#its start as ’hey captain when the baby coming!’from the crew and shanks flipping them off but to oh my god not a fun quirk!

[blackholesun321]

does rayleigh know that shanks has the nesting issues?👀👀👀👀

I'm writing something for another ask you made on this that will reveal more about Shanks' made-up mental illness. But no, it only really started after Baterilla. The wires in his brain got crossed wrong somehow, probably due to the immense amount of stress he was under, as well as being basically abandoned by his flock. (Side note: people only really build nests for fledglings or potential courting. I'll give you a guess what traumatic events caused the instinct to get rewired.)

And bad episodes (and I call them bad for a reason) really only start after they acquire Uta. Before that, it was an unusual quirk the captain had; he made fun of it too, and no one really thought anything of it aside from it could get annoying at times. But then they found Uta—and let’s just say her being on the ship caused repressed memories to surface—and the nesting became obsessive, and he eventually had a mental breakdown. That’s when he starts going on medication, at Hongo’s and the rest of crews insistence.

Shanks has a complicated relationship with his former crew (Mihawk doesn’t and wants to stab all of them, except Buggy, but only because he wants to stab Buggy for unrelated reasons). But Roger in hell , he would rather eat glass and take a swim in the calm belt than admit to anyone ever what’s up with him mentally. The crew only knows because they witnessed it firsthand; Mihawk knows because he’s stubborn and wanted to learn about what the meds Shanks was taking were, and Buggy knows because he’s Buggy and deals with his own issues. He can smell mental illness from a mile away.

As someone who deals with OCD and other mental illnesses and has had a mental break or two, this is what I’m drawing on for inspiration for this made up Illness. I also have a friend who deals with manic episodes and will be drawing from their experiences as well. If I write anything descriptive, I will be sure to put a warnings up. And if it doesn’t match your mental illness and your mad about it? idk man chill, people experience mental illnessess differently.

Feel free to write your own Headcanons and feelings on this. Or ideas I’m not gate keeping I am totally up to change things rearrange things or add things the contradict the other ideas! What ever it is please feel free to add to the stew!