#portgas d luffy au

[bridgekc]

just rewatched demon slayer…you know what that means 😈

au’s are my passion

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

ASL 2000’s AU

I cooked. I hardcore cooked with this.

design commentary:

I loved the 2000's, so this was a real treat to design. I was only cognitive for like a couple years of it but i still remember a lot of the fashion from when it was going on. ESPECIALLLY. the short sleeves over the long sleeve shirts. 2000's loved their layers.

So Luffy was pretty easy to design. He was the first one i designed. i love when theres an easy translation for the Sunny and Merry into AU's.

Ace is very heavily inspired by Avril Lavigne. I was having trouble with designing him, but then Complicated by Avril came on the 2000's playlist i was watching/listening to for inspiration, and suddenly i understood everything. It all made sense to me.

Ace was M A D E for this au. I was thinking that as i was drawing him, but then i realized that Ace literally was made in like 2001 so... yeah. he was made for the 2000's.

Sabo was the last one i finished, i wasnt feeling too inspired with him, but i talked with friends who were more cognitive during that time than I, and one of them provided me a very helpful article about fashion trends at the time that included football and basketball jerseys. I put him into each of those, but none of them fit him quite well. I then put him in a baseball jersey, and although it makes him look the 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉, it fit him best. So i kept it.

I did get to put Usopp in the basketball jersey though so it wasnt all for naught.

Franky's hair was also very easily translated into the 2000's, like every boy had that hair, besides the mullet tail at the bottom but franky's just built different like that.

[d-does-art]

Welcome to Punk Hazard!

Ace Lives Au part 1

[diminuel]

Picking up children in the woods is a perfectly normal way to expand your family (if you're a pirate).

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Another installment of Stinky Child Ace~ You can read the first part here!

(About Crocodile being referred to as "Wani": he's already known as the Warlord Sir Crocodile, so it's best to use an alias and hope that nobody in this quiet, peaceful village will make the connection. And if they do, that they'll keep quiet. Which they most likely will, considering that they must have noticed Dragon's return to the Monkey family home.)

Sorry for style inconsistencies X'D

Next part: Dragon finally comes home!

[elalalune]

After tea time with 🔥🎩👒

(Wonderland au)

+ wl au notes on the asl brothers

[lunisoular]

those aus where luffy is ten years younger

[otaku553]

Good company in a moment of calm

(Spade Pirate Sabo AU Masterpost)

Here are some extra thoughts on the making of this comic! This one is meant to sort of flesh out their pre-reveal dynamic a tiny bit :)

There’s some amount of Sabo that is still kind of terrified of fire for reasons he doesn’t know (because amnesia) but Ace is also fire, and it’s comforting and warm in a way that he’s not used to fire being. While the beginning of the comic is practically drowning in blues and cool moonlight, as sabo’s attempt to distract himself from the fires in his dreams, the later half is meant to take a warmer tone with Ace’s arrival, accompanied by the sunrise.

I think that Sabo is a bit hesitant to lower his guard around Ace because he keeps getting dreams (vague snippets of memories that he thinks are dreams) about someone similar to Ace as a child and after Knowing that he has trauma from whatever happened to his past he’s not sure he wants to dig it up if there’s the slightest bit that it could ruin his current relationship with his captain. That and his association with fire.

The next comic I have planned is the first meeting between Sabo and Ace, so the comics are going to jump around a fair bit!

Altogether this took about 10 hours so I definitely need to figure out a way to simplify the comic process lmao

[mooneln0ne]

ASL ageswap

[orbis2d]

Related ASL my beloved… related ASL

Asks are always welcome about my aus :D

[breezeowci]

[tea-party-with-drosera]

part 2

[eriochromatic]

winter outing featuring cross guild and company 🌨️🌨️🌨️

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

ASL animal AU OOPS! All Coyotes

But only for this picture specifically

Thank you @fluffyartbl0g for coloring

[d-does-art]

Ace wakes up on a random island two years after his death as a ten-year-old. But he has no memory of his adult life. Sabo just died, and he has a little brother to look after. Or maybe an older brother?

There is a bit of time between Ace waking up and Luffy finding him.

Sorry this is so long I'm still trying to figure out how to do comic-y things.

Part two

[kiteou]

ASL with my current interest

[rockyspotwrites]

portgas d. luffy au; the boys set sail

luffy (34), Ace & Sabo (17)

The days leading up to Ace and Sabo's departure were the longest and the shortest of Luffy's entire life. He goes with them to gather supplies and make plans with the sailors for what time would be best for them to leave, learning how to spook the Lord of the Coast if it comes after them, and working with the shopkeepers in Goa to get fair prices on a couple dendens.

It made Luffy, now all of thirty-four years old, wish that he was seventeen with his boys so that he might be welcome to tag along with them. He knows he's still young - hell, people can live well into their one-hundreds, he knows he's a baby to some of them out there - but when he looks to his boys, he can't help but feel that his days of pirating are over.

He couldn't find it in him to be angry or upset with them over it, though. It was his choice to raise Ace, and it was his choice to bring in Sabo, and he would never regret it. Not even for a fleeting moment. He made his choices and he was more than happy with how they had turned out: his boys were free, were old enough to set out on their own, and he would be behind them if they ever need help.

But his heart felt heavy in his chest as he leaned against their doorframe, watching as they bickered over what things they should take with them in the morning.

"The house is gonna be awful quiet without you two arguin' all the damn time." He spoke up, making both of them freeze and stare at him. Slowly, they looked at each other, and Luffy watched as they had one of their silent conversations for a couple minutes before they turned back to him.

"Lu, you... wanted to be the Pirate King, didn'cha?" Ace asked slowly, hesitantly, and Luffy knows that he didn't hide the surprise he felt very well by the way Ace's expression became panicked for just a moment before Luffy gave him a gentle smile.

"I did, back when I was younger'an you." Luffy confirmed easily, if somberly. "I think I'm too pirated out now to ever give 'er another go on my own."

"So why don't you come with us?" Sabo blurted out, making Ace slap his arm hard enough for it to make an audible impact.

"Sabo!"

"What? You weren't gonna ask!"

"Yeah, I was!"

"You let 'im get sad! That's not how you ask!"

Meanwhile, Luffy was left with a mindless smile as his brain struggled to catch up with the bomb of a question they had just dropped directly into his lap. He never considered the option of going with them; he had had his own adventure, so surely they wouldn't want him to tag along. But apparently they did?

They wanted him to come along, even though he was just - just uncle Lu, the boring one? The one who gets too excited about beetles? The one who regularly forgets his sandals but remembers to remind them about their own? The one who couldn't cook a decent meal until he was nearly twenty-seven?

Even though he had failed at his goal once, twice, they still want him to come along?

"Lu?" Ace's voice broke him out of his thoughts, and he realized his eyes weren't quite as dry as they had been, and both of his boys had gotten up to stand in front of him with concerned expressions at some point. Luffy pulled his hands to his chest and fidgeted with his nails, taking a couple soothing breaths.

"Tell me - why would ya offer me a place on your crew?" He asked anxiously, nervously, uncomfortably, gaze flickering between them and then back to his hands for only a moment.

Ace and Sabo looked a bit relieved at having a question they could answer. "Well, you still have your dream, doncha? Even if you are old and fragile -" Ace was interrupted by an elbow to the side, "- we wanna be better'an our parents, and we can't decide who should be captain, so we thought it could be you. Since. Y'know. You wanted t' be the Pirate King."

"You want me to be the captain of your crew?" Luffy asked incredulously, getting nods in confirmation when he looked at them. "You're - what're you two gonna be, if you'd make me the captain?"

"I'm going to be the logkeeper and navigator until we find a proper one, and Ace -" Sabo got a hand to the face as Ace jumped in. "And I'm gonna be the one who sets shit on fire!" He shouted excitedly as Sabo shoved him away.

Luffy still looked unsure, body language tight and withdrawn. "You're gonna be the logkeeper and navigator, and you're gonna be the one'at sets shit on fire." He repeated slowly, eyebrows furrowed. "And you'd be happy in those positions?"

His boys both nodded quickly, eyes full of stars. "So, Lu, will you be our captain?" Sabo asked, leaning in towards him.

"I, ah - um." Luffy pulled at his collar as he took a few slow steps backwards into the hall. "I'll think on it tonight and you'll know tomorrow, 'kay? I... huh. I gotta make a call to someone to talk m' thoughts out, an' you two better be gettin' to bed before it gets much later. Got an early morn', after all."

He scurried down the hall to his own room, oblivious of the wilted looks he received, or the sighs that had followed him, both of his boys sure that his 'think on it' was a solid no.

xxxxx

With the rising sun came the townsfolk waving off the two teenagers, Makino at the front of the crowd with tears in her eyes and a brilliant smile.

But there was no sign of Luffy.

He had already left the house when Ace and Sabo had woken up, and they had barely been able to hide their disappointment from the townsfolk as they had walked amidst them to the docks, but they were certain Makino had noticed and they were certain she knew something that they didn't.

With brave faces and the hats that Luffy had made sure to get for them when he saw them eyeing them only days before, they set off in a little fishing vessel that Luffy had bought with his savings, determined to give them a halfway decent start until they could get ahold of a vessel that was truly theirs.

Once the people they'd known nearly their whole lives were nothing more than blurs on a distant shoreline, they bumped into each other for a moment, then headed into the small cabin to get things settled to their liking.

As soon as they opened the door, though, they stopped dead-still -

Because, fast asleep on the bench that surrounded the little table towards the back, was Luffy and a couple messily packed bags of his belongings.

"You motherfucker!" Ace screamed before charging over to him, effectively waking him up as Sabo was trying to get over the emotional whiplash. Luffy couldn't get anything out as Ace began shaking him like a ragdoll, cursing him as creatively as the sailor he officially was.

"You shit, this is mutiny! Mutiny!" Luffy finally hollered out, playfully shoving at Ace, "How dare y'treat your captain in such a way!"

That got Ace to pause, and the reality seemed to finally dawn on him.

"You actually came with us."

He smiled gently, then fully, a laugh bubbling its way up from his chest. "'Course I did, can't leave you two by yourselves after this long."