#wano spoilers maybe

[misqnon]

"with him?" for the wip game def not just bc i want a future chapter teaser 🤭 👀

grins evilly...this is from a future Future chapter (chapter 8) but ive been itching to show it to someone

“It wasn’t the same. Usopp chose to leave. I had no other choice. You have no idea how much I wanted to go home to the Sunny.” He says, and Zoro’s surprised to hear the cook’s voice break. Sanji’s not an unemotional hardass- he’s seen the man blubber plenty, but never to him. 

Zoro stands his ground, though gears are turning in his head. “You still didn’t put your trust in Luffy, cook.” The nickname almost sounds soft, for once. “You know how he is. He could have turned it around somehow, even without you agreeing to the wedding.”

“I tried not to agree at first.” Sanji says, raising glassy eyes to glare at him. “It wasn’t just the crew they were holding over my head, jackass. They were going to kill Zeff. They were going to take down the Baratie. They said they’d- Fuck, why am I even telling you all this? It’s not like you’re going to change your stubborn-ass mind.”

“I don’t see why we had to talk about it in the first place. It’s all in the past, what happened happened. What about now?”

“What about now?” Sanji asks, balling his fists. “Now, because of all that bullshit, I’m losing my mind! Do you even know why I asked you to kill me, Zoro!?”

“No. And I don’t need to know.”

“Well too fucking bad. It’s because I thought I’d kicked a woman. I thought I’d split her head open, and when I came to my senses she was looking at me, terrified- and bleeding, and-” He pinches the bridge of his nose, fumbling for that cigarette in his pocket from earlier. “And-my body- it’s-”

He pulls out his lighter again, and it flick, flick, flickers- until he spikes it into the ground and lights his foot aflame to light the damn thing instead. The gold mermaid figure makes a loud shink against the road, bouncing up and skidding a few feet away.

“I need to still be able to trust you to do that. I still need you to kill me if you have to.” Sanji says, urgently. 

Zoro fixes his gaze to him. “I don’t back down from my word.”

“Even if you, what, fall in love with me?”

“Yes. Even then.”

“Bullshit! I asked you because I knew you were the one person on the crew I could trust to not only pull it off, but do it without doubting yourself. This throws a wrench in all of that!”

“It doesn’t.” Zoro insists, nearly a growl. “If you lose your mind, I’ll kill you. I swore. But you’re delusional if you think I’m gonna let you lose your mind that easily.”

Zoro’s convictions and his contradictions make Sanji dizzy. The anger spinning in his chest- fuck, what did it even start out as?- it’s gripping him and the smoke in his lungs isn’t doing anything to calm it. 

“You can’t just wait until the worst of it, Zoro. I need you to nip it in the bud.”

Zoro, who’s been fairly steely calm in comparison, finally balls his fist into Sanji’s shirt, yanking him forward with a growl. “Why are you so desperate to die, huh!? You have no drive to live for yourself, only to make yourself useful to others. It’s humiliating. Don’t you have any pride!?”

“Don’t you think you have too much!?” Sanji screams, gripping Zoro’s suit back just as hard. “I don’t understand your bullshit confidence or your fucking- hypocritical hero complex, sacrificing yourself for the crew almost every battle and then coming at me for trying to do the same!”

“It’s not the same-!” Zoro snarls, and Sanji cuts him off before he can explain.

“It isn’t, mosshead!? Then how come almost every single battle leaves you half-dead, more injured than any of us- even Luffy!? How come every loss has you training yourself to death in the crow’s nest like it’s all your fault it happened!?”

That seems to hit a nerve. “I’m tired of trying to explain myself to you- Clearly all you wanna do is wallow in your own self pity.” Zoro hisses.

Sanji sees red. “You just don’t wanna admit your self-esteem issues are just as glaring as mine, you ‘honorable’ prick.”

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happy halloween from the straw hats and ???

[fluffyartbl0g]

Listen… ik luffys fruit is a zoan of the SUN god, but I always prefer my gear 5 luffys lookin a bit more on the cloudy side then the firey side! He just looks so cool like that????

[beaulesbian]

I was once again thinking about this goofy Luffy moment after his Lucci punch™ and i had to see it frame by frame.

first the force of it throws them both away, and while Lucci is seen on screen tumbling for a long moment, Luffy is just away in a blink of an eye.

and then his funny scene - his legs are like jelly that he tries to get under control,

he stumbles, falls, rolls into a mix of all his limbs and eyes,

and then only the cloud behind him cushions his fall

- which would be interesting if he can subconsciously control that while he tries to regain the control over his movements - that the environment around him still adapts to his awakened Devil Fruit abilities and morphs to help him. Where others would probably fall through that cloud, for Luffy that cloud backs him up like a trampoline.

It's just fascinating!

[sirlanval]

💥

[cosmicrhetoric]

i loooooved hiyori's part in the last act of wano like i loved the slow killing of orochi and the way she like. monologued. death chanted him away like the slow approach of the bloodline he thought he eradicated in the form of a woman he had abused and the fearrrrrrrr he held for her in his last moments was so. mwah love it. love the drama of the mask she used as oiran LOVED that enma heard her play the shamisen and responded to it during zoro's fight cause it was HER SWORD it was in her care for two decades. literally awesome. that being said it was funny that zoro felt enma act up and was like "dude stop it. stop. like stop it" and then literally never followed up on why he could suddenly hear music that was playing from several hundred feet away

[cuntyglam]

zoro saying “i’m gonna need you to calm your ass down a bit” like a tired mother to a SWORD. enma is a sword bro, it doesn’t have an ass.

[lulu-the-bugaboo]

I haven't reached the chapters with the Roger Pirates' backstory + Buggy talking about his relationship with Shanks yet, but I've gotten little spoilers here and there and I have some thoughts. This could be very obvious but I just connected the two dots lol.

It seems to be implied that Roger favored Shanks at least slightly more than Buggy and it didn't go unnoticed by him. Like, the fact that Shanks was the one holding the hat already says a lot. It seems like Roger had a lot of expectations for Shanks and his future. And this is also why Buggy was so disappointed in Shanks even temporarily abandoning his main ambitions and why he chose to not continue piracy alongside him. Anyway, that's not the main thing that I want to talk about.

There is this panel of someone asking Roger who he thinks is going to find the one piece to which he answers something like: my son, of course! And the other person mentions that he has no son.

I personally took this at face value and thought this was referring to Ace, and Roger's plan to have a son before dying who would follow his legacy and find his treasure and would also be someone who would be carrying the will of D. But maybe the whole thing with Rouge was a coincidence that happened after Roger disbanded his crew and left. Roger seemed to have loved babies, so maybe he just fell in love with Rouge and chose to have a child with for the sake of his own happiness before he died.

And here is something I noticed and it could be nothing or even a translation thing. But the few times that Roger mentions Ace he never refers to him as his son, but his child. He even chose two names and didn't seem to be favoring one outcome.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is, what if this was never referring to Ace and was always about Shanks. Roger basically raised him and Buggy as his sons since they were babies...

If Buggy ends up being the first one who reaches the one piece, this will also end up being ironic.

Am I reaching or was I an idiot for thinking the other way around before asdfghj

[syrupfog]

Eyebrow prediction

[frankencanon]

I think the only way to truly complete Buggy's character arc is to have him become the Pirate King by accident.

It's the Apprentice -> Captain -> Warlord -> Emperor -> Pirate King pipeline...

I need him to keep winning and I need it to be completely unintentional.

[pippin-pippout]

They had to replace two emperors, sure. And obviously Luffy gets Kaido's spot. He was already thought of as the 5th emperor.

BUT I WANNA KNOW WHY THE FUCK BUGGY GOT BIG MOM'S SPOT!?

ok ok I know from spoilers he's the figurehead of crossguild and that all the drama after getting rid of the 7 warlords system happened. But WOW. Were they just like "crocodile and mihawk 'work' for him so he gets it?" Or were they not able to choose between Kid and Law.

LMAO. Also how much of this is just Morgans decision since the 5 elders were clearly not happy with what is being printed.

Shanks remains the only emperor of the "old guard" (given he is now the longest reigning out of the current emperors, though he's close in age to blackbeard and buggy).

[hoodiemanic]

For a guy whose power depends on luck (and magic cards), picking a fight with the luckiest guy out there may not have been the best plan

Bonus

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/more/ toxic doomed retainer yaoi, from @rhaegar-targayryen’s fic, count your lashes (and you beg for more) (mind the tags and rating~)

[natade-art]

I can be a demon if I have to.

in honor of demonio fleur being animated i made some edits to an old sketch hehe

ID: a messy drawing of Demonio Fleur Robin with a fang-y smile kneeling behind normal-Robin in her Onigashima Raid outfit, hands poised like she’s either to cover and protect her smaller self, or like she’s going to close them and grab her. Robin as pictured in her childhood stands hiding behind adult Robin, peering out cautiously. Adult Robin is solemn but confident, arms crossed over her chest in her usual stance, hair and haori blowing dramatically in a breeze. end ID

[beaulesbian]

(more wano spoilers, ch. 1003)

was this the first time zoro saw the outcome of luffy's gear 4?

because as i remember, the first time luffy used it to this extent was in dressrosa against doflamingo, and only law and the pirates helping luffy to wait until he got the second wave of his strength back saw it. but at that time zoro was in another part of the city.

he probably isn't sure how this gear works, only sees that luffy run out of steam, and thanks to law that he needs about 10mins to get back up. so the only thing zoro can do is immediately move to protect luffy and get him away from the next big attacks

luffy even thanks him ;-;

then kaido wants to chomp down luffy

and zoro gets angry, 'don't you dare go eating our captain!!' and thanks to enma he actually manages to slash through kaido's scales, something that was impossible before

(so proud of him. and this was all after he's been a few moments ago struck by big mom's lightning.- it shows how much he did get stronger since skypiea, where he took some bad lightning damage too but he couldn't fight after that.)

and then still goes to cover and protect luffy ;-;

[hauntingblue]

Every time I think about who the 10th strawhat is going to be I end up in an endless cycle bc vivi could be it but cobra is dead and if we know anything about her is that she is dutiful and would no doubt stay in arabasta and reign (she literally has made that decision before) but then we get to yamato and it's the same thing because yes he wants to explore the seas like oden but his fruit is literally the animal protector of wano and odens biggest mistake was leaving wano.... so what now....