Rewatching Impel Down Got Me Feeling TRANSGENDER And Sad. But More Importantly TRANSGENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Y'ALL I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M BAWLING OVER SOMEONE LEAVING AN UNDERWEAR ON STAGE TO PASS THE UNDERWEAR TO ANOTHER PERSON

Lotta stuff in canon and fanon about Zoro being wild and brutish and violent and it's not untrue depending on the circumstances but I feel like he doesn't get enough credit for how often he's actually gentle, calm, and even altruistic. He's not just sort of working toward his goal without causing too much harm to innocent parties; he goes out of his way to do good even to his own detriment, and that's how we're introduced to him in the first place. Luffy doesn't pick people for his crew that aren't kind, and Zoro is a prime example of that even if he's not flashy or conventionally polite about it.

I gotta say I'm obsessed with what Luffy does to the typical "sunshine" character trope, in that he's an exception to the usual portrayal but perhaps the most true to it of anyone. He's not "sunshine" as in pure niceness and sweetness and innocence. He's sunshine as in The Sun.

He's joy and light and warmth, illuminating all the beauty of the world, but he's also powerful enough to kill and blind and burn. He's an everyday annoyance. He's the strongest force of nature that exists. His happiness shines bright for miles. So does his rage. You could look at him wrong and be screwed up for life. You never want to live without him.

I can't get over this.

confession!

I must admit that I love it when Luffy gets angry, he looks so hot!!! I honestly love it when the writer puts that in the story.

Can we talk about how normal and incredibly human Luffy was in this scene?

His earth shattering grief didnt awaken any supernatural haki or abilities within him, instead it overwhelmed him, it was destroying him. The bleeding from his throat while his eyes lose focus and his body goes into shock - grief is ugly, loud, destructive and it tears you apart and leaves you vulnerable out in the open- thats what happening to him.

This was Luffy's, a 17 year old kid's moment of overwhelming realization that humans are powerless and weak on the face of death as his brother bled out in his arms while he (and world's most powerful pirate whitebeard) watched it helplessly. This was the biggest loss of his life as he understood that sometimes no matter how hard you try, things don't work out for you. This was when Luffy witnessed the consequence of the path he (and ace) had chosen, that a pirate life was actually much harder than just adventure and freedom and that there was a heavy price to pay, that death could take anyone anytime.

This wasnt just sadness, this was the end of the world for Luffy and he wasn't the same person after this moment.

usopp praying for zoro after luffy grabs him 🤣

y'all even their silhouettes are in character omg

i miss “say, have you ever heard of the all blue?” sanji 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Crying rnnnnnnnnnnn 😭🙏

Say Hello to Candy Boy 🍭🍬

I am by no means an artist, but I occasionally like to draw here and there. All things considered, I think I outdid myself, this time. Here’s a picture of Fem Iva I drew up in the last hour!

Inspo: Frankie Fictitious 🌹

Ref pics:

I’m still no good with faces, but I’m getting way better with bodies, I think!

@bubblyluffy here you are! Your comment definitely inspired me to finally get on this project, when it was previously wasting away in the back of my brain for months, lmao.