Anybody else get emotional about how yeah Luffy went to go see this ‘demon of the East blue’ guy with a super scary reputation, who told him to fuck off, because he remembers when he was younger and met a boy angry at the world, who everyone hated and called a demon child until the boy himself believed he was a monster?
Or how Luffy went after Nami and Robin and Sanji when they told him not to because he remembers the last time he saw someone go somewhere they hated to try to protect others?
Or how he doesn’t listen when everyone says Nami and Sanji left out of choice and they’d be happier there and they’ll come back if they want, because he remembers the last time someone he was told to forget a loved one who left, remembers how he felt learning too late that his own brother never stopped loving him and suffered alone the entire time?
How of course he trusts Law because he remembers the last powerful pirate he’d met who literally sewed Luffy’s own wounds without being asked to. And of course he gets Law out of those sea stone cuffs even when Law threatens to kill him, because he remembers when two boys said they’d kill him only to rescue him and fight by his side?
Of course he lets his crew laugh at him, because he remembers the kind pirate who let himself be laughed at by his subordinates, not a hint of resentment in his being?
Of course he’s nice to Koby and every civilian he meets because he remembers that same pirate being so kind to Makino
Of course he doesn’t care when Usopp lies or when Sanji or Jinbei or Nami weren’t fully upfront about their past, because he remembers a little boy so ashamed, so disgusted with his birth parents and their cruelty that he’d rather let his only friends think he was born in a landfill
Of course he talks to Whitebeard and Rayleigh like they’re no one special, because he remembers talking to a powerful pirate like that when he was younger
Of course he lets Bellamy disrespect him and call him weak and pathetic without fighting back, because he remembers a pirate who didn’t participate in an easy fight unless an innocent bystander got mixed in
Of course he’s willing to get stabbed and bruised and burned and poisoned and get back up, because he remembers the man who lost an arm to protect him without flinching, remembers the boy who refused to back down from an impossible fight if it would put others in danger
Of course he carries a sick Nami to go get her medicine, because he remembers his brother doing that same thing for the woman who risked her life saving them from pirates and fire
Of course he goes out to sea alone and leaves everything he knows, because he remembers his brothers doing that
Of course he holds his head high and laughs loud and loves a good fight, his brothers and grandfather taught him that
Of course he wants to be free and truly believes he can do what he wants, because it’s all anyone who’s ever loved him has wanted
