#shuggy (romantic)

[beanghostprincess]

Rayleigh and Buggy reunion, but Rayleigh is being over the top judgemental about everything, like idk if u are familiar with crazy ex girlfriend the TV show but Rayleigh shows up and acts exactly like Rebecca's mom does. Overcritical of his life choices and dismissive of what he perceives as excuses coming from Buggy, because he knows Buggy's true potential and is annoyed with Buggy not living up to it. He gives Crocodile a once over and goes "is that what you found to replace Shanks with" and moves on and Crocodile doesn't even have a moment to compute the way he was just insulted because Rayleigh has moved on to criticising Mihawk's cooking instead. Worst part is, this all comes from a genuine place of love and care, Rayleigh is legitimately worried sick about his baby clown son of 39 years, but he cannot express that worry without being extremely invasive about everything. Buggy isn't even responding, he just shoots ppl apologetic looks and rolls his eyes when Rayleigh isn't looking because of course he does this obviously Buggy is never good enough for him and Shanks had always been the favourite (you ask Shanks or any other Roger pirate and they will tell you that Buggy is Rayleigh's baby boy and absolute favourite with utmost confidence, too bad the emotional constipation runs in the crew). Dinner is awkward as fuck, because Rayleigh makes attempts at being easygoing but his motherhenning nature irt Buggy shines through, his conviction that Buggy would be happier with Shanks by his side is making him be overcritical of everyone in that dinner and he keeps discussing the good old days and subtly hinting at Buggy that there is still time for him to go back to Shanks....and Buggy looks close to frustrated tears (and everyone agrees, Crocodile has snapped 5 cigars in half with his teeth and Mihawk is 5 seconds away from banging his head on the table).

Just overbearing father Rayleigh being stifling and trying to overcompensate for his shit parenting choices during Buggy's childhood and Buggy having his daddy issues expanded upon (and Crocodile and Mihawk gaining insight to Buggy's entire deal)

"Idk if u are familiar with crazy ex girlfriend the TV sho-" My therapist literally told me to stop watching it so much because it was affecting my mental health. So. Yes. I know the show. It's one of my favorite shows EVER. Rebecca is just like me fr my beloved. All of them my beloveds. The songs my beloveds. Don't make me go into CEG x OP because I won't finish. And as you can see, I did not listen to my therapist.

Even though I've always seen Rayleigh as the one who understands Buggy the most (Roger and him love Shanks and Buggy equally but it is quite obvious they put more pressure on Shanks to be more like Roger and that only made things worse by making Buggy's inferiority complex exist) and the one who stands up more for him and comforts him when needed, it is true that he might be more judgemental and he'd be worried for Buggy. Like. Think about it. Roger died and the kids (their kids) ended up alone and going their own separate ways. For Rayleigh, finding out Shanks and Buggy aren't together is just?? So weird?? Because they've always been together. Birds of a feather (if somebody mentions the song 'Two Birds' I am punching them because I can't handle that song today please). And it's just... Well, surprising. 'But as long as they're okay' but they're obviously not okay!!! And it's not that Rayleigh is judging Buggy. In fact, I think he would do the same with Shanks. The second Rayleigh sees Shanks he's already saying he drinks too much (even for a pirate) and that he's been acting recklessly and "What the fuck are you doing without Buggy? Is this because of Buggy?" / "I do not drink because of him. It's- It's not about him. He left-" / "HE LEFT AND YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING?????" / "I hate it when you get like this" / "Like what?" / "Like you want to still do something about my life. I'm an adult, thank you very much-" / "No, you're not if you keep acting this way". And I personally think Rayleigh would just be worried for the both of them and also feel extremely guilty because he wasn't there to fix things when they fought, the way he always did. "The second I left you alone you two start a fight that lasts two decades?" and he would say this to both of them and they would hate it.

But yeah, going back to Buggy I think he'd be worried because. Well. Have you seen Crocodile and Mihawk? I mean. They're kind of on good terms with Buggy now (more or... More or less. Kind of. They're not equals but they're some sort of weird thing and they respect and care for each other. More or less. It's- It's complicated. Don't ask) but they're still them. And Rayleigh can't help but see the situation and be like "I'm proud you made a name of yourself, kid, but you don't have to do this if you don't want to" (meaning: You could go back to Shanks any time you wanted) and Buggy takes it as an "You could go back to Shanks any time you wanted because you'd be safer with him" instead of the real "You could go back to Shanks any time you wanted because you'd be happier with him and this war of pride and hearts you have going on is dumb". And he understands Buggy needs to be away from Shanks to grow, but it's just so, so sad to see them like this when they used to love each other so damn much.

Also, I think Buggy would be going through the worst moment of his life and Crocodile and Mihawk would be so done for different reasons. First, they don't give a fuck about all of this drama. And second, they are starting to see Buggy more like a person and understand why he is the way he is, and the things Rayleigh is saying are bothering them a lot. They've been trying to make the clown move on from his past so he's useful for once (because when he believes in himself he's actually not a burden and more interesting) and now this guy (that they respect because it's Silvers Fucking Rayleigh) comes and tries to change things around here? Nope. Not happening.

So basically, what you're trying to tell me is that Rayleigh regrets raising the boys that way and now he's overcompensating and it's overwhelming for everyone, right? I- I love it. Great plot. 10/10. In character. Perfect. It makes me go insane. I love their daddy issues.

(Also, can we talk about how "This Was a Shit Show" and "What'll it be" are extremely Buggy songs??? Because- Because now I want to-)

[wordy-little-witch]

Nonbinary Buggy Hours lezzgo

• Fairly early on, Buggy got the whole "I don't fit in" vibe but chalked it up to Being On A Crew Of Monsters. It's only after Oden and later Toki join that things begin piecing together - I'm dropping some cultural blending here but Wano for whatever reason has WILD mixed bag energy as far as folk tales go. Roger has some flavor of UK Energy, Rayleigh has old English vibes, etc etc. Buggy and Shanks got old seamen's tales as bedtime stories, shanties as lullabies, but the crew also would share children's stories and folk tales from THEIR youths as well. Some of them had mystical aspects as well and there were some fun stories with the fair folk or spirits and shape-shifting. Buggy loved those the most.

• Toki joining the crew led to some quick acclimation, but Buggy was hesitant - she was New and Unknown and so a Danger. But Toki was just.... so sweet about it all. Buggy went from I Don't Trust You At All to That's My Auntie within maybe a month. Complete night and day.

• Bugs' First Forray Into Makeup was via Toki. They do silly Self Care Evenings and include the babies and Oden is SO SMITTEN and Roger is DYING for a camera. ((Shanks is dying for other reasons, much to nearly everyone's amusement, poor kid)).

• Buggy's first instance of being Not A Boy was a result of a silly trick/prank done by the crew on Fishman Island. Some really fancy restaurant had a Mermaids Eat Free event going on so they decide to dress the kids up as mermaids - Shanks is down for the funnies, and is laughing and bright eyed and finding humor in it. Buggy is prickly and snarky and sassy the whole time until he saw himself in the mirror. He went... alarmingly quiet.

- Buggy was frankly stunned because the mer-species they went with was a clownfish, something he was absolutely LIVID about, but the orange complemented his skin and hair so beautifully. The orange, white and black hair pin holding his hair was a wonderful pop of color. The black eye liner made his eyes pop, the bronze-peach lip gloss was stunning and....

They felt so wonderful. So beautiful. So Free.

• Buggy wears orange a lot after that.

• when Buggy hesitantly asks Rayleigh and Roger if genders can be different in real life, Rayleigh is confused, Roger cackles- Buggy's scared for a moment until Roger point blank says "oh, it can be whatever you want it to, baby blue! We're pirates - who cares for allowance?" Then the captain gives that smile, the soft one, the one only those deemed His got to see, the one that peeled back layers of a person and saw to their cores, and asks, "Is there something you want to tell us, squirt?"

"I'm... not a boy."

"Okay. Are you a girl, then?"

"I don't think so."

"Alright! Ye' still want to go by Buggy?"

"Mmhmm."

"Alrighty then! You just let me know if anything comes up that you want to tell me, alright, baby bug?"

"Okay. Thanks, Captain!"

• yes, when Buggy leaves, Roger wails. Yes, Rayleigh gives a long suffering sigh and pays his back. And yes, Roger is crying hecausr that happy smile of Buggy's was simply "too cute, my heart! It's melting!! I'm a pirate puddle!!!"

• Buggy, with the room to experiment safely and explore, finally settles on nonbinary, neither gender really all that interesting, but pronouns don't matter either. Presentation is all about Presentation (<MegaMind Voice)

• Shanks calls Buggy his Clown Wife and Buggy refuses to admit to blushing every time it happens. He also drops lines like "I miss my clown wife" while sipping a bottle of rum and staring forlorn at the sea.

• Shanks also has The Range and will unashamedly be like "I don't understand people who say their wife is a bitch and they hate them.... my wife is a bitch and I like him SO MUCH!!!!"

• Luffy and Buggy: Enby to enby communication. Autism to autism antagonist.

• Buggy's crew BTW knows that their captain is simply Their Captain, pronouns your/majesty (/j), and nobody cares beyond the mild worry that a femme presenting Buggy will accidentally seduce another high ranked naval officer because somehow that ALWAYS HAPPENS. And the Navy is the MILDER concern. They're so stressed.

• lowkey considered clowncore meets punk bc I feel like Buggy would be. Scrumptious. Like that. Colors and patterns and leather and lace and studs and smiles and just - hhhhhhhh niche interest leave me aloooone-

• speaking of niche, I really love the idea of the Buggy pirates all having a passing knowledge of both circus acts and management, leading to random bouts of.... really smart insight. Like. Some outsider or newcomer is like "damn this right here is a Problem" and some average joe lookin ass in harlequin diamond patterned tights somersaults over, drops a nugget of wisdom and fucking absconds. Let The Circus Bastards Be Weird, I Love Them They Deserve It.

• also the crew drinks Respect Women Juice no I don't make the rules but I DO enforce them. They drink Respect Everyone Juice but women are simply the biggest of the recipients of the regard. Sex, color, religion, abled-ness, gender, sexuality - none of that matters. Everyone us equal. The buggy pirates support equal rights and equals lefts.

• Crocodile and Mihawk did NOT receive the memo at the beginning which led to some very wild miscommunications but it was resolved when it was revealed that Mihawk is just Like That To Everyone and Crocodile didn't even realize Kimi-san from the marketing department was a girl when he went off on her. Mihawk, when asked about his treatment of others, just owl blinked and made a vaguely threatening comment on how women, men, he didn't care, they all get cut the same. Crocodile just took a puff of his cigar with a monumental 'what the fuck' face. "I would say the same things to a man, a person, a woman, both, neither, I literally could not be paid to care about someone's crotch configuration or identity what the hell."

• Buggy wears a dress for the first time in Cross Guild's creation, and Crocodile breaks a fountain pen while Mihawk carefully sets his wine glass down hopes nobody notices the hairline fractures. Buggy is oblivious, as they tend to be.

• after some awkward half assed roundabout questioning, Mihawk and Crocodile just..... casually drop some dresses into Buggy's care or room, wordless and embarrassed but also lowkey threatening. Buggy is terrified until he realizes that some math isn't mathing and just asks. He's pretty decent at reading between the lines (#weaponizing-the-anxiety), and the first conclusion is wayyyyy off but the second conclusion causes clown.exe to crash HARD, to Alvida's delight and Galdino's suffering, but at least the nail polish is dry and the wine is good.

• it becomes a bit of a THING once the polycule is running, a subtle display of possessiveness. Collars don't really Work on Buggy, though he lowkey wishes they did, so this is a very good followup alternative

• Crocodile really likes putting Buggy in coordinated colors with his outfit or crisscross patterns both because Possessive and Claim but also because Buggy looks mouthwatering in it. Mihawk has much the same response for deep jewel tones, black and lace. Buggy adores the attention and the heated gazes, the little minx.

• there's precious little that really irks Buggy all in all, and she really does play the "am I man,am I a woman? No I'm a PYROMANIAC BURN BABY BURNNN-" card very well, good for them.

Incorrect quotes time

Alvida: as the crew's lady-

Buggy: hAH-

Alvida: I said lady, Buggy, ladies have CLASS, smth you LACK-

Buggy: oh okay fair carry on.

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Boa: why are you not STONE?!

Buggy: I mean... you're cute but I really don't do girls, miss ma'am.

Boa: what

Buggy: also any aesthetic appreciation is drowned by the gender envy

Boa: wHaT?

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Buggy: I'm gay

Mohji: oh em gee what a shocker

Buggy: >:o0 rude!!!!!

Mohji: how is that rude, it's an astute observation-!!!!

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Rando: what are you

Buggy: I'm captain Buggy

Rano: no, what are you

Buggy: oh uh the flashy fool, genius jester, Buggy the Clown-

Rando: ugh, no, I mean what's in your pants!!

Buggy: Ohhh! Knives.

Rando: wha- OHGOD-!

Buggy, now holding bloodied knives: :3 teehee

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Mihawk: stop calling me transphobic, I just told you to brush your teeth before I kissed you.

Crocodile, incredibly, blackout, shitfaced drunk: sad reptile sounds

Buggy, across the room, removing her makeup: I dunno, Hawky, sounds pretty transphobic to me~

Mihawk: I'm going to kill everyone in this room and then myself.

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Buggy: I identify as a THREAT.

Croc, patting his lap without looking up, settling his hook around Buggy's waist when he settles on his lap obediently, smirks: a threat to my peace, absolutely.

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Buggy: sometimes I wish I was a big tittied goth girlfriend, you know?

Mihawk, holding the remains of his garden sheers that he just crushed bare handed: do you ever think before you speak

Buggy: no why

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Iva: you want me to what

Buggy: put the gender juice in the jars so I can take em like shots.

Iva:

Buggy:

Iva: genius idea, darling, I like your style

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Rouge: Buggy, sweetie, quick question.

Buggy: what's up, mama?

Rouge, hand on her swollen belly: do you wanna be Buggy-nii, Buggy-nee, or something else?

Buggy:

Rouge:

Buggy:

Rouge: oh don't cry-

[aimbutmiss]

Your last piece had me thinking about how Shank's hope that he can get back together with Buggy die an even faster death the minute he sees the Seraphim and how much they love Buggy, how big their smiles are when he holds them and how much he makes what used to be expressionless killing machines giggle breathlessly. More importantly hoe much Buggy loves them. He looks at those boys the same way Roger used to look at Shanks and Buggy a lifetime ago. The same way Shanks used to look at Uta.

Shanks may be a slutty disaster man, but he's no homewrecker. Buggy's boys are always going to come first. Then Croc and Mihawk, then... well we all know where Shanks falls now.

Shanks is way down on the list now unfortunately :( but he's made his peace with that. As long as Buggy's happy...

And Shanks loves kids!! He's very good with them. Mihawk and Buggy are more than happy to let him come over and play the part of weird uncle but Crocodile is not so sure. Shanks would never ruin their family, he loves and respects buggy too much, but he likes to mess with Croc because even if he can't find his happily ever after with a lover he can at least have some fun.

[iaxsl]

thinking about how buggy always assumed he would be traveling with shanks for the rest of his life. it was just a given to him that he would be searching for the one piece with shanks. so when shanks said he didn't want to be the pirate king, something broke inside buggy because where does that leave him??

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Weird question but what makes you ship Shuggy romantically? I’m not one of those uugh they’re brothers, I just wonder what makes you see this in romantic light

the chapter 1082 flashback, basically.

you've got buggy with these deeply hidden feelings, secretly planning to follow shanks forever and never tell him why, feeling betrayed by shanks when he reveals his own secret, lying about why he's leaving, then running off in the rain—a classic "are they crying or is it just the rain" ambiguity for emotionally devastating moments—while shanks just stands there, watching helplessly…

it just totally recontextualized their relationship for me.

[pandamanlives]

You know shuggy is incest right?

As far as I can tell, anon, the whole ‘brothers’ thing comes from questionable info/reasoning from the marines. Fuck the marines. We don’t trust their information in this household.

If you don’t want romantic shuggy that’s fine but imma keep spitting in the face of the world gov.

[girlyguy]

HOLY FUCK I love this and this art style is delicious!

that mobile game is doin somethin right.

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

I really love how the musical choices in s2e1 underscore how Ed's thoughts are on Stede and his love for him, even at moments where a different show wouldn't be leaning into that as hard. It would've been so, so, so easy for Ed's depressed spiral at the start of the season to feel aimless, like darkness for the sake of darkness, and they avoid that so cleanly, it's very impressive.

The first moment where it stands out to me is during the raid montage - Ed has just declared himself to be the devil, and he's impassively watching all the violence, not really participating or watching his back, just letting it happen. The musical choice for this scene is "Strawberry Letter 23" by Shuggie Otis, and it's a lovely song - it's very dreamy and it's about lovers sending love letters to each other. The song, combined with Ed's blank expression, makes it feel that Ed is not present. His mind is on other things. It's like he's just going through the motions, while a song plays about hearing pretty music and envisioning romantic scenes with a lover. It's so clear Ed's heart is not in this raid, he's not even interested in doing above the bare minimum to pretend he's Being Blackbeard.

And then, near the end of the episode, Francis Bebey's "Pygmy Love Song"...holy shit this one wrecks me. Ed is looking out over the water, telling Frenchie all about his plan to sail and rob and raise hell forever and ever, without end, and he can't even turn around or Frenchie would see the tears in his eyes, and over it all there's a song telling us "my heart is full of love, I have nothing else." Ed is consumed by a love he thinks he's lost, that he never deserved to keep, and he feels so hopeless.

It was so often assumed that Ed would be beyond pissed at Stede when he returned (and he was mad, and that was justified!) but the score in these episodes contributes so well to showing us Ed's mindset and why he and Stede were able to fall back together so easily. Ed can hold up that little cake topper representing Stede, and he can say "fuck you, Stede Bonnet," and he can try to pretend that he's not so full of love for that man and he wants anything other than to just have Stede back and know that he's deserving of Stede's love, and we don't believe him for a second.

[shuggymaniac]

Shuggy Soulamte AU

Where you can only see color when you meet your other half, with a fluffy/funny/angsty twist.

We all know this AU, everyone’s world is grey until they meet their soulmate.

And so most parents decide to give their kids “the talk” when they get a little older. To teach them about colors and why they can’t see color the heart break that might follow possible rejection and that it is ok and that they can find someone else deserving of thier love.

So imagine Roger, Rouge, Rayleigh and Shakky’s shock when their sons who grew up side by side looked at them confused and told them that they never saw the grey and dull colors, that they were always able to see colors. They even thought their parents were pranking them because they thought of being born unable to see colors until possible adulthood was crazy to them.

They did some tests making sure the boys indeed were able to see colors and they passed to easily.

And that is when both couples realized that the two boys have been so lucky to be with their soulmate since infancy. That now they will live happily ever after right?

No, at some point the boys get into a fight caused by the social pressure of needing to be by your soulmate the need to be the perfect sweetheart couple. And then, they separate ways.

Many people blamed Buggy because he seemed to be the one who would cause problems the most but Shanks would defend him to shut people up.

The thing is Buggy felt that Shanks was too good to be with him and he is only forcing himself to be with Buggy because that what “Fate” and the people around them told them to do, so when he left he hoped that Shanks would have come after him to prove him and everyone wrong that he actually wanted to be with Buggy.

But Shanks never came, and Buggy’s heart broke it took him years to get over it and when he did and was ready to go back to the dating scene his friend recommend one of those facilities that help you match up with people who got rejected or lost their soulmates.

Reluctantly Buggy joined and since the facility use anonymous names and no pictures the bluenette felt comfortable chatting with people, he had to turn down some and many turned him down, which frustrated him greatly and almost gave up, until he matched up with someone whom he seemed to get along will with.

They would chat about their days and share jokes, express their interests and desires. and Buggy found out that like him this guy was rejected by his soulmate, but never got into details of why, and when Buggy told him that he too was rejected he never told how and why.

But neither of them focused on the subject for long and went back to their usual chats. They have been talking for a year before the facility deemed them compatible enough to meet up in person. Offering them a full paid romantic date but the two agreed to just meet for a drink and see how things progress from there.

So imagine Buggy’s shock to see a familiar red hair sitting in the booth of the place he agreed to meet his future partner in. And from the other guy’s wide eyes Buggy assumed he was shocked to. But he didn’t care at this moment only one emotion burned inside him and that was betrayal.

Buggy tried to walk away but Shanks stopped him. The bluenette demanded to know why he was here, asking if he was stalking him, that after years of no contact he goes to this measure to trick him and pretend to be this great person, leading him on for a year to force his hand to be with him again? Or was is just a way to make fun of him? How much did he pay that facility??

But Shanks swore up and down that he never tricked Buggy, how he didn’t pretend to be a different person, that he didn’t even know Buggy joined the place. And then Begged him to at least stay so they can talk about this misunderstanding.

Buggy reluctantly stayed and they talked.

Shanks explained how after their break up he decided to focus on his studies and work to take over the family business. How his parents tried to convince him to reach out for Buggy to reconcile but he knew Buggy wouldn’t accept him back so to please his parents he tried joining that facility.

At first he showed no interest to anyone he gave them a chance but never went beyond discussing dislikes and likes that was until he came across this one person, who has a unique since of humor, selfless despite him saying he is selfish person, having great mind that few people can understand and it attracted shanks greatly. He hesitated at first because deep down he still loves Buggy and hopes to get back with him but he believed Buggy probably moved on from after.

He couldn’t even believe the possibility that Buggy stayed single all this time, he is dumb enough to see him and don’t want to be his partner???!!

And he swears again and again that he didn’t know he was talking to Buggy and if he did he’d probably stop. And that stung Buggy making him think that Shanks disliked him so much that he didn’t want to believe that he was texting Buggy all this time and this made Buggy explode.

He told him sorry that he was stuck with a person like him, how he really tried to be the perfect partner that everyone said he should be for Shanks but he can’t act differently from who he really was. He liked being loud, he liked expressing his emotions, he liked wearing flashy make up and flashy clothes that didn’t fit the social norms, he didn’t like pretending to like a person just because it was the polite thing to do, he did like those things and Shanks should have accepted him as he is not how pro wanted him to be.

Then he leaves not giving Shanks the chance to explain to him how he never wanted Buggy to fit into the norms that he loves how expressive Buggy is, loves how he doesn’t take sh*t from no body and that if he saw someone being wronged or criticized he would throw it right back at them, he loves how despite everything that society told him was normal Buggy was the most normal thing in his life.

After a few days, Buggy went back to work, not telling his friends how his date went. He decided that he will meet people the old fashioned way, screw any facility that would tell him otherwise and if he didn’t meet anyone then he didn’t care for that as well. So imagine his surprise to see Shanks walk into his place of work with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and gift boxes on the other hand.

Shanks decided he won’t make his old mistake again that he will go after Buggy to win his heart again, to show him that he wanted Buggy as he is and not how pro told him he should be.

Of course, Buggy beat his ass out of his place of work and cursed to never show his face again but Shanks won���t give up. And despite Buggy cursing under his breath on how dare that red haired bastard show his face against but seeing his red face his friends can tell that Buggy was really happy that his first love wants him still.

It will just take a while for them to get over there pride and communicate properly.

[beanghostprincess]

Shanks staying behind and not going to Laugh Tale for Buggy because he's sick is one of those things I would've assumed were from a fanfic if somebody had told me about it before watching the anime

[wordy-little-witch]

It's Shuggy (romantic) hours and I am still fixated on the Boa and Buggy vibes.

Imagine Buggy and Hancock and Alvida just hanging out and GUSHING over their beloveds (the girls have a semi-rivalry over Luffy), and both women have a moment of REALIZATION when Buggy mentions his boyenemy Shanks -

"Shanks...?"

"Red haired Shanks??"

"Yeah?"

"Red haired Shanks as in the man who gave Luffy his hat??"

"Red haired Shanks, the EMPEROR, who you hitched a ride with back from Marineford?!?"

"Yes, yes, that's been established, what are you both ON, damn-?"

Boa is having a moment because does this make her best friend her future step father in law? Is that an actual term? How does this math out??

Alvida is having a few crisises, but mainly ot's because she prefers women and has two exceptions - Luffy, and Redhaired Shanks - which just got REALLY weird because the man she considers an older brother is dating one of her exceptions and is kind of a step parent to the other. Does that make Luffy her nephew? That's weird. Oh man, now NONE of the men she's interested in are available. Wait, this is brewing SO many questions.

Both women are just having 72 different attacks, in just as many varieties, and Buggy is just sipping his juice and doing his nails without a care in the world.

Meanwhile Shanks is retelling the story of his first [insert silly event] with Buggy for the 2,483,738,423rd time to Benn, who is fairly certain he could plot the clown's life without missing a single flutter of his 157 top, 82 bottom (left) and 159 top and 82 bottom (right) lashes.

Shanks knows. Everything. Every single thing about Buggy. He is so obsessed with this clown, it's mildly intimidating to others.

When Shanks inevitably does show up at Karai Bari, everyone is shitting themselves bc he shows up, idle, easy smile, vaguely off-putting vibes, he seems so composed, so cool, so strong - and then he gets a boot to the face and he falls over and wriggles on the ground like a work on drugs because "Oh em gee, Buggy, hi! I missed you!!"

"Dumbass, why are you HERE?!"

"I wanted to see my princess~" and then he presses a kiss to Buggy's severed ankle, and now the clown is screaming, he's blushing and smiling like a loon, Alvida is rethinking her taste in men, and then Shanks makes a raunchy comment, Buggy screams louder, and everything is chaotic.

Simp Shanks and Tsundere Buggy my beloved.

[hayhenna]

Hi :)

So here's the list of all the Shuggy Fics I've been writing so far. Enjoy

Tangled in RED (ShamShuggy)

Tides of the past 🩵♥️ (part 2)

The Captain's heart (NSFW but romantic) (part 1)

I hate you, but I love you ♥️🩵

Midnight Search

Get a room! Part 2

Get a room! Part 1 ♥️🩵

Why is he taking so long?! 🩵♥️🔥(NSFW Part 7)

Why is he taking so long?! 🩵♥️(Part 6)

No time to waste 🩵♥️(Part 5)

Pick yourself up Captain (Part 4)

A breath apart 🩵💔 (Part 3)

Captain Clueless gets a clue 🩵♥️ (Part 2)

A split decision ♥️🩵 (Part 1)

Childhood Shenanigans 🩵♥️

Gossipy Pirates 👀🤣

Under the mistletoe 🩵♥️🎄

Lipstick Testing ♥️🩵🔥

Echoes of Regret 🩵💔

A massage for Buggy 🩵♥️

Sorry Buggy 💔🩵

@huyandere in my memory your face is still undamaged 🩵💔

Scars 🩵♥️

Drinking game 🩵♥️

A little smut won't hurt 🩵♥️🔥

Tickle monster 🩵♥️

Even their crew knows ♥️🩵

Nervous Buggy 🩵♥️🔥

Buggy's hair 🩵♥️ (this one is my fav)

Teasing shuggy 🩵♥️

A honk ♥️🩵🔥 (and this one fav too)

He's so insisting 🩵♥️

Silly shuggy ♥️🩵

Younger Shuggy ♥️🩵

Let's read some Shuggy 🩵♥️

[an-au-blog]

I need to get this ball rolling and to write this au idea out anywhere so pllleeease indulge me and listen to me try to put a spin on Shuggy soulmate au.

Setting: a world in which soulmates are connected by a string of fate that shows only for a short second when two peoples hands touch, doesn’t even have to be romantical, but if you are connected to someone with that string it means your souls are interwoven in some way. Shanks and Buggy share such a string. In the beginning they both believed they were more along the lines of „platonic complete opposite soulmates who’s differences and conflicts drive each other to become their best selfs“ but after Laugh Tale they both realized that at least the „platonic“ part was complete Bull and they become a couple.

The inevitable happens. Rogers excecution, Buggy feeling betrayed by Shanks decision, breakup in the rain, but Shanks still holds out Buggy will come and join him again soon. Then one night Shanks wakes up with a feeling of absolute heart wrecking despair washing over him and at first he thinks he had another nightmare about Rogers execution, but then he realizes that he’s in physical pain, his heart is actually aching and a deep sadness envelopes him as he scream sobs and curls in on himself. Buggy has cut his string.

Years later. They meet again at Marineford and things proceed mostly normal. Shanks doesn’t hold a grudge against Buggy, doesn’t even mention it, doesn’t even confront Buggy about it, he still feels deeply for his soulmate and he never managed to cut his string, because he couldn’t bring himself to do it, but he knows Buggy has moved on. And Buggy is pissed as expected about Shanks being so nice and friendly and “Oh the map? You’re still angry about that?” And GODS he wishes Shanks would be at least a little bit pissed… and part of him is glad he isn’t.

… because thing is, Buggy didn’t cut his string either. Oh he tried alright, and it was as awful and painful as it was for Shanks, an immense physical pain combined with the worst sadness and loneliness he ever felt in his life and that’s saying something coming fresh of his father figures execution. But through the sobbing and heaving he suddenly realizes with dread that the string has reattached himself to him. He once again curses that damn fruit That bereft him not only of his ability to swim but also to cut of the person he never wants to be hurt by ever again in his life. But he can’t. But Shanks thinks he did. And the least he can do after hurting his soulmate this badly, doing the one thing that everyone tells you not to do another human being because the pain is so immense, is to never let Shanks know that he couldn’t cut it.

I'm not even joking when I say that literally half an hour before seeing this ask, I was thinking about red sting soulmates Shuggy omfg get iut of my head ahhagah

Anon imma name you just so whenever you write/post this pleaaaase send me the link! I'm naming you Meltan because anon, this melted me this is amazing :')

The thread hurts like cutting off a part of one's body. Some say it's even worse. Shanks had experienced that already, but it was fueled by the urge to protect. He lost his arm for Luffy and that was fine by him. He still feels bad that he regretted it for a split second because he thought that that was the hand that had Buggy's string on it. If he just prayed to anyone and anything that he never had to choose between the two.

Ever since they realized their bind was more than just platonic, the string felt a bit more lively. "Lively" probably wasn't the best word to call it, but it seemed somewhat vibrant. Shanks took pride in it and in the little time they had together before their breakup, he'd take any chance to touch Buggy and look at the thing that connected them for life. Even if they parted, he thought, they would still fate connecting them and pulling them together.

I'd like to think that Shanks knew, that Buggy's parts always came back to him. But he's under the assumption that Buggy's string isn't on him anymore, so it hurts even more because that would mean Buggy didn't feel their connection as a part of himself.

Shanks sometimes still felt the string but he thought that it was like a phantom limb syndrome. He had one arm less anyway, and he would still feel like it was there, but the string felt more tangible. He assumed it was because it was cut off more recently.

(Dare I improvise that- ) Buggy, when they meet again, started wearing long gloves and long sleeves again. He didn't want to risk Shanks knowing. One late night, Shanks gave him a big hug and for a millisecond their skin brushed. Buggy jumped back in a moment of shock. He felt it. And if he felt it, then Shanks also felt it. It was like a warmth after being in the cold for more than a decade. It felt like the first drops of water after wandering a desert for too long. Shanks maybe tries to tell him what he felt but Buggy denies everything and makes jokes of the sort of "Shanks are you drunk again?" "Haha, okay buddy, time to go to bed now" or just tires to make an excuse to leave. In any case, he rushes to shut the door behind himself because he knew he was going to crumple. He leans against the door and slides down, face in his hands, cursing himself for letting himself feel what he's been trying to stay absent for so so long...

Why did he need months of rehabilitation every time he saw Shanks again. Why did being sober hurt this much...

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

What would you consider perfect ending for shuggy that makes sense in canon and doesn’t destroy their character and what would be the most possible one?

my perfect, canon-compatible ending? honeymoon trip to laugh tale, definitely. shanks' new era has been established, the weight of the world taken off his hands, and with his newfound freedom he seeks buggy out. he finds someone who's learned that holding tight to bitter feelings leaves very little room for sweetness, and who's decided to make room for joy. they sail off into the sunset, and that's the last we see of them except for an epilogue-y "where are these side characters now?" cover page series with a cover that's just the pair of them laughing hysterically.

the most possible ending? 😬 age 39 curse hitting one or both of them, i'm afraid.

[majestick-posts-op]

Crack theory but:

What if, Roger's illness, the Amazon Lily lovesickness, and the fever Buggy and Toki had, were all the same desease?

The symphtoms sjown for Boa, Buggy and Toki were identical. Roger's were not, but you could agrue different people can take it differently.

If so, what was the cause? Well, I truly believe that it's unachievable dreams.

Let me refrain it:

Roger died from his deasease. That's because he never achieved the dream he had (The same as Luffy) but also, because he couldn't raise Ace. He knew the wg would have gone after his family. He knew it was not possible. He came too early, to quote directely. And so he passed.

Buggy wanted to get the one piece... with Shanks. But: shanks doesn't have a dream. With that context, part of Buggy's dream becomes unachievable and so he falls ill. But hey, its not like Roger's case. Shanks is alive. The one piece is out there. They can do it! .... Then the Shuggy divorce happens. Buggy's dream changes. He is not in danger anymore.

Boa wanted to be with Luffy. But being with a man would have been against the Kuja's rules. I think it was the case with Shakky and Tritoma too. Shakky and Boa put their pride aside and stayed with Rayleigh and Luffy. Tritoma didn't, so she passed. Since these women all have massive comphet they attribute it to love and only romantic love.

And Toki? That's a little harder. Her dream was just to find a place to live the rest of her life in. Maybe she had a bout of "dream sickness" due to Kaidou's actions back in Wano. Or she feread Oden might have gotten caught by the wg. Either way, she accepted the 5 happy years she got and lived! For a while at least.

I could even bring in Banchina and Kaya into the mix. Kaya outright stated that her health declined once her parents died. So canonically, a condition of despair can make you gravely ill in the op world. This time Usopp saved her. But sadly there was no saving Banchina, and as the proud Usopp stan I am i'll be blaming it all on Yasopp since she likely wanted to live out her life with him.

Tldr: Dreams in the op world are so important that if you phisically can't achieve them, you die.

(Also I'm not saying that every person who died of an illness in op had an unachievable dream. Just that these specific separated instances might be connected)

[aimbutmiss]

I was finally able to update my fic after two weeks! Since I've been sharing my sketchbook here lately I thought I'd share this too, because why not.

It's a Mamma Mia! retelling with shuggy as the main couple, with background zolu and acesan. You don't have to know or like mamma mia to enjoy this (but you should watch the movie if you haven't because it's peak cinema)

It's T rated, just some crude jokes and cursing. It's basically a romantic comedy. Give it a read if you're interested 🙏🏻