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The other day I was dying laughing at the thought of Zoro (first time feeling attraction) talking to Luffy (never felt attraction in his life) about his feelings for Sanji and them coming up with a wildly incorrect assumption about what's happening

So, in my perusing of various tags and my shameless love of Zeff and Sora, I present to you an idea I’ve expressed before, but different this time. 

Imagine you're a well respected Pirate with a love for cooking. Dying on a rock in the middle of the ocean wasn’t on our bingo card for this year, was it how did you expect to die, either? Not really, honestly, starving to death was not how you’d thought you’d go out. Apparently, it should have been. Being alone on a rock if starving doesn’t get you being isolated for so long will. Now apparently that isolation has gotten to you already because you're currently face to face with five little kids. No way the kids are real because well shit okay maybe the kids are real… that woman probably isn’t though. 

Okay, so all of them were in fact very real and just as starving as you, the kid's mom was way worse off than you or them. You were able to help the poor woman out at least a bit with how injured she was, and well, you couldn’t very well let all of them starve to death. All of them were obviously escaping something, given how skiddish the kids are around you. A pirate you may be, but your parents did at least raise a decent man, at least you like to think so. Which is how you lose a leg, not a full leg, granted, just like the knee and below. 

The relief you feel when you're rescued is short-lived when you're left with the kids so the ship's doc can help their mom. Who receives more attention from the ship's doc than you, who lost a leg. The smallest boy clings to you openly, while the rest seem to be trying to use you as a sort of shield, hiding behind you or under the bed you're in, since you know you lost a leg. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out they’re worried you’ll send them back where they came from, which you are not; you're not that heartless. 

When the ship's doctor deems you well enough to question, the kid's mom is out like a light; the poor woman must have pushed herself well past exhaustion and has probably been having the best sleep she’s had in a while. 

“So, how’d you end up on that rock? “

“Bad storm, shipwrecked.” 

“And these kids are all yours?” 

“Yup,” 

These seem to make the kids all let out a sigh of relief, probably have to explain to their mom how, apparently, you're their dad now, luckily, you're both blondes, and so are all the kids, which makes it believable. Seems the kids are committed to the bit types and call you papa a lot to get the point across and sell it when people are around. The five of them seem alright, the girls are the most talkative and Likely the eldest of them, rather protective of the others. Though a lot of them are extremely protective of the one who's stuck to you like glue, also the smallest of the five of them. You called her dragon fruit cause she seems to like pink, and kept not telling you her name, felt like you were talking to some kind of riddle master. 

Once you're finally back on the mainland, and their mom was awake, still not in the best shape, granted, but much better than before you got a more coherent story, and you know the non-riddle answer. Long story of the establishment of your restaurant, short, you basically show up with a family and over a few months. Which you just answered ‘got stranded on a rock’, more than a few times, the men would ask where said rock is because your ‘wife’, full air quotes around that because you're not married and weren’t really in a relationship for the better parts of the kid’s childhood.  Not that anyone listened when you said she’s not technically your wife, saying the kids weren’t yours felt like sacrilege, weirdly. Thus starting the belief that while you are not married, you two had kids out of wedlock, so why are you just acting like you are? The hoops people jump through to make sense of things when given a cryptic answer, so honestly kinda funny. 

Your relationship aside, you two raise the kids in relative peace, relieved because of who your clientele is. You teach them all to fight, of course, some taking to your style more than others. It’s in this that you learned of the face, the kids basically have the abilities of devil fruits, almost, but can swim. That surprise revelation caused quite a bit of turmoil, and the youngest two hiding from you for about a day, the middle one misdirecting you away from them more the a few times, and the oldest two seeming to take your anger. You weren’t angry, so much a surprise, and scared the kid would hurt themselves. If you weren’t sure the kids came from a bed place, this would have been the right lighthouse on the foggy day of that revolution. Anyway, the kids grew up and settled into this life well. The eldest and only girl (Reiju), dragonfruit, is the thinker of your little group, good with people and smart as all get out. Not the menchon a crack negotiator when it comes to people trying to change you extra for some bullshit reason. The eldest of the quadruplets, ginger root (Ichiji), was probably the angriest of them at the time as well as the most protective. He is the best with money of the three of them, leaving a love for reading and finding out new things, definitely the most plan-oriented child. The second oldest boy, pineapple (niji), loved to play blouncer and moonlight as a Mr Fix-It when it comes to anything with an Electric current and some things without, in all honesty. The number of times you had to shell out money for him messing with something, log pose, or navigational equipment when he was little can’t even be counted if you had all for limbs. Then, of course, there is the little eggplant (sanji), mouthy and mischievous, but what one of them isn’t really? Of course, he’s the cook of the three, having a love for it long before you got him. He’s one of those who really had a dream he needs to chase, they all do, but not in the day he does at the very least. If you had a favorite, it would be him; at least he’s the one who's closest to you and seems to think he has a debt to pay you. Never mind the kid would feed a rat if it looked like it was starving; his soft-heartedness made you worry at times. Finally, last but not least, the baby of the family pea pod (yonji) is the jack of all trades of them, the only thing he can’t really manage to do at least mildly well is make a rasatto. His drinks tend to be a bit on the stronger side, but he likes being out front in case of a fight. Also is the one most likely to start something aside from eggplant that is.  You were all comfortable, and while you’d like to tell them to go do what they want, all but one could say they are and have you believe them. 

Thankfully, however, the outlier is picked up by a ragtag group of pirates looking for a cook. With how big the appetite of captain is, you're glad he didn’t ask you. This, of course, is after some green-haired idiot almost dies on your front porch. Said green-haired idiot is later adopted by the man who almost killed him, ie, a regular who just so happened to be the world's greatest swordsman. For a while, he was in denial about that, but you kinda went through something similar when the kids were little, so you can’t really blame him. Anyway, eggplant leaves with them to follow his dreams, which seemed to kick off the others to sort of slowly test out leaving for longer and longer periods to do different things. You and their mom are very proud of them, and mildly worry about their bio-dad finding them, but you trust them to be able to handle it. 

Of course, of all the things you had expected to happen, your little eggplant getting romantically involved with the swordsman who just about bled out on your front porch was not on the list. He didn’t pick the long-nosed one who does lie a lot but seems rather sweet, or one of his captain’s older brothers, the fiery one, or the blonde one who seems a little feral. No, he picked the swordsman with no sense of direction and an adopted father who’s a regular. Thought perhaps the second part is a good thing because at least you can get to the kid that way, should he break your son's heart. 

His brothers were similarly outraged in a way at his choice, having to be stopped from heading out there to deal with the adopted son of a regular. Mostly by Sora as she seems the only voice of reason, with dragon fruit trying to get them to be more of a lay in wait kind of plan of action. It’s over a few bottles and a lot of consoling that you begrudgingly let sleepy dogs lie. Though not without groaning with ginger root whenever the mood strikes you both, or something comes up in the news. Pea pod is more excited about it than he perhaps should be, though it’s more he wants to fight the guy and his adopted father, for fun’zs’. Apparently. Dragonfruit and pineapple are likely making plans and scenarios for each contingency. 

Besides all of that, and giving occasional glares to the father of to man your sons are in love with. Things are peaceful in their own way, at least as far as you're concerned. Until what you’ve been worried about happens, the news coo’s announcement of the wedding of all five of your kids to members of the big mom pirates. Now were you and Cooks all stopped by the adopted father of the man your second youngest son is romantically entangled with not less, not to mention going to help them, not of course, without Sora yelling her head off at the man. Which he takes with no complaints, so that means that perhaps his son won’t be a complete waste of time for your second youngest son. 

You don’t hear much for far to long from any of your kids. Even Sora is getting anxious, and she’s calm in the worst storms, so naturally, the whole of your dive bar is very on edge. The only good news you hear comes from the news coo, that being the defeat of Kido and Big Mom by the Strawhats and a couple of other crews, but it’s the Strawhats you care more about. Now, this doesn’t say much, but it does mean that it is very likely that your kids are safe. The lack of call could just mean that the pineapple did something to the transporter snail again. Which seems to be right as you get a call finally, a few days later, only from the kids, not from the Starwhats shop. Pea pod is the one to give you a play-by-play, ginger root gives the more technical things, and keeps his baby brother on track in his storytelling. It’s amusing in all honesty, though they do voice how the boyfriend wasn’t there to help the second youngest of them, much to the brother's annoyance and distaste. Something to ask him later, when he finally calls, though it could be a whole given how easy he goes MIA for so long. 

It’s another few days before you hear from your second youngest, little eggplant, calling after a surprisingly quiet dinner service. Meaning you were able to patch in this still on the sea siblings for a little family call. The talk is rather nice until you bring up the boyfriend. 

“So how’s the green-haired swordsmen of yours, pea pod said he didn’t come to break up the wedding. Surprised he wasn’t there to object.” You half-joke, mostly to test the waters to see if you needed to kill the kid or not. “Can't imagine he was too happy either that you went to marry someone who isn’t him either.” 

The long pause was your little eggplant gaping like a fish out of water. “What? Why would he care?” 

His response is not silence but quiet, the kind you get before a violent storm. It’s not you but your eldest boy who talks first, ever so careful with his words. “Because you're together.” 

“We’re not together.” Now if any of you were listening to how his spoke you would have Hurd his confused. As well as how is voice picked up pitch to something close to yelling bearly held back because of the dangerous intent linger on the other end of the phone. 

You would like to say that you and your brothers reacted calmly. You would like to, but you didn’t, actually, the word calm wasn’t even in the same blue and any of you after that, bearly a sentence. “I’ll kill'im!”  You yell in unison with Ginger Root, who is your ranting buddy. The way you too okay off eachother is really amazing in honesty and you would feel pride if you weren’t so pissed off. You were about to hang up the call, grab your best knives, and head out there and teach that kid a thing or two about messing with one of your kids. As well as banning that dumbass regular who adopted him form ever coming back for daring to take in such an awful kid who doesn’t know the good he has when he has it. Ginger root is really just helping you plan this out whole voice his out anger, pea pod is shouting “finally! There can be only one! There can be only one! “ in the background, far too happy, but that’s not really a problem you're focus on at the moment. Pineapple was shouting at dragon fruit to turn the ship around, and saying they had a swordsman to kill.  You only stopped by the look Sora is giving you, which is amusement. 

“Hey, quiet all of you!” You shout, feeling your anger start to simmer down like the lid being moved a skew on a boiling pot of water. With the chaos quiled, even your second youngest, who you think was trying to get a word in, but honestly, you weren’t too focused on it in the moment. “What do they look for?” The question was obviously for your kids and prompted them to further listen, given the knowledge that their beloved mom is in the room. 

“Ask them if they’re together.” Is all she says while looking like this is the most hilarious thing in the world to watch.

“Eggplant, you and that waking patch of seaweed are a couple, aren’t you?” You're careful not to break eye contact with Sora, whose goggling like she knows something you don’t. 

“What ! No!” He shouts that mix of angry and frustrated that makes is face turn red when he yells like that. A trait he shares with his mother actually. 

“What do you mean no?” Ginger root should be back likely the same shade of red. 

“What’s going on ?” Dragon fruit says in the background. 

“Sanji and the idiot with the 3 swords were never together, apparently.” Pea pod means to whisper, but in that childish way that makes it easy to hear. 

“You're lying right, Sanji, say sike right now,” Pineapple says, taking over the receiver for a moment as he grouses. 

“Moss-head and I aren’t together now, nor have we ever been! Where are you all getting this idea ?!” 

“You're kidding, right?” Dragon fruit interjects with an almost laugh. 

“Have you two met you two?” Peapod adds 

“If you aren’t dating the guy then why are you two so touchy?”  Pineapple asks, though in a farther off distance than before. 

“Why are you all convinced we’re dating?!? I can’t stand him; we fight all the time!  It’s a brainless, boorish Neanderthal! “ 

“You insult and fight with him like you do your brothers and me, you're always near each other. “You are flabbergasted by this news, now as confused as a squirrel in the middle of the ocean. 

“You also look like you're gonna kiss a lot… like your faces are so close in some pictures.” Ginger root adds a similar tone to you at all this. 

“What does that have to do with anything?” 

“Figures insults were your love language or something.”  You shrug, sighing though your noise at this all while looking at a vary amused sora whose soundly staying silent at the moment and enjoining the chaos of her baby’s. 

“Doesn’t mean he’s included in it!” 

The exasperated sigh that comes from everyone besides him really should have been studied; even Sora pitched the bridge of her nose between two of her fingers as she let out an exasperated sigh. Thus begins the barrage of reasons why you all thought that. You included the adopted father of the swordsmen, as last you knew, he was also soundly convinced of the same. His denials and explanations are good and make sense, for a while at least. Then, of course, they get weaker and weaker until he’s just really saying ‘just cuz’.  You all drop the subject for the time being, as Sora wanted to have a more productive conversation with the kids, you know about all that happened and all the emotional stuff around the sperm donor before calling it a night and letting everyone get back to what they were doing before.

This little conversation kicks off a month of back to back calls at least one a day sometimes multiple with new defense on why he’s not in love with the son of a regular. Not just to you but to everyone, which while you and his mother enjoy hearing form him more often this is getting a little ridiculous at this point and no amount of gental words is stopping this tirade. 

It takes you telling him to get his head out of his ass and if he really didn’t care he wouldn’t feel the need to keep coming up with new defense in a not so nice tone and His mother saying basically the same thing but a lot nicer, after a day we’re some dumbass desided to try to dam near put a hole in your floor to get though to him. Then came the tears and the heartfelt conversation for it all to finally come out. Your little eggplant is head over heels for the guy and thought he didn’t have a chance, let alone know what to do with himself in this situation. Flirting wasn’t working, and with all that happened on the whole cake, it didn’t seem likely that it would ever happen, and he wasn’t sure he could handle the heartbreak. You offer to kill the kid, mostly as a joke, this time to lighten the mood a bit, as you offer some more fatherly advice to him. You can never know if you don’t try, and would he rather live in the abject heartache or actively do something about it, when he says the first one, you say no, no you don’t, which brings more mirth the the situation. Talking is the best way to handle this, and worst comes to worst, you’ll ban the boy's dad from the restaurant and send his siblings after the poor bastard for thinking he shouldn’t jump at the opportunity to pinch above his mediforcal dating weight class. After this conversation, you go back to bearly hearing from your second youngest again, and your other kids hearing the news of your little conversation, after back to plotting how to get rid of unwanted patches of grass. 

As for the regular, you both commiserate on the fact that you were both wrong, apparently, and had similar troubles when a would-be couple. Though apparently his adopted kid was more aggressive when the topic came up. You share a bottle of wine, much to Sora’s amusement as she watches you two bemoan your obviously stubborn children. You’d say you're on friendly terms, but that completely depends on whether his kid messes up or not, so you think it a bit, but never vocalize it. 

You all at least get the courtesy of a heads up before a picture of them is in the news, coo. So, dating now, but apparently when you get the paper world says that they're engaged, which you know they’re not. They got engaged because of the rather cryptic answer one of their crewmates gave as they tried to further escape the marines. Once again, it proves the hoops people jump through to make sense of things when given a cryptic answer is still funny to you.

Sanji: What do I do with it afterwards?

Zeff: You...you play with it. Have you never had a toy before?

Sanji: *shakes head*

Zeff:.....Okay you can get two toys.

Zeff: Eggplant, you see this catalog?

Sanji: Yeah?

Zeff: One thing, whatever it is, if you want it I’ll get it. We’ve had a pretty good year and you haven’t been that much of a menace, I think you deserve a nice gift out of it.

Sanji: Anything? Out of this whole catalog?

Zeff: Yep.

Sanji: But… what do I pick?

Zeff: Well that’s the keyword, squirt. Anything. You want that robot? Sure. The monsters play set? That’s fine. Anything means anything.

Sanji: They’re all toys?

Zeff: Of course they’re all toys. What else would it be?

Sanji: So I choose a toy and you buy it for me?

Zeff: Yep.

Sanji: What do I do with it afterwards?

Zeff: You….. You play with it, of course. Haven’t you ever played with a toy before, eggplant?

Sanji shakes his head: Not these kind I mean. These are colorful and look fun and harmless. Can you teach me how to play with it? You sound like you know a whole lot about toys.

Zeff: You don’t…..?

Zeff: …Ah. Yeah. Yeah, sure, eggplant. I’ll teach’cha.

Zeff to himself: I already figured you had it rough as a kid, eggplant, but what child doesn’t know how to play with toys….

personal headcanon but like. i think opla zeff kicking sanji off the line is a common occurrence. whenever sanji cooks something not on the menu or gets caught flirting on the job or otherwise ticks zeff off, zeff tells him he's off the line and every single time, sanji kicks up the biggest fuss over it and threatens to walk as if he won't be cooking the very next day. every single cook in the baratie is used to this and in fact has a betting pool every morning as to whether sanji will be kicked out to wait tables

Since it's Sanji's birthday today it got me thinking about his first one away from the Baratie. How the men would handle it.

Do you think Zeff & the crew woke up extra early to make a big cake out of habit and didn't realize Sanji wasn't there until they were already done? Do you think they even made him his favorite breakfast foods so they could all eat together? They probably usually didn't close the restaurant, but are only open half a day so they can hang out with Sanji a bit.

Then when the sun comes up and he never comes down they have this very awkward "oh..." moment because the kid who's been with them for years isn't there anymore. They've been forcing him to acknowledge his birthday since he was small and now he's not there to force feed cake. Maybe they decide to stay closed the entire day after all.

They won't waste all that food (Sanji would hate that) so they have a little party for themselves. Eating all that food & cake. Bringing out the good wine. When they're all a couple of bottles in that's when the photo albums come out. Then they're crying. Crying & telling the story behind each picture as if they didn't already know. As if this kid wasn't the closest thing they all had to a son.

They'd complain about how hard it was to get Sanji in a picture where he wasn't scowling or yelling at them to put the camera away. Most of the ones where he's smiling are when he was caught off guard and in the kitchen working. Never looking at the camera.

They have one of him in his very first suit. He didn't let Zeff help with the tie so it's all wonky looking, but he's smiling really big with a blush on his face because everyone kept telling him he "looked like a proper man" that day.

There's a couple of him doing flips and kicks at different ages. You can tell how progressively stronger he gets just by going through them. He has a proud smirk on his face in each one.

Patty was able to sneak one of him & Zeff knocked out together. Sanji's head resting on his dad's shoulder. It was taken only a couple of days before Sanji left with Luffy. Sanji never got the chance to see that one.

They decide to add all newsclippings that mention him and his adventures. The final addition being his bounty posters. They can't stop laughing at how bad his drawing is so they decide to be nice and create a new one for him. They use one of the pictures in the album and glue it over the Duval face. His birthday present that year.

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Crocodad AU where immidiately after having left Dragon and his baby boy Crocodile finds an 11 year old Robin. And while he's 100% only recruiting her so they can make a beeline for the Poneglyph and Pluton in Alabasta by the two of them... Crocodile accidentally sorta kinda adopts Robin.

At this point Robin's been running for her life from the Government for three years so her deep trust issues and fear of betrayal are starting to take root in her little heart. Like perhaps they haven't taken fully over yet, and being still a child I'm sure Robin might've still had that genuine hope that she could find a safe place to stay in. But I'm sure the though of "what'll he'll do with me once he gets what he wants?" would be nagging at her at the back of her mind. Meanwhile Crocodile's struggling between the pain and hurt he's already gone through and given him his trademark trust issues, as well as the aftermath of The Dragodile Divorce. But he also has his Fresh Paternal Instincts and probably misses his baby. So when given a small, scared child who is running for her life, being chased by the very same Government that'll want his son dead if they ever find out about him... Yeah that might fuck with your brain a little

You know this post was supposed to be just that first paragraph and just a few footnotes from the following two paragraphs. And then I kept on Having Thoughts. And I kept on writing them down. And oh no what happened when did this post get so long (Look I was going to either kept on writing my Additional Thoughts in the tags or I just put them in the actual fucking post)

Like considder this: based on this one SBS, we can kinda tell that if Crocodile was given a chance to raise a child, that child would be a spoiled little shit, right

So in this scenario, where Crocodile's looking after lil Robin, would he be kind of torn? Unsure how to feel about her?

Because on one hand, this strange child would have the potential to not only ruin his plans, strip him of his Shichibukai Privileges by outing him and his plans to the World Government, but also put his son in grave danger by extension (if she found out about him having been involved with the Revolutionaries and/or having a child). But on the other hand, his paternal instincts could make him want to spoil this poor little girl rotten. But only because he needs to (perhaps literally) buy her trust so she'll behave. No other reason, he doesn't feel sorry for her one bit, no sirree. (But maybe he did feel sorry for her, since his son could very well end up exactly like her. Poor little thing) (Which is why he needs to nuke Marijoa out of orbit as soon as possible, no matter the cost, and this child can't get in the way of Crocodile protecting his son) (But also this is a child. Like how bad could she be. Besides all he really needs to do to win her trust is be nice and make her feel safe, right?)

Of course, while I'm suggesting Crocodile could have some parental instincts, realistically, he hasn't actually spent any time being, you know, a father to a child (looking after his newborn for an unknown though short amount of time aside), so it's possible he wouldn't even know how to parent Robin even if he wanted to, would he? (Like taking care of a newborn and an 11 year old kid aren't the same either) So if he was kind of just emotionally flipflopping between No Trusting Ever and It's Just A Kid for God's Sake, Crocodile trying to be nice to Robin to make her feel safe and then telling himself to stop being so soft and vunerable... Yeah that would make for an absolute mess of a relationship. (Not to mention, let's be real, dude's a scary motherfucker too, and a bloody giant compared to itty bitty baby Robin. He could keep on accidentally scaring the shit out of Robin (who would be On Fucking Edge To Begin With) by just Being Himself. Like for example, can you fucking imagine if he caught Robin trying to cheer herself up with a little "dereshishishi" only to tell her to stop because "it was stupid"? 'Cause I can imagine him doing that, and boy howdy would that make Robin feel bad)

Or who knows, maybe Crocodile was just Born To Be A Dad, maybe he just Fucking Gets It. Like Crocodile is canonically pretty good at manipulating people to do what he wants them to do (see: how he played Vivi like a fiddle), so knowing Robin's position and understanding how she feels, maybe he COULD completely nail how she needed to be treated. Not being too familiar but still making her feel safe and happy, knowing exactly when to be stern and when to spoil her, etc. Dude just goes off and wins the Dad of the Year Award while being a deadbeat dad himself. The only thing Crocodile would have to worry about then would be making sure HE doesn't get too fond of her. And certainly that could never happen, he's so in-touch with his own feelings and so grounded, he's not a softie, get outta here. Or maybe he does but never realizes until it's too late and good luck backpedalling on those emotions now dumbass

Alright so, the reason I went on that whole rmble is just that like. I'm so interested in the relationship Robin and Crocodile already have in canon. I'm so facinated and curious about how the two feel about each other, considdering they did spend 4 whole years of their lives together as criminal business partners, though neither ever trusted the other. A partnership that was only ended because Robin betrayed Crocodile, out of her own trauma. (God, I want to see these two "reunite" so bad, I want to know how they feel about each other now after the timeskip and Robin joining the idiot in flipflops who foiled Croc's plans)

My question here is just that... if they had met 13 years earlier, would things have been different? Especially if Crocodad Real? Because as I mentioned in the begining, Robin would've been on the run for only 3 years by this point, as opposed to 16 years before running into Crocodile. Simultaneously, this would be before Crocodile went onto spend an entire decade all alone, slowly losing his marbles in his emotional solitude. They'd both be emotionally traumatized, yes, but would it have been as bad in this scenario? Like I did start this post kind of joking about Crocodile adopting Robin, and for clarity's sake I don't think they'd have like a father-daughter relationship nececarily. But it would be a strange relationship still, because we'd have two broken people, both struggling to trust anyone. One who had lost her mother and her only friends, leaving her all alone and afraid while running for her life. The other a father who had just given up his son whom he probably missed dearly. Both having these holes in their hearts from loss of family, holes that could not be filled with replacements. But could they find comfort in each other anyway, because they still as people occupy similar roles to their respective loved ones? If they both could just get over those trust issues?

Okay I've been going off on the Emotional Side Of Things for this AU Concept, THERE'S PLOT TOO

So if Crocodile did pick Robin up like 19 years ago, that should be before he set up base in Alabasta, long before he had built is homebase and financial empire etc.

Now the thing is, while we don't know when, where and how Crocodile learned about the Ancient Weapons, Pluton specifically and how the lead on it would be in Alabasta... Considdering Crocodile did once upon a time aim to become Pirate King, it would make perfect sense if he had learned about Poneglyphs during his past adventures, as he would have needed to get the Road Poneglyphs to find One Piece. And while the World Government did bury the truth about why Ohara had been burned down and why Robin had been given her bounty (remember, the WG claimed it was because she had sunken a fleet of battleships, which she had not, it was because she could read the Poneglyphs), considdering this is a Crocodad AU specifically, you could totally make an argument Crocodile could've learned about what actually happened to Ohara from Dragon and co. So, just to make this AU work, you could just assume Crocodile learned about the concept of the Ancient Weapons from Dragon. And who knows, maybe he overheard the truth about why Robin had been given her bounty from Dragon too (maybe Dragon was able to get intel from Garp in secret) or while going to Marijoa himself to attend a Shichibukai meeting or something IDK.

Maybe he learned about Pluton being in Alabasta before finding Robin by accident, and maybe they made a beeline for Alabasta the second Croc recruited Robin. Travelling takes time and the guy would've most likely had to find an Eternal Pose to Alabasta just to get there (also canonically Robin didn't enter the Grand Line until her 20s so they should've met in West Blue probably, since that's where Ohara was) Or maybe Crocodile had to haul Robin around for a few months while looking for That Missing Piece of Information that would lead him to Alabasta. (Imagine the two travelling from like island to island, library to library, Crocodile trying to find that leads while Robin's just so excited about ALL THESE BOOKS (she's helping too with the research) (but to her, research is playtime, so she's just having the time of her life) (Also, notice how Crocodile's Theoretical Child is a fucking loser ass nerd? Yeah Crocodile would encourage Robin reading and studying, surely. And that would be fucking cute))

But like, once they set sail to Alabasta...

Sure, Crocodile could try to do it The Slow Way that we know he tried in canon, building trust and creating his little empire etc. But also, in canon, Crocodile couldn't have jumped into action head first because without Robin, even if he had found the Poneglyph he couldn't have read it and found the location of Pluton. Crocodile choosing to do it the slow way may have been partially because he didn't have much of a choise and it could've felt like the smarter move long-term.

But in this scenario, he already has Robin. Yes, he could do it the slow, secure way.

But what'd be there stopping him from infiltrating Cobra's palace and kidnapping him (in the night, when nobody suspects a thing), demanding Cobra to spill the beans lest Crocodile kills him and/or his pregnant wife* (*Vivi was born 10 months after Luffy so depending on how long it's been between Crocodad leaving Luffy behind and this scenario... Yeah either the wife is there, still pregnant, or there's a newborn Baby Vivi)

Like it'd be a risky move but depending on how ballsy Croc's feeling and how confident he feels in being able to kidnap the king without being noticed... Yeah he could probably do it. And I'm sure he'd have no problem killing Cobra either, if anything it'd be required if he didn't want the Government to find out he was out to find Pluton, and god knows Cobra would tell on Crocodile if left alive. I could see Crocodad being maybe a little iffy about killing Baby Vivi though (it's not like the newborn baby could report him to the WG anyways), but if nothing else, he just needs to be able to pull off the bluff of his life to convince Cobra to do as he's told. And we all know Crocodile's good at convincing people.

The only question is, how would Robin take that?

Watching Crocodile go into Full Murder Mode, hearing him say he'd kill a pregnant woman/a newborn baby if he didn't get what he wanted? Like yeah, I'm sure 11 year old Robin would be fine with that, that wouldn't make any alarm bells go off in her head at all, it'd be fiiiine. IT WOULD NOT BE FINE, SHE'D BE SCARED SHITLESS. That fear of "what will he do with me when he gets what he wants"? Well, Robin may not have found the answer to that question in particular, but she certainly found the answer to the opposite question, and it's not good

So say Cobra, kidnapped (perhaps with Baby Vivi) by Crocodile in the night, guides the two to the Poneglyph under the tombs. Crocodile puts Cobra out of his misery because he's not needed anymore. And he asks Robin to read the Poneglyph for him.

Robin, who has spent the last little while, be it weeks or months with Crocodile, him having become her "guardian", the thing keeping her safe. Crocodile, who has now shown how cold blooded and cruel he can be. Robin, who might be scared out of her mind. Of him.

And the Poneglyph says Pluton, the thing Crocodile wants, isn't there. It's in Wano.

What's she going to do?

EDIT: I wrote a sequel post, enjoy

That's actually why Oda didn't add Luffy's mom… She'll just kill anyone who touches her son.

Crocomom takes care of his child

Based on this meme

Cross guild bring your kid to work

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When you forget your rival already snuck into your bed

Zoro & Sanji before Zoro got to see Sanji's fighting style

Follow-up:

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

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