sometimes I think about how Shanks and Buggy probably would have been like brothers to Ace if circumstances had been different and it makes me feel Some Type of Way.
like there's definitely a sadness there to me. Ace met them both exactly one time and they had no idea who the other really was, they had no clue about their connection. would their interactions have gone differently had Ace known that Shanks and Buggy were once on Roger's crew? and likewise, would Shanks and Buggy have treated Ace any different if they knew that Ace was Roger's biological son?? the two seemed to have gotten along with Ace well enough the one time they each met him but would knowing his true identity have changed anything?
I just can't help but imagine if Roger had lived and not disbanded his crew but still got together with Rouge and had Ace. imagine Shanks and Buggy teaching Ace how to be a pirate, how to fight with swords and knives and whatnot. imagine them all being a happy family.
do Buggy and Shanks ever think about this too in the depths of their minds? never giving voice to What Could Have Been but knowing deep down that this boy they watched die at Marineford was at least metaphorically their own brother??
Friendly reminder that Fëanor spurred the Noldor to leave Valinor by telling them if they stayed they would become “a shadow-folk, mist-haunting” who would “mourn deedless forever, dropping vain tears in the thankless sea.”
This is the ultimate fate of Fëanor’s only surviving son Maglor, who cast a Silmaril into the sea and spent the rest of his life “[wandering] ever upon the shores, singing in pain and regret beside the waves.” (ʘ‿ʘ✿)
Me laying in a pool of my tears thinking about how the ASL Brothers were just lonely outcast boys who just wanted a place where they belonged and were loved. But then when they finally got that it was violently ripped away from them. And it doesn’t matter that Sabo wasn’t actually dead because the three of them will never be together again
baratie arc sanji is sooooo. he's such a snarling dog leashed to a post except that post is a lighthouse he swore his life to guarding. and then you find out he was the one who made his own leash. everything about him is so "give a wild thing food and it'll never leave". he was a wild thing zeff fed. gin was a wild thing sanji fed. some people love with their teeth bared. some people are just all teeth and therefore just all love. everything is a cage to him btw (he makes it so). the baratie is a cage. zeff's bond is a cage. his body is a cage. four walls and a ceiling over his head - like he learnt the dictionary definition of a home and misunderstood. he's always hungry. he'll make sure you never starve. the door to the cage is open and he's looking at it ravenously, pacing just behind the threshold, never eating and always starving