I 1000% accept your ‘Law read the -ya suffix in a comic and copied it to sound cool’ as canon- I feel the same about his horrible, awful disguises. Boy has to be operating on comic book logic there to think a basket over his head will hide his identity, when he literally has his jolly roger painted on his clothes. So much of his ‘cool persona’ is just comic stuff, i’m sure of it.
It works too. It takes an embarrassingly long time for Hawkins to realize the basket man is Law. I love that even in disguise he so obviously wants to look cool. That outfit must have cost so much, just the haori looks so expensive I bet he spent days coordinating that whole look.
I think this goes for Law's looks in general. His visual transformation from polite, studious little church boy to murderous emo creep with DEATH knuckles feels very deliberate.
He's very conscious of how he presents himself and obviously cares a lot about how he's perceived by others, like... He really wants to look cool. It's important to him and I think this is what makes his stoic edgy dark and dangerous death guy thing so, SO endearing. He tries so hard <3
And of course he's influenced by comic books.
Ending on Law in his comic book villain arc enjoying infamy while wearing a custom embroidered hazard-colored full length coat in his evil laboratory mansion. He's having such a moment here, thriving in the terrified screams of his enemies. He knows he looks cool. It's a big part of his pirate strategy I think. Show up, look hot and mysterious, scare some people with dramatic displays of painless, fully reversible amputations, enjoy bounty increase while pretending not to care.
