#fourth gear

[mugiwara-lucy]

Goddammit Luffy 🤣

[diablademon]

Lets go, my dudes!

[jamestdesign]

2015 - OP26

[remastered-feedback]

Guilty Gear is great because depending on when in the story you're looking, the main character's weapon of choice is either "A big piece of concrete he stuck a piece of rebar into as a handle so he could hit stuff with it", or "This setting's equivalent of Excalibur, combined with a magical lightbulb that he stole from the UN, creating a magical thermonuclear rail cannon capable of blowing up literal gods, which he built himself because he has a PhD in magical theoretical particle physics" and those are the only weapons he has wielded in the entire series

[mugiwara-lucy]

Which is the reason i LOVED Boundman the SECOND I saw it!! 😍🤩

gear 4 reminds me of luffy's possessed state in Thriller Bark

do you think when luffy was working out gear 4 he said "yep i have an idea on what to do! :D"

i honestly would not be surprised

[moderndaypandora]

The LAYERS needed in a modern/human Dreamling au.  Some level of Endless family dysfunction, obviously.  Hob's family can be be dead or not, it's all good. Are they old enough to have individually gained the awareness they are off-puttingly intense and should hide it a bit at first, or still in that "no, why would I need to Elsa this" stage?

Option A is both of them trying to play it cool, like "don't scare him off" except they so badly want to go from zero to sixty.

(Death and Desire have ruthlessly drilled Dream with flashcards about how to react appropriately in situations.

Desire: it's your one-month anniversary, what do you do?

Dream: [hesitantly] NOT propose?

Desire and Death, conferring, because that's technically correct but the delivery was suspect.

Death, encouragingly: Good start. And?


Dream: a nice dinner and maybe a walk?

Desire: well done!

Death: and for a three-month anniversary?


Dream: give them a key to my flat.

Desire: [airhorn] NO. RED CARD.)

Option B makes them the classic anecdotal "my grandparents got engaged within seven days of meeting each other and still are happy together".

(Death, rubbing her temples: so you met this guy--

Dream: Hob

Death: -- Hob, and within 1 day you gave notice to the Registrar's Office and figured out the best day to get married. And Hob agreed to this?

Dream: NO.

Death: oh thank go-

Dream: Hob SUGGESTED this.

Death: . . .

Dream: are you going to be a witness or not?

Death, 29 days later in the Registrar's Office, to Hob's witness: Is he sane?

Johanna Constantine, drinking heavily from a large flask: unfortunately yes, by all legal definitions.

Death: fuck

Johanna: [passing the flask over] if your brother's even a tenth as intense as Hob, they'll be fine. Probably.

Death, brightening: Is Hob that bad?


Johanna: You know how sometimes you meet somebody and think "oof, they're a bit much, best give them a wide berth"?


Death: yeah.

Johanna: Hob's like a camouflaged hole in the ground of muchness. Except he's done the hole up all nice and he knows that sometimes you just want to be left alone in the hole to sulk and rattle the spikes for a bit, and occasionally get a F&M hamper tossed in.

Death: [hmmmmmmm'ing approvingly]

Johanna, morose: the bastard.

In the background, Hob and Dream are pressing their foreheads together and basking in each other's presence)

[mugiwarabr]

Gear's

[s0und-of-snow]

Got the idea from @scribz-ag24

[cake-nastyy]

WOE throws u all a collection of doodles

(second pic i posted on my twitter but FORGOT to put on here. oh well lmao)

[v-67]

Luffy v. Katakuri

Here we meet Gear Fourth : Snake man for the first time.

AAAAH LOOK AT THIS PANEL.⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Episodes 867–871

29th January, 2024

[mugiwara-lucy]

I like to headcanon that Fourth Gear was inspired by Nightmare Luffy 😊 like....just look at them! They do look kinda similar!

And given how DEVASTATING Nightmare Luffy was; no doubt Luffy would obviously try to emulate that power BUT without having to absorb 1000 shadows!

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

[innovatorbunny]

the four facets of meeeeeeeeee

[swivinge]

tired of being cute. look up at me

[human-trash-fire]

Luffy rly said “hang on bro, let me click it up a few notches, it’ll really lay you out”

[idreaminmugiwara]

Part 2 of 2! Alright, Dressrosa, let's talk about it. This will be SPOILER HEAVY so if you have not gotten this far in One Piece turn back, ye lousy land lubber!!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!

This guy. This guy right fucking here. I love him, your honor. In a show that is absolutely chock full of attractive characters, Law wins Sexiest Man in the One Piece Universe for me. The man is a SURGEON, a Warlord of the Sea, and walks around shirtless with them abs because a motherfucker CAN. His backstory is, in my opinion, one of the top three most devastating in the entire series as well (Robin and Nami are the other two). When I found out his tattoos were to honor Corazon, the tears started falling, man.

I sincerely hope we get more of him in future arcs because while he did feature prominently in this one narratively, he was either getting carried around like a sack of potatoes by Luffy or getting his ass absolutely handed to him by Doflamingo. I can't wait to see him fully powered and healed up.

Now had it already been spoiled for me that Sabo would make a comeback and somehow also have the powers of the Flare-Flare fruit? Yes. Because the internet has absolutely no fucking chill. Did I expect his return to be one of the most powerful emotional beats of the entire series? I did not. Luffy's reaction to finding out Sabo was still alive was one of the most beautiful moments in over 700 episodes of OP for me. Mayumi Tanaka knocked it out of the park with the voice acting here. I sincerely hope to see Luffy and Sabo reunited in future arcs.

After waiting and waiting....and WAITING for the final duel between Luffy and Doflamingo, I have to say that Gear Fourth did not disappoint. It was entirely extra and completely in alignment with Luffy's personality. He earned the long and several tons of meat in the episodes that followed.

Final thoughts:

I mostly loved the collaseum fight. The pacing was great in the beginning and some of the newer characters, specifically Cavendish and Bartolomeo were a delight to have on screen.

The toy soldier episode broke me in twain. Gorgeous, emotional, Kyros wins for dad of the millennium.

Bellamy may be the dumbest motherfucker on this show and that's truly saying something.

Not loving how every single arc seems to sexualize and objectify young women's bodies (Rebecca is 16, y'all)

God Usopp was one of the funniest moments in all of One Piece

Zushi Zushi no Mi, god DAMN...is that potentially another world ending devil fruit like the one Whitebeard had??

The pirates swearing allegiance to Luffy gave me the CHILLS...homeboy is building a fleet without even friggin trying

The Straw Hats are a prime example of: if you believe in something strong enough, it will absolutely manifest. They're all goddamn magicians.

I just started Zou and am already in love. It's such a shift in tone and pacing from the exhausting yet important arc that was Dressrosa. On to the next binge session :)