I fulfilled my promise. I want to hear your most unhinged shanks-luffy thoughts.
I have so many that I don't know what qualifies as unhinged, since I see both Shanks and Luffy as completely insane toward one another. They vary, of course. All of these are before they become a couple.
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Luffy:
When he first realized he had a crush on Shanks, he tried to sike himself out of it by making imaginary bets with himself and using dumb logic like if Shanks likes me, then he'd arrange for our crews to meet tomorrow or if Shanks likes me, then he'll invite me to spar with him! They all come true because it's their routine.
Imagine this before they get together. Luffy chases away everyone who even remotely shows interest in Shanks, men and women. He loudly claims Shanks is his and his alone. It gets worse when he becomes Pirate King because then no one wants to cross the PK. Luffy is an overprotective DOG, and Shanks is his unwilling victim.
If Luffy stares at Shanks for too long, he will start drooling.
When Shanks teases Luffy, Luffy's comebacks are usually compliments (i.e., "At least, people can look at me in the eyes!" or he just covers Shanks' face or just hits him, softly, with love and care)
They spar a lot, much like how Whitebeard and Roger do, and Luffy loves it when Shanks hits him, and he can't explain it, and he likes hitting Shanks, too. He's pretty sure it's not normal at ALL. He's convinced Shanks likes it, too.
Luffy can kinda read Shanks' mind (Shanks is easy to read, Shanks thinks it's a little snooky)
Luffy is manipulative and sneaky. He works Shanks and gets exactly what he wants by being cute (Shanks is a complete sucker!!!) And, whenever Luffy gets what he wants, he snickers and rubs his little hands together like a fly.
Shanks:
His favorite hobby is taunting Luffy. He's a straight-up bully and purposely riles Luffy up, and sure, that's not unhinged, but he loves it when Luffy blows up, puts hands on him, or just yells at him.
When they spar, Shanks loves it when Luffy hits him. He's not a masochist, but there's just something about Luffy's zaniness that makes him excited. He knows Luffy enjoys sparring with him, and they truly are equals with respect to strength, so why not go at it? Right? It's definitely not a sex thing, Shanks hopes.
Shanks loves how possessive Luffy is with him. He's never experienced that with anyone else. He's always been the one in "charge," but with Luffy, Luffy kinda steamrolls him.
Shanks has had multiple uncomfortable hot dreams of Luffy eating him.
Shanks always, always spoils Luffy, and it's to the point that the Straw Hat Pirates gave him rules as to what NOT to feed or gift Luffy. Shanks gives it to Luffy anyway.
When he realizes he's in love with Luffy, he's like damn, never seeing him again and Luffy just follows him to the end of the Earth. He plays hard to get and is pleasantly surprised by how resilient Luffy is with his affection.
Shanks is jealous of anyone Luffy has had flings with (i.e., Law, Boa, not really, Katakuri). If a person so much as remotely hits on Luffy, Shanks gets MURDEROUS! He and Boa argue a lot.
