the wind blows from the east

shankslu shipper with a lushanks agenda. please check out my pinned. thanks ♥️ twitter: sun_flowersred | AO3: sunflowersred

[sunflowersred]

hi

this is just a place for me to post about my favorite ship. a lot of these posts will be carried over from twitter—just mini fics and general obsessing over this relationship, both as a ship and how it exists in canon.

things you’ll find here:

nsfw content (will tag with #nsfwtxt and #nsfwpic. i’ll try to tag kinks but if i ever miss anything please let me know!)

general caught up canon talk (i won’t be tagging, but i read with official updates)

moodboarding and webweaving: some non-op posts and reblogs of images, quotes, music, etc that vibes w this ship

just expect a lot of me posting about these two characters lmao

things you won’t find here:

leaks, scans, or spoilers

other ships, for the most part. i ship other ships i swear! but this account will concentrate on shankslu/lushanks

i’ll also be posting previews of fics i’m working on and links to finished ones once they’re posted. i hope you enjoy them—comments fuel me so if you ever read anything you like, i would love to hear about it! and please message or tag me anytime about this ship, i literally cannot get enough of it ♥️

thanks for reading!

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

luffy’s phrasing when he talks about his goal (kept from the audience) is identical to what ace said to yamato in the chapter 1000 flashback when presumably telling him about the same thing (also offscreen)- he says it is his 夢の果て/yume no hate. to quote what i said about ace's line in that chapter:

果て/hate is kind of a hard word because it’s most often translated as ‘end,’ and that is right, but i feel like it gives the wrong sense. ('end' in english is usually better translated into japanese as owari.) hate is more like the limit, the furthest point- i’d maybe translate it as something more like ‘endpoint.’ “the endpoint of my/our little brother’s dream.”

[yellowistheraddest]

kids these days dont appreciate anything...

[littlehorrorshop]

Our Dancing Daughters, 1928

[rainboneish]

i can’t stop wondering if Shanks was in tears from laughing so hard when he heard what luffy’s dream was or if he teared up a bit while laughing cause he reminded him of Roger

[sunflowersred]

I think so very much—I think when Shanks said “There’s a kid in the East Blue who said the same thing as Captain Roger!” he was referring to not Luffy’s declaration that he would be the King of the Pirates, but Luffy’s true dream.

[namisweatheria]

I made this after episode 1074 but only figured out how to make it small enough for tumblr just now. Definitely my favorite gif I've made

[sunflowersred]

does luffy thinks of the strawhat as his? he has already told its ‘his treasure’ many times, but when he refers to the owner, is it him or shanks?

I think the answer to this question is actually quite complex and not easy to explain but I will try!

Where see lines scattered throughout the series where Luffy more or less says the hat belongs to Shanks. perhaps the most obvious one is during the Summit War where where Luffy and Whitebeard meet. (if I’m not mistaken) Whitebeard says “I recognize that hat” and Luffy replies “yeah, I’m just hanging onto it for Shanks.” there’s a similar Oda-approved line in Film Red where Uta asks Luffy, “why do you have Shanks’ hat?” and Luffy replies “he let me borrow it.” The scene where Luffy meets Gaban is the latest example:

I think to Luffy the hat as an object belongs to Shanks, but it’s his (Luffy’s) in the sense that it’s a symbol of the promise he and Shanks share. That’s why Luffy refers to the hat as his ‘treasure’—not so much the hat itself, but that Shanks gave it to him under the condition that Luffy return it to him someday, and all that promise implies. Film Z lays this out quite nicely:

I think Luffy refers to the hat as his own here not because he sees the hat as belonging to him, but in the sense that he can’t be King of the Pirates if he lets anyone break the promise he made to Shanks. That promise and all its implications is what Luffy is referring to as his ‘guide’—his way of living (to be a man Shanks can be proud of sacrificing for) the kind of pirate he is (one who is free and frees others, as opposed to living with regret and oppressing others) valuing his crew (instead of using them as pawns) and striving to achieve his (true) dream no matter if he dies in attempt. The hat as a mere object belongs to Shanks. The enchantment of it belongs to Luffy just as much as it does to Shanks, and it is both Luffy’s and Luffy’s ‘treasure’ in that sense.

On top of all that, I think to Luffy, returning the hat to Shanks is just as important as Shanks giving him the hat in the first place. By trusting Luffy with his most precious possession and asking for it’s return, Shanks shows Luffy that he believes that Luffy can accomplish his dream—by asking for the hat to be returned to him, Shanks shows that he wants to see Luffy in all that splendor himself, one day.

[sunflowersred]

also sorry for the non-One Piece related posts that I reblogged here a while back without realizing I wasn’t set to my main…who knows what was wrong with my at the time

[sunflowersred]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

new fic. once it’s all done it’ll be around 30k words. please enjoy the first 6500 or so. new chapter to be posted soon. thank you! ♥️

[sunflowersred]

hello hello—after 2.5 years, chapter 2 is up. if you’ve read this fic and have been waiting for more, thank you for your patience. I hope you enjoy ♥️

[dukb75]

2023 X 2026

kid luffy and shanks ((got too lazy to actually draw the hat lol

[pepegle]

[redgomu]

shanks is so down bad

[rimofwell]

“First loves take us like that. But because they rarely have any consequence (few marry the sixth-grade sweetheart), people slight them. They exist in the thin cliche of bad country tunes, thus becoming generic, sandblasted of peculiarities. Our own features in youth have not yet been sharply carved. So in some way, we don’t exist. Thus we mock ourselves for loving so easily and in the process choke the breath from our first darlings. Which denies their truth, I think, for my inner life took full shape around such love. I learned to imagine around his face. Before such enchantment takes us, there are only the faces of parents, other kin. Those are doled out to us; they are us in some portion. These first beloveds are other. And we invent ourselves by choosing them.”

— Mary Karr, Cherry

[sunflowersred]

[sunflowersred]

me when ‘the strawhat once again belongs to shanks’ overlaps with luffys epithet.

I ADORE this ofc, and I think about how Luffy calls the straw hat his treasure, which makes Shanks (and their bond and promise) by extension his treasure. on the other side of this however: Luffy’s epithet implies that the hat belongs to him, but Luffy often says the hat belongs to Shanks, and that he (Luffy) is just holding on to it. we saw this quite (relatively) recently when Gaban was introduced:

to me, this all is important because this particular of their promise—what the hat means to them both because of the implications of Shanks giving Luffy the hat, which then turn the hat into a symbol—that only they and those closest to them understand (Gaban for example, in the above scene).

“The straw hat once again belonged to Shanks.” Overlapping with Luffy’s epithet—to the world beyond them (and their respective families), this is the case, will be the case, when they meet again, But to Luffy, the hat doesn’t belong to him at all. It’s because Shanks gave it to him that makes Luffy belong to (or with) Shanks.

ALL OF THIS, ANOTHER REASON WHY I SHIP THEM

[sunflowersred]

i return

[sunflowersred]

Reading chapter 1152 as a Shanks/Luffy shipper then logging on to the World Wide Web to spread the word and love of God

[sunflowersred]

Can you please tell us if your banner is official from the crease himself or it’s a fan art cus it’s looks so good!

I believe it’s original! Here is the image I got it from. It looks like it was from a magazine page…the style and pen strokes make me think it was indeed by Oda, but if anyone else out there knows more then please comment!