#op seraphim

[lostuzumaki]

After a long time I got to Seraphim Ace au. I've been focusing more on crew relations, but I'm planning more of a smaller comic in Elbaf.

Little Ace has stopped fighting and now Nami braids his hair when he reads comics.

I forgot to put the text for Sanji and Zoro, but I guess we can all imagine that Sanji irritates Zoro because he's too slow. Also, they're at some weather festival and it's fascinating to Little Ace.

[beatrizshy]

S-Monkey!? WHATTTTT

Close ups:

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

Why are they so babies. Why do they have chubby cheeks and fluffy wings. Dont they know its bad for my mental health

I want someone to teach them how to dance. Give them atla footloose moment please. Teach them how to let loose.

[drilflamingo]

[oceanwani]

baby bird attempts to show physical affection for the first time ever, fails to understand what to do with his hands and arms

[missing-sanity]

i’m always curious about What Could Have Been, the Potential. attached to characters who aren’t Good, but could have been. if things were different, if they were placed in different circumstances.

the seraphim, the vinsmoke brothers, hell even doflamingo. i don’t think anyone’s inherently evil. no one’s born bad, no one’s born a monster.

sure the seraphim were made to be weapons, but they’re Alive. they’re sentient. they have humanity and personalities, thoughts and feelings, wants and desires. they’re Child Slaves, child slaves to the government. imagine what the world government would do with a clone of boa, a clone of kuma. in another universe, maybe they could have just been children. but that would never happen anyways. in a better world they wouldn’t have been created. in a better world what use do living weapons have. in this universe the seraphim are living weapons for war, engineered to have enhanced growth; in a better universe they wouldn’t have existed at all. i guess the seraphim wouldn’t have gotten to be children in any world. they were doomed from the beginning.

the vinsmoke brothers. oh how i pity them. it was only a matter of luck, it could have been any one of them. do you think it was an equal amount of chance, that the universes are equally divided on whether quadruplet had emotions? even if it wasn’t, statistically, the poison couldn’t have worked on sanji in every universe. they wouldn’t be like sanji, i wonder how a ichiji with emotions would act, what a niji with emotions would like, what hobbies would a yonji with emotions enjoy. instead of cooking, what passions would they live for? would they be kinder or less, more bitter or not? experiences shape a person, and at our core we are all different. in a world where they could Feel what was been taken from them in this one, i wonder what personalities they had originally. even if they had no burning passion or lack the ambition and dreams sanji had, they could still be People. be Human. lived and laughed and loved, full and complete, happy human lives. they could have failed and Experienced and Felt failure, got hurt and cried and pick themselves up again. lived fully through the good and bad and what it means to be human and live with humanity. i mourn for the lives they could have lived, the people they could have been. if it wasn’t oh so cruelly robbed from them. at least reiju can mourn for what could have been, at least she is Aware, is capable of Caring. ichiji, niji and yonji don’t even know what they lost. they don’t know, can’t feel the impact of it. in this world, they were doomed the moment fate decided sanji was the one the poison worked on.

doflamingo. here’s a character doomed by the circumstances around him, and the choices he himself made. honestly, why did homing not educate his children before deciding to leave and enter society? sure doflamingo was naturally more callous and arrogant, and rocinante naturally more shy and soft hearted. but doflamingo wasn’t born a monster, nor was rocinante born a saviour. we are all born innocent, but not good. we learn good, just as how we learn evil. i know rocinante canonically states that doflamingo was born a monster and Not Human, evil at birth. but that’s…not true. it’s never true. you can be born a psychopath or a narcissist, but that doesn’t make you inherently evil, or inhuman, or Other. it just makes you different from the average person, but you’re still just as Human as someone without those traits. also i know most people take rocinante’s words at face value and just believe it as truth. but like, rocinante Is heavily biased. his view of doflamingo is entirely subjective. by that point in the story, doflamingo had Done Bad Things, and is a Bad Person, but to say he was never human and was always Evil. it’s just factually incorrect. another difference is that doflamingo and rocinante grew up in very different environments. rocinante was raised by sengoku while doflamingo was raised by trebol. someone who ‘worshipped’ him and told him he was ‘a god’ and was ‘born to rule’. doflamingo was a child, a desperate child. he needed something to cling to, something to validate him, something that made sense. why did his father suddenly up and moved their entire family from mary geoise, a place of luxury and safety, home? to somewhere where everyone hated them, where they suffered intense torture at the hand of these humans, and where his mother eventually died. if they hadn’t left, would his mother not have died? why did the people hate him and hurt, and not worship him like they’re supposed to? it seems homing didn’t bother explaining and reeducating doflamingo, teaching him to unlearn those beliefs. doflamingo was older than rocinante, he grew up in mary geoise and lived there longer. of course he would have internalised those beliefs more. homing had good intentions, but was hopelessly, hopelessly naive. doflamingo would have needed a lot, a lot of help and guidance and care by the time he met trebol, to change, to unlearn years of ingrained beliefs and propaganda and superiority complex, to learn to let go and not hold on to resentment, or at least not let it rule his life. but it wasn’t impossible, he could have been a good person. it would have taken a lot of work and time, but it wasn’t impossible. he still could have changed. he wasn’t too far gone, he was still a child, he could have grown up to be something good. that didn’t happen, of course. doflamingo grew up into a bad person, and he’s done many many evil things, hurt countless innocent people. he is to blame for all his actions. but he wasn’t always evil. he wasn’t born that way. he wasn’t doomed from the start, just by circumstances. by his choices, and of those made around him and for him.

[gloomins]

seraphim shuggy + asl

i honestly have nothing in mind for this AU I just find the concept of them as seraphim’s super cool LMAO so if anyone wants to talk to me about it please do !!! anyways, i’ve barely had time to do digital art so have some sketchbook doodles

[mfdragon]

Do you ever think about S-Bear curls like...he Is a Seraphim but..like... do you think Vegapunk took care of his curls? or maybe Kuma took care of his curls?

Who took care of Kuma curls!?

omg his curls. Won't someone think of his CURLS?! You're so right tho? Like I'm sure Kuma had Ginny helping him. Then he kinda had to take care of himself but being a single dad can really lessen your self-care time. Maybe Bonney wanted to help her dad out after she grew a bit and he taught her and they made a whole father-daughter bonding routine out of it. Being at Vegapunk's place and going under so many tests, I can see Vegapunk trying to find him solutions to make his life easier and maybe invents like the perfect conditioner/ a cream that keeps the hair moisturized/ a machine that does the de-tangling for you. Weirdly I see Kuma, despite all the well-intended inventions, sticking to his own tried and true methods. Let's just hope Vegapunk also took some of those to heart and helped create a dedicated self-help station for all the Egghead staff, including for the Seraphims.