#I distinctly remember there was one person on the forums who guessed right lol

[opbackgrounds]

This chapter is super nostalgic for me, since this is where I caught up to the weekly serialization. People were going insane trying to figure out Duval's connection to the Straw Hats, and I have to say that this design goes so hard it makes the reveal a million times funnier than it already is

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———   ♡ BASICS!

♡ NAME!  -  aura. ♡ PRONOUNS!  -  any are okay ! ♡ ZODIAC SIGN!  -  leo sun / scorpio moon / taurus rising. ♡ TAKEN OR SINGLE!  -  single.

———   ♡ THREE  FACTS!

♡ 1!  -  i’m a digital artist ! i’ve posted a few doodles here & there on this blog, so feel free to check those out. i don’t get to draw often due to carpal tunnel & poor motivation, but it’s fun & i hope to post more of my art here soon.

♡ 2!  -  i have a tabby cat named abby who is my absolute best friend. she’s sitting on my lap right now actually ! say hi :>

♡ 3!  -  my first zelda game was ocarina of time on the n64 ! i was like 4 years old though so i was too scared to even start the great deku tree dungeon lol. i distinctly remember running around kokiri forest & making up little stories in my head of all the kids. it was like playing house for me. as for the first zelda game i ever beat, that would be twilight princess on the gamecube ! ( it would have been wind waker if not for the dreaded hunt for triforce pieces rip )

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♡ PLATFORMS USED!  -  i started off on forums & 1x1 rps with best friend via facebook messenger of all things. found out about tumblr rp back in 2013 & it’s been my main platform ever since. discord rp is a secondary fav of mine, though i haven’t been able to do it in a while ( hmu if you’re interested :eyes: :eyes: ). i’ve also done twitter rp before & would be open to trying it again someday !

———  ♡ MUSE  PREFERENCE!

♡ FEMALE, MALE OR NONBINARY!  -  i have a real soft spot for writing males & masc - aligned muses. couldn’t tell ya why. they’re just fun for me, i guess !

♡ MULTI OR SINGLE!  -  i've had multimuse blogs in the past, but i’ve found that i prefer single muse blogs. i like having aesthetics catered to a single muse, & i find i get less overwhelmed this way. that said, i can really only focus on one blog at a time. if i have multiple blogs, my activity tends to drop drastically across the board :’>

♡ FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT!  -  i loooooooove angst. angst is my everything. mix it with fluff for some little hurt / comfort ? hell yeah. i’m a very melodramatic person, so writing melodrama is just an absolute blast for me. as for smut . . . nahhhh. not really my cup of tea. if it adds to the narrative, then i’m open to it, but otherwise ? i’ll pass.

♡ PLOT / MEMES!  -  i prefer to have a loose plot or established connection going before jumping into any sort of interaction, including memes. i find i’m not as excited to answer something if i have to answer it from an ambiguous standpoint. even if all we plot is “they’re strangers, let’s see what happens”, that’s still easier for me than going in completely blind. i’m also absolute garbage at actually answering anything in my inbox, so there’s that too.

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[opbackgrounds]

"I distinctly remember there was one person on the forums who guessed right lol proving once and for all if you get enough people in a room making random predictions eventually someone will get it right"

In fact, this happened because one of the anime's directors gave spoilers for this reveal at Anime Expo haha Basically, he told some stories that Oda told him that could happen in the manga and one of them was that a masked man constantly chases and attacks Sanji for “ruining his life”. When Sanji finally asks him what he's doing, he takes off his mask and says "because of your bounty poster, my life was ruined!" and he looks like the wanted photo of Sanji.

When Duval appeared, people who were at the event associated it with this and made this "prediction" lol

It's a crazy story, if you want to know more about it you can see it here: https://forums.arlongpark.net/topic/16284/spoiler-ch-494/353?page=8

I’m not sure if I read the original speculation on Arlong Park or someplace else. I lurked on a few different sites back in the day. Either way, that’s very funny