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This is so funny to me

Has anyone else noticed how much faster Ace clicks with characters who have daddy issues? And sometimes without him even knowing. Like with Deuce and Yamato it took less than a day (maybe even Sabo when they first met) for them to become best buddies

And then there are the other characters like Luffy, Jimbei, and Whitebeard who had to go through his murder attempts for a good while before he deemed them safe for a normal relationship

Bro has an instinct for it

Reading One Piece V14 and there’s this moment in which Luffy says to the giants something like: “what a silly way to live, if you always do what a God tells you” while asking to be freed

And if that’s not almost 100 Volumes foreshadowing, I don’t know what it is

zoro’s isolation has always been such a huge point of interest for me, specifically how it inspired his dynamic with luffy and the strawhats.

we don’t know much about zoro’s history as far as strawhat pasts go. however, regardless of if he gets a 200 episode whole cake island arc or we learn nothing at all from this day on, the fact remains that kuina is the person in his life who had the largest impact on him. kuina is his brightest memory and for a long time, felt like maybe the only significant one he had.

zoro, before the strawhats, always felt eerily quiet to me.

luffy, in countless ways, is his saviour. he saved him from his captors, from bullets as he was tied to a cross. they both save each other as much as they breathe. but i think it’s as fundamental as luffy was probably the first person who ever outright looked for and wanted zoro’s company long term, at least in many years.

luffy wanted zoro, luffy saved zoro by giving him something as simple as an anchor, which is himself. he alleviated a decade long aimlessness. ironically, i don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that zoro was lost before the strawhats.

zoro’s protectiveness and devotion have always made such sad sense to me because i would protect the only thing in the world that is truly mine with teeth and claw too. the strawhats are everything to zoro, literally. his constant training to be strong, him laying down his head for luffy’s life, it all makes sense to begin with but it aches even more with the loneliness that encompasses his whole character.

what is zoro’s life without luffy? without the strawhats? it is probably as simple as that to him. he betrayed his lifestyle and became a pirate with the attitude of what the hell, sure, and finally, finally has something to protect, something to lose and not let go. zoro’s isolation is bone-deep, it is years long. i don’t know if anything could shake me from the person who saved me from that, and i would understand if he was the same.

Finished Water 7 and Enies Lobby a while ago and this thought has been haunting me

That one Series of Unfortunate Events quote

[ID: A Mob Psycho 100 comic. Muraki gestures to Sakurai, who's glaring and surrounded by an ominous red-black aura while holding up a sword, and says, "You must understand-- he had a terrible childhood." Mob stares at him, dead-eyed, and replies, "Yes, I understand. I'm having a terrible childhood right now." Reigen is lying twisted behind him in the Family Guy Death pose. End ID]

rewatched pieces of water 7 recently and i honestly adore that nami kept stealing cp9’s handcuff keys. such a “small” detail (relative) in a such a major character development/power-scaling/worldbuilding arc but it means sooo much to me. since then, i’ve been lamenting the fact that nami’s cat burgler habits have been left to the wayside in recent arcs (can’t remember the last time she committed plot-relevant petty theft?) only to realize that i am the fool. i am the blind one

my girl fucking. stole zeus from big mom.

TWICE.

Pesci and who now

he just unknowingly manifests everything at this point

boyfriend is unaware he was also manifested.

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