ANYWAY WHO’S READY FOR SOME ROLE REVERSAL AU
(also known as the feeling of an immense amount of #regret at realizing you gave an obscure AU-version of your OC a better design than her canon one)
Design details: The symbol on the side is a Pianta symbol, from Lana’s home island. They’re obsessed with circles, it’s a spiritual thing and also to do with their nature as a fruit plantations island. Since Lana in this didn’t leave her home as a child, she’s much more entrenched in the culture and got the tattoos before she left and as a symbol of her task by her family.
The one where Ace is haunted and a revolutionary, and Lana becomes a pirate, dies and haunts him.
Rouge’s mother takes one look at Garp and says, no. You’re going to fuck him up. The kid stays. But you’re going to visit and keep the Marines in line.
So they stay in contact. When Carmine, Trey and Verte (members of my Portgas Clan, whose family tree you can find on my deviantart but which is spoiler-heavy for the next wwtd chapters so i haven’t uploaded it here yet) join the Revolutionaries a couple years later, this is what happens: They somehow hear Dragon is has a son. A son that he gave to Garp to care for. The Portgas Clan collectively stages an intervention.
So this is how Luffy, instead of being dragged to Dadan following the Shanks-incident, is dropped off in South Blue by a very grouchy Garp who doesn’t understand why he shouldn’t care for kids. He took perfectly good care of Luffy so far. He’s going to visit as often as he can so that they still might become Marines!
Ace now has a little annoying brother-figure, as if his annoying 12 years older cousins weren’t enough basically siblings ... it’s hard being a middle child, but its also never boring, since gran lets everyone run wild and just laughs at and loves her parent-less children.
Ace grows up with his father having been some anonymous guy not worth mentioning and his mother a very loved bigger-than-life figure. He isn’t told about Roger; Garp is violently silenced by his grandmother if he tries. But Pianta isn’t far from Baterilla, and one day gran takes him to visit. He finds and eats a fruit he shouldn’t have. Baterilla is a lot less fun after that, and he finds out what really happened to his mother. His gran sits him down and explains. After grappling with it and a lot of teenage angst and even more screaming at the ghosts, he eventually decides to join the RA.
(Luffy thinks that’s super boring. He’s still going to be Pirate King!)
(Ace will meet Sabo; this Sabo never got out. Instead, he’s a shrewd noble dealing RA information under the table until this position isn’t worth it anymore and he joins the revs for real in a move that shocks the Reverie)
... Ace is very, very good, but so is Cipher Pol — especially when properly motivated. His heritage (or the suspicion of it) is a very strong motivator ...
Lana doesn’t eat a fruit that isn’t there. But when she’s 17, there’s an incident on Pianta with a visiting world noble. The Marines do absolutely nothing. Pirates end up helping. But her 14yr old sister has disappeared, and Lana sets out to look for her because she’s the only one who can; her brother as the heir remains home.
She takes a few wrong turns and ends up eating a fruit that makes her turn into fire. She’s not pleased at all. She also gets labelled a pirate shortly after some nut-jobs decide to follow her: congratulations, you’re now a pirate captain. She’d like to set them all on fire.
Anyway something terrible happens to her sister and Lana chases rumors all the way to the New World. Even in this world, Lana does not give a shit about world politics, and since Whitebeards closest and seems to have the necessary influence and not completely off his rocker, she directs her ship to his, lands on deck and demands his help. Everyone is kind of like standing there and going … what the fuck.
Whitebeard probably tests her or something. But girl is determined; she’s been looking for her sister for 2 years some old dude and herculean tasks aren’t going to stop her. And if joining his gang is what it takes, fine.
… of course, Teach ends up murdering her when she (accidentally) comes in between him and Thatch.
Teach is an asshole and a big threat that needs to be done in, but most importantly, she still hasn’t found her sister. So she goes to find the ghost-boy that she heard about somewhere.
Unfortunately, she’s lost time gathering her spiritual self, and finds ghost boy has gotten himself captured and is scheduled to be executed as Gold Roger’s son.
This might have started the revolution early, but Lana has no time for this shit. Also the dude can’t die, not on her watch, he still has to find her wayward sister.
This is how Ace gets a new epithet: Fire Fist.
(… Ace now has to abandon whatever he’s doing cuz this ghost gives no shit about his own priorities; but she had a hand in saving his life so he will settle the debt.)
