I would love to read more about your shanks headcanons, i absolutely love this blog
- bananon🍌
BANANON. Oh that's excellent what a fantastic signature!!
; u ; that's so kind and lovely of you to ask, I will do my best!! gonna have to readmore it as always bc I'm yammering so. Headcanons (general and romantic) under the cut!
His crew are as much a tight-knit band of dedicated men who look up to and respect Shanks as their captain and friend as they are his personal Greek chorus that follows him around making mouth sounds whenever anything at all happens with lmao. If you take the example of him falling in love, they're so happy for him to actually be reaching for something for himself for a change but they're also standing behind him like. Waiting for him to sigh wistfully so 3-5 of them can also sigh wistfully but Louder. He opens his mouth and they say helpful things like "boss is sappy 😊" He has threatened them (toothlessly) with mutiny charges many times. They are undeterred.
He's very wiggly/dancey on normal days! If he's going to grab a snack, if he's gotta make his way from one end of the deck or another for any reason, if Benn has a hangover he thinks he can make worse, if someone has offered him a fruity little umbrella drink. Wiggle wiggle, hips don't lie, cha-cha real smooth etc etc. Music desired but not required!
Speaking of umbrella drinks (and full disclosure this is something I was talking to a buddy of mine about), I think he collects his favorite little drink decorations from places he's been. He's got his jewelry and accessories just kind of around on his desk and nightstand and places, but then a keepsake box that has various pretty little umbrellas and light-up jewels and things that he's liked in his drinks.
Beneath these things in the keepsake box are two folded up wanted posters: one that he managed to save of Roger's, and Buggy's first ever wanted poster.
I think he's very people watchy basically all the time. He's genuinely very light-hearted and silly and fun, but I think a lot of his time when he's not Entertaining or Captaining is spent kicked back kind of. Watching the way his crewmates interact. Watching the ebb and flow of activity in whatever bar they're at. Watching the way people just exist in markets or down by the port or in parks or wherever he is. I think he's really keenly curious about everything, and I also think he feels really disconnected from the world a lot of the time, so being able to see that flurry of human activity all around him makes him feel a little more grounded. imo.
This one isn't groundbreaking or anything but I think he loves seeing his darling wear his clothes. Sleeping or lounging around in one of his linen shirts, or stealing a pair of those patterned pants and having to find creative ways to cinch them because he's actually a decent-sized guy. One time you come out with one of his sashes repurposed into a bandana of sorts and he about collapses to the deck. The fact that you're comfortable sharing things like that with him, the intimacy of his clothes covering and warming you when he can't, the fact that he thinks you're the most beautiful thing he's ever seen even when you're not incorporating pieces of himself into your look, just. He loves it all.
He gets a little starry-eyed when you're sassy and playful with him for sure, but I think he goes full jello-mode if you're sassy on his behalf in like. A public setting. He's fully capable of handling rude idiots himself, of course, but I think it really warms his heart when the people he cares about are protective of him. When it's his darling doing it, showing teeth or coldness or wit in his defense, he will sit directly behind them chin in his hands grinning like a kid at Christmas. loves to be cared for, loves to see his darling handling business, loves knowing that at the end of the day he is going to scoop them directly off the floor and take them to bed about it.
LITTLE SPOON. He will hold you and love on you and adores to do it but if you curl around his back, or cradle him in your arms, or let him lay in your lap, it's like his perfect center of peace and warmth in the universe.
