#i listened to a mashup of drift away and everything stays while drawing the entirety of that first page

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Did Luffy meet Sodalite before he met Ace and Sabo? (Like Steven knew Garnet before Ruby and Sapphire) It’s very funny to imagine Luffy becoming friends with Sodalite and then meeting Ace and Sabo and being like ????

Okay so i already laid out a luffy timeline in this ask:

And ill continue it here. So luffy gets dropped off on dadan’s doorstep and meets Ace there, but just like in the OP universe; Luffy wants to connect with Ace, but ace will not give him the time of day.

Luffy keeps trying to follow him around but he keeps getting lost, until one day luffy finally follows ace the entire way and he sees sabo, too. He tries to say hi to them, but the people who come down from that high up tree branch isnt 2 people, its 1 person. One.. Giant. Man.

They have a “do you know where Ace and that other guy went?” Conversation and Sodalite is very apprehensive to trusting this goofy little goober.

Basically their original storyline from the OPU, but instead of ace and sabo, it’s Sodalite for the first couple story beats.

After the whole Save-Luffy-From-BlueJam schtick happens, Sodalite finally sits down and has a conversation with Luffy. This conversation is the most heart melting thing for Sodie and he opens up to luffy for the first time.

Luffy just thought ace fucking disappeared when he met sodalite for the first time so this is quite a shock for him. Luffy’s freaked out for a couple mins but he gets the hang of it before long.

@tsuku-yomi-yomi suggested this, and you hit the nail right on the head with it. They usually like to keep fused to be stronger when its just the two of them.

Thanks for the asks!