#just like the idea that Shanks seeking out Mihawk is this huge change of pace

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I think Shanks is generally comfortable to be the found one. Between the two of them and despite them both being generally nomadic and Mihawk literally having an island, Shanks is the home base he’s the constant that Mihawk seems out.

I think shanks is generally fine with letting Mihawk set the pace of their relationship. Unless they just happen to fall together on the same island (which happens a lot) Mihawk finds him when he wants/needs him and Shanks waits. Mihawk never gives him his vivre card (probably doesn’t even have one) for one and also Mihawk is just a capricious dude. His moods and whims are fickle and ever changing and he also just likes to be alone a lot of the time it’s better and leads to less volatile reactions if Mihawks’ the one doing the reaching if he has control over when his loneliness is abated. And this generally like most things especially involving Mihawk works fine for Shanks for the most part. Mihawk’s never gone too long and when he is the seas have a way of pushing them together before Shanks really starts to miss him.

And while Shanks doesn’t have Mihawks almost otherworldly innate sense of location he could definitely find him if he needed too. Follow this red string that binds them all the way back to him. (And obviously Shanks knows where kuriagina is) but aside from the occasional weekend on the island he generally doesn’t need too. Except…

I think the only day where Shanks actively seeks out Mihawk and finds him no matter whatever for it if the world he is in is the anniversary of Roger’s execution. The day where he feels most like that powerless fifteen year old boy and there’s nobody else from his past that he wants to see or wants to see him. When there isn’t enough booze in the world that will dull the sting of being left behind by everyone. When he thinks he might be consumed by his anger at it all. He crosses oceans to find Mihawk and his strange stilted, unpracticed style of comfort.