One Piece Brain Dump #1 Finally up to date with One Piece, have too many ideas I won't use, so dumping the bulk of them here per usual
Vinsmoke Pirates
This AU follows the head-canon that they all have emotions, but Judge suppresses their capability to feel, among other senses with Bullshit Science Drugs.
Judge dies when the kids are 3 and 6. It’s a random, natural death
The Germa Kingdom soon after is consistently on the run, evading assassins, spies and war by a hair's breadth
The Vinsmoke siblings grow up knowing concepts of love, care and respect, and slowly begin to learn what emotions are, while unlearning some of their father’s horrible lessons
I say somewhat because after too many close calls and the realisation of her looming death, Sora decides to send the kids away
The kids are 5 and 8 when this happens
Sora stays in Germa to fake the death of their family, sending her kids off with a request that they care for/protect each other
Post Germa Life
Unfortunately, someone betrays the family and sells out the family’s information
The siblings are hunted down for a while by various Bad Groups for like 4-5 years, making them around 10 and 13 when they get separated
Ichiji eventually sacrifices himself by abandoning his siblings and causing various issues that end with him being hunted down the most, and a fire that ‘kills’ the rest of his siblings being the most documented of his actions
Despite this, a small group of Bad People end up finding the other siblings, but like Bad People looking to take out small kids kinda way, not in the underworld kinda way
Some hostage situation happens, guns are pulled and it’s a Bad Time
Niji, taking his mother’s word to heart, decides that he needs to take Sanji and run, because in his mind Sanji is the weakest, Sanji needs to be protected more, Yonji and Reiju can take care of themselves
Reiju and Yonji do take care of the kidnappers, but its not an easy fight. By the time it's done the duo are exhausted, and when they come to Niji and Sanji’s trails have gone cold
For various reasons they all denounce the Vinsmoke name, mostly as protection against others though
The Sora comics are still a thing because I think they’re hilarious. So the Sora Comics are running strong after a surprisingly high reception (Judge was involved in the creation of the characters and first arc) and they just continue the series
None of the siblings read the series, except for Yonji, but even then he just skims it occasionally for his crew’s sake if nothing else
Which leads to the whole reason I wanted this AU: Heart Pirate Yonji
Yonji becomes a Heart Pirate, but this is done by strong-arming Law into it (He and Law had been bonding in the North Blue, he decides going to Sea sounds cool and hides in the Polar Tang until it's too far out to go to an Island) Law secretly likes Yonji and doesn't force him off the at the next port. Yonji isn't the best doctor/nurse, but him and Bepo do all their heavy lifting/moving stuff task in Paradise
Yonji is also their field strategist, Law makes their plans and Yonji is the only one confident enough to adapt the plans when need be
I also think of the siblings, Yonji is most like the Heart Pirates, with a willingness to be silly, which is why he's with Law instead of Reiju (my initial choice, since she seemed to be similar to Law in how they hold themselves)
He drives Law a little insane, which is a canon characterisation of the Heart Pirates
Bounty Hunter/Hawkins Pirate Reiju
Reiju goes nuts and is on a quest to hunt her little brother down as a Bounty Hunter
When the Heart Pirates are rumoured to be looking at going to the Grand Line, she teams up with Basil Hawkins to go to the Grand Line so she can steal her little brother back (and maybe to beat up that brother corrupting sonnuva bitch Trafalgar)
Hawkins accepts her because the cards tell him to and she proves to be indispensable, since they didn't travel with a doctor and she happened to have an expert knowledge of the human body (and more specifically what poisons/chemicals/gas could do to the human body)
She's also their unofficial sniper, since she often used tranq guns as a bounty hunter
Spade Pirate Niji
Niji and Sanji end up following canon Sanji's story (to an extent) Niji does not end up on the rock since Zeff didn't save him, but he does float to Goa Kingdom and meets Ace and Sabo
They don't really get along, but Sabo and Ace are a bit fascinated by this strangely strong and ballsy kid they meet, the lightning thing also kinda impresses them
Niji isn't their friend, but he's not their enemy either and they cordially (attack on site) acknowledge each other in passing for the year it takes Niji to get the funds and a job that gets him off Dawn
By the time Niji finds Sanji, two years have passed and Sanji is happily working on the Baratie
Niji can't stand cooking, but hell no is he gonna abandon his little brother who he's been searching for, he becomes the one waiter ballsy enough to deal with the chefs and the patrons
Eventually when Ace sets sail, he stumbles across Niji and promptly declares that this dude needs to join him, because he's strong, he's blunt and Ace likes him (and maybe if he can't set sail with Luffy or Sabo, he could at least set sail with someone who knew both of them)
Niji fights it, but Sanji ends up convincing him that the best way to honour their mother's promise is if he goes and lives his own life instead of sacrificing everything for Sanji like he's been doing
Niji ends up being in charge of all the Spade Ships maintenance, food, money ect, because Ace eats out their stores and likes to hoard his treasure instead of using it on the things they need, due to his belief that things will just work out somehow
Despite being raised by Zeff as well, Niji can't give less of a fuck if you're a man or a woman, if you mess with him or his family, you're going to get yelled at and you might get your ass beat
Niji was probably the Spade Pirate with the most issues with being a Whitebeard after Ace, because like, he hasn’t needed a dad, ever, so why should he accept one now?
Still a Strawhat Sanji
Sanji's life is virtually unchanged, except he actually has good memories with his siblings and he has different, more specific childhood trauma/abandonment issues
Though, Luffy definitely thinks Niji and Sanji are the same person when they meet (for forever? until he decides Sanji is his? Who knows with Luffy?)
Sanji does not know how much he's going to be teased when he reunites with his siblings (his bounty poster) or how long the lectures are going to be (You declared war on the World Government? YOU WENT TO ENIES LOBBY WILLINGLY???)
He full on cries when he realises all his siblings are alive, he's had survivors guilt x3 because he thinks Niji sacrificed Reiju and Yonji for him, but they lived!
He doesn’t fight Kalifa in this one, because a few of the CP9 Agents hunt him down specifically and are being weirdly, personally offended when they see/fight him, he’s pretty happy when they give him enough hints (enough hope) to realise why they dislike him so much
Ex-CP9 Agent and Kid Pirate Ichiji
Ichiji, by virtue of sacrificing himself, ends up becoming a CP-Agent because why not
He's strong as fuck and uses his connections to kill/squash and redirect all rumours of the Vinsmoke children so his siblings can live a life not on the run
Ends up defecting from CP-9 (of course they're gonna train the assassin kid to be an assassin) because he didn't like the management and escapes to the South Blue
Hides in the South Blue since it's crawling with gangs, pirates and trouble, while also being relatively safer trouble to deal with than if he went to the Grand Line, here he meets Kid and Killer
With Kid combining the gangs in the South into a Pirate Crew, Ichiji knows his days of hiding in the South are numbered, so he accepts Kid's offer and joins his crew
Ichiji is considered one of the Worst Generations as well, because the World Government can't have any traitors live and with his feats as a ruthless Kid Pirate he's pretty hated, so his pre-time skip bounty is 210,000,000 and is a dead-only bounty
No one from the World government realises they're siblings for a few reasons. Mostly the Ichiji killing them thing, but also I imagine Reiju (and because of her Yonji) wear face-masks that double as rebreathers. Ichiji, for the whole ex-CP9 thing hides his face as well. Sanji and Niji don't, but Sanji's bounty poster is enough to dissuade rumours for a long time.
My only thing from here is I think the Sabaody reunion would be hilarious. Especially because in this set up, they just straight don't think to mention they have siblings. So the Hawkins Pirates know Reiju has a little brother she's hunting down, the Strawhats (virtue of Ace) know that Sanji has an older brother in Whitebeard's crew. But like. They don't really know about the other siblings, the Kid/Heart Pirates don’t know about any siblings Period and Whitebeard is the only one who knows that Niji has siblings plural, but not who those siblings are because Niji only just told him when he asked for permission to head to Sabaody.
Reiju is torn between hugging and smacking all of her brothers, though both Sanji and Ichiji receive very long lectures/harmless beatings. Sanji had no clue the others were Pirates (or even alive), and is annoyed at all the bounty posters his siblings pull out of nowhere. Ichiji is smirking at all of them for having a higher bounty than three of his four siblings. Yonji is glad to see them, though he is hiding from Reiju.
I like to imagine Niji, due to being in the New World the longest, somehow finds something concerning the raid suits, does his level best to recreate them from the designs he finds and gives them to his siblings on Sabaody, with the caveat of they need to follow his vivre paper and get new suits in the future, when he hopefully has a better idea of what to do with them. The reactions from the Hawkins and Heart Pirates are hilarious, especially since the siblings honestly just forgot to mention who their beloved comic villains were based off of, before they got the Raid Suits. (And if making Niji have access to the designs of a raid suit that goes invisible, on the same side of the Grand Line where Impel Down is helps with an Ace Lives AU, maybe that was the whole point of him being on Sabaody, lol)
