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I'm curious if the mother of Arlong's daughter is still alive... It's necessarily that I want her and her daughter to meet, but it is something I wonder about.... What was her life like before she met Arlong? Why did Arlong take an interest in her? If she's alive, what would she be doing now?

I like the mystery surrounding it, and part of me thinks it's better with the mystery surrounding it, perhaps with some hints, but I also have the very strong urge to ask.

I know I could just simply ask, and it is likely that I would get an answer (even if I don't, it's not something I'll ever get upset about). I'm also aware that I won't be the only one who's curious...

It's not that I condone the woman's act of abandoning her baby, but I understand (I'm not gonna agree nor disagree with her decision)

If she were to take her baby with her, she could have become a big target. Arlong could have hunted her down if she had taken the baby with her (probably could have done that regardless, but he was preoccupied with the baby). She could have been dragged back to her situation. It could have slowed down her escape, plus she would be carrying a reminder of what Arlong had put her through.

The extremely stressful circumstances she was in could have pushed her to things that she wouldn't have done in normal circumstances (Idk her)

She is still alive and has since gone back to her home country of Wano. Before her encounter with Arlong, she traveled solo and made a living for herself as a bandit. She was always a very feisty woman with a wicked streak a mile wide. She took advantage of the fact that people would underestimate her purely because she's a woman to get their guard down and then rob them blind. When she wasn't doing that, she could be a very fun and boisterous person.

She met Arlong because she was trying to rob him. Despite how visibly put off he was by her mere presence, she persisted and continued trying to get him to loosen up enough that she could swipe his wallet and dip.

Arlong, meanwhile, was having an internal crisis. Her personality type is extremely attractive to him, but she's a human and he absolutely hates that he's experiencing attraction towards her. Then she did actually succeed in stealing his wallet and he was seething over how hot he thought that was.

They happen to run into each other again after that, and Arlong says fuck it and tries to shoot his shot with her. Maybe he'll be able to get over the whole human thing eventually. But, she rejects him. She wasn't looking for a relationship at the time and just wasn't feeling any sort of attraction toward him.

Arlong lost his shit. How dare this human think that she's too good for him? She should be grateful that a fishman like him would even think about being with her. He follows and abducts her shortly after that and then proceeds to keep her captive for almost a year before she escapes.

Presently, she's gone back to old roots. She's still a bandit, but she just bounces around Wano instead of all over the Grand Line like she used to. Every time she saw so much as a ripple in the water when she was going back home, she thought that Arlong was about to lunge out and take her again. She hates being around large bodies of water and avoids them like a plague. She's also part of a group of bandits now. After what happened, she can see the value of traveling in numbers. Maybe she never would have been taken away if she hadn't been alone and therefore an easier target.

She's a lot more withdrawn and quiet after everything that happened. She never quite got back her old personality.

What she had done with Umi didn't fully sink in until she was long gone. Her mind had been in survival mode for around a year by that point, and then giving birth to a baby she didn't even realize she was carrying left her in a very dazed, trance-like state. She was in shock and wasn't processing anything beyond getting away from Arlong.

In hindsight, she does feel a bit of remorse over essentially using a baby as a diversion so she could escape. She knows that she never would have been able to go through with raising her, but she does regret not trying to at least get her to an orphanage so she wouldn't have been left to Arlong.

Fcking FINALLY—

Fin.

I may edit small details here and there later, but I'm definitely calling this a wrap for now.

Mihawk: *unzips pants*

Y/N: ah yes finally the legendary miCAWK I've been thinking about

Mihawk:.........*zips pants back up*

Y/N: NOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭🥺

If anyone is following the account @/milaisreading, please block it! It was hacked. That used to be mine.

(inhales)

YESSSSS, SOMEONE FINALLY ASKED THIS QUESTION! YEEEESSSS, YES, YES, YES!

Thank you for this question. Funnily enough, this gets answered in the next chapter of merlot & primroses (through Reader explaining in dialogue), but if you don't mind spoilers...

Yes, they both lived in Marineford, but they didn't meet until they were 20 (they are the same age). And how did they meet, you ask?

(smiles so wide my cheeks hurt)

Rosinante crashed into Reader, and they both fell to the floor. He caught her head before it could hit the floor and give her a concussion. Of course, because he's clumsy, he fell while doing the saving thingy. Bless him.

Literally. It was a genuine accident. Both of them were rushing to a meeting in Marineford HQ building. Reader has to take the civilian department entrance while Rosinante takes the marine entrance which is the MAIN ENTRANCE (I like to think the HQ building has multiple entrances with security checks) so Reader was say running east while Rosinante was running west.

And Reader literally went "an angel fell atop me" it was love at first sight.

Let me repeat this. Rosinante and you, his wife, met by Rosinante crashing into you.

Donquixote Rosinante got himself a wife by being clumsy.

BEAT. THAT.

I have a rough draft of this scene for, well I guess the prequel which is Rosinante x Reader, covering how they met+started dating+dating+proposal+marriage before Rosinante gets the mission. I don't have a lot of it written, but I do have that scene.

Fair warning, some descriptions are missing, but I think you get the gist.

First Meeting

You met your husband in the most strange way.

Donquixote Rosinante crashed into you.

His knees bumped into you, and gravity did the rest. Both of you fell over on the floor of the streets of the family district of Marineford.

Donquixote Rosinante had crashed into you on the street of Marineford, and you both toppled to the ground.

“I'm so sorry, miss!” he cried. “Are you okay?”

You were too mesmerised by his handsome face, brown eyes and sunflower-coloured curly hair to properly process the marine's apology.

An angel had fallen atop of you. That was everything you could think, everything that was on your mind for a full length of ten seconds.

He was beautiful. You’d never seen such a beautiful marine. His legs were taller than you were. It was nothing new to see marines of all shapes and sizes in Marineford, but you’d never been lucky enough to interact with someone that size, always seeing them from afar.

A white marine cloak sat on his shoulders, blue shoulderpads and blue cufflinks. A white waistcoat flattered his white dress pants, and atop his navy blue dress shirt sat a white tie.

And…

And…

He was about to cry!

“It’s all right!” you said quickly, wishing to assure him; the angelic marine looked like he was about to cry from guilt. “I’m okay! Um…” Wildly, you ran your gaze down from his face and to his attire, searching for the title plate every marine officer wore. You saw the tag COMMANDER on the left breast of his white suit jacket. “Commander.”

“I am so sorry!” said the commander again. “I didn’t see you! I wasn’t watching! Oh saints, no, what I mean is - oh, that sounded worse - it’s not that I don’t look below me, I usually do!”

You found yourself giggling before you could help it, smiling wide. “It’s all right, Commander… uh…”

You needed his name.

Hell, you needed his hand to stay under your head, large and smooth and warm, cradling your head like a precious treasure. And you needed him to stay atop you.

“Rosinante,” said the blond marine. “Donquixote Rosinante. And I am so sorry, miss!”

You said your name to him, mesmerized by him. “That's my name.”

“Argh, I’m so late! Sengoku-san’s gonna kill me!”

Wow. you thought.

You clutched your folders close to your chest, listening to the rapid beating of your heart against the folders, watching the blond run down the street, the white marine coat and the words JUSTICE sweeping after him in the gust of his speed. Butterflies flew in your stomach, their wings fluttering around. Your heart raced and swooned.

With his long legs that seemed to take up more than half of his body length, Commander Rosinante — Rosinante, what a beautiful, gentle name — covered the length of the street in five wide running steps, and vanished out of sight.

An angel. you thought, only now remembering to breathe. When you did, you exhaled breathlessly. I just met an angel.

***

IN SHORT, IT WAS A MEET-CUTE.

Better than Reader & Doflamingo for sure. Crazy man broke into her house, then laughed evilly in the darkness, sat on her couch and ate her pancakes. Oh and killed her husband.

With Rosi it was meet-cute.

With Doflamingo, it was "just got a heart attack and would have pissed myself from terror" meet.

Reader met the angel - Rosinante.

And six years later, Reader met the devil - Doflamingo.

The. Themes. Are. So. Good. Ugh. Yummy.

Thank you so so so much for asking this question and giving me an excuse to fangirl over how Reader & Rosinante met for this fic. It just fits for Rosinante.

They literally fell for each other. LITERALLY.

Get it? Get it? Cause they both... Fell. 🤣🤣

I'll stop now. Thank you so much for this ask. 🫶🏻🥹

Doflamingo doesn't think much of the notebooks he sees you walking around with. He figures you've just taken to writing/drawing as a form of stress relief or something like that. But he can only ignore so many instances of him doing something that he deems completely mundane and hearing a quiet 'fascinating' followed by a bunch of scribbling before he has to investigate.

He snatches the notebook out of your hands one morning to figure out what exactly is so "fascinating", only to find a detailed series of notes.

8:02 a.m.: woke up. slept in, possibly related to alcohol consumption last night

- got dressed only after I gave him attention and stoked his ego; becoming habitual

- outfit appeared to have no rhyme or reason to it; possible sign of color blindness?

- made me wear a matching outfit for unspecified reasons

- strangled a servant on the way to breakfast for glancing at me for "too long"

- staring at me frequently during breakfast; may have finally taken note of what I'm doing

Doflamingo snaps the notebook closed and looks at the cover. Volume 18. His darling has been here for a month.

Him discovering what they're doing only emboldens his darling. Now they're even more blatant about studying him. They're straight up using a protractor to measure the angle his legs are at when he walks, and they take pictures of anything particularly odd that he does.

An interesting question! I love it! These big fellas have really thick necks, but it fits them.

Okay. For the width, we need circumference.

By statistics, a guy who is 175 cm tall has 16 inch neck circumference maximum. We'll use that to get the maximum for Crocodile's height (this is without the muscle, we'll add muscle later)

Neck Circumference = 16×253/175=23.1 inches.

Add 2-4 inches for the muscles... We'll add 2.

That gives us 25.1 inches (63.7 cm) of circumference for Croc's neck.

Now for width.

Width = 25.1/3.14= 8 inches

Crocodile's Neck Width is 8 inches = 20.32 cm.

Thank you for the question! 💚

Sir Crocodile's neck width is the same length as Law's cock.

I can't stop laughing