#leafless lana

👻 ᴡʜᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ᴄᴀʟʟ? (𝘐 𝘢𝘪𝘯'𝘵 '𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵)

▮ #DTIYS featuring my #onepieceoc Leafless Lana 🍃

Two weeks ago this image of Lana in a bomber jacket with ghost print and sunglasses invaded my mind and so the trend of me putting Lana in clothes that I myself would like to own and wear continues ...

ANYWAY WHO’S READY FOR SOME ROLE REVERSAL AU

(also known as the feeling of an immense amount of #regret at realizing you gave an obscure AU-version of your OC a better design than her canon one)

Design details: The symbol on the side is a Pianta symbol, from Lana’s home island. They’re obsessed with circles, it’s a spiritual thing and also to do with their nature as a fruit plantations island. Since Lana in this didn’t leave her home as a child, she’s much more entrenched in the culture and got the tattoos before she left and as a symbol of her task by her family. 

Role Swap AU

The one where Ace is haunted and a revolutionary, and Lana becomes a pirate, dies and haunts him.

Rouge’s mother takes one look at Garp and says, no. You’re going to fuck him up. The kid stays. But you’re going to visit and keep the Marines in line.

So they stay in contact. When Carmine, Trey and Verte (members of my Portgas Clan, whose family tree you can find on my deviantart but which is spoiler-heavy for the next wwtd chapters so i haven’t uploaded it here yet) join the Revolutionaries a couple years later, this is what happens: They somehow hear Dragon is has a son. A son that he gave to Garp to care for. The Portgas Clan collectively stages an intervention.

So this is how Luffy, instead of being dragged to Dadan following the Shanks-incident, is dropped off in South Blue by a very grouchy Garp who doesn’t understand why he shouldn’t care for kids. He took perfectly good care of Luffy so far. He’s going to visit as often as he can so that they still might become Marines!

Ace now has a little annoying brother-figure, as if his annoying 12 years older cousins weren’t enough basically siblings ... it’s hard being a middle child, but its also never boring, since gran lets everyone run wild and just laughs at and loves her parent-less children.

Ace grows up with his father having been some anonymous guy not worth mentioning and his mother a very loved bigger-than-life figure. He isn’t told about Roger; Garp is violently silenced by his grandmother if he tries. But Pianta isn’t far from Baterilla, and one day gran takes him to visit. He finds and eats a fruit he shouldn’t have. Baterilla is a lot less fun after that, and he finds out what really happened to his mother. His gran sits him down and explains. After grappling with it and a lot of teenage angst and even more screaming at the ghosts, he eventually decides to join the RA.

(Luffy thinks that’s super boring. He’s still going to be Pirate King!)

(Ace will meet Sabo; this Sabo never got out. Instead, he’s a shrewd noble dealing RA information under the table until this position isn’t worth it anymore and he joins the revs for real in a move that shocks the Reverie)

... Ace is very, very good, but so is Cipher Pol — especially when properly motivated. His heritage (or the suspicion of it) is a very strong motivator ...

. . .

Lana doesn’t eat a fruit that isn’t there. But when she’s 17, there’s an incident on Pianta with a visiting world noble. The Marines do absolutely nothing. Pirates end up helping. But her 14yr old sister has disappeared, and Lana sets out to look for her because she’s the only one who can; her brother as the heir remains home.

She takes a few wrong turns and ends up eating a fruit that makes her turn into fire. She’s not pleased at all. She also gets labelled a pirate shortly after some nut-jobs decide to follow her: congratulations, you’re now a pirate captain. She’d like to set them all on fire.

Anyway something terrible happens to her sister and Lana chases rumors all the way to the New World. Even in this world, Lana does not give a shit about world politics, and since Whitebeards closest and seems to have the necessary influence and not completely off his rocker, she directs her ship to his, lands on deck and demands his help. Everyone is kind of like standing there and going … what the fuck.

Whitebeard probably tests her or something. But girl is determined; she’s been looking for her sister for 2 years some old dude and herculean tasks aren’t going to stop her. And if joining his gang is what it takes, fine.

… of course, Teach ends up murdering her when she (accidentally) comes in between him and Thatch.

Teach is an asshole and a big threat that needs to be done in, but most importantly, she still hasn’t found her sister. So she goes to find the ghost-boy that she heard about somewhere.

Unfortunately, she’s lost time gathering her spiritual self, and finds ghost boy has gotten himself captured and is scheduled to be executed as Gold Roger’s son.

This might have started the revolution early, but Lana has no time for this shit. Also the dude can’t die, not on her watch, he still has to find her wayward sister.

This is how Ace gets a new epithet: Fire Fist.

(… Ace now has to abandon whatever he’s doing cuz this ghost gives no shit about his own priorities; but she had a hand in saving his life so he will settle the debt.)

She feels like she can set the world on fire. (She wants to see it all burn, burn down to ashes and reborn – does she?) Her mouth smirks and opens, but it isn’t her who speaks. “Is that all you got?“

Late-WwtD-Lana commission and one of the commissions I got from my friend vvasabipeas over the past year. this one’s easily one of my faves.

SO this thing kinda blew up on Instagram and the OPOC Discord Channel, so of course I had to use the opportunity to procrastinate on my actual work with this;;;; ᕕ( “ᐛ )ᕗ

◾️SOME EXPLANATIONS

— Ace is the first to realize his feelings, way before Lana, but didn’t say anything — in contrast to Lana, who once she finally cottoned in on her feelings, wasted no time.

— Ace is a hothead and temperamental, and Lana is BluntTM and hard to fire up. She tends to sometimes apologize without understanding what the fuss is about just to get a fight over with; while Ace can calm down quickly again but takes a little to forgive and apologize.

— Lana loathes cooking. She can create something edible and even tasty, but cooking is a chore.

— Ace is a fantastic driver, but he drives fast. Lana is in possession of a very well-trained self-preservation instinct and would like to stay in one piece, thanks.

— It is my headcanon that Ace, just like Luffy, has trouble writing. They know how to read, slowly, and can put some words down if they concentrate, but actually writing ... no. And let‘s not get started on orthography.

— Both Ace and Lana are really bad at reading and giving romantic signals. Ace is slightly better.

— Lana has the benefit of sensing the spiritual energy of spirits which also largely means their emotional state. Even without that, Ace is better at reading people.

— How do you marry if one of them is dead ... you don‘t (In an Alive Au, they come to consider themselves “pirate married“)

You might think your time is never ending But a single life is what you're getting And you should get it right, Is what I'm saying But go ahead and try Just a single life You know there won't be a second time (x)