#genzo

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Was everything about this girl adorable?

He slid his way around her, letting go of the staff as he did so. It wasn’t gentlemanly behavior to not let the lady have her fighting chance. 

“Now Nami - what a beautiful name for a beautiful girl - what’s a woman as lovely as yourself doing in Arlong’s crew?” He asked, taking a few steps back out of her reach. 

Sanji put his hands in his pockets, and started to pull out a cigarette. He was barely getting it out of his pocket when the end of a red staff smacked him across the stomach. The impact knocked the wind out of him, and he bent over at the waist with a groan. 

“That,” the woman smirked down at him. 

He grinned. What a woman. 

“I think I’m in love,” he wheezed. 

Thinking about how when Nami was a baby that she was scared of him and would always get upset and cry when she saw him so he put a pinwheel on his head so she would at least smile at him cause he wanted her to like him and it was so silly but it worked in the end. So he kept wearing that pinwheel because of her cause it made her happy.

Ripped my heart out thinking about how he probably decided to never take it off even after Bellemere's death when it was a miserable time for him and the entire village only because of Nami and Nojiko. It was an especially miserable time for Nami so he kept it on so she would at least smile when she would occasionally visit Cocoyashi cause it used to make her happy when she was younger. Then the only time he took it off was when the Arlong pirates were defeated cause Nami was genuinely happy and smiling so he “didn't need it anymore” He kept that pinwheel on his head which was probably silly looking to everybody else just so Nami could be happy.

Then when Nami got her tattoo redesigned after the fall of Arlong park it was a pinwheel and mikan 🥹🥹🥹. I love them so much.

that one john mulaney dad meme but with one piece dads.

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