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I had thought about if Luffy had recruited the Strawhats in a different order and they got to see different crewmates origins/events leading up to becoming pirates, and well-

Was listening to Once Upon a December and became possessed and speedran an AU in my brain of basically where Sora divorces and exiles Judge, and eventually marries Zeff. But Judge returns and this results in the whole family besides Zeff and Sanji being killed. Cue the usual plot of the movie -rolls wrist-

Zoro wants the reward money so he can pay off Nami kjhflk

Inspired by these amazing fics I read, like, a year ago, but man, they are so nice!

- 'Time slips under our feet' by Shiraioki

- 'The Beginning of a Certain End' by codedredalert

There’s this scene in chapter 780 that’s always giving me pause, it’s Doflamingo’s frankly abnormal reaction to seeing “CORAZON” written on Law’s back.

You don’t even have to take my word for it on how abnormal it was.

Even Trebol, someone who at this point should’ve seen the worst of what Doffy has done was like what the fuuck. 

I remember it being even more apparent in the anime. Doflamingo sounded angry, not at the aspect that Law is using the heart motif, but that’s Law was actively reminding Doflamingo of Corazon.

The memory of his brother is a ghost that’s haunting him. Which brings me to the other thing that always ticks me off. The way Doflamingo addresses Rosinante. It’s never by his name, either Corazon or a ghost.

For reference let’s looks at the last time Rosinante addressed his brother. 

Even when he calls him a monster and a madman, Rosinante couldn’t shoot him because it was his brother, because he’ll always be Doffy.

But he can’t be Rosinante to Doflamingo, he has to be Corazon until the very end. Otherwise Doflamingo would have to come to terms with the fact that he killed his own brother.

A fact that Law always brings to the forefront of his mind.

He shot Law until the gun was empty, then kept pulling on the trigger. It was such a contrast to the almost methodical way he shot him the first time. 

That was a performance, an education of a subordinate.

This was him laying all of the justifications for an “ancident” that should’ve been forgotten 13 years ago 

He was my subordinate 

He was Corazon 

He betrayed me 

I was gonna say cos in the One Piece Party and so on, they always stress how Corazon on Law’s jacket  is written in a foreign language (to Japanese), but of course, ‘Corazon’ was the word chosen by the Donquixote Family, and Dressrosa is supposedly reminiscent of a Spanish town, so it shouldn’t be foreign lettering to Doflamingo. Plus, that’s always presented in jest. But, Law had his back to Doflamingo throughout Green Bit and I’m sure at other parts of their pretty prolonged battles throughout the Dressrosa arc. True though, Doflamingo is feral when he shoots Law here (or his body double), and static (whereas the other scenes have a lot of attack and defence, perhaps obscuring any lettering),  and had Law and he had those deeper conversations (jabs) about Cora yet? 

OH MY GOD

Oh my god.

I like this take. I myself think Doflamingo was very very aware he was killing his brother (anime shows his reaction better than the manga) and wasn’t detaching himself from having commited fratricide. He knows what he’s doing (killing his brother) and he is hurting while doing it. He is suffering through it. He makes a very very pained sound. He is very aware. He isn’t detaching at all. He is even bargaining through it, as though he is the victim “Why are you making me do this? Why do I have to kill another member of my real family?” as though Rosinante is making him pull the trigger. He is in some form of victim complex in that moment, I think.

But agreed on the Corazon part.

Donquixote Shenanigans Doodles

doffy: you would never betray me, would you, corazon?