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♠ -- Hey there! I’ve recently revamped this blog and would like to start writing Ace again, so if you’re interested I’d appreciate it lots if this got passed around. Thank you! c:

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♠. disabilities

Due to being kept in the womb far past his normal due date, Ace has had to face the long term effects of it. While he was fortunate enough not to have any blaring physical disabilities from birth, his neurological state wasn’t as lucky.

"Post-term children have a considerably higher risk of clinically relevant problem behaviour. They are more than twice as likely as term-born children to have clinical ADHD," concluded a study of 5,145 Dutch babies published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Modi said its findings were "perfectly plausible [because] we know that birth after your due date is associated with a whole range of problems. If your baby stays in the womb for too long they are more likely to be a stillbirth, or weigh too little or be more likely to have a neurological disorder, because the longer a baby stays in the womb the more likely the placenta is to stop functioning normally." [x]

These are real studies done on overdue children, typically around a month overdue. Since Ace was overdue for much longer than that (to an absurd degree), the effects on him are more severe. 

ADD [x]

Probably the one that has an impact on him the most, Attention Deficit Disorder has been something that Ace has dealt with since he was a child. He is not aware he has it since he has never been diagnosed for it. He has shown many of the symptoms for ADD in canon, while some are more like my headcanons.

Trouble concentrating and staying focused. Poor listening skills, and struggling to complete tasks.

Periods of hyperfocus where he gets absorbed on completing one task. This is a type of coping mechanism, where one distracts themselves to tune our chaos/overbearing things.

Disorganisation and forgetfulness, from having a tendency to procrastinate, always being late, and having a knack for misplacing things.

Impulsivity is a big one, from having poor self control to having trouble behaving in socially acceptable ways.

Emotional difficulties. Easily flustered and stressed out, explosive temper, low-self esteem and self-worth.

Dyslexia [x]

Ace has always had difficulty with language, but especially with written language. From a very young age he realized that something was ‘not normal’ about him, because he just couldn’t understand words on paper like Makino or other people.

Because of his dyslexia, Ace tends to avoid reading all together. He has never sat down and read a book, he lets other people read the newspaper and regurgitate the information to him, and just goes about his life that way.

Early developmental stage:

Late talking (He was around 3 or 4 when he really started to form proper sentences)

Learning new words slowly

Difficulty learning nursery rhymes

Difficulty playing rhyming games

Adolescence stage:

Reading well below the expected level for your child's age

Problems processing and understanding what he or she hears

Difficulty comprehending rapid instructions

Problems remembering the sequence of things

Difficulty seeing (and occasionally hearing) similarities and differences in letters and words

Inability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word

Difficulty spelling

Adult stage: 

Difficulty reading, including reading aloud

Trouble understanding jokes or expressions that have a meaning not easily understood from the specific words (idioms), such as "piece of cake" meaning "easy"

Difficulty with time management

Difficulty summarizing a story

Difficulty memorizing

Difficulty doing math problems

Ace is actually quite intelligent if people give him the chance to open up and have discussions, but because of the certain problems that he has, he can come off as ‘dumb’ or ‘dense’ at first glance.

Hypersomnia [x]

Hypersomnia is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness. People with hypersomnia can fall asleep at any time, anywhere, which can sometimes be dangerous for themselves or those around them. Hypersomnia tends to by tied in with narcolepsy, a neurological disorder that affects a person’s control over their wakefulness.

“People with narcolepsy experience excessive daytime sleepiness and intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the daytime. These sudden sleep attacks may occur during any type of activity at any time of the day.”

Ace’s symptoms:

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS): In general, EDS interferes with normal activities on a daily basis, whether or not a person with narcolepsy has sufficient sleep at night. People with EDS report mental cloudiness, a lack of energy and concentration, memory lapses, a depressed mood, and/or extreme exhaustion.

Sleep paralysis: This symptom involves the temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up. These episodes are generally brief, lasting a few seconds to several minutes. After episodes end, people rapidly recover their full capacity to move and speak.

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♠. inexperience

[ He has had one or two close encounters in the past, but Ace is still very much a virgin. This is mainly due to his personal choices. Sex is very much associated with love and children to him, so a good word to describe his feelings is scared. Just the thought of bringing a child with his blood-- the Pirate King’s blood into the world worries him, because he does not want another kid to suffer the same way he did. He does not want anyone else to feel the same self-loathing he has.

So for that, his interest in sex has been low for the most part. He’s had times where he would like to give in to certain urges, but either deals with it privately or remembers his fears. Besides that, he’d much prefer to give himself to a partner he knows is steady and faithful. Someone who is already aware of his blood and past and loves him regardless. A lover, not some hookup.

One of the only times he got close to having a sexual experience was when he first joined the Whitebeard Pirates. The guys had been talking about their past affairs and musing about ‘gorgeous island girls’ when the conversation was directed over to Ace. When he casually mentioned that he never had that kind of encounter, some of the crewmates were dead set on getting the virgin boy hooked up with someone.

At their next stop, the crewmates kept nudging him towards an island girl that seemed to have an interest in him. While he was iffy about it-- stuck between wanting to be one of the guys and his own fears about intimacy, he still ended up in the girl’s home. When they had moved to her bed, things began to get heated before Ace knocked out, sleeping while the half-dressed girl was still on top of him. It might have been a subconscious escape on his part.

He woke up in the same spot, but the girl was long gone. It was morning and she was out doing work. He quietly left her home and when he returned to the ship, he decided to just tell the other guys that he had slept with her. After that, they stopped trying to coerce him into things. ]

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[ The verses page is updated! This blog will now mainly operate in post-timeskip with select exceptions! ]

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{ I’m going to be pretty busy with school stuff this week so idk if I’ll have the time to update it, but this blog will operate mainly in post-timeskip unless asked to otherwise. This verse is an alternate path where Ace had been hit by Akainu’s attack, but it wasn’t a direct hit. It made contact with his upper back (melting his tattoo away), but Ace had managed to avoid it for the most part. He had grabbed Luffy and was ducking out of the way.

He spent a lot of months just chilling around the Heart Pirates and getting his back rehabilitated. He also stuck around with Luffy and trained with Rayleigh, so there’s that. }

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other canon characters I ship Ace with:

vivi

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[ Like 20 so yeh ]