#k.i.s.s. gem au

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

As a way to celebrate the end to the first arc of the ASL Gem AU, here's a couple of headcanons and things I put in the story that I was proud of. Also, some shitty memes I doodled and thought were funny. I put all the headcanons and neat things under the read more because there are spoilers for Keep It Simple, Stupid in there.

Luffy actually got poofed four times throughout the events of the first chapter. Two of them were depicted on screen, but the other two were when Ace got him caught in a landslide in their first meeting and when he came back to the bandit hut on the wolf and broke a hole in the wall getting tossed off of Kebab. Ace could've sword that landslide would have poofed Luffy and, I mean, he's not wrong.

Whery told me BTS that Sodalite's hair remains suspended in air as if it's flowing through water at all times. He's got mermaid hair, everyone. Love this guy.

The reason Sodalite struggles to unfuse is because... 🥁 🥁 🥁 He has a hard time unfusing when his components feel unsafe. That doesn't stop anyone strong enough from poofing him (A la Garp) or Sabo and Ace having such a strong disagreement that they come undone (a la the argument before the final fight with the wolves or when Ace post-getting-Luffy'd has conflicted feelings about ditching Luffy with Amethyst and co.).

In the process of plotting this, I wasn't sure how to translate the money-saving-schemes into this AU for the boys. The general layout of the plot is similar to canon, but I wanted to mix things up a little. That led to the parts scrounging aspect, which led to Ace and Sabo having their own waterfall cave instead of having a tree that they keep things in because I didn't think a tree could properly hide most of their junk from sight that close to the Kindergarten.

Sodalite never actually introduced himself to Luffy. (Cursed with Ace's tendency to never make a good first impression.) He learned Sodalite's name when a few gems and people were yelling in panic at their first meeting.

There's another nod to Sodalite inheriting Ace's bad first impressions when he first "meets" the bandits when literally dropping Luffy off after saving him and also when he meets Woop Slap and Makino.

Also continuing Ace's penchant for bad first impressions, he really did get put through the ringer with Makino when he first reformed. I gave him hell this whole arc, didn't I? Poor guy.

Herc and Agna are my contributions to the Dadan Family. I wanted to flesh their numbers out a little bit since we only ever know the names of Dadan, Magra, Dogra, and Pochi. I hope you like them... They're silly. (And probably in love tbh.)

Speaking of them, they made a bet on whether Luffy killed Ace in the beginning of the third chapter and you can see them exchanging money in the sixth chapter when it's revealed that Ace isn't actually dead.

I also added Woop Slap's baker brother, a Beryl to the Azurite crew who stood around while Luffy got his ass electrocuted, and a couple of random characters here and there with no canon version just for the hell of it. Got the chance to flesh this out a little bit thanks to focusing on a small sequence of events compared to the Odyssey that is One Piece canon.

In the second chapter, there are a few things that Sodalite and Luffy say in a couple of the conversations post-saving Luffy from the Azurite Pirates that get called back to.

Sodalite: You can’t be brave unless you’re scared. And if the first hint of danger has you sniffling and running away like a chicken, you’ll never be brave.

This one is a little more obvious. It gets reflected back in chapter 5 when Luffy is in the process of trying to help Kebab out from where he's trapped. Luffy is a bit of a coward and a crybaby when he's younger in canon and in this story. He builds up confidence with being rubber (Though I replaced his rubber body helping to protect him with him being able to reform quickly), having two older brothers to protect him, and eventually his own fighting skills in canon, but I wanted to add a little more oomph to it.

Luffy: I'm not crying, you're crying!

Sodalite: That's not how tears work, squirt.

This one reflects the flashback to when Ace and Sabo fused for the first time. I figured it would help soften Sodalite up to Luffy with the little nod.

Ace: I'm not crying, you're crying, stupid.

Sabo: That's not how tears work, idiot.

There's another point that gets called back to in a conversation between Luffy and Sodalite, but this is the conversation when Sodalite starts to refer to Luffy as "Luffy" mentally and not just Spinel.

Sodalite: Free and kind, huh? Free how?

Luffy: Free to go where I wanna go. Do what I wanna do. Be who I wanna be.

Sabo thinks back to this when he's poofed and trying to figure out what he wants to look like. Freedom is hard to get used to when you're used to a regimented lifestyle. I think it's called choice anxiety, but even though he wants freedom, he still has to learn how to be free, if that makes sense.

Speaking of that conversation between Sodalite and Luffy, I tried to switch up what he was called in the narrative based on whose POV I'm talking through. In the beginning, when Sabo, Ace, or Sodalite are thinking about Luffy, they consistently refer to him as "Spinel." When it's Luffy's POV, Luffy only referred to himself as "Luffy." Eventually, after the heart-to-heart they have in chapter 3, Sodalite, Ace, and Sabo also only refer to Luffy as "Luffy."

Prior to the narrative, Sodalite didn't have a lot of room to grow or a lot of interaction with people outside of battle or when he's alone when Ace and Sabo needed comforting. Being around Luffy and the circumstances of which they can't unfuse gave Sodalite the opportunity to become more of his own person.

I used he/they pronouns for a lot of the story to reflect the Sodalite-not-being-completely-his-own-person as even Sodalite still saw himself as Ace and Sabo and not just Sodalite. He's aware he's a fusion, but he's only now settling into the idea that he is a new person as well.

Ace thinks that Dadan and the bandits don't care about him for most of the story and they don't help things by pretending not to care that he's "gone" when Sodalite's around. However, at the beginning of the fourth chapter, I tried to give a little nod to Dadan being worried about Ace with her sometimes smoking late at night on the porch and staring into the forest. She was looking for Ace and worried about him, but Sodalite can't tell because Ace is blind to kindness. Dadan was losing sleep over you, you dummy.

True to canon fashion, I tried to limit how much I used Luffy's POV as in canon he doesn't really have a lot of internally kept thoughts as much as he doesn't have a filter between mental reaction and physical reaction. Thus, when I did have to use Luffy's POV, I tried to switch it to another character as soon as I could.

Whery once posted an animatic wherein they used the Ben 10 clip of Kevin saying, "You have to treat a car like you treat a woman," and I pretty much used that to shape Sodalite amd Makino's dynamic in my head which led to the way Sodalite and, by extention, Ace feel nervous around Makino, but the nerves just make it harder for them to say the "right" things.

These four posts gave me psychic damage and were the kick in the ass that got me to write K.I.S.S. to begin with. Literally got so wrapped up in them that I wrote a whole fanfic. I was originally going to just write the Luffy and Sabo reunion in Dressrosa. A couple hundred words in, I realized I should probably just start in the beginning to fluff it up with some history. Then I fell in love with Sodalite and underestimated how much I would get into the AU, so now we're here.

Y'all can take Ace being nervous around Makino however you want, but my intention was that kind people throw him off his game. This was meant to reflect how he's a mama's boy in canon and the pedestal-ing he did with his mother. (Rouge is a goddess, though, so like... he's not wrong.)

I tried to write it so Ace Literally Does Not Know how to be anything but a scruffy and snappy little kid since he was raised by bandits and Garp isn't the picture of healthy communication. With the Makino interaction post-reforming in chapter 5, I wanted her to nudge him into realizing that there's another way to handle disagreements and not every time he fucks up will lead to violence or yelling. Easing his toes into the water.

I went back and forth for a while on the scene in chapter 6 where Ace is about to run away. I was very iffy on if it was in-character for him to leave behind his only friends and everything he ever knew. But I also remembered how he acted in canon when people were putting themselves in danger for him and, yeah, pushing people away when people might get hurt """"because of"""" him fit well.

Is it weird that my favorite scene to write was in the 6th chapter when Sabo and Luffy knock a gem into a barrel and run away? I just felt my heart get full being able to write them getting closer and being chaotic together... Can't wait to write these three being chaotic together more.

It was very cathartic for me personally to write the scene where Sodalite first plays guitar for Luffy in chapter 2 and the scene in chapter 6 where Ace bursts out laughing when they fall over.

Sabo and Ace met when they both stumbled upon their cave and started having a turf war over who it really belonged to. They eventually became friends, but naturally, it took a minute and some fighting before then.

Most of the people and gems around don't care one way or another about fusion. Garp, as a gem higher up, cares based on principle and because he's old as dirt and was around when the "No Fusing" rule was more radically reinforced.

Fire Agates were "made" to be demolition gems (AKA why they have the fire going on and are typically very strong). Due to this, Ace can keep more items within his gem that can vary in size. Sabo can keep some things in his gem, but they typically have to be small to medium. Luffy could theoretically keep a lot in his gem, but I genuinely don't think he thinks about it unless he's storing food.

Luffy eats and sleeps because he first formed around the mixed population of humans and gems in Foosha Village and just thought it was neat. Now, he has sort of programmed his gem so he sleeps at night like people do, but he doesn't need to. He just likes it. Silly lil guy.

Ace was initially put off by Luffy wanting to use a different name than his gem type because he struggles with his own identity as a Fire Agate. Using a different name feels like running away from the realities of your gem type. Ace is plagued by his own gem type and feels like he can't run away, so Luffy so casually giving himself a name was foreign to Ace and made him a little bit jealous tbh.

Sabo similarly wasn't willing to call Luffy by his name because he felt cursed by his gem type. He's less touchy about it than Ace, though because he understands Luffy's desire to want to be his own person-- whoever that may be.

I changed Sabo's gem type from Labradorite to Moonstone because he has had some really neat fanart made of him that was Moon themed, and I thought that was really cute. There's some more to learn about Sabo that I've been hinting at, but y'all will find out sometime later.

Shanks was the person who made Luffy realize that he could have whatever name he wanted. I might write it out someday, but it basically went, "woah, I wish I had a cool name," "You can call yourself whatever you want. What, did you think Makino's name is her gem?" "... So what if I did?!" *whole crew laughs at Luffy* "Well, what do you want us to call you?" and the rest was history.

Ace and Sabo will eventually be able to bubble things. Ace can make bigger ones, but Sabo's are less likely to burst when messed with. Luffy could theoretically create bubbles, but I don't really think Luffy's the type to want to capture things in bubbles outside of beetles, and that's easy enough to make Sabo or Ace do.

I took some very vague inspiration from Zuko from ATLA and Ruby from Steven Universe when thinking about Ace's fire abilities. I wanted him to have pyrokinetic abilities, but struggle to use them thanks to some internal turmoil. Thus, his powers come from strong bursts of negative emotions and typically just sprout out around his body. (Yes, he has caused a forest fire before.)

Sabo can create light constructs similar to how Pearl does in Steven Universe. Thinking about Sodalite getting a little more showboat-y with his music and doing light shows? Eventually, fire blasting out of places like some bands do at concerts. That would be metal as fuck.

Sodalite literally always radiates warmth wherever he's at. He's a space heater. You can see a little bit of this in the 3rd chapter when he sits near Woop Slap to keep the old man warm.

Luffy still has the stretchy abilities of a Spinel, but he's still new to using them. In the first chapter when he's got an arm wrapped around Kebab the wolf, it only happened because he got his hand stuck on a spike and Kebab the wolf rolled around trying to get him off. He also has a lil toon force action going on. I tried to show this with a couple of scenes here and there. (When he falls into the ravine, when he runs into a tree in one chapter, the Luffy shaped hole in the bandit hut when he gets flung off Kebab into it, etc.)

I don't even know where the nickname idea of "Squirt" came from. I just thought it would be a funny nickname (derogatory) and it kept reoccurring in my brain and in the writing until it became squirt (affectionate). Who doesn't get called dumb names by your older siblings?

That eventually expanded into Sodalite handing out derogatory nicknames. You mostly see that with Garp. (Bootlicker, marble muncher, etc.) Sodalite is teaching Luffy how to be an even bigger little shit and I love to see it.

I didn't originally plan for the wolves to show up outside of the couple of times they appeared in the first chapter. Then, when I was writing the third chapter I needed a reason to have Garp escort Makino and Woop Slap to the bandits and then I wanted a reason to get Luffy and Co. to go to Foosha Village, so tada.

I especially didn't plan for Kebab to become Kebab. However, I wanted each of the brothers to take out a wolf in their own ways and Luffy just isn't prepared to fight creatures 1v1 right now, so I cooked up the idea of him becoming a pet thereafter.

Damn, that was a lot. Thanks for reading! Go check out @where-does-the-heart-lie for all the cool art they did for this AU, but please don't bother them for more art. I'm pretty sure they're not all that into the AU anymore, but they do have a lot of other cool posts and a comic they're working on for the boys if you need more ASL bros content. They also made a post with several drawings they wanted to do after reading that correspond with several events in the story if you wanna check that out.

That's it for now! Good luck, y'all. I'll be back with some kinda writing soon-ish.

#one piece #one piece au #portgas d. ace #flame emperor sabo #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #asl brothers one piece #one piece fanfiction #k.i.s.s. gem au #ao3 fanfic #my art #Fanfiction #Headcanons #Gem AU #Steven Universe AU

[nickywhoisi]

AAAAAAAHHH IT'S MY TWO FAVOURITES EVER

Finally finished the best boys, James and Edward. Or in this au project, Red Zircon 9.6 and Moonstone 6.3! Edited as I've finally decided.

The last time I drew this version of Jame was when I was still practicing how to draw the kind of gem I wanted him to be. Also gave the cast slightly samey outfits. I knew even a humanoid James would want to do everything to stand out, so a leg pattern and a big lifted collar was just the thing. I sort of liked the old leg pattern, but it was overly pointy and got way too difficult to measure/scale right. There were some problems with it and I'm amazed I finished the one at all. I told myself the k.i.s.s. method there

Red Zircon's outfit was about to look a little different, but I'm glad I went with something bolder in comparison with everyone else's looks. Also booty shorts. #Yassify. As for Moon, I just switched the tie. The one he would have gotten I will be giving to Toby once I get around to drawing him. The rest I'm super happy with. A jacket didn't seem to suit him. He looks like a charming lil butler now 83 awww

Fun fact; Red Zircon, in the story, has black flecks of Painite as inclusions. Not only to make him all the more unique, it's my little reference to the rws origins and his old black livery. You'll see that when I upload a coloured version sometime later. For now I wanted to keep my line art clean to show off his hairstyle.

Oh and pay no mind to the stuff around them. Those are in separate posts! ;D

#I am so drained from all of these days where I strughle to find a spot to sit and draw #and jyst be able to think and create??? #Like what the fuck is wrong with y'all out there having no sense of self control #makes me real angery #I be fumin #rough without an outlet #But I have it here...it is finished...phew... #train gems au #zomg my art! #God I made my own designs too gorgeous #send help #oh no he's hot x2 #EDITED A BIT because I have these two characters locked in now #thank goodness we've gotta know who Ed is gonna be

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Keep It Simple, Stupid Ch. 6 is up!

This is the last chapter of this arc... I'm a little bit emotional. This is awesome, though, because I've essentially proven to myself that I can start and finish a multi-chapter writing project.

I'll be taking a break from the Gem AU for a moment to avoid burnout, but I have roughly 10-ish ideas for this AU that I will be hopefully putting to words eventually. I'll keep this blog updated on how that goes. I also made a series on AO3 for this AU.

Thank you to everyone who has been enjoying this story so far and a special thanks to @where-does-the-heart-lie (who you should go follow if you haven't already) for making an awesome AU that got me so shook in the first place.

Title: Sweet Dreams

Word Count: 12,706

Summary:

As the aftermath of the wolf attack on the village settles down, Sodalite and Luffy meet once more after Sodalite's harsh words toward Luffy days ago. As they sort out their problems, will they be able to handle the surprise the citizens of Foosha Village have for them?

#one piece #one piece au #portgas d. ace #flame emperor sabo #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #one piece fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #asl brothers one piece #k.i.s.s. gem au #Fanfiction

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Keep it Simple, Stupid Ch. 5 is up!

I may have gotten too excited and decided to post this a day early... I feel like after the emotional roller coaster, I owe some payoff lmao. Thanks for all the kind words for the last chapter. :D The chapter after this one will be the wrap-up for this arc, and I'll be taking a small break from the Gem AU to avoid burnout, but I'll hopefully return with more love for these weirdos with another arc. They are only friends now!!! But what if they were brothers!!!!! Anyways, here you go.

Title: Damage Control

Word Count: 14,136

Summary:

Fire Agate and Moonstone wake up days after being poofed in a battle with corrupted gems. They have a question on their minds: What happened? Confusion combined with different feelings of anticipation at seeing Luffy again, one anxious and the other excited. How will they navigate this delicate situation? And what does Makino mean when she says they'll only "believe it when [they see] it"?

#one piece #one piece au #portgas d. ace #flame emperor sabo #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #one piece fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #asl brothers one piece #k.i.s.s. gem au

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Howdy howdy howdy.

Sometimes all you need to get back into a passion is a bout of hyperfixation. When that happens? The world is done for.

Find me here on AO3.

Find my art tag here.

Here, I'll post when I've updated ongoing fanfics and WIPs of things I'm currently working on. Click the Keep Reading for all that!

Note: These are organized by Ongoing/Finished and then in alphabetical order.

--- Ongoing Stories ---

Rays, Fangs, and Feathers

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Not Rated

Status: Incomplete, 6/? Chapters Posted

Word Count: (So far) 14,987

Summary:

It all started with the death of the sun. He was laid to rest under a blanket of clouds, mourned under an overcast sky, and left as only a memory when the world was forced to move on. Only a hint of light through a cloudy sky reminded the world of what used to be.

Like a sunset and a new dawn, a new sun would rise. Only to be hidden away, lost in a realm of clouds and sunlight.

Not many people would come to his realm. Years passed where he would busy himself, but he always yearned for something different, something new. Something had to be out there beyond the same old trees and the same old island. Day in and day out, he dreamt of what could be.

Then, one day, two strangers came to the sun. They were boys, barely older than himself. With them, they brought only a beckoning hand and a thrilling proposition.

- ASL God AU co-created with where-does-the-heart-lie on Tumblr -

--- Finished Stories ---

A Few Spare Beris

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Not Rated

Status: Complete, 1/1

Word Count: 2,661

Summary:

Ace always had spare beri for the news coos when they passed by, even when it meant spending the last of his money.

Marco wondered why he always looked so disappointed when he finished looking through the bounty posters. Even when his bounty went up, after all the cheering and celebration, Ace would stare out to sea with that same look in his eyes.

In Which Wade Realizes He Has a Piercing Kink. (Or It's Just a Disguised Spider-Man Kink.)

Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Marvel 

Rating: M

Status: Complete, 1/1

Word Count: 3,399

Summary:

Wade has started learning new things about Spider-Man every day. His face was a mystery, his name was unknown, but he knew a lot of other things. Like the fact that he had tattoos. And piercings. (Which, after plenty of research, do not get in the way of everyday life and mouth-related activities.)

Keep it Simple, Stupid

Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), Steven Universe (Cartoon)

Rating: T

Status: Complete, 6/6 Chapters Posted

Word Count: 97,266

Summary:

Fire Agate preferred to stick mostly to himself.

The mountain bandits he lived with didn't seem to care what he did one way or another unless it was affecting them. That was fine with him. He had more important things to do than worry about a bunch of humans. It's a measured distance. One he maintained pretty easily... most of the time. Then he came along. Some dumbass spinel that demanded he be called "Luffy." And everything just went downhill from there.

Being alone was starting to get A LOT harder with that dirtwad around.

A tale of three gems maybe, sort of finding a place in the world together.

- ASL Gem AU inspired by where-does-the-heart-lie's art -

#Gem AU #One Piece #Monkey D Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #Portgas D Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #Steven Universe AU #Marvel #Deadpool #Spiderman #Spideypool #Wade Wilson #Peter Parker #writing #Fanfiction #AO3 Fanfic #K.I.S.S. Gem AU #ASL Brothers One Piece #R.F.F. God AU

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

12k words into the next gem au chapter and i'm thinking i might have to split this guy in half. 😫 i'm gonna finish everything i have plotted out for it, but damn is she thicc already. i'll see how it looks once i'm done, but if it's Too Long, it will be cut in half. the good news is i'll be able to post the chapters relatively close together since they'll be fully written. but y'know.

#K.I.S.S. Gem AU #AO3 Fanfic #Gem AU #ASL Brothers #Monkey D. Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #One Piece Sabo #Flame Emperor Sabo #Portgas D. Ace #Fire Fist Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #One Piece #Steven Universe AU #One Piece AU

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

The latest chapter of Keep It Simple, Stupid is up!

Title: The Little Things

Word Count: 20,509

Summary: Things have been a lot slower since the grand escape from the Azurite Pirates. Wary of the Gray Kindergarten, for now, Sodalite spends his days re-exploring the forests of Mt. Corvo with the odd spinel, Luffy. In a chapter of new-old, familiar-unfamiliar things, Sodalite might just learn how to relax a little.

#K.I.S.S. Gem AU #AO3 Fanfic #Gem AU #Monkey D. Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #One Piece Sabo #Flame Emperor Sabo #Portgas D. Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #Steven Universe AU #One Piece AU #One Piece #ASL Brothers One Piece

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Keep it Simple, Stupid Ch. 4 is up!

Sorry this one took so long, y'all. In return for the patience, I come with a feast. I have two other chapters written, edited, and ready to post, so they won't have as big of a wait as this one! They will also be the ending of this arc. I have other plots in mind for this AU, but I'll need a quick brain break from the Gem AU until I get that sweet, sweet hyperfixation fuel again.

Title: Learned Cruelty

Word Count: 17,776

Summary: Luffy and Sodalite make their way down the mountain at the invitation of Makino and Woop Slap. In the days since the two left, corrupted gems attack Foosha and force the citizens to flee for their lives. Luffy and Sodalite take it upon themselves to solve the issue, but can they handle it? Or will the beasts tear them apart in more ways than one?

#one piece #one piece au #portgas d. ace #flame emperor sabo #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #one piece fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #asl brothers one piece #K.I.S.S. Gem AU #Gem AU

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Finally finished the last couple of chapters for the gem AU. 😩 Sorry it took so long, but if it's any consolation to those who were waiting, I had to split the last chapter into two again because it was long, so there will be three chapters left to this arc. First one incoming sometime today.

#one piece #one piece au #portgas d. ace #flame emperor sabo #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #one piece fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #asl brothers one piece #K.I.S.S. Gem AU

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

K.I.S.S. Ch. 4 Snippet

Slowly but surely. 👏 Currently at 9k words and counting. This'll either be the last chapter or I'll split it in half after I finish it depending on how long it is. Either way, both will be posted pretty close together. You can find the rest of the chapters here. :D

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“SODA GUY!! YOU OKAY?” Luffy stared up at the fusion, concern etched across his face.

“Fine, squirt.” Sodalite schooled his expression, forced his tone into something even just to keep Luffy from worrying too much.

It was all only hard light at the end of the day, but it still had him falling to his knee while his leg fused itself back together. He forced himself through the pain to dart around, using the momentum to slam the pipe in his hands against the side of the wolf’s head. The pipe made the most satisfying ding sound and rang as it made contact with the hard exoskeleton of the beast. The wolf's body tensed, but that couldn't stop the force from knocking it to the side, rolling before it slammed into its other fallen comrade. They left a large divot in the ground as they slid across it before a few sturdy trees stopped their momentum. The wood creaked and trembled, but stayed standing.

“Just gotta pest problem.” Sodalite finished.

#Monkey D. Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #Flame Emperor Sabo #Portgas D. Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #One Piece AU #One Piece #ASL Brothers One Piece #K.I.S.S. Gem AU

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

The theme of the next K.I.S.S. chapter, me just now realizing it as I'm 5k words in:

Nemo must have really made an impact on me as a child, goddamn.

#K.I.S.S. Gem AU #One Piece #Gem AU #One Piece AU #AO3 Fanfic #Youtube

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

K.I.S.S. Ch. 3 Snippet

Find the previous chapters here.

Sodalite stood frozen, staring down at the cliff’s edge.

Silence. “Squirt? You good?” 

More silence. 

Sodalite knelt down, lips pressing together a little tighter. Shit, had that knocked Spinel off the edge too? “... Spinel?” Sodalite questioned when he didn’t see the familiar red and pink head appear. His voice was slightly quieter, almost afraid of the answer. 

“It’s LUFFY, dammit!” The gem himself yelled, head popping up over the cliff, glaring and intact. All the better to strangle him for worrying Sodalite like that.

#K.I.S.S. Gem AU #AO3 Fanfic #Gem AU #Monkey D Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #One Piece Sabo #Portgas D Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #Steven Universe AU #Unedited #One Piece AU #ASL Brothers One Piece

[ohboyhowdybuckaroo]

Rays, Fangs, and Feathers Ch. 1 Snippet

You can find the full chapter here.

Shout out to where-does-the-heart-lie for keeping me sane in the process of figuring out plot holes and letting me know when shit just doesn't make sense lmao.

Forewarning if you've read the K.I.S.S. Gem AU, this new story is going to have much shorter chapters, but more chapters total. I'm trying to keep them around 2k words.

Sabo gestured around them, at the forest sitting atop an island of clouds. It took his breath away. “I don’t know about you, but this is the most interesting place I’ve ever been.”

Dark eyes drifted over the landscape, freckled face a mask of indifference. “It’s okay.” Ace conceded. 

Sabo, however, would never let Ace live down the gobsmacked expression that formed on his face the second they passed through the gate an hour ago. “It’s more than okay and you know it, asshole.”

#Monkey D. Luffy #Revolutionary Sabo #Flame Emperor Sabo #Portgas D. Ace #One Piece Fanfiction #One Piece AU #One Piece #ASL Brothers One Piece #R.F.F. God AU