FIGHT@1ST SIGHT SHIPPER

Sabo stealing one each of his extras after his memories return. He hunts down every single photo of Ace there is and hangs them up in his room. Koala says he’s making an altar of his grief, a panopticon for his self flagellation. But his first and last memory of his big brother—his twin, is of him dying. Their first meeting at age five overshadowed by the return of Sabo’s memories and Ace’s smiling corpse in the newspapers.

His beautiful shining star

Closeups:

Alt version + speed paint under cut

foreign skin | ace + sabo | by gunplay (1/17)

this is a train WRECK

bonus:

RHAENYRA and ALICENT + art

In this post I mentioned Ace being passively suicidal as a kid, and I think this excerpt of the light novel supports it.

The idea of Ace feeling like he had to justify surviving, even if only to himself, really is an emphasis of how much Ace was struggling from his early childhood until he joined the Whitebeard pirates. And the fact that he referred to it as survival, rather than *living*, is also important.

When Ace says Whitebeard saved his life, he means it in every sense of the way. Becoming Whitebeard's son saved Ace's life. The Whitebeard Pirates were a key answer (along with Luffy) to the question Ace had about wether he deserved to be born or not. And usually if someone asks themselves that question in the first place, they do not feel like the answer is yes until proven or told otherwise.

The only reason Ace wasn't actively suicidal was his promises to Luffy and Sabo, until he joined the Whitebeard Pirates.

Smonch™.

@flute-of-pan he did get it from dragon…

Perhaps on a day that he went to dragon seeking advice about how to grieve a life you never remember having… perhaps dragon felt endeared to the little rascal… and gave him…. One ( 1 (☝️)) Litol kissy…

Both options are great.

Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.

What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:

Are you okay?

That's not the kind of language I was raised to use with others.

Do you need a moment to think on why that wasn't acceptable?

This is no way to engage in intelligent conversation. Please try that again in a kinder tone if you'd like this to continue. (I really like this one because it lets you turn their public-shame rhetoric around)

For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:

What's happening in your life to cause you this much anger? I can't imagine hurting so badly that I need to hurt other people.

Who taught you it was acceptable to treat other people this way? Certainly not the Jesus I remember.

Whatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?

If I talked like that in front of my parents or grandparents I would be ashamed.

I think there's something you need to pray on before we try and have this conversation.

And my all time favorite:

"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."

(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)