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bumbleboa · 8 hours
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true friendship is willfully making someone’s emotional devastation over fictional characters worse
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bumbleboa · 8 hours
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couldnt upload this yesterday bc of the tumblr ban but anyway, my hands were tired doing lineart for a work thing so heres a painting to cooldown
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bumbleboa · 20 hours
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zoro has such a flair for drama currently at the scene in whiskey peak where he waited on the top of a roof in the dark for the perfect moment to interrupt the baroque agents and give a whole ass menacing speech about how he knows who they are, what their plans are, their secrets, and that he’s going to kill them before slipping away into the shadows like a slasher villain n reappearing in the middle of them to their absolute horror while pretending to look for himself on the roof. and just spending the whole ordeal cracking blasé jokes while beating them effortlessly up like a right bastard (and yelling at his cursed sword)
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bumbleboa · 1 day
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read some of my wips for the zolu conflic story and figured id share
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"Ignorance is a bliss is it not?" Brook offers, his skull crooked as she glares down at him. He plucks a single string on his guitar.
"It's not." Nami tells him.
Brook sighs - as much as he can. "Ah, that's unfortunate." And strums an idle melody.
It's late in the evening, just before dinner so there is commotion by the kitchen as Sanji tries to keep Luffy out of it and Usopp and Franky have been hammering away at something all day, perhaps only to fill the silence.
"Brook." Nami says with a sigh, letting her hands fall to her sides. "What did Zoro do?"
Brook's next note is off key as he pretends not to be startled by the question. "What gave you the idea he did anything?"
"I'm not stupid." She wraps her arms around her middle, feeling the cold chill of Thriller Bark seep back into her bones. "What happened between him and Kuma? It can't have been a fight or Luffy wouldn't be so mad."
He plucks his strings, discordant melodies filling the room in between their silent standoff. "Isn't the important thing that we are all still here?" He asks and his voice sounds far away. It stifles the instinctual reaction that bubbles in her throat. The urge to make her frustration known. Brook shakes his head a little to return to the here and now and tilts his head towards her. If he still had eyes, she imagines he would be blinking.
She takes a shaky breath. "I'll just imagine worse."
"Ah." Brook says softly, chin falling. His hands shift on the instrument and he adjusts his finger bones. "A deal was made." He says in tune to the new song he starts.
"What kind of deal?"
"An exchange, of sorts. Kuma had been ordered to bring our dear captain in."
Nami closes her eyes, lets the music wash over her. "Zoro offered himself." She concludes. It seems so simple in hindsight. Brook hums his affirmation in harmony. "But he was still there when we came to."
Brook looks off into the distance, fingers dancing over the saites. "I didn't quite understand it myself at the time. The man, Kuma. His devil fruit ability is truly something else." He shakes his head a little as if to dislodge the memory. "Perhaps Kuma meant it as a test. Trying to discourage Zoro from his resolve." Brook says and Nami almost scoffs. As if anything would be able to stop Zoro once he'd set his mind to something. "He took away all of Luffy's pain and told Zoro to bear it in his stead."
The notes of Brook's song fall heavy in the aftermath.
She swallows hard against the lump in her throat. "What?"
"I mostly heard the screams." Brook says idly, detached and Nami shudders. She can't remember the last time she heard Zoro scream in pain. "Kuma was certain he would perish."
"But he didn't."
"He did not, no." Brook says, inclining his head.
Nami's breath leaves her in a shudder. She'd tried to forget Thriller Bark ever since it happened. The creepy castle, getting kidnapped and nearly married against her will - Brook and Lola were the only good things to come out of that dreadful place. Zoro, so near the brink they weren't sure he was ever going to wake up, much less recover from it all. After Sabaody she had worried, during some lonely nights, if he really was okay. If wherever he had been sent would give him time to heal.
When they had seen each other again he had seemed as good as new if not better and it felt best not to bring up old ghosts.
"Please do keep it to yourself." Brook urges her quietly and with a start she realizes his guitar has fallen silent. "I don't think he ever wanted us to know."
She blows out a breath. Remembers that foolish young man that cut open his own wound before facing down Buggy's crew mate. Who jumped into a pit of water, surrounded by fishmen and rope with Mihawk's wound carved onto his chest. Who found her in Alabasta, wearing more of his blood on his body that could still be inside it and still carried her.
"Of course he doesn't." It comes out more bitter than she means it to.
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bumbleboa · 1 day
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formed a band and turn out they all have different music tastes
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bumbleboa · 2 days
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Absolutely obsessed with this color spread. Chopper as the pawns. Brook and Usopp as bishops. Franky and Jimbei as rooks (and doesn't this one fit particularly well?). Nami, bedecked in gold, as the queen. Sanji and Zoro as knights (of course). And Luffy as a king, because what else? Robin, the manipulative one, the planner, as the player who moves the pieces. The king is a fighting Piece.
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bumbleboa · 2 days
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I dropped everything else I was doing to finish this for penguin���s birthday
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bumbleboa · 2 days
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bumbleboa · 2 days
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please prioritize sleep yall:')
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bumbleboa · 3 days
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thinking about them
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bumbleboa · 3 days
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Soft Zoro appreciation post
Demon Pirate Hunter my ass, he's silly, cute and occasionaly a bit dumb
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bumbleboa · 3 days
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long overdue share of my wano piece for @opfoodzine volume 2! swipe for closeups. really thankful and honored to have been invited back for this volume. i hope everyone enjoyed their meals! 😋
aftersales of the zine are still available in limited quantities if you missed a copy! check them out at asteriskzines.com~
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bumbleboa · 4 days
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"I see the praised rays
You see me smile
We know the joy beyond above
Has been here awhile"
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bumbleboa · 4 days
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the true artist experience: you think you have a semi-decent grasp on anatomy, then you go and look at some anatomy and realise that you know nothing about anatomy
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bumbleboa · 4 days
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have this very unserious view of my desk
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bumbleboa · 5 days
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bumbleboa · 5 days
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thinking about her (three sword style Nami that Oda drew for One Piece magazine vol. 13)
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I have not been able to stop thinking about her ever since I saw this design. I took some liberties with the outfit, giving her more of a sports bra and biker shorts and a sleeve (I am not sure if it is a sleeve or haki, I am running with it)
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