@fourormore bingo 2025: Flowers
AU: Roger fakes his own death, disappears with his lovers, and takes up gardening.
He calls his flower beds his Gardens of Love because theyâre made out of all his loved ones (family and friends and even acquaintances that made a difference for him): he assigns a flower to each of his loved ones and plants it. (Gaban wholeheartedly approves.)
Roger plants asphodels for Rayleigh, peonies for Shakky, and hibiscus for Rouge! â¤ď¸ He has echinacea for himself, but that was a team effort from his partners: Shakky came up with it, Ray went looking for it, and Rouge planted it! đĽ°
Not pictured, but he also plants blue poppies for Buggy and red geraniums for Shanks. Then, after they find out Rouge is pregnant and heâs got a grasp on their babyâs temperament thanks to The Voiceâover which he has cuteness aggressionâhe plants firecrackers for Ace. And when Sabo and Luffy are adoptedâeither Garp pulls an uno reverse card and dumps them into Rogerâs care, or Dragon asks for a favor after the Gray Terminalâthey also get their own: gentians and sunflowers, respectively. â¤ď¸
Roger has such a green thumb, especially because he can communicate with them and find out their needs if he doesnât know them already. The plants absolutely adore him back!
He loves talking to his plants! Roger could yap at them for hours if left unattended. Sometimes, when Ray and Shakky leave for Sabaody, he lets Rouge sleep in so she can recover from a narcoleptic episode, and he will go do just that.
Roger talks about everything and anything, but his and the flowersâ favorite conversation subject is mooning over his partners and kids. The D flowersâthe ones planted specifically for themâpreen when he praises and compares them to his family. â¤ď¸
He loooves organizing picnics in their backyard but heâs shit at cooking. Itâs okay though, all he has to do is bribe Rayleigh with kisses and heâll cook for them (a feat, considering two of them are Dâs and the other two still spend Emperor-levels of stamina, even in âretirementâ).
The very first time Rayleigh goes on an Auction House missionâjust a couple years after Roger goes into hidingâhe cuts his hair and fully shaves as to somewhat disguise himself from the marines. He absolutely hates it, but the other three think heâs absolutely dreamy and give him lots of love on the matter. (This is coincidentally what inspires Shakky to go short!)
Roger is really just living his best life in retirement, loving every moment he spends next to the loves of his life.