Ałex's One Piece Rabbit Hole

i find it really heartwarming how patient and gentle beck is w shanks. esp after that silly part where marco says he doesnt want to bc shanks is high maintenance and shanks is like “no im not!” only for beck to be like no yeah marco is right,,,

like… the concept of shanks being so cared for and taken care of by beck and the red-haired pirates that he doesn’t even notice how high maintenance he is so!!!! i love bennshanks. sorry if this annoys yousjxusi i wanted to talk to someone abt bennshanks and none of my oomf knows op unforch, sorry if it was a bother!

hi!!!!! Before I go off talking about beckshanks I wanna say don’t worry about annoying me because you definitely didn’t and I like getting stuff in my inbox especially if it’s about my faves and even moreso if it’s about beckshanks! (I actually encourage asks!) And you’re so right it feels almost impossible to find beckshanks fans they’re so underrated I’m happy to find more fans of the ship!

I agree I find it so sweet and heartwarming that shanks has someone who truly understands him and has the patience that beck does. Not only can shanks be “high maintenance” (cutee) but I think he has strong emotional needs that he doesn’t let others know about. But because of becks silent understanding and intelligence they can be met. We’ve seen since chapter 1 beckman being able to understand shanks and explain to Luffy why shanks wouldn’t let him on their crew.

he goes out of his way to tell Luffy it isn’t out of malice but for his safety.

Shanks doesn’t really care if people have a negative outlook on him but beckman always has his back and we see this over and over in more serious scenarios. From little examples like odas film red sketch where while shanks is sobbing when he takes the blame for tot musicas genocide of elgia and leaving uta behind beckman puts on a strong face and keeps his emotions intact.

(Note, film red really messed up this scene making shanks so calm and beckman cry just as much as the crew, shanks was not that emotionally stable and beckman shouldn’t be quite as opened as the rest of the crew.)

Another amazing examples was episode 1030. Which I’ve talked about at length before. Here After they leave uta beckman notices shanks self destructive behavior and the potential danger of shanks ruining his relationship with Luffy because of his grief leaving with uta behind.

the next day beckman goes over to Luffy and tries to as much as he can, explain shanks side. Asking Luffy to forgive him.

Beckman knows how shanks and Luffy are. shanks wasn’t mature enough at the time to think about how is behavior can hurt Luffy and himself. (I’d say shanks didn’t care if he hurt himself. Shanks felt he deserved it.) This matters even more when you look back at odas sketches and it’s confirmed offscreen shanks had been drowning his sorrows in alcohol and yelled at luffy while sobbing.

This was Something beckman understood could reasonably ruin luffys outlook on shanks. He can’t tell Luffy what happened to uta. But he can ask Luffy to understand. Even if it’s unfair to ask a child. All For his captains sake.

This isn’t shanks slander btw! Shanks slander is not welcome I can get into shanks stunted maturity in his 20s his self destructive behavior/Self harm as a coping mechanism + the Roger pirates role in it but that’s a whole other post. I’m just glad shanks finally found a man that can anchor him emotionally. That truly understands him as more than a child of fate or someone who is gifted. He knows shanks as a person and I think better than anyone ever has and will. And I have a feeling shanks brings something of extreme value to beckmans life too. Why else would he spend his entire life devoted to him? Beckman clearly adores shanks. Always smiling at him from afar.

Whitebeard co-parenting 🐋🐋

Now I’ll show you the panels.

People are saying gaban is choosing favorites with shanks by seeing him but not buggy here, but Read these again. He says “I just want to see my captains dream through till the end!!” And “He is the one we’ve been waiting for!!!”

Its not showing the people most loved by gaban, notice how his lover, kid, and captain aren’t there? But I don’t see people saying he doesn’t love them. It’s showing the people who’s trying to achieve rogers dream and were waiting on joyboy. The only reason buggy was excluded from his memory is because buggy wasn’t waiting for joyboy. Buggy has no relevance to elbaf and disconnected himself from rogers dream (which I do not blame him for. don’t get me wrong at all.) Gaban didn’t exclude him out of favoritism that’s like saying he loves crocus more than Ripley or whitebeard more than his son. Buggy just isn’t a part of the discussion here.