Ok, last whiny post for a while and then back to art, I promise, buuuuuut...
I've noticed in some fan works where the Vinsmoke brothers are able to gain back their empathy and break out of Germa, many times, Reiju gets left behind...and then she is never ever elaborated on again, or if she is, it's just her being in generic misery while the brothers are out there discovering themselves and developing.
Ever since I've noticed this it's been nibbling at me as my little bugbear because it represents a wider phenomenon in the fandom where there is simply an incuriosity to explore more of Reiju and her character outside of her being sad and suffering in Germa. Which...she does go through, yes, but it's so rare to see fan works giving her some agency and wants outside of Sanji worship or being turned into Sora 2.0 for her brothers that I can actually count them on one hand.
We GOTTA leave the sexy lamp trope in the past.
















