Oh you so desperately want to be a rabid animal. You put on a violent act, snarl and bite anyone that comes into contact with you, pushing away everyone you can, putting on an act that the people want to see, playing into their expectations of what disease truly is.
You so deeply wish there was some simple explanation for it. Some easy-to-define reasoning as to why you act the way you do. Why you can't stand the way their hands reach out to you in kindness. Why it makes you feel sick. You so desperately want to call it a disease, a malady, a virus, when you're just scared. You've been scared all your life. You've been gnashing your teeth before they can bite you first for as long as you can remember.
But I know what a rabid animal looks like and it is not you. You are not fatal. You are not doomed. You're acting because it's all you know how to do anymore, and I can see right through it.
No wait, we can still salvage this- we can have Sebastian Debeste AND Eustace Winner hang on.
His full name is Eustace Sebastian Winner. His dad gave him the name Eustace (because he hates him), his mom choose the middle name Sebastian. Debeste was his mother's maiden name. After aai2, Sebastian chooses to go by his middle name and changes his surname to his mother's maiden to fully separate himself from his father- do you hear me we can still win this
klapollo fans have you seen the new drama cds from the trilogy it is so gay. first one has apollo, phoenix and ema going to klav's solo concert and apollo changing his mind on klav's music because of their experiences together in court and geeking out and then klav invites him on stage to duet love love guilty together. this is so huge this is enormous bro. look at this. polly sounds so cute
EDIT: ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WHOLE THING IN THE REPLIES
Setting Sail
So since the twins are way more overprotective in this au they decided not to set sail when they turned 17. This actually upset Luffy/Nika since they're all about dreams and freedom and felt like they were holding their brothers back. So once Luffy turned 17 he decided to set sail and not allow Ace and Sabo to be part of the Strawhat Pirates since he knew their dreams were to be pirate captains themselves and this way they still technically have an out if they ever want to follow their own goals. However hes still Luffy and loves his brothers and never wants to be apart so although their not technically part of the crew they still sail with him since theyre family.
None of this actually matters to anyone who isnt part of the ASL since the marines still brand them as strawhats (much to Luffys chagrin) and everyone else is just confused by any Luffy explanation of "the crew is his family and his brothers are family and his brothers and the crew are family but the brothers are not crew" It does however mean they are technically free to be adopted by certain pirates/rebel leaders