We As A Society Need To Stop Focusing On Verlaine Angst. "ohdhhh Rimlaine They're So Doomed :(( " "ohhh

More drawings of my Shinobu design because why not 🦋💐✨

the ghost of you

I will say that I'm glad the God's Knights aren't all serious bloodthirsty menaces like Gunko and Shamrock. They've got some variety and quirkiness to them the same as any new set of One Piece characters which is going to make their eventual displays of power hit even harder.

Kiringham in particular stands out with both his Devil Fruit and his personality.

He's all but confirmed to have a Kirin mythical zoan, but his hagoromo is pure white. Whereas every zoan user or apparent zoan user allied with the World Government has had a black hagoromo. We even see this most recently with Shamrock's Cerberus.

Meanwhile the awakened users with white hagoromos, Luffy and Yamato, have both been heroic and pure of heart.

Maybe this is hinting that Kiringham is the nicest of the God's Knights, or at least genuinely believes that he's a force for good? We know from the Donquixotes sans Doffy that there's still chances for Celestial Dragons to become good people in spite of the toxicity of their culture.

Between him rushing to duty after oversleeping and marveling at how big Elbaf is without any of the typical Celestial Dragon disdain for 'the lower realm', Kiringham's giving off the vibes of a new hire who hasn't set a single toe outside his backyard.

Perhaps in addition to his drowsiness, his running gag will be getting distracted by everything about the outside world that can't be found in Mariejois. Or he might have an "are we the baddies?" moment when it really sinks in just what they're doing by taking the children of Elbaf.

my current top 3 favs in one piece and me forcing them to interact bc that's super unlikely to happen in canon right now

Commission for @/DeeVee_Cake on twitter! Robin and Chopper having a chill reading session

Francis final protocol better be taking Lovecraft out of the fucking ocean and send him and Steinbeck to this damn airport because I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

CHUUYA NAKAHARA + SONGS

-> (insp)

I often hear the argument that Luffy is dumb, and I can't help but be ticked off every time I hear someone say it, because Luffy isn't dumb, he's simply carefree. And I mean that in the literal sense of the word. Luffy truly does not have a care in the world. Luffy chooses not to complicate things. He does things for the simple fact of wanting to and he purposely refuses to learn about people, situations, and the nuances involved with both because the nuance just pollutes the true nature of the subjects. Luffy doesn't choose to do these things out of ignorance or selfishness, but because in the grand scheme of things, all the information that he chooses to ignore is wholly unimportant both by Luffy's own standards and to the development of the story as well. What Luffy deems unimportant does not matter at all to how things play out in the anime.

Luffy, at his core, is an incredible judge of character. Luffy's relationship with Tama is a perfect example of this. By all accounts Luffy's first impression of Tama should have been negative. She came off as a little bit mean and stand-offish. However, Luffy in his natural Luffy-fashion is unbothered. He didn't need Tama to tell him or show him explicitly the kind of person she was to understand her as a person. Despite the fact that she was a little girl, Luffy treated her with basic respect right off the bat. Luffy didn't see her as child, but rather as the self-sufficient human she was. Of course his fondness for her was only furthered by the food that Tama gave him. Luffy didn't need to know anything more about Tama after he heard that she had given him her last shares of food. He didn't need to hear Tama's sad story to understand her. She treated him with kindness, like she would a friend, even though they had just met. Luffy would go to the ends of the earth for her over that simple fact. He had no desire to learn of Wano's history to better understand how Tama got to this point in her life. All he needed to do and all thay he wanted to do was return a kindness. And that he did.

The same can be said for the part Luffy plays in Nami's story. When Nami 'betrayed' Luffy, he'd simply brushed it off. Once again, Luffy knew who Nami was without having to ask and without her having to show him explicitly. Luffy saw her 'betrayal' yet did not take it at face value. Luffy refuses to leave her behind because everything Nami had said/done in that situation muddled Luffy's inherent and instinctive understanding of her character. This next bit is ironic to say because Luffy often makes decisions with his stomach rather than his head, but its clear that Luffy would rather trust his gut feeling than try to understand Nami's actions which appeared entirely contradictory to Luffy's perception of her personality/character.

This theme rings true throughout the whole anime. This happens when Luffy chooses to trust Law on Punk Hazard over Law's rather dubious choices without needing or wanting an explanation from him. This happens when he rescues Zoro at the very beginning of the anime and he simply trusts this well-known pirate hunter not to cut him down right of the post. I beg of you all, please do not dilute Luffy's complex character design down to something so trivial as him simply "being stupid".

Sorry for the tangent, I have just always felt people who say this about Luffy sell him and his whole character design short. There is so much more that I could say about this too. I could go into detail about the ways in which Luffy is as smart as the rest of the crew (in different ways than them obviously), but that would call for several more paragraphs, so I'll just cut it here I think.

Anyways tell me what y'all think, I'm curious.

Given his past, I imagine Chuuya's relationship with his birthday must be a bit unusual. To him, his birthday is a sign of his own humanity, a sign that he is a human born like everyone else, and not just a clone created in a lab. He also only found out about his birthday because of the flags, so this is also a symbol of his friendship with them, and how much they cared for him, being able to go against Mori's orders just to give Chuuya the knowledge about his own origin, the thing he desired the most

Can you believe this little thing felt like he was his best friend's shadow and gave up on his dream because Shanks shone brighter than him? Can you believe he spent his childhood staring at his best friend from a distance because he thought he couldn't reach the stars by himself? Can you believe his dream was taken away from him and he lost his ability to swim and his love for the sea when he was just a child?