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(color code: grandparent / parent / child)

(This is a completely silly post, please don't take it seriously lmfao)

So. We know Luffy and Ace's family lines, which are:

Garp -> Dragon -> Luffy

Roger / Rouge -> Ace

But since Garp adopted Ace as his grandkid, it became

Garp -> Ace & Luffy

But also, since Luffy kinda views Shanks as more of a father figure than Dragon, and we just had a chapter not long ago confirming that the Roger pirates viewed Shanks and Buggy as their own kids....

Roger -> Shanks -> Luffy

Sooo, if wanna look at it a certain way, you could say Roger's grandkid ended up being Luffy, while Garp ended up with Roger's kid as his grandkid too. That's a goddamn criss cross.

But also, look at it from Roger's point of view:

Roger -> Shanks & Buggy & Ace

In different timeline/scenario/whatever, it's entirely possible that Buggy could have been like an uncle figure to Luffy.

And in another timeline, Shanks, Buggy, and Ace could have been brothers. Shanks even says, after finding out Roger had a secret child, that any kid of Roger's would have been like a little brother to him.

But instead, we got Ace, Sabo, and Luffy.

It's especially funny when you break it down even further. From Luffy's point of view:

Garp -> Dragon (???) -> Shanks / Dadan -> Luffy

From Ace's point of view:

Roger 💢 / Rouge -> Garp -> Dadan / Whitebeard -> Ace

From Sabo's point of view, because of his amnesia:

Nobles 💢 -> Garp (???) / Dadan (???) -> Dragon -> Sabo

These guys keep switching family members around like they're playing the Scrabble game to end all of Scrabble

Imagine how Shanks felt when he realized that the dumb kid glued to his side at Windmill Village was actually Vice Admiral Garp's grandson. You know, the same guy who used to chase his captain, Shanks' father figure, all over the Grand Line when he was a kid

And imagine how annoyed Garp must've been - Roger died and basically tasked him with taking care of Ace (which he fostered onto Dadan). But then he finds out that his kid has a kid, and that kid wants to become a pirate, because of fucking Red Hair Shanks

You know, that snotty little kid that used to be on Roger's crew.

Even dead, the man's legacy is still haunting him and his bloodline, and that legacy is tempting his precious grandson to piracy

And also, since Garp was known to chase Roger, that means that Buggy has definitely run into him before

I also wanna point out Oden and Momo too, just for the fun of it.

So this is their bloodline:

Sukiyaki -> Oden / Toki -> Momonosuke & Hiyori

But after Oden joined Whitebeard's crew, he viewed Oden as a little brother. Which made Momonosuke and Hiyori like his niece and nephew

So it goes something like

(Whitebeard &) Oden -> Momonosuke & Hiyori

But at the end of Wano, Luffy tells Momo that he views him as a little brother. So now it's:

Oden -> Momonosuke (& Luffy)

But Luffy's brother Ace was also one of Whitebeard's sons. So from Whitebeard's point of view

Roger 🪦 / Whitebeard -> Ace (& Luffy)

So in some wild, crazy, nonsensical version of the story, Oden is Whitebeard's little brother, Momonosuke and Hiyori are Whitebeard's niece and nephew, but his son Ace has his own adopted younger brother Luffy, who later on also adopted his nephew as his own younger brother

It's a labyrinth of adopted younger siblings

Anyway. There's no real point to this post

i just enjoy how the found families and bloodlines ties in One Piece end up creating a Gordian's Knot of relationships, since the world is always moving and ever changing, and character's relationships with each other are as chaotic, unpredictable, and wild as the characters themselves

Damn, i was so close LOL

I got her skin, hair, and tattoo colors almost completely spot on, but there's no way i could have predicted that outfit

Ah well, im still happy lmfao I'll never get this close again to predicting colors again

Can't believe all it took to get Imu to finally get out of his stupid little butterfly room for once was for Cobra to offhandedly mention a letter that Lily wrote for her descendants

Didn't even take two seconds for that fucker to pop on out.

Considering the man walks at a snail's pace most days, this is probably the equivalent of sprinting for him

And it's entirely because of the fact that he has not stopped obsessing over Lily. For nearly a goddamn millennium.

He's like the worst ex imaginable, you can't even get rid of him in death

Like seriously bro stop being such a fuckin weirdo about Lily already. it's been 800 years, she rejected you and your cause, just get over it

And like, bro, i know they look alike, but Vivi ain't Lily. I know you're old and probably senile after spending centuries doing nothing but play with butterflies all day, but those are two completely different people

Vivi would sooner punch you in the face and jump off a building than give you the time of day

Like bro. Bro. Stop staring longingly at the large framed picture you have of Lily hanging up in your little butterfly room.