Too Many Thoughts for her Damn Head

I also wanted to say that I am different from the last anon but I also have been reading through your backlog and have now read every fic with Law in it. (plus some) I love your characterisation of the characters and its a treat to have so much wonderful writing to read!

First! I am loving Ad Astra already! Shachi and Penguin being part fishman seems to fit them very well. I legit thought it might be canon I hadn't seen yet because it fit so well. (i'm currently in Wano!) Haha! I love the idea of a sci-fi AU! I wasnt sure how it would work at first but reading it, it somehow works very well! Excited to read more!

Also I love Law's casual use of his devil fruit. I noticed he doesnt use it much in the other fics you wrote. Which made sense of course because in Crown of Flowers he was hiding it and similar in Losing Time and We Hide Our Hearts. So it's nice to see a Law who doesn't have to hide it and even uses it to mess around with his crew.

Losing Time made me love the Hearts even more! And each of them felt like their own person. Ikkaku I am particularly fond of! I also love how you wrote the Trafalgars! They felt very real and I miss them dearly. I wonder how their alternate world will go with such a different ending? And the grown up Law felt like he had really changed and learned from his experience. By the end of it he hardly felt like canon but in a good way. Like how I could see canon going towards if he had to face the same things. Healing in his own way. The bittersweet goodbye he had with his parents hurts my heart in the best possible way. The whole fic made me think deeply about what I would do if I was given a chance to go back to my own past as I am now. Wonderful read.

A Crown of Flowers is probably my favourite AU. I even wrote part of a mini fic based on it. I will likely not finish it but still. The world building is fantastic. I am already a fan of immortal creatures but this made it even better! The thought of being forced into immortality is terrifying as a concept and works wonderful for the fic. I wish I could draw because I'd love to draw how I imagine Eustass and Law in their Gentry forms! The last chapter being so far in the future felt a bit bittersweet. The POV being Doffy was perfect too because you got to feel just as confused as he was coming back to things! Of course hearing all the wonderful things the boys did was fantastic. You know they had to go through loss and pain and they never asked for the job they got stuck with but they made the best of it. Being reassured that they kept moving forward despite it all is so wholesome ;v;

We Hide Our Hearts was the fic I found you from! Someone on Twitter said it was the best Cora lives fic they read and I have to agree! Cora's characterisation legit made me love the character even more than I already did. He's clever as much as he is kind and feels very human. Garp in the fanfic was also amazingly written! Every time he showed up I got excited to see what he'd do. His talk with little Law felt so very him. He's knows what people need to hear in the same way Luffy does. Just as stubborn as Luffy as well. The ending of the fic being left open made me imagine so many possibilities of what could happen next to the little band of misfits. Cora has his work cut out for him for sure!

We Set Our Wishes Upon Her Waters is not a long fic like the others but still a great AU! I loved reading about each character and their relation to their sea. Cora's section was heartbreaking ;v; Each of the seas are written so well! I especially love the idea that Kid and Killer have other names and the names they use now they picked themselves. Because I can't imagine anyone naming their kid "Killer."

Last mention. Threnody for the Living was my favourite one off. Brook felt so much like Brook that I could imagine his voice clearly each time he spoke! I never thought I needed Brook and Law interacting but it was a very pleasant surprise duo and now I want them to be friends.

Anyways before this gets longer, Thank you for all your writing! It has truly been a gift to read and I am excited for future works! -Overly Excited Anon

Oh my goodness, do not apologize! This is amazing!

Your notes about Ad Astra are spot on: Law will be using his devil fruit more freely in this fic, because you were correct; in the other fics you cited him using it sparingly it was in fact a conscious choice on my part. I am eagerly anticipating getting to let him be more of a menace with it this time around.

As for Penguin and Shachi, I am not personally a believer in the theory that they are part fishmen--at least not without more canon evidence than we have--but it fits so much better with this setting that I had to give it a try this go round.

Losing Time is a direct result of my desire to give more focus to characters I knew wouldn't get the chance in the series proper: the Hearts and Law's family both. Backstory characters in particular tend to get the short end of the stick, and it seemed to me such a shame when what happened to Law's family was such a pivotal, formative moment for him. Granting some closure to the situation was cathartic.

I am deeply proud of the worldbuilding in Crown of Flowers, and I do have very strong mental images of what all the boys look like in every stage of their existence in my head, but sadly I do not have the artistic skills to execute it. I would be interested in the fic you wrote inspired by it, though! I'm honored you found it inspirational enough.

Hearing someone say Hearts was the best Cora Lives fic they've read is astounding to me, because there are so many good ones out there. I am obligated to recommend pretty much anything @oswaldthatendswald has written, if you have not read their works already. If Cora being alive and being a complex, interesting character is your jam, you will find it there in spades.

We Set Our Wishes on Her Waters was my first real AU and the one that will continue to be worked on slowly in the background for...I hesitate to say forever, but for the foreseeable future for certain. I have at least two or three more stories planned in that universe already.

Lastly, I am so glad to hear you like Threnody. That is one of the one shots I am most proud of, from the musical theme to the emotions. Hearing it get some love is always a treat.

The Sea of Stars is a wide place, full of endless potential. Ships crisscross the expanse of the galaxy, and in the midst of it all is the Empire, the rebels who chew at her boundaries, and the people stuck in the middle.

When Luffy and his crew stumble across a box full of mysterious writing, they can't imagine the can of worms they're about to open by taking it with them. Unbeknownst to them, the powers that be will stop at nothing to keep the information contained on those tablets out of the hands of the people, and defying them is a certain death sentence. The only question is, will they be able to follow where the information leads before the government succeeds?

Thank you so much!

Worldbuilding and examining the building blocks of settings and characters is a huge interest of mine, so it's always very exciting to see people enjoying those aspects in particular. I try and put a lot of thought into the hows and the whys, and it's really gratifying to see people getting to experience it. I hope my back catalogue continues to entertain!

The Sea of Stars is a wide place, full of endless potential. Ships crisscross the expanse of the galaxy, and in the midst of it all is the Empire, the rebels who chew at her boundaries, and the people stuck in the middle.

When Luffy and his crew stumble across a box full of mysterious writing, they can't imagine the can of worms they're about to open by taking it with them. Unbeknownst to them, the powers that be will stop at nothing to keep the information contained on those tablets out of the hands of the people, and defying them is a certain death sentence. The only question is, will they be able to follow where the information leads before the government succeeds?

Oh, thank you so much!

First off, if you haven't seen it already, there is a roughly 10k outsider POV fic set after the events of the main story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73471901

Second, while I currently do not have any more fics in this universe planned, that by no means means I never will. I have so much background information I came up with for this story that never made it into the fic proper, so there are definitely still stories left to tell.

I'm so glad the chess game came off well. Several people got to listen to me agonize about getting the chess game the way I wanted to. It's so important to the entire story, it's a huge character moment for both Law and Sengoku, and it's a critical perception change moment.

I do not currently have any other fics planned in this universe. That's part of the reason I tend to leave the endings of these kinds of fics open, because it lets the readers imagine what comes next. That's not to say I'll never write these characters again; I love these characters. They will definitely show up in more things I write.

Thank you so much!

(context i read your fics with the sea goddesses and hello what you're onto somethin??? amazing???? hello????????)

Thank you so much!

Aw, thank you!

“What madness have you wrought?” he demanded. “What good is a sword no one can wield? This is no masterpiece; it is a curse!”

“You make it sound like I have no choice,” he mutters, chafing instinctively against the idea that his life was not his own. “There is always a choice,” she counters. “Fate just already knows what happens before you make it. People think of fate as inevitable, when really it is simply consequences. The end of the ripples in the pool of water. All I am doing is asking you to consider your role as the stone.”

In another universe, another time, things go just a bit differently, and Donquixote Rosinante lives, albeit seriously injured and bedridden.

But with his son refusing to speak until he gets news of the boy he'd left behind, Sengoku is forced to locate a child who turns out to be far more trouble than he was expecting before Rosinante's reticence gets him court-martialed, or worse. Hiding a precocious child with a legendary devil fruit is hard enough. Hiding one marked for death by World Government order is another thing entirely. Doing it at Marineford itself? That's just the height of folly. And yet, this is what Sengoku finds himself doing in order to keep the peace.