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i unfortunately don't have a lot to say about them, because most of my thoughts about them are for my bf and i's modern au, but i really wanted to include them in here because i think they deserve to be more popular and i want people to know this ship exists!!
i mean, revolutionary x marine? and it's two girls? perfect dynamic. and their relationship starts exactly like you'd imagine it to: they hate each other's guts. but they're also insanely attracted to each other. so they start telepathically playing a game of "who's going to fall first" except they both fall at the same time. and then they would have to keep their relationship a secret, because they obviously don't want anyone finding out about the fact doll, a marine, is kind of seeing a revolutionary army executive. that would be catastrophic for the both of them.
so, yeah. enemies *and* lovers. the inherent romanticism of having to hide your relationship. and also the fact that belo betty would be able to open doll's eyes on the damage the marines are doing. love wins
🫂 hi love :3
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hi fool my love!! hope you like the rarepair i chose for you!
i love yuri rarepairs <3 perona is one of my favorite characters so i couldn't not include the main ship i have for her!
i think what perona needs in a partner is someone that's able to match her levels of silliness. she's very outgoing and has no filter, so i feel like the best match for her would be someone that would be intrigued by these traits of hers, rather than bothered by them. thinking about this is what made me come to the conclusion that koala would be her perfect match! she's as extroverted as perona, maybe a bit warmer and a bit less easygoing, but those little differences are what make them click so well.
also, i feel like both of them lack a girl friend. like, a friend who's a girl. they both deserve someone who understands them and helps the other destress. i'm sure constantly dealing with zoro and mihawk stresses perona out a lot, and the same goes for koala, who's forced to always look after sabo; they need a space to relax and feel cared for. i just believe they could easily think of each other as a safe place. they would be the greatest slowburn relationship ever... acquaintances to friends to best friends to lovers but it's. like. in the span of years. because both of them would be too scared the other doesn't reciprocate their feelings to actually properly confess. i love them so much
Would Law get along with so who isn't as intelligent as him? 🤓
i honestly don't think so, it would for sure piss him off. another reason why i like sabolaw so much is because i think their smartness level is basically the same lol
Please more thoughts about Penguin x Shachi 🤩😋
of course anon!!!
god i just cannot be normal about them. they make me insane. paradoxically, the more i'm fixated on a ship the harder it seems to find the words to talk about them. seeing them or even thinking about them at all just makes my mind shut down lol. but i'll try my best to write something that isn't a nonsensical ramble about how they make my brain short circuit <3
something i love about them is how insanely close they seem to be. actually, that's the main reason i ship them. every moment one of them is on screen, the other is there too, right beside him. it's something so comforting but also so concerning, not in a bad way of course, but in a "what the fuck is wrong with them /affectionate" way. and the thing is, nothing's wrong with them, they're just like that! they've spent their whole life together, never a moment apart, so of course they're going to keep spending every waking moment attached to each other's hip. and the whole crew has just accepted it. no one ever questions it, it's just a given that they'll always be carrying out their missions together.
actually, we saw someone questioning it once, in the first chapter of law novel's second installment. i've been meaning to talk about this in a (long overdue) separate post, so i won't go into detail on it, but this is the gist of it. when something kept the two of them apart for the first time, it was an actual disaster. both of them almost cried in front of the rest of the crew because they were made to sleep in separate rooms, and they weren't used to it; penguin was the more mature one about it, but when shachi started to complain about the decision, penguin almost cried. law, bepo and hakugan laughed at shachi, because the whole thing was so stupid to them: i mean, a 17 year old crying about not being able to sleep in the same room as his buddy? but penguin didn't laugh. he made fun of shachi a bit, but then there he was, trying his hardest to keep his composure and not end up getting ridiculed like shachi did. yeah. i can't believe this moment is canon either.
what i'm trying to say is, they've both proved, in different ways, that their bond is very, very important to them. it's essential to their wellbeing, i'd say. they just work better together, and no one is allowed to come between them. that's exactly what i love about them.
u like mishanks???? Omg
yes i do! i like them best when buggy is involved too though. mishuggy is always on top for me <3
i don't talk about them a lot because i'm just more passionate about shuggy, so they use most of my brainpower lol, and also because the mishanks side of this fandom scares me a bit. i've seen things happen to other shanks/buggy/shuggy centric blogs that i would just rather avoid.
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second baby 5 ship in a row! she's one of my favorites so i love giving her partners she can be obsessed with </3 as i said before, nothing wrong with sai x baby 5, i just prefer a different dynamic when it comes to baby 5 ships!
baby 5 and bart aren't as random as some of my other rarepairs, since they were together in dressrosa. it's such a shame we never got the chance to see them interacting :( they could have had a really fun dynamic... imagine baby 5 falling in love at first sight with bart, while he's so weirded out by it at first, but then becomes kind of intrigued. ohhh i'm so not normal about them. i'm sorry
we know baby 5's taste in men is peculiar to say the least, so bartolomeo could be a perfect target for her attention. maybe while they were dealing with doflamingo's birdcage bart shot baby 5 a compliment, not thinking much of it, and she absolutely fell for him. and then baby 5's usual shenanigans ensued. like, her telling him how he's so sweet and respectful and they should get married, while bartolomeo doesn't get any of it and is just so confused because he's not used to this type of attention at all... but then he warms up to her and starts telling her about his love for the strawhats and how he's so excited about finally meeting them in person (in true unfiltered autism fashion), and baby 5 just listens to him so attentively because she finds this side of him very endearing...
i love the idea of them together because they're just two people that are both seen as "weird" by society, even though the only unusual thing about them is that they have developed a way of showing their love that is so unfiltered and passionate in response to their difficult and traumatic past. even though they don't look like it at first glance, they share many similarities. they could have worked really well together in canon, too: the developing of their relationship could have been a breeding ground for many funny gags. oda you really fumbled the bag this time
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this is definitely one of the rarest ships i have, since me and my boyfriend made them up for a modern au roleplay... they are very dear to me for this very reason <3
i know what you're thinking: i don't have anything against sai and baby 5 as a couple, i think they're very cute! however, i do find them a bit uninteresting when it comes to their dynamic. i think baby 5 deserves a partner that isn't embarrassed to show affection; to actually heal, she needs someone that's just as obsessed with her as she is with them, someone that's very devoted to her, in a "would shout my love for her from the rooftops" kind of way. from what we saw, sai is just too reserved and bashful to reciprocate baby 5's attention to the fullest. also, i can't lie, i just prefer wlw relationships over straight ones. not sorry!
tashigi might seem shy too at first, but she's also willing to go to war for the things she loves. she would be perfectly able to withstand baby 5's intense way of loving. in fact, she would build her entire lifestyle around it. she'd be obsessed with her girlfriend to insane degrees... always thinking about her and buying her gifts and doing whatever is in her power to go visit her as often as she could. she would do anything to see baby 5's smile. and baby 5 would do the same for tashigi because she's so, so in love with her. she would spend hours talking about her strong and beautiful girlfriend. i like to think about them going shopping together, baby 5 just going on and on about how strong tashigi is and how chivalrous it is for her to carry all of baby 5's shopping bags for her, while tashigi just blushes and tells her it's nothing compared to everything baby 5 does for her. just... insane and never before seen levels of mutual devotion.
every time i reread/rewatch punk hazard i find myself getting angry at the fact they could have met there but didn't. i Need to see them together. they would be such a powerful duo in fights too... the swordswoman and her weapon. i need to lie down
buggy3 exes real and true
YESSSS!!!! YOU GET IT!!! they're that one couple of exes that pretend to still be mad at each other to make their own lives more interesting but are in fact still friends and enjoy the other's company a lot <3
I wish I could like buggy and mr3 but after he made fun of buggy suffering I can’t like him… so unnecessary of him, even Alvida was nicer and she would sell him for a chip in a second 😭
Also I think cabji is much more less known? I see some buggy3 art or bugvida, never heard of cabaji in ships
omg really? i swear i've seen a handful of buggy x cabaji fanart over on twitter, but never anything with buggy and mr. 3
also, ships are very personal, taste is subjective, it's alright if you don't like them! personally i read that moment as a throwaway gag so i didn't think much of it...
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Im not gonna say character but please understand me here
got the memo anon, don't worry <3
this is the rarest pair i have with buggy ><' i ship him with shanks and mihawk, and also with cabaji a bit, but i think him and galdino are the least popular ship with buggy i have.
i headcanon them as exes; they had a thing during the impel down arc and got together officially right after (buggy used it as a way to get over shanks, seeing him again after all that time made some feeling resurface and buggy wasn't too happy about that...). they split up on good terms, just realized they weren't that great for each other. it's a bit awkward now that they're both part of cross guild lmao
i think they could work well as a couple honestly. galdino is honest to a fault and that would spark some arguments for sure, and buggy's need to always get taken care of would tire galdino out in the long run, but other than that i genuinely think they would be good for each other. i totally can see them in a domestic setting, like, galdino cooking dinner while buggy folds the laundry or something. as we saw from their moments together during impel down, they're a fun duo: definitely the type of couple that would spice up a night out with friends with their constant banter (that would totally turn into an actual fight, give it, like, 20 minutes).
What do you think about the main 4 heart pirates as a big polycule? As they've grown up together Law, Bepo, Penguin and Shachi might have experienced puberty together. 🤔❤️❤️❤️❤️
hi! sorry for taking so long to answer. real life got in the way
i think bepo should be kept out of this discussion because he's considerably younger than the other three (he was 9 when he met the others; law was 13, shachi was 14, and penguin was 15). as for the other three, i like to imagine them experimenting with romance and physical affection together, even though i think law would be a bit resistant and hesitant at first. he's generally not one to show affection explicitly, and would find the idea of "trying things out" with his only friends, the people he's closest to, very embarrassing. penguin and shachi have for sure tried to convince him though, since they're famously attracted to him...
anyway, this leaves us with only penguin and shachi, which isn't surprising coming from me lmao. but yeah, i think they would be open to experimenting together: they spend every moment together, and they share everything, so it's only natural for them to talk about these things and maybe even have their first experiences together. after all, something noticeable about them is that they basically have negative game. they're noticeably Not Good with ladies in canon. so it's safe to say they might have agreed to experimenting together romantically due to the lack of other options. the fact they end up falling in love in the process is a story for another time <3
Love your posts about Law ❤️. Talking about his love life: What do you think which type of partner would match best with him? Someone who takes care of him (kinda like Cora) or so he can take care of (like he does with his crew)?
thank you so much!!
i think law would love a good mix of both. he doesn't like feeling like a burden, so being taken care of would make him stress out about how to repay his partner; however, he's also a control freak, so being with someone that depends on him to the extent his crew does would drive him crazy lol
i personally ship him with sabo! it's definitely a rarepair (even though it's been gaining traction lately), but hear me out.
they would both take care of each other equally. they're both older brothers, so protecting others is something innately present in their behavior. their nurturing nature is ever-present, even when they "lose" their older brother role: law because of lami's passing, sabo because of losing his memories. after these traumatic events, they both take the role of the nurtured: cora starts taking care of law, while the members of the revolutionary army tend to sabo. and again, after a certain amount of time, they both return to their original older brother roles: law with the heart pirates, sabo when he reunites with luffy. this is the reason why i think they would both take care of each other equally, but not in an excessive way; they know how it feels to be on both ends of the spectrum. in fact, both law and sabo are pretty independent; they don't like having someone's constant attention on them, and just generally prefer to do their own thing, so personal space wouldn't be an issue to either of them. they'd know how to balance time together and time apart perfectly.
they share a lot of other similarities, (this post explains them all perfectly), but they're also different enough to make their dynamic interesting: sabo is very intense and impulsive, while law is very stoic, even though he obviously surrounds himself with very cheerful and carefree people. all in all, i think law would benefit a lot from sabo's presence in his life.
(this post was written with the help of @sabo-torao, who is, to me, one of the most important people in the sabolaw community on tumblr, so if you like this pairing you should check his blog out!)
This is not a hostile question btw!!! I’m just genuinely interested. Please forgive me if this is phrased awkwardly
Why do you think buggy’s grudge against Shanks is kind of justified? Do you think Shanks is at fault in their fall out?
Thank you!
talking about shanks and buggy's breakup is always tricky to me, but i'm glad you asked this, maybe writing about it will help me reorganize my feelings on the whole thing lol
when i look at it objectively, the whole situation reads just as a big misunderstanding. both shanks and buggy weren't transparent with their feelings, but couldn't hide them anymore in a moment of great distress such as roger's execution. they were both stupid teenagers who didn't think about the other's feelings and ended up paying the price for it.
however, looking at it from a subjective point of view, i just can't help sympathizing with buggy. he always felt outshined by shanks, but he had no reason to blame him for it. buggy trusted him: he trusted his judgement, he trusted that he would do great things in the future, but most importantly, he trusted him to stay by his side and protect him, as a partner but mainly as a friend. after all, shanks was buggy's first and only friend, of course he would think of his sudden change of heart as betrayal, and that's an harsh event to recover from.
not only did buggy just witness the death of his captain, but he also had to realize shanks was failing to meet the very high standards he held him to; for people who are as emotionally dysregulated as buggy is, that's going to be really hard to come to terms with. he also had no other plans for his life besides sailing with shanks, so there's that too. his worldview was basically shattered in a matter of minutes, and that's going to be devastating for anyone.
i know shanks probably felt a very similar way in that moment, but i still feel like buggy was the one that suffered the most because he wasn't held to as high standards as shanks was, so he probably didn't feel capable to come up with a new plan for himself as easily, but also because of, well, the way buggy is. that sudden perceived betrayal completely broke him, and that's why he acts the way he does now; i think that's enough to comprehend how much shanks truly meant to him and how essential shanks was to his life. i can't help but feel bad for him because he lost the person he trusted most, the only person he felt connected enough to want by his side, the person he swallowed his pride for and abandoned all his biggest dreams for. buggy basically let shanks rob him of his future once, and now he has to experience it all over again. that's too heartbreaking for me. at this point, i would find a way to excuse literally every single one of his actions. yes, even the time he damaged luffy's straw hat. after everything buggy endured because of shanks, that's a reasonable and justified crashout to me lol.
Do you see Law as ace (sexual)? 👀
i personally don't, but i like the headcanon! i see him as allosexual and alloromantic. i feel like it's easy for him to experience attraction, he just forces himself to keep it very private. he has so much love to give, he's just afraid of letting it out because of what happens to all the people he loves. that's tragic but also weirdly beautiful to me. i love law so much
Who would you date from One Piece?🤔
oh i have multiple answers to this question LMAO
i'm not one to think about these things frequently, but i still have a lot of options in my mind. though i'm an extremely difficult person emotionally so i'm not sure they would want to date me lol
the first one to come to mind, for some reason, is shachi. i think his physical features match my ideal type the best (ginger hair, big smile, and i also assume he has downturned eyes... so cute). he's very cheerful, always knows how to make the best of a bad situation and is generally very relaxed, which are all things i like in a partner. he also likes to party which i personally find very attractive for some reason, maybe because, on the contrary, i'm always home lmao.
another character i would love to date is usopp. again, extremely attractive physically (yes i really like big noses), but his personality is a big part of it. i just love when characters are not that confident in themselves, it just makes me drawn to them. also i feel like he would be great at taking care of a potential partner, because he's very in touch with his emotions.
i can't end this post without talking about sabo. i admit this is because my partner is very similar to him so i'm kind of biased; i basically just see him whenever i look at sabo and it just made me fall in love with sabo as a consequence. in general though, i find sabo very charming, i'm sure he would take great care of me and would match the more capricious sides of me very well.
believe me, i would LOVE to date ace or law. they're my romantic comfort characters for a reason! but realistically, i don't think our personalities would be that compatible. i mean, i ship ace with deuce, who i consider very similar to me, but i think i just lack the patience necessary to deal with ace unfortunately </3. also me and law are just way too similar in multiple ways, which would be good in a sense but also kind of boring, you know? oh, and i'm also deeply in love with baby 5, but we suffer from the same kind of mental illness so it would just be negatively insane and chaotic.
I know you said you personally dont see Lawlu as a pro ship but I was wondering if you knew what the arguments for it being one would be?
Just geniunly curious in an abstract sort of way. New to fandom and still trying to figure out all the terminology
i think the main argument would be that when they first met, luffy, being 17, was still a minor, while law was 24. i generally tend to distance myself from the topic entirely because the ship makes me uncomfortable on a personal level more than anything else
good luck navigating fandom spaces! it may seem hard at first, but you will get used to it in no time, i'm sure!
How is 1138 shuggy piece? The only comment there about buggy is luffy not liking him?
i said it as a joke, referencing the fact some shuggy haters keep insisting that shanks and buggy see each other as brothers; i made the joke because luffy went out of his way to exclude buggy from the whole "the roger pirates are shanks's family" thing lol. just harmless fun
What are your top 10 characters and why is Law so high?
law is so high because he's amazingly written and a really captivating character! i've been a law fan since i first got into one piece, i've always been interested in him and the more i learned about him the more i loved him. i obviously don't think he's underrated, but i do think he's a greatly misunderstood character. more people should give him a chance instead of stopping at "he's not the strongest so whatever". i love how he evolved with the story and he holds his place in the narrative really well. 10/10 character. then of course there are other, more personal reasons that justify his place in my list of all-time favorite characters, like his closed-off nature and naturally distrusting demeanor, which are traits i always tend to seek out in fictional characters <3
in no particular order, my absolute favorite one piece characters are law, buggy, zoro and ace. then there are, of course, penguin and shachi. other favorites are baby 5, perona, sabo and uta! so i would say this is my top 10. there are a lot more characters i routinely obsess over, but if i started naming them this would just end up being a boring and almost endless list, so i'll refrain from doing so. you can always ask again if you're really interested, maybe i'll post a tier list, who knows.
Hi I wanted to give you my firstborn and that still stays or whatever you wish to take
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Do you think that would open up buggy? The fact that shanks could be the worse kid? How you imagine that play out? HC territory I know
oh anon i LIVE in headcanon territory. i built a whole house in there. so don't be afraid to ask me about it!
buggy is obviously very resentful towards shanks, and i don't think that'd change easily. at the same time, though, he would obviously feel bad for him... i mean, buggy does hold grudges, but we've also seen him being compassionate on rare occasions. there's a possibility he would be more likely to forgive shanks if he knew about all this. i can easily imagine him feeling bad when he realizes shanks wasn't seen as the perfect kid by everyone </3
we have too little information right now, so i don't feel like i can elaborate further, but i would love to write something more substantial on this topic in the future!
Im going to give you my firstborn because you made me believe in shanks again
Love you man
oh??? i didn't know i had this power lol, thank you so much!!! <3
this might be surprising to hear but on a personal level i'm not too fond of shanks as a character, he has made some choices in the past that i strongly disagree with (i'm a firm buggy apologist)... but i still appreciate his place in the story and the way he's written a lot. he's one of the characters i spend more time analyzing and dissecting. i'm usually not a fan of extremely mysterious characters, but with shanks it's different. i don't know how to explain it. i would love to perform open brain surgery on him
i'm still gonna call shamrock "stabs" instead
LMAOOOO that's honestly a cooler name, surely gets stuck in your head more easily than shamrock
i don't know why, but in my mind i've always subconsciously associated shanks with four-leaf clovers. i think it's because of shuggy and a particular song that makes me think of them which mentions four-leaf clovers ???
so when i realized what shamrock's name referred to, i was pleasantly surprised. it might make more sense narratively once we know more about their past, but for now, i'm choosing to believe shamrock is the three-leaf clover because he wasn't actually meant to be the "chosen one", but shanks was.
I just preferred shanks to be the interesting one with more layers rather than twist done to death by every comic book in history
that's valid honestly, i can't even argue with that because that IS an overused trope lmao. but i think this will be an opportunity to see a new side of shanks, one that isn't shrouded in mystery, but instead open, emotional and dramatic.
let's just hope oda will surprise us (like he often does), maybe he will use the trope in a way that positively serves the plot!
Hi 😊👋 I'm a huge fan of Law too. I've just finished reading Law novel too. Maybe you want to share your thoughts on this asks:
Does Law see his crew as subordinates or friends? Would you say that Law has a weakness for people who have a trauma too? 🤔
i'm sure law sees them all as his friends.
at the start of the novel, when law asks bepo, shachi and penguin if they want to stay with him and wolf, it's not because law and wolf actually need someone that can help them with their tasks, it's just because law wants to offer them a safe place to stay, but he's not in touch with his emotions enough to admit it. when he recruits them, he even calls them his subordinates explicitly, but it's clearly just a part of his façade; again, he's not ready to admit he cares about them yet. sure enough, by the end of the first novel, he refers to them as his friends, and has matured enough to admit he loves them and realize that he can count on them. also, the fact law often seems to separate from his crew before he gets into any dangerous situation is kind of relevant to this conversation: he prefers to go solo or to form a temporary alliance with other pirate crews because he doesn't want to put his crew in danger, not because he thinks they aren't strong enough. he always tries to keep his crew safe no matter what, because they're more than allies to him, they're his friends, his family, and the only people he has left. this is also the reason the clash against the blackbeard pirates is so heartbreaking: law tried his best to protect his crew, because he didn't want to, once again, experience the loss of the people he loves most, but he couldn't do anything to prevent it.
i do think law finds himself drawn to other people with trauma, especially if their trauma is in any way related to their families. even though law always tries to hide his actions behind the "i acted on a whim" excuse, it's clear that his empathy gets the best of him when he has to choose whether to recruit someone for his crew. we've seen this with every crew member with a canon backstory: first it was bepo, who set sail to try and find his brother and found himself stranded and alone; then it was penguin and shachi, who lost their families and ended up being used and abused by the adults that should have protected them; and now, in the newest chapter, it's hakugan, who lost his parents and has to bear the responsibility of raising his little sister alone. all of them are scarred and survived multiple traumatic events. law sees his reflection in his crewmates, when he looks into their eyes he can see the little boy he once was, scared, alone and devoid of purpose. that's why he's so determined to help them, and offers them a place in his crew with no hesitation: he wants to be to them what cora was to him, even though he probably doesn't realize it.
thank you so much for your question, anon!
I hate shanks twin so much
this made me laugh out loud, thank you anon
seeing he's the leader of the god's knights it's a sentiment i completely understand and share. however i'm still excited to see how this whole thing plays out, it might be an appealing subplot storyline, and i also can't wait to see how shanks will react to all this lmao. i love analyzing shanks through his reactions and this seems like it will be quite the wild ride for him lol
I think your @ is brilliant. Did you came up with this on your own?
thank you so much!!! i don't think it's this brilliant, when i chose it i thought it was mediocre at best, but i liked how it sounded so i stuck with it. i love the word flashy (thank you buggy) so i knew i had to use it, but i also wanted something that reminded me of shuggy, so that's how flashyfools was born :]
I really didn’t expect shuggy to be this popular :o like yeah I guess it has more fans but it’s one of the three op ships there??? I really thought they weren’t like that
yeah me too honestly!!! it was a big surprise (positively). i knew shuggy nation went hard on tumblr but i expected other ships to take their place in the top 100, for example i really hoped namivivi would be included.
i think the live action really helped shuggy become more popular and that's great!! praying for the ship to grow even bigger with season 2...
Thank you for explaining heavy on shipping! It was so sweet and nice ♥️
no problem at all!! fandom lingo isn't always straightforward so it's good that you asked! and you're so nice too <3
What does heavy on shipping means?
it means that the majority of the content i post will be about the ships i like, because shipping is one of my favorite ways to engage with media ^-^
i mostly analyze dynamics between characters under a romantic lens, and i know there are some one piece fans who don't want to see this type of content (because they personally aren't interested in it, which is valid, or just because they think it's dumb), so i put it on my profile as a sort of warning
I have maybe stupid thought/question. It’s thought that changes into question. And it could be dumb so I choose anon option.
Let’s go! “it channels strength, in a way that is characteristic of shanks throughout the whole manga.” This got my attention because maybe I’m an idiot but a lot of those moments are shanks mask. He is playing big bad emperor, he needs to do it to protect his fleet. We see it more recently. I understood this that way. “mihawk isn't afraid of shanks, but he's still alert while approaching him”. That also. Tbh I always saw them as two close friends who occasionally spared for the title. But this looks weird to me now? I just thought shanks face is a joke because he is just hangover but acts like something big is going on. But your interpretation seems to be more into shanks is channeling his emperor persona. And yes mihawk is dangerous but I never thought he would attack shanks? He constantly is against that. I’m not sure why, can we trust him it’s only arm or something more? Does he care about shanks that much? Not attacking luffy would point to it. So if that’s the case why is shanks like that? Putting this strength face on? Sorry if it’s stupid.
it's not stupid at all, i see your point of view and all your questions are valid to me.
i think when talking about shanks we necessarily have to split between two separate readings of his character, and look at him from two different points of view: the one of the readers and the one of the other characters.
it's obvious that shanks has two sides to him; his emperor persona is in direct opposition to his sillier, more carefree side. when we see shanks in the manga, we always look at him from the point of view of other characters, mainly luffy, buggy or, like in the case we are talking about, mihawk. as the point of view varies, so does shanks's demeanor, depending on what type of relationship he has with said character. after a brief menacing introduction, and after luffy's wanted poster is revealed, we see a side of shanks that is adjacent to the one we see in luffy's flashbacks: mihawk is an old friend of his, so he invites him for a drink and makes space for him to celebrate with his crew. the air felt thick before mihawk mentioned luffy, but only because his visit was sudden and unannounced. don't forget mihawk was a warlord at the time, so of course shanks got defensive. they weren't exactly on bad terms, it's true, but they're both two affirmed figures now, so it's fair for them to be more cautious in the presence of the other.
if we hop behind the fourth wall and look for a non-diegetic explanation, then, it's more or less what i explained in my previous post. we, as readers, have a more global understanding of shanks. we know shanks puts up a front, an armor of sorts: behind his façade lies a more solemn version of himself, one that takes his place very seriously and appears more meditative and resolved. is this side of him a travesty, too? there's no way to know as of now.
i love how puzzling shanks is, it's my favorite part of his character. he's unpredictable, sometimes basically indefinite. it's not a character flaw, though. everything we know about him passes through other characters' visions, which contributes to the confusing outline the readers have of him. it's a tool that helps us know him without ever seeing his side of the story.
I asked about straw page and I will get to it! I promise! I didn’t had time! But I WILL get to it!
thank you so much, you're so sweet </3 and please take your time!! i don't check my strawpage often at all so there's no rush!!