One Thousand Four Hundred

Formerly a writing blog, now a One Piece blog. 2000, she/her.

[honeydippedpanda]

ONE PIECE OC DESIGN UPDATE

NOW:

Ive been working on her back story, so I'll be posting that soon but I wanted to upgrade her look a little. I haven't had this much fun designing a character or writing a story in awhile, I'm really proud of her look.

BEFORE:

I liked her old design but it felt like i was kind of playing it safe idk, her colors weren't bright enough for me i guess idk

[brightflame-star]

I can’t stop thinking about the theory that Sir crocodile was once Tritoma (and obviously had always felt different from the other empresses) and had met dragon and eventually fell ill with love sickness and asked Iva to turn him in to sir Crocodile. Obviously he will still have those feelings for Dragon but at least it isn’t killing him.

[otfh]

Y'know, Nami could level Skypiea on her own now. I bet she could even replicate Enel's "giant death ball of lightning" with Zeus.

[axotempus]

Fem Admirals Sketches

[mjrtaurus]

The orange in Dragon’s design being used as a subtle nod to him being the one that might have stepped in after Kizaru and rounded out the secondary color rotation of the admirals (purple for Fujitora, green for Ryokugyu) had he stayed, but instead acts as a rogue spiritual successor in his own absence for the fact that social justice does not exist within an establishment that denies personhood by arbitrary means, in this essay I will-

[mousegirlheart]

absolute whiplash to go from surprisingly respectful treatment (for 2009) of trans ppl and drag queens in impel down to the absolute transphobic horseshit that is sanji in kamabakka kingdom... why...

[otfh]

Just thinking about Luffy vs Kaido fight. Not only did Luffy beat him, but he beat him the hard way.

Think about it. A swordsman with supreme king haki + ryuo can simply kill Kaido with slash attacks, as we saw with Oden.

However, supreme king and ryuo are not enough to kill Kaido in a melee fight. Luffy needed to learn how to imbue his attacks with sk haki, which also wasn't enough; he also had to awaken gear 5.

[mjrtaurus]

Still obsessed with the idea of the RA getting hefty donations from an anonymous benefactor who just so happens to send them directly to their Supreme Commander with, at bare minimum, a cologne scented letter and a top shelf bottle of port wine.

[opbackgrounds]

The silhouette before Blackbeard activates his power is *chef kiss* perfect.

And it's interesting to me that Whitebeard specifically invokes Thatch when he attacks Blackbeard. He doesn't bring up Ace at all. Firstly, because Whitebeard himself was the one who told Ace to let Thatch's death go, and secondly because Blackbeard ends up calling out Whitebeard for letting Ace die

And I think Blackbeard's being honest here. He tried a couple of different times to recruit Ace onto his crew and seemed to like him as a person. Maybe there was a part of him that kept Ace alive thinking Whitebeard would be strong enough to save him.

[gumgumfool]

anyone ever notice how so many people enjoy making or just seeing g5 Luffy like he’s actually making me smile and just laugh and stuff

[xyge-n]

Let's talk about Oda's and therefore TOEI character design for POC characters. I saw a tweet on Twitter, and it was basically talking about how almost every single POC character (+any relatively tan character) in One Piece has gotten significantly lighter after the time skip. And you often hear disingenuous arguments like the art colour was wrong in the pre-time skip, and therefore, it's corrected to the right one.

But even characters who were consistently darker, such as Usopp, in pre-time skip and in the manga, after the time skip, literally turned nearly completely white. I have nothing against white characters, but what I'm saying is why are they whitewashing the few black characters?? . Let's not even start talking about Oda's excessive use of minstrel lips to demonstrate when a character is ethnic or black ... one piece has many beautiful themes and characters. However, this flaw in design really irritates me

[otfh]

Just realised Nico Robin has survived 3 Buster Calls, and each Call was somehow even more Buster than the last.

[otfh]

We've got

Standard buster call childhood trauma - 5 vice admirals, 10 ships

Super duper buster call - 5 vice admirals, 10 ships, all of CP9 and Enies Lobby

Hyper buster call squared - 1 admiral, 9 vice admirals, 50 pacifistas, 100s of ships, 5 gorosei

[otfh]

Just realised Nico Robin has survived 3 Buster Calls, and each Call was somehow even more Buster than the last.

[pinkelotjeart]

What was Oda smoking ?????

[mfdragon]

I don’t think anyone really expected this. But after seeing the “ Sanji breaks physics” scene, this felt inevitable.

I’ll probably clean it up in the future but I like how it feels for now.

[thekingofwinterblog]

So looking it over, i have noticed a lot of more similarities/connections between the Kage Kage no Mi, and the magical power system the Five Elders and presumably Imu uses alongside their respective devil fruits.

Arguably the most iconic, and definitly the most usefull of the magical powers they have hoarded for themselves, is thei seeming total immortality, allowing them to regenerate from any wound by essentially resetting themselves back to their default state.

However, we have seen something similar before related to the Kage Kage no Mi.

When stripped of their shadows, several of the victorious straw-hats and allies are exposed to the sun and disintegrate...

only to immediatly regenerate back like nothing happened once their shadows returned, with Sanji and Robin speculating that it was due to their shadows "Forcing" their bodies to match their shadows.

Regardless though obviously less directly controlled by the participants, this visually seems to be very similarily to the aforementioned five elders regeneration above, with similar connections to the element of shadows.

The five elders have access to a form of teleportation through pentagrams that funtions like a summoning. And when summoned, they are in a state that resembles that of of living shadows.

meanwhile, Moria has his own teleportation that allows him to switch places with his detached shadow, summoning it to take his physical place, while he swaps with it, with the inbetween state resembling that of living shadows.

Also interestingly, not only is Moria set to make a comeback in the final arc of the story despite seemingly having made no progress or growth in his combat ability since thriller bark, but Imu's very first action in this series was when he/she ordered Doffy to kill Moria off after the war, supposedly for being too weak, but probably more due to wanting to get ridd of one of the two shadow/darkness devil fruit users at the moment.

And while obviously a lot of the five elders powers are their own, or comes from their own devil fruits, it's also clear that wheter they are empowered by Imu's powers(wheter it be actual magic or a devil fruit), or they merely draw from the same powerset, their role in relation to Imu ver heavily resembles how Moria calls upon his own shadow to fight his battles for him despite being a rather powerfull figure in his own right, but not capitalizing on it to make full use of his powers.

And finally contrasting Moria and Imu, is that there is a unique language Quirk to the Kage Kage no Mi. Every other devil fruit in the series that makes the user labled as a specific kind of being "Rubber man", "magma man", "insert animal here Man", etc-

But not the Kage Kage no mi.

Rather than being a "shadow man" as one might expect, the description of the Kage Kage no Mi, one instead becomes described under the term "Master of Shadows".

Not special on it's own, but it is the ONLY devil fruit in the entire series that is described this way. It could be a coincidence, but it could also be a specific detail on oda's part to set it up against Imu's similar powers and role in the story.

[stopinjoy]

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