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@loopyarts gave me permission to post these lil Acechiji he has gifted me so I can show them off uwu

i mean just LOOK at the

They're absolutely adorable and I'm winning at life

Here the last bunch

again, a kiss for @loopyarts ' brilliant mind (and his wonderfully cozy art, which you'll find down below).

When Ichiji was born along with his brothers, he seems fine and healthy, it wasn’t until he got older, around 3 years old, that he had a coughing fit and collapsed in the middle of the school playground and was rushed to the hospital where his father found that the golden child, his favourite son, had inherited his mother sickly and weaker health. Despite this Ichiji always works harder than most and he's very mature for his age despite not talking much, the reason he works so hard is due to wanting to prove he's not weak and can look after himself and not be pittyed.

Ichiji isn't necessarily a full blow shy kid, he's mostly a quiet bold introvert lad (Ichiji is only shy when it comes to romance and even then he does his damnest to hide that fact) despite being sickly, he doesn’t like to be treated like he’s made of glass, causing him to be rather moody and stand-offish towards anyone that does.

So even when he is told to stay in bed for the day, he sneaks out and goes exploring on his own for a good bit. To where he encounters the rowdy Ace in the fields brushing his mother’s horse and they become rivals, Ace challenges Ichiji to a race to see who the fastest.

Sometimes Ace wins and sometimes Ichiji does but they never seem to truly one up each other, however, since Ichiji didn’t tell Ace he was sickly that lead to the event of his having a coughing fit and fainting. Ace was a shaken by the whole event causing him to be more careful around Ichiji and making sure he’s okay. This upsets Ichiji greatly causing them to have a fight and not speak to each other for a good while. Ichiji feels awful but he's used to it, he always preferred to be alone anyway, despite saying that, he cried because he knew damn well it was all his fault.

Ace does or says something and still, Ichiji is the one who starts their "fights" at least half the times, especially with how he's being treated because of his illness, which he hides from Ace until well, the incident happens.

Ace was a little shaken by the whole event causing him to be more careful around Ichiji and making sure he’s okay. This upset Ichiji greatly causing them to having a fight and not speak to each other for a good while. Ichiji feels awful but he was used to it, he always preferred to be alone anyway, despite saying that he cried because he knew damn well it was all his fault.

He almost cries when goes to talk to Ace about their fight, Ace is the first to apologise (he talked with Makino about this, and she helped him see what exactly might have caused it, and well, Ace is one year older so he has to be the mature one) but then Ichiji would tries to rebut him saying it’s his fault that the fight started in the first place and that he should be the one apologising for even happening. He starts to have a breakdown with angry tears and stomping his feet about while Ace tries to calm him down telling him to take deep breaths and count to ten as a way to help Ichiji relax a little bit. Also he’s worried that Ichiji might go into another coughing fit again if he doesn’t calm down.

After the incident, Ace started investigating a bit about the illness (he probably asks the doctors around and looks it up in books), to be better prepared and care for Ichiji as he should (as the older one, you know). He kept doing that after Ichiji left (because they made a promise as children to meet again as adults and Ace wanted to be completely prepared for that even trough there was the chance he might not see Ichiji again), not obsessively ofc, and good thing he did because Ichiji is back in his life and more obstinate than ever (he wants to do hard manual labor now apparently? No one wants to let him, which is probably why he wants to do that in the first place, Ace steps in to guide him and let him do the thing, together, Law is tired and concedes, Ace knows what he's doing and is keeping an eye on Ichiji, and Ichiji seems to listen to him so he won't be overworking himself to an early grave).

Ace is surprised by short skinny little Ichiji growing to be an absolute hotty and muscular man with dyed red hair and a tattoo. Not that he’s complaining through he he. >:3c

Ace is kind of: not even close to what I was expecting but I think I like this more Insert the meme of the dude cleaning his sweat

Ace knows Ichiji better than others and what he knows is that you can’t tell Ichiji what to do and that he is as stupid as a mule, if he says he's going to do something he will and that’s that. Yup, that his Ichiji, even though he matured quite a lot, he's still the same headstrong, adventurous, bold and hotheaded kid that he knew years ago and that would rather work himself to early grave than admit he needs help and be seen as fragile or weak.

Indeed Ace keeps an eye on his stubborn redhead and is happy that Ichiji trusts and listens to him, at first he gave him the same standoffish attitude that he did when they first met as kids. But that quickly melts away within hours and Ace helps, yet again, to make sure he doesn’t overwork himself.

When Ace finds Ichiji carrying heavy stuff around, now as adults, his first instinct when seeing the red and sweaty face is to step in and help, but he knows that Ichiji would react negatively to this, so he just approaches, as casual as ever, and asks "are you sure you should be doing that?"

Ichiji stops and turns to him, already frowning "what? You have something to say about it?"

Ace shrugs "Nah, don't want a repeat of that little argument, I don't know if I could handle you crying yourself till you black out because you weren't the first to apologise again"

Ichiji turns even redder "that wouldn't happen, that won't happen, first of, I wouldn't cry, secondly, I would beat you to apologising, and third, I will punch you"

Ace can't help but laugh.

On one evening, Ace thought it'd be fun to teach Ichiji how to ride a horse, it took a few months for Ichiji to get the hang of it but as soon he was confident enough Ace thought it'd be a nice idea to take the horses on a ride together. X3c boys be racing those horses in the field together laughing and in pure joy. Note, note Ace be reminiscing about how in this very field was when they meet as kids and they first race together. Also, Ace takes a hands on approach to teaching Ichiji everything, especially riding horses (poor Ichiji is going to explode from embarrassment).

Ichiji's brothers and older sister are very overprotective of him as a child, especially Niji (he is a mother hen to his core, that's why he's also Ace's biggest obstacle in dating Ichiji) who is glued to him and sometimes Sanji because he worries about Ichiji randomly fainting.

Niji is kinda traumatised due to being the first one to see Ichiji collapse on the background because they were playing together and Niji was freaking out because, at first, Ichiji wasn’t breathing and his temperature went up like crazy. Poor little Niji watched as Ichiji was carried away before he was escorted back to his other brothers who seem just as confused and worried.

Even through Niji is technically the younger brother to Ichiji, he sometimes plays big brother to him, especially when he's being a prideful stubborn ass. Niji also does this to the other brothers as well, especially Sanji who seems to be always criticised by their father for being weak and "why couldn’t he be more like Ichiji" who despite being sickly was strong.

Once Niji gets there Ace is gonna have a HARD time (thankfully Zosan were there before Niji and Zoro gets to tell him about the nightmare that is getting Niji's approval to date his siblings). When Niji gets there he's like a Victorian mama bear protecting her wide eyed innocent daughter from the bad boy playboy. But Ace has been and keeps taking care of Ichiji and Ichiji keeps listening to him, so he'll concede to him easier than he did Zoro. Though Ace does have a much easier time probably due to him already taking care of Ichiji and because Ichiji listens to him. Bust also, Niji knew him from his childhood, so he backs off way earlier then he did for Zoro with Sanji, because Zoro was complete stranger to him. Also he thinks Sanji has bad taste in men ha ha.

They all think Sanji has bad taste in men.

Sanji might later argue that Ichiji's taste isn't so far off of his own, but the others think that Ace is a better option than Zoro (even Zeff and Reiju).

Cue for moody eggplant planting mushrooms in his emo corner. (Sorry Sanji but Ace is definitely the better man ha ha. XD Ichiji scored big time that’s for sure. Poor Sanji getting bullied by all his siblings and his uncle for his choice in men.).

They all definitely had a phase XD ( at the first given opportunity, I mean, the moment Judge died Ichiji ran to dye his hair and get a tattoo). The minute that man died is when all his kids dyed their hair and his eldest got tattoos and they ended up having their emo/rebel teen phase as young adults.

At least Zeff let his newly adopted five eggplants have their moment to get it out of their system. The kids with Zeff: is this???? Parental love?????

They were, understandably, very unstable after the whole "being raised by Judge" deal, so there were a lot of fights and a lot of learning on both sides. Thankfully, Zeff is a good man and loves those kids to bits and in turn they adore him.

But back to the main boys.

When Ichiji first met Ace's mum, he was rather shy around her and was bit uncomfortable due to the fact that he didn’t know his own mother very well due her dying when he was about five years old.

Ace's mother would make cute little remarks about the two of them and how they reminded her of how she and Ace's dad used to be as youngsters. She even jokes about how compatible they were (almost as if they were made for each other) which they boys get all flustered and say "no we're not", we just best friends that all, she laughs and explains that she was only teasing them (she loves joking around about them ending up together when they grow up and being childhood sweethearts, she's an even bigger romantic than Sanji).

She also helped Ace and Ichiji make their friendship bracelets together and teach them how to do it right.

She died before Judge did, so the kids were unable to go to the funeral, it has been eating at Ichiji's heart since but he's not sure how to bring the topic with Ace now as adults, till her anniversary comes and Ace invites him and Ichiji gets to cry at her grave. Later, when they're together, they'll be back to visit her and they'll be like "you were right" as they're holding hands and leaving new flowers. Also.

Baby Ace pushing baby Ichiji on a swing on an a tree, one that the kids made together in the woods to play on. In the future Ichiji cheekily pushes Ace on the old swing for fun, who he has convinced to get on the old swing despite the other pointing out that it’s old and they're are full grown adults that might break it due to their weight. The swing definitely breaks and sends Ace to the floor, they're laughing their asses off.

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