I want Luffy and Sabo old and grey when they appeared in afterlife world.
And thereās Ace who meet them.
Still Young, forever 20 Ace, whoās become the most little and small one for his little brothers.
Who had dark hair and full of young energy in his eyes, if we compare them with old and tired with wrinkles over their eyes.
While Sabo and Luffy outgrew him in decades.
When they eventually could see him together.
Pulls his tall, big and old younger brothers into tight long-waited hug.
Ace uses their names with love and adoration, that nobody but Ace himself could say it.
He says he was there for them the whole time, even though they couldn't see him. And he's so proud of them, glad for them and so happy to see them both only now, when they achieved all their dreams and goals.
Warm words, so dear to heart hug, their big brother smiles and look at them like nothing changed, like nothing happened, like theyāre grew together as they planned toā¦
while being in the arms of their young older brother, the formidable pirate king, as well as the divine revolutionary fire emperor wait only a moment so in the next, they sob, weep and start crying load, clutching Ace in their arms in response.
All titles left behind. Sabo and Luffy are just little brothers who missed a large time for their oniiā¦their older brother for far too long.
So theyāre no longer old and in some parts cranky old men, theyāre children now again.
Again as they were at Dawn together.