#the heart pirates are alive

[trafalgarlawsfeathercoat]

Survivor’s Guilt

based on some MESSED UP (i loved it) art i saw on here (like this and THIS that made me cry)

WC: 895

CW: death, suicidal thoughts, religious imagery (i HC law as a former catholic because of the nuns on Flevance idk)

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Trafalgar D. Water Law learned very early on that everything and everyone he loved would eventually be ripped away from him, washed away like footprints in the sand by high tide.

He was born to live this checkered life, cursed by the middle initial forced upon him at birth. He had no choice, no say in the matter. They say the Clan of D were meant to bring the Dawn, to usher in a new age, but all Law wanted to bring about was some peace and quiet. Just for a single moment.

But that was apparently too much to ask for.

Law craved nothing more than the everlasting promise of death as he tripped over the still bodies of his friends and family, corpses piling up with every step he took, but he was urged on by a will not of his own. He had to keep going. He must keep going.

He trudged along reluctantly, day after day. Life wasn’t so cruel as to only deal him bad hands- no, they had the audacity to give him hope every once in a while. A light at the end of the tunnel before that tunnel caved in too.

Being saved by Cora-san, meeting Shachi, Penguin and Bepo on Swallow Island, forming the Heart Pirates, his tentative friendshi- alliance with Straw Hat and his crew. All these moments deluded him into believing that maybe, just maybe, he could dare to dream of a better life. A happy life, even.

Law didn’t have any lofty ambitions such as becoming King of the Pirates like his Worst Generation rivals, contrary to what others believed about him. What could a place called ‘Laughtale’ offer a man like him anyways? Up until recently, he lived for the singular purpose of fulfilling his savior’s wishes, but he couldn’t even do that right. For as many messes as he had to clean up for others, Law could argue he left behind more.

Left behind. The one thing he could count on being.

The hands that touched him all faded into a distant memory, specters that haunted him whenever he closed his eyes at night. They called out to him like a siren’s song, caressing his face as they asked why he wasn’t strong enough to save them. It was no wonder Law gave up on sleeping a long time ago.

He closed his eyes now, begging to the higher powers he no longer believed in to please, please, finally grant him this one mercy. Salty sea water flooded his lungs as his body lost all its’ capabilities, any energy he had left after facing Blackbeard sucked dry as he was dragged deeper below the surface. This was all his fault. Law should have known better than to have hope for the future, to have deluded himself into thinking things were finally going according to plan.

Damn that man in the Straw Hat for giving him something to believe in back in Wano. He should have known better. There was no God; that’s why the nuns of White Town were all dead.

In the depths of the murky water, faces began to appear behind his eyelids. The other school children, begging him to come with them to safety. His parents, love shining in their eyes as they reached out their hands. Lami, looking up at him with so much trust and adoration. Cora-san and his stupid, crooked smile.

‘Wait for me, I’m coming.’ Law thought as his body sunk lower and lower beneath the waves. He could finally go home, after all this time.

As the abyss called out to him, so did another voice.

“Captain! Captain, please! You can’t die!” It wailed.

Law was suddenly pulled back above the water, dragged by the collar of his shirt to safety. He wrenched his eyes shut even harder, refusing to open them and accept reality. He had been ready to rescind the borrowed time he’d been living on since Flevance if it meant never having to deal with the loss of his loved ones again. He coughed once, twice, expelling the foreign liquid from his body as a large paw pounded on his back repeatedly.

“Bepo.” Law groaned out miserably, recognizing the Mink’s cries anywhere.

“Bepo, we have to go back.” He pleaded pathetically, his desperation apparent. Law didn't have to open his eyes to know that they were the only ones here, wherever ‘here’ was. There was no use pretending to be strong anymore, for he no longer had a crew to be strong for.

“I’m not going back! Trust them, Captain!” The Polar Bear Mink refused Law’s orders outright.

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust his crew, it was that he didn’t trust the world. History was repeating itself as it always did.

Law threw himself backwards onto the sandy beach they’d washed up on, shrugging off Bepo’s attempts at comfort with more force than necessary. It was only a matter of time before he was dead too.

He should’ve known better than to let anyone in, to think for a second he could walk through life anything less than alone. He should have known better than to hope that this time, surely, he could be happy.

Once again, Trafalgar D. Water Law was alive while everyone around him faded into dust. After all, the weak don’t get to choose how they die, do they?

[dykealloy]

supernova idiots supercut

[fairybonesandstardust]

some rando: ugh you suck law

law rolling his eyes: whatever

someone: corazon sucks

law lunging for them trying to claw out their eyeballs as corazon pulls him back by his collar: i will rip your body apart limb by limb

corazon whose currently dangling law in mid air by his collar as if he were a particularly naughty kitten: law be nice

the 26 year old surgeon of death dangles in the air sulking but retreats

everyone staring in shock and horror

corazon smiling: sorry about that

law dangles there unmoving glaring at everyone around them

[bathtub4rats]

god I love Law's crew I'm so glad they show up more yippee

Also doodles

[fish-tetris]

so. considering what happened to ace, how is luffy going to react when he hears that blackbeard smoked the heart pirates and almost killed law right after they parted ways post-wano

[meatloafzzz]

✨Say Cheese!!!✨

[sabo-torao]

his heart pirates... do you want me to kill myself

[introspectivememories]

roger who's nickname for buggy was "junebug" cause they found him in june and his hair is the same color.... buggy who hates it at first until he's climbing into his captain's bed at night bc of a nightmare and his captain says ever so softly, "oh junebug, c'mere"..... the nickname getting adopted by everyone on the crew until nobody calls him buggy anymore..... them meeting up with thr whitebeard pirates and getting irrationally jealous when the whitebeards use the nickname bc that's their nickname and who the fuck do these people think they are getting so close to their junebug.... rouge who has never met buggy calling him junebug in her head.... roger whose last words to buggy that fateful day before loguetown was "you shine like the sun, junebug. never stop"..... buggy who waits for years after the execution for a call from one of his former crew members, hoping every time the den-den one day it'll be rayleigh or seagull or gaban or sunbell on the other side with a familiar "hey junebug", except no one ever calls and the years go by and buggy slowly learns to stop waits, and gives on being the roger's junebug and learns how to be buggy the clown, buggy the genius jester, buggy the immortal, everything and anything other than junebug

[anxrroz]

Law (and bepo) sketches bc summer is finally starting for me so hopefully ill be able to draw more!!

[chialattea]

Ok this is getting ridiculous— onscreen Blackbeard is like, good but he’s never actually won a fight— but THE SECOND the camera pans out SUDDENLY HES WON?? Is Oda hiding his stronger abilities from us? Does he have yet ANOTHER devil fruit??? WHAT IS HIS SECRET??

[potato-imouto]

SULONG BEPO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

LETS ALL THANK CHOPPER FOR GIVING HIM SOME MEDICINE TO USE TO TRIGGER SULONG WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE MOON!!! 😭👏👏👏👏

[trafalgarlawsfeathercoat]

started writing a ‘survivor’s guilt’ one-shot about law and hurt my own feelings in the process

read it here

[slimeb0yy]

i am so so curious how luffy will react to the kid and heart pirates getting destroyed....

he obviously sees law (and his crew) as friends so he will probably be somewhat upset. ....but he does trust them and believes in their strength so im not sure if he will even truly believe that they are dead...they did get beat by blackbeard out of all people tho...

i have no clue how he will react to kid tho...imo he also sees kid and co as friends (they were allys and to luffy ally = friend). but they did get beat by shanks.....and luffy knows that shanks doesnt fight just anyone (unless they are attacking a friend of his...)

[arsenicflame]

my most bitter proposal for a season 2 fix it is that the crew refuses to let ed back on the boat (as they should) so stede throws a tantrum and ultimatums that if ed stays so will he but the crew just take him up on that.

they make their inn in the wreckage of anne + marys house and the crew goes off and continues to have fun hijinks with izzy as the ship parent

[existential-crisis24]

I genuinely love all the fan art coming out of law and his crew especially since we have more named crew members and of course just more love for the heart pirates in general. I love it, it’s all beautiful and I want more.

On the flip side it makes my heart sink everytime I see one because it makes me think of their unknown fates rn. Like legit heartbreak.

[hauntingblue]

I have connected two dots... yamato kaido and momo (and kinda shirahoshi with her top) have clouds above their shoulders... and luffy in gear fourth has them also.... I can see the signs