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With @staff 's recent post saying 1/4 of this site is LGBTQ going around, I'd like to see what the actual demographic is

So!

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“Yamato is just a woman who identifies as a man”

HELLO??? THATS LITERALLY WHAT BEING TRANS MEANS???

(btw here some tweets)

Something that really fucks me up is this scene where Robin says she wants to die and how Luffy makes this face

And upon reading this for the first time, I felt a huge wave of emotion over his expression because it just felt to me like when he heard that, he was seeing something else. Almost like a memory that we weren't being shown.

And then later when Ace and Luffy's backstory plays out, this is revealed;

That Ace was suicidal. Feeling like it was wrong for him to have even been born and to live. Feeling hurt, angry, alone and unwanted.

And that the only reason he felt like he had the strength to keep living was because Luffy told him that he didn't want him to die.

Ace never directly told Luffy that he wanted to kill himself. But with the way he carried himself and the obvious disregard he had for his life, it was easy to see for someone as empathetic and intuitive as Luffy. And so Luffy stayed close to Ace desperately until he felt strong enough to stand on his own.

Luffy has had so many suicidal people in his life since such a young age and he always saves them in such a seemingly effortless way just by saying

"I'll be there with you. I'll stay."

But what alot of people don't understand is that in spite of Luffy's endless empathy, compassion and love that's deeper than the ocean, when somebody he loves wants to die it always hurts him so bad and it shows so much on his face at even a hint of it.

He bounces back with a smile so often and kicks so much ass that it's so easy to forget sometimes that he's just this 17-19 year old kid...

Who, at his core, is still always crying and begging the people he loves not to leave him because he doesn't want to be alone anymore, either.

I genuinely, honestly cannot believe Oda is committing to this. Like, I was afraid. Really, really afraid, to the point where I kind of didn’t want Yamato to join the crew, despite how much I like him, because I was sure Oda would not continue writing him as trans. That he would put him in the girls’ quarters and have him included in girls’ activities, and I didn’t want to see that. I like him too much to resent his characterization for the rest of the series.

But Oda put both Yamato and Kiku in the baths with men and women respectively. None of the other characters treat this as anything noteworthy, except Brook and Sanji. He specifically drew a panel explaining why, that there are no mixed baths and that’s why Yamato can’t join Nami, and I am so grateful. I cannot describe how relieved I am.

I think he’s going to continue like this. I genuinely believe this now. And now I want Yamato to join the crew even more.

Who is Yamato?

Okay so maybe you have heard of One Piece trending, or mentions of "Yamato's Trans!" or "Yamato confirmed on Pride month!" and blah blah, and maybe are confused. Or maybe you have heard nothing. so anyways, who is Yamato?

Bear in mind that, being the series as big as it is, I am going to skip A LOT of background information and will mention spoilers and all that stuff. some of it will be things already covered by the anime, and some stuff from the manga, alright?

Here is Yamato.

He is the son of the main villain of the Wano arc "Kaido King of the Beasts." (and an important ally to the heroes.)

You will notice I said He. that is because Yamato is a man. And that is based on the fact that he was first described as Kaido's son. First introduced himself as "kaido's Son". has specifically dreamed of modelling his life after an important male character called "kozuki Oden" and, whenever characters who know of him talk of him, they use male pronouns.

As a result, as you can (sadly) predict, this has created a lot of inflamatory discussions in the One Piece fandom (to put it in charitable terms). With some people reffering to Yamato as trans, while the other half claims this is the west imposing a reading and that it is either a translation issue (some even claiming the translator is changing it when the original japanese does not reffer to him as male, though from what I heard of the original this claim is dubious at best.) or that he is supposed to "grow" out of "wanting to be Oden".

I am not going to discuss the topic of trans issues in general and wont even attempt to pretend I know anything about queer and/or trans issues in japan (tho I can tell you that any claims that "LGBT+ issues is a western only issue" is bull) and I am not even here to tell you wether Yamato is a good example of a transmale character. I am here to tell you that the main source material (the manga) has so far consistently reffered to Yamato as male, with the only exception being very specific situation. Meanwhile, the biggest evidence against Yamato being Trans so far has come from minor side material that, in the great hierarchy of things, probably had no input from the author Eiichiro Oda.

That is great and good, but then why are people saying "Yamato trans confirmed"? because of this scene in Chapter #1052 (yes, you read the number correctly. And Yamato was only introduced relatively recently)

When offered a bath, Yamato very clearly rejected Nami's offer on the basis that "there are no mixed baths" (IE, "well, as a man I cant bath in the women bathroom but thanks for the offer") while Okiku accepts (Kiku is a whole other post, but she is also trans, tho the discussion there was wether she was a crossdresser or trans and I will leave it at that)

And that is followed by (CW Nudity)

Yamato bathes with the men while Okiku bathes with the women.

Why does this confirm it? Because a lot of the ammunition against Yamato being Trans was "it's a bad translation" or that "Yamato will stop being a man when the arc finishes". And now we have something that MOST DEFINITELY CANNOT POSSIBLY BE A MISTRANSLATION because we have HALF A GODDAMN PAGE with Yamato VERY CLEARLY BATHING WITH THE MEN and VERY CLEARLY FEELING MOST COMFORTABLE IN THE MEN BATH.

Do with this info what you will.

thank you so much for getting back to me, the Noibat is adorable, i love it!! if you want to and have time then by all means, i’d love Noivern too!

also, yeah, my pfp is Yamato (i’m so happy people are finally giving my favourite character love and recognition<3)! i love meeting other One Piece fans in the wild and it sounds like you’re enjoying it so far which is awesome

Alabasta is an awesome arc and if you ever do decide to make OP fanart, i’ll be hyped to see it and i’m sure it’ll be great :))

hey there, i just came across your art and it’s adorable!! if you’re into it and still doing requests, do you think you’d mind drawing Noibat and/or Noivern?? they’re two of my favourite Pokémon and don’t get nearly enough love <33 again love your art, keep it up!

🖤 Noibat 🖤

Howdy! Sorry it took me so long to answer your ask, but I also love the Noibat line! I'm a huge sucker for bats : D I'll draw Noivern too and I could tag ya if you like ^×^

Also your profile pic is Yamato right? I havent gotten to his part in One Piece yet but I'm VERY excited to get to his character!

( I've only just gotten to episode 180 and I'm hoping to do some one piece fanart at some point )

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