I’m so tired of people writing for nerdy characters but they don’t make them a NERD.
No, just because they wear glasses and play Minecraft - one of the most mainstream cozy games - doesn’t make them a nerd. It’s not some niche game.
Where are my comic book nerds!! Who collect vintage comics and explain to reader each one and where it comes from and what its value is now. Where are my astronomy and Greek mythology nerds who will sit outside and point out each constellation and tell me its story!! Hell, if you’re gonna make the character a nerd, put them on BG3, Sora, DnD, Skyrim, literally anything!! I’m so tired of people claiming a character is a nerd and then only using them for a sex plot.
Which brings me to another pet peeve. I hate a lot of nerd!character x readers because half the time they only make is smut. And like yes I do enjoy it, but half the time reader is so inconsiderate and annoying omfg. Because why are you making reader basically shut the nerd up because they wanna have sex blah blah blah. Time and place bruh, I would never try to initiate anything when my partner is explaining to me their interests!!
Stop writing nerd characters to only be a sex plot!! Give them actual nerdy traits and interests!!!
sanuso is very fun because I can see Usopp flirting with sanji in a half-joking half-serious way (so he can laugh it off if sanji doesn’t reciprocate) but when sanji flirts back he gets flustered bc he didn’t think it would actually work
whoever thinks kid would be an abusive partner is weird.
kid, out of all the pirate crews I've seen sofar (besides foxy's, ironically) has the most women on his crew (dive, hip AND hop, house, emma and quincy) and is most certainly a feminist because he's a punk at heart. no way he would treat his girlfriend like a punching bag, absolutely no way.
out of the 24 pirartes that makes up kid's crew, 6 of them are women that he hand selected to join his crew.
luffy has nami and robin and law has ikkaku
people are taking him at face value because he is loud, brash, and, frankly, is alternative. kid knows what it is like to be at the bottom of soceity's ladder, kid named his ship after his first love, kid united the four rival gangs in his home because his first love got killed in a gang war.
i'm so sick and tired of seeign his character get butchered by sadomasochistic horn dogs.
fuck.
not only do i think that eustass is touch adverse and will actually take a while to have sex with him, but because of the betrayals from apoo and hawkins he doesn't trust easily.
yes he is a horrible person. yes he is violent to civilians and is known for creating mass casulaties where ever he goes, but i think eustass would be a tsundere through and through, yes he has his moments of unregualted emotions often, but ithinking that he would throw around his partner is just wrong.
to date someone kid would have to have the same level of trsut as he does in killer, eustass would be instant attraction but be an extremely slow burner to the point it would be paint watching until wire, heat, or killer intervined and pushed him.
i agree with the headcanons that kid would know that he likes you, but he woudl be in active denial becuase to him love, romatnic love and not platonic love is seen as weak. platonic love is the one that he and killer have, the type of love he feels for hsi crew and his crew reciprocates. romanitc love, the kind he felt for victoria was ripped from him when she got killed. no doubt we would have seen a tsumdere kid if she were still alive.
kid wants to be the roughest toughest pirate on the sea so to him romance isn't something he's focusing on, not at ALL.
he's a yearner. and it fucking inferitates him.
so stop being fucking lazy with his character and give him the love you want to give him.
everyone can fuck off i love eustass kid.
eustass is the only memebr of the trio (him, law, and Luffy) that will BURN down the world for you if anytihing were to happen. law and luffy would internaize it but kid, he would take out the rage of losing you on anything and everything. no doubt thw crew would be feeling the need for vengeance after finding out something happend to their precious captain's girlfriend. kid would target and hunt down the person or crew that hurt/killed you. he is insanly loyal to the point he didn't think the two other members of his alliance would betray him. he is so insnaly devoted he named his ship after his first love. he is so insanly human that it pisses me off that people say he is an abusive boyfriend.
kid may be dumb but he isn't an idiot.
being a captive is different than being his girlfriend and even then i don't think he would noncon reader.
THIS THIS THIS THIS SO MUCH OF THIS. whenever i read x readers that portray kidd as violent towards his partner it pisses me off so bad!!! while he does violent things that doesn't mean he's violent towards the people he loves and cares about (and this fact is evident in his relationship with killer mainly, but also the rest of his crew)
i feel that people take kidd at face value too much because we don't see him nearly as much as we see characters like law :((
𑣲 one piece boys when they fall for someone in a different crew !
➺ characters included . . .
portgas d. ace , sabo , roronoa zoro , vinsmoke sanji , usopp , eustass kidd , trafalgar law , shanks
➺ tags . . .
fluff , sfw , falling in love , short hcs , slight angst for ace & sanji , gn!reader , strawhat!reader (for non-strawhat characters aside from shanks) , men being lovesick , swordsperson!reader for zoro , major massive huge elbaf spoilers for shanks ,
hymn's authors note ♡
first headcanons post ! ! if you have any suggestions for other headcanon posts you'd like me to do , please send them my way ! ! for all characters besides shanks , zoro , sanji , and usopp -- assume the reader is in the strawhats . for all strawhat boys and shanks , assume the reader is in some other crew ! !
𑣲portgas d. ace
• ace never had any "plans" to fall in love, at least not for a long time. he was content with his newfound family with the whitebeard pirates, and frankly, the hunt for blackbeard as well as thoughts of luffy took up most of his brain power.
• however, all of that changed in the deserts of alabasta. you were absolutely captivating to him. with you, he felt more peace than he had in a long time.
• you had checked all of the "perfect partner" boxes he didn't even know he had — got along well with luffy, a bright smile, a good sense of humor, and above all else, you could keep up with him.
• he'd throw some sly flirts at you or be exceptionally chatty and polite with you. ace would also really like to see your abilities and strengths — he thinks people who can fight are so hot.
• after leaving alabasta and saying goodbye to luffy's new friends, he thought that his brain would go back to normal. however, every so often you'd creep in and give him this sense of hope he never knew he could ever have.
• who knew mr. fire fist could have such a dumb crush on someone? being alone at sea could be daunting sometimes, and imagining holding you to his chest or laying his head on your thighs made him steam a little bit.
• even in the depths of impel down, he still thought of you every so often. of course, his mind was still mostly full of luffy, but thinking about luffy and his new crew eventually led his thoughts towards you.
𑣲sabo
• similar to his brother, sabo never expected himself to fall in love, let alone with a pirate. he always expected that if it did happen, it would at least be with a fellow revolutionary (therefore, more obtainable.)
• it all started going downhill when he saw your wanted poster -- it wasn't love at first sight, rather attraction at first sight. it takes sabo a whole lot more than some pretty eyes to fall for someone! it was about a year into robin being part of the revolutionaries, so he asked her a few more questions about you than he did for the other strawhats. she was suspicious, but ultimately found his curiosity a little cute.
• what didn't help was that he already had interest in luffy's crew, simply because they were luffy's crew. at first, he decided that this "attraction" to you was really just "curiosity" because of that fact.
• oh, but the moment he saw you during the events of dressrosa, he had to try so hard to ignore how hard it was to pull his eyes away from you. of course, his focus was mainly on his brother and how happy he was to see his little brother again, but even despite that there was you.
• he kept his cool, though, because this is sabo.
• koala caught this little crush immediately, and decided she'd make it her ultimate goal to tease sabo about it as much as she could. out of respect for sabo, she didn't make his crush public knowledge, so most of her teasing would happen when it was just the two of them.
• sabo's gaze would linger on your wanted poster for a little too long, and then he'd catch a mischievous giggle from koala. he was trying his hardest to not come to terms with his feelings for the sake of work. no matter how bad he wanted to, sabo couldn't fall for you yet with the state the world was in. he still had much work to do.
• that wouldn't stop him from reading articles about you in the newspaper with a small smile on his face that wasn't the same as the one he had when reading about luffy, and feeling so proud of you for all you were doing. (even though, this is the newspaper and you're a pirate, so he knew he wasn't getting the full story.)
𑣲roronoa zoro
• unlike the other two, it's not that zoro didn't expect himself to fall for anyone, he never even thought about love. of course, he's not that stupid, he knew what it was he just never thought about himself being in love or imagining what kind of partner he'd have.
• zoro had overheard a conversation about you once. at first, he wasn't listening at all and was instead laying on the deck of the sunny trying to fall asleep. however, he tuned in when he heard the word "sword" mentioned. nami was talking about some swordsman pirate she read about in the newspaper who had just done some interesting things. this conversation is what first piqued his interest, but he never really gave it much thought.
• he saw you for the first time during sabaody. you were fighting, and zoro was watching you from afar for a minute, simply because you were using a sword. you seemed pretty talented to him, although zoro, being his usual self, assumed he could win in a sword fight against you. however, the gracefulness you had held still in his mind.
• zoro thought about you a few times during his two years on kuraigana island. it wasn't often, because most of his thoughts were filled with getting stronger and returning to the strawhats, however every so often perona would talk about a story you had in the newspaper. usually, he would start to tune perona out after a few words, but he couldn't ever make himself do that when she was talking about you.
• the next time he saw you was when the strawhats briefly encountered the crew you were part of. this was also the first time he saw you up close in person. you spoke to him first, asking him about his swords and what he does for training. he gave his usual answers, which ended in the two of you bickering, but zoro found this conversation fun.
• when you crossed back onto your ship, he found his gaze one-eyed lingering on you for a second too long, before snapping back to normal and going to take another nap.
• zoro thought of you more often now, mostly of what little he had seen of your sword skills back on sabaody. he couldn't help himself but want to see more, and have more bickering matches with you like the one he'd had when your crews met.
𑣲vinsmoke sanji
• i don't even know where to begin with this guy. when he saw you for the first time -- he was positively awe struck. sanji is usually one to fall fast, but this time he fell fast and oh so hard. in his eyes, you were actual perfection.
• the one downside was you being part of another crew, so he couldn't see you often or cook for you every day like his heart desired. all he wanted was to show his affections for you with his favorite love language, food, and shower you with many, many compliments.
• even so, he'd make light of the situation, calling the two of you star crossed lovers or romeo and juliet whenever you'd occasionally meet.
• sanji especially thought of you during whole cake, when the threat of him being married to another was on the horizon. of course, he was thinking about his crew too and keeping them safe, so he couldn't just run away from all of this.
• he'd think about how if all of this went through, he'd never have a chance with you because he'd be married to another and divorce would be too unsafe because of their situations. sanji knew that he'd still dedicate himself to pudding, but even so he couldn't surpress his thoughts of you.
• sanji felt overwhelming relief when he returned to his crew -- not only because he was back home with his real family, but also he wouldn't be stuck in a life without you being a permanent piece of it.
• even though sanji has crushes quite often and finds a lot of people beautiful, he had never been as in love with someone as he was with you. being the man he is, he was still gentlemanly with women and showered them with thousands of compliments, but somewhere along the line he stopped being able to imagine himself with anyone but you.
𑣲usopp
• usopp doesn't get crushes often. he'll find people attractive here and there, but most of his brain power goes towards getting himself out of all the impossible situations he seems to get himself into.
• he saw you for the first time when the strawhats went to an island for a quick pit stop to refill the fridge. your crew also happened to there, and you and usopp ran into each other in a little gadgets shop. usopp had seen your wanted poster before, and found you slightly intimidating (like he does with most people).
• so, when the two of you ended up talking for a while about some of the random things you found in there and some common interests you had, usopp felt his confidence grow by a lot. he found himself wanting to prove himself to you, more than he had with anyone in the past.
• usopp would think about what you were thinking when he was mentioned in the paper, or what you thought about his "god usopp" wanted poster, or even just what you were doing day by day.
• he wanted to have stories to tell you when he saw you again, but for once, not ones that were exaggerated or untrue. of course, that wouldn't stop him from pushing the truth just a liiiittle bit -- but still, what mattered is that he looked cool and confident and strong to you.
• when the crew first got to elbaf, he thought of you. he'd been waiting to go to this place for so long, and now that he's gotten there, he kept thinking about what you'd think of everything there -- just based on the simple conversation the two of you had in the gadgets shop.
• for a while, he tells himself its not a crush, and that he just admires you because you seem like a brave warrior. but as time went on, he realized it was sort of useless to ignore how his heart beat gets faster when you're even mentioned just in passing.
• usopp sees you as another inspiration to become an even braver warrior of the sea, so that every time you run into each other, he can show off to you!
𑣲eustass kidd
• this is the LAST guy to fall for someone easily. however, when he does and its for a strawhat, he's annoyed with himself more than anything. on the bright side, though, since he holds luffy in a high regard, that must mean luffy's crew is respectable too.
• kidd first caught sight of you during sabaody. you didn't catch his eye much then, though. he was too busy showing off to his fellow supernovas in order to make himself more known than he already was.
• he had thought about you once or twice since then, but when he really fell was 2 and a half years later during the events of onigashima. kidd watched you fight -- strong, capable, and captivating. it takes a whole lot to catch kidd's eye, and you had all that was needed.
• when leaving wano, he was being his usual loud, arrogant self -- but killer noticed him showing off a little more around you specifically. this was a small change, but it was evident that he had some sort of respect for you, no matter what feeling that respect was grounded in.
• killer knew kidd was really gone when he saw this weirdly smug but also ... sparkly? look on his face when they were finally setting off from wano. it was like he was proud to have shown off in front of you. kidd is always proud of showing off, but the expression on his face made killer decide that this pride was rooted in something else.
• eventually, the amount of times you'd randomly pop into kidd's mind and his heart beat would randomly speed up started to piss him off. not at you, he found himself unable to be mad at you, but at his heart or brain or whatever else was acting up because of you.
• even so, there was a small part of him that wished to run into the strawhats just so he could see you fight again.
𑣲trafalgar law
• yet another case of never really seeing himself in a relationship. he was always too focused on his revenge plot, wanting everything to go as planned. he loved his crew, and that's about all that was needed in his life. not to mention, he thought he was going to die and was genuinely prepared to do so. really, he didn't want to put someone through loosing a partner, therefore he didn't want one.
• not only that, with everything on his mind, it's not like he'd fall easily in the first place. that was until he met you aboard the strawhat's ship, of course.
• everyone on that crew was memorable and special in their own ways, and even if he didn't want to admit it they did make a difference on him. however, you made the biggest impact.
• naturally, since you're a strawhat, he had heard of you before — although, he never really thought of you much. even so, law fell for you slow during the events leading up to dressrosa.
• at first, he didn't even realize it was happening since he was too busy thinking about his nearly-realized goals. sometimes, you'd catch him staring at you a bit intensely, but really he was just thinking hardly about something and you were what caught his eye.
• as time went on while law was with the strawhats, he found himself thinking about you more. he'd hang around you often, even if it was just in silence — there was something slightly comforting about you being around him. and with all the chaos happening, he needed that comfort.
• since law was expecting to possibly die during the events of dressrosa, he pushed his feelings down and never gave them any thought. however, by the time he was with his crew again and he felt somewhat safe, he began to miss you.
• law never thought his time with the strawhats would impact him that much, but after being away, he realized it did. or, specifically, you did.
𑣲shanks
!!! warning for super duper major super spoilers for elbaf, tread carefully
• the two of you first met when you were young, him a member of roger's crew and you a member of a different crew. both being young pirates, shanks always waited to run into you so you could spar or talk or whatever you wanted to get up to.
• shanks thought of you often, though he never approached you with any intentions except for those of a rival. he cared for you, so he never wanted you to get caught in the crossfires of his past, who he was born as, and whatever tomfoolery the roger pirates got up to.
• when he was young, he'd imagine a world where he could freely be with you without worrying about your safety because of him. especially after he became a holy knight, then returned to the life of a pirate, and that stupid seal was on his arm. shanks kept a far distance from you while the seal was present, genuinely fearing something happening to you.
• after his arm got bitten off, he felt a sense of relief. not only because that meant his major connection to marie joa and the holy knights was gone, but also because he didn't have to worry about harming those he cared for unintentionally anymore.
• he began to seek you out more often, visiting you just to tell you about random things in his life, pestering you to join him no matter how many times you said you wouldn't.
• and when he couldn't be with you, he'd think about you during the strangest moments. you occupied his thoughts often — more often than he'd like to say out loud.
• however, despite how much he obviously cared for you, because of who he is he could never bring himself to be honest with you about what he was up to or his plans for things. this is also partly why he never decided to actually seek an official relationship with you, no matter how long he'd had feelings. shanks believed you were too good for him, too good for his constant act.
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