An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Benn Beckman
Characters: Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Benn Beckman, Hongo (One Piece), Limejuice (One Piece)
Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Alpha Benn Beckman, hinted Hongo/Lime, talking through heat, yearning for each other, Mutual Pining, Mating Cycles/In Heat
Summary:
Shanks was starting to feel his heat creep up on him, and the last person he needed in his close proximity was his... him, Benn. Because Benn was his best friend and his loyal first mate and smelled way too good and he couldn't, couldn't risk it all for stupid hormones. It would be fine. It was always fine. He would lock himself in his cabin, ride out the heat alone and not... simply not think about the mouthwatering, musky scent that drew him to one person and one person alone. He was fucked... and maybe also a little in love.
SHANKS TIMELINE, chronologically from 39 years ago and up to the start of the Elbaph arc. Spoilers through manga chapter 1171.
Edited to add: Please feel free to send me corrections and updates for this! 12 hours after posting and I've already been able to add several facts I'd missed thanks to others' excellent attention to detail.
Trying to keep this to an internal chronology - so not the published order. The "Shanks/History" section of the One Piece Wiki has been incredibly helpful for locating relevant chapters, but all mistakes to the timeline are my own. (Thanks @bumblingbriars for the update on Shanks' mom's name, and @invisibletinkerer for how long Shanks has been one of the Four Emperors for!)
Chapter 1158: 39 years ago in God Valley. Shanks born as the second of two twins to a local woman (Magnolia, according to a volume 114 SBS) and visiting World Noble Figarland Garling (scouting for human hunt locations?). At the start of The God Valley Incident, Garling murdered Magnolia. He then got a hold of and raised Shanks' brother Shamrock. As for Shanks, thanks to his dying mother's tenacity and Dragon's integrity, he was rescued from the God Valley genocide, and accidentally ended up in a treasure chest on the Oro Jackson. Instead of leaving their surprise baby somewhere, Gol D. Roger and his men decided to raise Shanks as their own. Presumably they found the baby's name sewn into his clothes?
Chapter 964: ~30 years ago, aged 9 or so. Reading the news with Buggy on the Oro Jackson, grumpy that Whitebeard is getting more attention than their crew. To date we do not know how Roger's crew ended up with two boys to raise.
Chapter 19: 25~26 years ago: Buggy's flashback gives us our first look at Shanks on the Oro Jackson (though it'll be almost 500 chapters until we learn they were on that ship). It can't be long before Roger disbanded his crew - even though he looks older (Odacchi probably hadn't figured out the exact timeline for these two back in volume 3!), Shanks can't be more than 15 here. (Drinking like an adult already, and making plans to go separate ways with Buggy.)
After Rayleigh makes them stop bickering, a ship heads straight for the Oro Jackson, and there's a fight and what may be some actual pirating! Buggy finds a treasure map, keeping it to himself - then later he steals a plundered devil fruit. ...and accidentally swallows it when Shanks startles him. In chapter 19 Buggy tells Luffy he's holding a grudge because Shanks lost him the 100 million berries he could've gotten for the fruit, and also having eaten it he can no longer dive to the bottom of the sea and get the treasure. (Later it becomes clear that Buggy also has a vast inferiority complex, but that's a different timeline altogether.)
Chapter 967: 25~26 years ago: Buggy gets too sick to travel with the others to the end of the Grand Line. Shanks is fine staying behind in the unnamed port town with Buggy, because "One day we'll go there in our own ship!"
Chapter 968: Oden says that when Roger came back from Laugh Tale, Shanks asked him some kind of question. And after that, he cried.
Chapter 968: About a year before his death (25 years ago) Gol D. Roger disbands his crew and leaves the Oro Jackson. The crew then swings by Wano to drop off Oden before presumably scattering.
Vol 0: At Roger's execution 24 years ago, aged 15.
Chapter 1082: The day of Roger's execution, 24 years ago. This is Buggy's flashback to Shanks saying he's changed his mind and won't go to Laugh Tale now (because he doesn't feel like it), but will continue being a pirate. He invites Buggy along, but Buggy interprets "come with me" to mean "as my subordinate" and refuses, accusing Shanks of being a coward.
Vol 0: 18~24 years ago: Shanks has heard rumors of Yasopp, and comes looking for him. "Oh - I'm Shanks, a pirate."
(It's very unclear to me if this was soon after Roger's death, and so that Yasopp returned to Syrup Village for a while after joining Shanks, or if it's 18 years ago and Yasopp left for good with Shanks. Also unclear: did Shanks have a crew along at this point, or was Yasopp the first person he recruited?)
Chapter 1167: 15 years ago Shanks shows up in Mary Geoise to claim his place as a Figarland, expressing regret that he's wasted 24 years of his life among the plebes in the hateful lower world when he could have been living as a Celestial Dragon. Garling and Shamrock seem to have accepted him back without hesitation, and he is made a Knight of God as a "Devoted Blade" (taking the Shallows Covenant).
While newly arrived he (secretly) assists Fisher Tiger's escape and revolt.
Chapter 1168: 14 years ago, after a year as a Devoted Blade, Shanks absconds while on a mission. He does so right before becoming a full Knight of God and thus getting in real deep with Imu.
Chapter 1152: 14 years ago Shanks visits Gaban on Elbaph. Gaban says it's been 3-4 years since the last time they shared a bath, and that the ten years since their Captain's death must feel like an especially long time for Shanks. (And you can clearly see the mark of the Shallows Covenant on Shank's left arm.)
Shanks muses that his life has changed completely - he was really set on having a carefree pirate life together with Buggy. But there are more things he wants to know here in Elbaph too. Gaban calls him a "Child of Destiny", and tells him to forget the little things bothering him, before reminiscing about Dorry and Brogy.
Chapter 1169: What seems to be the same day as they hang out in the hot springs, Shanks learns about Ace from Gaban. He says it's like having a little brother, and Gaban agrees: "Because you and Buggy were our sons." Shanks then tells Gaban all about the power the covenant he and Harald entered with "that person", which makes them unable to resist while in the range of Imu's influence. But once they both left Mary Geoise they could talk, and during that time Shanks confirmed Harald had been right about his identity as Red-Haired Shanks.
Aaaaand just after telling Gaban why it would be a bad idea for Harald to agree to the covenant, they get a horrible demonstration of it in action.
Chapter 1170: Shanks is confused about how Gaban knows that the Knights of God are weak to haoushoku, and Gaban is like "Yeah they kept showing up trying to take you back, so we tore them to shreds". Shanks also has a moment of talking about how the Celestial Dragons see themselves as gods, and shivers at the thought of what his life could have been. Gaban says that's what's called destiny! (éå½ - same word as in 1152 he called Shanks a "Child of Destiny".)
Chapter 1171: Failing to save Harald is not great for Shanks. He has flashbacks to his father saying "common people" aren't even human, and to forget what happened in the lower world.
Gaban embraces Shanks, saying that it's a bad habit to resent his birth.
Gaban tells Shanks that he definitely still has role (or duty?). There's definitely meaning to everyone's life.
Chapter 1054: Seeing Luffy's Gear 5 wanted poster, Shanks flashes back 13 years to attacking a government ship with CP9 onboard explicitly to steal the devil fruit they were carrying.
Chapter 1: 12 years ago! The devil fruit in question ends up in Luffy.
Luffy needs rescuing, and Shanks loses his left arm (which is also his dominant arm). This was the arm that had the Shallows Covenant mark on it, so... with it gone, he's free of Imu's influence! And maybe that means the Sea King didn't actually get the better of him - maybe Shanks saw his chance to lose the mark, and chose to sacrifice his arm.
Chepter 506: Shanks shows up on Sabaody without his hat. He tells Rayleigh he was incredibly surprised: he found a kid in the East Blue who said the same thing Captain Roger did. Those words of the Captain's...! (This is 100% related to Luffy's actual dream, not just the "I'm gonna be King of the Pirates" goal, but since Odacchi still hasn't told us his dream... well.)
Chapter 1136: In Elbaph Luffy learns that 6 years ago, Shanks captured Loki and returned him to Elbaph, where he's been chained up ever since. (We have gotten no flashbacks to this in the manga.)
Chapter 957: Commodore Brannew's briefing mentions that Shanks has been an Emperor for 6 years. Clearly there's a connection there...!
Chapter 552: 4~5 years ago, Ace tracks Shanks down to thank him for saving Luffy's life, and Shanks says "Luffy's Ace?!" (not "Captain's son"...) and seems delighted that Luffy did have an older brother after all. Ace is invited to stay and talk - and feast, of course. (Unclear if this is before or after Ace joins Whitebeard's crew.)
Chapter 96: 2 years ago (but now finally in the actual manga timeline, not just flashbacks!) Mihawk brings Shanks Luffy's wanted poster. Shanks' reaction is "So you've come, Luffy!"
Chapter 234: While Luffy's preparing to go to Skypiea, Shanks gets news that Whitebeard rebuffed Rockstar, who was carrying a message from Shanks. He tells his men to prepare for battle, as he's going to go see Whitebeard himself - which the government will most certainly try to stop.
Chapter 434: As Luffy's crew is recovering from Enies Lobby, Shanks meets with Whitebeard on board the Moby Dick. They chat about the old days. When asked what enemy took his arm, Shanks says he wagered it on a new age. Then he gets to the point of his visit: he wants Whitebeard to stop Ace hunting Teach, because Teach is too dangerous, and because it isn't the right time for the two to clash. (How dangerous is Teach? Shanks says it's who gave him the scars over his left eye - and not because he was careless. Shanks doesn't say when this was, but he was wearing bandages over his left eye in Mary Geoise 15 years ago.) Whitebeard does not take kindly to this young upstart giving him orders, and the two clash, splitting the skies over the Moby Dick.
Chapter 533: Admiral Momonga receives a report saying Shanks is skirmishing with Kaidou.
Chapter 579: Shanks shows up at Marineford, saying he's come to end the war.
Chapter 580: With Shanks' arrival, the war ends.
Chapter 590: Shanks arranges Whitebeard and Ace's joint funeral, then leaves. He thinks about Luffy, about the pain he must in, and once again sees similarities between Luffy and Roger. He hopes Luffy knows it's okay to cry.
Chapter 928: While in Wano prison camp, Kid corrects the rumour that he had his arm cut off by someone on Big Mom's crew - he tells Caribou and Luffy that he lost it fighting the Red Hair Pirates. This would be 1-2 years ago.
Chapter 838: Cover art of Shanks looking pleased with Luffy's new wanted poster after Dressrosa (while at a wedding ceremony on "a certain ruined island").
Chapter 1054: At the end of Wano - after very helpfully knocking Admiral Ryokugyu out with his haki without even setting foot on the island - Shanks looks at Luffy's Gear 5 wanted poster. He remembers hanging out with Luffy - remembers saving Luffy from the sea king. As he does, he gives his throbbing left shoulder a squeeze.
Then he sits down with Benn Beckman, and basically says "Hey Beck, it's about time we went and got the One Piece".
Chapter 1059: On their way from Wano, the Red Hair pirates give Marco a ride to Sphinx, and Shanks invites him to join their crew. Marco declines - he's spent too long babysitting big time pirates, and Beck confirms that Shanks is indeed a handful.
Chapter 1079: In the middle of Egghead we get to see what's going on elsewhere. Eustass Kid comes for Shanks. In particular: through the Future Sight of his Observation Haki, Shanks sees Kid destroying his allies. So Shanks destroys him. He also takes Kid's Road Poneglyph before Dorry and Brogy sink Kid's ship with their joint attack.
Chapter 1121: Vegapunk's broadcast. We see the Red Force, and someone on the crew tells Shanks to take it easy on the drink. (Shanks does not take it easy on the drink.)
Chapter 1131: Loki says he's seen Shanks recently. (And he calls Shanks a coward, making Luffy fly into a rage.) We don't get an actual flashback.
Chapter 1132: Collun has a flashback to Shanks telling him to remember the name "Strawhat Luffy", though it's unclear when this was.
Chapter 1126: The most recent sighting of Shanks in the present, between Egghead and Wano. He teaches Barto a lesson about burning his flag (Shanks has friends and allies to protect!), and then - after being pleased to see the kind of loyalty Luffy can inspire - has Yasopp fire on the Going Luffy-senpai, which blows up. (The status of the Barto Club crew is listed as "Unknown".)
Chapter 1124 That is, the interaction with Barto is the most recent chronological sighting in the manga... unless this mysterious silhouette on Elbaph seen drinking from a bottle and saying "Come" is Shanks!
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And that's Shanks' timeline as of chapter 1187, to the best of my ability to put one together with Tumblr's limit of 30 images! (This timeline also doesn't include Uta, given her highly liminal canon status.)
Title: Taboo!!
Pages: 40
Rating: PG-13
Circles: Himegoto
Summary: An AU scenario in which Ace is a Marine and Marco rescues him from a cyclone, leading them stranded on a deserted island together. Ā But this might not be the first time theyāve metā¦
Notes: A big thank you to akemichan007 for providing the scans and allowing me to translate and post these here! Ā
Rules:Ā Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tagĀ as many people as you have WIPs.Ā People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!
One Piece
Wedding Story (Hongo/Lime)
Soulmate AU (Shanks/Benn)
Benn as Fleet admiral (Shanks/Benn, very sad and angsty)
(Fast) baby an board! (German - self-insert/Shanks/Benn) - very self-indulgent
me-time (German - a five plus one which I struggle really hard with the last two of the five part)
Decided to load up an old project and actually made some real progress? Well, a little, at least.
Shirt is almost done, save for cleaning up and blending more. A bit more shading/highlighting left in his ponytail. Edited the trigger housing for the rifle. Still not sure about it. Might make it a smidge smaller, the scale just feels...off. Idk, haven't exactly been around many flintlock rifles in person. May need to do a little more visual research.
Working on smoothing out the linework as I go now that I found a brush I strongly prefer for it.
Mainly though, it's the rifle. Saved the majority of it for last because I know the hardware is gonna be a bitch.
But FUCK he's pretty and I refuse to let this one sit among my WIPs for any longer. My darling Beck deserves better than that.
send me a pairing and a number and iāll write you a drabble
(Part one:Ā 1-50)
51.Ā āWhat the hell are you wearing?ā
52.Ā āCan I kiss you?ā
53.Ā āWho crawls through someoneās window at 4am to go for ice cream?!ā
54.Ā āI donāt hate you. I could never hate you. Thatās the problem.ā
55.Ā āOur first date is a picnic on a beach under the stars? Have you swallowed a romance novel? Do I need to call a doctor?ā
56.Ā āI canāt stand the thought of losing you.ā
57.Ā āTeach me to fight.ā
58.Ā āIād die for you. Of course, Iād haunt you in the afterlife but really, itās the thought that counts.ā
59.Ā āTell me to go and I will, but if you ask me to stay Iāll never leave you again.ā
60.Ā āBefore you decide to murder me, let me explainā¦ā
61.Ā āI love you. Iām completely and utterly in love with you. Please donāt get married.ā
62.Ā āItās only one night, weāll just share the bed.ā
63.Ā āStop running from this. I know Iām not the only one who feels it.ā
64.Ā āAre you ticklish?ā
65.Ā āI wish you could see yourself the way I see you.ā
66.Ā āThe only thing I want is you.ā
67.Ā āOf all the people I couldāve gotten stuck in an elevator with and it just had to be you.ā
68.Ā āPILLOW FIGHT!ā
69.Ā āWhy the hell are you bleeding!?ā
70.Ā āYouāre so beautiful.ā
71.Ā āKiss me, quick!ā
72.Ā āI will knock you on your ass if you even think about it.ā
73.Ā āWe shouldnāt be doing this.ā
74.Ā āDonāt let go.ā
75.Ā āIām going for a swim. Do you wanna join me?ā
76.Ā āI need you to pretend weāre datingā¦ā
77.Ā āThere was never a choice.ā
78.Ā āIām sorry. I shouldnāt have kissed you.ā
79.Ā āThatās the third time Iāve saved your life!āĀ
80.Ā āHow can you think Iām anything but hopelessly in love with you?ā
81.Ā āI need you to leave.ā
82.Ā āThis is all your fault! I canāt believe I listened to you!ā
83.Ā āItās always been you.ā
84.Ā āIām dying.ā
85.Ā āI will never apologize for saving your life, even if it costs me my own.ā
86.Ā āI guess dying with you isnāt the worse way to go.ā
87.Ā āYou were never just my friend.ā
88.Ā āDonāt panic but I think we might have accidentally gotten marriedā¦ā
89.Ā āIām not leaving you!ā
90.Ā āI canāt do this anymore.ā
91.Ā āI remember everything.ā
92.Ā āWhat do you want me to say?ā
93.Ā āI tried, but I just canāt stay away from you anymore.ā
94.Ā āI bet I can make you scream my name.ā
95.Ā āThereās no going back if we do this.ā
96.Ā āI never thought youād hurt me but I was wrong. You hurt me the most.ā
97.Ā āI want you and I know you want me too.ā
98.Ā āI canāt watch you with someone else. Itās tearing me apart.ā
99.Ā āWeāre in an abandoned lodge in the middle of nowhere. Sure, youāre totally right, nothing bad could ever happen here.ā
100. A quote of your choice.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hongo/Limejuice (One Piece)
Characters: Hongo (One Piece), Limejuice (One Piece), Akagami Kaizoku | Red-Hair Pirates
Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Safe Sane and Consensual, Hand Jobs, Idiots in Love, Secret Relationship, Hongo is called Doc, Lime is a good boyfriend, look there's plot between the smut, Fluff and Smut, First Time
Series: Part 2 of Juicy Tea stories (Hongo/Lime verse)
Summary:
Every day, every second spent with Lime helped Hongo come to terms with his own desires and wants. He couldn't open up about their relationship in front of the crew, yet. That was a step too far, even though he knew he would take it one day, too. Now, however, what he wanted was to deepen their connection on a more intimate level... a level he had no experience in. Thankfully, Lime was a very willing teacher.
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