"Where I Come From, There's This Belief — A Saying — That Telling Narratives To Wherever You Are

ACE WEEK

DAY 2: WANO (yukata)

friendly reminder

romance dawn trio is so soldier, poet, king 😔

zoro = "there will come a soldier/who carries a mighty sword/he will tear your city down/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

nami = "there will come a poet/whose weapon is his words/he will slay you with his tongue/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

luffy = "there will come a ruler/whose brow is laid in thorn/smeared in oil like david's boy/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

in which david is roger and his boy, of course, is ace

they both carry something from roger, ace — his blood, and luffy — his legacy (of being pirate king)

someone give me an edit of this right now 😔

i had a thing while washing the dishes. i applied the line "i've always entertained the thought of a higher reality" to one of my characters, except they were telling it to me (which was unexpected of my brain, really).

and isn't that a terrifying thought.

because??? would this character, one of the first i created and loved, condemn me for literally causing her demise? which made me think of something else: i do not know.

i have a vague idea, yes but really, not accurately. i don't know how she'd react to this??? this character developed on their own and i have not an inkling of thought of the gears inside that mind of hers.

i think i understand my mother quite a bit now.

ngl clarisse's scream from pjo ep2 HAUNTS me. like yeah she's a bully, yeah she doesn't treat percy right, if she were to attack him again with that murderous intent i would be content to see percy destroy that weapon a million times over to protect himself. but also it just gets me how that electric spear is the ONLY thing she likely has of her father, the ONLY token of recognition she has of her worth, the only symbol of pride. dior had exactly 10 minutes of screentime to communicate the absolute depth of clarisse developed over 5 fucking books and she literally changed lives. what a fucking icon

i NEED that frame of the vine in upper yard (in SKYPIEA) falling to the golden belfry recreated as a renaissance painting (if no one has done it yet)

Luffy may have fought his way out of a horrible prison and through a deadly war just to have Ace die anyway, but god damn it, Luffy's effort to save his brother was not a waste. Ace was treated like a monster by society from the day he was born, to the point that he hated every part of himself too and didn't see a reason for living, but his last words to Luffy were "Thank you for loving me."

Thank you for loving me.

Thank you for loving me.

Luffy's love was never, ever in vain. Portgas D. Ace died knowing that he was loved, his body held securely in the arms of someone who'd spent ten years trying to convince Ace that he was worthy of it.

Love is never wasted.

2 😰

Every soldier walks to their stations. Those who lead makes their last inspections. Platoon 8 glances anxiously at the empty spot before them.

Grifh restlessly picks on a hangnail, "Shouldn't our Lieutenant be here already?"

"We don't even know his name," Said the guy beside him. Rovell? or something.

"Or her."

Grifh glanced at the woman in front. He thinks he should learn his co-workers names.

"As you said, we don't know yet."

Their very short conversing ends there as some guy higher up goes their way. Grifh looks at his tag — Ah, he's a Captain — and salutes.

"At ease," Captain grunts. He reads over the clipboard he's holding and looks at the empty spot.

Grifh's heart rate quickens. He's very nervous, okay? He prays internally for their Lieutenant.

"Platoon 8?"

They nod.

The captain sighs, "Don't expect your Lieutenant to come right away. Though, it says here she'll arrive in the evening."

Oh. How anticlimactic. He was quite curious.

"See? He says she's a she." Banter starts right back up. Always those two, somehow.

"That's literally not the point-"

Grifh tunes them out as he realizes that Captain never really told them their Lieutenant's name. He is left to wonder.

daily entry (ast.)

One Piece - Portgas D. Ace

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ACEEE

zoro conveniently wearing an all black iteration of his traditional outfit for the battle luffy would later activate gear 5, an all white iteration of his traditional outfit. zoro conveniently activating “king of hell” with the backdrop of the moon during the same battle luffy activated “sun god: nika.”

i really believe these were intentional decisions to make zoro and luffy, captain and first mate, inseparable. all these parallels were done with the foresight and purpose to make zoro and luffy two halves of a whole. light and dark, sun and moon, life and death, angel and demon, liberation and punishment, beginning and end, heaven and hell. intertwined on such a fundamental level that they complete each other, they can’t exist without one another, and wherever one is, the other will follow as if it’s as vital as ground beneath their feet or air in their lungs.