#stuff happens and they end up going for moria first lol and his zombie empire and perona and mihawk are big players

[ghost-maya]

surprising absolutely no one by asking for straw hat vampires BUT ALSO the ghost hunting au!

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Ghost Hunting AU is one I really want to get back to but oml I put so much lore into it. I don't have any prose rn so I'll just infodump-

The premise is that Sanji, raised mostly by the Vinsmokes until he was 18, finally manages to escape (with the help of Luffy - that's a whole other thing), bumming it out in the Vinsmoke summer estate they abandoned years ago. Hilariously, people start to think the place is haunted, and call in the local ghost hunters (Goth Fam) to investigate.

One thing leads to another and, because of Sanji's unique abilities, he ends up becoming Zoro's new ghost-hunting partner. Mihawk wants him to help them bring down the Vinsmoke empire because of their terrible experiments on both ghosts and humans, which Sanji is more than happy to agree to.

(My favourite part of the AU so far is that Sanji has to wear iron boots from the castle armoury until they get him fitted with something better to fight ghosts with, so he's like clunkily walking around for a good 2 weeks.)

This is lore I came up with for an original story which I'm self-plagiarizing, but the way to gain "powers" is to have a near-death experience. Judge has been experimenting with this, and has essentially killed and brought his children back to life over and over to the point that 124ji lost their humanity and heavily traumatizing Sanji. Fun stuff!

This AU got way out of hand and there's like several other pirate crews involved so if I do get around to it it'll be a BIG project and have other characters and lots of logistics. We shall see if I have the stamina for it one day 🥲