concept art of the Straw Hats post-timeskip 

He’s on his way to burn down a marine base.

wompies

yeah hey new writer new work i literally came up with this one night and thought about it for a week straight.

Alabasta Ace is so funny.

Like the strawhats keep commenting that Ace is so polite and restrained compared to Luffy but like. This dude drags himself out of the ocean just to thank them for looking after his brother and offer to help wash dishes. Mans asks "Are these guys bothering you?" and proceeds to blow up an entire fleet with his bare hands. He trips over himself to make sure all of Luffy's crew likes him and no, really, you don't mind that he's a weirdo???? That we, I mean he, are feral little insane guys who take up space and emotional labor and are kind hard to handle? Really???? Cool cool cool hey just a reminder I can help out with anything that needs doing. I got lost in the desert but donnut worry in the 0.6 seconds since you last saw me I have somehow acquired water and provisions for several weeks. Don't ask me how!

Peak oldest sibling behavior.

Ace wakes up on a random island two years after his death as a ten-year-old. But he has no memory of his adult life. Sabo just died, and he has a little brother to look after. Or maybe an older brother?

There is a bit of time between Ace waking up and Luffy finding him.

Sorry this is so long I'm still trying to figure out how to do comic-y things.

ace looks like a stray kitten

He tried to focus on the last thing he remembered. It all flooded back to him; returning to his family, the fire the fire the fire—, leaving the island, and drowning... except he wasn't dead. No dead person would be wherever he was, would feel his body ache like he did. Which means he was alive.

For how long, though, is a good question.

AU where instead of being saved by the Revolutionaries, Sabo gets fished out by the Celestial Dragon that shot him down and turned into a slave. Ace and Luffy think he is dead for a very long time, and Sabo wishes he was more than once.

The AceSabo romance comes so much later, so bear with me 🙏 there is a lot of angst, Sabo has self image issues, and so, so many breakdowns. However there are also good times that make up for the heartbreak faced on the daily.

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