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ONE PIECE SMAU - “I feel like I’m too much for you”
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[situation] —— You’re having a vulnerable moment and text “i feel like im too much for you” to your One Piece boyfriend. How does each character respond?
[tags] —— ✓SFW✓, established relationship, comfort, fluff, vulnerability, emotional support
Note: f!reader. making a new series <3 Hehe perfect for when you need to feel cherished and understood by your favorite characters ❤️ :) tried to be as accurate as possible to their personalities. 🫶🏻
part 2 soon with kid, killer, shanks, roger, rayleigh, mihawk, buggy, smoker. stay tuned <3
I’m working on a “ace as your boyfriend” so stay tuned 🫶🏻 (another series I’ll do :p)
forgot that being obsessed with fictional characters is not something normal people do. I hear someone say they’re too obsessed with a fictional character and for a moment I’m like “???? and what about it? isn’t that like??? normal???” then I realize that for a lot of people, it’s not.
I genuinely cannot imagine not being obsessed with the characters from the media I hyperfixate on and I genuinely cannot imagine not having a piece of media to hyperfixate on 😭
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Okay, part two of my of ranting about Ace's death. Last time I focused on my issues narratively and with writing decisions. This part is much more personal. As someone in their 30s who lives with autistim, it can be easy to be hard on myself when a character death affects me as much as Ace's does. To this day, if I think about it too much, I will still start sobbing. I'm still learning to be patient and kind with myself concerning things that may not be seen as societally normal. So figured that sharing why its hard for me might help some other people who might be struggling with being kind to themselves or with why they're so affected. If anything, it helps me to write it out as well.
Being autistic, I sometimes struggle with separating from the canon when it comes to characters. Of course I have my own headcanons and love reading fanfiction, but it's still hard to look at the canon as a separate multiverse.. Which can make it really hard for me to pretend like the death didn't happen. No matter how much fanficiton/head canons that I read, I can never truly set aside the fact that, in canon, Ace is gone.
One thing that I have learned about my self by consuming fiction is that I have a high need for narrative logic. So when any type of story establishes strict rules for how a world works, or how a character acts, my brain expects the creator/narrative to follow those rules. For me, when those pre-establsihed rules are broken just to force a tragic ending, it feels like a physical hit that breaks the immersion for me. It is incredibly frustrating in my mind, as it can make it hard for me to get back into the "magic" of the world. Ace's death was illogical in regards to the rigid rules that my brain had learned from previous world building within One Piece itself. While Oda is of course the author, and therefore has the ability/authority to change his rules, the sudden shift that all seemed to be made specifically to shoehorn Ace into death, really knocked me out of the moment in more ways than one. Not only was I grieving his death, I was also struggling to understand the break in the "rules".
For me, when I consume fiction its often not just a story on paper/on the screen. I tend to view it as structured environment with its own set of rules, ethics, and emotional bonds. Whether that is a me thing or is something that a lot of autistic people do, I'm not sure. I do know that when a creator breaks those rules for what seems like cheap writing, it stirs a sense of injustice that is hard for me to overlook. Ace felt like a real, dimension character and I became fiercely protective of his narrative integrity after seeing it stripped away.
Ace was a comfort character for me. I know he didn't have much screen time before his death, but for some reason my brain saw him and decided "that one." Usually when a character becomes my favorite, there isn't always a specific rhyme or reason too it, just a sudden draw and something in the back of my brain that decides "this one is yours now, good luck". For some reason, my brain decided that Ace was that character. He became a safe space that my brain could look too when I needed something predicatble and comfortable in the world. When Oda killed Ace, especially in the manner that he did, it felt like someone broke into my house, stole my safety blanket, and then replaced it with a scratchy towel as a way to say "get over it" (I'm looking at you Sabo).
I mentioned briefly at the end of the first part, that other character death's, while still painful, didn't hurt me nearly as much as Ace's did. I think in part, that's due to the way everything was handled. When a character death feels like a natural story progression to me, then it's easier for me to grieve them in the moment and move on. But when a character dies because of what my brain perceives as poor/forced narrative choices (as is the case with Ace), my sadness spirals with the unfairness that is hard for me to get over. It feels like watching the visible hand of the author overriding the natural pacing of the story.
Whether it is objectively true or not, to me it feels like Ace didn't die because he was bested or because his time had come; it feels like he died because the script demanded it, logic be damned. Ace was treated as a roadblock that needed to be taken out rather than the dynamic, charismatic character that he developed into. He was written into a corner by a plot script that prioritized a predetermined planning over the growth of the characters.
When I was learning about writing and creative fiction, I was always taught that it was okay (And important) to let your story develop with your characters. Essentially, even if you have an idea of where you want things to go, it is okay and common for plans to change as characters grow and form naturally with the story. The quick regression of Ace's growth and disregard for his established abilities, went against this in a way that felt like a disrespect to his character.
I think that if only one of these things had taken place (either Ace dies and we aren't provided with a clone character/rushed grief process OR Ace live's in a way that still allows for Luffy to prosper), then I probably wouldn't feel the need to break into sobs everytime I think about him just a bit too much.
I know this was less of a critical post and more of a ranting about how my brain works and why Ace's death bothers me so much. But I think it's important to share things like this. I was late diagnosed as autistic and am still learning to deal with a lot of the things that come with being autistic. This rigid thinking and empathy/attachment to fictional characters is a part of that. A part that I was ashamed of for a long time no less.
So I guess that this post exists just to say: Go ahead and cry over fiction. Mourn your comfort characters. It's okay to be upset. It's okay to be emotional. It's okay to feel however you want to feel about fiction or media, no matter what the broader public or fanbase may think/feel.
I'm still debating on writing a third part to this that covers some of the ideas that I think would have worked out better in regards to Ace (both looking at if he did still die vs him living). However, I'm not sure if I'm up to formatting and posting a third long essay just yet. Maybe that will be a project for future me.
It just occured to me that since Ace's Striker requires him to use his DF, he probably had to produce fire for a very very long time between every island he stopped at. So he would have to have quite the stamina. It actually aligns with Ace being able to block Aokiji's attack, even though he was still pretty badly injured and weakened from Teach and Impel Down.
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AKA: Why I Will Be Mad About This Until the Day I Die
Okay, so I've been really in my feels about Ace again and this was the only way I could think to help get over it. I want to start by saying that this is not an attack on One Piece or Oda in any way. I love One Piece, the world, and the characters that exist within it. As with any form of media, especially one as long form as OP, there are some things that I think could have been done better. This is only meant to be a literary critique concerning how I feel about things. I know not everyone will agree with me, and that's the beauty of media: it's subjective. So with that disclaimer out of the way, I bring you a list of things that bother me about how Ace's death was written and handled afterwards. MASSIVE SPOILER ALERTS FOR MOST OF ONE PIECE.
Narrative and Writing Critiques
Retconned Powers
Before Marineford, the show established that Logia users (like Ace) are made of their element. When Akainu punches Ace, the explanation given is that magma is "hotter" than fire, so it burns through his fire.
As someone who has written fiction and studied creative writing for years, this feels like a convenient retcon. It seemed like Oda needed a quick way to bypass Ace’s logia ability because he hadn't fully fleshed out the rules of Haki yet. It felt cheap and nonsensical because it broke the established logic of how devil fruits interacted just to ensure Ace couldn't survive. That being said, I've seen the argument that Ace allowed Akainu to hit him so that it wouldn't go through him and into Luffy. While I can see this, I still think that from what we've learned in the past, with the way the logia works, it would have prevented the damage from being fatal. I talk more about Ace getting placed into this situation on it's own later on. Watching this scence just felt like the author breaking his own world rules just to make sure Ace couldn't defend himself.
The Haki Mess
The concept of Haki hadn't been fully established/developed during Marineford. It was early in the system, and there were a lot of things still being fleshed out concerning how it worked. I feel like this is most strongly shown in how Haki, at this point, is treated as extremely rare, to the point where everyone is shocked when Luffy uses it mid battle. (Especially when compared to post-timeskip where it's super common to be used by just about anyone). Without Haki being established, Oda had to create a way to bypass Ace's logia powers which led to the above issue.
The biggest part of the Haki situation that bothers me regarding Ace, is what we learn in retrospect later on. Much later on, it is revealed that Ace had Conqueror's Haki since he was a kid and mastered Armament Haki as a young pirate (albeit, the ladder is only mentioned in the Ace's story side novels).
With this being the case, it created a massive plot hole. If Ace possessed the level of Haki that they described, the logic of him being entirely defenseless against Akainu because "magma burns fire" falls apart completely. The story forcibly downplayed/ignored his abilities just so the script could kill him off.
The Pell Effect
The double standard in life or death stakes is absolutely drastic across the series. Somehow, characters like Pell are able to survived giant, city-level bombs with no almost no issues or narrative consequences. Various other side characters are shown being stabbed through the chest, shot multiple times (sorry Law, love you, but my god Oda likes making you a punching bag), or even completely cut in half (you know who you are) and still survive just fine. Yet Ace, a powerful logia-type with haki masterment, was taken out instantly due to a single blow and illogical magic rules. Will how inconsistent the system is, it makes Ace's death feel targeted and out of place.
Clumsy Plot Devices/Narrative Choices
Ace’s entire character was built on loyalty to Whitebeard and his family. Having him ignore Whitebeard's (and everyone else's) final sacrifice to turn back for a schoolyard insult ruined his growth. While yes, in the past, they showed that he was hot-headed enough to fight over the smallest mention of disrespect to Whitebeard, the majority of Marineford was Ace realizing that he did truly have a family that loved him and was worth fighting for. For me, when an author ignores character growth and forces a specific ending anyway, it stops feeling like a story and starts feeling like a mandate. It feels disrespectful because Ace was stripped of his agency just to serve as a stepping stone. It feels as if all growth of his character that was built upon was stripped from him all because he had originally been created as a character that was meant to die.
On that note, I know that Ace's character was planned to die from the start. However, when a writer creates a character solely to be a sacrificial lamb, but that character organically grows into something much bigger, I feel like it makes for better storytelling when the writer allows for the plot to develop around the characters (as opposed to the other way around). The way the whole thing was written feels like a structural clash: the author forcing a dynamic, living character back into a rigid plot box that no longer fit him.
To top it off, Luffy chasing after the vivre card on an active battlefield felt like a lazy way to put him in danger. It made Ace's death feel like an accident caused by a blunder rather than a necessary tragedy.
Redundant Motivation
A common asrgument that I see for Ace's death is that it was necessary to push Luffy forward as a way to make him realize that he was not invincible. In my perspective, Luffy already lost everything and hit rock bottom when his crew vanished at Sabaody. He did not need a second, harsher trauma just to learn he needed to get stronger. At this point, he had just suffered a humilating defeat in which he wasn't even sure if his friends were alive (it was implied, but he didn't know for sure). The crew was already separated and literally at their lowest points. The motivation to get better was already there.
The Shadow of the Pirate King:
Making Ace the son of Gol D. Roger at the last minute created what would have been a huge plot point that would have needed to be written around if he had lived. If Ace survived, his lineage and his strength meant he would logically be a primary candidate to be kinf og the pirates, which could have easily overshadowed Luffy in various ways. Instead of exploring this dynamic, or even acknowledging the fact that Ace never wanted that in the first place (especially since he was one of Luffy's biggest supporters/cheerleaders outside of wanting Whitebeard to be king), the story took the easiest way out by eliminating Ace entirely.
I can understand not wanting this competition (if you could have even called it that) between the two brothers to be a main plot focus, but that even lost credibility with the development of Luffy's devil fruit. The story spent hundreds of chapters telling us Luffy was just a rubber boy who managed to succeed and perservere through stubborness, creativity, and the desire to protect his loved ones. Then when it was revealed that he actually ate a literal god fruit and was predestined to accomplish all of these amazing things, it really made everything seem more artificial (to me at least. I could write a whole other essay about the shift from fighting for what you want to fated/chosen prophecy, but I just want to focus on Ace here). The point being, that making this shift to the fact that Luffy was prophesized to do all of this, really makes killing Ace to clear his path seem even more forced, as who his father was clearly didn't matter at that point.
Okay, now that I've covered why I think the death itself was forced and clumsily written. I want to talk about the parts that I feel like were the absolute worst. How his death was handled afterwards.
Rushed Mourning
The story pacing shifts so quickly to the training arc/timeskip after the flashbacks and Ace's death, that I feel like the narrative doesn't give proper time to sit with the grief. Especially Luffy, who was in a medical coma for two weeks, woke up, cried for maybe a couple hours more, and then was punched by Jinbe and was perfectly fine. We don't even get mention of Luffy being bothered by Ace's death again until much later in Dressrosa when he brings it up to Sabo.
The "Replacement Clone" Trope
Speaking of Sabo. I have a lot of feelings about Sabo. Introducing him right after Ace dies felt incredibly cheap. Giving him the exact same devil fruit power and the same brotherly role makes it feel like Oda regretted killing Ace and tried to hit the undo button.
Sabo had the potential to be an interesting character, and does separate himself from Ace a bit later on. But really, his introduction felt extremely disrespectful to Ace's memory. It really came across to me as an "I want to have my cake and eat it too", moment. Like I want the shock value and turmoil of killing this character, but not the narrative consequences. It really left a bitter taste in my mouth about everything.
Everything from him randomly being alive again (Welcome back Pell Effect), to getting Ace's same devil fruit powers, to the extremely convenient amnesia just fell like a cheap way to insert a brotherly figure back into Luffy's life.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that killing off a character in fiction is a necessary tool to add emotion and drive. There are plenty of characters that I loved that, while their death's did hurt a lot, it still felt like it was done in an organic, logical way that made sense (Dabi from MHA for instance. His death hit me hard as well, but story-wise and how it was handled afterwards, for the most part, were done well). Ace's death is something that I'll never be able to get over or agree with because it felt forced, illogical, and like it was handled disrespectfully to him afterwards. Am I just bitter that he's gone? Yes. But would I also still feel the same way about some of the narrative choices even if he wasn't my favorite character? Also yes.
Again, this is in no way me saying that I don't like One Piece or think that Oda is a bad writer. He's obviously incredibly talented to be able to invoke this much emotion. This is just someone who has a bit of writing knowledge providing a critique of a media that I love, but think could benefit from some aspects. No work is perfect, and while I think post-timeskip starts heading in a direction that I'm not entirely in love with, One Piece is still an absolute masterwork of a saga. I just wish it was more character driven instead of being so focused on ticking off plot point milestones.
Thanks for listening to me ramble if you've made it this far. Part two will be focused on why his death is such a struggle for me as someone with autism specifically. I feel like talking about that stuff can help normalize the grief that comes with character death especially for neurodivergent people, but I didn't want to make this any longer than it already is.
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