#kuraigana

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

I was doing fanfic research and

I am so tickled right now I can't handle it.

Fuckin gloomy ass island with its gloomy ass warlord living there I CAN'T

[kurenaiienishii]

[akagaminolevi]

I just want Perona and Uta to hold hands

[snarkyship]

Overdramatic parent regrets rising up overdramatic children

[silkentine]

some loose sketches of the kuraigana family and zoro’s request of mihawk

[imidori-ya]

bringing this back bc I can't stop thinking about the crew finally reaching Kuraigana where both Perona AND Mihawk have been patiently waiting to clown on Zoro in front of his entire crew.

Imagine Perona excitedly taking them to see where Zoro got his ass kicked by monkeys for MONTHS. Sanji would never shut up about it. Robin would giggle behind her hand. Luffy would just start fighting the monkeys himself for fun.

I like to imagine that after finding the one piece the straw hats go on a tour to visit everyone’s training arc islands.

[shaanks]

you know what's really fucking funny to me actually

everyone had their reasons for joining the Warlord system. Croc and Doflamingo found the immunity a convenient cover for their illegal business ventures and plans to overthrow the gov't.

Buggy DESPERATELY needed both the immunity and the street cred and was happy to capitalize on their bad intel.

Boa and the Kuja pirates needed it to make sure there was enforcement of the no-sail zone around their island and anonymity for her people.

Kuma [redacted current arc spoilers], the guy pretending to be Whitebeard's kid did it for the street cred, Moria's a weird fuckin guy who was harboring people doing human experiments and needed that shielded, like.

EVERYONE had a mutually beneficial reason...except Mihawk.

Mihawk was a Warlord bc they begged asked him specifically to enter into a ceasefire agreement. So he'd stop sailing around in his little candle canoe fucking sinking whole fleets at a time.

Everyone else: this is advantageous for me, I'll play along for now.

Dracule Mihawk, the Marine Hunter, not even looking up from his paper: Buy my cooperation. 8 million berri per month and I'll stop.

[zoolitsky-fandom]

Cringetober Day 6

“Unnatural Eye Color”

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Mihawk’s eyes are so skrumbly looking I just had to draw them… also idk why bro is staring into our soul and reaching out it just kinda happened

Prompt list below the cut!!

Please reblog <3

[general-cyno]

I feel like words aren't enough to convey how unwell it makes me feel to know zoro went from "next to my life, those swords are my dearest treasures" "all I have left is my destiny" "if I have to abandon my dream for any reason, then I'm going to make you commit harakiri!" to leaving his swords aside and "take my head instead! please settle for that!" then "what good is ambition if I can't even save the life of my own captain?" because strength, pride, ambitions, dreams - none of it matters if zoro can't protect the person he cares most about. if he can't protect luffy. no wonder this is such a fandom favorite moment that even dudebros fawn over. man singlehandedly reinvented love, loyalty, devotion, everything.

[alenseress]

Continuing with my silly little fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50958742/chapters/128742031

[majoraop]

My full page art for Legendary - A Dracule Mihawk Zine @opmihawkzine. Its aftersales are still open, and it's the perfect zine to get by Halloween! ^^

[pointycorgiears]

Mihawk is coming back from a mission, strolling from the shore of Karai Bari, and over to his personal tent to rest and have a much desired bath. Cross Guild is still fairly new, dynamics are still being smoothed out, and he's still getting used to constantly being around so many people.

He just wants to relax, but Crocodile still amanges to catch him along the way. "Welcome home," he says to Mihawk.

Mihawk just nods and continues on, but his brow raises just a smidge.

Then, he sees Buggy coming towards him further ahead.

Why is his tent so far away?

"Welcome back, Hawky!" Buggy says, full of cheer. "Glad you made it home!"

Mihawk acknowledges him much the same way he did Crocodile, and keeps walking.

As he continues on, something keeps repeating in his mind. "Welcome home. Glad you made it home! Home....Home."

When he reaches his tent, he sets down Yoru and hangs up his coat, letting his bare skin breath and sweat dissipate. He sits on his bed, looking around his space. This is it. This is his home now. This tent holds all his few possessions that he brought with him from Kuraigana. This is where he sleeps at night. This is where he can come back to, safe. This is home now.

Something catches his tired glance. A tray sitting on his desk. He gets up to go look at it, finding filled with sweet treats. Cookies, pastries, and a few pieces of fruit. There was also some scented bath oils in a small basket close by with a note attached. He recognized Buggy's handwriting.

'Welcome home! Time to relax!'

Again. Same phrase.

A slight tingle runs up his arms and back. It settles low in his chest and draws the weight away from his shoulders. He breathes.

The wind rustles the canvas of his tent.

This feels...nice.

This is home now.

This is his home.

[funsize-cenobites]

I just find it so interesting how over and over and over again Oda shows us how food and the act of preparing and sharing it with others, the act of feeding another, acts as a representation of love and care and good will

Then chose to show us that Mihawk not only fed Zoro and Perona on Kuraigana but made that food with his own hands, hell, it shows us how he grew that food with his own hands.

And people still insist he doesn't care at all past Zoro's potential. Ok.

I just mean.. Oda could've not shown us that. He could've just shown us harshness. Cruelty. Even just pure indifference past Mihawk's teaching. He could've shown us the highlights of Zoro's training and hijinks between Zoro and Perona and absolutely nothing else. But he didn't. He put that in.

And I think it fits. Mihawk is a man of few words, even fewer words he actually means at face value- preferring to keep his heart cards close to his chest while using words and rudeness and apathy to push others away; gathering information rather than allowing others to gain much understanding of him. But hes also a man who once he decides to do something, he does it. To the letter. In the words of Charles Winchester III: He does one thing, he does it well, then he moves on.

He decided to care about for them.

He did it to the best of his ability.

Then he let them go.

Except... I don't think he's finding that last part as easy to do as he once might have. (*Stares pointedly at how achingly lonesome and soft?? the framing of his Cross Guild invitation scene was*)

[akagaminolevi]

Happy Christmas Eve from Kuraigana ✨

[invye]

So my friend has me watching One Piece again which means I am back on my Mihawk brainrot--

Therefore let me introduce you to the list of hobbies I headcannon Mihawk to practice when he's sailing from A to B or taking a bit of time off in his goth castle:

cooking

reading

gardening

embroidery

wood carving

soap making

Extensive and rambly collection of thoughts on all of these under the cut:

Cooking

Reading

My man lives alone, of course he can cook. And he enjoys it. He is the type who technically can eat anything and everything no matter the taste as long as it gives him the nutrition he needs, but ever since he started cooking more regularly he's caught himself getting more picky about the quality and taste of his food. This becomes a problem when his unbidden guests (read: Perona dragging Zoro along) decide to help with the cooking duties... Mihawk has to go through a unexpectedly difficult phase of adapting to liking food that he hasn't made himself exactly fitting to his own taste again.

(Also Zoro on vegetable cutting duty leaves a Mess™. Mihawk makes him scrub the entire kitchen back to his standards after the first time, and while Zoro at first only marginally improves on the not making a mess part, he significantly improves on the cleaning the mess part. [Mihawk's standards for a clean kitchen are exactly as high as Sanji's, a fact which serves Zoro well after his return.])

Gardening

Mihawk enjoys his books. Nothing like a nice evening of quiet reading with a good glass of wine. He reads while travelling too, because lets be honest, there is only so much wistful staring at the horizon he can do and only so many naps he can take while he sails Hitsugibune from one end of the world to the other. At this point he has worked his way halfway through the library of his castle. Which does not stop him from buying new books. He's surprised that it still isn't a commonly known fact about him, with how often he has caused near heart attacks in poor bookshop owners when they are faced with the World's Greatest Swordsman having appeared in their shop to buy a book?? But he supposes it's one of these "no one will ever believe you" kind of situations.

Mihawk also has a lady two islands over from Kuraigana who supplies him with romance novels. She wisely knows not to comment, but he will never forget her wild grin the first time she saw him reaching for a queer novel. The woman seems to pride herself in always having a new queer story available whenever he stops by, and Mihawk has stubbornly decided to pokerface his way through their interactions forever and ever.

The library has significantly grown since Mihawk moved in. It's sorted by genre now. He'll never let Shanks in there so he doesn't have to admit just how much and what kind of romance he's reading.

Embroidery

Roses. Mihawk has an aesthetic and he commits to it 100%. He keeps the most immaculate rose garden Shanks has ever seen, and Shanks has seen plenty of pretty places. At least half the different species of rose bushes are actually gifts from Shanks after he's seen the beginnings of the garden the first time he visited (read: dropped by unannounced) Kuraigana after it became known Mihawk had claimed the island. So now, years later, Mihawk has probably the most extensive collection of rose species in all colours, shapes and sizes in all the seas.

To Zoro's chagrin, the garden is set up like a maze. It's not a big maze. Even the rose bushes Mihawk has allowed to grow tall during his absences barely even reach higher than Mihawk's shoulders. No reasonable person could ever get lost in it. It quickly becomes apparent that Zoro is not a reasonable person.

'Hidden' within the rose 'maze' there are some dedicated patches of ground making up a kitchen garden. Mihawk got tired of doing supply runs every couple weeks, so he grows his own vegetables and herbs (healing purposes included) and even started to grow the spices he prefers.

(To his own annoyance that garden is not able to support feeding three mouths instead of just one, so the supply runs are back to their old frequency until he makes Zoro and Perona spend a week helping him extend the garden. By year two Kuraigana is mostly self-sufficient again. [By year three Mihawk doesn't know what to do with his extra produce anymore so he decides to actually host Shanks' crew for once instead of just Shanks on his lonesome. They are surprisingly respectful of his space, he might even get the utterly insane idea to do this again.])

Wood carving

You have seen his clothes. Everyone has seen his clothes. You know the chances of finding a good, waterproof coat that not just fits perfectly but also exactly reflects your style? They're abysmal. And even if you found the perfect piece of clothing for you, it needs to be properly washed and maintained if you want it to last longer than a storm or two. Also, professional hand embroidery costs a ton of money. So yes, Mihawk made all the little embroidered details himself. At this point he doubts anyone even remembers how his coat looked back when he bought it and before he had time to put a needle to it. Well, anyone who isn't Shanks. Because Mihawk distinctly remembers Shanks staring when he first showed up to a duel with his brand new coat and then staring again after Mihawk was done with it.

Embroidery is more of a winter hobby, when the garden doesn't need him, and he feels the urge to keep his hands moving. For a while he considered teaching Zoro to give him more of a feeling for fine control, but he quickly discarded the idea in favour of helping Perona with her clothes making adventures.

Mihawk never thought or intended for wood carving to become an actual hobby at all. It started out with him finding himself having sailed into a middle of a rather big reef in an attempt to evade social interaction with Vice Admiral Garp after he spotted his ship on the horizon in the early days of Mihawk's Warlord-ship. The reef had plenty rock and coral formations just closely hiding beneath the water surface, interseeded with sand banks that shifted with the tides, which any ship that lays even slightly deeper in the water than Hitsugibune would not be able to navigate. Mihawk relied on his Haki and superior eye-sight to spot all the obstacles and even with all that it was difficult to sail Hitsugibune safely. Then the winds turned on him rather suddenly when he crossed a climate barrier, bringing along heavy cloud cover and fog, and Mihawk decided he needed to make note of the rock formations somehow to not run into them after all as visibility pretty much approached zero. Being not at all talented in map drawing, Mihawk used Kogatana to carve the map into a random scrap of plank instead. It served him well (he sucessfully avoided Garp and there was not a single new scratch on Hitsugibune) and it kind of just became a thing he did. He now has a small collection of carved maps of mostly reefs and other dangerous waters he uses for hiding and evading purposes. And if he carves the occasional bird or other animal when he's bored out at sea, no one needs to know.

Soap making

It's another hobby Mihawk stumbled upon mostly by coincidence. One day during a supply run he got annoyed by how expensive soap is. The next day he had everything he needed to make it for much less money. A week later he had a year's worth supply of soap sorted out. Shanks asks how Mihawk manages to always smell of roses, even when he has been gone from Kuraigana for weeks. Mihawk says nothing while Shanks' crew mercilessly teases their captain for always getting up and close into Hawkeyes' personal space to even know that. They are smart enough to know not to comment on Mihawk allowing Shanks this close in the first place.

[silkentine]

Super quick sketches of how I envisioned the fits from Chapter 73 of Found Among the Strays by @rejectedconstellation on AO3!!! I couldn’t resist!!!