#belle mere

[dragonbonez]

An actual angel?

[sailing-ever-west]

The thought just occurred to me that Belle-mere is 100% abandoned veteran representation. She was an active combat soldier for two years, nearly giving her life to serve the marines. She had an officer rank, and was a good, reliable fighter. Then she came back wounded, decided to retire and start a family, and got zero support. No pension, no nothing. She and the girls were poor to the point of starvation risk and Nami turned to stealing just to get one thing she liked. Arlong's price to let her and her daughters live was 200,000 beri, which sounds like a lot, but beri is closer to yen, basically worth less than a cent. Belle-mere had to give up her kids or her life over the lack of about $1,000, if that. And when she did die for it, she was buried in a pauper's grave and no one from the marines was even in contact enough to hear about it. Then when the marines do come? They accept Arlong's money. They never honor Belle-Mere's death or do anything to help her daughters. They dig up her tangerines and steal Nami's fortune when she's moments away from buying her freedom. Who knows if they ever even crossed her name out in their records? No freaking wonder Nami had no love for the marines despite her mom being one. They chewed Belle-mere up and spit her out.

[pollyhyde]

[julia-shephard]

best mama ever. from my ko-fi comms

[opla]

"Why didn't you just lie? You didn't have to tell him about us. Because you are my daughters, and I would never deny that. You deserve to live full and happy lives. I'm sorry I couldn't do more for you. Buy you nice things or cook you nice meals. I'm sorry I wasn't a very good mother. No. No, don't say that."

Belle-Mere, Nami and Nojiko requested by anonymous

[gendervapor14]

cookie monsters

my piece for the Halloween Trick zine run by @newscoozines!!

be sure to check out the sister Halloween Treat zine for some non-shipping stories and artwork, too! <3

[j0ss-4rt]

told myself i’d never watch one piece but then the live action cast happened

[an-au-blog]

Also in the Foster child au Arlong was in a gang before he meet Bell-mère and Hody Jones was a new member of the gang when Arlong meet Bell-mère and then Arlong left the gang life and Hody blamed her for his idol going soft and he's the one who caused the car accident

Yep, that checks out. I'd like to think that Hody blaming Bellemere is the reason that he hates humans, or I guess in this case... idk... women? He does strike me as a misogynist tbh, though then again, it could be just because I really just don't like him hahaha

Maybe he even tried to go after Nami and Nojiko and that's just one more reason for Arlong to become as restricting as he is.

[shranstan]

Rosinante and Belle-Mere are a gay man and a wlw who are married and in love (queer?)platonically and they kiss and even have sex with each other. And they have approximately six thousand adopted children and they both clown on their previous employers. He may be almost twice as high as her but he is the failmalewife in this situation and she is the girlbosshusband.

[loudestcloud]

Reposting my One piece edits to here part 3

Original date made: February 23rd 2022

Song: Orange trees by Rose Betts

Character: Bell-mère 🍊

One Piece edit number 20

All edits of mine can be found under #Loudestcloud

👇🏻 Editor's comment 👇🏻

I moved this one up on the posting list even though it breaks the chronicle posting because I feel like people would like it more if I posted it now given the OPLA hype is still here a bit. I'm pretty sure this was the first edit I made that I isolated and removed the original background music! Sick, good to know. That's why I can hear background music so well, cos I know what important scenes sound like split up. Anyway, this song makes me SOB any time I think about it because Bell-mère holds a super close place in my heart. She reminds me of my sibling that I spent a lot of time with growing up and also now because we still live in the same house together. You'd think that with how much Bell-mère means to me, Nami would be my favourite Strawhat but she's not, she's not even in my top 5/10.

Anyway please please please listen to the full song and cry with me over the ONE part that isn't in this edit.

'we lost a life when something died that night'

[greatwyrmgold]

They probably inherited it from Belle-Mère.

Okay, so there’s no way in God’s green earth that Nojiko had that hammer on her person, which means she had to have gotten it from Usopp’s bag. That, and taking into consideration this claim during the flashback

Makes me believe that Nami isn’t the only master thief in the family

[mskrysta-art]

Oda didn't let Cora and Belle-mere meet in canon because they'd be too iconic of a duo

[gendervapor14]

*crawls out from the depths of hell to post some zine previews* BELL-MERE ZINE DROPS SOON BABES WE EXCITED OR WHAT

link to the project's carrd is here. it'll be available for download on 3/23! free and digital :D

anyway, here's a little snippet of my SFW fic!! read more for a teaser of the two NSFW pieces i did for the add-on hehe

anyway i'm gonna go disappear again. thank you for letting me express some of my lingering one piece craziness @bell-mere-zine!!

[fucklengs]

Belle-mére (One Piece)

Drew this when we watched One Pace to review before the premiere of Netflix’s live action One Piece 🦆

#artists on tumblr #art #procreate #doodle #drawing #sketch #digitalart #digitalillustration #onepiece #onepieceanime #onepieceart #bellemere

[gendervapor14]

YES i was also thinking the other day: i wonder if nami enjoys sanji’s cooking because something about it tastes familiar. nami’s family grew up in poverty so i’m sure bell-mere got creative with reusing and up-cycling ingredients. similar to how sanji doesn’t waste food. all parts of the animal can be used, old leftovers, stale crusts, bitter bits. he finds a way to make it work, and i’m sure with two little girls, bell-mere learned some of the same tricks. it’s not a common practice, so i feel like nami probably enjoys his cooking more than any time they might go out to eat elsewhere. has that familiar flavor of home, cooked with love ♥️

Personal headcanon that Usopp and Nami bought their mothers' recipes with them on the Merry. Neither family was particularly rich but (and I'm basing this on my family) they have a few notecards with recipes lovingly writing down. They're borderline illegible and probably says things like "a pinch of nutmeg," "enough salt," and "measure garlic with your heart". (Bellemere's orange duck recipe is there, and I don't remember Banchina cooking, but maybe she has pie or fudge recipes that Usopp barely remembers anymore).

Sanji loves them and tries to recreate them whenever possible, especially if it seems like some comfort food is needed or if someone just really needs a pick me up. They are treated with upmost care and kept safe to avoid damage.

[an-au-blog]

Don't know if anyone has done this yet but An Au where Bell-mère and Corazon lived and raised Nami, Nojiko and Law together.

Nami still joins the Arlong Pirates (this time it prevents Bell-mère's death) and later joins the strawhats after the Arlong Park thing. Law left when he was old enough to study to become a doctor and became a pirate because he wants to free Cora from Doffy.

Oh! This reminded me of this tiktok that I thought was really cute :))

I love any au where either Bell-mere and/or Corazon live, because they are genuinely two of the best parents from the main imo... (along with Zeff, but yk, not the point atm)

(I'm gonna start making stuff up now, so if it's not canon aligned pls close your eyes about it)

Both of them are absolutely adorable and I'd love seeing them bond. How I'd imagine it is - Belle-mere quits being a marine to take care of Nami. When she tells Corazon, he panics a bit. They've been friends for a while and he's been growing feelings for her but feared he'd list her, so he never said anything. But now she was leaving anyway so he decided, what's he got to lose more. In a leap of courage he tells her. Long story short, that's how they get together and decide to live together and have a cute little cottage and have an orchard.

They're genuinely great parents and show all of their kids love. They would encourage all of them to chase their dreams and would protect them with their lives. I love thinking that Law hed a happy childhood up to a point with his sister's and I also believe he would be a great brother to annoy hahaha

If Nami still joined the Arlong pirates as a way to save her mother's life and buy back the village, I feel like she would still be ostracized from the rest of the village and locked in that room for days.

I think Law would be a very protective brother and would be grieving every injury that Nami came back with.

Also I think that Law's grudge would be somewhat redirected towards the Arlong pirates rather than Doffy.

While I believe that, yes, both Corazon and Belle mere would still live in this version, it would only be because of Vorazon and because he wouldn't want to make more trouble he'd still be pretty passive

Also also, he would have another reason to help Luffy when he did at impel down. I imagine that he has seen the wanted posters and already knows she's part of Luffy's crew, so of course he would help family.