#asl brothers

[shinyladykingdom]

I love EVERYTHING about it, the ship, the den den, Ace and Sabo, Luffy, Naruto just hagging around

GREETINGS EVERYONE!!! I've spent the last couple of months working on a full length comic adaption of @goodlucktai's beautiful 'fishbowl' fanfic!!! Below you can read the fruits of my efforts :) Enjoy!

This comic takes place before Dressrosa

CONTINUE >>>

[theellipelli]

arent you gonna wake up sometime soon ?

[call-me-starshine]

can we please talk about the color symbolism going on with ASL bc i constantly think about this bc i'm obsessed

when ASL were kids, their colors were red, blue, yellow

peep their flag

now we all know Sabo's color is still blue but what interests me is the way Ace and Luffy's colors evolved bc if you google what their official colors are you get this

(google thinks every color in Ace's character design is his color, but we're focusing on the orange)

so Luffy evolved from yellow to red—Ace's color—and Ace evolved from red to orange—a combination of their childhood colors

i also want to bring up the color of Luffy's haki, especially showcased in Wano

we know his haki is typically colored as red but what surprised me was

his yellow haki, or his ryou, i guess and also

the way his haki is orange too? especially when using his Ace-inspired move?

ok, ok, so in childhood Ace was red and Luffy was yellow and to me that makes sense bc

also, Luffy being represented by both colors as he gets older also makes sense to me because he had two sides that absolutely embody the two separate meanings of the colors

but like the symbolism of orange???

personally, i think Oda was COOKING with the color symbolism with these freaks bc when i fucking think about it it makes me emotional

Luffy wears Ace on his heart every day when he wears red, he honors him with his orange haki, and Luffy still hasn't forgotten who he truly is when he's in yellow

Ace, though, completely incorporated Luffy into his personality, he didn't keep the pain from his childhood trauma but covered it with the joy and warmth he learned from Luffy

knowing Ace left a permanent mark on Luffy, and he's happy to showcase it every day

but

knowing Luffy fundamentally changed Ace down to his very core, and he was so proud of it

anyway, that's what i get out of the color symbolism that is happening around ASL, thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[alllsunday]

Portgas D. Ace your chill swag and the sheen of your mentally ill hooded eyes have captivated me

[animegarbage-iam]

Wait! Can someone actually write up this AU? I think my soul needs it~

ASL 2000’s AU

I cooked. I hardcore cooked with this.

design commentary:

I loved the 2000's, so this was a real treat to design. I was only cognitive for like a couple years of it but i still remember a lot of the fashion from when it was going on. ESPECIALLLY. the short sleeves over the long sleeve shirts. 2000's loved their layers.

So Luffy was pretty easy to design. He was the first one i designed. i love when theres an easy translation for the Sunny and Merry into AU's.

Ace is very heavily inspired by Avril Lavigne. I was having trouble with designing him, but then Complicated by Avril came on the 2000's playlist i was watching/listening to for inspiration, and suddenly i understood everything. It all made sense to me.

Ace was M A D E for this au. I was thinking that as i was drawing him, but then i realized that Ace literally was made in like 2001 so... yeah. he was made for the 2000's.

Sabo was the last one i finished, i wasnt feeling too inspired with him, but i talked with friends who were more cognitive during that time than I, and one of them provided me a very helpful article about fashion trends at the time that included football and basketball jerseys. I put him into each of those, but none of them fit him quite well. I then put him in a baseball jersey, and although it makes him look the 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉, it fit him best. So i kept it.

I did get to put Usopp in the basketball jersey though so it wasnt all for naught.

Franky's hair was also very easily translated into the 2000's, like every boy had that hair, besides the mullet tail at the bottom but franky's just built different like that.

[slaceythatcat]

If only you could know

The way you make a life like mine worth living

[disastersapphic7]

currently manifesting so hard that the kemopon plushies for one piece will magically teleport into my room by the time i get home 🕯️ 🕯️

[moxie-girl]

im so normal abt sibling relationships in media i swear

[shinyladykingdom]

SHANKS JUST ADOPTED THEM LMAOOOOO

Maybe kid asl with shank

this was supposed to be a simple doodle but i got ahead of myself. here :)

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

wow.... i cant believe they were abandoned and Luffy collected them like treasures.....

the rest of the strawhats/friends that were gonna be in this post but i decided against it

Not all of them were abandoned by individual people like family members and their community, but the government. Specifically Franky and Law.

Vivi was gonna be in there too but i couldnt,,,, really,,,,, fit her in there.

[lunisoular]

soulmate-identifying marks au but they share each others pain and the soulmarks are the scars

[soaked-doors]

it’s that time of year again

[mugiwara-lucy]

Ugh these brothers will fucking kill me....

Aren’t you forgetting something?

[bridgekc]

old meme alert

[pinoppll]

they go out in their matching jammies

[reggular69]

Brazilian Luffy and his white light-skinned brother