I give you: The Navigator’s Map of Shanties for the Weary Voyager!
So my husband got the idea to make a timeline map of my Shanks x Makino series ("Shanties" for short), so that readers could better see how the different fics are connected, and while I should have been prepared, knowing full well how brilliant he is, I was not prepared for the end result. I mean look at it!!!
Some descriptions of key fics and planned updates below! The fics are listed in the recommended reading order on AO3, but feel free to chart your own course! Beware rogue whirlpools and dangerous straits, and remember that however dark and treacherous the sea, at the end of the voyage is always a safe harbour ♥
Hoist the colours! 🏴☠️
Heed the Siren’s Call // Shanks and Makino’s origin story, and the starting point of Shanties. Setting is pre-series to the timeskip.
Sailor's Folly // Siren's Call from Shanks' perspective. Includes the origins of Makino's sword, Siren.
Sea Songs // Sequel to Siren’s Call, set during the canon timeskip and after.
Scylla // Pirate!Makino AU, where Makino leaves East Blue with the Red-Hair Pirates at the start of One Piece.
Charybdis // Sea Songs AU, where Blackbeard destroys Fuschia and Makino goes on a trek across the Grand Line looking for Shanks, who thinks she's dead.
Mnemosyne // Kuja!Makino AU, where after Siren's Call, a pregnant Makino ends up on Amazon Lily.
Andromeda Unbound // Reverie Arc AU, where Makino, the Revolutionary Army, the Red-Hair Pirates, Straw-Hats and the Warlords join forces to crash Shanks’ execution.
On the Water // Pirate!Makino AU, where Makino and her child leave East Blue with the Red-Hair Pirates after the timeskip. Includes Shanks and Makino's floating bar, Siren's Call.
Salt Vows // Arrested!Makino AU, set during the current Egghead arc.
Tethered to Kinder Shores // Makino and the Red-Hair Pirates. Includes the origin of Makino's shanty, "Moored to Her Port".
Moon and Her Maiden // Selkie AU. Canon OP verse but Makino is a selkie.
Tideswept // Royal/Arranged Marriage AU.
Bind Me to the Tide // Soulmate AU, where soulmates feel each other's pain. Canon OP verse but with soulmates.
Love In Good Liquor // One-Shot collection set during the different Shanties verses.
Planned updates
This list is not comprehensive (meaning I have more fics that I plan to continue than the ones listed here), but it's the stories I'm focusing on right now:
Andromeda Unbound // Chapter 9/9 ✅ (Complete)
Bind Me to the Tide // Chapter 5/? ✅
Mnemosyne // Chapter 29/29 ✅ (Complete)
Salt Vows // Chapter 3/? ✅
Tideswept // Chapter 8/9
On the Water // Chapter 4/5
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when you get into the mechanisms no one tells you that you'll never be able to hear certain songs the same again.
Playing Tetris? No, now you are leading a rebellion and giving you soldiers one last talk before sending them to death. Or maybe you are old King Cole and also giving your soldiers one last talk before you send them to death. Heard Ciao Bella somewhere? You are now a member of that same resistance, fighting agaisnt an army of rose reds. Heard over the hills and far away? You are now a soldier toy bereft of life. sorry
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Why SEGA should let Shadow sing:
A.k.a. Shadow voice actors having a great singing voice masterpost.
Kōji Yusa (JP, 2001-present)
Mizukaze (fave)
Break Your Destiny
Mugen no Ori Kara
ADVENT
Shampoo Dream
Addictive World
Hyouri
DARKNESS NIGHT
Fuyu no Hanabi
BRAND NEW EDEN
Code name is
Sekai wa Sude ni Azamuki ni Ue ni
Bonus: Meow
There's more out there, most likely. This is just some I was able to find on YouTube.
David Humphrey (EN, 2001-2004)
Where is the girl?
Unnamed
Ian Hanlin (EN, Sonic Prime)
The Dark-Eyed Sailor
The End of the Rainbow
This list may grow with time. Hopefully.
In conclusion: let Shadow sing.
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I can see Will and Hannibal inspiring a murder ballad or two after the fall. The POV could be different depending on what version of the story people wanna believe. Would it speak of Hannibal as a corrupting devil, and Will the victim? Or would it be a tale of two monsters who are human enough to love each to the point of obsession, who you're never quite sure died but still haunt society's heart? Something else, somewhere in between? In the end, the truth is what you believe late at night, when lost among the crooning of the lyrics, a twig is heard snapping or footsteps are falling. It's too far away to pinpoint where it is, but not far away enough for comfort.
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i hope after we get their full chapters ishmael and heathcliff become besties, and i hope that's somehow worse for everyone else on the bus. i hope they get into such deranged arguments with the others that vergilius hates it more than when they were just fighting each other
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“percy's a great singer!!” “percy's a terrible singer!!”
silence my children. perseus jackson is a good singer, but he wastes his talents by singing sea shanties, and refuses to sing anything else.
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All the Shanties covers side by side. They look like bona fide bodice-rippers!!!
Cover Anon, wherever you are in the world, I have no idea what I can give you back for this gift, but please know that I will never be over this.
Shanks and Makino in Shanties for the Weary Voyager 🏴☠️❤️⚓
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Big gruff man on a ship lost in the middle of nowhere
Loved the show, it was brutal with it's dark theme about the final years of the whale oil trade and seal hunting in the 1800s, and survival within a bunch of men with no chance of redemption.
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Great cast, mostly because Sam Spruell did an excellent job. I've seen him in a couple of movies before but dang he did really good as Cavendish.
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