#ss.🌧 shuvi

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Thinking about how Shanks will keep a list of all the places he wants to take you—how he’ll stand staring at the prettiest view he’s ever seen and wish you were with him, and promise himself that next time he’ll drag you along no matter how much you huff and moan, just because he knows that awed look on your face will put to shame whatever picturesque scene he’s found.

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❝ sail away with me ❞ ❝ ask me again in the morning ❞

— a lightkeeper and her emperor of the sea {pluvi x shanks}

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The number of times I’d get caught trying to subtly check out shanks during our pining stage would be humiliating if he weren’t unabashedly peacocking every time it happened

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When mihawk is feeling particularly vindictive towards shanks for one reason or another he’ll send me a rlly nice dress w a shitton of buttons

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This is shanks I fear

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snowbirds ft. pluvi and shanks

“akagami, don’t—“

“ah, if you want me to listen to you, you should get my name right.”

“shanks. put down the fruit.”

“well, now i don’t want too.”

“of course. now you don’t want to.”

“open.”

“you’re insufferable.”

day five of the twelve days of selfshipmas event by @tartagliove

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Okay but actually so long as we r leaning into this I must admit I have fully thought through many of the gifts shanks gets me in futile effort to bribe me into sailing off w him and one of them is luxury tinned sea king. Like $30 equivalent tinned fish in fancy ass olive oil and spices that I have only ever been able to get myself on special occasions but now I’m dating involved with a goddamn emperor and my kitchen is stocked full……

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𝚙 𝚕 𝚞 𝚟 𝚒 𝚡 𝚜 𝚑 𝚊 𝚗 𝚔 𝚜 . . .

❝ i'll swim and sail on savage seas with ne'er a fear of drowning and gladly ride the waves of life if you will marry me ❞

sea-softened linen // sneaking in through the window at night // scruff grazing against a soft neck // woolen sweaters // waves crashing against cliffs // “sail away with me” “ask me again in the morning” // windswept hair // one-sided pining, poorly concealed // the smell of salt in the wind // distant storms // stolen kisses in rowdy bars // a stalwart beam of light through dark clouds

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okay ooh tell me more:

what does your siren call sound like? are you aiming to sink him or save him? does he know? does he resist or are you simply that alluring? does he crash willingly? what does he see when he looks in your eyes? have you ever called before? has he ever sank before? will you spare him? has he ever heard anything so sweet?

Oughhhh I am quite simply aiming to devour him im afraid………

In my head this is something of an au where it’s More Normal (idk very POTC esque in vibe) bc siren in the op canon doesn’t quite have the same mystique but there’s still a haki/willpower element to certain people being more capable of resisting siren songs, so shanks has encountered quite a few and been entirely unaffected. Which is why I take him by complete surprise………

I call to him as the sun’s final light dips beneath the sea. He’s ashore, taking a walk on the beach quite some ways away from the others, and I’m hidden in the waves watching. I don’t tend to venture far from the deserted island they’ve landed on and Ive never gotten the chance to hunt anything so handsome, it has me pouring my all into my song—this yearning thing, beckoning and full of promise.

(On his end, he’s ensnared with the first note. He sees me in the water, the glow of my eyes and the billowing cloud of my hair. That haunting melody sinks deep into his chest and steals the breath from his lungs before the water has even brushed his feet, and he’s drawing closer with the sudden, zealous need to draw me into his hold. He knows with a burning certainty that if he could touch me, I would never disappear; that time would stand still and we could float forever, fulfilled and whole, entwined for eternity…)

Yasopp is the one who sees the thrashing. It takes the combined strength of Beckman and Lucky Roux to pry me off their Captain, hissing and spitting—they’re both left with more than a few claw marks but it’s nothing on the bites that litter Shanks, who still struggles against his first mate’s hold and babbles desperate pleas to feel my touch again.

The deepest of his wounds will surely scar, a ring of teeth over his bared shoulder, an imprint of the ones I bare in a crimson snarl before I finally dart off, teal green scales glinting in the moonlight.

Uncharacteristically shaken from the event—their stalwart Captain still too incoherent for any proper questioning—the Red-Haired Pirates set sail as fast as possible, eager to leave the island and whatever inhabits the surrounding waters behind. And soon Shanks does return to his normal self; a bit sheepish, but bright and jovial and wearing the marks without shame as they heal.

Days after they weighed anchor, however, he spies the glint of deep teal scales in the water.

He watches my head surface, breath hitching as it tilts in playful curiosity. And though he knows, rationally, that he ought to turn round and tell his officers, a much more rapacious voice tells him that no other can be allowed to see me.

Now bone white, I bare those teeth in a grin.

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Me w shanks during what I’ve deemed the lighthouse era

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heyo pluvi it's nyla on her main account that is honestly just a side acc at this point gjdfngkjfn but here's a fun thought, imagine you're a big mom pirate and one of her children- what are you mixed with and do yourself pulling a lola and dipping or toughing it out? how do you see yourself somehow running into shanks with this crucial lore change?

Omg………. I will get sooooo self-indulgent and insane w this actually (and likely get walloped w canon in a few days but hey before then we can do what we want) and say perhaps…….. mayhaps……….. an arranged marriage situation………

so likeeeeee i kinda. love the idea of me being an initial attempt at a member of the three-eyed tribe like pudding, bc i need a way to i would love to say im a badass rebel child w my own crew but Alas i think i am. quiet and awkward and nonathletic n mama kinda hates me rip. but she'd have a reason to wanna keep me around despite all that if i have the potential to read poneglyphs and that’d be a role i could play for shanks too yk. and my self-insert is 27 yrs older than pudding which nicely matches up to a potential me running away w shanks when hes like 22 and im like 26!!!

soooooo this all would go down when hes still gathering up his crew yk.......... mama obvi knows him as roger's apprentice but i think he kinda approaches her first to scope out her kids n see if any r worthy/possible to be poached LOLLLLLL and then almost like. out of amusement goes along w the marriage she decides to arrange. it is Not a situation like sanji ftr its a situation like bege, where she intends to have shanks as a subordinate captain through marriage.......

idk i think hes just curious when she proposes it. not exactly concerned—def a bit Overly Confident for a 22 yr old apprentice-turned-rookie potentially going up against an emperor PFFT—but again just like. amused by the situation. and w a piqued interest when he meets me, similarly to selfship canon ig!!!! i think im more timid n less self-assured in this scenario (a combo of being five yrs younger, raised by big mom, and generally the situation being entirely different) and honestly give off the vibe of being a bit uncomfortable around him. i think hes actually rlly put off by the idea of big mom forcing her daughter to marry a pirate even tho im clearly not cool w it; ofc hes not like. surprised i think he knows big mom p well but it Rlly rubs him the wrong way. suddenly hes not so amused anymore.

shanks is a serial princess rescuer in canon, even fifteen yrs earlier i think he's got those instincts already so there's a bit of a white knight instinct that i end up triggering in him. n when we finally get a moment alone (which in my head is a lil nighttime walk back to my room very romantic) he rlly does ask for my feelings and possibly straight-up offer to help me leave n it. pisses me off LMFAOOOOO i might even slap him in the face perhaps just for the audacity of it all bc like bro what!!!! whats the plan here u just wanna piss off an emperor for shits n giggles n a pretty face??? i think i reveal the eye here too, which is ofc considered an Ugly Feature in one piece canon so im intending to shock him out of whatever insanity has overcome him but also is smthn shanks absolutely understands the implications of..........

(he thinks its Very Striking for the record)

I think he does manage to convince me to run off w him before the wedding…….. he’s Very Persistent abt it n by the third or fourth time I’m convinced he has ulterior motives but as it encroaches I kinda come to the conclusion that if I refuse I’ll end up married to him anyway so perhaps better to keep my options open??? So we sneak off the night before w. Largely not a ton of pushback. Maybe shanks has a lil spat w katakuri that’d be fun 🫣 in my head this would be before tottoland is established so it’s a matter of sneaking off the queen mama chanter not. An archipelago yk……… n e way.

We have a lil slowburn after that 🥺 a lot of me swearing up and down I’ll leave at the next island and shanks insisting this isn’t the right one and next thing I know I’ve been w him for five yrs and I’m sleeping in his cabin and we kiss a lot. Actually the fun part abt this au is I’d be around for baby luffy which is very fun to me (tragic that I don’t meet him in selfship canon 💔) maybe he’s the reason we officially get together bc he’s Too Honest LOL idk. But there u go!!!

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Shanks like never gets jealous he simply isn’t the type esp not when it comes to his crew and their treatment of me BUT the one time he genuinely gets spun up enough that we can all feel his haki building is actually right before our elopement bc Beckman gets me a little cotton sundress to wear just like from a random shop on the island and it flatters me So insanely well and the fit is So perfect that Shanks is immediately like hey Beck? Why do you know her exact measurements and the style that would look best on her like what the fuck’s up w that—

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Btw I’ve been nauseous all day over shanks taking my name when we r married thank u lamb 🫠

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It got long and I wanted to end it on the cliffhanger but I fear I play around w shanks for a bit n there’s an incident where he nearly jumps into the water but that’s when his crew realizes I’m hanging around and they tie him to the mast to stop him from doing anything as they high-tail it outta there LMFAOOOOOO

And it’s quiet for a month or two until they have a skirmish w another pirate crew and discover me, in very poor shape, in that captain’s quarters and despite all signs pointing to it being A Truly Fucking Awful Idea shanks manages to wheedle his officers into letting him nurse me back to health. And then I’m mean and aggressive and refuse to take any food (until he realizes I will let him hand feed me raw fish if he lets me nip at his fingers) and occasionally as I start to get better try to eat him again (he’s too smitten for his own good at this point) but also begrudgingly kinda falling for him………

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Sigh. Modern!photographer shanks I’m afraid

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Also thank god snitter (snail twitter) doesn’t exist bc shanks wld be announcing every time we fucked by posting shit like this