
quick nami doodle

to the Grand Line!
Celebrating opla s2 release with a spiritual successor to this (bigger crew = bigger love = bigger table ofc)
(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)
Shanks fearing Buggy sees him the way everyone else does. The way Imu and his family want him to be. The way his blood is and what he couldāve ended up being. So he never tells the truth and embraces the carefree future he wishes for both of them with no past haunting them⦠While Buggy reads that secrecy as cowardice, selfishness and grandeur, when itās the exact opposite. And it doesnāt matter if heās honest or not because he always ends up in the same spot-
Shanks being a Celestial Dragon and the golden child and one of the most talented pirates of his generation and a Yonko and Shanks not wanting any of that or giving a single damn about it because the only thing heās ever wanted is to have a cottagecore boat and sail around chilling with Buggy for the rest of his days⦠Absolute king of yearning.
Wanting to write things for Sanuso week but it might be just a few prompts and late because my mental health has decided now to focus on Sanuso again BUT LATE and when I should be focusing on my studies
Buggy wants the āØļøWORLDāØļø



and sees blames SHANKS as one of the biggest obstacles to it

but failed to see that HE was the entire world to Shanks all along



Love the variety of thoughts here š
I always perceive Sanji as the mermaid, but Usoppās story has so much potential here too⦠(EDIT after writing the whole thing: This wasnāt meant to be a Little Mermaid AU and just a mermaid AU in general but the whole thing fits so well, I had to mention itā¦) - So Little Mermaid AU it is !
Usopp coming from a sea region that fears humans and whatever they might do to them if theyāre ever found⦠His mom being sick and both her and Usopp being the only ones knowing Yasopp is a human pirate⦠Usopp always claiming the humans are coming for them⦠Yadda yadda yadda, much to think about here, but you get it.
And so Usopp longs for the human world too, curious of what might bring since heās always making things out of human junk (as you said, because that is something heād 100% do). He tells everyone heās been to the surface and knows first-hand stories from there. He loves to tell lies people will believe (his best friend Kaya will, at least) about things he knows nothing about but wishes he would.
AND!!! You know the drill, Little Mermaid stuff!!!
I think Sanji almost drowning with Zeff exactly like what happened in canon except that he canāt fully save him and little mermaid Usopp helps them out and saves Sanji⦠And it becomes a whole legend that Zeff doesnāt quite believes even if he saw it with his own eyes⦠And Sanji wishes to find the All Blue because he believes that if he does, he will ALSO find the mermaid that saved him⦠God⦠Adding childhood sweethearts to this I AM CRAZY ABOUT THEM!!!!!! Then they fall in love and y'know, Little Mermaid plot kindaā¦
(I just thought the whole ānot being able to speakā thing in the Little Mermaid fits them so well here because Usopp wonāt shut up and his best skill is talking and HE CANāT so⦠Yeahā¦).
The point is that Usopp is not only the representation of Sanjiās dream in a tangible, physical way (the sea, finding the All Blue, mermaids, storiesā¦) but also in the sense of freedom. Sanji finds mermaids mesmerizing because they can swim anywhere. For Sanji, the sea is an escape from his past life and he wishes he could be as peaceful as he thinks heād be underwater (a place he KNOWS by heart and wishes to know MORE). So Usopp is not only Sanjiās dream of finding a mermaid or the All Blue, but also the representation of what it would be like to be free.
While Sanji represents Usoppās dream of the unknown. Of all the stories he makes up and wishes could become real someday. Of standing up for himself and proving to everyone else that he can build magnificent stuff the way humans have, and prove that not all of them are evil. To make his father proud, also. And Sanji, with his relationship with Zeff and skills, is everything Usopp wishes to be.
(Kinda wondering how Usopp feels about Sanji cooking fish but you know what Iām not thinking about it!)
And YES shirtless mermaid Usopp. What a very nice, awesome thought that would send Sanji into a cardiac arrest.
OH!!! And the concept of Ursula not only being Big Mom but also adding Pudding to the whole thing for her to manipulate Sanji and pretend she was the one to save him, etc etc⦠Then she feels awful and has a redemption arc but thatās because I love her!
Special mention to how āPart Of Your Worldā is soooo Usopp coded:



The dreaming, the story-telling, the ambition, the envy⦠I need to be put down-
While āWild Uncharted Watersā is literally Sanjiās song to Usopp:



You think Sanji is always with the girls because heās a loverboy, I think Sanji is always with the girls because sheās a lovergirl. Weāre not the same.
I havenāt explored mermaid!Sanji x Usopp as much as I probably should have tbhā¦
Someone reminded me my Sanuso analysis exists and I was high on Sanuso cocaine when I wrote that shit and I still think I could explain MORE about their chemistry and dynamic
HELLO LESBI-ANON (I find myself to be really funny for that) YOUāRE SO RIGHT SO SO RIGHT!!!!
Namivivi suffers from the fact that everyone considers female friendships just as close and personal as romantic relationships. Because women are more emotional, closer, more caring⦠And because there isnāt any man involved, why would it be romantic?
We truly need to abolish stereotypes regarding female and male friendships because itās getting to a point where people will see two men (or a man and a woman) standing next to each other and instantly think itās romantic (which Iām not saying it canāt be, letās go gays also). Still, the second women display ANY romantic behavior with each other, āthey could just be friends! Thatās how female friendships are!ā OR MAYBE THEYāRE LESBIANS, LOURDES, HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF THAT???? People just NEED a man to be involved, somehow, for it to be āromanticā or āinterestingā.
Namivivi hate and people saying itās āforcedā when theyāve checked everything on the āclichĆ© romance listā is so funny to me⦠Like yeah, female friendships are really personal and beautiful and could mean more than any other platonic relationship with a man⦠Or maybe theyāre just lesbians⦠And people need to stop erasing that second option and start embracing it more!!!!!
Like I get that female friendships ARE important, but LESBIANS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT!!!!!! People can interpret this ship however they like (although if you see it as platonic exclusively and donāt understand WHY people ship them, I will low-key side-eye you) but saying it ācomes out of nowhereā when itās got more chemistry and romance vibes than most canon anime ships Iāve seen⦠is crazy.
Somehow, if the ship includes a man, you donāt have to do anything for it to make sense, but if itās only women?? Oh, then you need to pull a Madoka-Magica-Time-And-Space Type Love for people to start realizing THEYāRE IN LOVE. And people will YET question the romantic implications somehow.
Usopp can have a romantic story/vibes with Kaya and people will just ASSUME itās āCLEARLYā romantic but then Nami will have a very similar romantic story with Vivi regarding long-distance relationships and people will think itās āstupidā for you to believe they could still be in love (mind you Nami canonically misses Vivi and thinks about her sooo much so idk what people are saying lol). I even see people say itās āOBVIOUSā that Luffy and Vivi will end up together and like, no hate to the ship but people DONāT act that way when we talk about Namiviviā¦. Damnā¦
Although small mention to the fact that a lot of people apparently donāt even ship Usokaya because of racism too and thatās fucking insane to me when theyāre indeed obviously in love but whatever man-
Long story short, women need to be extra romantic and try harder than any men for them to be even considered worthy of shippersā attentionƱ and I am EXHAUSTED.
One Piece and The Pitt lowkey give the same type of hopeful show vibes in the sense that they will absolutely make you want to kill yourself, but then theyāll have the most gut-wrenching, gorgeous, beautiful, life-changing scene that will turn around your perspective of living forever
Iāve been so depressed lately but then I remembered One Piece exists and Iām in the fucking building again and I kinda wanna live

It was my birthday on the 20th and I wanted to celebrate it by drawing bullseyeduo aka my favorite guys ever.
this was based off of that scene in the east blue arc where usopp called sanji with ichiji, niji, sanji! I like to think its recontextualized as an endearing nickname for him post wci.