The inside of an abandoned apartment building, lost to the forces of time and decay.
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Prompt 183
There’s a loud snarling noise outside the window.
Not that Jazz is concerned. She’s just also trying to study for med school and would appreciate some quiet. And preferred her brother not contracting rabies whenever he tried to square off with the local rogue or three who tried to use the alley.
As he had put it, it was his alley, he’d claimed it for tinkering. Though perhaps she should maybe ask him to quiet down on his insisted territorialism, even if she understood it. She would also probably maul someone if they tried to enter their apartment flat. It came with the territory of being ecto contaminated, or as the rest of them were now calling it, with being a liminal.
Once the more draconic aspects started to emerge well, one wasn’t just contaminated anymore after all. Hence the whole school-worth of them leaving Amity while all their parents waged war against the guys in white. Last she heard it was going well.
Which meant she could focus on her studies as soon as- okay it wouldn’t be quiet, it seems the rest of the kids joined in on mauling the poor idiot who tried to steal their things from the alley. Damn…
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Martin now that all of his roommates have moved out:
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shanks & buggy, and giving up on your dreams
before my latest reread/catch-up on one piece i had not given the history between buggy and shanks much thought, except to wonder a little how they went from this:
(in the chapter 19 flashback, set a day or so before buggy gets his devil fruit powers; they're at most 12 here.)
to this:
(a single panel flashback in chapter 434 to the day roger was executed; they're 15 here.)
like. what happened in the intervening (three?) years to make shanks think he might get a positive response to this request? and why is he making the request in the first place? he's the one who said they should go their own ways, originally.
six hundred fifty chapters later, we get a… partial answer. but not to shanks' side of the story.
(from the chapter 1082 flashback, of course; this panel is from an unspecified time, but it's beanie buggy so probably closer to 12 than 15)
young buggy (the littlest bug, omg ;~;) sees shanks' potential and gives up on his own dreams (of becoming the pirate king, i assume).
now, is it just that he gave up on his own dreams, or did he make a new dream out of shanks becoming pirate king? that isn't clear… but I think that must be what happened.
(more of the chapter 1082 flashback, a more detailed version of the flashback from 434; they're 15)
because after roger is executed, and shanks tells buggy he's changed his mind about going to laugh tale, buggy's shocked response and rejection feel deeply personal. but he digs up some ancient baggage between them to use as his excuse for leaving, rather than state his true feelings…
which suggests shanks didn't know buggy was so invested in shanks becoming the pirate king.
so. it seems to me. that somehow shanks became aware that buggy's goals had changed. but he did not know why, or what they'd changed to. just that they were now (supposedly) compatible with his own.
at which news I imagine he thought: this is great! now buggy can be part my crew and travel with me while we both go after our goals!
🙃
this is just enough of an answer to make me obsessed. i have not been able to stop thinking about 1082 and its implications for weeks.
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