#ace and luffy

[goblimm]

"Wearing your brother's hat" - or Luffy and Ace wearing each others hats!

Really missed drawing one piece, especially Luffy.

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Luffy wanting to greet Saul because he took care of Robin:

Reminds me of Ace wanting to meet and thanks Shanks for taking care of his little brother:

Luffy is so much like his older brother.

[capripatch]

Marineford isn’t real it can’t hurt you 😁👍 (I am coping. On ep.474)

[anorlondo00]

✨ I drew fanart for my fic ✨ mechanic Ace and 12yo Lu ✨

[breezeowci]

[hitoshi-yuuto]

Modern AU

Luffy : Tra-o! Give me your dagger!

Law : My dagger??

Luffy : Don't you carry a dagger in your bag?

Law : Have you ever met a person carrying a dagger in their bag??

Luffy calling Ace : Hey Ace do you carry a dagger in your bag?

Ace : Of course, I'm not an animal.

[khepiari]

Ace and Luffy only spent 7 years together, :(

Ace never got to see Luffy become an adult either, he lived and died protecting his baby brother.

SOBSSSSS

[onepiecehiperfixation]

Luffy: Your home now. Ace: get off me man. Luffy*hugging him*: NO you let me love you orphan boy!

[riza-jes]

Part 2: Luffy’s PARENTAL figure — ACE!

I rll wanna continue the thought of Parental Ace

But with more detailes connected with staff of Ace’s being single parent status, who leave his child at home more than less unwillingly.

Like…

He understand completely all these crazy parents who freaking out after one second after realization that they lost their kids in one blink.

Bc with Luffy?

You can’t relax until this child is tired and fed. Bc Luffy always could be caught in trouble. Eaten, beaten, lost or worst of that.

Possible on the edge of the cliff towards the ocean.

So 24/7 Ace keep his eyes on Luffy.

It’s not like his baby brother is burden, no, of course not. But any kind of danger or possibility of getting injuries in Lu’s case always turn into disaster with great damage. It’s not like his baby brother is weakling, not at all, he’s getting stronger every day. But still it’s Ace’s responsibility to take good care of his little brother, be support for him in the way Luf couldn’t do yet.

After all, Luffy is all Ace has. ( all what’s was left)

And maaaybe some times (especially when he set the sail) Ace couldn’t sleep too well cuz he can’t hear his brother’s sleepy mumbling and perpetual cowering. Ace couldn’t be alone for long timeme , and become nervous if he couldn’t do just smth (find food, make campfire, find edible or etc — just parent with hyperactive cheerful boy, who need everything and one more thing). So in the start journey finding weakling Deuce rll help Ace be enough tense for his own convenience.

on the Moby Dick Ace still has his BIG BROTHER-PARENT tone, especially in situation when he’s become too worried for his new siblings. And it’s not loud mouth shout, no, shouting doesn’t work on Luffy every time, and after Sabo…, well he learn the Makino-san’s way.

Calmly, clearly, briefly and with a slightly shown concern in his facial expressions, Ace conveys his message. But it is worth adding that for the person to whom such a speech will be addressed, it will become abruptly cold and he will feel the embarrassment that usually appears when a parent catches on to anything that has been carefully hidden, and the desire to listen.

It’s kind of sad and funny bc if the sides is switch, Ace for quite long time couldn’t find out why are exactly they mad or concerns of his safety. ( there is possibility for med stuff to gossip about Ace’s behavior what’s similar with pattern that single exhausted parents usually has.)

And there’s another idea why he, in the first place, listen Whitebeard. it’s cuz in some more than less ways Newgate similar with Garp, but Whitebeard is that one who besides knowing of Ace’s heritage, willingly and quite warm gives warm affection and recognition to Portgas. Stable, strong enough with all shit Ace throw at him, who accept him and gives necessary protection. ( like Ace does himself for Luffy everyday in the seven years).

Whitebeard is a parental figure who is not going to disappear for months like Garp did.

Whitebeard gives him comfort and physical affection willingly (which Garp didn't, and of which Ace himself gave to Luffy and sees it as an indicator of love and attention).

Ace is little brother for whitebread crew but still has the same vibe as Newgate has when the deal come to children on the island, the whoooole Big cool brother thing, or the role model. After one encounter with the few juniors in the crew, or while on a mission under Ace's command, it will suddenly hit a random crew member that Ace strongly resembles Whitebeard.

His attitude, his aura.

The aura that resembles the Oyaji.

Or another situation where this similarity is seen when one of the Whitebeards watches from the sidelines as the Spades crew works.

Already allies to the Yonko, but not yet so connected to the rest of the Nakama, the Spades acted as a well-oiled machine under Ace's leadership.

Maybe that's when the idea of appointing Ace as a possible division commander was first thrown in.

part 1

[datkat08]

So we all agree he took inspiration from Ace’s tattoo for this right.

[an-entity-i-think]

Jungle Boys and their Knowledge About Sex

Well I'm just gonna say it.

Ace and Luffy BOTH didn't know what sex was until Makino or the Bandits gave them the Birds and the Bees talk.

NEITHER of them know anything about sex besides that b&b talk until they start their respective adventures.

🚫 Um actually ace learned it from the losers he beat up at high town/people at gray terminal

INVALID - he was younger than 10 during all of those instances and was too focused on Roger nonsense. Even if he learned something it would have been raunchy and inaccurate and said in passing cause he was flighty. After Sabo they would have barely went to high town and definitely nothing in gray terminal was left

🚫 um actually Ace understood everything perfectly and never has any misunderstandings from growing up in the jungle while Luffy is Baby and didn't listen to any of it

INVALID - Makino would absolutely make sure both know sex exists. She would struggle maybe but it WOULD happen. Ace being a sex prodigy while not having a single object of his affection until 17/+ does not equal understanding of everything I fear. And Luffy is an idiot but Makino would totally say it's relevant to his adventure to make him listen to at least the basics.

🚫 Um actually they don't bother trying to explain sex to Luffy cause he's clearly asexual/Luffy doesn't understand sex because he's asexual.

INVALID: You're acephobic. Like straight up your acephobic and infantilizing him. He knows what sex is. Stop. He may not want it depending on your hc but acting like he wouldn't know anything at all while Ace knows everything is fucked up. They both were raised in the jungle. In the event that Ace DID understand more, to keep Luffy safe, Ace would definitely tell Luffy to make sure he could protect himself. Sex Trafficking and Sexual Assault exist.

🙏👀🙏👀🙏👀🙏👀🙏👀🙏

✅️ Ace learns what sex is and becomes a whore when he was Spade captain.

VALID: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back wdyw from me

✅️ Ace blusters and acts like he knows a lot about sex but is either too nervous/guarded/oblivious to have had any after the b&b talk.

VALID: He's hot but also a loser

✅️ Ace tells Makino that the bandits gave them the sex talk and tells the bandits that Makino gave them the sex talk to get out of it. Now neither Luffy or Ace know anything about how sex works.

VALID: Could be true and also hysterical. Ace not knowing anything about sex on the whitebeard crew at age 19? More likely than you'd think.

✅️ The bandits give them the sex talk for real and due to a strange amount of euphanisms and vague terminology Luffy and Ace THINK they know what sex is but are very wrong and/or weird about it.

VALID: Could be true and also hysterical.

✅️ They both avoid the sex talk and all they know about sex is what they see in the jungle.

VALID: Majorly concerning. Good lord that's concerning.

✅️ Ace got out of the sex talk by lying/avoidance but Luffy got the sex talk.

VALID: Objectively the funniest thing ever if 17 year old Luffy is more knowledgeable about sex than 17 year old Ace. I bet Ace would try to explain sex when they met up in Alabasta and Luffys like ? I know? And Ace dies a bit on the inside cause it was just him.

Tldr; LUFFY KNOWS WHAT SEX IS. STOP BABYING HIM AND IF YOU'RE GONNA MAKE HIM CLUELESS YOU NEED TO MAKE ACE JUST AS CLUELESS CAUSE THEY BOTH WERE RASIED IN THE JUNGLE.

[atlas-the-bastard]

i bet on losing dogs

ill be there on their side

im losing by their side

[1chaerry]

in your eyes

summary: for as long as Ace knew Saram, she always held a strange gaze in her eyes whenever she saw him. even now, as they are adults, everything about them changed, but that look in her eyes stayed the same

c.w: angst, dimension, au, open ending, Marineford, ace lives, trauma, imposter syndrome, romance (?)

w.c: 1.6k

Reader is called 'Saram' meaning 'Human/Person'

"Ace?"

"Yeah?"

"I won't let you die."

Ace frowned at Saram's words before laughing. She always said the strangest things. Since the day Dadan introduced her to the ASL trio, she had always been an enigma. Her words, her behaviour, her gaze - it all felt as if she was never fully present, her mind always somewhere else, always running. After Sabo's death, Ace and Luffy became even closer, brothers, that they were.

"What stupid crap are you saying now?" Ace laughed, ruffling Sarah's hair. She simply smiled, that damn smile. He looked into her eyes, that damn look was always present. In that gaze, Ace always felt like Saram could see through him, like she knew him more than he knew himself.

And Portgas D. Ace was afraid of that.

Dismissing her words, Ace simply shook his head and headed back to the house with her. Lately, Ace had been feeling restless. He wanted to go on his journey already. He wanted to set sail already but something kept him from going. He didn't understand what it was. Ace never felt so restless. Glancing down at the woman beside him, he wondered, why was Saram always so steady? So calm.

Saram, to Ace, always felt far away. Like her mind was always running, her thoughts never stopping. His eyes always tried to avoid her gaze because it felt as if she could see through him. And there was always this strange emotion in her gaze that he could not decipher. Something deep and dark. Something solemn.

Ace never could find out what it was.

Saram knew immediately that the world she had fallen into was of One Piece. Way before the beginning of the series. Way before everything began. Before Ace's death. Saram saw herself in Ace. Difference was that Saram could never find the family Ace found within the Whitebeard Pirates and his brothers. People loved Ace. Saram wondered why he couldn't understand? (But then again, Saram also never understood that people loved her too.)

Ace was so close yet so far from her reach.

Whenever she saw him, his smile and his death would flash by her eyes. She would remember the way she cried when she saw his death and how much it had affected her. For Saram, Portgas D. Ace was everything she wished for and everything she could never be. For her, he was what she wanted to protect against the world.

"What stupid crap are you saying now?" Ace laughed, ruffling her hair. She simply watched him. Watched him smile. Watched him laugh. Watched him spar. Watched him grow up. Watched him get ready to leave.

Saram watched like she always did.

Ace was out of her reach.

Like he always was.

"In your eyes, Ace, what do I look like?"

Saram asked Ace, he was in the process of getting ready to leave the island - Luffy had gone back to get the last of Ace's things. He paused in his administrations, he turned towards Saram, his eyes meeting her own - that damn look was present like always.

"You have always approached everything terrible trustfully. You have always wanted to let everyone monster. Saram, you are someone who befriends monsters, not trying to tame them, but to understand them."

As he spoke, Saram wondered, was he talking of her or of himself - Ace was the one who talked to her despite how much of a bad person she was - he didn't turn away from her when he saw her fight. (He didn't look away when she killed someone who tried to harm him and Luffy.)

Ace wondered if she knew that he was talking of her. Of how she didn't condemn him to be doomed like the world did since his birth. How she looked at him like he was worth something to be looked at it. Like someone who was not completely doomed to failure. Like someone who was still human. (Her eyes never faltered upon him, even when he killed that man who tried to kidnap her.)

"Saram."

Ace wondered if she could see the way his voice trembled when he called her name. Ace never was good with his feelings - even as a child and now as an adult - he found them tantalising, terrifying.

"Ace."

Her gaze was locked onto his. Ace loved her eyes but that look she carried scared him yet intrigued him. He found himself lost in her, her very essence seemed to always dismantle his walls.

"Will I ever see you again?"

Ace couldn't help but ask. He felt that if he left today, if he left her behind today - he would not see her again. And Saram smiled. That damn smile that always made him weak. Made him feel human. She ought to be a devil. How else could she be so quiet yet so loud? How else could her gaze make him feel so bare?

"Even if I see you again, I will never see you again."

And Ace knew exactly what she meant.

Saram watched his boat sail away. Watched him leave.

Eventually, Saram, too, disappeared from the island a few days later. A simple letter to Luffy and a simple goodbye to Dadan - the bandit may have been harsh on them growing up, but she knew that the woman loved them like her own - Saram was gone.

When Luffy met Ace in Arabasta, neither expected that Saram was missing. Ace, on the hunt for Teach, wondered would he ever see her again? Wondered if he would never know what her parting words to him meant. Saram's disappearance was strange. No one knew where she was, who she was. Luffy's crew and Ace's crew could only hear her stories and wonder, if Saram was as important as they held her, why could they never say anything about her that was not of their memory with them?

It was as if, Saram, had no life except be in their own.

That was the tragedy of it all.

"I won't let you die, Ace."

Those words echoed in his ears as he and Luffy were pushed to the side. It felt like static in their surroundings. Her eyes met his and time stopped. She was smiling. She was smiling at Ace while Akainu's fist had impaled her.

"Saram!"

Luffy and Ace screamed as they held her, her crimson blood dripping non-stop. They never knew blood could be so warm, so red, so dense. They never wanted to know.

"Listen, Ace, Luffy."

Her voice was calm. Why was she so calm? Why was she not blaming them for not being able to save her?

"Don't die. Please, don't die. You guys still have to live. Please."

And as Ace held her gaze, he finally realised what that look in her eyes was.

Since the day they met, when they ate together, sparred together, sailed together, fought together, smiled together, laughed together, cried together, looked at each other - Saram only ever had that one look. That look Ace never understood. Yet now he did. Now, when it was too late, he knew what it meant.

Love.

Saram loved him.

She loved him since their roads intertwined. Since, Dadan introduced her to him. Loved him when he went on that Stupid date with the bartender. When he was drunk. When he fell asleep on the table. When he cried. When he was a wreck. Saram loved him, even when he left her behind on that island for a life of adventure. (Stupid, stupid, Ace - who would never know that Saram loved him before he even knew of her existence.)

And Portgas D. Ace loved her, too.

"In your eyes, S-Saram, what do I look like?" Ace asked, crying.

"You look like Ace. The sun and moon met and their love created you. You did not abandon me, even when I abandoned myself. You're the blood in veins, the air in my lungs, Ace."

Ace wondered if he could ever love someone so deeply, so unadulterated, so raw.

Three people entered Marineford that day.

Three people came out.

Two people escaped.

One person lost it all.

And that was the tragedy of it all.

[v-67]

Ace😭🫶

I was so🥹🥹🥹🥹

Episode 893-898 somewhere.

17th February, 2024

[anorlondo00]

Everyone gives the characters in their fic a little piece of themselves. I’ve read some really thoughtful versions of different one piece characters that warm my heart.

Me? If you’re not reading Ace’s dialogue with a slight NJ accent, you’re reading it wrong—

(jk you read it however u want)

Anyway here are my Ace/WB Pirates NJ/NY accent head cannons: (Modern AU)

Newgate and Ace have it the worst. They step anywhere outside the state and people can immediately tell where they’re from.

Ace CHEWS up the word coffee. It’s c-AWW-fee for him.

He’s entirely unaware of it. If anyone calls him out for the way he speaks, he simply has no idea what they’re talking about.

Marco moved around a lot in life. I don’t imagine he was born in the city. However, if he gets pissed off or wound up enough, the accent starts to come out.

Luffy imitating Ace’s voice is so cute it’ll send the WB crew into cardiac arrest.

[voolion]

Hi gang