#vegapunk x reader

Part 1

Big announcements about you were typically about things like new expensive figures

A new pop up event

Or even the release of your new version software

However as of usual vegapunk has been quiet

Simply saying that a big announcement was to come soon

No one knew what that meant but many fans were ecstatic at the possibilities

Speaking of fans, why don’t we take a look at a few mores of yours

King/Alber: the rather die than ever admit it fan

King would literally rather die than admit he’s your fan for various reasons

For one it goes against his entire purpose of being Kaido’s right hand

As a all-star he’s supposed to be a an unbreakable pillar of strength

He’s not supposed to show weakness

Let alone for something frivolous as you are

But his other reservation resides with your creator Vegapunk

King remembers him very well in his days on pink hazard strapped down to a table

Whilst vegapunk was the least abhorrent of the scientists who experimented on him (that laid with judge and Ceasar) he still was compliant with it

So it’s safe to say he has…complicated feelings towards the man

Feelings that make him want to burn egghead to the ground once he has the chance

But then there was you

The one thing he slightly allowed himself to enjoy in his long and very depressing life but would never admit to

Made by a man he hated with all his heart

Because Bad people can still create good things in the world

And to him your a prime example of that

He became a fan by complete utter accident

It started as like with many, a song

Queen in his infinite “wisdom” had seen your popularity and had decided he’d tried to capitalize off of it

Right after cursing vegapunk once more as he usually did

But anyways, he was trying to make his own rip off version of you to try and capitalize on

But to do that he had to analyze your system to try and make his own version

So he had bought your system, various songs using you by various artists and then tried to replicate it

Quite frankly king saw it as a waste of berry, but so long as it was shortening queens budget that month he didn’t really care

At least till he heard a song that made him pause

For years he’d had to listen to queens…”music” alongside traditional wano songs

And though he didn’t mind wano’s songs, they’d gotten a bit old after a decade

But more importantly the songs in wano couldn’t relate to him

They were all orochi approved folk songs or ass kissing ballads about the shogun

It was nothing that ever personally related to king and his struggles

Songs of grief of a loved one could not comprehend what it was like to loosing one’s entire race

But perhaps unsurprisingly Law’s song about the governments mass slaughter of innocent people had connected with him

This was finally something that had connected to him

Made him feel less alone as he did in the world about being wronged by the government

Because for as much as he appreciated Kaido and the place he’d carved out for himself in the beast pirates

King was still alone

Alber was still alone and carrying the weight of his existence

The slaughter of his people

The isolation of the fact he was likely the last of his kind

But for once through a song he didn’t feel as lonely

….he steals the cd’s and your software from queen so he doesn’t ruin it with his money grubbing

It gets blamed on a random beast pirate grunt

King doesn’t find himself caring much so long as he had of you what he could

From that song onwards he began to get more into you despite his reservations

He listens to other songs, finds ones that relate to him (cough more songs made by law cough) as well as a few that just sound good

And he also makes his own

With your software he makes songs of his own that he keeps to himself

Small melodies that he remembers from his people

Broken songs he can’t remember the lyrics to and used to sing alone, yet now can sing in a synthetic duet

It makes him less alone even if he can’t remember the proper lyrics

The two of you can just sing the melody instead which is enough for him

But beyond that he grows a liking to your beyond just that

For as much as he hates to admit it he thinks your design is cute

There’s just something appealing to it and he can’t quite place why

He honestly feels a bit ashamed of himself

Here he is, all star and right hand of Kaido….finding the design of a voice synthesizer cute and wanting merch of you

God he’s pathetic-

He especially likes the few fan designs and figures of you with wings

For the figures he paints the wings black

…..you can guess why

Anyways, he secretly steals merch while the beast pirates raid other ships or islands

No one’s gonna question why king has a sack of what they assume to be treasure even if they’d never really seen him interested in treasure

And if anyone does they get flambéed

As does anyone who sees him raid your pop up store on one island and try and tries to vocalize this fact to others

His residence that’s bare bones empty of furniture and anything but bare necessities has a secret room that’s full of merch of you

Its the one room he has that has actual decorations and it’s just of you

Yamato is the only one who knows of it because both he and the oni prince once ran into each other when they were both sneaking away with merch from a recent shipment that someone (King acting as Queen by using the scientists budget on you) placed

Neither of them talk about it mostly because how awkward it was as they both had shipments of merch in either arms

For as much as he hates vegapunk and what he perceives as weakness he can’t help but like you as a guilty pleasure to his hollow loneliness

Katakuri: producer who uses you to express his inner feelings

It’s perhaps an understatement to say that katakuri has a lot of pent up emotions that he cannot express aloud

He’s stressed to the max being the minister of flour

Has to consistently be the perfect big brother

He has to plan escape methods incase mama’s anger flares and eating madness

And with all that he has to keep his imperfections secret because he can’t be imperfect

At least to everyone but Brûlée

She was the only one, his only sibling who saw past all his barriers and could see everything he’d pent up

His anger, his sadness and more importantly his frustrations

So one day as he was enjoying his one pastime of eating donuts she gave him a gift

She give him your software

While it wouldn’t completely erase his frustrations, she thought that maybe he needed something to vocalize what he could never say aloud

And as per usual she was right

He writes some amazing songs

One of which is about feeling empty like having a hole in your body of which he equates to a donut hole

Yeah he maybe got a bit personal with that one

But the way he writes songs surpassingly captivate a lot of people

It’s utterly raw in how he vocalizes his feelings through you

The crippling weight of expectation on his shoulders that your voice screams out

An anger towards a mother that you sing

A longing for something more that he wishes to have but can’t attain that you describe for others

It’s honestly really cathartic to him

Finally getting it out there anonymously because if he admitted it aloud mama would have his head

And the perception of him as the perfect big brother would crumble alongside the security that provided for him despite its hardships

So he writes and you sing

And slowly but surely he gains a fanbase around his songs

He knew they had become popular

But he only begins to understand its scale when he one day hears smoothie sing it

He full Body pauses and has to mentally reboot when he hears her humming along to the song he wrote about the emptiness in his life

Knowing full well she had no idea it was him

And it grows from there as he has more instances of others in totto land sing, hum and play the song on the radio

Each time he finds himself slightly frazzled that people actually listen to his music

Let alone like it

But somehow they do

And through you he both brings enjoyment to others as well as his own emotional release

A two for one deal

He doesn’t really like listening to his own music after initially releasing it, he nitpicks certain things if left with it too long

But he does enjoy other songs made with you

He particularly enjoys things from Mosa (Shirahoshi)

He enjoys the more hopeful and upbeat songs to contrast his more bleaker music

He particularly enjoys her songs “pop drop candies” and “chuu chuu dreaming” for their sweets theme

However when it comes to figures of you he’s rather scarce due to being afraid of spying eyes

But He has one singular figure you

He only allowed himself that since it was a figure with you and donuts

Brûlée helped him secretly attain it when whole cake island was having an exclusive sweets themed pop up store event for you

However, when he has his donuts in his mochi forts he also makes little mochi versions of you for fun

(A mochi version of himself sits beside you sharing donuts happily. The mouth he abhors pulled into a smile)

He knows various of his siblings are also fans of you but he’d rather keep this to himself

Because he barely gets to keep certain things for his own enjoyment

Though, if his sibling talk about you he does engage a bit

He makes it seem like he knows stuff in passing

Enough to get by but not enough for them to clue in that he’s also a fan and a very well know producer

He doesn’t have a lot of reprieve in his life but you and his donuts are for now enough for him to scrape by

Killer: the ‘it clashes with his entire persona but he doesn’t care’ fan

Killer found a bootleg figure of you in a scrapyard

Kutsukku didn’t have much in the way of your merch since you’d only just gotten your design at the time

But all the same bootlegs had already begun to make their way on the market of the few figures that were out

And one just so happened into killers hands after fist fighting Kid, wire and heat for it (ah the days they were enemies and not friends)

All of them had spotted and wanted you

But it was killer who won out in the end and got to keep you in the shabby place he called a home

Your paint job was wonky as was your eye (it was off centre)

But in all honesty you were the most precious thing killer had owned

He had no idea what your name was or what you were even from

And in all honesty it didn’t really matter to him

You just stuck out to him as something cute

And he liked that and was unashamed of it

A sentiment he carries years later as he, kid, wire and heat banded together as a collective and now sailed the seas

And now with your figure in a sort of joint custody

Because the other 3 were just as enamoured with your wonky plastic form as he was

Though they were much more subtle than he’d been

Trying to dance around the topic of getting a look at your figuring until killer just placed it down In front of them without an inch of shame

It’s by raiding islands and stocking up on supplies for the Victoria does he (and the others) learn just what you are

A voice synthesizer

A virtual idol

And now extremely popular compared to those junkyard days when you were still slightly niche

But now you a sensation

One that he and the others become also enamoured by somehow

While kid, wire and heat act more nonchalant about their interest in you (even if their all equally as obsessed as killer)

Killer on the meanwhile has no qualms in being very vocal of that interest

It’s no secret he’s a fan

He’s basically unashamed of it

This man will nonchalantly be covered in blood and carrying the new scale figure of you they just released like it’s nothing

It’s a bit jarring To literally everyone but the kid pirates

They not be vocalizing it at the moment but when they pull away from port they throw a party and add your new figure to the shelf of them

The wonky bootleg one is on that shelf as well

It stands proud and lacking dust because Killer routinely makes sure their all in good condition

If the ship goes through a storm his priority as first mate as mandated by kid is to place the figure away to make sure they don’t get damaged-

Killer and the rest of the crew enjoy the darker and rock related tunes people make with you

Their all metal heads and punks respectively

They play your music when they’re about to raid places to get pumped

(None of them know half the music they listen to is from law)

But on a more personal note killer also enjoys a more diverse range of songs including the more cheerier tunes

He listens to them when he’s cooking for the crew

And when he’s working out

And when he’s cleaning your communal figures and his personal merch

And- you get the point

Speaking of his personal merch he has a shit ton of buttons, standees and the chibi pose-able figures called nedroids or whether

He has them set up on a tiny version of the Victoria punk that kid made from scrap metal.

He’s completely unbothered and unashamed of what he likes compared to the rest of the crew

Nami: the accidental fan

Nami had only ever seen you in passing things of fancy back when she was still technically apart of Arlongs crew

She’d seen merch every now and then

But she’d never had the chance to really look at it till arlong park came crashing down and the burden on her back was cleared

It was then that she noticed the figures that Sanji owned

The ratty falling apart but sewn back together plush luffy had

The drawings Ussop made as little doodles in his letters to Kaya

And the keychain zoro hid

It was then she noticed and then that she began to gain a small interest

Fleeting at first since she mainly just wanted to understand what the hype around you was

And so at loguetown she went to a store selling your things

And she found a figurine she actually thought was cute

It was you sitting on an orange parfait with a cute summery vibe

She caved and thought that it would be the end of the interest as she placed your figurine on her cartography table

But at the next port she found herself checking out little keychains of you alongside some pens

And browsing the cd’s of your music that caught her eye cause she heard some songs playing over a radio

Then she was finding cute tank tops with your design on them that were added to her closet

Then whoops, she started talking to the others about you particularly a limited edition figure dropping at an island they were gonna stop at

Hell, eventually when they meet Vivi she got the princess into your fanbase as well

She isn’t sure how it got so bad but suddenly besides money, oranges and maps she’d found another thing she’d whack someone over the head for if they touched it

Which has happened many times now cause Luffy wanted to play with your figures

She sometimes slams her head against her table because she can see the amount of berry she’s spent on you

Yet at the time as she looks at the figurines, clothes and Knick knacks she can’t help but feel warm and fuzzy

Because she gets to enjoy things now

She gets to buy frivolous things that have no real purpose but to make her happy

And she wonders if Bell-mere would have been happy for her

When it comes to your merch Nami is picky as hell

Certain designs appeal to her, specifically fun summer based figurines that are bright and dynamic

She hates the figure that have you on a blank base if you have a fun design

It’s a waste in her opinion, alongside a waste of berry if she paying premium for your figure and they don’t utilize all parts including the base

But anyways, she’s picky in other ways too

She combs over things various times to make sure their up to par and there’s no sloppy paint jobs

She’s not wasting money on you if people messed up on your design cause they were sloppy

It’s a disrespect to her and honestly you

Same goes for things key keychains

She isn’t buying them unless their up to her standards

Shop owners sweat when she brings out a diamond appraisal magnifying glass to do a quality check

Due to this though she’s become a pro at spotting bootlegs of even the highest quality

The tiniest details don’t pass her

When the crew gets new merch they run it by her first to make sure it’s the real deal now

When it comes to fan merch however she’s much more lenient cause she understands fans work on a different platform than official content

She likes buying Summer and spring themed merch since they usually have a tropical vibe that them

Bonus points if they have fruits incorporated and especially oranges

If they do, their immediately added to her shopping cart

Because her and the crew are such big fans she’s had to account for a you budget in their shopping

Particularly crewmates only get a certain amount of money they can spend on your merch at each port unless it’s something really nice that she quality checks first

Luffy had ignored this various times cause he thought a very expensive figure of you dressed us as gold Rodger was a good buy

It was but god did their wallet cry after that

But…she’d be a hypocrite if she said she hasn’t done the same once or twice

Listen, The Amazon lily figure that was only sold at certain ports was worth it

Even if Nami became a fan by complete accident doesn’t make her love of you less or more real

You let her enjoy things she once couldn’t have due to circumstance and money

And if buying figure of you makes her happy then she’s all the proud of herself for being at a place in her life that she can now do this without worry

Boa: the “protecting you from degenerate fans” fan

Boa as the empress of the Amazon lily had a certain persona she feels she needs to maintain

As empress she can’t be weak

As empress she can’t be merciful

And as a woman who’s seen and experienced horrors beyond comprehension she needs to protect her people from what she’s been through

So she becomes cold hearted

She kicks a puppy out of her way even if her heart cracks at her own actions

And she turns an eye at frivolities like yourself

At least before she begins to see your popularity

She couldn’t give much care for you before because she didn’t have an excuse that aligned with her persona to excuse her interest in you

At least until the warlord meeting

It was supposed to be a standard meeting, nothing out of the ordinary

It could’ve been a den-den call or a letter, but they persisted it was a meeting and she had to comply

But anyways the meeting was going alright

But then Doflamingo barges In and did a god damn unboxing of your figurine during the meeting

Apparently he was bored, and he wanted to show off the limited edition figurine he’d gotten

He had the biggest shit eating grin when Mihawk was scowling and crocodile was burning through cigars like they were fresh air

But while that happened Bow couldn’t help but do two things

Notice how you and your figures were actually pretty cute

And She couldn’t help but shiver because she can’t help but imagine what a degenerate like him would be collecting your figures for

After the meeting was done she had her attendants buy out your figures from various stores

Her excuse is that it’s to save you from those dirty disgusting men

Said attendants praise her for her depriving them of your merch

But then when she’s back at the palace and has these various boxes sitting around she unboxes them herself

And places them on a shelf in her bedroom because it would’ve been a waste of berry to throw them away

….and maybe looks over your figures and finds herself thinking your design is super cute

And then at yet another warlord meeting more people are sent out to buy more figures

And it goes on from there

Yeah, she found an excuse to buy your figures

She keeps telling herself it’s to save you from men (which it partially is)

But she also has to admit later on when she has a dedicated room in the palace just for her collection that maybe it’s also for herself

Her sisters are happy for her though

Marigold might tease her a bit but Sandersonia delights in her collection

Because now she has the excuse to buy figures as well

Yeah turns out her younger sister was also a fan but wasn’t sure how to bring it up

So now you’ve turned into a point of connection for them

Of which eventually marigold gets in on cause she finds some of your music and throughly enjoys it

And suddenly those attendants going out to buy figures is basically told to buy out entire stores of all they have

Both to deprive men and add to the boa sisters collections

Hancock herself enjoys the cute figures of you in everyday life

Stuff like you baking, going shopping and singing

It lets her live through you a bit considering she had all those experiences ripped away from her at an early age

In a rather sad way she likes to picture life through your figure had she and her sister not been captured

She imagines baking with you and being carefree

Being a girl and enjoying life with a friend like you

With figures she doesn’t particularly care about or has duplicates of she disperses it to Amazon lily residents

She does it under the excuse of having no need for it

But she’s strategic with who she gives it to

She knows who likes your figure through listening when she thinks no one is listening

Marguerite gets an extra of a figure she’d once mentioned seeing in the empresses hold and likening

It’s may thrown at her to keep appearance but nether the less she gets the figure she wants

The same goes for others

They get figures they wanted thrown to them with a huff and a roll of her eyes

But secretly Boa is happy to make her residents happy as well through you

While that happens she then starts permitting your music through the lily

She has to hold down a smile when she hears her guards singing with you

And when no one is listening she hums along as well

Eventually because she wants a figure of you based on the Amazon lily and its culture she allows for a pop up event to occur

It becomes a hub for female fans who are allowed for the day to visit the island

Male fans however are not allowed and have to hope and pray for someone to sell the merch secondhand

That merchandise of you sits proudly on her shelf

Especially the custom limited to one version of you made to be in her outfit

A condition she placed on the event happening in the first place which manufactures easily agreed to

Its placed on a shelf that she can see and admire each day

Salome seems to like how it even came with a figure version of himself in it that you sit on cutely

He also enjoys the various plushes of you that are added to his bed to keep him warm

Boa is no different with her own plushes of which she falls asleep with for once feeling safe

Yeah, shes a bit of a super fan but if people knew her true reasons then no one can hardly blame her 

She’s a woman who’s been hurt by the world clinging to something that makes her feel safe

No one can fault her for that…except maybe Doflamingo

But heat least she got a one up on him by refusing to give him any merch from that pop up event

Even months later at new meetings he’s still trying to negotiate with her as Sengoku beats his head against a wall

Boa wishes you were real to have a friend like you and experience girlhood again but for now she collects figures

Luffy: doesn’t get your not an actual real person

Luffy became a fan because ace was a fan of you

It became one of those things that ace had passed onto Luffy interest wise

It both gave them a lot of solace and connection after Sabo

But the thing is….luffy doesn’t quite understand your not a real living breathing person

Ace after the first few times Luffy energetically said he’d recruit you to his ship didn’t correct him

Mostly cause he reallly didn’t want to break Luffy’s heart and joy

So he just stopped correcting him that you were a program and not real

Which becomes a problem for Luffy’s crew that they all blame ace for when they meet him in Alabasta

Because luffy is still wanting to recruit you

At each port he goes to the stores that sell your merch looking for you

He once accidentally destroyed a cardboard cut out of you cause from a distance you looked real and he finally thought it was you

Nami had to pay the vendor for reparations

But anyways, he refuses to believe the crew or literally anyone that you aren’t real

Sanji and Nami have sat him down multiple times and it still won’t get through his head

He legit blocks them out and then goes about his day sitting on the figurehead making plans for when you join

When the crew recruited Brook and they got their musician they finally thought he’d met up

But no, he still wants you on the crew and he won’t be move on this

Yet for now he has to settle for merch in your place

Of which he has a variety of

His oldest and most personal that he treats with the same love and care as his strawhat is a plushie ace gave him of you

It’s been through years of him clinging to it, drooling on it while asleep and general wear and tear

But it remains dear to him all the same

Its gotten patched up by both Nami and Ussop

When he goes to bed he places the hat on it and then cuddles

And by cuddle I mean wrap his whole damn body around your plush like he’s a koala (hah, she’s also a fan as well-)

When Zoro one day had to wake him up due to an emergency he found Luffy curled around your plush like a ball

As for other merch he loves your figures

Though he treats them less as “valuable collectables” and more like toys

He sets up your figures around the ship in fight scenes before Nami yells at him or one of the others yell at him for taking their figures

But as for his own figures, well he has a certain range to them

He either has hideous bootlegs or you or the holy grails of all your figures and there’s no in between

He’ll somehow find a figure that there was only 7 known in production and buy it or a bootleg of you with a janky leg that he also buys

It drive Nami mad

Because he does it with the dumbest of dumb luck known to man

When it comes to figures Luffy doesn’t really care much about the designs, he just buys them all

Cute design? Buy! Skimpy design? Buy! A clearly misshapen figure that’s 100% a bootleg? Buy!

He just buys them all no hesitation because he wants to show you how dedicated he and the crew are once he recruits you

Though he doesn’t really care much for the designs he does love your pirate themed figures

Their hard to come by but miraculously he finds like candy left on the street

He especially loves the figure of you dressed as Roger and one as shanks

He plays with them in mock pirate fights and it’s a miracle they haven’t broken

When it comes to other merch he’s equally good at either finding rare stuff or literal junk

It’s somehow a talent of his

He’ll get really nice standees, keychains and other merch but then buy the most tattered up plushy of you that’s being held alive by a string hopes and dreams

As for music he’s mostly the same figure wise where he doesn’t really care about genre or topic matter

Everything you make in his opinion is good (he learned this level of glazing from ace)

Happy or sad song? He’s enjoying it either way terribly singing along

But he has passion though

And while he might not fully get it (like legit he still thinks your real) he’s a very dedicated and passionate fan

Perona: the oshikatsu princess

She one day saw one of your figures in an advertisement of a magazine she had and from that moment on she became a fan

She found you cute

And I think anyone who’s seen or met Perona can attest to how she feels about cute things

Aka she obsesses over them

Which is exactly what she does with you!

Perona declares herself your number 1 fan and builds a literal shrine to you for your cuteness

No I’m not kidding

I’m talking figures, posters, light sticks, acrylic stands, keychains, plushies, a literal life sized cardboard cut out, buttons, photocards

A ita bag filled with your merchandise

Yeah….she maybe has a problem

But she’s probably the least of the people with problems on thriller bark

(I say probably because her shrine rivals hogbacks to Cindry)

She very meticulously picks what merch she wants based on how it would fit in her collection

She has a gothic cute vibe going on with her collection so she curates it

She only tends to pick things that are mainly black white and pink

Her favourites

But if a figure is super cute even if it doesn’t fit her aesthetic she does sometimes cave and have a separate shelf to place them on

But for the most part that rarely happens since she has very picky standards

Same for your music as well

She has very particular standards to songs

She doesn’t like the dreary emo songs (laws) nor the too cheery ones (Shirahoshi) but she doesn’t mind some of the ones made by a certain mysterious producer who has a thing for sweets in his songs (katakuri)

However her favourite genre of song is perhaps a hit specific

She realllllly like your songs where your like her (a full on brat)

She particularly loves your one about wanting the world as your own and one about a fairytale princess and Romeo wanting to be together

She plays them on blast to the point her “wonder gardens” residents know all the lyrics to heart

Also cause she makes them sing it with her sometimes

Kumashi sometimes forgets not to speak and sings along as well but it’s one of the few times Perona lets it slide

Something he’s thankful for even if she says once more his voice isn’t as cute as yours

But anyways she gets very protective of her merch and you in general

(People should be lucky there aren’t chat rooms because she’d be arguing on them 24/7)

There’s been a few incidents in which her protectiveness happened at the expense of others

Particularly Absalom

She very nearly killed Absalom for touching her shrine to you multiple times

He apparently keeps wanting to “borrow” your limited edition gothic wedding dress figure she had

She’s caught him various times

And all those times Moria had to hold her back from literally maiming him

instead each time he does this she just makes Absalom depressed for a month to the point his zombie soldiers had to make sure he didn’t die

She calls it even for trying to lay his gross fingers on your ultra cuteness

She can’t imagine what would happen if he’d succed…it would probably be returned to her and she’d need to bleach it-

But thankfully that hasn’t happened

And because of those incident’s it become very clear to everyone on thriller bark that touching any merch of you that she owns is a death wish

The zombies that deliver her packages from a very scared delivery man are extra careful incase a new figure of you is inside

They know if there’s even a scratch on the figure or the box their done for

It’s why most of them now ask Ryuma to deliver it

He gets it there to her safe and sound

After doing so many deliveries she bought a figure of you in a kimono and gave him it as a thank you

He isn’t really sure what to do with it but he carries it around now not wanting to upset Perona

And also cause he thinks it’s cute and maybe it reminds of someplace he can’t remember anymore

He’s now called by Perona her bodyguard of merch

If she meets another fan of yours she gets defensive and feels the need to prove she’s the better fan

(Just wait till she ends up at mihawks and sees her collection is a drop in the bucket to his)

Vegapunk: the loving creator

He never made you to be a big project

You were made initially as a past time

Something with a small meaning and purpose that wasn’t meant for any bigger purpose

But as you grew

You began to become something important to not only the world

But also to him and his satellites

He begins to care more for how your voice sounds on the newest software releases

He places care into your design that he and the others slave over getting right with Kizaru’s occasional suggestions

Picking out a proper name

And perhaps most importantly giving you a personality

You become a proper character

One with the goal of spreading joy by singing all the songs across the sea

You slowly become less of a program and more like a real person with time

He begins production of figures that people submit designs of and get made

The portion of which goes to the designer

People play the songs on the radio

He allows pop up events to occur on certain islands

He feels immense pride in you

His creation

A creation that finally brings to the world what he wanted

While you don’t bring unlimited energy you do bring joy

He watches across all the blues and going through the grand line and into the new world that you keep making people happy

You keep bringing joy through song despite being nothing more than a character to a voice program

And eventually he decides to make it real

Make you real

Because you deserved so

Shaka and Lilith work on getting your body right

Edison and Pythagoras edit your code

Atlas and York imbed your personality

And vegapunk himself implants your heart both metaphorical and literal

A heart that would allow you to make choice

A heart to make you conscious despite your artificial form

A heart to love with

A heart to follow

And then you wake up

Your brought to life

Waking up on a table with songs on the tip of your tongue, love for the world in your heart and kindness even with your confusion

And vegapunk and his satellites walk you through it all

He guides you as any good creator would

Holding your hand as you got used to being sentient and having a body

You very nearly bumped into everything and tripped over your own feet had it not been for him and Shaka

But it’s endearing to him as it is the satellites

Your earnest wonder of everything

The songs you sing made by others to try and make Lilith smile

How you pull York into a dance

The way you ask Edison all sorts of questions about the world

And how atlas lets you sit on her shoulder to get a better view of egghead

Everything is fine at first

He even begins planning on a tour after you’d asked him if it was ok for you to sing for your fans in person

Things should be fine

And then an order comes through

Someone high up in the world government wants you

It doesn’t say who, but with how it’s signed off on by a celestial stamp it’s not hard to guess

Someone wants you

And by the price placed they wanted you badly

For a much as vegapunk obliged to the world government and the orders they gave

He for some reason couldn’t give you up

You were his creation

Yet now something more akin to his child he’d helped develop and grow

You deserved choice

You deserved to sing to your hearts content to whoever you wanted

Not be locked away in a castle to some monsters whims

He makes a choice

He makes a secret call

And on the night before you were supposed to be shipped away as you lay down in a pod for shipment he tells you something

“Take the world by storm” he tells you as your circuits whirl and gears churn “Go and sing, bring joy to those you can. Don’t become what they want you to be but rather what I made you for.”

You fall asleep unaware to the fact the boat shopping you to the heavens gets highjacked

And your pod gets thrown into the ocean

….even he couldn’t calculate that