Buggy was willing to give it all up so that he could partially achieve his dream through Shanks because that's Shanks' dream too, right? If anyone is destined to find the One Piece, it's Shanks, right?
Shanks' dream was simply to live out his life on the seas with Buggy.
Both lost their dream the same day they lost Roger. And neither knows why. They never truly understood the other, and neither one ever got over it.
So, one spent his life wondering what went wrong and lements daily on what could have been.
The other can't escape the hurt and anger, and so let's it swallow him whole, which stunts any attempt or desire to grow as a pirate because without other, what is he? And what can he do, really?
Oda is out here giving us so much gay Shuggy angst, I don't even need to read fanfic anymore! I'm screaming, crying, throwing up.
