#textsa

ace’s understanding of his own innocence/youth is so interesting because luffy is A Kid to him in a way he’s never gotten to be but also luffy and him are the same in every regard. father who is reviled/persecuted same neglectful upbringing same violence after a point . ace never got to be a kid the way luffy was and he’s dedicated to protecting luffy’s innocence without ever resolving the cognitive dissonance of his own

thinking about ace and the roger pirates again. do you think he hoped another member of rogers crew was coming for him on dawn. do you think crocus recognized him? rayleigh? did anyone say anything ? did anyone care?

new rayleigh raises ace concept where he gets ace And Luffy. and ace is 11 luffy is 8 and sabo is dead and ace and rayleigh hate each other soo bad and it’s awful

rotating in my brain a fic where post- grey terminal garp gets paranoid about revolutionaries and celestials around goa and cipher pol starts nosing in the area and garp moves them to live with like. rayleigh and shakky temporarily . cue new protective ace + newly traumatized luffy + insane grief vortex reunion

the amount that ace changes after sabo's death is evil to me. like ace becomes good yeah. ace becomes kinder and better because he's taking on his brother as a person. ace becomes More Like Sabo. sabo's ghost haunted ace in that ace took part of sabo on because he thought that's what he had to do to be better and not fail his brothers again. he could have been anyone else if he didnt fill that gap but instead he tattoos sabo into his skin and lives by the philosophy inspired by his death. and yes it does kill him eventually. never stop grief enmeshing !!!!!

single funniest part of op to me is that after everything that happened at enies lobby somehow rob lucci and co swung themselves a promotion. like imagine you blow 5 years undercover you lose nico robin and some 17yo nobody wipes the floor with you. they put crocodile in jail for that shit and rob lucci got his friendgroup pipelined to cp0 HOW .

whitebeard and ace make me so sick like. he didn’t even know he was rogers son he didn’t even care but ace told him anyway. and he STILL didn’t care . because ace is his son and he loves him