#and Shanks of course

[helloarchivist]

does this still count as a Shanks blog if I basically haven't said anything in almost a month and just reblog random shit in the middle of the night and then disappear again, asking for a friend (me)

[lihiominaa]

STARGATE SG-1 02.06 | Thor' Chariot

[kacievvbbbb]

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

[sw4nfire]

so I made the mistake of listening to the character songs sung by the voice actors and it sparked a buggy centric mad max style musician/music au and I cant get it out of my head here is a google doc with all the details and my reasonings

I tried not to change much about one piece's wacky world since I love it so much

[shanediomorrissey]

He’s just happy to be given this opportunity.

[itsthatlake]

Ha! Look at you, so young and happy... where did they years go?

[funsize-cenobites]

[thousand-sunnies]

do you think the first time kidd fell overboard after they departed from wano killer jumped in after him

the rest of the crew just sat there for a couple of minutes before someone had to be like wait and go fish both of them out

[namaeekaki]

Challenge from Pixiv where I had to make an 3 pages comic based in a Au! The prompt was "What if they meet after Roger's death."

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I saw post with link to theory that Oda used speech bubbles to hide shanks actual and I can’t find it

It definitely used the moment where Whitebeard asks about buggy and some other

Do you think there is a point in that theory? Would it be intentional? I do think the placement is weird for an accident but I am shuggy obsessed so….

It also would go nice with the fact that we still didn’t see shanks reaction at their “breakup “

ah, i gotchu, i saw that ask too, these are the tweets in question:

i've discussed previously that there could be a number of reasons shanks' reaction to the roguetown fight with buggy is obscured/hidden from us, but these panels… really did not need to be arranged this way?? like, i agree with goingbuggyy, it definitely feels like an intentional artistic choice and one that must have been a pita to adapt to the anime.

and given these panels are shanks

trying to convince luffy that it's nbd shanks just lost an arm

telling whitebeard that he hasn't seen buggy in twenty-plus years

i think their “hiding vulnerability behind lightheartedness” take is a totally valid interpretation

[10000year-old-child]

My favorite Shanks theory has got to be why he was taking a vacation in the East Blue of all places.. Like all these crazy theories out there saying he might be secretly evil or that it was his grand Master plan with Luffy's devil fruit and all...

Meanwhile, imagine if Shanks was there just to sneakily check up on buggy. And what great luck! Conveniently, A government ship just happened to be sailing in the same direction Giving him the perfect excuse for his visit... and that's how Shanks really ended up with the infamous devil fruit.

[kacievvbbbb]

Mihawk and the Red Haired Pirates

-Look I don't know what to tell you, Mihawk's epithet is literally Hawkeyes meaning he is world-renowned for his eyesight meaning that he'd probably make a good sharpshooter. And maybe Yasopp decides to test this theory with a little friendly competition. And after giving Mihawk a quick intro into how guns work, maybe Yasopp had to pull out every trick there is in the book to narrowly avoid losing to said Hawkeyes, who as it turns out is indeed very good at hitting targets and who had literally just learned how to cock a gun not even 30 minutes ago. But who's to say what actually happened, the day of November 25th at 2:35pm? Certainly not Yasopp, the record clearly shows he is undefeated.

-Once a year Ben and Mihawk go on a little trip just the two of them. They act like it's just so they can shit-talk Shanks but actually, they just go fishing somewhere in the middle of the ocean and drink horribly overpriced and fancy alcohol. Look Benn loves his crew, and would die for them but also if he doesn't get at least a week to himself once every year he'd kill them all himself. He deserves nice things and a little peace and fucking quiet and not being constantly inundated with the whims of a man child and Mihawk's the closest he's ever gonna get to a friend with taste, and he travels alone with a bunch of fancy wine. Sue the man. Mihawk who would rather nap is fine to let someone else sail his overgrown raft against the annoyingly ever-changing grandline for a week or two.

-Wouldn't it be cute if Mihawk learned a lot of his fancier cooking techniques from Roux? Like he knew how to cook to survive but watching Roux is how he learned to like properly dice vegetables and that eating fish prepared the same way three times a day is not infact a life he would like to lead. This was of course less cute to Lucky Roux who in the beginning had no clue what was happening and only felt the weight of Mihawk's otherworldly stare on the back of his neck as he handled knives. (he defiantly for at least a little bit, thought Mihawk had a knife fetish. which, he's not entirely wrong)

-To Building Snake (who I just learned is the RHP's navigator) Mihawk might as well be a modern-day miracle. In his eyes, Mihawk's sailing is proof that god exists, because only divine intervention can explain how this man ever gets anywhere never mind on time or early even. Building Snake is pretty sure he owns neither a map nor a log pose and he has never actually seen the sails of Mihawk's pretend ship unfurled or in use. Actually, he has never seen Mihawk do anything but sit menacingly on the throne in the middle of the boat, which why? If you think about it for even a second longer that 2 minutes how Mihawk "sails" anywhere breaks every law of physics and somehow even the concept of geography. Building Snake would like to dissect him and study him under a microscope but knows the boss would disapprove.

[thus-spoke-lo]

Shanks and Mihawk sharing a birthday is so deeply cruel and unfair for you, as if they don’t utterly ruin and exhaust you on a daily basis already 😔

[that-oracle]

eeping

[aimbutmiss]

I know Buggy canonically has blue eyes, but I always see him with sea green eyes in my head

Now imagine Shanks thinking of Buggy every time he looks at the sea (which is all the time because the man is a damn pirate, his life literally is the sea)

Not a single moment of his life has passed without longing for the clown, the lifestyle of his choice becoming his own punishment in a way

[onepiecehiperfixation]

Luffy: Shanks how did you do it? Shanks: Oh kid. Easy, I only see my goals. I don't believe in failure. Cause you see the smallest voices they can't make it major. *Luffy listens in awe* Shanks: I've got my crew with me, at least those in favor... Always be good at goodbyes kid. Say this "if we don't meet before I leave I hope I see you later". Luffy: *repeats* I hope I see you later...? Shanks: Yeah. Your story will get told. Do not do like me, when I was 20 year old I left my love don't do that. Luffy: Your love? How do you know who is your love? Shanks: The one you never wanna leave kid, the one that's half your soul. See and the crew, got to be your friends. Right guys? *the crew nods* Shans *picks Luffy in his arms*: See we've traveled around the world, and we're still roaming. Always learn about life. Most of my boys are still with me, my love is out there seeking glory. My love I'm still sorry, if you find him tell him. Buggy his name. Luffy: Remmember life and then your life becomes a better one right? Shanks: Yeah kid. YOu got it Write letters to the ones you leave around the world. And visit them once or a twice a year. Soon you'll be a pirate my dear. Luffy*awe*:Oh...