and light of stars was in her hair

In this house , we live for the AU Thatch ate that fucking fruit

ace mega post

sabo having to hold ace back from going completely apeshit bc some guy hit Luffy in the face is SO funny

something something about how Sabo at some point ends up being the oldest between them three, something something about how Luffy will be older than Ace, something something about how Ace will forever be the oldest brother to two little brothers that'll be older than he ever was

Curious to know if there's any kind of fandom consensus on this one.

My heart shatters every time I see this original cover by Oda 😭 If you look in the photos on the walls and on the left by the black cat, there is a baby. Roger and Rouge would have had a second child 😭 Ace would have been an older brother

Roger, Rouge and Ace would have had three cats and a bird 😭

They would have been SO HAPPY TOGETHER

And maybe I am a bit salty about people saying Rouge, the only Will of D woman we know, was just a surrogate because Roger wanted a bloodline. My people, Roger already raised two kids – Shanks and Buggy – on his ship. If I remember correctly, Roger looked like a man in love. He loved Rouge. Don’t turn Rouge into a surrogate for Roger’s line to continue. This artwork shows Rouge was an amazing badass woman. She could handle Roger’s insanity with her own chaos.

Anyway, please enjoy and cry with me on the tragedy that is the Gol-Portgas D family

kitten i have to be honest your misunderstanding of what 'death of the author' actually means is getting embarassing and mommy would prefer if you posted less or maybe attended some classes on literary analysis

kitten i think you might be stupid

It's funny that I drew this just because of an Ice Age song

[into the mic] THAT'S HIS BABY

How could Garp just hear Ace say "I want to live" and do nothing after that is beyond me....

Y'all are kidding me. Gol D. Roger told Rayleigh "I'm not gonna die" before leaving to turn himself in, and eventually being executed (knowing his legacy would live on).

Meanwhile according to one spoiler panel I'm pretty sure was not fan-made, baby Ace told a crying baby Luffy that he would never die because he'd told Sabo he'd take care of Luffy.

ASL remembering one another 🥺💖

may i offer some sketchbook robin!Dick for your consideration

sometimes i want to reach through the screen and shake sabo by the shoulders because. god. there's just so much going on with him.

he's first introduced through the veil of luffy's memories- and here he's another feral jungle kid sticking it out with ace and luffy, the 'nicer' brother in young luffy's eyes. and then boom. you find out he's a runaway noble trying to escape his abusive, neglectful family- and this changes nothing, they become sworn brothers, and just as quickly as this is resolved, his asshole of a dad takes the three of them hostage. and what does sabo do? he gives up the little sliver of freedom he'd fought for, is willing to become miserable and lonely again if it means ace and luffy are spared. and then he comes home to find that in his absence, his parents have already found a replacement! great!

and he doesn't even get to address how fucked up that is, because stelly runs his mouth and now sabo's too busy trying to figure out how to stop his brothers and their home from getting burnt to the ground. he never gets to give them a proper goodbye- he exhausts himself trying to reach them, but he can't because. you know. he's ten. so where does this leave sabo? ten years old, with nowhere to go- he sets out to sea to try and start over, and for the crime of wanting to escape a terrible life, he's punished with an explosion to the face. he loses his memories, his brothers lose him- and so the cycle continues.

then the army saves him, takes him in; he's essentially a child soldier, with how prodigious of a fighter he is from the get-go. but hey, he thinks he's finally found his footing, even if his past's a blur to him- and them it all comes flooding back. in the worst way possible. he sees his brother's corpse and he remembers, but it doesn't matter, does it? he's too late. ace is gone, and sabo's lost ten years of a life he could have shared with his brothers. we don't even know how (if, even) he recovers from this- except for a single passing statement from koala, asking him if he's 'had that dream again' because he'd been crying in his sleep. this is never brought up or addressed again. great!plus, we never do find out if getting blown up at the ripe old age of ten could have left any lasting fire-related trauma; and if it does, then what does that mean for sabo, who's pretty much made of it, now?

both of these questions are answered at once- sabo treats the fire as if it's ace. it's ace's legacy he's carrying on, and it's ace he seeks freedom for. he copes by making sure ace lives on in his flames, and how can he ever hate the fire living in him if that fire is all he has left of the brother he never got to see again?

i just have to wonder about him, because he's got so many Issues that just. don't ever get addressed? every time we see him deal with his grief (episode of sabo, his own retelling of events in dressrosa) we never really discover anything about him. i wonder how it felt to finally remember the childhood that eluded him, just to find out he was an unwanted, replacable child. how he feels, living with the knowledge that he could have done something to save ace, that he'd failed to remember the two people he loved the most? i wonder just how terribly that guilt must weigh down on him- because where luffy's already begun to heal, sabo still sees ace in everything he does. his title of flame emperor is a direct callback to ace's final attack in his fight against blackbeard. he talks to his goddamn fire like his brother is still in front of him, which is sweet and heartbreaking and, considering his backlog of other unaddressed trauma... unhealthy? i know these will probably be left unresolved for the sake of moving the story forward- but god, sabo, are you okay?

i don't remember what episode this was because i was furiously screenshotting, BUT might I add

Sabo grinning during a fight, then he's talking about Ace and for a brief moment he stops grinning and bites his lip because he's on the verge of crying and then he goes back to grinning a similar thing happens when he tells the Strawhats about his story, and it just makes me think that his constant grinning (which irritated me in the beginning btw) is actually a kind of a stress response and a coping mechanism and he's doing it because he's ready to cry 24/7

GOSH ... so much of sabo's grief is blink-and-you'll-miss-it, and this is a perfect example! other than his initial reaction and him visiting ace's grave, it's never actually brought up. sabo himself never says things like 'i wish ace were still here' or 'i miss ace' (if memory serves, but please feel free to correct me!). the first time he meets luffy, he even deflects with a 'but i'm glad you're still here!'. when sabo brings up ace, it's about his legacy, about finishing what ace started; not the brother he misses, or the best friend he lost, which in hindsight? is probably on purpose. we don't get to know how sabo feels about these things, because he doesn't let us.

it probably isn't coincidence, either, that the one place he chooses to immortalize ace is in battle- recalling his fighting styles, speaking to his fire (his devil fruit. does he ever call the mera mera his devil fruit?? as far as i remember it's always ace's fruit to him), his most emotional response to ace's death being to fry off burgess's face, even his new title being directly connected to one of ace's last fights- in the heat of the moment, it looks like a cool callback to a beloved character, but oda's proven time and again that his characters are always more three-dimensional than they seem. sabo is incredibly accomplished in his own right, especially as a fighter, so the only reason he has to adapt ace's attacks is to remember him by it- to let him live on, through sabo.

and i'm with you, the constant grinning and his overall over-enthusiastic demeanor really did put me off at first! but the more we actually get to know about sabo, it's becoming increasingly obvious that he's coping with the loss of his brother (and in general, all the bullshit he's gone through, which he has no time to think of because of all the bullshit he's currently going through) by taping his frayed edges together and praying for a bible-level miracle. sabo.....

if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

☀️Eclipse🌙

We could have been happy….