#shanks and buggy

[taco-tuseday]

Day 4 of buggytober

Ex-Roger pirates

[kacievvbbbb]

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

[trafalgar-law-k-e]

I leave this nice drawing 💘💕💕💕💖✨ I hope you like it 💖

[lotttie1111]

the way people will deny them as an item but these two went on a date wearing matching Hawaiian button ups which screams im a gay man in my mid to late thirties to me and if ur still in denial ur lying. Trust me I work in the fashion industry I know it all starts with the floral print <33

[madmachaca]

When you are little and full of childlike wonder:

[onepiecehiperfixation]

Buggy: I seriously HATE YOU. Listen to what I'm saying, i CaN'T sTaNd YoU! Shanks: Then sit down love. You miss me. Buggy: I hAtE yOu! Shanks: You miss me and you love me. Bugs why must we fight! Buggy: I hAtE yOu! Shanks: We got a good thing going on you and I. Dear.

[laurasoretta]

I know it will never happen, but...

Can you imagine how cool It would be if they make Shuggy canon?? (either way in animanga or Opla)

Can you imagine how much this would piss off all the homophobes who consider Shanks as the coolest example of masculinity, strenght and manliness?

Their idol in love with Buggy. Not with another cool man like Mihawk... but Buggy!

That would be so satisfying!

[wantedwendigo]

Shanks is not doing it right. He's not doing it wrong either, tho x'D Want some more funny fanart? You can find me here, too: WantedWendigo User Profile | DeviantArt

[wordy-little-witch]

Do you think sometimes when Shanks and Buggy were younger, they would get "kidnapped" just to steal or fight the people that did it without getting in trouble with people? The two kids just follows a couple bandits and when Buggy & Shanks know they could defeat them, they stage getting themselves kidnapped?

Totally see Buggy robbing them dry from treasure and Shanks by robbing their alcohol.

There is no doubt in my mind that they absolutely did that.

Buggy had a seven stage plan when it came to Operation: Acquisition, and Shanks probably turned the plan tits up the first three times before Bugs decided to incorporate his accomplice's ability to Fuck Shit Up into the og plans instead of contingencies.

Shanks privately thought they should also account for Buggy's luck stats either being AMAZING or SHIT, but he knew better than to say it outright.

Rayleigh probably caught in pretty quickly as to the truth of the matter but he let the kids have their fun.

Roger probably also knew but still freaked out every single time it happened bc Big Strong Competent Men Comically Losing Their Shit will never not be one of my favorite tropes. Buggy and Shanks go missing? Gol D. Roger becomes Brandon Rogers.

Tell you what though, those kids made BANK.

[youknowwhoiamassbutt]

Something that breaks my heart is the thought of Shanks and Buggy deciding to get married when they were kids. They had a whole mini-ceremony with just the two of them. They stole some rings from a town they passed through. They exchanged vows. They proclaimed it the beginning of their new family and new life, part of their promise to go to Laugh Tale together. They didn't really have a strong understanding of what marriage was back then, but they did understand it as a lifelong promise of loyalty. So years later, after Roger had died and Buggy had left, after they were both forced to start life anew without each other, neither of them were able to take their rings off. Buggy still wore his every day, Shanks had lost his with his arm, lying somewhere at the bottom of the ocean in sea creature poop. Losing the ring was almost as hard as losing the limb. So when they finally see each other again, Buggy's distressed at seeing Shanks without his arm of course, but what really hits him in the gut, what shakes him to his core, is the lack of their ring, their promise quite literally ripped away. Another accidental, unintentional, and completely not Shanks's fault betrayal.

[taco-tuseday]

Da sillies

[hatsuyoshi6u9]

Maybe be for incorrect quotes? If it's okay

Shanks: "Can you help us, Captain?"

Roger: "Of Course! Let's see what you guys nee-" *Looking down at Shanks and Buggy's Homework*A few minutes later, with the homework burning

Roger: "It won't hurt you ever again."

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Buggy and Shanks going to Rayleigh be like:

Rayleigh: "Buggy what's wrong?"

Shanks: "Captain destroyed our homework!"

Buggy: *Unhappy Clown Noises*

Rip Roger

I laughed so much with this ask hahaha, isn’t that first one a Thomas Sanders vine? Anyways here it is, I didn’t get to draw Rayleigh but I did have him mentioned to not leave him out haha

Hope you like it!✨

[lotttie1111]

real🤭🫶🏻

(my edit, u can use it if u wanna idrc)

[pepilandia]

i just spent a whole ass hour seeing shanks and buggy fanarts, im gonna lose my mind 😭😭 they're so qysjshw

[onepiecehiperfixation]

Buggy: I will betray you. Shanks: If you do, you will hurt yourself at the same time. Buggy:Yes I know.

[laurasoretta]

This panel hits different when you know... 💔