🇵🇷Sadbadger 🇵🇸

Manga spoilers for this entire post btw He’s easily my favorite Roger pirate outside of shanks. He’s a great husband, father, and father figure. He’s badass and his design is great. SO WHERE IS THE GABAN LOVE???? He gets barely any fanart or fics?? LOOK AT HIM!

His and shanks relationship is soooo 💔

Thanks for the ask! And I appreciate you saying you like it when I yap lol especially since I tend to feel like I go way overboard with asks! As obvious as this may be I have to choose the strawhat pirates. I love the Roger pirates but they seem like too much 😭

as for the pros? Well..

-Loyalty. These guys will always love you forever and back. They have your back.

-Nami and robin. They’d be amazing to have as friends I feel, Nami is a girls girl and robin is amazing.

-if you join with not much ambition Luffy will have you wanting to chase your dreams no matter what. And I’m someone that struggles with staying motivated.

-Amazingggggg food ofc! I’ll be spoiled by Sanji and I’m a sucker for snacking a ton I’d love being spoiled lol

-franky and usopp would inspire the creative side of me. I’d love to make art with usopp like hello?

-Music from brook I mean cmonnnnn

-constant traveling. I wanna see things 😭

Now cons?

-Overwhelming. I get overwhelmed easily enough and people like luffy and his friends would be too much for when I just wanna chill a lot of times.

-I do think I’d be treated differently by Sanji and brook. Realistically.

-These mfs have so much trauma and secrets and that shit would be bad on my anxiety.

-THESE PEOPLE DON’T SHOWER ENOUGH. EW.

you know what? Let’s do another. The spade pirates!

Pros!

-Deuce and me could relate. So I’d have someone to talk to about simple things with 😭

-also I love writing like him so I’d like to do that together and talk with each other about it!

-I know he has horrible baggage but I’d love to have ace as a friend + captain! He’s a great guy.

-also these people will never let you get hurt either.

-skull is awesome. I’d need to know him I LOVE HIM.

-I don’t think any man would treat me ANY differently and that’s a HUGE plus because the same can’t be said about the Roger pirates or strawhat pirates. 💔

Cons.

-I’d say the fact that ace is all over the place and puts himself in mortal danger. He didn’t know what he wanted before whitebeard and ofc was very much suicidal and that also breaks my heart into pieces.

-uuhhhh idk? That’s all I guess!

Thank you for the ask!!! And omg some of my faves are extremely obscure!!! Now benn beckman is my favorite red hair pirate just beat by shanks who’s my fave. But It’s no secret that i adore LimeJuice!

I’ve posted about him a lot drawn him a lot and made headcanons for him all while he’s only spoken like three times lol he’s just so cool to me! Another fave on shanks crew is definitely hongo! I Love his scenes I love his voice I love that he’s a doctor and he looks great + seems interesting.

I’ve grown really fond of building snake too. And no, he’s never spoken a word in canon.

But he looks so cool right? 😭 I mean he uses two sword juggling style and is a navigator! That’s something to me!

Aces first mate Masked deuce from aces novels is an amazing character who’s left an impression on me. I really like how “regular” he feels among the one piece world. Especially compared to ace. Hes awkward he’s flawed and I love him. He’s spoken the most by far out of my obscure faves.

The two men behind him in the first pic are teach and skull. I really love them too so count them in!

Another character I love that hasn’t spoken a word is Spencer from the Roger pirates. (That hasn’t stopped me from drawing and writing for him either lol)

I love the mysterious and androgynous design given to him. It contrasts the Roger pirates so well because most of them are so burly and tall. With the exception of buggy and shanks naturally. he’s also listed as an intelligence officer on the wiki and I think that’s interesting. I wonder if he’s retired like Gaban and Rayleigh or dead?

Adding to that point, He also has/had a flashy look. He had orange sunglasses (black now) purple hair. Not dyed, just retconned because we see him in a flashback with the same color.

pierced ears. And tattoos. of a snake nonetheless, so maybe he chose the name snake for himself as a sort of brand? Or maybe not! Either way he seems proud. and a gold bracelet. Which sorta makes him a spectacle. especially when Luffy was a kid because shanks crew looked much more unassuming back then. Which tells me he wants people to look at him and know what he’s capable of. He wants people to recognize him. He’s confident. But other than this we usually just see him in the back with the rest. it seems he knows when to be serious too? Or maybe he’s just focused on his navigation job?

as a navigator your entire crew is hinging upon you, so it makes sense he looks pretty stern while working. I imagine he can definitely get away with all of his confidence because He’s strong and has the intelligence as a navigator to back it up. Probably the perfect navigator for a pirate like shanks.

Unsure if this needs to be pointed out but he looks pretty old too! Possibly becks age if not a bit younger? Probably mid forties given he has no gray hair. (Then again Rayleigh looked the exact same ages through thirty and fifty) side note, but after seeing the animators take on him I have grown fond of building snakes timeskip design. I just think oda doesn’t draw him well 😭 also, I’m dumb. Does anybody know what the fabric he’s wearing (hanging down his leg) with the tassels is called? If you do thanks! because I’m thinking it can help me figure out some of the inspiration behind his design (and maybe some of the cultural aspects oda had in mind for him)

Right???? I was told he’s a meme in Japan so I think it’s joke votes? Maybe someone botted his votes for a laugh? Idk but it’s funny to me. so I’m glad I made this image for rockstar-related occasions 😭