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Will there ever be a time that the Strawhats find out about Luffy's being a Croco baby? You hinted at Robin being aware or at least suspecting but leaving it be because that's just how she is and she understands Luffy in a way no one else does. But curious on the other crew mates reactions.

I find it so funny that Doflamingo in every universe is thirsting for one of Luffy's parental figures, we wants to be their third so bad.

Thank you~

Yes, the Strawhats will find out! Jinbei is the first to find out, before he's actually a Strawhat and Robin would most likely figure it out during her two year stay with the Revolutionary Army. I'm not sure when the others will find out though.

I thought for a long time that Crocodile would want to keep it a secret for as long as possible mostly because I like the little bit of angst for Luffy that he has to keep this secret even though it's hard. Crocodile thought it was necessary to protect Luffy and therefore nobody could know, but after Marineford the world knows he's Dragon's son. Being Crocodile's son too is not going to chance anything.

So I think Luffy has permission to tell his crew, so it's just a question of finding the most random and chaotic moment for him to do so. After Wano, when he learns about Cross Guild might be one option when he has an exaggerated reaction to the sheer audacity of this news article suggesting that Crocodile would serve Buggy when Cross Guild was all Crocodile's idea!!

(I think Ace would also be temporarily on their crew - maybe he'd join by the time Luffy's on the Whole Cake Island rescue mission as he knows they'd be heading on to Wano, so it's possible he'd chat with Luffy about their family while they're travelling.)

Adore the expressions that you give Crocodile and Dragon when they look at their children and each other. It got me thinking about what would their reactions be to the different bounty posters--specifically Luffy's post-Wano. How would they react to Gear 5/Egghead reveal?

Aka the heart of the question is that if you have explored how in a universe like Stinky Child or Mini-mingo and Grumpy; how would they react to the whole Nika of it all?

I think Oda is canonically saving the A LOT of Dragon content surrounding that for more lore/tension reasons. But in a universe where the family do talk regularly, I would imagine that it would be quite a reveal that at least the married couple of the family would want to process together. Not everyday it's dropped that your son is essentially a liberator god.

All of this is to say is that your art really inspires me to think about these characters much more deeply and I admire how you draw them so multi-dimensionally. Thanks for sharing your art, it always makes my day.

Thank you! ♥♥

I'm wondering about how they would react to Gear 5 too. Did they know what the fruit actually was? I assume not (even though Shanks must know and could have warned the, the dick) so when they first saw the wanted poster, with the white form they knew that something was up. Paramecia types don't transform like that (I guess). I don't know if they would immediately realize what kind of fruit it was but both Dragon and Crocodile might know about Nika through Kuma.

(In an AU where Crocodile is Rocks' child, he would know at least some things about Joyboy and Loki would probably have mentioned Nika to him.)

Dragon and Crocodile would of course discuss it and they would be somewhat wary about what it means that their son was a zoan - and not just any kind of zoan but the God of Liberation/Destruction, a sun god. Their sunshine!! And they might be worried about whether Luffy can handle that, because zoans can take over their users.

And then they actually meet Luffy in Gear 5 and he's the most ridiculous he's ever been. I think they'd be relieved because the weight of what the fruit means, of prophecies and expectations and promises do not weigh him down at all. He's just himself. Mostly...

Crocodile, who does get embarrassed/ annoyed when things are too ridiculous might struggle with Gear 5 for a bit X'D But with the latest chapter we've seen how Luffy reacts to being scolded and Crocodile is rather good at scolding X'D