I CAN"T BELIEVE I JUST NOW FOUND/REMEMBERED THIS FANART. UGGHHHHHH I CAN’T BELIEVE I DIDN’T POST IT 😭😭😭 i feel like such a loser since this chapter came out in, like, july last year….sigh. well, here it is: fanart for the amazing fic I forgot? Oops… by @glucosegaurdian
starter for @stellylee at the charity summer gala —
In a past life, Scarlett would be at events like this for work. It had taken almost a year to relax her spine, to let the tension fall from her shoulders. Not as dangerously thin was she was then, not as poised on the arm of her Wall Street boyfriend, while smiling and answering questions not technically as a press secretary (except it was all linked back) she started to slowly find some solace in these things. “I have to admit, these things are a lot easier when I don’t have to formulate smart sounding sentences and just say, I like the pink they used in that painting.” Scarlett paused, “Please tell me you aren’t working tonight either. I would like to get dangerously drunk and laugh too hard.”
Was looking through my gallery and found this drawing I made like 2-3 years ago inspired by @glucosegaurdian ’s fic, I forgot? Oops… which I ADORE! I really need to catch up….👀
Stelly’s my favorite part about this XD but Sabo’s expression takes 2nd place.
Right so anyway. Now I want to write a fic about Stelly kinda wanting Sabo’s approval and love and shit, and Sabo just. Doesn’t care for it. Like hell he’ll acknowledge him. Nope. And this doesn’t change. He’s not gonna get character growth or go through an arc and mature as a person or anything. Fuck that.
I want Sabo to beat his ass. That’s it. And for Stelly to have his hopes slowly getting crushed the more and more they interact. Bonus fucking point for Sabo to just be the softest fucking brother ever to Luffy and Ace (yes, him too). Soft ass smile, relaxing around them, hugging them, eating whatever they hand to him without checking for poison, ect. And Stelly’s heart just fucking breaks.
It would be so awesome. It would be so cool.
Stelly calls Sabo “ani-sama” btw. Which is pretty damn respectful. Tama calls Luffy “aniki” and they actually like each other. Sabo would spit in his face. Like. That man does not care about that bitch. He isn’t and will never be his brother.
One of his colleagues (forgot his name) asked whether that Stelly guy was Sabo’s adopted brother, and this man literally just started thinking about Luffy, his actual brother.
Also?! This implies Sabo told everyone (or at least all the senior members and his friends) about his memories. It’d be obvious for him to tell his two besties and Dragon but he also told other people too. And not just the good stuff presumably. He also told them about having to go back to that damn house with his shitty parents and some random fucking brat just there, pissing him off.
This was about Stelly but he doesn’t deserve my attention like that.
Dark AU
Stelly looking at Dragon and Crocodile- clearly a couple, and vocal about it- but thinking that their relationship is a political alliance, because that’s all he’s ever known marriage to be.
Sabo has the same issue to some degree, but he’s been so rejecting of his nobility that he’s quick to learn that marrying for political gain is widely seen as not normal in the world at large.
Stelly is still clinging. A little less every day, but still.
He will sometimes brave a question to Dragon or Crocodile when he can catch them alone. What were the terms of their marriage? Was it an arms deal? Was it to secure resources? Territory? Perhaps a treaty with old Whitebeard, since Crocodile was once a part of the Moby Dick’s crew (that one got him quite the laugh from the scarred man)?
From Dragon, he was told that he and the former warlord had chosen each other and were mated for life. From Crocodile, he was told that he and the Emperor married out of love, and couldn’t imagine life without each other…
It left Stelly even more confused.
People loved each other when they married? Not just eventually grew to love each other out of necessity, but loved each other before? That was… incomprehensible!
… Why did they look at him so sadly when he told them that?
Dark AU
Stelly is… not happy with the big change.
Understandably so.
It’s not every day you learn your adoptive mother is happy to throw you under the bus if it meant saving her hide and reputation. Certainly not everyday that the monstrous, cannibalistic creature that adopted your adoptive brother and killed and ate your adoptive parents has mercy on you.
No, Stelly is perfectly and understandably unhappy with the way things are going, and he now knows that throwing a tantrum about it won’t help anything. It just leaves him feeling worn out and foolish.
Picking on Sabo doesn’t even have the same effect due to the spotty amnesia that he’s still recovering from. All it does is leave him feeling frustrated, and maybe just a bit guilty.
So he has to focus on other things to cover that up.
Mostly things like not getting bullied by Ace, or annoyed half to death by Luffy. Robin’s there too, but she doesn’t indulge in the squabbling. He thinks she might be a snitch, because she disappears and Dragon shows up shortly after to break up the fights and give them all a bit of lecturing.
Speaking of the man, the one thing Stelly is most surprised to learn is that Dragon isn’t exactly the monster the WEJ and his old families make him out to be.
Well he is, but there’s more to him than that.
He’s… compassionate towards him. It doesn’t make any damn sense. Asking only leaves him with more questions because why does he mean by him leaving one life behind and coming into another? What does he mean by him being hurt? He was never treated poorly until the very end and that was only because his mother was scared!
Wasn’t it?
He doesn’t like to think about it.
As the years go on and he stops pouting as much (it doesn’t work here. Why does it not work here?), he starts to take notice of things as they travel. Things that he’s read about in his studies that he’s only ever scoffed at.
Things like how the crew ties the knots in the rigging, how they take up and unfurl the sails… how the captain seems to know where to go just by looking at the stars… how his vice captains rally and calm and help and heal…
And the world… the big wide world beyond Goa’s horizon… he can’t take his eyes off of it.
Did he scoff at these things because he didn’t think they were important, or because others thought they weren’t?
Did they not know?
Did they not care?
Did they not want him to have the chance to see it all for himself?
One evening he goes to Dragon and asks this. He doesn’t like to think about these things, but he can’t stop thinking about them anymore.
And Dragon tells him that cages come in just as many shapes and sizes as the birds that get trapped in them. His had been seastone bars, red granite, and fame. Stelly’s had been gold, marble, and expectations.
Dragon gives him a lot to think about…
He still doesn’t like to think about it… but he’s doing himself no favors by avoiding it, so he might as well keep thinking about it.
Who: Chetan & @stellylee
Where: Snowflake Gala (the beach)
“You know,” Che remarked, seeing the all too familiar figure walking to the beach where he’d stepped outside for a breather, “this would be the perfect place to murder someone in cold blood. Like an annoying step-sibling or something, just saying.”
Tea with Stelly in a few days! I’m brewing up a special blend for it! I wonder if Hurley will be joining us…
hehe, Thank you very much!! My name is Iris Wilson, it’s a pleasure to meet you. Waggy isn’t one to enjoy fetch much, but if you’d like to play, I have an invention I think you could put to use!! Introducing Iris Wilson’s… well, not latest- but one of her inventions;The Fetchatron! It can throw lots of things at very high speeds. I made it specially for Waggy, but he doesn’t seem to enjoy it, so you can have it if you would like!
Starter for: Stelly Carter @stellylee
Where: Cordellia’s batchelorette party (12th October)
Meera’s feet were aching from dancing so much and she made her way to the side where she slipped her shoes off and wiggled her toes a little. Spotting the person with the camera pointed across the room she tiptoed over and watched for a moment before asking, “Are you getting lots of good shots?”
One time my friend sent me a screencap that said something along the lines of “Stelly doesn’t have any fans.”
I regret to inform you all that I am right here.
hot diggity
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I love the idea that Sabo and Ace commonly call Luffy a brat. But not in a mean way just annoyed. Because it’s always Luffy’s way or the highway. He has to get what he wants or he’ll whine whine whine. Well at least that’s how it feels when they are the ones making sure every animal in the forest doesn’t kill him. And Luffy does not care at all about the name he probably doesn’t even know what it means, that or he’s just been called it so much it means nothing to him.
but when Sabo returned home and met Stelly, a real brat. He got a taste of just how much of an amazing and compassionate kid Luffy really is. A brat doesn’t run to you excited to show you the bug he found. Or gives you part of their blanket so you’re extra warm. A brat doesn’t want to hear stories by candle light and wants to hug you every second of the day. Luffy is an amazingly kind person. And Stelly will never be that and the fact his family wanted him to felt wrong. No one will be his little brother besides the brat who would demand to fight him every damn day.
