#shakky is so calm and collected

[wordy-little-witch]

Do you think Shakky would be a good grandma?

To answer shortly: yes

However I honestly don't really ship Shakky and Rayleigh. I see them more as like. Best friends. Unhinged queer platonic life mates. If they ARE married, it was for tax evasion (/hj) or convenience.

I do however love the idea of great aunt Shakky á la Down For Anything Wine Aunt Vibes. Think a slightly more chill lady Stan from gravity falls lmfao.

She'd absolutely pull a line like "oh... that's something a responsible parent would never allow. Good thing I'm an aunt! Have fun, kids~"

She's good for babysitting short term but is liable to allow some more.... excessive..... games to fly by if it's longer terms. Honestly, most think her very level headed, but she believes in the pros and cons of "fuck around and find out".

She'd absolutely kill someone for the kids, though. No questions asked.

((Also a chronic enabler. Someone says no? Well, aunt Shakky said yes. What the parents don't know won't hurt them. Come along, minions, let's cause chaos-))

[onepiece-oc-archives]

A Condensed History of the Roger Pirates

I'm only about... three months late? Either way, I promised I would do it, didn't I? So, here you go @starcrossedjedis

Obviously, this history of the travels of the Pirate King and his crew is going to involve some spoilers, so be prepared.

First of all, some quick info on the crew's most important members:

Gol D. Roger, also known as Gold Roger, the Pirate King: Roger was the crew's captain and namesake, as well as a former owner of Luffy's straw hat as he was the one to pass it down to Shanks. He was known to be fearless, prideful and quick to anger, but also humble and kind to civilians and children. His public execution in Loguetown 22 years ago was supposed to end piracy but brought on the Great Age of Pirates instead.

Silvers Rayleigh, the Dark King: Rayleigh was the crew's first mate and has now retired to Sabaody Archipelago, where he lives with his wife Shakky. He is a light-hearted and casual man, but he does take his position as the crew's disciplinarian seriously, especially towards the younger members. Generally, he is a strategist and can remain calm and collected even in the most dire of situations.

Crocus, the current lighthouse keeper of the Twin Cape Lighthouse, which guides ships into the Grand Line.

Kozuki Oden, the heir to the shogun of Wano Country, and Kozuki Toki, his wife: Oden, originally a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, was a confident and carefree man. One could even describe him as violent and selfish. But truly, his badly planned attempts at helping people always meant well, despite often having the opposite effect. He became more responsible and mature after sailing with the Roger Pirates but could still be considered naive. Still, he returned to Wano Country to take his father's place as shogun but was then executed by usurpers in an event called the Legendary Hour. His wife, Toki, was a very kind woman and also very humble and caring. She met Oden during his time on Whitebeard's crew and the two of them had two children. Later during their journey, when they were already part of the Roger Pirates, Toki became ill and had to stay behind in Wano. Toki was murdered shortly after Oden's execution.

Red-Haired Shanks: Yes, this is the Shanks, the one we all know and love. He was found in a treasure chest by Roger and was with the crew as an apprentice from at least when he was nine years old until the crew disbanded a year before Roger's execution. He got the straw hat from Roger at the very latest when he was nine years old.

Buggy the Clown: Buggy was an apprentice of the Roger Pirates at the same time that Shanks was and they became more or less friendly rivals during this time. Shanks is directly or indirectly responsible for Buggy accidentally eating his devil fruit at least 25 years ago.

Inuarashi and Nekomamushi: Dogstorm Inuarashi and Cat Viper Nekomamushi are the current rulers of the mink tribe. They originally became shipwrecked at Wano Country and then followed Oden first to the Whitebeard Pirates, then to the Roger Pirates.

Now, time for the actual topic of this post:

The History of the Roger Pirates

The Roger Pirates were formed 50 years ago when Roger met Rayleigh. Though Rayleigh initially laughed at Roger's request to join him, he did end up sailing with him either way. They gathered many friends and crewmates on their voyage and Roger developed a personal rivalry with Monkey D. Garp.

37 years ago, the Roger Pirates reached Lodestar Island, the last island on the Grand Line that can be reached by regular methods via a Log Pose. They are the first crew to make it there in 800 years and become aware of the existence of a final island in the Grand Line that cannot be reached without the information on the Road Poneglyphs. Roger had previously stolen the information on the Road Poneglyph owned by Big Mom, meaning they already owned one Road Poneglyph out of four.

36 years ago, the Roger Pirates were involved in an event called the God Valley Incident, taking place on the island of God Valley in the West Blue. The existence of a manhunt against the native population there was leaked to the outside world, which prompted the legendary and legendarily vicious Rocks Pirates to travel to the island. The Roger Pirates and Monkey D. Garp went in pursuit, and a large, chaotic battle ensued with long-reaching consequences for the entire world. Nonetheless, knowledge of these events is restricted and the island was mysteriously erased from existence and from the maps of the world. The Rocks Pirates were defeated at the hands of an alliance between the Roger Pirates and Monkey D. Garp, leading the Rocks Pirates' former members to form powerful crews of their own that still have a big impact on the world, though not many people acknowledge their connection through the Rocks Pirates nowadways. The Roger Pirates found Shanks during or after this very incident.

26 years ago, Roger discovered that he had a fatal and incurable disease. He then recruited the doctor Crocus from Reverse Mountain who was supposed to keep him alive as long as possible as he led his crew on a final voyage across the Grand Line.

At about this time, the Roger Pirates raided another ship at sea and found a treasure map and a devil fruit, the Bara Bara no Mi or Chop Chop Fruit. Buggy kept the treasure map for himself as it led to a treasure at the bottom of the sea. When he found out about the devil fruit, he was initially put off by it as eating it would make him unable to swim and thus unable to get the treasure. However, when Shanks told him that it was worth 100,000,000 Berry if sold, he became very interested in it and planned to steal it, so he made a fake devil fruit and ate it in front of the crew. He then planned to sneak off the ship with the real fruit and the map, get rich, and form his own crew, but Shanks startled him and he hid it in his mouth. Shanks then startled him a second time and Buggy accidentally swallowed the devil fruit. As he shouted at Shanks over this, the treasure map fell into the water. Without thinking, Buggy jumped after it but, due to the effects of the devil fruit, was unable to swim. He would have drowned, had Shanks not saved him.

25 years ago, the Roger Pirates fought the Golden Lion Pirates in the Battle of Edd War. The captain of the Golden Lion Pirates was Shiki the Golden Lion, a former Rocks member. He had asked Roger to join him so they could rule the world together, but Roger had turned him down as he had no interest in world domination. What ensued next was a fierce sea battle fought on the sea called Edd War, a part of the New World, the second half of the Grand Line. Initially, it looked as if the Roger Pirates were bound to lose because they were vastly outnumbered by Shiki's armada, but then, a storm hit Edd War and half of Shiki's armada sank. As such, the battle was broken off and declared a draw. Shiki got a piece of a steering wheel permanently lodged into his brain during the chaos caused by the storm.

24 years ago, the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates met on an island in Paradise, the first half of the Grand Line, and Whitebeard reluctantly agreed to allow Oden (who, as a member of the Kozuki Family, could read Poneglyphs) to join the Roger Pirates after both Roger and Oden himself had asked him for permission. Toki came aboard with her husband, along with their two children, and Inuarashi and Nekomamushi snuck on as stowaways. The crew celebrated Oden's induction into their ranks with a party.

Within the same year, the Roger Pirates ventured to Skypeia and Fishman Island, where they found their second Road Poneglyph. Oden, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi then revealed that the final two Road Poneglyphs were in their home countries, Wano and Zou respectively, and the Roger Pirates successfully found them there. Kozuki Toki fell ill and was left behind on the island of Wano, along with her and Oden's two children. Oden wanted to give up his dream and stay behind with her, but she threatened him with a divorce if he gave up because of her. As such, Oden continued with the Roger Pirates as they travelled to the final island.

23 years ago, the Roger Pirates charted the location of the final island using the four Road Poneglyphs. Buggy fell ill and, as such, he and Shanks stayed behind on another island. The rest of the Roger Pirates made it to the final island and decided to name it Laugh Tale. After returning from Laugh Tale, Roger disbanded the crew and sailed off on his own. The now former crew brought Oden to Wano before everyone started going their own ways. Buggy and Shanks presumably stayed together until Roger's execution.

Notes:

22 years ago, Roger turned himself in to the Marines and was publicly executed in Loguetown, his birth town on the Polestar Islands in the East Blue, giving it the epithet The Town of the Beginning and End. Shanks and Buggy were both in attendance and most likely split up after this event, forming their own crews, the Red Hair Pirates and the Buggy Pirates respectively. Gol D. Roger's final words set off the Great Age of Pirates with thousands of pirates taking to the seas to find the Pirate King's legendary treasure, the One Piece.

So, that's it! I hope this helped, even if it’s a little late. Have a nice day!

"Dogstorm" and "Cat Viper" are not the actual epithets of Inuarashi and Nekomamushi but rather the translations of their names that they are referred to as in some translations. Still, I decided to treat them as epithets because they seemed the most expressive.

Some translations refer to the final island as "Raftel" instead of "Laugh Tale". This is wrong and stems from bad transliteration. BUT you can use it for fic purposes as the World Government has a habit of changing the names of people or things to hide the truth about them. For example, referring to Gol D. Roger as Gold Roger. Because of the nature of the things to be found on Laugh Tale, it's very possible that the World Government would want to change to island's name. Thank you to the people on the Discord server for sharing their brilliant thoughts on this with me :)