#vinswap au

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I love making shitposts once in a blue moon

bonus ver because it is also like this

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Reiju and cooking duty

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Reiju’s relationship with her brothers (Vinswap)

*Forgot to say this for Niji but their relationship Does strain whenever the subject of Sanji comes up. His attitude towards Sanji despite his well-intentions genuinely concerns her, and no matter what argument she tries she can’t get him to listen to her.

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I said I'd do these "at some point" but I guess that meant within the week. Here's the other siblings, for the same AU. Bonus stupid shitpost under the cut

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I was originally gonna have this be the bonus doodle on her ref fr but it looked SO UNSERIOUS i couldn't do it

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Two refs I made for an AU I kind of have sitting in my brain . It's essentially a swap AU between the siblings but I like to call it the one where they argue about euthanizing Sanji

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My dear friend Niko asked me to draw some of the siblings smiling so I said fuck it and doodled all of them happy. Sanji is happy here too, I promise

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Time to yap since I've been posting abt this without fully elaborating. Little profiles for the siblings here and here

tl;dr I just wanted to do a little swap au where the modded siblings r the normal ones now, but I still wanted to keep the fact they're generally not very good siblings to Sanji (with the exception of Reiju) instead of swapping that dynamic as well.

Reiju's mods never really worked on her, even though they were attempted after birth. The boys all got spared by their mother in the womb at the cost of her dying much earlier than she did in canon, except for Sanji, who came out "right". Quickly it was pretty clear he fulfilled the role of a weapon with flying colors, but his emotional mods left him with very little personality and expressiveness, so he wouldn't be any good for actually running Germa when it came down to that.

So, suddenly the failures are deemed necessary. Judge can't get rid of them, even in a way that helps him save face.

It doesn't stop him from reminding them that they're failures that couldn't hope to live up to his expectations, and it also doesn't stop him from trying to "fix" them, even though it hasn't worked. Even though they're royalty, there's an air about them because of how their father talks about them. None of the staff are ever gonna dare treat them poorly but you can tell there's a neon sign over their heads calling them all disappointments. They end up split up as well so there's less solidarity or space to find comfort in each other between them. Niji ends up as a scientist, Yonji as a soldier, Ichiji as the crown prince with all the education and responsibility that entails, and Reiju is sort of in limbo, though she acts as an advisor. It is a bit miserable, though even with all this they do still try to find time together.

Sanji at some point gets told to not let any of his siblings come to harm, and it quickly becomes an order he prioritizes much more than Judge could've predicted he would. He is their protector above all else, and they are important.

At some point whilst Judge is trying to modify his siblings again later in life (likely whilst Yonji was getting his arm replaced, I have smth specific in mind but I'm not sure about it so that'll be sorted later!) Sanji comes to perceive Germa as physically harming his siblings, one of the things he isn't supposed to let happen. So he gathers them all together during a quiet time, splits off some of their snail ships, and leaves with them. Effectively, they've all run away.

That's the setup.

They gain a reputation over time on the Grand Line as the ship with the vicious guard dog. They don't fly a jolly roger, but they get into enough scuffles and subsist off of stealing from other pirates enough that they get treated similarly to pirates regardless, even though they're not usually the aggressors. Sanji is just thorough like that.

Months after all of that happens and they're settled down after the initial chaos of finally getting out of Germa (though still on the run and sailing, they're definitely still being looked for), Niji ends up suggesting that they euthanize Sanji. It comes from a place of care, he thinks it's unfair and inhumane that he has to live with no feelings and only really having orders to follow as motivation for things, and this starts a chain of infighting and arguing between all of his siblings.

Yonji agrees, though he doesn't really care for Sanji. He sees him to some degree as a weapon, and one they'd do well to get rid of because he could be used against them when their father rears his ugly head again. Reiju disagrees just on principle, and is kind of mortified that Niji's solution to their brother being different from them is to just end his life. She's retained what her mother tried instilling in her. Ichiji disagrees, but for practical reasons. He also doesn't much care, but he knows they're on the Grand Line, and that Yonji being a good fighter isn't going to get them out of scuffles unscathed the way having Sanji around as their guard dog does. It is kind of hard to argue against that, all things considered, but it's not the sort of argument that's going to keep anything at bay for too long either. It keeps bubbling back up and strains all of their relationships.

Sanji, of course, hears all of this. None of them consult him on the issue or tell him about it directly. He remains loyal to them all anyway. He is still their guard dog.

Things happen from there obviously but I hope to write a fic so that'll be for a later date if I ever get around to it. Hoping I do. I still wanna just put this out here in case I never do get around to it LOL. Feel free to ask questions and such :] I like engaging with people

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Oh also I had this little chart I drew up but almost forgot to post

Transcript under the cut in case my handwriting is illegible :thumbsup:

How the Boys Handle That Awkward Post-Argument Period Where You Wanna Communicate But Can't Talk

Ichiji + Niji - Meowing back and forth and sitting close (frequent arguers)

Ichiji + Yonji - Leaning on each other. If it's really bad, they'll hold hands too. (less frequent but it happens)

Niji + Yonji - Lying on top of each other / humming together (infrequent arguers)

*These overlap a bunch and all of them meow to communicate, it's their thing. Just so happens 1+2 do it the most

Sanji - Person they're often arguing about, whoops! Physically unable to GAF but he'll join in on comforting behaviors when encouraged. Mostly w/ 2+4

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Shitpost

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oh yeah I kind of forgot to include this in her original ref, Reiju’s shorts were supposed to peek out a little under her skirt but I ended up Not doing that. Anyway! Reiju shorts , any excuse to draw my girl again .

Reiju does the “sensory issues” routine just because she hates acknowledging the tattoos even if she’s covering them. They’re loathed things. She knows they’re there, her brothers know, nobody asks, but if they do, it’s a Sensory Issue. Niji does it bc his scars are no biggie according to him but he knows they’d be a biggie if his siblings knew. He’s also kind of bitter Ichiji doesn’t seem to know they’ve all gotten mutilated by Judge in some major way in an attempt to enhance them later in life except for him and he’s kind of just waiting for him to get the hint. He only noticed Yonji because he’s literally missing an arm. So far that’s kind of just Niji waiting for his brother to read his mind or something, with the way things are going. In any case, the sensory issue thing is a half-truth for him.

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