#kuina lives au

[thirtysmoke]

oh, did she die? don't remember that happening...

+ bonus design sketches

#one piece #one piece fanart #she deserves the world #reviving characters is my favourite part of being an artist #fanart #digital art #shimotsuki kuina #kuina one piece #roronoa zoro #wado ichimonji #artist #art #ван піс #drawing #kuina lives au

[natade-art]

kuina lives au #8374 u can't see it but kuina has wado here

ID: first of three images is normal pre-timeskip Zoro standing next to Kuina. Kuina wears a white sleeveless top, green hakama pants with a pink sash, a brown leather belt, and a blue embroidered haori over his shoulders.

Second image is a page of sketches in blue lines. Kuina and Tashigi side by side, Tashigi sheepishly smiling and holding her sword to her chest while Kuina looks sullen: captioned “transmasc swag but in different ways”. To the right, Kuina holds up an image of younger Zoro and asks “have you seen him he’s green and very stupid”. Under these is Kuina sitting, looking serious, fist clenched, labeled “cool rounin looking for brother”, and one more sketch of Tashigi berating Kuina (no dialogue) and Kuina thinking with an exasperated grin “she sounds just like I did...”

Third image is just two sketches in green: Zoro laughing at Kuina, asking “so, brothers, huh?”. Kuina embarrassed and annoyed says “do I need to beat you a 2002nd time?” with the context “started saying he was looking for his brother out of convenience and it stuck” to the side with an arrow pointing to him. Under them it says “they are brothers now”, followed by a sketch of Kuina waving and introducing himself to the Straw Hats, with Usopp and Nami thinking “this is Ace all over again” end ID

#next time i draw this kuina design ill make the pants look better more like what they actually are i am afraid of carpal tunnel though #roronoa zoro #kuina one piece #one piece #kuina lives au #its not even really a kuina lives au REALLY its just a fun little self indulgent twisting some detail of the straw hats stories au #im still figuring it out #thats a really long id. well...

[foolilazuli]

Au where Kuina lives and Zoro had the unfortunate accident

She runs from home bc she couldn’t stand the loss of the person who believed and supported her dreams. She becomes a bounty hunter to support herself and becomes Pirate Hunter Kuina

Luffy asks her to join his crew, Kuina rejects him at first but seeing how brash, loud, and stupid Luffy is, he reminds her of her old childhood friend/rival and becomes quickly endeared by him. And when she tells him about her dream and Luffy wholeheartedly believes and supports her

She’s a little weary of Nami, mostly bc she’s used to being around boys. They butt heads sometimes but Kuina appreciates having a girl friend

Sanji, Kuina absolutely despises. She does not like the special treatment he gives her just for being a girl, she finds it insulting

#one piece #one piece au #kuina lives au #shimotsuki kuina #op kuina #one piece kuina #monkey d. luffy #one piece luffy #straw hat luffy #op luffy #straw hat pirates #straw hats #straw hat crew

[turntechgaykid]

More of my Kuina Lives AU:

✨ Tashigi ✨

Extras for this:

• I love muscular Tashigi 🙏

• Tashigi is NOTICABLY nicer then Kuina

• I did make her an Kuina look a lot alike but they do have a few differences

• I think if Kuina an her had the time to talk they'd get along

#one piece #straw hat pirates #shimotsuki kuina #one piece kuina #tashigi #one piece tashigi #one piece au #kuina lives au #roronoa zoro

[oneread]

Random hcs for kuina and zoro in a kuina lives au

- platonic x10000

-have begrudgingly pretended to be a couple for plans but they exclusively pretend to be a toxic couple on their way to divorce

-equally chaotic. She is NOT the voice of reason, there is no voice of reason. God is dead and they killed him for a klondike bar

-they become bounty hunters together pre-straw hats. They decide to run away as Kuina faces more and more pressure to be a ‘proper’ woman and stop training. They do end up lost/at loose ends and start taking bounties

-Demons of the East Blue “Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro” and “The Unshakeable Swordsman Kuina” bc she has a spectacular RBF

-They trade the three swords they have between them back and forth. Zoro aquires a fourth and starts perfecting three sword style. Eventually Kuina gives him Wado permanently because she wants to prove she can do things her way, including with swords that have no history

-mid to late puberty zoro makes a point to compare chest sizes and claims he’ll become the greatest swordsman WITH boobs bc he’s not a coward

-share clothes. In fact there is no his clothes and her clothes there’s just a pile on the floor or a bundle in the bottom of their backpacks that they grab from and sniff test each time they change

-this works bc he’s a smidge wider and she’s a bit taller. Around the post timeskip era she shoots up one last time and grows into her Tall Ass Wano Lady heritage. He of course gets bigger like in canon

-nap sitting up back to back often

-they also share a bed pretty often, a habit from their broke bounty hunter days, when they would do so to save money. Again it’s totally platonic but it infuriates Sanji to no end, which only makes them do it more

-kuina sort of bops in and out of the plot as they go while on her own training arc journey

-she’s def with them in wano, the bloodline connections alone would be hilarious

-kuina, standing between Kiku and Yamato: it feels like the universe is trying to tell me something I swear but I can’t figure out what it is goddammit but I can feel it in my bones (🏳️‍⚧️)

-armament heavy arm work zoro v armament heavy core work kuina (fueling her power from the whole body, since she doubts her upper body strength, also keeps her arms quick and her base steady). I just think it would be interesting to see them apply the same skills in a different was

-kuina has a great sense of direction and a stunning dyslexia/discalcula combo. Duo minmaxed for street smarts but they make up for each other so it’s fine

-Zoro still hates fighting Tashigi, because he sees her hesitance as an insult to female swordfighters and thinks she’s giving kuina a bad reputation. Literally no one else thinks they look similar, since Kuina stopped having a baby face like a decade ago

#one piece #rambling #zoro #kuina one piece #Kuina lives au

[arbitrarycategories]

chapter TWO of my kuina lives au! this is. mostly fight scene! they kick morgans ass don't even worry

#one piece #kuina lives au #shimotsuki kuina #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #coby #romance dawn #shells town #wanted: white blade kuina

[thousand-sunnies]

every day the collection of fics i want to write grows bigger

#what do i have #ace pov of a lesson in changing the world which is basically a standard ace lives fic #time travel au but luffy is basically not a character and everyone else gets to do fun stuff #modern au where luffy makes friends with new people (law and kidd) and they’re fascinated by the 17 million connections he has #(3 princesses 2 world famous singers 2 kendo champions a model a prosthetics engineer a foremost historian the list goes on) #vampire devil fruit zosan moment (does the principle of feeding anyone who’s hungry include offering up your wrist? spoiler alert: yes) #kuina lives fic (kuina would hate sanji with a passion) #(sanji says he refuses to fight a woman and those are literally kuina’s sleeper agent activation words) #oh a sequel to benefits of drinking with strangers ofc cora meeting the strawhats and also sengoku #sanji & vivi arranged marriage (it works out exactly how you’d expect) #lawlu fae au (the fae owning me is the fae’s problem) #AND cora & ace resurrection shenanigans #goddamn and that’s off the top of my head #shit i need to sit down and write ill never get through all of this #if anyone is curious about any of these please ask meeeeeeeeee i always want to yell

[gildedmuse]

What do my fanfic and OPLA have in common?

Reminding the fandom how badass Kuina is.

#all hearts #shameless plug #Kuina is so badass #OPLA did her justice #then it killed her #fucking bastard #let my girl live #one piece #shimotsuki kuina #one piece live action #also zoro is super gay in both #just saying #roronoa zoro #trafalgar d. water law #trafalgar law #one piece fanfiction #one piece au #zoro as a heart pirate #kuina as a strawhat

[umbrace-rambles]

Wait. was the whole thing about Zoro being a random kid coming to challenge Koushirou's dojo and being forced to join if he lost actually anime-only? No fucking way

#It so strongly implied he was an orphan with that scene lol #town stray kid #Also KUINA!!!!! MY BELOVED KUINA #One day I will develop a Kuina lives AU that will be SO self-indulgent #one day #Rip queen you'd have loved Mizu from Blue Eye Samurai #umbra reads one piece

[alexoreality]

A Different First Mate AU

Where everything is normal but Kuina and Zoro swap places.

You heard me, Kuina and Zoro swap places.

Kuina's the First mate of the Straw Hat pirates. Zoro is up in the afterlife cheering her on.

Yes, she picked up on the Three sword style in honor of Zoro.

Yes, she loses money.

No, she doesn't drink too much sake.

Thank you for your time

#one piece au #one piece #roronoa zoro #zoro #kuina #Kuina Lives but Zoro Dies AU #ADFM AU #Kuina shut off her emotions after that #but Luffy said 'no' and she's now recovering from her best friend's death #Zoro cheering her on in heaven #Kuina doesn't get lost #Well she sometimes does #Because Zoro keeps pointing her in the wrong direction #Zoro guards over her like a guardian angel #he does it to Luffy too

[fairyofthefriz]

Wayward Daughters (the Diva Pirates) update!

Chapter Two

Uta and Zoro, FIGHT! Day Six of my Bakers Dozen Update Spree, let's go! It's a week today until my birthday 😎

All of the socials

#friz writes #wayward daughters (the diva pirates) #uta #uta one piece #shanks #kuina one piece #roronoa zoro #one piece fic #one piece fanfic #one piece fanfiction #uta lives au

[bitterly-almond]

more Kuina lived AU with some slight changes

it feels like every time i draw her she gets bigger. i still want zoro to have wado as a symbol of their promise so i gave kuina the nidai to go with zoro's sandai :))

#zoro: do you wanna have wado? #kuina: nah. i'll take her from you after we fight for the greatest sword user title #thank you guys for the enthusiastic support for buff masc kuina 🤲 #one piece fanart #artists on tumblr #one piece #roronoa zoro #shimotsuki kuina #tashigi #chopper plz give zoro sum glasses hes blind thats why he gets lost all the time

[turntechgaykid]

More for my Kuina Lives AU:

• Kuina's Dad has reported her missing to the Marines so she's very careful not to let Marines get pictures of her face in case they try to inform him where she is

• Zoro had a crush on her when they were young but Kuina knew she was Aroace an explained to him she didn't want that kind of relationship with anyone an afterwards her an Zoro became much closer (-especially after Zoro realized he liked guys-) an now they're at the point where they'll storm into eachothers rooms while changing an not even blink

• Doesn't get along super well with anyone on the crew at first bc she feels like they're gonna steal Zoro from her or that he'll abandon her

• Her love language is Quality time and Acts of service

• Nami an her do NOT get along, at first, she hates how bossy Nami is an how quick she is to have others protect her rather then try to get stronger. She sees Nami as the epitome of everything she didn't want to be an the stereotypes she fought against.

And Nami hates how Kuina looks down on her for being physically weaker an doesn't acknowledge Nami's intelligence an resourcefulness. Also hates that Kuina judges her for her feminity.

(-Kuina thinks Nami is encouraging misogyny by acting in line with the stereotypes of women & Nami thinks Kuina is perpetuating misogyny by belittling women who're very feminine or not as physically capable-)

Extra art:

#one piece #straw hat pirates #roronoa zoro #cat burglar nami #kuina lives au #one piece kuina #shimotsuki kuina #gay zoro #aroace kuina #kuina is afraid of rejection/abandonment

[earthlyruins]

"beauty and the beast au where zoro's the beast and sanji's—" okay sure yeah but what about when sanji's the beast and zoro's the beaut.

zoro's good with kids and good with math. we've seen this. we've experienced it. he play fights with the kids regularly and helps out with stocks and sales of local shops

think of link twilight princess... big brother swordsman

also better than All of the knights in the village. this includes a very certain red, blue, and green haired trio. they're all very bitter about it. among other things

zoro's also the only person to ever use three swords so like. there's that. everyone thinks he has a few screws loose. he doesn't. or so he proclaims

insert kuina backstory... he makes a promise to himself to become the greatest swordsman in the world. it's just that he's, in a word, broke. and also a little sentimental but don't let nami hear him say that

judge is the head of this mini military and is very adamant on trying to recruit zoro to siege the palace on the hill. for Some Reason.

nami conspires with zoro that it's because he has some long lost enemy up there. Little Does She Know

meanwhile sanji lives alone in the castle, cursed. but not in the way you'd think. rather than a hulking beast, he's pretty much the same if not for the fact that he has a helmet on his head. thanks, dad.

thinking about the rest of the straw hats being little dancing singing objects. that was more or less an accidental side effect of the curse (sanji took off his helmet once, and it knocked luffy into a candle and ussop into a clock and well.)

he's slowly starving (hence why he tried to take the helmet off). the cook who cannot taste his food. throw in a wilting rose metaphor and when the last petal falls is when he dies

fortunately he has an old man by the name of zeff who literally won't let that happen. also all his friends that will fight death to keep sanji kicking

quite literally in some cases

so that's why when nami goes missing trying to explore the mysterious castle and zoro immediately goes to follow her, zeff practically knocks down his door to set the fear of god in him

too bad zoro doesn't believe in any god

but hey fine he won't hurt the creature in the castle. creature. period. zeff hits him over the head with a baguette

zoro finds nami and also sanji. decides in a split moment to announce he'll trade places with her. she is sitting on a couch. unharmed. she wouldn't have Been harmed. nami proceeds to call him a fucking idiot

sanji laughs at him, and zoro refuses to leave out of spite. he learns that sanji is a priss and a prince or sometimes a princess depending on the day, that he has a brilliant passion for cooking (whose skills are similar to a certain chef back in the village), and that when he laughs, zoro finds himself laughing too.

discovers sanji's dream of the all blue, and zoro finds himself telling sanji about his dream of becoming the greatest swordsman, of wado, of kuina

and eventually, Eventually, he finds out the details of sanji's curse. why he sometimes can't dredge out the energy to get out of bed (and why it's getting more and more frequent these days), and why he can't take off that helmet when the key is right there. and what the flower is all about.

proceeds to Book It when sanji tells him about judge and his brothers. except he doesn't tell sanji this, so sanji is sitting around in the castle, heartbroken and wondering Why he's heartbroken, while zoro is marching back to his village, Pissed

zeff pulls him aside though and they go and find reiju after zoro tells him that sanji's condition is worsening

zoro comes Back but this time with sanji's real dad and sister in tow and after a lot of tears and yelling (at zoro) ((and zeff)) (((then at zoro again))) they devise a plan on how to take judge down.

zoro plans on beating up ichiji niji and yonji simultaneously which sanji disagrees with. specifically because he wants to be the one to kick niji into next week

yadayadayada insert fight scene bc this is already ungodly long and judge gets exiled and imprisoned. niji gets drop kicked. the helmet comes off just as the timer runs out (thinking that the only way it could come off was to not only have someone fall For "the beast" but to have said beast love himself too. which zoro did. #love)

happily ever after. sanji eats and cooks and zoro fights and they take care of each other and find all blue. okay goodnight

#op #zosan #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #zoro x sanji #one piece #Yeah. #this got away from me help

[stargargoyle-art]

I've been obsessed with the idea of single dad zoro and baby chopper zolu au. I have so many thoughts about this au i'll put under this post.

The idea is that in highschool Zoro ended up as a single dad. Whether thats because Kuina was the mum but died or because Zoro is trans, i'm not sure yet. But he's a single dad working as a Kendo instructor having the send his kid chopper to daycare. Luffy, Nami, Robin and Jimbei all work at the daycare. Luffy would probably work as a physical ed assistant. This leads to a zoro luffy meet cute and them realizing they live in the same building, luffy lives with Ussop. Sanji is zoros old rival from highschool and works at a local restaurant, giving free meals to chopper to help zoro out with money.

I have so much brain rot for this idea, let me know if you want more!

#my art #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roanoa zoro #zolu #chopper #tony tony chopper #one piece au #one piece fanart #single dad zoro au

[one-idea]

Maybe consuming media where parallel dimensions exist has rotten my brain. (The spider verse, years of comic book, au fanfics) but worlds were little changes change the whole world are just fascinating to me.

I’ve seen stories were Luffy is the one that dies at Marineford. Where Luffy is the older sibling. Where Shanks or someone else arrives in time to save Ace. I’ve seen Kuina lived and takes Zoro’s place on the straw hats. But what I haven’t seen is a reverse straw hat crew.

Let me explain myself.

Shanks isn’t the only Yonko vacationing in the east blue, Whitebeard takes a break there as well. Meeting a young Ace. This Whitebeard knows his time is limited but sees a future for Ace. He can’t take the boy with him but they promise to meet again one day when Ace is a great pirate, a pirate great enough to take Whitebeard place in the world. The rest of the back story (meeting Luffy, Sabo, everything) stays intact and Ace sets out at age 17. (I was going to have him meet Shanks instead of Luffy but Luffy and Shanks’ relationship is important to me and will play a role later)

Where he meets 17 year old Kuina. (She is 1 year older then Zoro, and he was one year younger then Ace so they would be the same age) in this world Zoro is the one who died. He was the only one who believed that she could be the strongest swordsman, he didn’t care about her gender. They promised that one of them would be the strongest swordsman in the world and then he died. Now at 17 she is on a journey to be the world’s best swordswoman.

The two start traveling together where they meet Nojiko, a thief, she’s an okay navigator but not as good as her sister. She speaks fondly of her sister but doesn’t mention her village (or the pirates there) Ace instantly likes her, no it’s not because he gets to trade stories with her about how great Luffy is vs how great Nami is. Kuina enjoyed their stories but her heart hurts a bit at the fact she doesn’t have the same number of stories of her ‘dumb little sibling.’ But strangely Nojiko only tells stories about young Nami.

They keep going and meet a sickly girl named Kaya. She was visiting the shipyard while they were looking to get a new ship. Kuina recognizes Kaya’s brand new butler as Kuro and none of the crew are going to let him take advantage of Kaya. (Ace and Nojiko are over protective siblings and Kaya is the same age/a year younger than their siblings. And Kuina has to much honor plus she just really likes to fight) they save Kaya but the girl realizes that there is no life for her in Syrup village. There are just to many traumatic memories for her there so she joins the crew. Bring with her a brand new ship and a boat load of beri. (She leaves behind most of her fortune to Usopp and Merry, knowing they will take care of it until Usopp is ready to sail.

The crew travels on to a floating restaurant where they meet red leg Zeff and his apprentice Reiju. Her backstory is the same and Sanji, her and Zeff trapped in an island. It isn’t until much later that the crew finds out about her connections to Germa 66 and what happened to her beloved little brother Sanji.

The Baratie arc goes about the same with Kuina getting defeated by Mihawk, and Nojiko stealing the boat and the money.

They track Nojiko down and find out what Arlong did to her village. How he killed her sister to send a message to the village and imprisoned her mother. Using Bell-meré’s Marine knowledge to expand his territory and threatening Nojiko and the villages lives to keep her cooperating. So much about Nojiko makes sense. How she only tells stories about young Nami, why she cared so much about Kaya’s money. As they learn about her trying to buy her village back.

Arlong obviously breaks their deal. How can he keep Bell-meré in line without her daughter and village as leverage.

Needless to say Ace, Kuina, and Reiju burn the place to the ground (Kaya helps as she can but she’s still getting used to fighting)

They sail on with Bell-meré’s blessing.

When they get to the grand line they meet two fools named Mr. Nine and Miss Wednesday. But it’s not what you think. Mr. Nine is Koza. Vivi told him about the danger their country was in and he went in her stead. (At this time he is 17 and she is 13, but when he left he would have been 15 and she 11)

The crew agrees to help him, (Ace is thrilled to have another dude on the team) when they meet a mysterious women with white hair called Miss All Sunday. The encounter is very similar to Robin’s introduction.

They sail on to little Garden. Kaya has a great time meeting the giants (thrilled to tell Usopp about them one day) but also starts to really work on mastering a weapon.

They leave with a slowly sickening Nojiko. They stop at Drum Island to get her help where they meet and eccentric Doctor who helps them. His name? Dr. Hiriluk. He tells them about how he was deathly ill when his son cured him by accidentally giving him a Devil fruit. A Zoan type fruit. Specifically the, reindeer model. Unfortunately his son was killed by Drum’s island king for being a ‘monster’

Needless to say Wapol gets his butt handed to him. Dr. Hitiluk, seeing his country free and his dream fulfilled decided to join up with the crew to live out Chopper’s dream of curing all diseases.

They continue on, freeing Arabasta. With Koza staying behind to help rebuild his country, but he might rejoin 👀. As their sailing away someone makes themselves know. The mysterious white hair woman is on their ship and joining their crew, her name? Nico Olivia.

I’ll cover more of this later. I have so many ideas. But all of this to say. Imagine this crew meeting the straw hat crew. Something crosses their Dimensions into one another and Luffy gets to see Ace, Zoro gets to see and adult Kuina. Nami gets to see Nojiko and hear about their mother’s blessing their life of piracy. Usopp and Kaya meeting when both of them are competent warriors of the sea. Reiju reuniting with Her brother Sanji (I haven’t even told you what happened to Sanji in this world!) Chopper and Hiriluk. Robin and Olivia.

(I did this for Ace and Luffy and Zoro and Kuina but I think Sanji, Robin and Chopper will rip my heart out more)

Let me know what you think.

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#monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #nami #nico robin #one piece #usopp #one piece kaya #nojiko #shimotsuki kuina #fire fist ace #one piece ace #vinsmoke sanji #vinsmoke reiju #dr Hiriluk #one piece Koza #one piece vivi #tony tony chopper #nico olvia #reverse strawhat pirate au #straw hat pirates #portagas d. ace #gol d. ace