#corvalis

Oregon Sunstone carving : 13.7 carats : Jack Hoque

A traveller finds himself in a perilous situation after reading his map wrong.

Fly Halcyon fly! Corvalis doesn’t seem like the kind of bird willing to spare anyone unfortunate enough to end up in her territory.

he laughs, as is customary for him -- despite, one may point out, having just taken a punch straight to the face. surely something to be concerned over ? were it anyone else, yes, but he only pulls at his cheek and giggles as it snaps back to shape. "see ? totally fine ! 'cause i'm rubber, yeah ?" / luffy ! @corvalis​!!

     SHE CAN’T BELIEVE she went ahead & did that. sure, he had been the one to convince her with a jolly “just go for it!!!” but this.... this was all too much for her. imagine the shock beneath emerald eyes once her gloved fist made contact ---

                   & his cheek   s tttreeeee tches !!!!                    ( TERRIFYING. )

       no need to imagine;; with a slackened jaw and knees buckling, she points at the apparently RUBBER man with an expression of complete & utter bafflement. this had to be some sort of genjutsu.              

           “H-..How...!?”

he hooks fingers to the corners of your mouth, pulling them this way and that, as far as they can humanly go and laughs when he meets resistance. "zoro needs to smile more!! captain's orders !!!"

                     the captain’s actions are always sporadic, unpredictable to the sole tips of rubbery fingers, prying against his strained human flesh     (   that had no ability to stretch, a fact he wondered if luffy, from the years of being only rubber, had forgotten   )      ---  he’s attempting what many others have tried  : to change his   monotonous   glare to something potentially resemblance of glee. 

initially, zoro allows the corners of his mouth to tug into a   forced   smile, mismatched with the furrow of his brows and a deadpanned look, eye resting in its norm as   opposed   to wide-eyed spreads or   moon-crescent   grins. in most of luffy’s endeavors, he’s become more compliant the longer the crew drifted along the sea, resulted only after many stubborn efforts in the past to rid the other’s overbearing and close-contacted affection     (    he loosened up after figuring there might be no one all across the grand line that’s more stubborn than the straw hat bearer is      ...     and truthfully, there’s no one who isn’t susceptible to a summer’s sunshine persistence anyway.    )   

it’s only when there’s a  tinge, increasing   discomfort   with his forced outstretched mouth, did zoro raise both of his hands,    gripping    onto the same hands that continued to etch itself into his cheeks, and then removing them from his features, digits by digits, a hint of annoyance    flared   with his words,    ‘    enough with that    ---    ’     that stirring of feeling doesn’t last very long though;    unlike to how he might’ve reacted had it been    ...    well, anyone else, irritably clinging onto his face,    the swordsman eases quickly, a single look at the beaming smile, toothy and spread throughout the entire lower half of luffy’s face         and   ...    a laugh, joyous, lacking any negative possible connotations to the demand   ---   zoro surrenders    (    part of being the world’s greatest is recognizing a battle you   can’t   win, right ?    )      and a smile   cracks  , naturally of its own volition as he sighs    ---     ‘    you only ever use your   captain  status  when it comes to something as small as this.    ’