wahhhh i’ve had this wip in my folders since OCTOBER and i’m so happy to finally have it done!
i was losing a fair bit of steam gradually and tbh i just wanted to get this finished before i ran out but now that it is i really liked how all the pairings and individual characters turned out .･ﾟﾟ･(／ω＼)･ﾟﾟ･.
some fun facts about the OP versions of my OCs that’ll eventually make it into their bios:
-Izzy, instead of having a compound like she does in most other AUs, is a traveling merchant! she has a ship(blueprints made by her, constructed in Water 7) and travels the world, selling and trading to different people on different islands in different seas. she’s originally from the South Blue, was sold as a slave for money by her parents, and after she was liberated she returned home to kill them before leaving to travel the world. she’s also still a cyborg, and as well, she has The Voice Of All Things, and used those powers to befriend a Sea Beast she now keeps as a pet. She also sells to pirates, but she tries to do so discreetly, so as to not anger the World Government and get the Marines after her. she does have several contingency plans if a Marine ship or officer happens to see her selling to pirates, and they all end in the death of said Marines. She’s good friends with many crews of the Worst Generation, including the Straw Hat pirates(she’s especially good friends with Franky, with them both being cyborgs), the Kid pirates, and the On Air pirates(until Scratchmen Apoo’s betrayal of the Kid Pirates and the Hawkins Pirates). She and Massacre Soldier Killer have a physical relationship, and after the Kid Pirates are attacked by Kaido and the Beast Pirates, she travels to Wano(with the help of Sai) to help free them, and fights the Beast Pirates in the attack on Onigashima island by Luffy and The Alliance.
-The Gourmets, who are a mercenary group in most of my AUs, are a pirate crew in One Piece. The original three of the crew are Cremini(the captain and cook), her adoptive brother Sage(a musician), and their friend Burrata(a carpenter and the shipwright), and they became inspired to become pirates after the Straw Hats liberated their home country of Alabasta. on their way to the New World, they picked up Mille(a trans girl who found her way to Kamabakka Kingdom who became their navigator), Tira(a shipwrecked young nonbinary teen who’s their lookout), and the twins Agave and Stevie(i havent fully fleshed out their backstory yet but Agave is the ship doctor and Stevie is one of the main fighters of the group). they eventually ally themselves with the Big Mom pirates, but after the events of Whole Cake Island, they follow Jinbei’s lead and desert, instead joining the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. Cremini and Sanji have a romance arc as well!
-The Nova siblings are all a part of the Revolutionary Army. Calli and Coco, instead of being separated by someone adopting Coco like in other AUs, were separated on Sabaody Archipelago by a World Noble taking Coco as a slave. Sascha, who was already a Revolutionary at the time, witnessed the event, and took Calli under his wing and protected her after Coco was taken. Coco met Izzy while enslaved in the holy land of Mariejois, and both were freed when Fisher Tiger liberated the land. it took a few years for Coco to reunite with Calli, but when she did, she joined the Revolutionary Army, mostly to help protect her sister. Coco’s dream is to restore their ancestral homeland, an island in the North Blue called Andromede that was razed by Germa 66 before the girls were born. She ends up falling for White Hunter Smoker, the Marine, after a series of unusual circumstances that bring the two together, though they dislike each other at first, and have many disagreements over politics.
-Calli has a Devil Fruit! the Nuru Nuru no Mi, a Paramecia type fruit that gives her the power of nullification. she can temporarily nullify things like traps, defenses, and even other Devil Fruits(although she can only do that for about two minutes at a time, and it takes a lot of energy out of her). she mostly uses it to prank people, especially poor Inazuma and Ivankov(and later Sabo when he gets Ace’s devil fruit). She dreams of being a historian and wants to make sure that the events of this era don’t disappear like the Void Century did. because of this, she is very close to Nico Robin during and after her stay with the Revolutionaries during the timeskip. Robin even began teaching her how to read poneglyphs, though this is a secret that only the two of them know. Not even Coco is aware.
-Sascha is more or less exactly the same as he is within most AUs: his personality is unchanged, and he has little to no real memory of his past. he’s been with the Revolutionary Army since childhood, and fully believes in their dream to liberate the world from the World Nobles. The Nova Siblings in general tend to work most on breaking up slave trades, so they travel around in their own ship, under the guise of being a traveling music group(Calli plays guitar, Sascha does percussion, and Coco sings and dances), and investigate areas where lots of people tend to go missing. They’ve met the Straw Hats all together one time, between Thriller Bark and Sabaody, while the siblings were investigating an island where a trafficker had set up base.
-Sai is a member of the Third Eye tribe, and bc we still have almost no info on them, she’s still my least fleshed-out OC in OPverse. she still has her eye injury which makes her blind in her third eye, and just like in other AUs, that has helped her refine her powers. she has incredibly powerful Kenbunshoku Haki that rivals Katakuri’s, and uses this to help improve the world around her. she is the advisor to Monkey D. Dragon, head of the Revolutionary Army, and like in other AUs, she tends to largely work from the shadows to achieve her goals. Originally, she left her tribe to join the Marines in an attempt to make the world a better place, where she met her lover, Rocinante. Bc of her foresight, she knew he would die from the mission he took to stop Doflamingo, and she knew she couldn’t talk him out of it. After he went undercover, she deserted the Marines, and began honing her own intuition, with it leading her to helping Dragon and the Revolutionary Army. After Luffy came onto the scene as an established pirate, she discovered what his powers actually were, and threw her lot in to help support him wherever she could, believing he would bring liberation to the world. she is aware of many things that other people are not aware of, including the true nature of the Void Century, the One Piece itself, and the existence of Im. she tends to keep what she knows close to her chest though, in order to not endanger others. She also got to connect with Law and reconnect with Sengoku after the events of Dressrosa, as someone who was also important to Corazon.
