origin story center around how deeply and permanently these systems ruin lives.

You don't have to love One Piece to see that it understands consequences. People don't just walk away unscathed after perpetuating cruelty and abuse. There are costs, and those costs shape characters and the world.

Meanwhile, Utena lets most of its cast walk away from their wreckage without so much as a dent in their reputation. If it weren't so aesthetically ambiguous, I'm convinced more fans would be calling it out.

Sometimes I think people excuse Utena's lack of consequences because the show is "symbolic" or "not meant to be literal." But symbolic storytelling doesn't absolve you from accountability. If anything, it makes the erasure of justice even louder.

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

One Piece Community —

Having to deal with a variety of guardians like Yasopp, Kaido, Big Mom and Garp among other things…

And anyone who thinks they can, please explain why and how you would do it.

[kayessbeebeebeee]

[sanjiaholicreturns]

I'm curious to know who you consider the worst biological father in One Piece?

Kaido (Yamato's father)

Yasopp (Usopp's father)

Vinsmoke Judge (Sanji's father)

Gol D. Roger (Ace's father)

Donquixote Homing (Doffy's father)

Sr. Pink (death baby's father)

Outlook III (Sabo's father)

Monkey D. Dragon (Luffy's father)

[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 !

[amber-skai]

Gentle souls 🦋

[mastomysowner]

Family by 子黑@zihei404

[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.

[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.

[iukasylvie]

It's kind of baffling how often people treat Ohtori Academy from the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena as the ultimate example of "systemic oppression," when it's really a deeply symbolic, metaphorical setting that collapses the second Anthy Himemiya walks away. Meanwhile, media like the manga One Piece and the visual novel series Danganronpa portray systems that are entrenched, self-sustaining, and violently reinforced—and get far less credit for it.

Take the Celestial Dragons in One Piece. When Donquixote Homing renounced his Celestial Dragon status and tried to live as a normal person, not only did the system not let him escape, it punished him and his family brutally. Commoners who were oppressed by the system directed their vengeance at him, while the remaining Celestial Dragons refused to help. The message is clear: You can't just leave. Your identity is embedded in the system whether you like it or not.

Then there's Mjosgard, who does attempt to change things—he defends the Fish-Man royal family, actively goes against the cruel whims of his class. And the system? Kills him. Not quietly. Not symbolically. Publicly and punitively, for the "crime" of decency.

That's not metaphor. That's structure.

In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Monokuma's killing game is horrifyingly structural. It's designed to sustain itself, manipulate players against each other, and keep running even under duress. It takes a sacrifice—Sakura Ogami's suicide—to shatter it by inspiring cooperation among the survivors. It earned the label of "system" in a mechanical and emotional sense.

But fandom rarely holds Monokuma's game up as a lens of "systemic oppression." Maybe because it's too overt, too gamified, not "aesthetic" enough to be metaphorical?

Compare these to Akio Ohtori's "system" in Utena, which unravels not through calculated rebellion or institutional collapse, but because Anthy simply chooses to leave. That's not systemic oppression. That's an interpersonal abuse structure with symbolic flourishes. Utena looks like it's saying something deep with its rose-strewn duels and dreamy allegory, even if you think too hard and the whole thing falls apart.

Sometimes it feels like audiences are more invested in the vibes of "oppression" than the actual machinery of it. One is poetic; the others are brutally pragmatic. Guess which one gets more attention.