#the nightmare arc

[tnmndoppels-askblog]

TW: BLOOD, TALKS OF NIGHTMARES

Roul: "Well, that was a great mission! Other than the fact that the rest of our assigned teammates are either dead or badly injured."

Peach only hums in response, too shocked to speak. As they were walking to Peach's dorm, he noticed something. A letter on the door addressed to him.

Peach: "Huh?"

Roul: "Ooooh! You got a letter! Wait a minute...Mail day isn't today!"

Peach gulped as he took the letter of the door. Roul had left. He opened the letter and took out the note. It was from Gert:

Dear Peach,

Don't worry, you're not in trouble. Your roommate, Cyclops, had sent me a letter a week prior to address a concern of his he had with you. He told me that you've been waking up at random hours of the night gasping and that he heard what sounded like you sobbing. He was beginning to get concerned. Head to medical, they'll know what to do.

Sincerely, the spokesman of the doppelgangers and the H.M.D.A, Gertholomew Gertmore

Peach sighed before pocketing the letter. What Cyclops had said was true, ever since his first mission he had been plagued by nightmares for weeks. He headed off to the medical office.

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Mandatory freshink and blight (our corrupted freshink oc)

[namisweatheria]

I feel like we don't discuss Nami's relationship with gender enough. Her entire character is so deeply informed by being a girl in a male-dominated pirate world and it's so interesting and so worth talking about.

The background creepiness of Bad pirate crews, which are most of them, how they tend to not have any female crew members at all, how they beckon any pretty young woman around to come play with them and join them. It's real bad. It's also like, a totally 2 dimensional portrayal of evil that is reserved for the most background of background characters.

However I think their ubiquity says a lot about how piracy is meant to be perceived by the public in One Piece, and is one of the strongest indicators of how prevalent misogyny is in-world.

It's very normal in One Piece for regular island inhabitants to have never met a Different class of pirate in their life. There's no reason for them to withhold judgement that maybe these pirates won't be like every crew that attacked before, and to wait and judge them by their actions. I mean frankly that would be irrationally weak self-preservation.

There are people who live peacefully under the flags of Yonkos who protect them, and feel loyalty and gratitude to them for it, but that seems to only be thing with very big name pirates. The East Blue, being the weakest and least populated, has no such plethora of powerful people and resulting turf wars.

So. Nami. Is very clearly implied to have never met any Different pirates before. I'm thinking about what that means. About how every group of pirates she stole from were creepy, dangerous men. How she started going out stealing when she was still a young child. How she didn't have a mother anymore to guide her or comfort her. How Arlong would grab her chin inappropriately, talk about her as a "human female", as property, and god knows what else.

How all the men in Arlong's crew treated her patronizingly, pretending they're all friends, teasing her and playing at respect when really not a single one of them ever stuck up for her or hesitated to accuse her of betrayal. Who were always ready to kill her if she refused to cooperate. Who grabbed her and intimidated her when they felt like it.

That's what she had to come back to after a close call with stealing from other predatory men, instead of the relief of home there was a dark, cramped room filled with endless hours of misery and isolation and blood. Where any one of her captors could barge in and demand new maps, work faster, where did you go, you took too long again this time. Endless threats and incursions.

I'm thinking about that her fight scene in Alabasta, where she tumbles and rips off her cape and uses it to catch her enemy's spikes, before leaping to her feet and running out the back door, all in one moment. How it makes her enemy reconsider her and think, "so the girl's not a total novice at fighting after all." What that implies about her experiences as a young thief. The times she wasn't fast or clever enough and had to fight and claw her way out. Why she always carried a staff and a knife. Why she was the only one before Chopper who had any medical knowledge or experience.

You know she was stitching herself up. And the weapons, how do you think she learned to use those? If any of the Arlong Pirates helped her it wasn't out of kindness and it wasn't gentle.

Then I think about Nojiko, and Bellemere's memory, and the only softness in a hard life. How easily Nami connects to every young woman experiencing hardship that she meets. How completely she dismisses the struggles of men unless they mean something to her and are going through something terrible. The way that Nami only has sympathy for women and children is easily noticeable in-text, but it's also something confirmed in those words by the author. And it's clearly because of the life she lived, the men who had all the power and only abused it, who saw her as nothing but a girl to take advantage of, without anyone aside from her sister clearly knowing and caring about any of it.

Nami clearly isn't bitter, she doesn't think the world owes her recompense, on the contrary she knows she is far from the only person in the world to suffer the things she has suffered. She is endlessly reaching out and kind, but only to those that she isn't sure would get help without her. Certainly, before Luffy, Usopp, and Zoro, no man ever reached out a hand to her without an ulterior motive.

I think when she sees a girl in trouble, a girl biting her lip to hold in a scream of grief, a girl running in the woods away from a monster, a girl captured by pirates, she sees someone who no one is coming for. Who no one will stick up for. A person without allies in a world against her. Whether it's actually true in this case or not, she runs straight for that girl anyways every single time.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH MY DAYS i cant believe i never posted this one here (originally posted to twitter, JAN20 2023) (hes stabbing his little bathtub bed. is that obvious? i hope its obvious) OLD ART at this point but i still like the way i did expression and movement. also WEEE THE NIGHTMARE ARC WAS SO FUNNNN WASNT IT FUNNN?? WEEEE!!

[nebulanightsky]

Here's part two of this

[mysteriousmissme]

TBHKERS HOW ARE WE FEELING TODAYYYYYY

[pixelatedraindrops]

Thats how it went right? XD

Yuma Kokohead's origin story.

Based on this meme. I had to do it. It was too accurate for them… Makoto is the perfect malewife haha. I love naegiri so much (even if my DR phase has been over, and now I'm fixated on its successor lol)

Bonus

A lil’ bundle of joy, hope, luck, & future sleuthing~ 💜

(and maybe some poor choices lol)

[sole-production-ut]

And final third brother! Oh yeah! It's him! Chaoticverse Shattered Dream!☀️🌙

Some of you may have already guessed that this handsome man would reappear in my story. He was in the RESISTANCE project for a reason.

Like all Dreamtale characters, he too has undergone a redesign. I wanted to keep the old canon in him, but also bring something close in spirit to the Shattered Fates version🤔. He was a temporary branch like Dream, but unlike the former, which became a fusion of the two, this one wanted peace with his brother and was willing to ‘share his pain’ with him. Unfortunately, this only led to the birth of true horror. Imagine a fusion of the worst traits of Dream and Nightmare. You get him.

He has no honour, no moral codes and no truth😈. He is a selfish manipulator whose goal is to make Nightmare suffer, suffer for a lifetime. The corruption of the golden apple has caused him to now be able to perceive both emotional spectrums and manipulate the feelings of others. Of course he is weaker than Nightmare (remember that Nightmare's soul is 999 black apples, while Shattered Dream's is 1 gold and 1 black🧐), but he has the advantages of both: creation of any weapon, physical invulnerability, and the attacks of Nightmare and Dream separately are practically harmless to him. Funny thing is, the key event for this Dream's appearance was the death of a close friend. However, if one Dream accepted this loss and stayed on track, Shattered Dream exactly lost himself.

In addition to the reference, I reveal that it is the Three Brothers arc that is the story arc of Dream, Nightmare, and Shattered Dream.

That's all! You'll be seeing something even crazier soon! I promise!😉

🍎Dreamtale - @jokublog ☀️🌙Shattered Dream - @galacii-gallery 🦄Redesign by lermonchek 🖌️Reference by @horizonnatsu

[abovesn4kes]

me and @st-santana have been talking about an undead nightmare 2 au and now yall get to see

(ill post more of this soon but the synopsis is that reverend swanson gets bitten first, and in turn bites micah. dutch is in denial that micah's actually a zombie and decides to keep him tied to a tree at camp till they can find a "cure." it doesnt work out.) (( THERES MORE STORY THAN THAT BUT. ill post more about that later hehe haha.))

[blessyouhawkeye]

i truly fucking cannot get over the image of brennan lee mulligan using the dozens of small screens surrounding him and his friends while they play dnd to play the video of him five years ago saying something integral to the campaign that they all completely missed. just the shit eating grin on his face surrounded by his own handiwork.

[tnmndoppels-askblog]

you good, hoon?

TW: Implied mental health issues, talks of presumed death, talks of vomiting

Hoon Man: "Y-yeah, of course I am! I've only thrown up once so far from stress, my friends are gone, my boss is scorning me for being so emotional, the others believe my friends might be dead, Cyclops may or may not have a broken nose because of me, it feels like my entire life is crashing down on me whilst I still suffocate on the debris of the past, this is the fifth friend group I had that this has happened to, I'm losing sight of who I am or why I'm alive, I'm about to FUCKING LOSE IT! So, in short:"

"I ' M F I N E "

[inkubators-arc-mov]

halloween

[o-wild-west-wind]

you know, I’m just gonna come out and say it. reason 182639302 why I’m sad ofmd was canceled: I would’ve liked to see a post-Izzy world.

you can stab me in the face now.

[yukisetsura]

Long time no Hunter Jaune

[nebulanightsky]

Another art request for @parniathedevil

Moira looks so preettyyy

[kirchefuchs]

@heir-of-the-chair your tags on my Tinky and Stopwatch post were too funny not to draw, so this exists now :)

You got my idea perfectly so I had to do it, lol