I Had Thought About If Luffy Had Recruited The Strawhats In A Different Order And They Got To See Different

I’ve been rewatching One Piece with a friend (their first time, my second) And we just finished up Fish Man Island and were watching episode 570 and I saw something so sweet that I hadn’t seen before. It was the scene where Jinbei is trying to tell Luffy about the world and how it’s changed and at first everyone is like this:

Note where everyone is! But then, when things get more serious and the mention of Akainu comes up, saying he’s the new fleet admiral and then Luffy touches his scar and grimaces, remembering bad things and the next time we get a far shot it’s this:

And then for the rest of the conversation, Sanji sat down beside Luffy, kinda like a silent support when they get to Blackbeard.

And I thought wow that’s so cool and small detail and I decided to check the manga and sure enough:

Sanji just auto sits down beside Luffy, and pretty close too. It doesn’t take observation haki to know hearing about that kind of stuff for Luffy was hard, especially since it’s one of the only times you really see Luffy in distress about his scar and Marineford. And just, Sanji picking up on that and making sure he’s close to to his captain, to be like ‘hey we’re here with you and for you, you’re not alone’. Kindness, probably mixed with guilt for not being there, just more for Sanij’s character. He’s being there for Luffy now and I can’t get over this subtle little thing.

Rewatching ponyo (its one of my top 5 comfort ghibli movies mind you) and im so serious (delusional) about my ponyo & sosuke x luffy & zoro agenda

noticed this watching the first few episodes of Wano..

the only reasonable explanation?

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I love, love, LOVE your speedrun comic, expecially the parts with Ace losing his mind and ASL reuniting. I am VERY curious as to how, exactly, this gremlin crew of half-feral children managed to negotiate an alliance with Whitebeard. My bet is Luffy just went “rearranges reality until it’s more to his liking and everybody is left wobbling dazedly”. Also, the Whitebeard Pirates thinking “this explains SO MUCH about Ace”.

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hahah you got the “everybody is left wobbling dazedly” part right XD. here’s my answer to ur curious musings!!!

An alliance implies equal footing, and to have equal footing with the greatest pirate alive is not something to scoff at. So good job Whitebeard for scoring an ETERNAL friendship with the pirate king 👍!!!!

Time travel/Speedrun AU masterlist

"I see the praised rays

You see me smile

We know the joy beyond above

Has been here awhile"

Idk that looks about right.

THIS IS MY PEAK

A pirate holding a devil fruit walk into a bar....

One Piece ep. 1076 || "I know exactly who Joyboy is. The one who will defeat me!"

oda how you dare to break my heart like this (yeah i rewatched marineford just to suffer