#achingly delicious

the Ace of Spades card is called the Death card

and the King of Hearts is called the Sacrifice card

It makes me so sad. I love it!!

I also really like the version where he is a phoenix. He can be killed, but from the ashes he shall rise again. 🥹

I find it really funny in a bittersweet kind of way that most of the Donquixote Family (not the gang, but the actual family) came to their senses and tried to redeem themselves by being decent and having some speck of humanity.

Dad saw the injustice and tried to do damage control before it could rot his children, and sure, it backfired on him, but I respect him for even trying. That took a lot of guts. It didn’t even take that much convincing before Mom was in on the plan and agreed wholeheartedly, and she never regretted it, not even on her deathbed.

Rosinante, even after being raised by the marines, never lost sight of his parents’ wish or forgot about the atrocities committed by the Celestial Dragons. Sure, he was very young when they left, but he never forgot the misery they brought nor let the Marines brainwash him into thinking what they did was right because they were ‘Gods’ and their word was law. And how beautifully poetic that is, isn’t it? Because despite everything he went through as a civilian, he decided to break that particular cycle of violence. He could have become Doflamingo; he went through the exact same hell as his brother, after all. But instead he saved one of their ultimate enemies. And he loved him so much in such a short amount of time that it changed Law’s narrative. The child who was supposed to die at 7, 10, 13, and thanks to miracle after miracle—one of which was Rosinante—he lived, and lived, and lived.

Mjosgard spent one (1) trip at sea with Queen Otohime and it changed him so fundamentally that even a decade later she still resonated so strongly within him that he gave his life up knowing full well what consequences defending her daughter would bring.

And then you have Doflamingo, who truly was just an unrepentant asshole. Which is really ironic because most of them were adults, which you would expect to have a harder time to break out of bad habits. And there he is, The Proud Black Sheep of the Family since he was a brat.

~🥜❦