#i'm picturing like... at some point nika!luffy goes off on some kind of chaos rampage

[chromotps]

hi hello i had another acelu supernatural AU thought while I was working... I know Original Anon said it wouldn't get into the angels/demons storyline, BUT

what if there was still the doomed-brother plotline? Like, if it's Luffy who's like Sam, destined to be the vessel of a Lucifer-figure... maybe Nika (who I haven't gotten to in my OP read, so I'm just going on vibes) has chosen Luffy as its host. And it's mostly a creature of chaos/not purely evil, but it's so powerful that the longer it inhabits Luffy, the more likely it is that he'll be lost/"taken over"

meanwhile Ace is still the son of Roger, famed demon hunter and has taken on all his skills and tricks... but it's the way Ace is different from Roger—that he still sees Luffy as his brother, someone he knows and loves and has learned to trust—that allows him to save him

#ehh? eh? #i'm picturing like... at some point nika!luffy goes off on some kind of chaos rampage #but it's still kind of seeing things through Luffy's eyes so #the path of destruction across the country follows important places in Luffy's life #and as Ace is trying to track them down he learns about how luffy spent the time that they grew up apart #and meets luffy's friends (the strawhats!!) to ask them for help #but also learns that in little ways luffy was always thinking of him #anyway #big scene where they finally corner nika but he's like overloading with power #and it's that trope you know #where ace's choices are 1. strike nika down #or 2. let him live but it'll cause the destruction of like a whole state or whatever #and it's not that ace can't hurt luffy but he believes in luffy's strength to overcome this #look i LOVE the trope!! where he makes a speech and it gets through to luffy through all the chaos #and ace is like 'it may have looked like i was the one taking care of you all these years... but you were the one that saved me' #'and i need you to do it one more time. i know you can' #ahhhhhhh #acelu #headcanons #there's also the alternative where ace is the doomed one/maybe roger was a literal demon so now ace is on the angels' hitlist #it would be very similar to canon.... except if i have anything to say about it #he'd fucking live lmao 😂