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mia ⭑ she/they current arc : egghead main : darlingnemesis

[acesfreckleskisser]

older luffy with a pipe in his hand something something you always carry a piece of home in your heart

[acesfreckleskisser]

older luffy in a junkyard something something you always return to places resembling places where you became you

[perfectlyimperfectcharacterfan]

It's hard to believe all the injuries Ace had in ch523, along with the amount of blood on and around him, were only the result on his fight against Teach.

Even Garp is shocked that Ace is still conscious in this condition.

Ace was definitely tortured in Impel Down, just not badly enough that it would kill him, because Sengoku needed him alive for his plans to work.

[captainportgasdace]

I HC that they tortured him so badly and Ace never flinched (like that baptism arriving in Impel Down in boiling water). They wanted to humiliate him, humiliate the son of the king of the pirates to show everyone an exemple

[perfectlyimperfectcharacterfan]

@captainportgasdace

This also aligns with Blackbeard's implication later on that he made sure not to kill Ace, very likely leaving him on the brink of death after their fight. And we don't know what happened between Ace's defeat and him being handed to the marines, nor how long that timeframe was. And obviously Ace's vivre card was also an implication of what was happening to him in Impel Down. Unfortunately my mind is too good at imagining what he went through 😭

[captainportgasdace]

OUR POOR BABY I SWEAR 😭😭

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[bougiebutchbinch]

[bougiebutchbinch]

fave tags compilation

he is NOT beating The Allegations anytime soon

[bigtopbuggy]

please let this man smile more

[beif0ngs]

What are you smirkin’ about over there, Boss?

[pipusa]

For every pain he suffered. For every hair that fell from his head.

[ftl-faster-than-life]

Kind of funny how when you're obsessed with a certain character their mere presence on your screen can lift your mood. Like yeah I have probably like 10 diagnosed and undiagnosed ways my brain works atypically but one of those quirks makes it possible for The Character to salvage my whole day.

[tokkibean]

TRUE writers suddenly get writing urges at 1am mid-doomscroll and proceed to ramble out the most incoherent plot into a new doc and wake up and then just. stare at it.

[thesadtadpole]

Me when the obviously doomed character doesn't get a happy ending

[dunmertitty]

[cosmickoshi]

Excuse me I'm extremely normal about The Character. Yes I got a stomachache thinking about them in passing and needed to lie down for a bit before I felt well enough to go about the rest of my day. But apart from that I'm completely and utterly normal about them.

[melonteee]

Shanks’s wanting to live a carefree life with Buggy 🤝 Buggy’s wanting to get Captain John’s treasure which Shank is a part of

no honest to fucking god oda explain RIGHT now why buggy wants john's treasure and why SHANKS was in john's treasure ODA!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!

[mergremils]

[queen-of-andor]

Both Ace and Sabo acting like the other was still around sharing their opinion with them:

Ace about Sabo:

And Sabo about Ace:

[drowning-moonlight]

Yet another tragedy of Ace's death is that he and Sabo not only never get to reunite but they never really get to know each other either. They didn't get to see each other grow up and become their true selves.

To Ace, Sabo will always be that ten-year-old dreaming of writing an adventure book and navigating a pirate ship. And to Sabo, Ace will always be that ten-year-old angry at the world and stuck in the shadow of a father that he hates. They are ghosts to one another.

Ace will never get to see Sabo be a freedom fighter taking on the World Government and saving people. Sabo never got to see Ace find a father figure that he could be proud of and look up to. They never get to see each other fulfill their dreams. Never got to see each other change and grow.

I always imagine if Sabo meets more people that knew adult Ace, like Marco or Deuce for example, and they tell him how polite and kind Ace was, that it would be kind of a shock to Sabo. Because a kind and polite Ace is someone Sabo never got to experience. Would he even believe them? "Ace with manors? No way!" Maybe Luffy has to explain to Sabo just how much Ace changed after Sabo "died." And Sabo just has to live with the fact that his older brother only became nice after they thought Sabo died.

There's a pain there that will never fully go away. A pain of never really knowing someone that you love dearly. Knowing that you love them but also knowing that they're a stranger to you. Sabo's pain of having other people tell him how his brother - his first ever friend - grew into a wonderful person that Sabo himself never got to see and never will get to see. Ace's pain of thinking that Sabo's dreams died with him because of the horrors of the nobility - Sabo's own biological family - and the Celestial Dragons took away his freedom but Ace will never get to see Sabo fighting to protect other people's freedom from the same oppressive system that tore them apart.

They both grew and changed so much. They would be so proud of each other.

But in their memories, they will always only be a dead little boy to the other.

[kitteacloud]

Some sketches

[kitteacloud]

THE BOYSSSS I'm finally getting round to my drafts for one piece 🤭🫶