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Do I Take Requests?

I have Aus or little ideas that I am constantly expanding on and if you’d like me to try and expand in a specific direction in those aus, feel free to just send an ask in.

When it comes to like “character x reader.” I can’t really do those and have no interest in them, so I’ll have to reject any of those not out of rudeness but because I am not the kind of person who could write those well.

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a shower of flaming bullets- Katekyo Hitman reborn

The sparkling school of villains- Twisted Wonderland

The seas we sail- One piece

Goat-face, yakuza, and eventually Hollows and even some shinigami. To be touched is to be in pain or to be dealing out injuries. Not something to enjoy (even if some part of his hindbrain enjoys the bruises and blood a little. Blame Shiro)

(There are a few spared from this fact of life but far, far too few to matter when his body still tenses at contact.)

it’s fine.

everything is fine

everything has to be fine

Everyone just copes with it in their own way.

Karin and Yuzu make noise around the house, more than they need to so he knows where they are. The hugs are slow and predictable. Easy to escape if needed. He hates that they have to be.

His friends have been around long enough to get him. They know when the violence of the night leaves him sleep deprived enough to need space.

Chad acts more like a living statue or gaurdian those days, using his height to his advantage to intimidate.

The others make sure to tug on sleeves instead of skin to get Ichigo’s attention. And talk louder when coming up from behind him. It’s not a big deal. This is just how things have always been.

and if he disappears for a bit to let out his nervous energy on someone or something deserving of it? Well then that’s just Ichigo being Ichigo. The town has never been clearer of both hollows and predators of the human variety.

do I like the idea of Poly- Visored? Yes

do I like weird mentor-mentoree dynamics? Also yes.

The visored take all perceived rules about his space and use a sledge hammer against them. Mostly because they have the strength to do it.

Ichigo can swipe at them with too full claws or swing at them with his blade on instinct and they’ll just dodge or shield before continuing whatever they were doing before. They don’t get shaken by it. They don’t stand a chance of get hurt by him like Orihime or his sisters would.

It’s weird to him- the idea of no longer having to be the protector. Getting to lay his shield down and getting protected is a foreign concept. For so, so long, everything stronger than him was something to harm him. A part of him relaxes at the idea of having a pack, mentor.

They grab at him. Often. Hiyori drags him everywhere, while the others lay fluttering touches throughout the day. Hachi lingers a bit during the few times the teen can bare letting someone else close enough to heal him.

If he truly can’t stand touch, clothing of theirs finds its way into his outfit regardless. At first it was just easy to excuse items, but they become more easily personalized as the group grows bolder. A T-shirt with an unclear owner turns to a signature piece of an outfit. Covering his skin in their scent, while helping guard his skin against the touch of others.

It’s care and ownership wrapped in a way only a pack could make. Would it make sense to outsiders looking into their relationship. No. But when has he ever cared about outsiders.

He starts napping in more open locations. Starts napping around people in general. Letting them see him content and tired and vulnerable.

Slow blinks during meals especially towards Thatch.

He checks on them too sometimes. Tucks himself into corners of rooms to stare, then leaves. Not able to admit to being worried about them, present.

The crew quickly figure out that while he won’t ever ask for attention, he’s touch starved. Careful touches become casual until one day Thatch catches him leaning into a hug.

He doesn’t initiated anything. (After all, his blood is still cursed and surely they’ll hate him once that is known.) yet he wont truly reject any of them. Even when he was raging at Whitebeard, it was never focused on the crew besides acting like a feral confused cat.

A protagonist who lives in a world filled with monsters that rip flesh from bone with ease. They have no illusions that they can fight against them, not because they are entirely weak but because compared to these creatures they unbearably are. Traps and tricks are a necessity becuase there are no other options.

A Protagonist who wake up with pain in limbs that never heal quite the same and scars from battles they shouldn’t have had to fight. A book is made based off their story , rewriting them as a brave hero who willingly ran into danger to save the day - writing over the truth that they had no choice in the matter.

A protagonist that can squeeze themselves into places others can’t to hide. And their party members constantly throw them into those situations because it’s convenient for them to be the one to chase a monster through the ceiling tiles.

A protagonist with no training, that doesn’t magically get training. They hold their weapon weirdly or straight up wrong, probably got hit with it by accident multiple times.

Someone light enough to get lifted up by others and it being seen as a bad thing, how can you protect others if a villain can literally just scruff you and leave.

muscles and fat are crucial for survival and without them, it’s so much harder. A protagonist that needs to wear more clothing than their party members because they don’t have the insulation to warm themselves. It weights them down and material changes how things can be carried or used in combat.

The places aren’t as large compared to the players. They speak and can reach things easier and the areas are for the most part places you could find in elsewhere too. A orphanage, a barn, a watchtower, a mostly abandoned city. All grounded in reality. The problems and threats are more focused on reality too.

there are two main themes that depending on what you view them as could change the meaning of the game.

those being that the game is either a representation of War and its effects on the innocent. Or the SA and the trauma that follows an event of that kind when it’s swept under the rug and not mentioned.

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If I continued with that Au. I’d probably either take a step back and add more detail on the ‘trips’ started and then became normalized within the Group or I’d continue with what I left off with and focus on the introduction of Kisuke and Shinji to the idea of a inner hollow that’s mostly peaceful ( for a hollow anyways) when allowed to pace.

I don’t have the time right now to focus on those ideas enough to write a full post about each. Maybe I’ll do that later but both would add a fun flavor to this situation.

The gradual desensitization of teenagers to a disappearing friend as long as they check in and the processes they go through to keep that freedom to pace for them

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Very concerned adults trying desperately to figure out what they’ve missed because this isn’t supposed to happen but when has Ichigo ever followed the laws of the universe?

Some of the crew take breaks more than others and some crew-mates don’t willingly take any at all.

It weighs on everyone, eventually. The idea than one of theirs isn’t resting when they should be.

The movement of feet pacing just outside the door, the clatter of pans being rearranged and then rearranged again between meals, the flipping of pages in books and the sound of money being counted than recounted again.

- it all slowly pounds on their nerves until ultimately none of them can focus.

It’s one of the few times Luffy genuinely uses his Captain status against them. They are his crew, and he values their freedom but it’s his job to care for them.

When no threats are seen on the horizon and the Sunny is far from any shore, he acts. Slow methodical pressure barring down on their souls coaxing tired eyes to close, nervous feet to still and frantic minds to pause.

He’s careful with it, with them in a way he never is with others.

(Because they’re his)

Not too much or they’ll pass out, but not too little that they still have room to think. A gradual increase to warn of the upcoming wave of Haki before muscles relax and knees fail.

It takes a few tries. None of them would ever truly fight their Captain on this, but early when the calling is softer it’s easier to shake off and ignore. Right up until Luffy loses his patience and leaves them almost drunk off Haki. He’ll never hurt them, but he’s never been the most patient of people.

rest, rest rest now we are all safe.

Yes Luffy with his upbringing and devil fruit definitely acts more feral than not. People look at him with stars in their eyes because he is the sun but gods don't behave like humans and limbs shouldn’t move like that-

But pretty much all of the straw hats have something in their past that would cause some sort of after effect even if they don’t have a traditionally feared skill.

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How often do you think the helmet was changed, after it was put on Sanji. Besides taking it off for meals (the few that came) I don’t think anyone was especially worried about ensuring it was “size appropriate”.

It probably dug into the skin a little. Made it a little harder to move. Maybe even caused a little blood to spill when sharp metal edges dug into flesh a little too hard. It probably scarred a little. Barely noticeable lines on his cheeks and the back of the head. It makes his smile look off. It’s always either a small humble thing, or a wide but slightly pained grin.

Sanji spent the rest of his childhood after that being surrounded by adult sailors who most likely cussed like ones and later pirates. No part of his childhood was PG13.

He knows words he shouldn’t, torture methods and science facts that aren’t common knowledge nor should they be. It’s off-putting how causally he can slip one into a conversation as if it’s normal to know how much pressure it takes to break a femur.

One might think his constant chatter, constant arguments, constant noise would be annoying. And occasionally it is. But it’s better than the Silence.

When his mind gets lost in time and a voice much younger than it is now screams at him to be quiet. To be quiet is to be safe. And maybe he’ll be more lenient if he doesn’t hear his voice.

It takes hours for him to refind his voice those days.

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Ussop is a creator. He makes stories and tales and improvises weapons and gear. Yes, there’s no doubt he’s a creator.

His aim creates openings for allies, his eyes find problems to fix and creations to make. Always looking for the next danger, adventure or solution.

He’s also a coward. But if anything that makes it worse.

People think he’s weak, that he’ll die easily but he remains standing after every battle. A weak person wouldn’t do that.

We all love the angst concept of Sanji’s modifications coming in and the strawhats having to deal with the outcome but I personally like the idea of them already kicking in and him just finding a way to…..get rid of them. Force them back to dormancy like they never kicked in to begin with. Find a way to remove the drawbacks even if he remains changed.

(If Judge was able to genetically enhance his spawn, and a singular poison was enough to remove its initial effects, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be technically removable.

Maybe if Judge hadn’t been so quick to deem him a failure and had tried harder to jump start the effects he’d still be trapped in the castle. But you can’t go back and change the past now can you? In the end Sanji would always end up in that dungeon.)

Law was able to mess with his own body enough to save himself from Amber Lead Disease because his devil fruit. It’s possible for devil fruit abilities to remove or change parts of a person. it’s an interesting idea, at the very least.

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Sanji awakening his powers right after escaping Germa. His emotions slowly muting themselves and his hair beginning to grow black at the root. The small part of his brain that still feels screams in horror at the face in the mirror.

His genes, crafted to serve Germa await orders from a king who (hopefully) thinks he’a dead. There will be no orders. It’s that alone that grants him control over his body.

While his emotions are muted, his logic isn’t and logically Sanji wants these changes gone. Logically he wants to cook, if only to make money to survive although he can’t fear the incoming death that would happen if he didn’t. It’s logical to want to live- what with all the cells in your body who’s only purpose is to continue their own existence.

It takes awhile for him to find someone who can actually help. It takes longer still for him to trust anyone enough to go under the knife, what with his… past medical history.

He winds his way to the Orbit with newly blonde roots, limbs squishy and grateful tears in his eyes. (Oh does he cry, he’s always been the first to shed tears, to show emotion, and he had good reason to be emotional now)

Everything else happens as it originally would.

Zeff still crashes into the Orbit, they still get stranded together, and the Baratie still becomes a restaurant. Sanji still leaves to become a Straw Hat.

(No one questions the black line in the middle of his hair. One- because they all have their own fashion choices and personal history and Two because he gets uncomfortable whenever it gets mentioned. It’s too dark to hide, and not far down enough that cutting his hair would look good.)

With how different he’d potentially look from his past self. He might not even be recognized as Sanji Vinsmoke by others. After all his first name is rather common and with long and “dyed” hair he looks like a much different person from the blonde child crying in a cage.

If that’s the case, he’d probably not even be forced to go to WCI.