unsure how much hate i managed to put in this stupid image but anyway hopefully it will be more effective in catching people's attention instead of just text. the amount of people on tumblr who ignore all this and/or continue actively playing the game always puzzled me. a recent example — how many people realized that the masquerade knights event was (extremely effective) damage control for a 4katsuki song that came out at a relatively same time? apparently not a lot considering that the tag was full of knights mv screenshots. and there's even more older instances of things like that happening
Commision for @muni-is-never-ready 🫀 | Nami & God Usopp
Pairing(s): Nami x Jessamine Nightshade (oc) x God Usopp
Genre: Smut, fluff, angst
Warnings: This content is for a mature audience.
Synopsis: Love filled the entire room. The caresses went from soft and reassuring to desperate and more intimate, and kisses turned deeper and more intense. All words were left behind.
Author's notes: This is a commission for @muni-is-never-ready! This was quite the challenge, and I'm so happy to have taken on it! Jessamine is super cute and interesting and to be able to ship her with Usopp and Nami was so fun! If you want to commission some of my work, please send me a DM they are always open! 🫀
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As the blood, the screams and the violence die down, Jessamine falls to her knees. She can hear her heartbeat in her ears, the sound of blood pumping through her veins, and dripping down her skin. Her vision gets blurry and clearer at the same time, but the lack of oxygen makes her dizzy, a headache already forming in the back of her head. Scratches, bruises and cuts cover her skin; they ache, sting, but her brain hasn't quite caught up to the pain.
She looks around and makes out the images of Ulti and Page One lying on the floor a few meters in front of her. Unconscious. The three are lying in a pool made out of a mixture of their blood. And while she's used to it, it doesn't mean she likes it.
Her lungs burn and crave air; her mind is trying to grasp reality. Letting go, for a very brief second, of the mentality that drives her during every fight.
Keep the ones you love safe.
But as the adrenaline fog slowly dissipates, a new, overwhelming wave of feelings takes its place.
Are they okay?
Are they hurt?
Are they scared?
...
Of me?
She knows who's behind her. She can hear the quick beating of their hearts. She knows what they've seen and fears looking back.
She cannot bring herself to face them. Not brave enough, not strong enough.
Two anthropomorphic beasts like Kaido's minions, she can face any day, anywhere. Even if she isn't a fan of violence itself. But the sole idea of Nami and Usopp rejecting her? Her heart would die right there.
She can already see Nami's tears dripping down as she runs away from her. Usopp’s screams as he begs her to get away from him.
Poor Tama, was she terrified of her? Would the scene haunt her in her dreams?
A thousand thoughts haunted her head, each worse than the last. This pain she could feel, raw, unfiltered. This one might actually kill her.
She clutched her chest, trying to keep her heart from coming out of her body, her breathing laboured and stinging, vomit threatening to travel up her throat as her body shook violently.
“Jess!”
A sweet, nasal tone in her ears.
“Jess!”
A warm, innocent sensation on her back.
“Jess!”
A citrus, floral smell on her nostrils.
It felt like a hand, pulling her out of the ocean she was drowning in. A bright light guides her throughout the darkness.
Nami, Usopp and Tama surrounded her. Hugging her, clinging onto her, crying and screaming out their love for her.
Nightshade could barely make out what was coming out of their mouths. It was an amalgamation of ‘I love you's’, Thank you's’, and praises.
Her orange-headed lover took her face into her hands, inspecting any deep wounds. Caressing her cheeks, cleaning the blood that stained her skin, pouting with every cut she saw. The long-nosed kissed her shoulders and told her how glad he was to have her.
But she didn't answer back; she couldn't. Nami then noticed how unfocused her eyes were, how disoriented she looked. She turned to Usopp, who had just noticed the same symptoms. This made their hearts shrink a little, but they decided not to show it, so as not to scare the little girl.
For now, they would try to rejoice in the fact that their lover was alive and back in their arms.
The aftermath had taken a toll on everyone. Luffy and Zoro’s bodies had been exhausted beyond anything they’d ever experienced before. It was physically, mentally, and emotionally draining for everyone, but now it is over. The war is finally over. There’s still a lot to be done, but Wano was finally free.
Usopp was covered in bandages from the tip of his nose to his feet, but he was well and content to have survived one more of the Straw Hats’ adventures. He sat outside the room where Jess and Nami were resting, waiting for them to wake up. His leg bounced up and down, his fingers fidgeted, and he turned around every couple of minutes to see any sign of them, but he knew he had to be patient.
Inside the room was Nami, who had awoken just a few minutes ago. She was looking at her lover’s face. And even though Jessamine’s skin was covered in bruises and cuts, she looked gorgeous in her eyes. With the tip of her finger, she traced every feature; the birthmarks under her eyes, the rough and patchy skin of her chapped lips, the softness of her eyelids, and the bridge of her nose, the warm tone of her skin. She wanted to remember every single detail of her, for when enough time has passed, and they’ve grown old and wrinkly together. And because, even though it hurts to think, staying alive at sea is more of a privilege than a guarantee.
It wasn’t long before Jess' eyes opened, slowly, tired. They tried to focus on the darkness of the room, but it didn’t take much for her to recognise who was lying next to her.
“Hi,” Nami whispered.
“Hey.” Jessamine looked around, her brain trying to process where they were.
“We are in the infirmary. Don’t stress about it, we are okay.” It was like she could read her mind.
She just nodded. Allowing her body to finally relax. Every muscle in her body aches, but her poor heart can finally get a break. “How are you feeling?”
Nami shook her head. “I’m fine. How are you? Do I need to call Chopper? You lost a lot of blood.”
“Fine? I mean, as good as I can feel after fighting two dinosaurs. I can feel every single one of my stitches, though.” She laughed humourlessly.
Nami smiled, but there was some worry behind the gesture. “Do you remember what happened?”
“Parts of it mostly. Between the fight, the pain and passing out, my brain’s still trying to process everything. I know I kept coming in and out of sleep. I think at some point, I was next to Zoro?”
“Yeah, when they first brought you guys here, you were all in the same room, so Chopper and the other doctors could check on you.” Nami filled in the gaps for her but didn’t elaborate much.
She remembered everything. Everyone was running around, checking for survivors, taking in prisoners. People cried and screamed, they celebrated in the streets, but Usopp and Nami couldn’t really join them since they were too busy worrying about their girlfriend and friends.
Jessamine had been taken along with her captain and second-in-command. The room was covered in blood; loud groans could be heard from all over the building as doctors stitched them back up. Nurses came in and out of the room, but no one would give them any updates. And even though it had only been a couple of hours, to the crew it felt like decades.
“Are you okay?” Jess asked back, pulling Nami out of her trance.
“I’m alive.” Nami said, placing a kiss on the top of her head and giving her a small smile, “I’m going to go get Usopp, he’s going crazy out there.” She didn’t wait for an answer, just got up and left the room for a couple of seconds.
Behind her was the sniper, who, no matter how much he tried, couldn’t hide how worried he was.
“Hey, hi, hey.” His voice came out of breath, anxious. He didn’t want her to see him like this, but the only thing he could think of was hugging her. To stretch her between his arms with all his strength, feel her, reassure his mind she was there and alive, but he knew better than to do that. Law and Chopper would probably punch him if he reopened any of her wounds.
“Hey.” She gave him a tired smile.
Neither Nami nor Usopp said anything; they just held her hands. They scanned her body, the bruises and the tattoos that decorated her skin, but then looked away. And this threw her off. A couple of minutes flew by, and no one would acknowledge what was happening inside their heads. Jessamine could feel the energy in the room. It was heavy, uncertain. It made her uncomfortable and made worry brew in her mind. Why were they acting like this? Were they scared? Had their view of her changed? Had their love?
“I’m sorry if I scared you guys.” She mumbled, pulling her hands out of their grips.
Nami shook her head, “What’s important is that you are alive.”
“I know it can look a bit scary, but we were in danger, and I tried to make it as quick as possible cause Tama was there...” The verbiage began, every single concern in her mind escaped her without second thought. She played with the tips of her purple hair, not wanting to look them in the eyes.
Usopp’s eyebrows furrowed, “What are you talking about?”
“I understand how it can look, the blood and the webs, all that must have frightened you, of course it did. Oh gods, I hope Tama is okay...”
“Hey, hey, Jess, hey...” Nami took her face in her hands. She knew this dance all too well and knew she needed to stop it before Jess got too caught up in her own insecurities.
Jess' eyes began filling up with tears, her heartbeat speeding up, and the need to throw up invaded her, “I love you, and I don’t want you to...” A small sting appeared on her side, “Ouch!”
The Cat Burglar gave her a bright, cheeky smile, “It’s the only way to get you out of your ass.”
Usopp giggled and pushed himself closer to them.
“We were not scared of you, Jess. We were scared for you, dummy.”
Jess' eyebrows furrowed, confusion written all over her face.
“Babe, you were covered in blood. You looked almost grey and were barely breathing when you got here.”
“I did?”
Usopp nodded, playing with her fingers, “We would never fear you. I know your ability is still a bit of a touchy subject for you, but we think it’s very cool.”
Jess shook her head, “No, I get that it sometimes can be...” Nami cut her off once again.
“It’s not. Not to us.”
Nami and Usopp were some of the jumpiest members of the crew, but they would never lie to her. In their eyes, Jess was smart, brave, kind, a hopeless nerd, and so unbelievably hot.
Jessamine’s eyes filled up with tears, her lower lip trembled, and the knot in her chest unravelled, “Are you sure?”
“We never want to lose you, Jess.” Usopp couldn’t hold it in any longer; his eyes mimicked hers. Nami’s following them.
In just a second, the three of them became a tangle mess of tears, limbs and soft cries of affection, worry and gibberish. Love filled the entire room. The caresses went from soft and reassuring to desperate and more intimate, and kisses turned deeper and more intense. All words were left behind.
Usopp’s hand travelled from her face to her hips, pushing her closer, making her feel all of him. He thrusted against her and moaned on the back of her neck. Nami’s lips descended, sucking on her lips, then her neck, but being gentle, not wanting to leave more marks on her, at least not right now. Her tongue drew along the ink of the constellations on her shoulder and the blue that reminded them of her past, of where and what she’s been through.
“Love you.” Whispered Usopp. He needed to feel them close but didn’t know how to ask for it. No matter how long they’ve been together, it was still a hard subject. Not only for him, but for the three. Childhood had been a rough time, too many losses, too much pain for such young minds. But it was moments like this that helped like a balm, nourishing their chipped hearts.
“I love you,” Nami whispered back, now going for his lips. Her tongue entered his mouth without any shame or hesitation.
Jessamine pulled off her clothes, discarding them all over the floor, paying no mind as to where they would end up, then she did the same with theirs, but this time, careful of their bandages. As Nami´s breasts spilt out of her underwear, she latched onto one of her nipples, sucking it, rough, no care or thought, just raw need.
Nami moaned inside Usopp’s mouth, her hand against the back of her other lover’s head, pushing her closer to her chest, wanting to feel her even more. She simply needed more.
They moved around.
Jessamine stayed in the middle but now lay on her back, Nami now kissing her as Usopp moved further down. His mouth sucked on one of her nipples as his fingers pulled on the other, tongue moving around the small button and pulling on it. The Devil Fruit user moaned against her lover’s mouth, one of her hands on her hair and the other on the man worshipping her body.
Nami didn’t want to be left behind, so with no hesitation, she opened her legs, immediately going for her clitoris, toying with it, pressing it and squeezing it softly between her fingers in a V. Jessamine was so turned on that it didn’t take much for her to be able to put her fingers inside her. Two fingers went in as her thumb stimulated her clit. Jess' hips snapped up, following the feeling, chasing Nami’s hand, moaning and whining for more. Between Usopp’s lips and Nami’s hand, it was almost too much.
“Nami!” She gasped.
She moved her mouth from her lover’s and looked for her breasts until she was able to get one inside her mouth. Moaning around it, sucking on it without any regard. A wet smack as she alternated between the two buds.
“Usopp...” Nami moaned, wanting to feel him closer. And he obliged.
He pulled himself away from Jess' tits and went for Nami’s mouth, but she stopped him, opening her mouth wide and showing him her tongue.
Usopp swallowed, “fuck...” He kneeled on the bed next to Jess' body. His cock was dark, long and hard, the head swollen and red-tinted. Nami took him into her mouth and pushed it until he was touching the back of her throat, making her gag. It was messy, saliva dribbling down and landing on Jess' chest; she moaned around him and ran her tongue on the underside of the phallus. Then came up to focus on the head, following the rhythm and movements that Jess was doing on her nipples.
“Oh gods, Nami...” He stroked her cheek as she pushed his cock against it.
But Nami’s focal point was being tested, and her fingers were faltering, making Jess whine.
“Please, please, please, more...” Jess begged. And while usually, Nami might tease her for that, in this moment, the only thing both Usopp and she could think of was giving her anything and everything she wanted. So, they gave into her wishes.
Nami pulled her fingers out. Usopp pulled himself out of Nami´s mouth and moved between Jess’ legs, bringing her closer to him by her hips. He lost his breath as he saw her gaping hole. It craved him. His fingers circled around the entrance, thrusting inside and teasing her just for a second.
“Please, Usopp. Fuck me, please.” Tears flooded her eyes, her chest heaved heavily. He became completely enamoured by the view.
He took his cock and slapped against her hole, circling it before pushing himself inch by inch. She came as soon as he did this; her legs thrashed around, and she was loving every single second.
“Shit!” He groaned. She was choking him.
“’need your pretty mouth on me, baby. You ready?” Jess nodded with enthusiasm, and Nami gave her a quick peck on the lips before throwing her leg on the other side next to her face.
Her glistening cunt now rested a few inches on top of her face. Pretty pink, dripping wet and swollen, her hole clenching around nothing, crying out for any kind of pleasure. Jess' mouth watered, and with no further thought, she ran her tongue through Nami’s folds, tasting her essence and making her cry out.
“Just like that, baby. Just like that, just like...” Her mind had left all clarity behind, too lost in the pleasure. Her entire body was shaking with need. Her hands looked for Usopp, and he was quick to appease their want. The long-nosed leaned closer to her and gave her a kiss. Nami's tongue searched for his.
Their bodies fused in a mix of pleasure, passion and need. Nami rode Jess' face, she moaned against her, and her hips pushed against Usopp’s hard thrusts and fingers on her clit.
His cock stroked and pushed on her walls, looking for that place that drove her inside, pushing and bullying her cervix, rubbing and arousing every nerve on her body. Her walls sucked him in; her essence formed a milky white ring around his cock, and her juices dripped down to the bed sheets.
Nami grinded against her mouth, and Jess responded by sucking harder on her clit, her mouth coming down to gather her essence inside her mouth and then fucking her with her tongue.
Her head was filled with cotton. Her mouth was full of Nami’s juices. Her pussy to the brim of Usopp’s cock. Jessamine was exactly where she wanted to be. Through her entire body ran electricity and fire, moving, chasing pleasure. She needed them to cum inside her; she needed to cum for them. Her nerves were raw, her breasts and cunt were so sensitive she could cry, but she didn’t want it to stop.
She moaned against Nami’s core, but it just came out as loud hums. She was getting close. The knot in her belly was growing hotter and tighter, threatening to snap.
“A bit more, baby. Please, just a bit more.” Said Nami, pulling on her own nipples. Eyes closed, mouth opened, tongue licking her lips. She was right on the edge.
“Fuck. I’m close.” Said Usopp. He bit his lips and tried holding back, but the sight in front of him was simply too much. His cock is coming in and out of Jess. Nami leans back, moving her hips in circles as she rides Jess' mouth, her breasts bouncing. His vision turned white, and his head flew back as he pulled himself out, and his seed landed on Jess' tits. And that did it for her. Her moans turned into screams, and her juices splashed outside and hit his thighs and lower belly.
Nami came at the sight. Her voice came out loud and sharp. Her body flew forward, Usopp quick to catch her. Their lungs begged for air, their skin covered in sweat and saliva, and their hearts completely full.
“You okay?” Usopp asked her between breaths. She nodded with a small smile on her face, pushing herself off of Jess with his help.
“Everything good, baby?” She turned to ask her other lover.
Jessamine had hearts in her eyes, a bright smile and around it the navigator’s pearly juices. “All good.”
Nightshade Jessamine (One Piece OC) Updated Information Post!
I've been very into One Piece lately, and have been expanding my OC Jessamine's information! She is bisexual, and is flexible regarding ships.
More info on backstory, recruitment, etc can be found under the Read More ☺️
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Basic Information
Name: Nightshade Jessamine, goes by Jess for close friends such as her crew
Age: 18 (pre-timeskip), 20 (post-timeskip)
Height: 183 cm / 6'
Role: Toxicologist
Affiliation: Straw Hat Pirates
Bounty Epithet: Crimson Spider
Devil Fruit: Blood-Blood Fruit (Tara-Tara no Mi) - Paramecia fruit that allows precise control of her own blood
Haki: Observation
Dream: To catalogue, study and cure the world's dangerous poisons
Detailed Description and Character Progression
Jessamine is rather tall at 183 cm (6') and lanky, with warm brown skin, dark red eyes and purple wavy hair. Prior to Sabaody, her hair is long and tied up in buns or ponytails, while after the Straw Hat reunion, her hair is in a short bob, with goggles or a hairband keeping her hair out of her eyes. She has two birthmarks, one under each eye.
She wears long lab coats, with a top and shorts/skirts with stockings, boots and her satchel. Her style becomes more of a dark/goth one over time, contrasting with her bright enthusiasm, including more pants, fishnets and other more elegant styles.
She is upbeat, eccentric, a bit uncanny and weird with her knowledge of the body and interest in any foreign substance. She is ultimately self-sacrificing, only ever truly testing on herself. She sometimes ropes other Straw Hats into her studies or experiments, but she only does so when she has at least three contingency plans for something going wrong. She puts up a carefree act but is both extremely conscious of the weight of her actions and a bit neurotic about removing any possibility of harm. She does have combat poisons, but she feels morally torn about using them, eventually opting for non-lethal toxins. She had lost family and friends to illnesses and substances she could not understand on her island, Elysia, from the World Government's engineering of a plague, and she wants to ensure it doesn't happen again. It didn't help that she only survived because she was given one of the Devil Fruits her mother was studying just before her death.
She works alongside Chopper, with Chopper as the doctor and her as a researcher of new medicine/antidotes.
She truly loves science, wildlife and medicine, and also likes learning about strange new things and new people. She does get upset when others touch her things without asking because she is super strict on where things go and how to reduce harm. Her pharmacy and lab is just below the doctor's office, and is generally open for the crew to visit and see what she's up to outside of her experiments. She tried to lock it to stop people poking inside it, but gave up when people comedically kept getting in there anyways. Luffy sometimes pokes at the colorful toxins and antidotes, which she now has a spray bottle for when he does so.
Jessamine is deeply loving, and such is extremely scared of hurting others, especially as her biggest role models in her childhood were her mother Carnation, a Devil Fruit researcher who stressed the importance of ethics and responsibility, and her older brother Valerian, a budding doctor who wanted to ensure people were not just physically, but emotionally healthy and happy as well. Losing them had both gutted her, but also made her internalize their goals and wishes. She loves dangerous things like poison and animals and plants which are scary, but wants to use her toxins for good, both as ways to find antidotes as well as medicine. Simply put, she loves monsters and danger, but is afraid of doing harm to others or being the danger. Another factor contributing to this is her survivor's guilt, she views herself as having to justify being alive and around when the island wasn't, something she works on with her crew.
She has an ongoing relationship with restraint, responsibility and control in serious situations, contrasting her more socially clumsy traits and sincere enthusiasm in all she does. She's not very good at being tactful or in flattery, but will take health and research extremely seriously. She's thankful that Chopper has an excellent bed manner, and is more happy to be the pharmacist to his physician.
Her role as a toxicologist also confuses those outside of the straw hats and associates. A poison specialist, especially one with such encyclopedic knowledge on them and the means to utilize them, is a doctor? How strong/crazy is Straw Hat Luffy to have a poisoner with blood powers not be an assassin or torturer? The crew trusts her and loves her as she is, and she shows that she's powerful because she has the capacity to choose to do worse and doesn't. Luffy stands by her no matter what, which means a lot to her when she feels she is dangerous or not worth the hassle.
She loves poisons, dangerous animals and plants because she wants to understand them. Many toxins are self-defense, or ways of survival. As well, all medicine is poison in different amounts, and vice-versa. However, she is aware of the risks of her research, and had strict scientific ethics drilled into her from a young age to reduce harm, so she ends up developing a strictness for safety that both helps make sure her pharmacy runs well but can also cause her trouble during battle situations where she is too aware of the weight of every poison.
She also has a complex relationship with her body and love/intimacy, as she is inexperienced with both, but also because she views her body as a tool for the sake of others (and is worried she could hurt someone). It takes time for her to view her body as her own and to feel excited at unfamiliar feelings rather than confusion. She's a deeply loving and loyal person, but in her own unique way, and is working to be vulnerable.
Jessamine had recovered from the Gilded Plague, the disease manufactured by World Government scientists who wanted to efficiently get rid of a division that was finding inconvenient truths. She survived the plague due to her draining herself completely of infected blood but scattered parts of her body still have some purple and blue spots, which started as a point of pain and trauma. They cover her shoulder and upper right arm, her midriff, and some on her left thigh and calf. As well, since it happened when she only recently had eaten the Blood-Blood Fruit and hadn't figured out how to pull her blood through her skin painlessly, she sliced her left forearm open to drain the blood in desperation. It didn't heal quite right, now requiring compression and heat to avoid cramping and stiffening.
After the events of Skypeia, her first adventure after joining the Straw Hats, Jessamine ends up doing a few major things to assist her own growth as a fighter and a person: she trains in strength and basic combat with Zoro; with Nami and Usopp's help, she designs a set of tattoos; as well, Chopper made her an arm brace for her left arm.
Nami and Usopp actually helped her design and get some tattoos which use the spots as shading and colour when she was feeling complicated about the markings, especially as Nami had altered her former Arlong Pirates tattoo to match Nojiko and Genzo. They design the tattoos based on nature and the different plant species and animals Jessamine loves (reptiles and carnivorous plants mainly), constellations both real (such as the north star Carnation would tell her of) and fake (Valerian would make some up to get a laugh out of the otherwise skittish little Jessamine). They even added a Straw Hat Jolly Roger constellation.
As well, Chopper helped fashion better compresses for her left forearm, which became part of her style as well. Robin helped embroider some new designs on the sleeve, a spiderweb that held symbols representing every Straw Hat. Robin insisted on adding the spider itself, with Jessamine's birthmarks under each eye, and in turn, Jessamine insisted on adding a symbol for Robin when she was about to leave herself out. After Franky joins, he augmented it with self-heating and other helpful properties, and with every new crewmate, Robin adds another symbol to the web. When it dented once during their two years apart Jessamine genuinely cried.
The tattoos and brace had been obtained prior to Water 7, which adds to her feelings then, with both Usopp, who helped her start her long journey of healing her relationship to her body, and Robin, who she didn't know the story of yet but felt a bond with and desperately wanted to understand more, gone.
These tattoos also contribute to her post-timeskip look, where she still wears long sleeves, stockings, etc, but has more rips in her stockings under her skirts or shorts, more flexibility with sleeveless shirts or crop tops under her new labcoat, her tattoos peeking out like a fashion statement. She even goes without her coat more often, showing her arms more. Her post timeskip outfits, while still covering up a lot, now shows at least one of her tattoos at a time, as well as her brace.
Zoro teaches Jessamine combat after Skypeia because Jessamine was worried about getting hurt and causing the others to worry about her. He originally pushes her to decide if she wants to do it for herself and not for others, both to help her and to deal with his own feelings of duty to protect her. Jessamine sticks to her guns, and eventually develops a liking to physical training she didn't have before. Both her and Zoro have the tendency to self-sacrifice, but in different ways. They also contrast in Jessamine getting him to think more things through and Zoro stopping her overthinking (though in some social situations, they're both not tactful enough in different directions).
She meets Law briefly on Sabaody pre-timeskip, where they are both surprised at the others' expertise and end up getting along. It does come up again on Punk Hazard when they meet, easing them into a friendship. They end up eventually down the line talking more about their own pasts and tattoos.
Combat and Ability Overview
Jessamine's fighting style has a spider theme to it, using webs to trap and grab enemies, as well as assisting and stitching up allies. The webs also help to transmit paralysis toxins or medicines depending on the situation. Over time, in close combat emergency situations, she ends up making a blood blade to help, a remix of the one sword style that she learned from Zoro.
Due to the nature of her powers, her body efficiently recycles blood, and in emergency situations, increases blood production to supplement her own loss, but not indefinitely or without cost. If she abuses her powers, she will rapidly lose vital nutrients and oxygen, causing her to pass out and straining her body. Her webs use an efficient amount of blood to maximise reach and minimise blood loss, but augmenting weaponry like her blades are saved for close combat situations.
Chopper and Sanji work together to create a meal plan to supplement all the lost nutrients, as well as ways she can recharge during long stretches of combat or medical usage.
Part of her growth as a person and fighter is her relationship with being feared. She's terrified of scaring others knowingly at first, especially as her own quirks already terrify people, but she grows into accepting the Crimson Spider epithet and being a feared figure for the sake of her loved ones and for the greater good. If fear can help ensure her family is safe, and that lives aren't at risk, she can be the scary spider. She'll be loved anyways.
Her blood powers are also helpful for her work in clinical toxicology, as she can easily test using her blood to flush out illness and try new antidotes. Her blood type is versatile enough for donation, but there are still specific blood types her blood doesn't work for. She can supplement Chopper's blood stores, but can't do it all herself.
She develops techniques for medical and utilities, such as a web of micro threads that work with the patient's nervous system to either block pain sensors for on-the-fly anesthesia, or heighten sensitivity if needed. She also figures out more ways to create sutures and stitches without requiring needles.
Her theming of her attacks, as well as all utilities are spider based.
Timeskip Information
Jessamine is sent to a Calm Belt island called Silkhaven, and trained in the timeskip by a pirate that was thought to have been long dead: Rosethorn Vespera, captain of the Hemlock Pirates. They were active during the Pirate King's time, who would target and assassinate corrupt nobles, pirates who abused their power, slavers and other harmful figures. Vespera keeps a low profile, with the fact that she is still alive only known by her crew, Jessamine and a small number of old associates, such as Rayleigh, Shakky and a few revolutionaries like Ivankov. She is a sharp older woman, instilling better posture and pride in Jessamine, but has a hidden compassionate side, loving her crew and caring for Jessamine. She and her crew had faked their deaths because their crew's final target was a World Noble. Jessamine learned Vespera's skills and applied it to her own work, such as Observation Haki and how to turn battlefields to her advantage. Jessamine ends up growing on Vespera (though she'd never admit it) and the other remaining former Hemlock pirates, who help her adjust to missing her crew and growing stronger. There is respect, but an ethical dilemma: Vespera believes that with discernment, harm is necessary to reduce further harm of innocents, while Jessamine wants to reduce as much harm as possible overall.
When she reunites with her crew, she stands taller (she was slouching a lot pre-timeskip which made her appear shorter than she was), and is a bit more sure of herself, even when keeping her general Jessamine vibes. She also is super super excited about Usopp's Pop Greens and wants to learn everything about them.
While Jessamine still has a complex relationship with her body as a vessel for pain, then a tool to help others, she slowly comes to care for it more, even when she feels her worst. Over the story, she grows in her self-image and in strength.
Background
Jessamine was always a curious child, raised by her mother Nightshade Carnation, a researcher who was interested in the world's oddities, particularly in Devil Fruits. She had never met her father, as he died shortly before she was born, but she knew her mother loved him, and she never remarried. Her father, Sorrel, was a schoolteacher, and his kindness had grounded the genius Carnation and was the foundation of the code of ethics she swore by and taught Jessamine: knowledge without responsibility is a form of negligence, and you must care for and love all that you study. She had loved to shadow the scientists that her mother worked with, and gained an interest in the kinds of toxins that existed in their plant and animal life, and how they were cured or used medicinally. The medicine aspect was also from her older brother, Valerian, four years older and studying to be a doctor.
Carnation had always encouraged Jessamine to be creative and curious, to look for the answers the world hid away. Valerian, who was mischievous but also bright and kind, had a dream to be a doctor that returned smiles to people's faces, which intrigued Jessamine as well. Jessamine was clumsy with people, a contrast to her focus on detail in observation and creating antidotes. She loved and was bright and upbeat, but her eccentricities with her unusual interests and obsession with sharing niche knowledge made her struggle with making friends. This was especially compounded by her mom having to stop her from bringing around weird bugs or snakes. Jessamine ended up growing a deep respect for the venomous and poisonous creatures, wanting to find out what to do if someone was bit or ingested anything.
At 14, Jessamine's life turned upside down when a rapidly progressing plague spread across her island through poisoned water systems and crops.
The mass death is mainly obscured, usually attributed to pirates or other criminals attacking and looting the former Marine facility and causing a leak. In reality, it was planted by higher ups who deliberately poisoned the waters to cause the Gilded Plague, named after how the blueish gray and purple rashes appeared the same as chrysiasis (gold metal poisoning). The plague was designed to compound enough that death was within weeks, if you were lucky. The scientists, including Carnation, had refused to create a dangerous weapon, and were soon eliminated.
While Carnation was not fast enough to save her son, who died while caring for his patients, she was able to give her daughter the Blood-Blood Fruit she had been studying, urging her to survive and keep being her curious and loving self.
Thanks to the Blood-Blood Fruit, Jessamine survived the plague, but not without some of the marks the plague left, or without injury. She eventually fled the island when she heard Marine ships in the distance, especially as there were no survivors left. She was left with the weight of her lost loved ones, and all sorts of questions. The plague she saw was like no other, and no medicine had worked. It appeared like gold poisoning, but with no gold and inconsistencies such as marks on places that the Sun's rays did not hit.
Journeying alone was difficult, especially as she could no longer swim as a Devil Fruit User, but with some Log Poses left on her island, she traveled to neighboring islands to study their plant life and earn money, figuring out what she was going to do when she had nothing but her research.
Introduction and Joining the Straw Hats
Eventually, a year prior to the Straw Hats meeting her, she ended up on the luscious and popular island of Veridia, known for their medicinal spring waters, beautiful hot springs, and colorful flowers. It was popular for tourism in the main resorts of Opal Bay, but the people who took her in were from the town of Sunkiss Valley, which was less lavish but more accommodating to Jessamine's quirks and grief. She became close to Mireille, the innskeeper who had given her reduced costs in return for helping her with the inn and providing her expertise, especially with treating her young daughter Odette. Jessamine was also close with Sister Vera, a nun whose pragmatic but compassionate advice always assisted her. However, in a hauntingly familiar way, an unknown, but this time slower progressing, illness started to spread across the island, and Jessamine got to work trying to treat it.
While Jessamine could delay the symptoms with her new toxicology expertise, she realized that there was something wrong with the spring water they had been drinking. Despite Veridia exporting clean, safe and medicinal water, and sporting beautiful hot springs, the direct springs were only reserved for the resorts and commercial districts in Opal Bay. The towns like Sunkiss Valley had to use the rivers, wells and runoff, which required filtration for safe use. A local plant called Sun's Kiss Lilies were perfect for this, as they were easy to grow and effectively absorbed metals and toxins, while providing restorative properties. This worked for generations, not offsetting the severe inequality but allowing the people to survive. This time, it seemed an altered version of the plant had gotten mixed in. The altered flower would not filter out and break down toxins, but instead introduce a new toxin that imitated heavy metal poisoning. The locals got sicker, but the rich patrons and tourists to the resorts were fine.
Jessamine sharing the news of the waters and requesting more filtration turned her from a strange but well-meaning young student to a controversial witch doctor. The city council, who wanted to ensure tourism and exports were unaffected, decried her as an alarmist. Some townsfolk, scared and struggling, saw her as a witch who wanted the island to turn back on their only way to have clean water, especially with her blood powers and tendency to test cures on herself. Eventually, she pulled back from the islanders, including her surrogate maternal figures, only being seen when she was treating patients. She notices an old facility that used to belong to government researchers who visited the island, but not only was it abandoned, but strange flora and animals made it dangerous to see, even though she had the suspicion that an answer was there. It had only started growing the flora after a storm that was shortly before the illness started, but it was dangerous to explore.
When the Straw Hats arrive, a stop after Alabasta to get more water and visit Veridia, they come across the disease and eventually through meeting Odette is led to Jessamine, who explains what happened.
Through the Straw Hats' help, they got her into the Marine base to find out the truth and pure samples of what had been causing the sickness, which also gives answers to Elysia. In the Marine base, she found documents that laid clear what she didn't know years ago, that the Gilded Plague was engineered to wipe out Elysia.
For Veridia, they had originally harvested and created modified versions of the native Sun's Kiss Lilies and their waters to poison the waterways of the Elysians due to their existing properties, but they had improperly stored the few remaining samples when done. The few leftover seeds or flowers had mixed into the native ones after a storm six months into Jess's stay there, accidentally causing a slower and less potent but still dangerous Gilded Plague there. It wasn't deliberate, but due to negligence instead, and the similarities (before knowing it was in fact the same disease) contributed to Jessamine's mental state at the time.
After the Straw Hats not only helped her find the base, but aided her in providing the cure and finding a way for the native population to enjoy safe water, Jessamine finally felt relief and rest. However, she had to figure out the next step for her future.
She eventually joins the Straw Hats, but not without originally feeling too inept for their journey or responsible for Veridia. However, hearing advice from Mireille and Vera, who had cared for her and felt extremely grateful for the way the Straw Hats immediately cared for Jessamine had helped. As well, hearing how much Luffy believed in her dream when she questioned herself so much, how he just didn't get why she was so scared of herself, she made the leap to becoming the Crimson Spider of the Straw Hats.
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Hello! I have requested the ultimate matchup, and if its alright, its for my One Piece OC Nightshade Jessamine (or Jess for short)!
-oc info below-
She's 18 (20 after the timeskip) and is demisexual and bisexual. She's the Straw Hats' toxicologist, whose dream is to study and cure the world's dangerous poisons. She also eaten the Gush-Gush Fruit, which allows her to make more blood at will and control it (never being able to bleed out). She's rather tall at 183 cm (6') and lanky, with tan skin and tied up dark purple hair. She wears long labcoats on top of her t-shirt and shorts with colorful stockings.
She is upbeat, eccentric, a bit uncanny and weird with her knowledge of the body and interest in any foreign substance. She is ultimately self-sacrificing, only ever truly testing on herself. She sometimes ropes other Straw Hats into her studies or experiments, but she only does so when she has at least three contingency plans for something going wrong. She puts up a carefree act but is both extremely conscious of the weight of her actions and a bit neurotic about removing any possibility of harm. She does have combat poisons, but she feels morally torn about using them. She had lost family and friends to illnesses and substances she could not understand on her island from the World Government's experiments and biological testing (especially as some of the elders were discovering things they don't want), and she wants to ensure it doesn't happen again.
She works alongside Chopper, with Chopper as the doctor and her as a researcher and creator of new medicine.
She truly loves science, wildlife and medicine, and also likes learning about strange new things and new people. She does get upset when others touch her things without asking because she is super strict on where things go and how to reduce harm.
She also has a complex relationship with her body and love/intimacy, as she is inexperienced with both, but also because she views her body as a tool for the sake of others (and is worried she could hurt someone with any trace toxins in her system) It takes time for her to view her body as her own and to feel excited at unfamiliar feelings rather than confusion. She's a deeply loving and loyal person, but in her own unique way, and is working to be vulnerable.
Thank you so much for your commission! I think this is the first time I've done a match-up for somebody's OC, so it was interesting. Not to mention I'm trying to shake off years of writer's block, so, it was a good exercise to try and get back into writing. Now, without further ado, let's get down to it!
I match you with...
Trafalgar D. Water Law from One Piece!
From the beginning of your description of Jessamine, I knew that Law was the one for her! I'll admit that Law is one of my favorites, so I am a little biased toward him, but I've got plenty of reasons why I think he's the one for Jess. Let's get into it, shall we?
First of all, let's talk about the obvious: they've got a very core thing in common! Toxicology is not only a research discipline but a field of medicine; one doesn't just need to know how to identify poisonings, but also how to treat or manage them! On the sea, where one has to have broad medical knowledge rather than a distinct specialty, knowledge of toxicology will be vital. So, I can definitely imagine Law approaching Jessamine to learn from her. I think he would also respect her dedication to finding antidotes to all the world's poisons. Unconventional as a doctor he may be, at the core of every physician is the desire to serve others and treat their many ills; Jess' philosophy is something he will be able to relate to. I think he'd also find interest in her interests in wildlife and, obviously, medicine!
That's not the only thing they have in common, either! Law has a self-sacrificing streak; we've all seen it. I feel like he'd also offer her a good way to continue testing poisons on herself with less risk, since we've seen him use his powers to surgically extract poisons. In fact, he probably has so much confidence in his own abilities that he'd probably encourage it rather than try and stop her from doing it... Poor Chopper, LOL, I can already imagine how stressed out he would be! Then, of course, Law will relate to her tragic backstory, as someone who also suffered at the hands of the World Government and its callous treatment of the common people. Add on top of that her Devil Fruit ability, which I think we can all say will attract his morbid curiosity, I think there's a very plausible set-up for them spending a decent amount of time together.
At first glance, one might not think the brooding Law would be attracted to someone upbeat and eccentric, but... just look at the company he keeps. A majority of his crew are loud, bright, and kooky, and he (at least mostly) willingly puts up with Straw Hat Luffy. Despite what he says, it's obvious he enjoys spending time with such people, and again, he's got much to gain from spending time with Jessamine!
Switching gears, let's talk headcanons! You mentioned that Jessamine has a complex relationship with intimacy and her body, and I think that is something to explore with Law!
The fandom sometimes paints Law as this type of dominant sex god, but honestly/ I think he's probably inexperienced in the matters of heart (no pun intended) and intimacy himself, seeing as he kind of had other priorities. Of course, his knowledge of, ahem, anatomy is going to be... advantageous, but I digress—not the point here. I think Law would be able to identify Jessamine's attitude toward her body and help her work towards not viewing it as just a tool for the sake of others, even if that cause is noble at its root—especially since he spent a good deal of time as Doflamingo's tool and can relate, to a degree.
It won't take him long to pick up on the way Jessamine looks at herself and her body. Law's a sharp guy with a good degree of emotional intelligence; one's got to have it to take proper care of their patients, after all. It'll only take a couple of instances of assisting Jessamine with her research for him to pick up on that.
Law's approach to correcting that will be somewhere between blunt and calculated. He'd start making casual remarks here and there to throw Jessamine off her guard and start thinking about the way she considers her body, but he's not going to approach it as strongly as, say, Luffy would, diving straight into this heartfelt discussion with almost no provocation. One can't change an attitude like that overnight.
As their relationship develops and things start to turn toward the romantic, Law would probably start making more of a concerted effort on that front. After all, nobody wants the object of their affections to feel like, well... an object. This is something that Law will undertake with great care and delicacy, though it's not perfect... Law isn't the most delicate and tactful of people, after all. But, he tries.
Not only will Law be good for Jessamine opening up and changing her views of herself, Jessamine will be good for him, too! Law's ability to be intimate in a relationship will be limited at first. Law is someone that keeps things close to his chest, especially his past and insecurities; helping someone through their own is going to have the effect of helping him reconcile some of the ghosts of his past and how they've affected him, too. It's a process that will take time, but because of how long that process would take, I could see things developing very naturally between Law and Jessamine, leading to a really strong and trusting relationship!
And, finally, the scenario that comes as part of your match-up! I figured I'd include a scenario of Law assisting Jessamine in one of her experiments, given that it's such a central part of her character and what will bring them together. :3 Enjoy!
"Thaaaaat's it, beautiful," Jessamine coos softly to the snake in her hands, allowing its glittering violet-scaled body to wind around one hand as her other holds its head firmly but not painfully against the plastic-wrapped lid of a glass jar. Her eyes gleam as they behold its long fangs, which are punctured through the thin layer of plastic, and the beads of crystal-clear venom that drip from them. "Just a bit more, my sweet," she hums as she regards the growing puddle forming in the base of the jar, "and then you'll go right back into your cozy enclosure and get a nice, fat mouse as a treat, hmm?"
Jessamine's eyes sparkle as she regards the beautiful creature. A totally new species unknown to modern science, encountered by chance on their latest adventure on a lush summer island—a small viper that Jessamine has dubbed Jessaminus asper (because what was the point of discovering a new species if you didn't name it after yourself?). The crew has taken to calling it its common name: the violet viper. The instant that Jessamine had witnessed the snake use its venomous bite to take down a sizeable rodent it intended to make its prey, she knew she had to secure it as a sample for study. A new viper unknown to science meant a new venom unknown to science—and therefore a new cure to be discovered!
As the flow of venom begins to dwindle, Jessamine gently massages the snake's head to coax out a few more droplets before calling the milking process complete. She relaxes her pressure on the snake's jaw to allow it to close, then carefully turns to feed the snake into the little clear plastic tube connected to the hide box—the container used to transport the venomous snake out of its lushly furnished glass enclosure and allow for safe handling for the initiation of the milking process. The beautiful purple snake slithers into the box, and once the last centimeter of its tail vanishes inside, Jessamine closes the port behind it and opens the port on the opposite side, which has a tube connecting the hide box to the enclosure. After a few seconds, the snake's angular head appears in the tube, its forked tongue tasting the air for a second before proceeding through the tube and into its enclosure. After it slithers inside the large glass tank and winds itself around a leafy, artificial branch, Jessamine slides the port closed once more and returns her attention to the glass jar and the puddle of venom within.
"Now, time to run the tests! I've only got about forty-five minutes before I have to put this sample in cold storage with the rest," she chirps to herself as she plucks the jar off her workstation. "From what I saw of that unlucky shrew, it appears to be a neurotoxin of some sort," she chatters to herself as she pours the venom into a small vial. She secures the lid, then promptly pokes a syringe needle through the rubber seal to draw up every last drop of the liquid. "It seemed to work pretty quickly, too. If my current hypothesis is correct, it targets the connection between the motor nerves and the muscle receptors to induce a flaccid paralysis similar to the botulism toxin—" she continues to chatter as she plops down on a stool, shrugs off one sleeve of her lab coat, and prepares to inject the contents of the syringe into the prominent vein coursing up her inner forearm.
Just as the needle is about to puncture her skin, a voice pipes up from the door, "If that's the case, are you sure that's something you should be injecting into yourself without me around?"
Jessamine jumps violently, but thankfully manages to avoid stabbing herself with the needle or, worse, dropping it and wasting the valuable sample she has just procured. She spins around on the stool with a huff and pouts guiltily as her boyfriend, looking ever so nonchalant with one hand in his coat pocket and the other propping his precious tachi against his shoulder, strolls into her laboratory. There is nothing chalant about the frown or the accusatory arch of his eyebrow, and Jessamine slumps a little on her stool.
"Oh, I, uh... I sent Chopper to get you, but, I, uh, got so excited that I forgot to actually wait for you to get here," she admits sheepishly, using the hand that was not holding the syringe to rub bashfully at the back of her neck.
"Mmm," Law just grunts, his eyes fixed on the clear liquid in the syringe. The silence hangs between them like a pin clutched in the fingers ready to drop for an agonizing number of seconds—and then, it plunges. "A neurotoxin," he echoes as he comes to stand in front of Jessamine, "and a potent one, based on what we saw on the island."
"Most definitely," Jessamine nods enthusiastically as she grabs her composition notebook off her workstation and flips through it with her free hand, the other still holding the syringe aloft. When she reaches the pages where she'd hastily scribbled notes on her first encounter with the violet viper and the interviews with the locals she'd conducted afterward, she excitedly babbles, "The locals said it's easily one of the most venomous species on the Grand Line, and definitely the most dangerous animal on their island. Since the population there lives a more antiquated lifestyle, heavily off the land with much need to traverse the jungle, it poses a significant danger to them, and several lives are lost every year to its venom. As if that isn't bad enough, these animals are even targeted by animal snugglers since their venom is such a commodity to those in the business of assassination and other unsavory business because there's no antidote! If I could discover an antidote, not only would it help the locals, but it would help the species and others of the island, which have come under major threat by poachers and animal smugglers—"
"Be that as it may," Law says softly, grabbing the composition notebook to pull it out of her hands and set it back on the workstation, "I have some reservations about the nature of your experiment."
"Oh, come on, Law," Jessamine huffs, puffing out her cheeks in indignation, "I've tested poisons on myself plenty of times before. And now, we've got your Devil Fruit to extract the poison from my body, and my own Devil Fruit helps me make more blood if we need to filter the poison out of it! Sure, this is pretty hardcore compared to most of the poisons I've tested on myself, but the only person who'd conceivably get hurt is me, and the chances of that are pretty slim—and if something does happen, I did it for the sake of humanity and the advancement of medicine, so—"
"Do you even hear yourself?"
Law's sudden interruption, and the harshness with which he utters it, takes Jessamine aback. Mouth hanging open, she just blinks owlishly up at him while he glares daggers down at her. Her mouth slowly shuts, and she then swallows. She has never seen him so angry, not at her; he's expressed concerns about her testing on herself before, but he's never gotten angry. He's always ended up caving to her whims, but she can tell by the look on his face that it would not be so simple this time around. She stares up at him, unable to comprehend his sudden ire.
"I... I don't..." she stammers weakly. "I just want to help people, Law. I don't... I don't want anyone else, or any other living creature, to suffer the way the people of my island had to suffer. Surely you of all people can understand that."
Law sighs heavily, then leans his sword against the nearby wall so he can pull up another stool and sit down directly in front of her. He just sits there for a moment, staring moodly at the syringe still in her hand; then, after several moments of silence, he slowly reaches out to take the syringe from her. She resists for a moment—but just a moment, allowing him to take it and set it down on her workstation. He then awkwardly takes his hands in her own, staring at them sadly and rubbing circles into her skin with his thumb as he begins to speak in a quiet, pained voice.
"And what if I don't want you to suffer the way the people of your island did, either?"
"Law..." Jessamine whispers with a bodily flinch, his agonized tone stinging more than the burn of any poison ever could.
"I get that you want to help people. I'm a doctor; I understand that desire more than anyone else. But... you treating yourself as a tool to be used for the sake of helping others... really isn't much different than the World Government using your people for their own goals, when you get down to it."
"No, it is different—" Jessamine starts to object, but she is silenced when Law's gaze snaps up to meet her own.
"It isn't, and you know it," he growls. "And if you can't understand that, maybe you can understand this: you think I like just watching you treat yourself as some kind of guinea pig, suffering under the effects of these poisons? You think I'm not terrified of the thought of something happening? Devil Fruit powers aren't without their limitations... Neither am I, and neither are you." His grip on her hands suddenly tightens as he snarls, "And for you just so casually say that 'the only person that would conceivably be hurt is me'... Do you really think so little about how I feel about you to think that I wouldn't be crushed if something happened to you?"
"Law..." Jessamine breathes, stunned by his heartfelt admission. He wasn't the most emotionally available guy, so to hear him say something so openly like that blows her away, leaving her speechless.
Law drops his gaze back to her hands with another deep sigh.
"If... If I had to choose between all of humanity and you... I'm just saying that... that I'd choose you. Doctor's oath be damned."
"Oh," Jessamine croaks, her eyes watering as a wobbly smile pulls onto her lips. "Oh... I think that's the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me. Oh, my goodness!" Laughing, she pulls one hand from Law's to wipe flusteredly at her teary eyes, while Law just smirks bashfully. "I, um... Wow. Um." Her heart is singing, and swelling, and fluttering, and a thousand other things at once, making it hard to form a coherent thought or sentence. As she attempts to gather herself, Law just sits there silently, smiling faintly.
"Okay," she says with a deep breath once she has collected herself. "Okay, I hear you, Law."
"Do you?" he asks hopefully.
"I do," she says with a solemn nod. "You've given me much to consider... And I'll start with a promise that I won't test this poison on myself just yet. It'll be difficult, but, I'll find some other means to test its potency and how safely I can administer it to myself. Perhaps in a diluted form, or..." She trails off as she notices Law staring at her with an expression half of utter adoration and half of utter exasperation. "Sorry," she smiles sheepishly. "That wasn't quite what you wanted to hear, was it?"
"No," he admits, "but I still expected something along those lines. You are who you are, after all. It's my fault for falling for a self-sacrificing bleeding heart of a woman."
"A bleeding heart for a heart stealer, huh?" Jessamine giggles. "Gotta admit, sounds like a perfect pair."
As Law just huffs, she turns on the stool to take the syringe and inject the venom back into the vial. She then places it in the special mini-freezer on her workbench, setting it among the menagerie of other samples from countless previous experiments. Her work was far from done... but it could wait for a little while longer, she thinks as she turns back to Law with a sweet smile.
"I think I'm actually going to postpone my experiment to reapproach the design model... I've got a lot to think about, so would you like to join me for a walk around the deck and help me hash out the details?"
"Always experiments this, experiments that," Law tuts even as he stands up and offers his hand to her. "Whatever. You could use the sunlight. You've been holed up in here too much."
"Oh, like you're one to talk!" Jessamine counters, but the smile on her face as she stands and takes her beloved's offered hand is as bright as the gleaming purple scales of the snake sunning in the patch of sunlight streaming into its enclosure from the nearby window. Leaving the viper and its venom behind to address at a later time, Jessamine instead strolls out of her laboratory with her lover, content to direct her mind to another matter for the time being...
Matters of the heart were just as much an unknown worthy of pursuit, after all.
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Etaf is a wife and mother of 5 from Ghazzah. Last year, she and her family's home was destroyed, a long with her husband's source of income and their car.
They were displaced for 200 days, all the way induring the hellish tribulations of genocide. Luckily, they were able to flee into Egypt; however their struggles are not over.
Due to their lack of income, Etaf and her husband struggle to provide their children with food, clothing, and education. On top of that, they are struggling to pay the rent on their house as winter approaches.
In order to help Etaf's children continue their education and to help the whole family afford basic necessities, they need to raise €100,000. So far, they've only managed to raise €5,690 and their last donation was 18 hours ago.
Please help them however you can; donate if you're able and share their campaign. Every contribution will help them rebuild their lives.
Thank you to everyone who supports us in these difficult circumstances, thank you for your humanity and sympathy with us, may God make you happy throughout your life 🙏🫶🌹
My name is mahmoud mohammed jaafar jaafar i studied computer engineering and graduated from university in 2023 i worked as a software engineer in a local company here in gaza unit the war started, then the company got destroyed and became unemployed and our house is destroyed partially and became inhabitant to live in but nevertheless we stayed in it because we do not else to go i currently live in north gaza where is a scarcity of food and i have 3 brothers and 4 sister one of them died while he was trying to find food for the family so i am the eldest in my family now i have to provide a living for them
Any amount you give me will help me a lot in supporting my family in Gaza in light of the fear and lack of food, medicine and drink
My name is Mahmoud Mohammed Jaafar Jaafar. I studied computer engineering and graduated from university in 2023 i worked as a software engin
Any amount you give me will help me a lot, even if it is $10.
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