Can I Still Be A Hero?

to be honest i don't really like that sometimes representation makes autistic people look like just silly little dudes who all that colourful and happy

like okay sure autistic people have a right to be happy and enjoy things but i wanna see the not-so-happy part of life. yeah, people portray stuff like going nonverbal and sensory overload and all that. but what about those time when you have to shut up mid sentense because you don't wanna sound rude? when you choose to stay silent and exclude yourself from conversations? when you over think what you all the time? when you feel to much and people keep trying to talk to you and you need to shove your feelings down because otherwise you will snap at them? when you have to prepare yourself for hours to simply answer the text from a friend? when something out of your control happens and it changes all your routine and you just sitting there trying not to cry? when your family forget to tell you that you all going to visit relatives and you have 0 time to prepare yourself?

i'm gonna be honest with you: been neurodivergent sucks but lack of opportunity to see people struggling with the same shit sucks more

One Piece Academy Quick Translation index

Chapter 40-44 (Donquixote Brothers subplot)

Chapter 40: Cora san

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 41: The Dark Bingo Tournament

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 42: My Only Little Brother

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 43: Aren't you the Big Brother?

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 44: Brothers

Part 1 | Part 2

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Chapter 47: Lost Dog

Part 1 | Part 2

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Radiant Summit subplot

Chapter 51: The legend of the Radiant Summit

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 52: Disaster on the Mystery Mountain

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 53: The Rainbow Silver Treasure

Part 1 | Part 2

Extra/Omake Translations

(2021) Victory Carnival booklet comics (4 short comics)

Principal Sengoku's Picnic with Law and Rosi

Bartolomeo's New World Middle School Investigation notes

Law spoiling Onigiri | Bepo and Onigiri

Volume 8 extra (Faculties)

Notes

One Piece Academy is an ongoing official One Piece spinoff that releases in Monthly Saikyo Jump. In the magazine, the chapters are roughly 40 pages, but they're divided into two parts and released bimonthly on the official site.

You can find chapters 1-32 translated unofficially in several manga piracy sites [ x or y ]. Raws for 33 onwards can be found here.

Like most spinoffs, the original author isn't involved in its writing. However, it has been confirmed that Oda himself decided the nicknames exchanged between characters (Cora and the SHs) in the donquixote brothers arc.

For latest chapters, check the official site. It removes access to free chapters as new ones add up, so if you like a specific chapter, better keep all pages saved!

Here's the author's Twitter.

At the moment, I'm only translating specific chapters or arcs that feature Law. This post is updated after each new translation.

Reasons why crocodile would find dragon gaining weight to be hot

-Dragon has more energy now, he is still inclined to take a nap in late afternoon but he no longer has that weariness anymore

- He is ideal for winter/winter climates, very warm, great for cuddling perfect for irate reptiles

- You can squish his cheeks (both sets)

- He has an ass now, Crocodile can’t believe he was deprived of such a perfect ass for so many years

- his hair is a thicker and healthier, very soft

- his ass

- Dragon is Crocodiles personal weighted blanket

- He has a muffin top and belly that Crocodile can paw at (it’s very effective for curbing his stress)

- Crocodile can use the new fat around Dragons hips as handholds to *ahem* rail his husband harder than a freight train

- his ass

- Dragon can fuck Crocodile against the wall now

- Dragon usually cooks dinner

Things Crocodile hates about Dragon gaining weight

- Dragon is heavier than him but carries it differently so he looks skinnier (think strong man vs rugby player) crocodile has more of a barrel chest

Dragon's a little over where he was way back in his mid thirties. Before the assassination attempt, to further clarify.

Crocodile had not been around for the attack, nor the steep decline in Dragon's health that came after. Iva tells him it was bad. Kuma probably would have, too, had he been able to.

After the violent course correction that had been that Straw Hat hellion (his Straw Hat hellion, apparently), and a few months in Level Six, Crocodile finally deigned to pay the rebel a visit.

No, he hadn't been putting it off, don't ask stupid questions. No, he was not scared, shut your mouth, Daz!

Hearing about it and seeing it were very different things.

It was... Whatever Iva had told him? It was worse than that.

He looked sickly. Like a stiff breeze could topple him. Like a mild cold could warrant a medical emergency. He was thin... Gods, was he thin...

Worse still, he wasn't... it's like he wasn't even him anymore. The molten hot determination that had first swayed him over only flickered to life here and there, otherwise it was nonexistent. He kept himself wrapped up tight in that ridiculous cloak, like he was hiding in it. The Dragon he knew never hid around friends and colleagues, let alone him...

Because that's the first thing the idiot did, of course.

Ran away in a whirlwind that didn't have half the strength as he remembered it did.

Well, tough luck. Crocodile knew him like the back of his one hand, and knew his haki signature even more intimately than that. He couldn't hide from him, so why even try? Did the idiot not know how much that stung?

Up close and personal, it was somehow even worse.

Age and stress did things to a man, of course, but this was another monster entirely. He looked... dead. His eyes were distant, almost glassy, like he wasn't even there.

"Are you going to say anything, or am I going to have to do the talking?"

See, Crocodile had a bit of an aggression problem. It bled into so much of his personality that really, it was was difficult for some to tell what exactly he was feeling. He never addressed it, nor was he ever like to, because it had its uses.

His concern had teeth, and he needed to sink them in quick before Dragon got away again.

"I can't talk much."

That was... different. No, not the not being able to talk much thing. Words just didn't want to happen sometimes. His voice was different. Low, painfully rough, all broken up and monotonous. Was he sick?

He caught himself reaching out to check for a fever when Dragon shied away. The motion bared his throat just a little more. Crocodile could see the thin edge of a scar disappearing like the tail of a silvery pink snake just beneath orange fabric.

"What the hell happened to you, Ryu?"

A lot. A lot had happened to him.

A lot to find the strength to come to terms with. A lot to find the will to heal from.

Recovering took a damn long time, and you'd think winning this gods forsaken war would have made it easier, but no. It had almost killed the man. Why did the world even need him anymore if the war was won, that sort of existential despair and whatnot...

But Crocodile was a stubborn bastard, and him being a stubborn bastard made Dragon a stubborn bastard, and it made reigniting that zest for life a little bit easier. Slow, yes, but dry cedar, gasoline, and a spark was just destruction for the sake of a big, bright flame. Dragon didn't need that. It's part of what had lead him to this mess to begin with.

Low and slow. A bed of embers chewing on a steady diet of hardwood, given a little stoke here and there. That's what Dragon needed, innuendo aside.

And now here he was, strolling along the beach. standing tall (the audacity) and strong and- dare Crocodile say it- plush. He looks warm and radiant as the sunset at their backs, the fiery golds catching in his dark eyes like amber. He's happier and healthier than he's ever known him, and Crocodile is probably going to pin him to the wall of their home the second the door closes behind them.

Unless Dragon is going to be doing the pinning. This new lease on life has very much made him more assertive with these things.

- fight?

- sober up...

- hicc!

sorry i don't think i would ever recover from opening for season seven and my flashbacks of 2014 tokio ghoul

i need an AU where everything stays exactly the same except for izuku's acting like average struggling student

all for one: what will you do hero? i will steal one for all and this will be my victory!

izuku: get over yourself man i have three essays and a presentation to complete and deadline is tomorrow!

villain: i'll kill you and your little friends, deku!

izuku: the only one who allowed to kill me is mic-sensei because i forgot about english homework! SMASH!!!

here's the thing about my perspective of bakugou. i don't think that he has overly drastic character growth or doesn't deserve izuku's forgiveness. like he's still a 15 y. o. boy who doesn't have good connections to his emotions and insecurities.

tbh i feel he and izuku have the same amount of self-doubt but they express it differently.

i personally do not like bakugou that much because he just doesn't fall to the category of my type of character but in the same time i don't like when people portray him as overly violent destined-to-become-villain person.

i see the same pattern with izuku. yk media where he's portrayed as nice sweet guy who can't possibly hurt anyone. like yeah i get where it comes from but let's not forget how absolutely feral 100% insane he can be.

let's not forget about bakugou who in the end of the day is just a kid with pockets full of insecurities, self-doubt and mistakes.

katsuki and izuku come from the same place but in a different way.

so i do not like bakugou

but i can sympathize with him

Dragon having a midday nap but he’s just curled up on the office couch under his cloak and someone comes in looking for him only to find an indistinct green blob with spindly legs sticking out of it that’s snoring a little bit.

If someone told me that Tomura slept hanging upside down like a bat, I’d believe them.

thinking about aizawa who came up with his homeless man look purely for job reasons. i mean it's more likely for people at the middle of the night to not notice some hobo then the whole ass hero so aizawa usually has an advantage in a fight or info gathering.

and because UA teachers wear their hero costumes for classes aizawa looks how he looks.

and he and yamada find it hilarious when their students don't recognize them in public when they wearing their civilian clothes.

basically aizawa and yamada are in the different sides of spectrum called 'my students do not recognize me in public because of my hero persona'