gender-neutral reader x katakuri, whole cake island arc spoilers, tooth-rotting fluff, gets angsty towards the end (bc it’s katakuri)
[part 2: katakuri confessing]
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katakuri’s observation haki is keen enough to know when someone’s lying so it completely baffles him when, to his face, you call him cute.
no bullshit detected.
no one calls him cute (except mama when he was, like, 6). he’d love it and hate it since it’s at odds with his perfect image.
outwardly, he’s stone-faced as always but his ears are pink enough to match big mom’s dresses. he’s all too aware of it and, even if there's no one tall enough to see it, he bunches up his shoulders to move his scarf fluff to cover his ears more.
he’d just silently leave while everyone berates you for saying something so thoughtless and stupid. he can’t stop thinking about what you said and stresses out about what he did wrong to make you think that. he tries to convince himself he only hates it. nothing else.
at first, he thinks this might be some elaborate plot of yours to humiliate him and ruin the charlotte family. the thought enrages him enough to consider killing you. maybe what he saw with his haki was a fluke.
you’re bold, he’ll give you that. or just plain stupid.
for the sake of the charlotte family, katakuri decides he needs to figure out your intentions.
but he’s still confused as ever after encountering you several more times. the way you treat him is… odd. you show him due respect as big mom’s right-hand man yet you don’t put him on a pedestal like so many others do. in fact, you keep insisting that he’s cute to his face and seem to delight in teasing him.
he’s used to being admired and swooned over from a distance but he’s never been met head-on with flirting as shameless and sincere as yours. even with his future sight, he’s not prepared for the menace that is you because all his future sight does is preemptively fluster him before you actually do anything.
he still hasn’t recovered from when you told him that he has pretty eyes. you even gave him flowers the color of his eyes, saying that they made you think of him. he keeps them in his office and, when they start to wilt, asks mama to turn them into homies. you’re delighted by his flowery little secretaries.
ever since katakuri swore to no longer show any weakness, he’s also shunned romance. the cold, perfect persona he has carefully cultivated has no use for it. furthermore, he’s seen what marriage does to people and he had no interest in carrying that extra stress.
having had little to no romantic experience, he’s never been kissed on the lips. sometimes a part of him wished he had, just so he’d stop wondering what it’s like. now all those wonderings come back in full force when he looks at you. he likes to pretend for a moment that you’d actually accept his scars and fangs but he knows better. all your little comments and teasing would come to a stop.
you’d stop calling him cute. only disgusting. he didn’t realize how much he dreaded the idea of you calling him that.
he then realizes he might be a little bit in love with you.
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cp9!reader x lucci would be so funny bc what if you're away on some mission during the enies lobby arc and you're so ready to get the mission over with because it's been years since you last saw lucci and when you come back it's just
this is part 2 to flustering katakuri headcanon post. this might get a part 3 with "dating katakuri" as the premise.
mild hurt/comfort, whole cake island arc spoilers
katakuri’s love epiphany doesn’t push him into pursuing you. instead, he avoids you like the plague, finding his feelings shameful and as another flaw to hide.
you’re a distraction, a chink in the perfect armor he has so carefully crafted over decades. you were dangerous in ways he could never have anticipated. he pretends not to see the clear hurt in your eyes. sometimes he wishes his observation haki wasn’t so keen, the pain in your heart is palpable.
katakuri tells himself it’s for the best. for you, for him, for the family. you’d find someone worthy of you and katakuri… katakuri would continue like he always he had before you.
but seeing less of you doesn’t turn out to be the cure that katakuri hoped for.
his heart would race whenever he caught a glimpse of you from the corner of his eye and just hearing your name would send a pang of longing through him. even during his meriendas he finds himself gently singing your name.
absence makes the heart grow fonder felt more like a curse than a saying.
despite his resolve to excise you from his heart, the flowers you gave him are still in his office. he tells himself it’s because they were useful homies that gave him one less thing to worry about by keeping his office tidy. but, really, it’s just katakuri letting this be the smallest piece of you that he’ll let himself have.
until a certain strawhat comes along.
getting punched in the face by luffy also comes with certain revelations. katakuri lets himself be selfish in a way he hasn’t in a long, long time. he doesn’t want to run from his feelings anymore. he can’t bring himself to reveal his mouth to you just yet but he can at least come clean about his feelings. katakuri will accept the consequences, whatever they are.
when katakuri confesses to you and explains why he had avoided you, he braces himself for rejection. he’s always prepared for the worst. but it’s always the unthinkable that catches him off guard.
you accept his feelings.
katakuri’s mind reels with all the possibilities. even with his future sight, there is only one question on his mind. something that fills him with excitement and anxiety.
implied sex, spoilers for the sabaody arc, gender-neutral reader x mihawk (pre-relationship then established), pastel goth family shenanigans
if you liked reading this, thank @sordidmusings she motivated me to look through my files and, lo and behold, i remembered this existed.
zoro would be oblivious to the romantic tension between you and mihawk because he just doesn't care. all he'd pick up on is that there's a bond between you two. mihawk treats you differently in some vague way zoro can't put into words.
so he firmly categorizes you two as friends, missing the blatant signs even after the two of you start dating. bro would wonder why some of the rooms smell a bit weird after coming back from a forced shopping trip with perona. he'd find torn bits of clothing and thinks a fight took place (did the humandrills somehow get inside?).
zoro would unknowingly cockblock the two of you the whole time then wonder why mihawk seems strangely pissed during training. he gets stabbed and wonders why it feels so personal this time.
it finally clicks together that you and mihawk are romantically involved when he walks in on you and mihawk kissing. he's never slammed a door closed faster in his life. now he can't unsee all the small signs.
seeing affectionate couples in public has never made him feel anything before but for some reason seeing you and mihawk like that makes him feel awkward. he has to look away and pretends nothing's happening when mihawk does something as simple as kissing your hand or softly smiling at you. perona bullies him for it, calling him a toddler.
perona, on the other hand, immediately clocks the romantic tension and, to your face, bluntly questions your taste in men.
she thinks it's stupid how neither of you have confessed to each other and expects mihawk to fumble you with how much of a hardass he is. the imminent heartbreak and drama would be fun to watch, she thinks. but then she gets attached. seeing either of you sad is kind of upsetting actually.
wanting to see you happy, she takes zoro out on shopping trips. he gets to be her packing mule, perona gets to buy all cute things she wants, and you two get some alone time! it's a win-win!
she kinda starts to regret it though when she picks up signs of your active sex life. if there's brain bleach she'd like 20 liters, thanks. she's very vocal about better clean-ups but has no retort when mihawk dryly replies perona didn't even give a heads up for when they'd be back. perona becomes very diligent about this.
for all her complaining, she's genuinely happy for you guys. and a small part of her might be internally going "awwww" at how sweet you are to each other.
inspired by this mihawk’s section in this jealousy headcanon post by @sordidmusings. if you want mihawk being jealous in a pre-relationship scenario, then i recommend reading it!
pre-relationship, i feel like mihawk would get easily jealous and be far more petty but once there’s an established relationship, he’d be much more relaxed and secure.
if someone he considers far beneath you tries to flirt with you (ex: lying cowards, scammers, serial cheater, etc), he’s not jealous so much as protective and genuinely offended on your behalf. how dare that person think to take advantage of you. (rest in piss to buggy if he ever flirted with you)
but if the person is sincere, caring, and compatible with you, warm and friendly in all the ways mihawk isn’t, he’d feel threatened and get jealous. getting him to admit that he’s jealous would be like pulling teeth despite it being blatantly obvious to you that he is. he’d insist he doesn’t like that person because of some character flaw or quirk they have. it’s not because he’s jealous.
it’s a combination of trust issues, wondering if he’s enough, and guilt for doubting you. it’s stuff he wouldn’t admit even under pain of death.
but he does anyway. because it’s you, and only you.
and it helps him far more than he’d like to admit when you insist that you don’t want anyone else that it’s him, and only him. it surprises him how much more bearable his jealousy becomes. he once thought talking about feelings was a futile endeavor. he didn’t think he’d experience the warmth and love in it ever again.
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aka what if i made a stinky bastard man suffer bc of love
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crocodile x gender-neutral reader, heavy angst, crocodile being emotionally constipated 🚩🚩🚩, open ending
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getting into a committed relationship with this man and winning his trust is an arduous process. but once you have him, you have him.
so, what would crocodile do to save you?
crocodile is the type to make a deal with the devil for your sake. being the few that have won his trust, the possibility of you dying is unnacceptable. he’d go mad with desperation to save you.
crocodile is known to work with cold-blooded and brutal efficiency. it’s different with you. with you, it’s erratic brutality fueled by desperation. the civil war he brought to alabasta would look like child’s play when your life is at stake.
he’d be selfish enough to sacrifice your loved ones so you’d live instead. you could hate him for it all you want but even if time turned back he’d still make the same choice.
knowing the consequences in his head and seeing it play out in front of him is something else entirely. he wasn’t prepared for the full force of your grief.
a part of him can’t help but feel bitter it’s better than guilt that this is what he gets for saving you. don’t you realize what you do to him? he’s become a wreck at even the thought of losing you.
rather than express any of this to you, crocodile seems like he’s only upset that you have the gall to question him. he doesn’t have the emotional intelligence to apologize and explain that it wasn’t a decision he made lightly. he can’t put it into words because that would mean sitting with his own fear and anxiety long enough to do so.
putting you under lock-and-key is as much about your safety as it is about making sure you don’t leave him. there’ll be enough time for you to eventually forgive him. even if it might be a pipe dream, the thought of you alive and hating him is far more tolerable than you dead.
it’s a question of whether he’ll eventually realize his mistake in caging you. it would mean actively trying to earn your forgiveness rather than futilely attempting to bury the past through hollow gestures. it would mean accepting the possibility of you never seeing him again and that you’re well within your rights to do so.
it’d be a terrifying gamble for him to take and one he doesn’t know if he’d be prepared to take. would he able to set aside his pride just for the chance of you back in his arms, willingly and wholly?
i see shanks as the type that accidentally seduces people everywhere he goes. he's so sincere and good-natured that people falling for him is a common occurrence. there's been many incidents where he's unknowingly lead someone on when he was just being nice.
he has such a magnetic personality that he's never really had to make a conscious effort to woo someone when he's in a carnal mood (which doesn't happen as often as rumors say). people simply come to him instead.
if shanks is head over heels for someone, i see him being a bit more clumsy and trying too hard and it quickly devolves into him teasing you like a lovesick schoolboy. unlike a schoolboy though, shanks is all too willing to show that he thinks the world of you. one minute he's messing with you, the next he's looking you like he's the most beautiful person he's ever seen and straight up tells you that without a hint of embarrassment
i have conflicting opinions on how easily mihawk would get jealous in an established relationship.
on one hand, it makes sense for him to not give a shit because he's just that confident in himself and that no one else can compare.
on the other hand, it also makes sense that he'd get easily annoyed and jealous if someone tried to hit on his s/o because he simply does not like people or trust them.
now that i think about it both things can be true to an extent 🤔
