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A few Uta family headcanons

#1 Growing up, Roger taught Shanks to sing to regulate his emotions. Physical activity never worked for him, only riling him up more or making him cry. Talking about his feelings got overwhelming for the crew, because Shanks could talk for hours, going around in circles, saying the exact same thing five times in different ways. And alcohol was a terrible solution, even if the most common for pirates. So Roger encouraged Shanks to sing any time he felt overwhelming emotions. Shanks was never an amazing singer, but he could keep a tune and he enjoyed it. It became well-known amongst his crews that if a tune could be heard, it was most likely Shanks humming.

This was something Shanks passed on to Uta. Uta was a much better singer, and her love for music went much deeper than just her memories with her dad, but it was definitely a contributing factor. Anytime she found Shanks humming to himself or singing quietly in an empty corner of the ship, she would join in, making it a shared activity. She felt close to Shanks when they'd sing together, and he felt close to her.

Buggy was a fan of Uta's. When he saw her on tv, Luffy rudely disclosing her lineage, he was mad at first, mad that Shanks had a child Buggy didn't know about, mad that Shanks had forced his way into his life in yet another way, mad that something he had grown to love was associated with Shanks in any way; but a part of him was happy to see Shank's love for singing had passed on, especially to a better singer.

#2 Buggy adores Uta. She's perfectly balanced between Shank's endless love and compassion and Buggy's hyper-reactivity and showmanship, and of course, she shares both of their drives. If Buggy and Shanks had created a child in a lab together, Uta would have been the result. Everything Shanks in her is what Buggy adores, and everything Buggy in her is what Shanks adores.

#3 Uta grew up hearing bedtime stories that Shanks would tell her about him and Buggy. He would create fictional love stories to tell her about his lost love. A few examples being: the sun and the moon, a fox and a raccoon, a king and his jester, red and blue dragons, and an ember and snowflake. When she got older, she pieced things together, realizing that Shanks wasn't just telling her made-up stories, but instead explaining his life in contexts that a child could understand. When she finally met Buggy she immediately recognized him from Shanks's stories.

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uta really has two clown dads

Parenting AU

three is a pattern, shanks!

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caught

This happened in canon btw I was there trust me

Dragon giving Luffy to Garp with the assumption that he's going to take care of him until he's ready to meet his son (because it's dangerous to have a child while he starts a fucking revolution, thank you very much) and then Garp just- Leaving Luffy on a village where he spends 24/7 alone waiting for the pirate he now considers his role model (because he doesn't have anybody else and Shanks is the only father figure around and he's just that nice) to come back from his adventures, and only being taken care of by Makino who has no responsibility over Luffy but still takes care of him because otherwise the kid would probably die from starvation, and lucky for him she's a sweetheart. And then he loses Uta, his only friend (with no explanation at all), to then carry the guilt of Shanks losing an arm for him and suddenly his legacy as a pirate. And then he's sent to another place with other people he doesn't know, because Garp thought "oh, yes, wonderful idea to leave my grandson with this depressed kid and some bandits" and Luffy luckily befriends Ace and Sabo because they're good people. Luckily. And luckily, Dadan is a good mom and loves them. But then Sabo fucking dies because nobody with authority was protecting these kids (I wonder who could've done that). And now Luffy has to carry both guilt, a legacy, and the biggest abandonment issues I've ever seen after losing his best friend and his brother when they were just children.

And I'm not saying Garp has made horrible decisions but he has made horrible decisions and Dragon should hit his own dad with Sabo's metal pipe.

letters from (not so) long ago

shuggy banks compilation. click here for animation

Official art from Oda 💖

father passes out after seeing his triplets for the first time. some minds simply cannot comprehend this

when your dad's boyfriend has makeup.