rescue teams!

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oh nami

some zoro manga colorings !

my favorite navigator 🫶

I'm obsessed with Nami in the realm of female character writing, because on the surface her arc is to be saved by a guy/group of guys, and generally with female characters that's used to take away their agency or power and/or support a romance. But with Nami...it does none of that. Her story is about learning to depend on others, but rather than reducing her power in any way, it increases it. The isolation she experienced before wasn't independence, but part of her oppression, so having a family to support her gives her infinitely more freedom.

Luffy is her captain, but the way Luffy does that is never to lord over people, it's to raise them up with him. And, importantly, he waits for it to be her choice. He stays supportively in reach until she asks for his help. The only time he intervenes without permission is to stop her from actively harming herself. And when he does intervene, it's not to whisk her away and keep her somewhere else safe where she's dependent on his security and protection, it's to literally beat the crap out of her oppressor so he's never a problem again and she's free to live her life either way. And although Sanji acts romantically toward her and the rescue follows his grand ideals of fighting for a beautiful lady, there's no expectation that she now owes him anything or has to give him a chance just because he helped her out of an abusive situation. He did it because he cared, not in exchange for anything. They were all willing to fight and bleed for her with next to nothing in return, and that's so vital.

Nami being a woman is definitely relevant to her story (using her beauty and pretend helplessness to steal without suspicion, the fact that she takes after her mom who was tough as nails in the male-dominated marines, the very real isolation and fear of being female surrounded by [fish]men with power over her), but it's important to note that she doesn't need saving because she's a woman, or due to any weakness on her part. She is shown as incredibly strong, brave, and clever, right from the beginning, but she was trapped in a situation with Arlong that would've been impossible for anyone to get out of alone. Now with a crew by her side, she no longer has to.

One Piece Textposts/Tweets/Memes Pt. 2

Textpost Masterlist

"You think you can make better use of her?"

Sanji and Zoro fight

Yeah I love One Piece! Have some totally normal Strawha fanart... Wrong! Fishman time. I like them a normal amount (No I don't)🏴‍☠️🦈🐠🐟🐙

(Bonus Gecko Morias bc I have nowhere else to put him! I haven't seen Thriller Bark as of yet but he looked soooo fun to draw I couldn't resist!)✂️🦇

GUYS NAMI FINALLY HUGGED ZORO

if ur confused in the anime nami has hugged every straw hat except zoro and she finally did it in the live action 🥹🥹

So Arlong is a shark keeps people in debt indefinitely and uses violence against those unable to pay… hm… you could almost say he’s a *gunshot*

you know which nami moment we collectively don’t talk about enough? this one:

this is one of the most well-placed moments of the show, not only because it perfectly confuses us/sets the audience up for the nami and arlong reveal, but also because it ages like fine fucking wine in hindsight.

going back and rewatching this part after having caught up in both the manga and anime is so heartbreaking, because if there’s one thing we know about nami, it’s that she adores little kids. she would literally die for any child who needs help, and that’s canon, baby.

so this moment hits especially fucking hard upon rewatch, simply because you know it costs nami to do this. but pre-luffy nami is a master of her own emotions and instantly makes the tough decision to be the villain in this kid’s eyes as long as it saves him a fate like hers.

i know it’s an obvious moment to most viewers, but this edge that nami had pre-luffy both breaks my heart and makes me respect her so much. and the loss of that edge in later arcs is bittersweet in its own way to me, bc while i miss her more lethal side that was more common pre-time skip, i also love how it’s clear to us that luffy and the other crewmates have finally given her a safe place to just be herself :,)

Honestly Arlong mentioning Jimbei in OPLA (timestamp: Episode 7 24:45 if you missed it cause I did LMAO) caught me off guard I looked like that Leonardo DiCaprio meme of him pointing.

I was like "WAIT? I KNOW THAT GUY!!" 🤨🫵

[Arlong Park] -- Roronoa Zoro