#fictional letters

[majestativa]

Dare I speak to you intimately? Yes! Educated in the school of self-determined and uninhibited courtesy, my body dares do that and more! […] Yes, that’s right. A hunger for knowledge bestows on my hand an audacious and much more penetrating gaze than my eyes possess.

GRISELDA GAMBARO — The Impenetrable Madam X, transl. by Evelyn Picon Garfield, (1991)

[sugiwa]

Penny-Buggy meeting goes like this: Penny immediately gets hit with Lucy flashbacks. Why? ✨️Drama✨️ and blue hair. That’s it. Penny is either Buggy’s number one worshipper or possessed by the need to slay him right then and there so her brain doesn’t have to make the connection between him and her beloved mother.

Lol, when they meet, Penny's first thought is to thank him for being Shanks' friend cause "it's hard and not many people can keep up." But, the Lucy flashbacks too and Buggy's met Lucy before which we will find out 😭😭😭😭

Wait until Thriller Bark tho cause if you want angst, you'll get it.

[eddiemania]

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[paperstarwriters]

To those told not to love

Dear you

Hello there.

Have you ever seen something so miraculous that you suddenly want to copy it onto yourself? Something so beautiful you want to breath it, bleed it. A story that has intertwined itself deep into who and what you are? Have you ever felt fake because of it?

Me too.

It feels fake-- I feel fake. Like a cheap imitation of something. Everyone says I've become some stupid or crazy fan for trying to blend this idea into my life and it nags at the back of my mind, haunting every moment of joy I derive from making my life better for myself.

I'm sure you feel it too.

Those of us who are so accepting of ideas and stories into our soul, run the risk of vulnerability. We let other's people's words affect us. It's only a matter of time before something sharp and foul worms it's way into the bunch. It hurts a lot too, especially something sharp found when something is supposed to be fluffy. It hurts-- does it hurt for you as well? It hurts a lot more when you accept such cruel thoughts into yourself. Now, those sharp and painful words are within you. Others may say, with their crescent cut, bleach white smiles,

"It'll make you stronger! It builds character! You'll be better because of it!"

But it isn't better. You're wounded, you're hurt. Your skin isn't tougher, its bruised and broken. If you touch the places where their weapons sank into your skin, you may just cut your skin all over again. You're more delicate than when you began.

You only become stronger when you remove the intruding object, and let the wounds heal over. So take a look at the source of that fake feeling within you. Were is it coming from? Who, or what, is the source? Challenge it. Do those words really matter to you, do you need to listen to them? If not then smile, and do the very thing  they told you not to do.

You aren't fake for copying things onto your personality. Art is created by the artist mixing things they enjoy into one new creation, so why don't you make yourself into a masterpiece. A beautiful work of art that is always changing and growing, becoming more intricate and beautiful with each new addition.

Yours Truly,

-- an anime fan inspired by Violet Evergarden.

[sugiwa]

Since penny’s fruit makes her symmetrical, what would happen if she were to lose a limb? Would it grow back? Would she lose the opposite one?

This is where that unreliable narrator tag comes into play. Penny was a grand One Year Old when she ate her Devil Fruit--she has no idea whether that claim about symmetry is true or not. She mostly said it to entertain herself. In fact, despite her mother getting very angry at her for eating it (or so the others said), Penny was never actually told what it was or what it did. Her first memory of actually using it was to "copy" a costume her mother had. Strangely enough, it was a perfect replicable other than being just small enough to fit Penny, which Lucy explained away as Penny simply scaling the copy like a real printer can. Penny's little story to Doflamingo about why and when she ate it are true.

Now, what happens if she loses a limb. Penny's clones basically have two categories:

Shadow Clone: these are the ones we frequently see her using and they pop out of existence at a fatal hit, but spiritually are exact copies of Penny. Easiest to make, not much energy required unless she makes a lot of them or keeps them active for a long time.

Full Clone: these are more like the clones that Dr. Vegapunk makes. Actual flesh and blood complete with lineage factor and everything meaning that they can also use Penny's DF. This is the kind that's currently active in Water 7. Even with a fatal hit, there's going to be a body left behind (this was what Penny meant when she was talking about Iceberg's fake-death)

She can't bring back what's already gone, so if she doesn't have a clone active before hand, any new one she makes are going to fit her exact image. Saving Ace from Akainu for example would be outside of her ability unless she somehow made a clone of him beforehand (and there'd need to be a doctor around to fit the pieces back together).

What we do know about Penny's fruit leaves it rather ambiguous but let's just say that Penny's fruit is about manifesting. 😂

[paperstarwriters]

Dear Daydreams,

As you are opening this letter I am sure that you have come to the realization that sometimes beauty is not found in sweets and sugar. No one can live on chocolate alone. One day you'll need a savory meal to sedate your thirst, and knowing you, I know the choice will undoubtedly be meat.

Chewy, bloody meat

Horror beyond far beyond the grips of society, bask in it like the finest wine. Savor the taste of someone else's horror as you fall senselessly in love- Oh how intoxicating a notion that is! Does blood drip off your lips Persephone? Or is it another bite of the Pomegranate as you try to bind yourself to the world of the undead.

The glee overrides the fear and suddenly you're a cackling mess scaring the armed killer more than they scare the other hostages. They wanna shoot you in the head but that would only make their situation worse. You make a face- a disgustingly warped grin--and suddenly you are the one with a knife in hand. Suddenly you're the threat. You who cannot stand a single jump scare, yet you can fall in love with the wretched and damned, and you lap up page after page of horror stories. Why don't you feed yourself? Instead of starving yourself by chewing on the same sweets every day, it might be nice to have a meal, wouldn’t it?

Immerse yourself in the nightmares of the ordinary, feast upon the flesh of the sane as you dine with the mad. Lap up your fair share of the fantastical horror. Your powers lie in the fanciful after all. So? Let us begin this benign process and feast upon fear.

Say, "Ahh," and swallow dread.

Love,

--Horror.

[sugiwa]

CH lives in my head rent free, every freaking time i see the sky right before dusk i think of lucy like, "she had blue hair tooqhjfqn [ugly sobbing]"

what have you done to me sugiwa

dsajhfdkjdsafn, it lives in my head too, especially Lucy--tbh, I could probably do a while spin off on her life alone. The next chapter is setting the stage for an upcoming reunion, but it's so difficult to write, because we know so little about Shanks and there's so much lore that I want to squeeze in, but here's a sneak peek:

“Fought? What would they fight about?” asked Bear, face scrunched in confusion. “Though, with how Lucy was, I’m surprised he didn’t knock her head off a few times. What happened was that he left Lucy with his bar tab. She ended up in jail for a couple of days ‘cause of it and then went back to get even.” 

[sugiwa]

Asking for a friend, you wouldn’t happen to have a detailed list describing what Penny’s parents look like, do you?

Yeah, of course :)

I'll put it under the read more in case some people didn't read this week's chapter:

So, I came across this drawing a while back and felt this 100% suited Penny's dad. He's got a very distinguished kind of appearance, but then opens his mouth and ruins it. Constantly dress in black (back home it was tradition to wear black for a year after mourning a close relative, but since everyone else died, and no one could do it, he's been doing it for his entire island) Also, he went grey prematurely, so his hair is full white even though he's not really that old. Full credit to @/lazyvoyager who has some amazing art:

LazyVoyager

Oh my god

As for Lucy, I really liked this background character from this week's chapter, so we'll go and say that's kinda what Lucy looks like. She's got blue hair like the sky: