#Phoenix Marco

[battlefrankies]

despite how much he reminds people of roger, luffy's flag is planted at fishman island and he declared momonosuke his little brother. he's taken on the role of whitebeard as an emperor in the new world, who claimed fishman island as his territory and called kozuki oden his little brother...

i know shanks has been on the luffy hype train for the last 12 years (INCREDIBLY cute how he's been yapping nonstop about that kid to rayleigh and gaban btw), but it's so funny to think of marco dropping in on the red force and going 'hey you and ace were right, luffy's pretty cool' and shanks gets so excited like right? right? i've been telling you! and marco goes 'he's a lot like pops!' and shanks has to be like wait wait no what he obviously takes after roger??

marco hitching a ride on the red force to share info with shanks, aka gossiping about kaido & linlin & luffy and shanks is getting the WHOLE rundown on the straw hat crew from one of the most experienced pirates on the grand line, which means he's getting way better intel about luffy & co than pretty much any other org on the planet..

[crossguild]

OP FAN LETTER INTRODUCTION

[luna-orix]

Ghosts of the Past

[glasskoi]

he wasn't listening

[minniiaa]

Why do color spreads always hurt? Like look how happy Shanks and Marco are just having a drink teasing Ace and Sabo who are legit the same person in a different font in their stupid ass shirts (Sabo’s is actually cute, Ace looks like a Hawaiian tourist tho)

I’d bet Shanks said something smug basically inferring Luffy loves him more than them and they refuse to accept that while Marco is just agreeing with Shanks cause he likes to stir the pot. They’re actually Luffy’s family and they love their little bro/son so much. 😭

Why is this not real pls Oda.

EDIT - A lovely commentor advised that Oda said Ace and Sabo are actually thanking Shanks for saving Luffy which is even cuter. Love them.

[telathion]

I was shown the most important ad of the year already.

[vertakin]

The phoenix himself!🔥🔥 Finally got out of my art dry spell 🫡

[friedbluechicken]

Having an askblog was a childhood dream... sigh

[gluci]

– I miss you too...

[spacer-case]

modern au marco headcanon,,,,,i blacked out and drew this stupid thing

[blacklegsanjiii]

How about an allsan au where almoat everyman he meets absolutely fumbles for him when they spend only 5 minutes with him, he ofcourse is oblivious (hes not even bi in denial he's just stupid)

It starts ofcourse with zoro seeing him hold up a marine by the throat, Gin and Luffy being given food out of kindness and nothing else, Ace, crocodile being impressed by the mr prince tricks and so on so on

Also lots of men flirt with him on island but are quickly chased away by a glare and a sword to the throat or a guy wrapping around the pretty boy demanding food (or the good old possessive hat placement)

You decide the end couple but the whole of blue fumble for Sanji fr fr

Give this man all the simps.

Zoro choking on his drink as watches Sanji lift a marine by the throat which makes Usopp and Nami giggle at him. Gin falling for him as he eats the best food he's ever had in his whole fucking life that's keeping him from starving to death. Luffy falls in love with the way he talks about the All Blue and cares about his job and others. He's so fucking kind.

Ace falls for the guy who takes care of the others and doesn't let guests work, who spoils the handful of a little brother he has. Sir Crocodile who thinks the blond is cute and clever, who set up chances for his captain to save the crew and then him. Koza who sees how well he's taken care of his princess and the help he's given to take back Alabasta. He still insists on helping to serve and cook and Cobra is giving Koza knowing looks that make him flush and avert his eyes from the king and the cook.

Maybe it's after the time skip, after Dressrosa when Barto is literally drooling over the 'ONLY ALIVE' poster that Law is flustered and asking Luffy and Zoro about the cook. They're staring at him as Robin is giggling to herself because they are possessive. Both of them. It's the Monster Trio. Sanji is oblivious. Both of them are grumbling about Sanji not seeing their obvious interest but it's Sanji. If someone doesn't hit him over the head with a four by four he's not going to take the hint. Ask all of Tashigi's men from Punk Hazard who were crying at the cook not taking their advances. Okay maybe he just needs to be beaten with said four by four. Pedro straight up sacrifices himself for Sanji and Sanji only feels bad he's dead and that his life ended coming to get him.

You got the rest of the North Blue Boys who are obsessing over Stealth Black and Law feels like throwing up if it wouldn't insult the cook, he's so fucking excited. Luffy is over the fucking moon to see it in action. Yamato looking at Sanji from across the party and Luffy asks him what's up and he's just like Law with the whole 'the cook' thing. MARCO KNOWS better, he knows how to make an impression so at one point he's just talking to Sanji and Sanji keeps looking between Marco and whatever he thinks he needs to be doing so Marco just lightly grabs Sanji's chin and says it's rude to not focus on the person you're talking with. Sanji is so red and stuttering as Luffy wraps a rubber arm around Sanji screaming for meat as Sanji is ripped from in front of Marco to like the other side of the room.

Maybe it would end with zolusan or whatever the ship is called. Zoro asks if they have to do what Marco did after all the flirting he and Luffy have been doing for all of their sailing together and Sanji just being confused at what they're talking about.

[battlefrankies]

i love any characterization of shanks that acknowledges how aware he is of the power he holds and that he can quite honestly have whatever he wants if he would just reach out and take it, but it's so paramount for him to respect the agency and freedom of others that he's constantly fighting his impulse to be a Worse Person.

it's not a difficult fight, but he'll always consider the future where he just does what he wants without regard for others and decides that he would have to become a person he doesn't want to be, something he knows he could easily fall into and even has a family history of...

there are situations he could easily take advantage of, when marco's in such distress that he can just elbow his way in and leverage his strength and protection to coerce him onto the crew. and we've seen characters do this-- streusen with linlin, doffy with baby5, etc etc, there are countless examples of characters taking advantage of another character in an emotionally & materially vulnerable position to recruit them

having marco on his crew is something shanks has clearly wanted for a long time now, and he'll push and nudge and tease, but he would never truly take that choice away from him cause he only wants people on his crew who've freely made that decision. so he'll arrange WB and ace's funerals and tell marco not to thank him, he'll drop him off at sphinx, but even so he doesn't want marco to OWE him, he wants him to be okay regardless of where he is because that's his friend, for one thing, and if marco joins his crew, it'll have to be done with his active and enthusiastic (or at least informed LOL) consent

[crossguild]

that intro...

[luna-orix]

Birby Christmas, yoi!

[ultimate-mpreg-lover]

One piece headshots

And tiny versions of asl

[writer0018]

Ace: You all were a wonderful experience.

Luffy, Sabo, Garp, Dadan, Dadan's bandits, Deuce, Spade pirates, Whitebeard, Marco, Thatch, Whitebeard pirates, Otama, Yamato: You were... everything.