🫶🏻 PLSS HELP I'M LOOKING FOR ONE PIECE FANFICTION RECS!!! 😭
Like i'm really starving for it huhuhu it's been a long time since i read a good one. And I've been rereading ffs for months HAHHAHAHA
Anything will do! You can recommend based on the tags but there are just some ships (not on the tags) i don't read at all.
And i would just like to avoid smut/lemons 😶 but i guess you can recommend it too, i'll read it if i can.
I'm not that into AUs but if it's really intriguing or I'm really curious, I'll read it.
It can be a one-shot, short, or long.
Angst, fluff, dark, found family, Comedic, Romance, hurt, comfort, redemptions, fix-it, canon divergent, alternative outcome, time travel, reaction-fic, etc.
I think it would be funny if they teamed up cause crocodile would be so confused on how doflamingo had the entirety of his 10 year evil plan single handedly foiled by usopp
How dare this flashback end without any mention of Lola?? I want to know how and when and if it was real or just another fake rumor associated with him!!
Loki, come back and tell your brother, his friends and these random humans about your love life!!!!
Loki taking on the daunting and devastating task of killing his father to save the whole country. Loki who cried because he wanted to find a way to save Harald too, but ultimately all he could do was saving his humanity and all of what he stood for, by ending his life and pretending he did it for his own gain.
Loki doing that, all so Harald's efforts and accomplishments wouldn't have been made in vain. So that the people can still believe in the good of what he did, and how he tried to open Elbaf to the rest of the world through diplomacy and friendship, and not brutality.
Loki not listening to his father's wish to explain to his people what really happened there, and taking the blame for it so that the hearts of the giants wouldn't be corrupted by hate towards the outside world, because he knew that that could happen, and also knew that Harald wouldn't want that.
So not only he had to bear the emotional toll of killing his own father, the only one who truly loved him for what he is from the start. But he also had to bear the weight of all the giants and his brother hating on him and falsely believing he did it just to take the throne. He had to bear being chained up in the worst part of Elbaf to pay for a crime he didn't want to commit, but had to because he was forced to by the circumstances, and for the greater good.
All that so he could save what his father created for their country. A country who did nothing but hate and be wary of him from the moment he was born. And yet, he still chose to sacrifice himself to protect all giants and prevent them to go back to their old roots, because of love.
Loki, you're such a good character. You and your growth will be always so so dear to me. Oh, how I love you...
Okay, definitely a peak chapter with a few surprises, or neat ways of wrapping things up.
I'm not gonna go in depth, so I'll just touch upon a few things (<--liar, liar, pants on fire).
The Perona cover was cute. I read a meta the other day (and might have reblogged or had it queued) where the author supposed that Mihawk might be the survivor of similar human-hunting games, which is why he calls his own "prey" rabbits (or one Roronoa Zoro at least).
Thinking about that, and also the sick "games" on God's Valley, the cover of Perona chasing the White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland shout-out), with Mihawk looking on (below) takes on a bit of a darker tone. I don't think the requester meant it to have darker implications, but considering the events it's paired with, parallels will be drawn!
Also, Big Mom gets her height back (almost on par with Whitebeard in the panel below). She's taller than all of these guys, except for perhaps Rocks (in his non-demonized form), and the gorosei, Imu, etc.
Rocks doesn't become a demon not in control of his faculties straight away, and he has a few words for Imu, guessing (or so it seems) that Davy D. Jones was the king of the world (page below). Imu contradicts Rocks, but the World Government (WORLD) also would surely not acknowledge Roger as a true king, so it could play into this. Or it's that the word "World" is carrying a lot of weight at the moment.
I've included the whole page above, because there's a lot of information in there. For sure, why is Imu scared with his claims that Davy's and those bearing the intial "D" mean nothing? Rocks calls him out. The will and promise of Davy that
Rocks' talks about is tantalising. Eris and Teach are still fleeing in the last panel (above), but just in general (ie: not from their errant, transformed husband and father).
It seems that Joyboy and Davy D. Jones are not the same entity, but are spoken in the same breath by Rocks (panels above), there definitely is a connection in threat-level at least, and in Imu's hopes to obliterate them. However, Imu also says that both (Joyboy and Davy D. Jones) will fade with the end of the Davy clan, so who knows? (or is he specifically referring to Rocks?). Also, that second long panel (above and repeated below) clarifies that
Imu definitely has his eye on the giants, and especially on Harald's naivety and therefore his pliability. Rocks' loyalty is admirable. Ahh, and you can see part of the reason why Teach turned out the way he is and why he thought his Dad was monstrous, because after Imu and Rocks finish their tête-à-tête, Rocks (after lying about on the ground for a bit and it seems either
Domi-Reversi-'ing Kaidou (?!?), or just wiping him out? (cos, he would be a menace! Doesn't have the streaks rising from his eyes, so he's out for the count, I think) [and side note, I love LinLin's concern], and also K-O-ing Big Mom, and it seems defeating Whitebeard,
(all of which results in an inevitable One Piece fire and one half of the cleaved mountain toppling)
...after all of that, Rocks
...goes after his wife and child. At least Eris knows what is going on, but that would have been Teach's last view of a father he perhaps never knew. LUCKILY for them, however...
the kindhearted eight-year-old (?) slave Bartholomew Kuma is still around. And a very dejected Dragon, still crippled with Catholic-adjacent guilt (understandably, however, his rifle across his back is brings to mind a penitent bearing a symbolic cross) seems unable to move.
Kuma fortuitously, and just in the nick of time–
–saves Eris and Teach from certain death either by marauding demonised husband (as in, turned into a demon, but thereafter, demonised, for sure), or marine cannonball fire (aimed for Rocks, I think) aimed for escapees, same as Akainu sinking a boatload of civilians off Ohara (thanks for pointing that out in your post @crinj-centralecentral).
I hope Kuma got himself out of there soon after, and had already sent Iva and Ginny. I love him. Maybe he saved Dragon. I'm figuring that Eris might have still been fatally wounded.
But wait!, that's not all...
Imu has charged Rocks with killing everyone left on the island, and Rocks sets out to that, starting with Garp and Roger (actually, I think he first chases some of Rogers? crew). Garp and Roger are up for it, as seen below, either one or both bellowing at him to "Bring it on!"
BUT, it seems that not only Roger, but Garp (and Rocks too) have
the Voice of All Things, or the ability to hear voices, and also to communicate telepathically. Rocks begs for Roger and Garp to kill him, as many predicted. I guess that others being able to hear voices means there is hope for these guys in the panel below:
Marauding Domi-Reversi'd giants above, turning on their own people in Elbaph. Dorry and Brogy at the fore. Additionally, Loki having his eyes covered ties into that whole internal world, ability to talk to animals, etc. that Luffy, Momonosuke (and Chopper) have (I hope!). (Shirahoshi too, of course).
That's the crux of it (short chapter commentary, my arse!).
Asides:
Shakky, I would have liked for you to do some more, but too many cooks spoil the broth, and there are enough players already:
I know that Sommers got you good, but you are an Amazonian.
Also, it seems that Rocks' crew at the upper echelons, maybe, the guys who were in it for devil fruit, or for the genuine well-being of Shakky, or a form of kinship, did have a loyalty to their leader. I think that Big Mom, Whitebeard and Kaidou are demonstrating that.
They are schemers, though (except maybe Whitebeard), that's clear. But those more driven to kill each other for treasure (or to sell each other or allies into slavery) don't seem destined to survive (as we know they didn't, ultimately. Not all died on the island). (Screencap of Shiki and Captain John below. Shiki escaping with John's treasure).
Don't get me wrong. I know that Big Mom and Kaidou would do whatever suited them best at any given time, but they were there, fighting the biggest threat on God Island, along with Roger, Whitebeard, Garp and Rocks. I'm sure I've missed some (most of the marines and Celestial Dragons and Rogers' crew stuff). Also, there are all of the other Domi Reversi'd Davy clan. Wonder what they're up to right now.
All this time we thought Linlin gave Kaido his fruit in an attempt to save his life. Maybe even sacrificing her own chance at giving it to one of her kids in order to save her honorary little brother.
But nah, he just straight up yoinked it right under her nose and she rewrote the memory of that to make it so he's in her debt. Which is such a sibling move and I love it.
i think there should be more consideration and discussion of zosopp but like not in a romantic sense necessarily but moreso in a they both see each other as a cool, little bug they captured in a jar kind of way. zoro is always fascinated by usopp’s chronically high level of neurosis and usopp treats zoro like his own personal action figure and wields him at others as an intimidation tactic. zoro is charmed by usopp’s “noble heart” and is the first to invite usopp onto the ship and usopp looks to him for comfort. whenever zoro is doing something especially weird usopp is watching him in gross fascination. zoro telling those kids that he and luffy and nami ate usopp was hysterical. usopp would have loved that. i think there’s an under-explored dynamic here… where are the fics where Usopp is sitting on the deck near zoro and rambling nonsensically while zoro chimes in once every 4 minutes with his opinions on things. where are the fics with zoro teasing usopp by lying to him about silly things for no reason? where are the fics about zoro and usopp talking about the fact that usopp was almost certainly the one that first haphazardly stitched zoro’s chest back together after his fight with mihawk?? remember when zoro was looking for usopp’s approval in the dinosaur contest on little garden? me too! let’s see some more of that. i just feel like it’s fun when they play together.
