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I added Rosi and Doffy!! Rosi wanted to be my friend first while Law wanted to be Doffy's.

Fandom(s): One Piece Ship(s): Doflamingo/Corazon Rating: M Word Count: 2,259 Summary: Rosinante hasn't seen his brother in years, but now he's come home for the holidays. Better get the coffee ready!

Note(s): It needed to be done. I'm not sorry.

I've been wanting to write this for a while since dofcora is an understandably controversial ship, and it's one of the ships I'm most interested in currently, and I want something I can point people to in order to explain why I ship them and why I don't think it's morally wrong to do so.

The thing that got me started shipping dofcora was my obsession with Doflamingo. He's a stinky little bastard man, but I am deeply fascinated with him, and I love putting him in Situations. From my point of view, if Doflamingo had any romantic or sexual interest in his brother he absolutely would do his best to seduce/coerce Rosi into a relationship.

Oda has written the Celestial Dragons in a way that strongly alludes to historical European monarchs - Charlos even looks like a Habsburg, to me. The glorification of their pure blood adds to my belief that incest would at the very least be much less taboo in Celestial Dragon culture. I don't know that it would be more than marrying one's cousins, but I believe an element of inbreeding would make perfect sense given how they are written. Doflamingo's relationship to his prior status and belief in his own perfection would make him particularly susceptible to the idea that only someone else of his blood was worthy of his love.

Doflamingo gets what he wants, no matter the cost. Even when Caesar Clown is getting his ass beat during Punk Hazard, Doffy isn't worried, because it's unthinkable that someone could pluck one of his prizes out of his web. He's always in control, he's always achieving what he wants. He truly does gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss his way into anything his twisted heart desires.

Speaking of desires, do you really think Doffy wouldn't want Rosi? Now, sometimes I like to imagine that Doflamingo is an entirely straight man. I think it's unlikely (because I need him to be at least gay enough to consider liking me), but it's a slightly different read of his character that I find fun to mentally parse through. Still, though. Even if Doffy was completely heterosexual, do you think he could resist those warm eyes peeking up through a mop of fluffy blond hair? I think not! Donquixote Rosinante is one of the most beautiful men to ever exist, and I find it very easy to imagine that Doflamingo would want him - and as we've already established, from Doffy’s perspective there's no valid reason for him to ignore that impulse, and what Joker wants, Joker gets.

I know this has been very Doflamingo-centric, and I'm afraid it's going to stay that way, but my approach to dofcora tends to be centered on Doflamingo wanting Cora, and varying levels of interest coming from Cora depending on how dark I want it to be (I like a bit of dead dove with my toxic yaoi sometimes, sue me - or read my fucked up forcefem dofcora fic, maybe??).

Doflamingo is a bad person. He's a criminal, he's a murderer, he's a rapist (there is debate about this, but in what world was him having sex with Viola genuinely consensual?), he has committed so many crimes.

I love watching Doffy be a silly little guy. I find him fascinating, and I spend a great deal of time just rotating him in my brain.

I will never say he is a good person. I will never excuse what he's done or say that it was justified.

Incest isn't all that different from everything else he's done. If it's morally wrong to ship dofcora (which I don't think it is, but we're getting to that in a bit) then it's morally wrong to like Doflamingo at all. He's a bad guy, and frankly I don't think fucking his brother could make him worse. You don't have to ship dofcora or like Doflamingo, but if you're judging dofcora more or differently from Doflamingo's other various crimes, that's a deeply flawed approach. Either morality in fiction matters or it doesn't.

Morality in fiction doesn't matter as much as we think it does.

I will not deny that there are times engaging in certain types of art can have a negative effect on your life. I believe there's a necessary level of self-awareness to safely engage with dark media. If a piece of fiction is negatively impacting your real life, you're either interacting with it in a way that doesn't work for you, or it's simply not something you should be interacting with at all.

Fictional characters cannot be harmed. They inherently don't exist, so they cannot be damaged (note: I'm talking about the characters in the media, not any fictionkins or fictives etc, that's a whole different scenario and I'd argue that's more a matter of what the fictive/fictionkin themselves is comfortable with interacting with, and I'd say it's their job to navigate fandom spaces accordingly - but I'm not very educated on that topic so actually don't listen to me).

If my forcefem dofcora fic made me go around manipulating people into nonconsensually transitioning, that would be inherently bad. If my forcefem dofcora fic made me get in an obsessive cycle of wanting to manipulate people into a nonconsensual transition, that would also be bad, even if I didn't act on those urges, because it would damage my mental stability.

My forcefem dofcora fic has done none of those things to me, and I warned and tagged it as best I could to avoid other people being harmed by it. No Doflamingo or Rosinante was harmed in the making of that fic because they are not real and physically cannot be harmed by a work of fiction.

No one has to like any ship. Hell, you don't even have to ship Morticia and Gomez Addams. No ship is required, but I think fandom needs a good strong dose of "Don't Like, Don't Read." Don't harm yourself or others when possible but acknowledge that you have no real way to tell if someone else is getting harmed, and yelling at them about a ship they like will never help regardless.

A last caveat for this section:

Real life incest is almost always bad because it is almost always abuse. That is simply the fact of it. Real life incest is bad because it's abuse (there are some grey areas, but those are really rare).

Alright, so those are my reasons for why I think shipping dofcora is morally permissible and relatively canon-compliant, but why do I ship them?

It's just plain fun. They're two tall hot men with a complicated bond, and the dynamic possibilities are endless, which is unfortunately not the case for every ship - as a zosan fan I think I can say that zosan can often fall into the same dynamic across most fics (including my own, I know I do this, too) and it's hard to feel like there's a truly unique and not watered-down vibe between them because there's so much content and so much of it is similar. Obviously there are stellar zosan fics that capture a canonical dynamic that's still unique, but those can be hard to find.

Dofcora doesn't have that problem. There's not nearly as much content, and there are so many different ways their relationship can be approached. From my own fics alone I have a few examples of "they really are just brothers but there's something a bit weird and obsessive about how they treat each other," as well as a "Doflamingo only realizes he loved Cora after Minion Island and is a wreck about it," and my forcefem "Doflamingo decides the only way to have an heir with blood as pure as his own is to manipulate and abuse his younger brother into carrying it." Like I said earlier, sometimes I enjoy a bit of dead dove.

I've read dofcora fics that are so soft and sweet and loving that they make me feel warm and fuzzy (despite my severe case of aromanticism) while still keeping them in character. I've read some hot smut where they're the only ones truly made to fit each other. I've read as many stories as I can find where Rosi falls so in love he gives up on his mission just to stay by Doffy's side. They can be cute, they can be toxic, they're devoted because only they understand what their shared childhood was like, they're deeply similar and diametrically opposed... even while staying within canon personalities the dynamics are so, so flexible.

Someday I'll move on to a different ship (maybe even a different fandom) and I'll leave this era behind me. I don't think I'll regret it, though, because my shenanigans in the dofcora fandom have been some of the most silly and joyful and fun interactions I've had in a fandom space.

Like I said, you don't have to ship it. You don't need to. But so long as you're being smart and reasonable about your own limits, you are allowed to ship them, and you don't have to be ashamed about it.