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the-obnoxious-sibling · 1 year ago

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You are truly fascinating person. You look at OP so differently than most Reddit or Tumblr fans I encountered. There were two types of usual consensus I noticed about 1082.

1. Shanks is 100% correct and Buggy was just being idiotic with his idea. It’s good he left.

2. Poor Buggy, I hope they will be besties again. I’m sure Shanks would understand him and be so sad about what happened.

You are so fresh in your takes. I love it.

thank you, that’s so kind of you to say!

i try to be thoughtful about what we know about these characters—their thoughts and feelings, the things we as readers know they know, the things we know they don’t know, and the great big void of unknown unknowns (things they might know that we don’t know about, things we don’t know that they also don’t know, etc.). i hope it helps me to look at conflicts between characters with less bias.

(…though it would help if we got even half as much insight into shanks’ thoughts as buggy’s. i sometimes think we’ve seen more of buggy’s thoughts than shanks’ spoken words.)

#those common opinions you’ve seen are so interesting to me! i think both of them get it about halfway right. (imo of course)#like. of course 15yo shanks and buggy going straight to LT is a bad move.#but is that what buggy was even asking?? i think he just wanted confirmation that LT was their shared dream #shanks’ childhood dream was to travel and occasionally do some piracy… next to buggy’s impatient treasure-hunger that must seem so slow #he wants concrete goals! what’s your five year plan shanks?? /jk #and while shanks would be sad to learn why buggy left i do think there would be frustration too #that’s his friend whose dream you belittled! that’s his friend who you’re hurting—for shanks’ sake?! who asked you to do that?!#how can shanks protect a friend from his own self-loathing? especially when any offer of protection is seen as demeaning?#i want them to reconcile but i don’t think it will be easy #not unless a lot changes between now and then #tos answers #one piece #shuggy #shanks #buggy #—the shuggy roguetown breakup #—shuggy reconciliation

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