#girl in pieces spoilers

[marylily-my-beloved]

!!SPOILERS!! Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

(Ok so there’s only three parts so I’m going by pages): Pg 1-17

‘what’s your story, morning glory?’ It rhymes I love that so much, it also already feels deep

I love the mention of the stars so far, this girl seems to really appreciate the sights around her, even near death 

‘There’s food, and a bed, and it’s warm, and I am inside, and I am safe’ Ok so something happened to her obviously she wasn’t safe wherever she was before, and a couple of pages before she said that her mother didn’t come claim her

Nobody knows her name, like all the girls, they all don’t know her name, they call her Sue though 

‘Even when she is complete still, you know there is a lot happening inside her body, and that it’s not good. I knew people like her on the outside; I stay away from her’ so this girl knows a lot about everything, she knows about the people there with her, and their cvts and almost nothing about their lives. 

‘He could be anywhere. He could be here’ she had to have escaped from somewhere or from someone? This is already really depressing holy shit 

I like Louisa, she seems interesting and she’s been there the longest, and she’s in a band 

‘Which means: we are all presently shit. But we knew that already’ I just really like this line, and it just adds some like deeper meaning of how everybody who’s done shit already knows that they’ve done it, they wanted to. 

‘Casper should be someone’s mother. She should be my mother’ This girl does not have a nice mother, I don’t think so, I don’t think so at all. She wants a nice mother though, and I don’t blame her

‘How long have I been here? I am waking from something. From somewhere. A dark place.’ She just realised that she’s actually in there, and has been for a while, she just thought of it. 

‘There’s no way to hurt yourself here.’ …

‘I write, NO. TELL ME. “No can do, silent sue.” Barbero crumples the chip bag’ I do not like Barbero at all.

She throws a chair at him, good. He deserved that, I don’t like him at all 

‘Like maybe he’s a little afraid of me now. And I don’t know why but this makes me even angrier. I’m raising the chai again when Doc Dooley shows up’ Isn’t it so confusing when people are afraid of you? Like why would you be afraid of something so scared, it shouldn’t work like that but it does. I wish she hit him again :(

[forged-in-kaoss]

Straw Hat appearances in One Piece Fan Letter

[silkentine]

Me when they are the sisters ever: 😭😭😭 They came out soooo freaking well. I won’t lie, they took me a thousand years to finish but through the constant support from all of my buds (and my latent bisexuality), we made it 😤

Hopefully you guys know the deal by now: design choices, easter eggs, and (NEW!) closeup shots below the read more. ⬇️

I wanted Ace to have a very down-to-earth vibe and looked at Aussie beach-girls, coastal cowgirls, and vaqueras for reference. (IDK, I’ve just always envisioned Ace as part-Australian🌺 and Mexican 🏴‍☠️) Her clothing choices are mostly natural or utilitarian materials like the painted wooden beads on her top, her woven fabric and leather belts, and her denim jumpsuit. I gave her bikini top a zen-garden kind of feel because I read the first Ace’s Story Novel and I loved how idyllic and peaceful they made Sixis Island sound so I wanted to invoke that in some way.

Speaking of her painted wooden beads, they hang off the back of her top and represent her connection to Sabo and Luffy. They watch her back once she sets sail. She only wears one red glass bead earring because the other one got ripped out of her ear when a child, leaving her earlobe torn (don’t think about it too much 😢). Also, YES! she does wear a hibiscus flower just like Rouge (because I hate you and I want to make you cry, muhwahahahaha).

Also, I really wanted her to have super textured curly hair that licks behind her like flames. I am always considering whether or not a character should have long hair or not because I don’t want it to be a hindrance if they’re in a fight (or if they ARE a fighter with long hair, how to they avoid an enemy making use of that?). Ace is, of course, a Logia-type Devil Fruit User so I think she wouldn’t have trouble with people grabbing it LOL I get the feeling that she doesn’t take very good care of it even though it looks amazing. Like you’d think it would be soft and bouncy just by looking at it but if you ever get the chance to run your fingers through it, it’s a total rat’s nest and there’s sand and food all up in it. She still falls asleep while eating 😂 but she tries her best to only do it around people she can trust (woman moment 😔).

Honestly, her design is not that different from Ace’s canon look. It feels really vital to Ace’s character to have a lot of skin showing. And he’s always hanging all over himself with his hips all cocked like the weight of the world is too much to stand up straight. It is certainly not my OWN preference to make her an absolute smoke show. That’s just the character, okay? (I’m partially lying and the proof is that I turned the emblem on Ace’s hat strap into a sternum tattoo for no other reason than that it is sexy af.)

Here are some closeups of Ace:

Now for Sabo, I’ve made her very girly. I tried putting her in pants or something more militant but she told me that she’d wear the big poofy sleeves and hiked-up ruffled skirt. I think Sabo has always had a strong grasp on his fashion sense and individual flair and I truly believe that his personal style is one of the major influences for the rest of the Revolutionary Army resulting in the very flashy, queer, steampunk aesthetic (aside from Dragon’s plain-ass cloak). So of course I had to implement her nonconformist look when reimagining her as a woman and dress her up to the nines.

I’ve given her very ornate jewelry that is there to tell a story, even if she herself doesn’t know it. I like to think she picks up stuff from her travels that resonate with her, such as a damaged set of earrings with one stone missing or red cup-shaped shells featuring three nestled pearls. Another accessory that cannot go unmentioned is her dragon claw hat pin that keeps her top hat resting on top of her hair (and is definitely used as a weapon when the situation simply doesn’t call for trusty metal pipe). She also has a veil that obscures her prominent facial scar. I imagine she’s not very keen on the reminder of the incident from her childhood that took away her memories. I also kept her chipped toothed because 1) it’s fucking adorable and 2) is a visual reminder that she no longer aligns herself with the nobility who would have gotten such a thing fixed. She is so poised in almost every outward facet of her life from her dignified role as the Chief of Staff to the elegant materials in her clothing that it can be easy to forget she was also a rough and tumble forest dweller. Every time Koala remembers this, he lets out the biggest sigh.

Her hair is inspired by Gibson Girls and Elizabeth Swann from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I wanted it to be fussy and tidy but fall apart when she’s in moments of distress. For example, when she remembers her sisters, her hair starts to look like Ace’s flaming mane. I’m so in love with her, I think she looks like an adorable little porcelain doll that would fuck you up. I made an effort to keep her eyes a little bit manic. I get lost in her steely black orbs (and also Ace’s warm brown ones, but we’re talking about Sabo rn).

Here are her close-ups:

Plot notes for this AU:

For this series of character designs, I wanted the expressions and outfits to be aligned with the canon plot but I don’t know if I have the heart to kill fem!Ace in my AU. I’m too attached and ASL has suffered enough!!!!! But Ace’s death is also a major defining moment for Luffy so it feels disingenuous to completely avoid it. Also a huge aspect of Sabo’s character is carrying on Ace’s will and I have so many thoughts about how the Dressrosa Colosseum scene would play out if they were all women. Oh well, I’ll cross that tragic bridge when I get to it. I’m definitely going to draw some Modern AU Girl Piece ASL though. They deserve to hang out with no stakes 😭 They are sisters!!!

Check out the tag “girl piece” on my blog for my other One Piece genderbends! 🥰

[cavalierclavier]

When I broke the cycle, I made sure that the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you.

[yellowistheraddest]

I WILL NEVER STOP WITH 'DRAGON LOVE HIS SON AND IS A SILLY GUY' PROPAGANDA!!!!

[luckyyharms]

if anyone complains about no agathario I'm going to punch them in the face LOOK AT LILIA LOOK AT HER. SHE'S FINALLY FOUND PEACE WITH HERSELF ANDBHER POWERS. SHE HAS A COVEN. LOOK AT HER

(further rant in tags)

[cutiesigh]

❤️🖤🩷

Wuthering Waves has taken over all of my free time recently, so here's a sketch of Scar!Ren I originally shared in da 14DWY Discord!!

[bklily]

Something about the history book on the shelf.

[dykealloy]

ikkaku living her best life

[marshmallowpuffcat]

I want Pomni to attempt to communicate with Caine about the whole killing Gummigoo thing :(

[marylily-my-beloved]

!!SPOILERS!! Girl in Pieces

Pg 31-46 

TW: SELF HARM MENTION, SELF HARM SCARS, A LOT OF TALK ABOUT SELF HARM AND SUICIDE, RAPE? SEX TRAFFICKING? IDK

‘It’s all the same thing: self-harm.’ Is it though? It’s all so different and does things so differently but it’s the same end goal. 

‘You can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.’                               Because you can never not be a weirdo if someone sees it, you can never be the same with them, they just act so different. Why do they act to different? I don’t really know, because everyone who has experienced the same doesn’t change their perspective on you, at least they understand. 

Following the rules is a very hard thing to do, surprising she can do it

Evan and Dump. They brought her backpack, they said they were sorry. ‘Were they sorry that they couldn’t not take all three of us to live with Fucking Frank? I was sick… Were they sorry I wouldn’t do what Fucking Frank asked? (What he wanted all the girls in Seed House to do, if they wanted to stay.) Were they sorry they didn’t let me die in the attic of Seed House?’ You know the more I hear about Fucking Frank the more I think he’s a fucking sex trafficker… Evan and Dump don’t seem too bad? They seem to have helped her a lot so I think they’re ok 

Money, there’s money, they have money, but does Louisa? Does Charlotte? They need money for everything here obviously.

‘Today I get my bandages off’ She’s gets her bandages off I hope it all goes well for her, I hope it doesn’t trigger her (or me lol) 

She draws Blue!!! She’s drawing!!! Then she Xed her out. Ok.

My pen writes ‘OUT. GET IT OUT. CUT IT ALL OUT.’ That’s what she thinks when she shs and honestly it’s sad because it makes so much sense 

Blue took her fucking paper. Just why? Jfc. ‘“You know, Doctor, it’s very unfair.” “What’s unfair?” Casper regards Blue… “She never has to say anything. We all have to talk, spill our fucking guts out, and she doesn’t have to say shit. Maybe we’re like a little comedy show for her”’ Oh fucking hell Blue, of course that’s what goes through her mind, of fucking course I mean why do so many people think like that? It’s not always fucking like that. But it makes sense she assumes the worst of people. 

I mean I get why Blue would tell everybody, but why tell her to tell everybody her life story? Like man. 

‘If you were a girl, and you were at Seed House, and you wanted to stay at Seed House, there was a room downstairs with only mattresses. Frank put girls in the room. Men came to the house and paid Frank, then went into the room.’ I FUCKING KNEW IT, OF COURSE FUCKING FRANK. I always thought that it was Fucking Frank because she really fucking hated him but no. …

Ellis is missing, her father is dead, her mother is somewhere? Not dead that’s for sure. 

She’s going to attack Blue, but she can’t because if she does one more thing she can’t stay… well good for Blue 

‘Charlotte, Evan said, his eyes shiny, drunk, smears of my blood on his cheek, that night in the attic. What a beautiful name. He kissed my head, over and over. Please don’t leave us, Charlotte’ But in the end she kind of did, will she ever see them again? Will they ever see her? I think they just know she’s alive. 

Golden teeth really, damn these people are fucking rich. This nurse Vinnie must be rlly fucking rich. 

He’s clipping the stitches and he took off the bandages for her. Holy shit. How will she feel? 

‘Underneath these new scars, I can see the old ones. My scars are like a dam or something.’ This is such a good interesting metaphor because I’ve never thought of it like that, but if you think it really is like that. 

‘The best part is after.’ It really is, when you just sit down, and think about what you did, clean it up, bandage it and it’s just there forever, you know it’ll be there forever lol

‘More scars = more shame = more pain’ may i add something. More pain = less after. Because the more you do it the more it becomes this was the before doing it and doing it, there’s no after cause you just do it again so frequently. 

PINK UNDERWEAR 🎀🎀 

‘“Nurse. Ava. Bought. Me. This. Underwear.”’ SHE SPOKE OMGG SHE SPOKE!!!! AHHHH SHE SPOKE YESSS!!! 

She didn’t say thank u :/ 

Wrapped up in a bedsheet??? 

‘When the blood comes, everything is warmer, and calmer.’ It really is, until it dries up and it’s all sticky (eww) 

Ellis!!! ELLIS!!! 

Her dad died ages ago, and her mother is a ghost to her :/ OMGGG

Little side note: this barely triggered me lol 

[dismas-n-dismay]

The think pieces I could write on how Falin’s first appearance as a chimera- with her elegantly settling down onto the ground while simultaneously crushing one of Kabru’s team members beneath him is metaphorical of the worship and image Marcille (as well as Laios) has of Falin no matter the circumstances.

It’s near biblical the way they perceive her under desperation to have her back. Obviously they both love and admire her but it’s so easy to see when Falin falls into being a little sister or silly friend to either of them when they’re safe and comfortable, but the way they truly see her is so real. She’s graceful, gentle, flawless in every moment. Hell even as she’s murdering people Marcille says that Falin is just confused. Kabru tells her that she doesn’t care how many people would die if it meant she got to save Falin and he’s right. All her sins are absolved under what she means to them.

To Marcille and Laios to even be near Falin is a grace unparalleled, to be in her presence and acknowledged by her is divinity and nothing else compares. They are elevated only by the privilege of loving her in the ways they do and the privilege of being able to protect her.

Anything less is a failure to the love she so generously, selflessly provides.

[general-cyno]

[ghostdoctor]

robin and chopper have my entire heart and soul

[tradingjack]

There's no turning back.

... Is there anyone who'll be able to survive what lies ahead?

[simplyjustagirlsblog]