If I head a nickle for every time I killed off Gingerbrave and Strawberry cookie in a au that Wizard cookie gets a soul jam AND have Wizard cookie live with the guilt that he could have done something even though it was out of his control which leads him to becoming a beast cookie, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't alot, but weird that it happened twice.
SO, this is yet another extension of my "Roger's belongings magically find their way to Ace" AU, which has a couple chapters up over here of an Adoption Spree that's just focused on Oro picking up bby Straw Hats, but this version includes Makino and more grown-ups and Bonus Shenanigans :3
In the same style of calling Sanji 'Eggplant', Zeff has more nicknames for this wild bunch of pipsqueaks he now feels responsible for feeding:
Ace=Radish
Luffy=Potato (pre-dates Potato Baby joke of recent fics which continues to amuse me)
Sabo=Onion
(ASL? Nah, these are the Root Vegetable Brothers!)
Zoro=Cabbage
Kuina=Kale
(We have Matching Themes on this here Pirate King's Ghost Ship)
Nami=Pumpkin
Nojiko=Zucchini (fellow gourd)
(Bellemere is simultaneously 'Miss Bell' and 'you damn Marine' which cracks her up at regular intervals)
Usopp=Spinach
Kaya=Snowpea
(One of these children is given far more endearments than the other)
Emiko and Amako once they're born=Strawberry and Raspberry
(This is the only 'hunger in my blood' variant where I'm willing to indulge in Makino having red-haired twins because this one will end while they're still babies and I don't need to sort out two distinct personalities)
After it becomes a Known Thing that Gold Roger's ship is sailing around the East, supposedly being captain by woman who can enchant people against their will and steal children to siphon their souls or whatever, the marines resort to sending a skilled undercover operative to get better information/set a trap. It's just their bad luck (*cough*Sengoku and Garp being sneaky*cough*) that the officer sent is Donquixote Rocinante, recently recovered from injuries sustained at the disastrous end of his prior mission in the North Blue (which he is in no way trying to find an excuse to go back to, for No Particular missing kids reason).
This will be an opportunity for me to indulge in multiple fun little 'what if' backstories and also put Roci into Comical Situations, which is always a delight x'D
I had a really nice pen with me at school today and also I’m insane so I covered like two sheets of scratch paper with cursive affirmations against copium in this vivid bright red