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imagine you're a new pirate crew in the Red Haired Pirates, being surrounded with powerful and influential pirate crew. everyone around is so badass and you couldn't wait to meet and see the captain with your own two eyes. you have heard stories about him. until later that night, you witness your captain crying his heart out, expressing himself how much he misses his other half (which you dont know about at all and NO ONE TOLD THIS TO YOU), while drinking 45 bottles of alcohol and booze. you look around and see all of the crew being silent, their eyes with no light in them, and you could even hear someone whispering "i should have been a marine".

LMAOOO YES like, i’m so sure this was most of the crews reaction when they were invited on. No way a 17 year old Shanks was as (appears to be) emotionally stable as he is now like COME ONNN… poor guy has the weight of the world on his shoulders, missing his clown, along with potential other failed relationships and an alcohol addiction B PLS

So you think their crew was ever concerned when they were growing up like

Gaban: Wow whatever shanks did today, he must have really pissed buggy off, bugs going for blood

Roger: Should we stop him...

*shanks blushing and giggling as buggy verbally tears him apart*

Rayleigh: Nope, okay, nevermind, our first-born is a freak.

And he was right. Shanks become one of the most powerful people in the seas with a trusted crew and allies who would gladly die for him.

I've always noticed the fandom usually talks about Shanks yearning for Buggy but never Buggy yearning for Shanks. I would say they're similar in that sense, honestly. There's a difference in how they yearn each other, though.

See, Shanks yearns in an open way that many fans acknowledge he still wants Buggy to be by his side. We have seen a few couple of scenes of him 'yearning' for Buggy: Marineford, Lougetown and even One piece party. He was also said to be pretty positive thinking so I'm taking that into consideration that he believes that they would cross paths again after Lougetown. Like, to me , that stare he gave to Buggy at Marineford was that he expected the interaction would happen, but not at the exact timing.

obviously, he doesn't see the future and expect the encounter to happen in Marineford but he genuinely believes, even after years that they would meet again. Desperately. Obsessively. He seems like the type of guy who prefers to look at things in a positive point of view instead of negatively, willing to ignore the negativity away.

(but after they meet again, Shanks would rather fight all the other yonkos at the same time than letting him go again.)

Now, Buggy is the total opposite.

Buggy gave up his dream for Shanks. He knew be couldn't measure up to the Red-hair so atleast he's able to play a part in the future pirate king life , right? But nope, Shanks really said "fuck that" and spit on his belief. That everything he ever believes in was ridiculous and that Buggy was just a lackey Shanks allows to follow him, and leave him when it got rough. Buggy gave everything he was for Shanks. Yes, it was not much but it was something.

He regret he ever did anything for Shanks. He regret he ever loved at all. After Lougetown, Buggy decided he wasn't going to give up his identity for another individual, he'd rather live for himself. It sounds reasonable to him. If someone was going to throw him out when he did everything for them, then he'd rather not do anything at all. It was no use caring about it.

But, he does care. Looking back, he admired Shanks as someone above him so so much. He can't accept that it was all in his illusion so he puts all the blame to Shanks. It can't ever be Buggy's fault when it was Shanks who left. But goddamn, he really wanted that man.

It's been a while... here's some soft shuggy for you !