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And so the three-day party... ˚. ✦.˳·˖✶🎉Begins!!!🎉✶.˳·˖ ✦˚.
Happy late birthday, Jinbe, first son of the sea!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JINBE!! 🥰🥳🥰🥳🐳🦈💙💙💙
And so the three-day party... ˚. ✦.˳·˖✶🎉Begins!!!🎉✶.˳·˖ ✦˚.
OK, but really, I'm genuinely so sad this fandom doesn't talk enough about Vinsmoke Reiju. She's legitimately one of my absolute favorite characters in the entire story and a lot of people don't see how absolutely tragic she is.
Just. She had to stay behind. She had to stay behind so Sanji can be free, she could never join him. She can only live her dreams of escaping her horrible, horrible family vicariously through him, the only person left in that household she loved. And she had to let him go. Because if she left, an army would follow behind her to get her back; she's a "success" after all. And also because she had already deemed herself a monster. After Sora died, Sanji was all Reiju had left. And then she was alone. Stuck with them for 13 years. Stuck with the wolves. The only way to survive being to mould herself after them.
From the beginning, it was never slip up, never make a mistake, always be perfect or you're next. Pretend to laugh at the misery of the only person in your family you haven't lost hope in, knowing that he might hate you forever after this, feeling like a coward. But you're a child. A mere child, a little 10-year-old girl, and you're scared. And she already saw herself as unworthy of that freedom at that age. She's not like Sanji, she was born to play the role of a monster. Even with her intact emotions, she's still trained soldier. She has the symbol of Germa tattooed on her, how could she ever escape it? She has blood on her hands; not because of her own choices, but because of the commands she's physically incapable of disobeying. She looks at him and tells him he looks so much like their mother, but she denies to accept that so does she.
She's the firstborn, dad's perfect little girl, his first success, his obedient property. The man who she grew to hate so much, when she found out he was going to be assassinated, she didn't warn him, because she hoped it would actually happen. Even if it meant throwing her own life away as well. When she saw him beg for his life she just, rightfully, felt no guilt or remorse. Just anger and satisfaction, even as she herself was about to die, something that seemed she wanted happen. But when he got attacked later on, she showed concern, because unlike Sanji, to her he still is, dad. He's dad, who held you and called you his wonderful child. He's dad, who raised you and showed pride in you. He's dad, who potentially put some sort of authority chip in your brain and forced you to stain your hands in blood. He's the man who killed your mother. She hates him. She wants him dead. She can't stop seeing him as family, and shows concern when he's hurt. It's more complex than how her brother sees him, and it's visceral and real and upsetting.
She had to stay behind. And after all of that, she had to relive the goodbye to the only person left in her family whom she ever loved. God. I hope she gets to see Sanji again. I hope she escapes. I hope one day she finally gets to taste his cooking. She never got the chance to do that, didn't she?
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YES! YOU GET IT. The appeal and potential this character has drives me insane, and if she doesn't eventually get closure and a happier ending I'm going to rip my hair off.
Edit: Oh, I also wanted to mention that a big part of the tragedy is that Reiju also hides her true feelings from Sanji. She only lets herself express how she feels during that scene where she's in the infirmary after being shot, but every scene before and after is her putting up the cruel act.
I always wondered why she had such a hard time telling Sanji how much she cares about him (to the point of her breaking into tears, both in childhood and as an adult) but having given it some thought I feel like I get it now. While in her childhood it was the fear and self preservation, I think during WCI she was trying to drive him away. She wanted him to be free, to have no attachments to Germa, and acting cruel and aloof was her way of achieving that. She doesn't want him to care for her back, because in her eyes it'd be an obstacle to his happiness and freedom.
I think she wanted him to hate her, because she hates herself. This is a direct parallel to Pudding honestly, and Reiju & Sanji do have a bunch of other parallels with other characters throughout the arc that up to this day makes it my favorite in the story. Pudding stays behind not just for Sanji, but her sister Chiffon to be free in the same way as well. Chiffon had stayed behind worrying for Lola. Katakuri pushes himself to an unreasonable limit for Brulee and his other siblings. Brulee stays by his side for the real him, not the "legend" he projects.
These people, stuck in their horrible families, only find that familial love when they choose to know their loving siblings, not because of the blood that binds them. Reiju loves Sanji because of his kindness, not their shared blood. Pudding loves Lola and Chiffon because they show kindness to the real her and not any of her false personas, Brulee, unlike Flampe, loves Katakuri for the real him. Oda shows that even within the confines of blood family, you get to choose your family.
And Reiju only gets a small chance to show her real self to Sanji. So if she doesn't get to see him again and freely tell him how she always felt I'm going to [REDACTED]. What an incredible character.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THESE THREE!!!
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Dude ‘First Son of the Sea’ is such a kick ass name I love jinbei
Happy Birthday to Jinbe!!💙🌊
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