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racke7 · 4 days ago

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From a fanfic-writing perspective, One Piece is incredibly frustrating on a few counts.

The first is that... One Piece is actually pretty damn good, as far as stories go. So trying to nudge it into something "better" is pretty much a lost cause overall.

The second is that One Piece has this huge and incredible world that's filled with lots and lots of things... that we never see. As in, outside of the very local environment of the Strawhats, the world is incredibly vast and largely empty.

Basically? Because of OP's good story-telling, it's really difficult to really add someone new to the Strawhat-crew. But because everything outside of the Strawhats are both incredibly unknown (in the Grand Line anything can happen) and incredibly disconnected (the world is too big for people to really stumble into the plot "accidentally" with any frequency)?

Trying to write a non-Strawhat fanfic is a bit like just... inventing an entirely new world of vaguely pirate-themed shenanigans from scratch. It ain't fucking easy, is basically what I'm saying.

#this rant is brought to you by -> me poking at WaifuCollector again. trying to create a character who could do something #interesting SOMEWHERE. and coming up with a really fun power-set and character-quirks that could be really fun #only to realize that part of what makes the power-set and character-quirk so much fun is that they're entirely independent #as in - i effectively gave them a submarine that's going to bitch at them constantly. and superpowers to curb-stomp most things #so they'd be two completely deranged lunatics sailing around in the grand-line underwater - randomly popping up out of nowhere #causing chaos and destruction and confusion about what the fuck their deal is. before disappearing over the horizon again #still bitching at each other about things that makes no sense to anyone else. and might maybe possibly be a sex-thing? maybe?#just... this could be so much fun. please. why do i have to stare out into the infinite void that is OP's non-Strawhat world?#please just write this for me so that i can cackle about it. i don't want to have to try and figure out what they're actually doing.#... actually... maybe if i switch the pov once the initial dynamic and background has been established #switch it to the poor bastards trying to make any kind of sense of what they're doing. possibly including filler-episode Strawhats #where they basically spot Luffy. immediately start to bicker about something. then wade off into the sea like they're trying to swim #to the next island instead of sticking around. just... yes. i think i could maybe do something... hmm...#laughing #one piece #writing #stories

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