Thinking thinking about how each of the ASL brothers had such a simple thank you for the others that held so much weight
Luffy thanking Ace and Sabo for saving him from the blue jam pirates, never having doubts in them helping him regardless of how they treated him. Them not understanding why he didn't rat them out to save his own skin and Luffy simply stating that they're friends.
Ace thanking Luffy for loving him after getting in the middle of a fatal attack aimed at him. Finally getting to recognize the love that surrounded him after so long, something that Ace was never able to see up until he was on deaths door for the crime of being alive. Getting to tell the person he swore to live for thank you as his last words.
Sabo meeting his little brother for the first time in twelve years after getting ripped away from him. Luffy essentially breaking down for the first time in two years with someone he thought he lost and apologizing for not being able to save their older brother. Apologizing for being too weak to get him out of the cluster fuck that was Marineford and having him die right in front of him. Luffy bearing his regrets out just for Sabo to thank him for being alive. Like, yes, our brother is gone and that devastated us both. We might never fully heal from the loss but at least you made it out alive and thats all that matters. Telling him that loosing his two brothers without being able to do anything and ending up alone would be the end of the world for him. Thanking him for SURVIVING the hell he went through.
Gosh I'm unwell
