Content: fell first, fell harder trope, alternate versions, some death, lots of fluffy love, kinda like a choose your own ending
Word Count: 870+
A/N: This was 1) inspired by the fell first fell harder trend cause I was thinking Luffy would do well as both and 2) it's inspired by this short story I read for one of my classes called "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood (it's very fun), which is where I got the idea for the different versions of the story! I hope you all enjoy!
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Luffy fell first and he fell harder.
No matter the circumstances.
A.
At a single glance, Luffy fell for you and you fell just as fast. He’s gravitating towards you just as you gravitate towards him. There hardly needs to be a single word spoken between you two past a simple greeting because you two just know. It’s as if your very souls know--as if they’d been calling out for each other your whole lives. Two sides of the same coin is what you two are.
He helps your island. You help his crew. He asks you to join his crew and you agree before he can even finish the question.
Where one is found, the other is right there too. There is rarely anywhere you two go alone. Many a crew member have commented “if they could crawl into each other's skin, they would have a long time ago.”
You fall harder and harder for each other the longer and longer you two are together. You’ll follow him wherever he goes, just as he will follow you and you both will do so till you are old and gray and wrinkled. You two will follow each other into death’s embrace and live together forever in whatever sunny afterlife awaits you.
B.
Luffy saw you, working for the enemy, yet still fell. He could see your pain--your struggle for survival and wants to help.
You don’t. You see him as a thorn in your side. Someone in the way of your plans. You don’t want or need his help. You joined your Captain's crew for a reason and no amount of love Luffy gives you is going to change that.
Luffy can’t get you out of his head and he can’t help but keep falling harder for you. Not when you stand for the same things he stands for, no matter how you choose to go about it.
Fighting occurs. The Straw Hats win. You are left beaten and bruised and, even when you fought against his family--when you tried to kill them--he extends a hand out for you. He wants you to take it so badly. Wants you to be free with him and yet you spit at his feet. You can’t fathom why he would offer you any amount of love.
He offers you the freedom you’ve been craving so easily. You hate it. You reject it.
You limp away, never once turning back to look at him.
Luffy understands, no matter his disappointment, and walks away too.
He believes you’ll meet again and when the time comes, he’ll offer his hand for you to take once more.
C.
Luffy falls for you the moment you give him an extra loaf of bread he didn’t have the berri to afford. You gave it to him because of his smile and warmth--things he wants to keep sharing with you as long as you will let him.
Luffy saves you from a band of bandits raiding your bakery and you fall for him hard. You keep falling for him over and over again the longer you follow him across the Grand Line.
You two spend day after day together. Neither one of you ever wants to let go of the other. You two are happy and oh so carefree within each other's arms.
The Straw Hats face off against an unforgiving foe. It’s a hard battle. The crew can hardly find the strength to keep on fighting, not when their bodies are beaten beyond repair.
You’re injured too. Bad.
Luffy sees this and defeats the big bad at just the last minute.
Chopper can’t get to you in time.
Luffy loves you even when you are no longer in this world with him. He’ll love you till the day he leaves it too.
D.
You’re a part of the enemy's crew and yet Luffy falls for you the moment you shed a tear for the village your boss has just destroyed.
Luffy wants to save you. You want him to save you too.
You help Luffy even when you know doing so has put a target on your back. Though, with your extra help, Luffy and his crew defeat your former one. He asks you to join him--to sail around the world and help whoever you wish to help. You join him with hardly a second thought and do just that.
Everyday Luffy is around you, the more you two talk and laugh with each other, harder and harder he falls. You fall right back and you fall hard because he has become your best friend.
You follow him throughout his journey and he helps you learn to love yourself despite all the bad from your past.
E.
You believe you’ve fallen first for Luffy and are stuck in a constant battle against your own emotions because you believe Luffy has only ever viewed you as a friend--a fellow crewmate.
Luffy believes you two have been together ever since you joined his crew--has loved you since then. Nami even told him this--that you liked him and he thought that was that. He loves you and you love him, therefore you were his.
Robin tells you this one day and you only fall harder for him.
It’s been a long and arduous journey. Luffy’s sure come a long way - from the barrel to the top, one might even say. Or, well, nearly to the top. The crew had all the road poneglyphs now. With the wind in their sails, they were making good time for Laugh Tale - the final destination, where Luffy’s dream lay waiting.
“Captain,” he hears Robin call out. She’s holding a newspaper.
He grins at her. “What’s up, Robin?”
“It says here that Shanks found the One Piece. He’s now the King of Pirates,” she responds with a smile, as if mocking him.
It’s been a big week for the crew - adventures, new friends, and another tyrant usurped. This called for a celebration! Luffy practically counted the seconds until the meal was ready, and it sure was taking Sanji ages…
Finally, the kitchen door burst open. The crew came out bearing plates and bowls, and decked the table.
Luffy tried the first dish - spinach frittatas. No. The second dish - veggie quiche. No! Surely the meatballs… Tofu.
“Sanji!!! Where’s the meat?!” he shouts.
“Sorry, Luffy. We’re all out,” he shrugs.
“And our budget says we won’t be restocking on meat anytime soon,” adds Nami.
The events of Marineford continue to haunt Luffy’s dreams. He tosses and turns at night, still fighting a long since ended battle.
He remembers Magellan, the warden. The poison is burning through his veins. He’s on the brink of death. Bon Clay drags him to Ivankov, who injects him, trying to save his life.
But Luffy does not recover in time... He awakens three days later. He’s fought so hard, but never got to fight the fight that mattered most. Now Ace is dead, and he’s still stuck in Impel Down. The world moves on without him… and without Ace.
If only Luffy hadn’t been so stubborn, his crew would still be with him. Nami and Franky warned him the ship couldn’t take it. Robin and Brook warned him of the faults in his plan. Usopp and Chopper begged him not to do it. Even Zoro and Sanji seemed reluctant. But he went through with it anyway.
His crew was gravely injured in the wreck. Then the marines showed up. The Strawhats fought hard, but couldn’t hold out. His overconfidence has led them straight into a trap. Now his crew was either dead, or held hostage someplace out of reach.
