Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: One Piece (Manga
Relationship: Coby & Helmeppo (One Piece), Cancer & Stainless (One Piece), Kujaku & Tsuru (One Piece)
Characters: Marines (One Piece), Helmeppo (One Piece), Cancer (One Piece), Stainless (One Piece), Vice Admiral Dalmatian (One Piece), Momonga (One Piece), Nezumi (One Piece), Kujaku (One Piece), Momousagi | Gion
Additional Tags: One Piece Marines Week, One Piece Marines Week 2024, Fandom Week, Canon Universe, Not Canon Compliant, Minor Canonical Character(s), POV Minor Character, OP Marines Week, Friendship, Minor Angst, Some Humor, Headcanon, No Plot/Plotless, Non-Canonical Violence, Complete, Experimental Style
SUMMARY:
Glimpses of the Marines who are in the background but still just as important.
For One Piece Marines Week 2024
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Saw the end credit scene of OPLA and then went into the anime *so* ready to hate this guy, and yet! I think this guy's great i love how bad of a day he's having
(im on episode 138 so please dont post spoilers in the tags,,)
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Image 1: A digital illustration of Captain Smoker and Tashigi from One Piece, drawn from the waist up in shades of blue. They're both facing the left , with smoker standing in the front, holding a cigar that leaves a swirl of yellow smoke to fall of screen. Tashigi stands behind him, with one hand on her swords and a serious expression. Behind them, a large swath of yellow smoke cuts the canvas in half, revealing a dark yellow ocean scene with Marine boats sailing in the distance.
Image 2: A grey scale comic of the casino prison scene from the alabasta arch from the one piece anime. Luffy and Ussop stand in the forground, with expressions of fear and rage. Behind them, Smoker sits cross legged on a bench with a tired expression. Above them there is text that reads "Everyone else; freaking out" with arrows pointing towards Luffy and Ussop and " Thinking about how he, a *marine captain* is about to drown in the middle of a desert, in the middle of a drought, after *accidently uncovering a government conspiracy." with an arrow pointing towards smoker.
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The Ashlesha Nakshatra, the Snake Princess, and Amazon Lily🐍
‼️Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking ‼️
Based on: One Piece, Amazon Lily Arc (episodes 408-421). “Island of Women”
Hello everyone! I just want to say that I am NOT a Vedic astrologer, however I have been researching my own placements. I’m an Ashlesha lagna, so of course I saw the similarities in the Pirate Empress and this arc. This is my analysis on the connection between the Ashlesha Nakshatra, Boa Hancock, the Kuja Pirates, and Amazon Lily.
“Snake Princess”: Snake symbolism on the island and in this arc are very prevalent. You can see this with the Gorgon sisters (Boa’s younger siblings), the use of snakes as weapons, and the use giant of snake monsters to travel. The Jolly Roger of the Kuja pirates pictures a skull with nine snakes. Snakes are connected to Ashlesha because it ruled by the Nagas (divine serpents).
The Kuja tribe also has qualities like a snake. Their island, Amazon Lily, rests on the Calm Belt. This makes them a fairly isolated island that is hard to travel to. Ashlesha is known to be a guarded and private nakshatra.
Boa Hancock: Boa Hancock has two nicknames, the Pirate Empress and the Snake Princess. Her first title comes from being the ruler of Amazon Lily, which also makes her the strongest person on the island. She possesses a “devil fruit” called the mero mero no mi (aka the love-love fruit). This fruit gives her the power to turn people into stone when they become enamored by her beauty, and sometimes lust after her. She is also known as the most beautiful woman in the world, which makes her power even more potent. The snake princess has her own snake weapon named Salome, who is a giant snake. There is currently debate about what nak is connected to Medusa symbolism and I think it is the Ashlesha nak. You can especially see this in Boa’s character arc. She has a hard, intimidating appearance to protect herself and her tribe. However, on the inside she is the complete opposite.
Gorgon Sisters: The Gorgon sisters are Boa Hancock’s younger sisters. They both ate the hebi hebi no mi (snake devil fruit), but they possess different models. The middle sister, Boa Sandersonia, ate the anaconda model. The youngest sister, Boa Marigold, ate the cobra model.
Over-sexualization: Amazon Lily is only inhabited by women, thus it catches the attention of predatory and perverted men. The island is an almost impenetrable fortress and with the help of the Kuja warriors who also protect it, predatory behavior is a reason why. Boa Hancock and her younger sisters were also victims of human trafficking and sexual assault (SA has been speculated but fans believe that this is what the anime was alluding to). Not only is this nak heavily sexualized in real life, this trope is seen many times in film and television with characters played by Ashlesha women. You can see this further explained in Claire Nakti's Youtube video about Ashlesha.
Claire Nakti Ashlesha Youtube Video:
Since I am on the Claire Nakti video, I would like to also include one very specific thing she talks about here. Claire talks about how Ashlesha women are attracted to people they cannot dominate, people who have more control over themselves. Boa Hancock falls in love with the main protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy, because he didn’t immediately lust after her. They believe that strength is tied to beauty and the more strong you are the more beautiful you are, and Luffy is one of the strongest men in the world. Once she realized he was genuine with a good heart she immediately fell in love.
The Kuja tribe are very skilled and knowledgeable when it comes to poison and medicine. When Luffy first landed on the island, he ate poisonous mushrooms. Some Kuja members rescued him and healed at a river. The Gorgon sisters also fight with poison, which they used to fight Luffy. The Ashlesha nakshatra has a strong connection to alchemy, poison, medicine, and chemistry.
Also, it’s funny how Ashlesha is ninth in the order of the nakshatras. Kuja means “nine snakes” and their Jolly Roger has nine snakes.
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These Marine branded cigars have me asking questions about the One Piece Verse tobacco industry that are literally never going to be answered
does the world government own tobacco farms??? factories???? how the hell does this work that they produce goods instead of just fighting and regulating stuff???
I guess they have to procure uniforms and rations, and cigarettes were historically part of military rations so it makes a certain amount of sense
But where do THOSE SPECIFIC CIGARS come from??? Do they have a deal with individual farms like they did with the cute milk girl from the chapter title comics???? Are they individually wrapped or is there a factory and industrialized cigar prodiction somewhere? Fishman Island has a candy factory so there's precedent for this I guess???
Also how many cigars does Smoker individually go through and how much of the military budget is spent keeping his arm holsters stocked up so he can be dramatic lmaooooo
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