#east blue asylum wing au

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Ok, ok, I promised to post some East Blue Asylum au art for 300 followers so... here are some wips :))

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Not me making shameless fan art of my own fic... anyways zosan from tomorrow's febuwhump prompt ((EBAW au)as a teaser trailer if you will)

Update: now posted

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I wondered if I should post this for the longest time but...

The whole plot of One Piece but they're all in an asylum (with zosan and a bit frobin bc i love them)

(Disclaimer: consider all the CW that could come with a mental institution (e.g. self harm, mental illnesses, death, violence etc.))

Listen, listen I have it all planned out!

They call the wing they're in "East Blue" because it's the most east part of the facility and it's painted in blue. They keep the patients in small groups at first so that they don't act out or feel threatened. They call this group "the straw hats" after they let one of the patients propose it (the patients all agreed on it).

Luffy is taken in because he can't discern the difference between reality and fiction and thinks there's a pirate treasure he needs to find. It started after his second adopted brother's death - his brain refuses to believe it, so it creates an alternative reality in which his death was heroic and grand.

Both Nami and Sanji are taken in for self-harm and suicidal tendencies (they both failed to commit suicide, main difference was Nami did it during a depressive episode, while Sanji had tried multiple times but stopped himself every time until he almost succeed but was found by his boss- Zeff).

Zoro is highly delusional, has violent tendencies and has paranoia - he thinks anyone who looks strong is challenging him to a fight.

Brook has cotard delusion (also known as corpse syndrome), where he thinks that his body is dead/dying or doesn't exist.

Usopp is a pathological liar with severe depression. He admitted himself with the encouragement of his girlfriend, who had tried helping him after his mother's death.

Franky is a volunteer, who the patients absolutely love. He helps with renovations as well, since his day job is in construction.

Robin and Chopper are doctors. Robin started working at the institution because she used to struggle with suicidal thoughts and self worth and wishes to help those like her. Chopper is a man with dwarfism and has a nice short beard, so some of the patients with a rich imagination think he's a raccoon dog or baby rairdeer.

Jinbe is the owner of the establishment. Everyone loves him and he does his best to provide his patients with what they need. His favorite food is fish and he often orders or takes it from home to eat in his lunch break, so the other employees call him a fish man or First Son of the Sea. he thinks it's funny.

In group sessions, they all share their experiences and progress. It starts off with just Luffy telling stories of him fighting bad guys and monsters in the sea. His stories slowly started including the rest of the east wing. First it was Koby who was an intern nurse and then it was Zoro - he's selectively mute but nodded in agreement on a couple of the stories that he told.

Then he started including Nami, to which she objected at first but slowly stopped, it was nice to feel included. Usopp joined in with his own overexaggerated stories. Then it was Sanji, Luffy called him the cook of his crew, which was oddly fitting but still ironic. Yes, he was a cook before coming in but he also had a severe eating disorder. He didn't tell anyone about it. Until one day he told Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Nami. Luffy made it into a grand heroic story about him surviving starvation on a big rock. Sanji liked it more than having an eating disorder so he accepted it - even added his own spark to it, saying it was Zeff who helped him. (He knew it wasn't true, but he wanted to pretend that he knew Zeff long enough for him to have become the healthy father figure he was deprived of as a child.)

While on the subject of Sanji - he refused to eat. Most times he wouldn't even sit at the table. In the beginning it was so bad that the nurses had to hold him down and force feed him. Slowly he started obeying. It was mainly because they called in either Zeff or Reiju (though he got scared that she would tell the rest of the family where he was, she didn't). The doctors figured he needed a support system but he didn't trust anyone in a white coat and they couldn't ask other patients. Luffy had a thing for freedom and anyone choosing whether or not they did anything... do he was no help. Although on a couple of occasions they would see Zoro taking Sanji's plate and sitting in the corner with him. He would take two bites and feed Sanji one. He refused at first but Zoro told him that "If you don't eat, I won't either." which was one of the few times anyone had heard him talk. Though they had heard him laugh once with Luffy and he responded a few times when Usopp kept asking him questions.

Eventually, Robin came back from her honeymoon with Franky and started bonding with the patients. She became a part of Luffy's "crew" as well. Not long after Franky was welcomed as well.

When Brook came in, he was so skinny that he looked like a skeleton, so when he told Luffy he was, he believed him immediately. Brook is the only one who is allowed to use the musical instruments since he's the only one who can play. Musical therapy turns out to be quite effective, if not for anything else, for calming the patients.

There were a few "incidents" in the courtyard - first with Arlong a few other guards that got moved to another wing, then with some of the other patients. Luffy seemed aggressive on visitation day as well, not recognizing his parent after he went through top surgery, he just called him Crocodile and made up a story about Nami's visitor - her girlfriend Vivi. He would talk about how if she looked pretty like a princess, she must be one and how she was fighting for her country and he would help her.

One of the bigger fights was when he fought Enel - a patient who thought he was a god and had tried starting a cult.

Every once in a while, he'd start a fight and Zoro (and sometimes Sanji) joined in to help their friend. It happened a couple more times until one of the upper-ranked doctors (Dr Kuma) decided to separate them for a while to see if their attitude changed. It was only a few months but it seemed like they got worse. Luffy and Zoro would get all silent and non-responsive for hours sometimes days. Sanji would lose all the progress he made with his eating disorder and would try to find sharp objects to self-harm again. Nami and Usopp's emotional state would worsen as well, having full-blown panic attacks, Usopp developed paranoia and an eating disorder (but he started handling it little before getting released back with the rest of the east wing).

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In the east blue asylum wing au thingy, Zoro sneaks Sanji out in the middle of the night to get into the kitchens. It's the best time of the day for both of them because Sanji can do what he loves and Zoro can watch him do it. They often take Luffy as well (if he's not sleeping), so that he can eat whatever Sanji makes (as he makes a lot of things to make up for not being allowed in there). Sometimes he'd make little sweet treats for Nami but she'd get worried about him getting caught and he'd just stop making them for her too often. It's not every night but it's often enough to make him happy.

Robin knows about it but doesn't tell anyone as she thinks it's therapeutic. She does however pull Zoro aside to warn him to keep an eye on Sanji as there are things he could hurt himself with like knives, string-like cords, rat poison... etc... Zoro still doesn't trust her but he keeps it in mind. Not because she told him to, but because he couldn't bear it if he was responsible if anything happened.

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Some thoughts about the east blue asylum fic that I need to share because idk if I communicated them well enough and they keep rotting them in my brain.

Zoro's biggest issue is that he can't trust, not fast, not fully, not wholeheartedly. With kids or people who have a child-like personality like Luffy he is easier to warm up to. But with Sanji it's a gut feeling. For him, trust is stronger than love. When he told Sanji he trusted him, he was bearing his soul, showing a passionate devotion. He was handing over his Achilles heel, like Samson and Delilah, giving Sanji the means to kill him in the only way that mattered.

In return, Sanji letting Zoro put his teeth around his finger was the ultimate show of trust. His hands were the one thing he kept sacred and having the wild beast, the demon of the east, the rabid dog that everyone feared touching them was nothing short of a trust fall into the unknown. And yet he let the beast leave a mark on the thing he held more dear than life itself. He let it mark him as a promise.

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Ok, I was listening to something and got thinking about Zoro in the East Blue Asylum wing au.

He has to take an extra pill for his aggressive tendencies and paranoia (which is an unfortunate combination, especially for the people who have to hold him down when something happens. He's pretty strong even though he can't train properly within the facility and when he jumps to a fight he wreaks havoc. Not to mention that Sanji is one of the few people who stop him from fights, as he jumps every time Luffy does, which is pretty often.) The problem with the pills is that he hates taking them. He usually hides them under his tongue and then throws them out when no one's watching (or gives them to Brook, who loves the calm feeling they give him because he believes that corpses (as he sees himself) need to rest and be in peace.)

But on the rare occasions when he does take the pills, he gets drowsy and extremely passive. He usually just broods in the corner but after the pills, he's almost like a plant. Sanji, because of past trauma and his extreme fear of authority figures, often asks Zoro to take his pills because they could get into trouble. Zoro finds it hard to tell him 'no'. The only other people he would take the pills for were Luffy and Chopper. But Luffy loved that Zoro hated all the rules as much as he did. And Chopper assumed that Zoro was calm because he was already medicated and it was the medicine at work that made him well-behaved.

The first time he made him take them, he watched him do it to make sure he was obeying the rules and all. They were huddled in the corner and Sanji was just talking about anything and everything but at one point he realized that Zoro wasn't responding. He freaked out and was on the verge of a panic attack when Nami rushed over to reassure him it was okay and that it was just the pills.

"It's okay, it's okay. Look, his eye is still moving." She pointed out.

And sure enough, there he was - slouched and looking at Sanji. His face was expressionless but there was an odd kind of calmness to him. Nami took both their hands and put them in one another (essentially making them hold hands.) Zoro squeezed his hand. It reassured Sanji a bit, but he still refused to leave his side for the rest of the day.

Some of the doctors and nurses didn't like that the east blue wing was starting to become so codependent. They thought that it was an unhealthy coping mechanism but on Dr. Chopper's request, none of them were separated. Until the experiment they did with Dr. Kuma, that was...

Zoro sometimes gets visited by his sister and father. When he argues with his sister he seems more normal than what he acts like with the doctors or nurses. Some of them suspect that he got better a while ago but is faking his illnesses now just so he can stay with his "crew". Ironically enough would be another thing they'd have to try and "medicate" him from.

(I'm thinking of posting some EBAW au sketches for 300 followers maybe? Idk we'll see when we get there ;))

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Oh, your love is sunlight

Happy (late) Valentine's Day (version without text ↓ +description in tags)

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Finishing drafts from when East Blue Asylum thoughts had been plaguing my brain...

Being in the white room is the worst thing in Sanji's eyes. It makes him think of when Judge would lock him in the one basement that he wouldn't let the servants go in. When he was stuck there, at the mercy of Reiju, who could only sneak in the dead of night to give him the half-eaten bread she would sneak out to feed him after everyone was asleep.

So now, Sanji's biggest fear was that he would be put in the white room, alone and starving. He did anything to avoid getting in it. The same couldn't be said about Zoro. The very first time Zoro had gotten a "detention" in the room, Sanji had a horrible panic attack. They hadn't even been acquainted yet, Sanji just knew him as the quiet and scary man that Luffy spent time with. But when he saw him getting detained he couldn't help spiraling.

His breathing quickened, he started chanting "no" in a frenzy, before he knew it, he was gripping at him, trying to pull him away from the orderly. Before he realized it, he was a shaking, weeping mess on the floor.

He had a bone-chilling fear of disobeying orders, because what if this were to happen to him? He would most certainly die in there, forgotten and missed by no one. But then again, he couldn't let his friend's friend have the same fate. He hid what he could before the day ended, which wasn't much, a couple of grapes and some crackers that could fit through the food slot.

So he snuck out, hoping Zoro wouldn't give him away in any way. He called for him, waiting to see something move through the food slot after opening it. He almost screamed when he saw a pair of eyes jump in front, but thankfully, he didn't manage to make too much noise. "I brought you food..." Sanji whispered. He didn't know what else to say, what else was there to say? He wasn't even sure the man understood him or could respond, he's never really heard him speak and Luffy would talk to him in Spanish as well as English, so maybe he couldn't...

But then Zoro lifted his face to reveal his mouth. Sanji realized that he was expected to feed him, but he'd rather risk that than to let a man go hungry. He still feared that the other could bite down on his fingers, but he decided he was willing to take the risk. One grape, then two, tree, four... he never even grazed the spin of his fingers. But then there was the problem. The crackers had gotten all crumpled up, so when Sanji scooped some with his fingers, he felt his fingers entering the mouth, getting his digits licked clean... It felt too intimate for comfort. Still, he fed him every last crumb. The blond had already felt like he was feeing a wild animal, but then Zoro nuzzled his head against the hand that fed him and Sanji felt a lump in his throat, just like an attack, his heart quickened, but this time he couldn't feel the fear.

"Thank you for not biting me..." Sanji finally pulled back his hand.

"Thank you for feeding me." A gravely and unused voice spoke. It shook Sanji to his core and whole being vibrated on the inside.

He went back to his room.

Zoro was let out a day after.

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Thinking about how zosan would be in the east blue asylum au and since it's all through the lense of Luffy's imagination.

Luffy is a boy who craves excitement and adventure, so of course he would interpret many things like fights and quarrels.

In reality, all the headbutts and bickering is them resting their forehead on one another, whispering reassurances to each other.

Zoro could notice all the small changes around him, even ones that aren't there. But he also notices when people he cares about change in the slightest. So every time Sanji starts spiraling or is on the verge of a breakdown, Zoro would grab the back of his neck and rest their foreheads on each other. He would make eye contact and tell Sanji it would be okay. Zoro doesn't believe it, but it makes Sanji feel better and that was all that mattered.

From time to time Sanji will feel the need to hold Zoro's hand, just for comfort or courage. And from time to time, Zoro would check Sanji's wrists for self-harm or suicide attempts. They were assigned as "roommates", so he would also go through their room, looking for anything that Sanji could use to commit suicide. He just couldn't lose another person in his life. Not again.

Sanji thinks Zoro is just a clean freak, which... he is... but he never really suspected he was worried about that.

From time to time they'd sleep in one bed because of night terrors. But sometimes it would be impossible because of uneasy sleeping. Zoro often moved around and tossed his arms and legs every-which-way. He once threw Sanji off the bed so hard that it made Sanji's nose bleed.

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A collection of my aus and posts:

Consider this a map for my blog for easier navigation and finding posts (will be updated when needed). Not all posts are linked but all posts are tagged.

:)

One Piece (they got too many lol)

shuggy

zosan

frobin

more!

even more!!

Trigun

Eye of Michael cigarettes

Beauty(s) And The Beast au (kinda)

Immortal! Vash

Dr Who au

Small town dr Eriks

Guardian x teacher au (1), (2)

Fast and not so furious au (1), (2), (3)

Dating app vashwood

greek mythology vashwood

Orpheus and Eurydice vw

ghost hunters au (1), (2)

thoughts (1)

reborn wolfwood (vw)

"Joline" vashwood

The witcher

bitter Jaskier

non-human! Jaskier

Superheroes

into the spiderverse Peter B and Miguel neighbors

spideypool soulmate au tropes

Horrid Henry

post-canon, (2)

Ralph thoughts

adoption

thoughts ok bg characters (1)

sketches (1)

hh band au

car accident

Henry and Peter's relationship

cowboys

Others

Hannibal coffee shop au

Stranger Things pining Eddie (1), (2)

Murther Sailor Moon au

chainsaw man akiangel incorrect quote

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These tags from @zosanhoarder were like a light in a dark room Robin has more potential here HOLD ON I'M THINKING!

So, Robin's reputation had never been all that good with some of the nurses. She was considered "cold" yet was rumoured to "indulge" some of the patients. Her strength and height only added to the fear. Rumors that she got her doctor's degree when she was only 16 started circling, more than that they said that she was on the run and it wasn't even a real degree, her name wasn't even Robin! Most of which were only rumors.

(And here I go making this a frobin thing...)

On the other hand when Franky appeared, there were two types of people. Those who assumed he was a thug and those who thought "oh, what a nice young man, helping ill people". Once they got to know him, they leaned towards the latter. But then when they somehow found out that he was engaged to Dr Nico Robin? They started assuming the worst.

A bit later they got married and went on a honeymoon with a vacation organisation she used to work for - Baroque Works. When Robin found out that her ex-boss's son was in the mental institute that she worked at, she requested to be moved to the east blue wing. She takes care of him and tends more to him to reassure her old boss. At first, Luffy thinks she's evil because of all the rumors, but she eventually becomes part of his made up crew.

She was still threatening, but seeing her play with Luffy and his friends like little children, made her seem a bit softer to the rest of the employees.

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Omg!

Really loved the idea of East blue asylum. I have a few questions about it! (If you are willing to hear me out of thought about it, haha) First. Is Sabo really dead or is something like in the Canon where Luffy (and Ace before whatever happened to him) thought he was, but he actually wasn't? (A part of me would love the latter, but the first scenario is also very plausible). Second, I'm wondering about the other East blue villains? We know about Arlong, but the rest? (This isn't me asking about Buggy, of course not, haha)

(Thought I have an idea about the clown also related with Shanks because Shuggy: He was previously interned right after Roger's death, and with help he was able to recover. Maybe that was the reason Shanks recommended the place to intern Luffy in first place, giving him his straw hat and assuring him they've seen each other again once he fully recovered, making a parallelism with the Canon. Now the clown (like Franky) is a volunteer that helps whenever he could and Luffy loves to bicker with him because of his funny reaction about his red nose.)

Anyway! You can take it or not! He could also be a patient, I think that could work too!

Thanks for sharing the idea!

Oh! I'm happy you liked it!

Sabo is considered dead in this au, and just like in the series, both Luffy and Ace had a hard time coping with it and could "see him" from time to time. Losing a second brother down the line was what made him snap. And although I kept Ace's death like in canon, I moved it around a bit to make it the reason to trigger Luffy's disorders. And the series starts when he comes into the hospital.

In reality, Sabo isn't really dead. He almost died in a house fire but by the time they rescued him he had hit his head and gotten temporary amnesia. He grew up trying to remember who he was and by the time he did, he felt like he abandoned his brothers and felt like he couldn't barge back into their lives. Luffy was going to become a firefighter because of what happened to Sabo and Ace was volunteering for safety patrols. They had entire lives that he was no longer part of, but he just couldn't resist going to the funeral. Good thing he managed to outrun his brother.

(for people with no context: here)

Technically, keeping Sabo dead would make more sense in the real world, but I think it'd be more interesting and a bit more sad if he wasn't and Luffy kept seeing him. The first time he saw him was a bit before Ace's death. He told his big brother but he just went "I know, I sometimes see him as well... Like a mirage of the kid we used to love," but Luffy's just like "No, I saw him as an adult! He was real!" And it was a bit concerning but they decided, oh well, he's been a bit of an odd child anyway. But then Ace died and Luffy ruined the funeral because he was supposedly chacing his other brother. It was bad enough that he went in a state of shock for a full three days, but this was too much... Everyone keeps telling him that they're both dead. Accidents happen. But he refuses to believe it and slowly starts creating this makeshift world to fit the trauma of losing his family.

It got worse when he found out he got admitted into a facility. I believe he goes to visit him later on under a fake name, but tells him that he can't tell anyone he's alive. He said it mainly because he knew they'd probably think he was losing progress and double his pills.

As for the rest of the villains (Buggy)... The marines are just guards who won't let him leave - or in Luffy's eyes, suppressing his freedom. (Except for Garp, he's just his grandpa and he's in the military in real life as well. He comes to visit his grandson whenever he can but it's very painful for him.) Axehand Morgan is just an asshole guard who got fired for abusive behavior. His son had the same internship that Koby did and they both left after a while but would come back after some time later.

For captain Kuro, I think he'd just be one of Usopp's lies. Maybe he was an ex of Kaya's (before Usopp came along) who used her for her money and he told this big story about how he tried to kill everyone and how he saved the day and was all heroic for Kaya and sent him running for the hills. Luffy liked it so much that he put his own little spin on it and added himself to the story.

As for Buggy, I honestly didn't really think about it. But if I had to, I initially thought he could be a patient, but I didn't like that, so I thought "Maybe a guard", but that wasn't fitting either. But I think I got it! What would make a kid believe someone is a rival, become an ally, back to annoying kinda rivals and so on and so forth? Well I think one of his favorite uncle's exes would do just fine.

Outside of Luffy's world, Shanks and Garp have a normal relationship of tough love, the only thing Garp blames him for is spoiling Luffy and Ace too much. The boys have lived with Shanks for a long time and had seen a lot of his love life. His first love - Buggy, who was a part-time clown for kids' parties. Makino - who was Luffy's favorite because she would cook him tasty food, unlike Shanks who only ordered takeout. Mihawk - the cool goth, who was neurodivergent, (so is Luffy) so there was a kind of unspoken bond there. And then Buggy again.

In my mind, Shanks ran back to him after Ace's death for comfort. Buggy, now grown with a real job and no longer a part-time clown, stayed in Luffy's mind the evil clown who loved money and that's why he broke Shanks's heart. (Or that's how he saw it...)

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But then I read yours as well and I liked it! I like the idea of him getting help after Roger's death. I think that maybe him or a parental figure were afraid that he was too emotional and could potentially get depressed. So he went to see a psychiatrist and they decided it's best to take him in for a little while, just to make sure he handles grief in a healthy way that wouldn't be harmful to himself or people around him. Maybe that's why he broke up with Shanks. But he was too embarrassed to tell him that he had such a hard time handling death, so he lied about it. He lied and made up a different reason to leave.

And now that I think about it, this - him knowing how hard loss can be, could be the reason why he was so willing to welcome Shanks again. Because he's been there and he knows that it hurts less if there's someone next to you and he wants to be next to Shanks.

Thanks for the ask! I'd love answering any other additional questions if you or anyone has :))

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as I've probably mentioned, I'm working on stuff and they're a couple of things, but since I'm working on all of them simultaneously and I'm indecisive

sidenote: I've written most for the first(around 4k), the second as well (maybe 2k) but I don't remember the rest as word count

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In the east blue asylum, Sanji isn't in love with Nami, he isn't hitting on her, he doesn't have a crush on her either. But they are close and with time become closer, they understand each other in ways the rest of the patients can't really. They came at nearly the same time, they both suffer from suicidal thoughts and are both in the mental institution because they tried to take their own life.

They often hang around each other and he often gives her his food (to simulate eating). She takes it, though she doesn't want to encourage him in his self-proclaimed "diet", but she also didn't want him to get in trouble again. Every time they saw he hasn't eaten, they make up a "punishment" for him. It's usually small things like only allowing him to wear plain white clothes, or that one time they told him he couldn't go in the yard or the music room until he finished an entire plate.

Nami liked the food, as opposed to Sanji who would always complain when he ate. It was always lacking in something. The only meals he ate without complaining, were the ones his former boss - Zeff, brought him. He'd never eat it in one sitting and he'd often throw up if he ate too much or too fast. Zoro had to keep him company in the toilets while he hurled his guts out more than once. But then he would cry because he didn't want to waste the food that the only familial figure from the outside made for him.

So Nami made a bargain with him. For every bite she took, Sanji would take one as well. If he felt like he needed to throw up they would stop.

They decided to keep it a secret from Luffy because they knew that his childlike honesty could get them in trouble. So Luffy just assumed that Sanji really liked Nami since he always gave her food. And Luffy's main love language was good sharing so it made sense to him. Luffy ate a lot but he also has crazy metabolism, plus he burned a lot from runing around and climbing on everything like a monkey (hence the name Monkey D Luffy, which was just someone calling him "monkey the Luffy" as a joke, but he liked it a bit too much).

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So I really like your East blue wing asylum fic, but I was thinking about how, during the Alabasta arc when they fight Mr. 3, Zoro saws halfway through his legs, and then Chopper has to sew them back on, and how Zoro often reacts to cuffs or restraints by trying to ( or at least threatening to) chop off the restrained limb.

ohhhh *-*

Tbh I didn't think of that, I was thinking more of a "he either rips the jacket or he dislocates his shoulder (tho in this case he didn't really need to) Zoro would be the type to take and stash away sharp objects when he can because "he might need them later". When they restrain him, he'd definitely rather cut his feet off than stay on the sidelines helplessly.

It also got me thinking about how in wci Luffy also tried severing his hands to save Sanji... so maybe he was restrained and tried pulling away, definitely ripping a few ligaments in his desperate attempt to get free.

In either case, Sanji would feel horribly guilty that his closest people tried losing their limbs to save him. As if it were a tradition or something...

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I woke up and chose lazy violence.

After the separation that Dr Kuma prescribed, Sanji started eating less again. The doctor and nurses measured him every day to make sure he wasn't losing any weight but he just started wearing baggier clothes like hoodies or large pants and stuffed all the pockets with heavy objects. He took Zoro's clothes since they were big enough to hide how small he had become. Zoro didn't like this because on some fundamental level, he understood how unhealthy it was. It got so bad that he had to help him walk from time to time.

One day, Nami, Brook and Sanji were taken by Dr Chopper to the Zoo as a "treat" for being good. Sanji wanted to see the elephant. Luffy kept pronouncing Zoo as Zou for some reason... All of the East Blue wing could choose what their reward would be. It was between going to the Zoo and the cinema. (Zoro, Luffy and Usopp had gone to the movies with Dr Robin and her husband - Franky, to see a movie about Spartacus. Luffy kept saying how he'd love to have faught in an arena as well and taken down that ruler guy who made his people go through all that. He would later start saying that he was there and had faught the "warlord", who he also claims to be some one he called Mingo, who they later found out was one of his father's toxic ex's.)

While at the Zoo, Sanji collapsed from malnutrition and had to be taken into a hospital where they started force feeding him through a tube. He hated everything about it and most of the time ended up throwing it up right after.

They start noticing that it does more harm than good. They stop force feeding him, but he can't digest solid foods for a while, so all he got was liquids and pudding. Later on, Sanji complained about it once during the group therapy. "It felt like I was going to get married to that pudding", he said. Luffy had never been good with metaphorical talk, so he took it a bit too literally. It also didn't help that while Sanji was in a medical hospital for his weakened state, the drama of "Vinsmokes abandoning third son, pres release" thing was blowing up. Luffy thought they must be the ones who took him from us.

On the day they were allowed to visit Sanji - Nami, Luffy and Brook were taken by Dr. Chopper and Dr. Jinbe to see him. Zoro wanted to go as well but his behavior the past month had been "bad", so he wasn't allowed. In the waiting room, Luffy met Sanji's biological family (as they were trying to bribe the medical staff to take him when visiting hours were over - it almost worked but Luffy overheard them and jumped to fight the ones taking the bribe(the Big Mom pirates, as the one holding the hospital is Dr. Big Mom herself as she "captured" the captain's cook etc.) the cany imagery is because on the way to the hospital Luffy was promised a whole cake to himself if he behaved. He also ran around the building because he got lost and kept picking up random treats from the kids wing of the hospital, it was a colorful part of the building that he really liked before getting too lost(lost in the enchanted forest and all)) Luffy never got to see Sanji in the hospital but he started a hunger strike until he could make sure he came back safe and sound.