#rubberhose nuclear

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RUBBERHOSE NUCLEAR

The toon world was as any other toon world you could think of. Happy, carefree, and downright fun. But that all changed when the bombs came. These bombs weren’t like what those toons were used to, these were real bombs. Some exploded in the air due to some toons trying to use toon physics to launch them back the way they came, while the rest touched down. Those who survived lost their toon physics, and the real unlucky ones became…ink blots. The lucky population that wasn’t effected by the bombs, due to being far enough from ground zero, blocked the effected toons off and left them to fend for themselves in the new toon land.

[written by @stuart-lonk]

MAIN CAST

RIMSLIN RACCOON

Rimslin is one of the unaffected toons. He seems to be completely unaware and cheerful about their situation and always looks at the bright side of things. nothing can bring him down!

THINIK FINNIC

Thinik is the mischievous maniac. He's a conniving little lying bastard, but it's not all his fault since he's also absolutely batshit insane. Empathy almost doesn't exist in him. Almost

OTEGA OCELOT

Otega is the logical gunslinger. He knows when to do something and how to do it, but his temper can sometimes lead to unwanted shootouts.

[writing help by @stuart-lonk]

If you have any questions, you can ask either me or stuart! He probably has better answers though-

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Okay so in terms of East/West collision we have the story of Noland ("Utopia") introducing the savage Shandians to SCIENCE (and religion) and sending them to heaven. This event is later compared to wiping Ohara off the map, which invoked the threat of nuclear bombing, another East/West encounter.

Monkey D. Luffy embodies East/West collision through his twin namesake of Son Wukong (the monkey king) and Marquis de Lafayette (French accessory to American war for independence), and through his powers that mark an intersection between American rubberhose animation and Sun Wukong's magic extending staff.

Connecting the two: what's with the chestnut on Noland's head? A mutual of mine notes that maron (chestnut) inverts to roman (romance, in the Arthurian sense), which is a concept beloved hy Noland's descendant Cricket. Taking Roman to double as a synecdoche of the West, the title of chapter 1 Romance Dawn then suggests a unity of the West and East (Dawn representing Japan, the rising sun). The Roman emblem of Aquila (eagle) mixes with the Japanese flag (red sun) to beget Luffy's flaming Red Roc attack, maybe.

The scar beneath Luffy's eye (collected in ch 1) bears some connection to the lost treasure of Jaya resting in the skull's eye... and that same mutual notes that the chest scar Luffy collects at the Paramount War resemble that of a cooked chestnut. Something's going on there, unsure what.

Also relevant: "Sir Crocodile" seems to owe his name not only Peter Pan (the source of his time-sands and hook) but also to the mythic Korean scholar said to have introduced Chinese script to Japan "Wan'i Kishi", which is a homophone for "crocodile knight". No wonder he seeks the Poneglyph, derived as it is from "bone glyph" in reference to an ancient form of Chinese writing (Brook keeps records of the past in his skull in reference to pun perhaps -- though both also function as straightforward reifications of memory). In this case China is "the West" in its capacity to bring a some Knowledge to bear on an unsuspecting nation, with foreign language made comorbid with deadly bombing...? Historically Wani-Kishi was leveraged politically first to embody an ideal colonial subject during Japan's occupation of Korea, then to embody Korean superiority for Korean reaction against Japan, but neither of those seem to suit Crocodile's function as a bogeyman of an outsider that absorbs the crimes committed by Alabasta's own ruling class...? Messy. Perhaps it's enough that he's Foreign

While I'm rambling: I'm starting to suspect that Ace's name is derived from the term's use among pilots -- his destroying an invading fleet of Baroque Works might invoke the storms that crippled invading Mongol fleets (the kamikaze, "god wind") from which WW2 suicide pilots derive their names. This would be consistent with Crocodile as an outsider embodying the cultural/political power of continental Asia... and the use of natural phenomena to represent weapons continues with the Knock Up Stream and Aqua Laguna? I've linked the first to the atom bomb but if kamikaze also fit we'd have another intersection of East and West...

Anyway, woo! One Piece

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Family bond

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Lil thing for the ink blots

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I'll draw the kids later

Have her for now

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A little thing for what's to come~! ✨

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WIP

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Y'all I'm absolutely COOKING with the idea for this one.

Anyways, I'm going to have fuuuunnnn drawing her multiple children

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Oh damn i wonder what messed him up

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WIP

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will we ever see who dropped the bombs in RHN?

Most likely!

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so like how does radiation affect toons? does it give them like toon cancer that causes their body to rapidly decay or does it just melt them into a goo?

Too much radiation basically painfully mutates them until they completely decay, which does take awhile

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AUGAHAGGAGAGAG I LOVE IT I LOVE IT ALREADY

(this is related to rubberhose nuclear)

AAAAAFYGHJA TY!!!!!