#Nami fights

[loseiso]

Nami's development going from learning to accept help from other people to having to put herself in danger for said friends is so fucking fire AAAAAA

Like this is a small detail but she had her weapon ready when the straw hats rushed into iceberg's room even though she didn't fight then she WAS ready to

And then her telling Sanji she'll fight Kalifa is one of my favorite moments honestly

She doesn't know shit about what her df, for all she knows the second Kalifa uses whatever she did to Sanji she is DEAD but still deciding to fight her to both avenge Sanji but also to save Robin UGHH

ANd then in Thriller Bark where Lola gets knocked out by the cunt and she heads back to fight him WHILE saying she knows her attack won't do much only to be rewarded with him instantly collapsing?? Actual fire

And that's just her development her character traits are amazing 😭 a obsession with money but still having lines she won't cross as seen in Skypiea when Enel offered her gold or how the time she spent with the straw hats before returning to Arlong meant so much to her that she was willing to stab her own hand and fake Usopp's death???

And of course her fighting style is so cool I don't expect a big Nami fight every arc but when they come I fucking ADORE them

(I'm on Marineford I normally don't make long post like this speaking about a characters development and how they have developed I miss her)

[snails-and-tangerines]

Personally? I refuse to get over the fact that Monkey D. Luffy, one of the most fearless, reckless, tough, impulsive, fight-happy, determined, rough, hopeful characters I have ever seen in fiction, does not have a fight reflex when he is legitimately afraid.

He has a freeze reflex.

You know how few protagonists have a freeze reflex?

You know how many One Piece characters have a fight reflex? It's probably most of them (Ace, Zoro, and Kid are pretty notable examples). And after that, flight is probably next (Usopp, Nami, etc).

But Luffy has a freeze reflex. Consistently. Sure, he's learned to push through it, to snap out of it, but when he's really truly scared? It's like he's seven and helpless all over again, and he can't move. Just for a second.

[bumbleboa]

a year ago I drew this fanart for @cal-writes train AU (fic found HERE) and it has been my favorite piece of fanart of last year. So today I wanted to do a redraw, but instead of drawing the same piece again, I drew a prequel to the events in the last piece!

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

Some OP fighting game AU dialogues for Valentine’s Day :)

context post you should check it out :3333

I dont have much time to do more than this sorry, but i thought it would be cute to do a little smthn smthn with my heart themed au :))

for the last pic im thinking that maybe the first time you try to fight crocodile for plot purposes, its impossible to win and you (luffy) get the shit kicked out of you and then you get expelled. After that, sabo takes luffy to his appartment since he's no longer at his boarding school and ace visits to help with emotional support and planning for the future.

[camembri]

zoro and sanji are sooooo into promises and oaths it's unbearable. dork ass losers probably exchanged vows before they even had their first kiss. imagine sitting at the Sunny's dining room table at 8am sharp and you hear stuff like "nobody else can kill you, I feel it in my bones, I will chase you to the edges of the earth to make sure of it" whole time they're arguing about who has to pass the salt to usopp. everyone else thinks they're banging but this is all a prelude to like holding hands or something.

[newttxt]

launching a rescue mission!

from utilities included, ch. 8

masterpost

[lonelysatoru]

[kacievvbbbb]

I love how extreme found family is in one piece. Like they took supernatural line of "Family don't end in blood" and actually made good on it. Because it's not just that the crew found each other even before that only really very briefly Robin, Usopp and Luffy could say that anyone biologically related to them raised them.

Like Luffy had Garp and that's his grandpa but he also had Makino and Shanks and the red hair pirates and they were a family unit and he also had Ace, Sabo Dandan and the bandits and they were a family as well and it's never who mattered more to Luffy or who actually raised him cause they all did. It'd be hard to put him in a nuclear family structure because so many people fill the same roles in his life in different ways and that's great like Kung Fu panda said "that doesn't mean less for one parent it just means more for Luffy"

And that's the thing I think sometime fandom can get very obsessive with trying to pin down who is whose surrogate father/mother how do they fit in the nuclear family structure and while that's fun and there's nothing wrong with head cannon characters that way I also think it's important to remember that not every relationship needs a title or definition sometimes you are just family and that's valid too.

Ace had Luffy and Garp but he also had the whitebeard pirates and his pops same with Sabo and the revolutionaries

Zoro with Kuina and his old kendo master, that was maybe more of a rivals, mentor mentee relationship than whatever Mihawk Zoro and Perona had going on but it's all family none the less.

Chopper with Hiririluk and Kureha. Perona and Moria, Usopp with the little village boys and Kaya. Shanks and Buggy with the Roger Pirates. They might not all have had defined roles with each other but it was still family.

Just like Sanji, Nami, Franky and Law and their more defined Surrogate familes

And people like Vivi Robin Usopp and Shirahoshi who had/have their biological parents/family that love them and raised them.

It's nobody that I've just mentioned properly fitting squarely into any of these categories because it's all complicated family is complicated and its messy and it's big and everyone in your family might not have even met but it's family and it doesn't end in blood and for some people it never started there either.

[chialattea]

It’s them….. the girls…

[blacklegsanjienthusiast]

i promise i’ll shut up about robin and sanji eventually but not quite yet anyway the fact that sanji was probably, out of all the straw hats (bar luffy), the most vocal about getting robin back (see: him going after her by himself), how he so adamantly didn’t believe a word she (or nami during arlong park for that matter) said and how on top of that witnessed first hand just how far luffy is willing to go for his crew mates - he saw him declare war on the world government for robin for gods sake - and yet still believed that luffy would give up on and leave during whole cake island fucks me up to an immeasurable degree. he’s seen luffy’s unwavering faith in his crew and their motives twice now and yet he still didn’t think he would be afforded the same treatment and that absolutely breaks my heart

[sualne]

one 3D2Y Special luffy and many doodles

[harritudur]

when i say Romance Dawn Trio Rights, #that's what i'm talking about

👒⚔️🍊❤️

[meteortrails]

I think one of my favorite parts of nami’s character is like. she may not be as much of a powerhouse fighter as her crewmates, but she has a kind of fierce protective streak that rivals even luffy’s. there’s something to be said for the way she sees herself as specifically luffy’s protector, too. she looks at luffy and understands that he is trusting her to help him navigate which social rules he can keep ignoring and which ones he needs to obey and when; to know which way they need to go and what they need to do to keep the ship and crew safe. I’ve called her his replacement for pragmatism before, but it’s more than that! nami gets upset with him after Jaya and when she realizes he’s gonna make them wait 2 years bc in those moments he has made it impossible for her to protect him and she HATES that. I think it’s why she and zoro understand each other so well sometimes, especially when it comes to luffy; they’ve both built their sense of self and purpose on protection and a refusal to ever just accept a loss as inevitable, as differently as it presents in each of them.

[meggn]

[majestick-posts-op]

I loved the designs for @where-does-the-heart-lie 's op fighter AU game (seriously Whery, you cooked haaard) and the theme of fighting for love really reminded me of the song "True Kinda Love" from the SU movie so of course I had to draw the strawhats hugging like that one scene at the start of the song. (Robin sang btw. She has such Garnet wibes)

Loved the shading on Brook's pants and the colours in his afro, that's such a vibe for him. Robin was literally gorgeous and perfect and Chopper with the reindeer spots is so precious. Usopp's fit is also extremely adorable even if here you can't see it well. The backrpund is just a heart. I couldn't think of anything else.

(Also remind me to never draw these many characters togheter in such a cramped space. I feel like I've gotten the anatomy all wrong)

[potatopassenger]

I am having a lot of emotions about Nami asking Usopp to make her a weapon - she was purposely vulnerable with him because he's the only person who understands her position! And she kicks out everyone else because she can't let them witness her sharing her feelings!

And Usopp is immediately there for her and shows he's got her back! And the weapon he makes is for their style of fighting that relies on them being the smartest person in the room because he does understand her and what she needs and he won't let her down!