Imagine. Your people are calling "Fish"man. Then someone come and say, no Our people have a True name. Fishman is a degenerate name. To make us lesser then them. We are the descendents of a great kingdom. A Kingdom that survives the great flood by the blessings of the god, who gave us gill to breath. Hands to control the sea. And voice to command the sea creature.

People would drink those up.

It'd serve as a legitimate threat to King Neptune's rule as well, mostly due to how stuck in mourning the entire royal family is after Otohime dies AND how they can't seem to handle Vander Decken. Makes them seem incompetent, especially if the Seafarers are providing 'miracles.'

Like the Seafarers don't have to go "step on Queen Otohime's picture, reject everything she did" like the New Fishmen Pirates did for legitimacy because their purpose is not in direct opposition.

What would Murphy be? Professional Sea King handler? Water tamer?

I wonder how her power translate in one piece. Giant limbs materialize from water that she can control? Water Shields? That'll be one hell of a boon.

Who knows!!! With Murphy, and especially Twolu around, maybe in Enis Lobby Arc, the entire thing would sink under the sea!

Must a lady have a role on a crew? Can't she simply...exist?

Murphy's going to have a little bit of a hard time at the start because she does not know how to help running a ship. She's been kept away from that, you see, and she doesn't have undercover experience doing anything along those lines like Vivi does.

So she's probably stumbling, fumbling, as the Strawhats try to teach how to be part of a crew. Actually part of one.

Murphy is accidentally back-up navigator slash helmsperson in that she knows where sea hazards like shoals and whirlpools and other Grand Line crazies to avoid on instinct.

She also can...sort of do some interesting things with Log Poses? Nami hates her.

(No, that's a joke. But there's something that itches at her, seeing a Fishperson navigate the seas so easily in a way that Arlong always mocked her for not being able to do the same, as a human.)

Tulu turned Koala into a fisherman and accidentally started a religion again. Not helped by Miryam now going around.

Actually. With how Vegapunk Reveal that Sea level is going to rise more, their sect could get more popular, even amongst non fishman. For going more beneath the sea then upward the sun. If the whole world is going to be underwater, why not become a sea creature then?

I wasn't considering them connected, but it would be funny for Miryam to follow in right after Tulu's 'miracle' and capitalize off of that. Tulu can never escape her. XD

Still, I think they'll be separate AUs for now.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of when I was considering how the Seafarers would gain a foothold in One Piece. It's actually not too different from what Lemuria was trying originally in Morimens canon, to survive the disaster of the seas.

Hm, less likely? Like he might be able to, but that also goes for would Luffy care to listen into those kinds of conversations if he could? Not really.

Saul might be less confused by that revelation because of Elbaf and its entire history with non-living/moving objects becoming such through Devil Fruits (the entire thing with Ragnir, as the biggest example). Also, the Adam Tree of Elbaf has huge history loaded into it, as a vital part of Elbaf culture and religious beliefs.

If anything, he might be more confused by why the Adam Tree hasn't started wandering around like apparently Ohara's Tree of Knowledge did in Thais's form.

(There's someone else to mourn with him, what was the lost. Who knew those people, in a way Robin didn't as a child at a time, who can remember them with him.)

Robin...it might be childish of her, she knows. But why so late? If the Tree woke up to such power and strength as Thais, why didn't she do that to defend Ohara as they were burning her down?

Thais can't answer that, not in any satisfying way. It's like what happened to her children in the Aramites, only being able to burn down her own tree after Juilette corrupted it.

Like Thias Said, what proof do they have that Ace is Roger's son? For all they know, he could be a child of someone completely unrelated to Roger. Just a mother who was just trying to protect her child. Especially with all the killing of women and children happening.

What proof do they have that they're not just lying about Ace, to justify their war with Whitebeard?

From Ace's own thoughts. If you want to kill me, then kill me for my crime of being a pirate. Roger got nothing to do with him.

True true.

*hums*

But remember, Thais can only do this for Ace, due to the (frankly ridiculous) circumstances that they're claiming his Gold Roger relationship through.

Sure she can devour the whole island like Morimen Mother Tree. But the world doesn't know that!

So it literally just, a defenseless woman, in nothing but mourning clothes, alone, not even on a ship.

This is also an aspect of Charm. Like Hancock who's so beautiful that people don't want to hurt her. Like lust, where people fall and follow your command. A sort of charm of an innocent defenseless, which people want to protect, like a code of chivalry.

Normally, especially in those who believe they fight for Good and Justice, there's an innate resistance to harming an innocent defenseless.

I think this is one of the reasons why she was able to walk unhindered straight in front of the platform?

Again, everyone is very much going "Holy FUCK the BALLS on that woman" with Thais right now.

Thais, who is absolutely not scared of anyone right now, because she IS the strongest present, as the eldritch embodiment of Desire. Seriously. If she's getting hurt on the battlefield, it's HER choice to do so.

Yeah you're not wrong about that. They DID just let her walk up because she was putting out 'you don't WANT to stop me' vibes in the process, along with looking like a completely unarmed woman.

*sighs* I AM writing the next bit for this AU right now, it's just a struggle with the amount of moving pieces in Marineford (which is part of why it's so FUN to read, in canon), and how dumbed down the war tends to be in fanfic.

you got the right person

omg

wait, omg, I think I know where it might be!

geez 2021 i think they are all unfinished... i never posted them tho.

how did you know about them??

i made 2 comics about food

and then Buggy after Shanks left but is unfinished and i have no clue what was going to happen next

and thanks ❤❤❤❤

is old art, i can't believe people still look at my art.