#I think Usopp is now South African?

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So, Oda said that Robin's real world ethnicity would be Russian. What would we think of an Romani actress for her?

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more strawpage stuff!!

nami and luf trying to cool off from the summer heat with some tangerines!! (+ sanji’s there too to offer his beloved navigator a drink)

this is probably my favorite thing i’ve ever drawn recently! idk why the image quality is so ass tho…

ok now this is the part where i start ranting cause im on tumblr and i can do that efficiently here!!

luffy: brazilian & egyptian

oda says he’s brazilian and i have no qualms with that, he was already latino to me to begin with lol

and so obviously that makes dragon + garp brazilian too :)

also the bororó people of brazil have a folk hero sun god in their mythology, which def fits how nika is depicted in op

(i may or may not entertain the idea of crocodile being his other dad; it’s a fun concept) (so yeh i hc croc as egyptian)

zoro: japanese & mongolian

i just remember getting this from another artist and i though it was cool

but also historically mongols were nomadic seafarers

and iirc zoro’s mom, terra, was related to bandits, so i’d imagine her lifestyle would be seafaring as well. so i hc her as mongolian

and zoro’s dad, arashi, being of wanoan descent, obv he’s the op equivalent of japanese

nami: swedish

i didn’t have any ideas so i just went with what oda said im so sorry my queen ;-;

usopp: south african + brazilian

oda’s dumb and didn’t specify which country in the entire african continent usopp is from, so i chose south africa

they have a long history of oral poetry and storytelling, which i feel matches with usopp’s love of tall tales

then i chose brazil bc i thought it’d be fun to have luffy + usopp bond over their shared culture

also cause i love him a lot and one of the the highest honors i can give him is making him latino

also also that one color spread of the mugiwaras in random cultural clothes where usopp was wearing a brazilian carnival costume

sanji: french, chinese, + german

well oda says he’d be french, and i think it fits. he’s flamboyant as hell despite trying to be nonchalant, and ig he speaks french too.

i imagine his mom, sora, to be half french and half chinese

that blue dress she wears has pankou knots as button closures; if u give me any small detail i’ll just run with it

also i just like the idea that theyd speak cantonese instead of mandarin :)

judge is german obv… he’s king of the germa kingdom. it’s pretty on the nose

chopper: canadian (inuit)

he’s a reindeer, which according to oda makes him canadian ig

i got the hc of him being indigenous/inuit from another artist, and i just like that a lot

robin: russian (sakha/yakut)

oda said she’d be russian but like look at the woman!! she’s very much not white!!! so i imagine her as indigenous!

compared to other indigenous groups of russia, the yakut people are the least assimilated to russian culture, so they have a greater preservation of their language!

that for some reason just reminds me of robin a lot

also their cultural wear has really cool elaborate silver coin jewelry, which i think would suit her

also also they rear reindeer, which i think it’d be funny if that’d be the reason for robin to be endeared by them (and thus chopper)

franky: italian american

water 7 is based on italy, and even tho he’s not from there i choose to make him italian anyways

also his soda loving self and aggressively kind personality and just the way that he looks, ig that’s why oda says he’d be american

on an unrelated note; i’ve accidentally incorporated “suuuuper” into my regular vocabulary and it’s all franky’s fault

brook: austrian + colombian

oda says he’s austrian, ig cause he’s a violinist and so is austrian composer mozart

while he could easily just be a black austrian, i love him too much and thus i’ve given him the honor of also being colombian (like me :D)

also colombia has a big music scene that’s influenced by its afro-latino communities!

jimbei: indian + japanese

oda said he’d be indian irl so i went with it

also whale sharks, which jimbei is based on, can be found on the coast of the country

but since he also wears mostly kimonos, i’d imagine maybe it’s a cultural thing, so i also hc him as half japanese

another unrelated note: i need to draw jimbei in some kind of indian traditional wear i haven’t decided what yet tho but it’d be cool

vivi: egyptian

not much to say either… alabasta is based on egypt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and her favorite food, mulukhiyah, is egyptian too

and her white and pink princess dress kinda is based off some ancient egyptian dress too

so ig it’s basically canon

another hc i got from twitter; vivi is a nickname her full name is vinisha! very cute!

that was a long rant with little to no substance lol hope u still liked it tho byeeee