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Nikaposting Pt 1: Crypto-Religion
This is the first of a series of posts about Nika & associated religious practice in the One Piece world. As I write and post the rest of the series, I’ll add links to this header.
Pt 2: Symbology & Syncretism | Pt 3: Joyboy was Shandian | Pt 4: Sun God Tropes
Enormous credit to @oriigami for being my discussion partner through all of this and having a substantial influence on the final product. Check out our ao3 series Joyful for a narrative rather than analytical take on the Nika tradition, and definitely go read her OP blog @kaizokuou-ni-naru for meta and translation fun facts.
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The Nika Cult is a Crypto-Religion
Terminology note: I will be using cult in these posts in the sense of “cult of worship,” rather than in the modern pejorative sense. Additionally, I tend to use “tradition” rather than “religion” as a general term, because “religion” is a messy and difficult to define concept, while “tradition” is much more inclusive of traditional practices, folk beliefs, and cults of worship that may not be considered religions by Western scholarship.
Raise your hand if you saw Kuma’s church and Bible, concluded “oh, the Nika stuff is basically One Piece Christianity,” and moved on with your life.
It’s an easy assumption to make, and for all I know authorial intent may well stop there. I’m not Oda. I’ll never be able to guess what goes on behind those fish eyes of his. But a second look at the worldbuilding around both Nika and Christianity in One Piece brought me to a very different conclusion: that the Nika cult is a crypto-religion and is, in Kuma’s case, using the outward appearance of Christianity as camouflage.
Devil on your shoulder
“Gone” Rouge says, eyes blank and dead holding unto her stomach
Theres blood on the floor.
“Gone” she says, breaking as she clutches at her clothes
Her voice breaks as she bows down, And her voice tears and breaks and Roger,
Roger has just arrived and walked closer and closer to the love of his life.
Sees the blood and the floor and how it reaches the sheets where She clutches her stomach, her back shaking and whimpers escapes.
He reaches her and kneels before her reaching out to the back of her head where her hair fell with sweat and blood
He takes a deep shaky breath, and calls for her
“Rouge”
She turns to look at him, with heartbroken eyes and a bloody lip from where she ried to keep quiet.
“My Love” Rouge breaks and her face falls to hacking breathes as tears just falls freely
“She tries to speak and tell him of the awful news, it was supposed to be good, it was supposed to be a gift but here she was bloodied and grieving for a life that could have been.
Her voice is inaudible and it hurts it hurts to say, but roger just holds her and pulls her towards him with a kiss on her forehead , as she sits up and he sits beside her.
Roger stays quiet and was a firm hold on Rouge as they layed side by side the bed, as tears fell from both of their eyes, and sobs were let free bodies shaking as they grieved.
Roger A captain, a lover and a father but not yet king grieved wit Rouge, a lover a hunter and a mother and not yet dead.
For a life that could have been and a child that they already love but never got to meet.
———-
That day, Roger and Rouge, only lovers lost their first child. This will later on fuel Rouges will to stay in her island the next time she becomes pregnant and make sure to always keep her baby safe, more than her want for adventure, for her love, and for her freedom. She was a mother and she wont ever let anyone take that away from her again.
Roger made this his promise. He names his lost child, Ann, Gol D. Ann.
Rouge asks, how he knew to name their child Ann, a girls name, Roger smiles sadly, Its selfish of me but its just a wish that I would have a daughter as my first. They are smarter they said.
Rouge laughs and says, Girls are indeed smarter.
They hold each other unnotice the little spirit that floats in between them content being unseen but loved.
————-
The little spirit follows Rouge whereve she goes, like a ships spirit, keeping rouge safe and free of illness before it could take, safe from malicious intent and strength to keep going.
Those that are sensitive to spirits would look at this pure spirit who lingers around this woman and knows the grief she has had, so loved and cared for Rouge tears up when a Medium she met holds her hands and tell her that she is loved, that the love she has given to the one she has lost is given back and never leave her.
The little spirit plays with Oro Jacksons spirit when rouge comes to visit, the ship makes sue to care for them, leading them around and doing all they can that the captain would have if he could. what the crew would have done if they could.
Rouge is loved by the ship, always finding spare golds or food and just whatever she would need.
Roger thinks its a conspiracy and unfair how rouge is loved more by the ship. But the ship loves Rouge as kuch as roger and the crew loves rouge. As kuch as the spirit loves rouge. And rouge loves the crew and the ship and her little spirit so much so Rouge is lucky and she is loved.
—————
One day Rouge gets sick. Its been so long since Rouge has ever gotten sick, felt as dizzy as she does now.
But instinctively she knows why. She hasnt seen roger since 3 months ago. And she was late now she realizes.
“Oh”
Rouge says looking at her belly.
She sits and says “Oh”
Tears well up in her eyes and a promise is born.
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Rouge visit the island and of the little children there love her and she loves them just as much. They greet her and gift her little things they find during their little adventures. Telling her of what they found and what they saw. Sometimes they even tell her how loved she is. They come visit her house and Rouge believe wholeheartedly that her baby that she lost years ago, is still here and she knows and believes this when the little children laughs in her living room, when they wave at somewhere beside her. When they say goodbye and visit her again and again with stories and gifts and tell her that she is loved.
One day during this trips, the children greets her and comes closer excitedly before stopping a few metes away, cautiosly and carefully. The little spirit, just a small thing that floats around Rouge calls for them and floats excitedly but warningly by rouges stomach.
The children have always been closer to death, newborns as they are to life.
Sensitive to things unseen by those weathered already by reality.
Rouge beckon them closer with treats by her side and a pretty dress.
The children curiously comes closer, they look at one another and comes closer, carefully.
They know.
“Miss rouge! Miss rouge!”
“Yes?”
“Do you have a baby?”
Startled but pleased, Rouge laughs and ask them,
“Do I? How do you if i have a baby?”
“Well, our friend told us you do.”
“Your friend told you? And what else did they say?”
“Hmmm, its gonna be a boy!”
“Yeah! And that they promise that theyll keep them safe and love them alot just as you loved them.”
Rouge cries and hold her stomach and the children worries and comes around to hug her.
“They say theyre sorry, miss rouge that they couldnt tell you themselves, but they promise that they would always watch over him and keep him safe”
Rouge cries and tells them its okay, thankyou and that they love them so much.
The kids run all happy after the treats and the moment theyre gone Rouge hokd her stomach and tells her Promises.
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Roger finds out about Rouge being pregnant and what the children have said.
A brief silly gender reveal party and names were picked.
Even the little secret that theyre little Ann that they never met was still with them made it much sweeter.
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Ace.
Gol D. Ace
That would be his name.
Son and Brother.
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Roger dies.
After his body breathes its last, taken by his sickness, by the blades in his chest, he is greeted by light.
He is home, and beside him is a child, a young girl who looks up at him with the eyes of the one he loves and a smile he knows from his own. Little stars on her face and hair, a familiar auburn.
He hears her laughter and her little hand held in his. He has never been one to keep his emotions held locked tight, always so freely expressed infornt of his family.
He loves her had loved her and will love her as he has dead or alive.
She walks with him, and her voice that he never get to hear he finally does and she tells him of all the stories he never did had an explanation for, She tells him of all that she never got to do so, of her adventures, of rouge and rayleighnof gaban and the two stooges, Buggy and Shanks, of the ship and all that came to pass,
She tells him of the past and the present and they talk and it seems like its forever, Roger would be fine to stat here with her, but, at the end of the story and the end of the ships route,
Where they have sat at the deck,
She tells him of the future.
And she tells him of what could be.
She sits reminiscnet to how Rouge has sat in his arms when they lost her and Ann tells him of the Risk and will that Rouge has decided on. Roger, in heartbreak but in awe. Laughs heartbreakingly.
She looks up at him.
“Papa”
Roger chokes and cries.
“I love you.”
Roger who has never gotten to hold his child, and will never get to hold his other one.
Takes this chance to hold her.
His little Ann.
“I love you too, more than youd ever know”
Roger says, holding this treasure worth more than the whole worlds gold.
“I know.” She says as she wiped his tears away with her little hands.
She would have been four by now, he thinks, shes Beautiful, He wonders.
“Papa, I cant save mama.”
He nods and tell her “Its okay.”
“But Ill make sure to keep Ace safe.”
Roger holds his Daughter betwen his hands.
“I promise.”
And knows she will keep that promise better than he has ever kept his.
“I know.” He says
“I believe you my beautiful lovely baby girl.”
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Roger dies and meets his baby girl that he had never got to meet. But he has always loved her and always will, this was a promise, a devotion and his will.
He named her Gol D. Ann, his little treasure. How he would have given her the world if she had asked it of him.
Rouge dies to give Ace his chance at life. Rouge dies and meets the little girl that has kept her safe all this years. Who had loved her and apologize for leaving so soon. Who played with the island children and told them how to keep her safe. Ann who has kept her and ace safe and strong.
And will continue to do so.
Roger and Rouge dies. Ace lives and Ann lingers.
But though they all may have never had the chance to become an actual family. They have loved one another beyond everything and anything.
That cursed ad they were. Hunted and hated as they are.
They were also free and full of love.
Rouge Roger Ann and Ace.
A family of four.
Once separated and one day reunited. Forever loved.
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Portgas D. Ace. A rookie who has traveled the east blue into the grandline. One with a flame flame fruit and a past no one is sure of.
But one thing is for sure and its that Ace has a devil on his shoulder.
Not metaphorically, but a literal devil on his shoulder that anyone would swear to have seen watching them on occasion.
Ace has always told them that they were seeing things, that they were crazy and maybe they need to get their eyes checked.
But his eyes is always filled with mirth like he knows but will never confirm it.
He never denies it.
He laughs like the he devil that he is.
Ace has the flame flame fruit and often people will swear to a figure made of his flame flickering over his shoulder. A woman they swear who would watch over his back over his shoulder, one they swear would whisper in Aces ear and he would lean in to hear.
A language they dont know, words they have never heard and voices they swear haunts their dreams.
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There is a devil on aces shoulder. Ace calls her Ann, he says shes his older sister.
The Spade pirates doubts his words.
They tell him that that cant be, that maybe its the devil fruit itself, maybe its old user.
Ace laughs and says No.
They tell him it cant be, maybe its something else, maybe another devil fruit put a curse on him.
Ace laughs and says No.
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Ace has a sister. Ace always had a sister. This he knows. For as long as he can remember. Ace has never been alone and always had his older sister.
No one believe him when he says he does. never believe him when he says her name is Ann.
Ace believes in himself and his sister more than he does anyone else.
He knows more than he should. More than he has been taught by those whos around him.
He grew up to people telling him his sister is an imaginary friend, or a spirit from the mountain.
Ace knows his sister is more than that. And that she came from the sea.
She tells him of stories of adventure, of love and heartbreak.
And people who would have loved him just as she loves him.
Of people who hed have called Mom and Dad. Uncle and aunts, of cousins and siblings.
Ace cries.
——————
Ace always laughs and he always cries.
Ace is free to do as he does because he has his elder sister to watch him.
Ace is only 3 years old.
He calls for a name Dadan and the rest becomes familiar with for the future.
Its his first word.
“Ann”
“Ann”
“Ann”
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May 27
WIP NOTES APP, Unedited Draft
“The Devil on my shoulder”
Prompt: What if there was a a strange hallucination of a fire devil on ace shoulder that people will swear to Davy Jones exist but Ace never confirms exist.
Prompt 2: What if Ace has an older sister that Rouge and Roger Lost a few years before Ace but Siblings Dna will always stay with the mother and look out for the mothers health and the babies after.
Prompt 3: Narcolepsy. Every time Ace is hit by Narcolepsy, Ann takes over and makes sure everything is safe and okay. Mini DID.
Father-daughter behaviour
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something that breaks my heart is how easily thatch died. thatch, the fourth division commander of the whitebeard pirates, must’ve been incredibly powerful. the whitebeard commanders we know in detail: marco, oden, ace, izou, jozu, vista, etc, are renown as some of the most powerful characters in their respective fortes each. the whitebeard pirates were titans of the pirate world, and to hold a position of power in their ranks is placing you easily among some of the most powerful in one piece almost inherently.
but thatch died without a fight to our knowledge, thatch died quietly, found in a pool of his own blood, body already cold. thatch died very literally stabbed in the back, in the middle of the night without last words that would reach anyone’s ears. it’s brutal and more than anything, it’s so unpleasantly bitter.
i think how he died is very symbolic of the whitebeard pirates as a crew. a man who, while we don’t know in combat, is at least comparable to the commanders we do know. his faith and family-orientated love was so unwavering it caused a man like that to die swiftly and silently. while blackbeard’s power pre-devil fruit is nothing to undermine, especially given the wound he gave shanks, i refuse to believe thatch wouldn’t of at least been able to defend himself briefly; long enough to be heard. thatch died with unquestioning love in his heart, not for one second was his guard up, and only in teach’s gross abuse of that trust did thatch succumb. thatch died so easily, and nothing hurts more than that.
all the whitebeard pirates died for love. oden died, tortured and shot, after holding his loved ones above his head for an hour so they wouldn’t boil alive alongside him. thatch died with unquestioning adoration, stabbed in the back by a member of his cherished family. ace died indirectly as a result of trying to avenge thatch, and directly by defending luffy in the pinnacle of marineford, protecting his little brother until his last breath. whitebeard died attempting to rescue ace, falling victim to hundreds of wounds in his path as he clambered to save his son. ultimately, the bullet that would kill him was from the gun of the son that betrayed him. izou died in sacrifice, telling his younger sister to live. he died fighting against enemies who intended to hurt ace’s little brother and who would’ve doomed his homeland if they succeeded. whitebeard pirates are so kind, love is as natural to them as breathing. i am hoping, in some way, there will be a resting conclusion to all the suffering they have been dealt so horribly. they are so full of love, and that makes their story so tragic.
I'm sure Luffy takes being a big brother very seriously!
Luffy and Kite (aka Grumpy)~ I was in the mood for some self-indulgent kid OC doodling :D And I just really like Grumpy!
(Grumpy's a year younger than Luffy.)
It might take him a while to process.
Rocks telling Whitebeard that he's pregnant has been requested. ;3
Previous parts: Part 1 & Part 2
(I had to be somewhat reasonable with their height difference because otherwise I wouldn't have figured out how to draw this X'DD Let's just imagine that Whitebeard wasn't done growing at this point when he was around 27.)
Thanks to Luffy, Kite can forget flying under the radar as a marine in the East Blue (where he was less likely to run across Garp or a certain Warlord). No training wheels! Straight to Marine Headquarters with you, kid!
Bonus:
"Backwater Boys concert."
"Ah, cool."