who is this person / chapter one
On a quest to find love on a dating website, Sanji falls head over heels for a woman with an interest in...alternative relationships that sends him down a rabbit hole of completing tasks for a seemingly sadistic mistress. But what happens when she turns out to be more than what she seems?
Darkfic with themes of internalised homophobia, bad bdsm practices and lying about your identity to strangers on the internet. Please read with caution. This is NOT how BSDM should be practiced. Always practice Sane, Safe and Consensual practices boarders on being considered dead dove do not eat material
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tags included: Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers Internalized Homophobia Bottom Vinsmoke Sanji Top Roronoa Zoro Roronoa Zoro and Vinsmoke Sanji Bickering Sanji and Zoro are awful in this fic btw they both do terrible things Grimdark It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better Sanji is really homophobic in this fic because he's dealing with being bi jknjkn Roronoa Zoro is Bad At Feelings and deals with his feeling AWFULLY BDSM Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane Dead Dove: Do Not Eat i'm only tagging it as dead dove for safety because this is dark
authors note:
So, this is more like a personal little mission for me. I wrote a cringy fanfic called Who’s That Person when I was 13. That was ten years ago. I am about to turn 25 this year. I have been rewatching One Piece and decided I really liked the idea of Who Is This Person, but I wrote it poorly because I was 13. So, I am going to revise it. I still get comments on the sequel called Misery asking if I will ever continue it.
SO. With that said, this fanfic will be entirely different. No more ooc suicide attempts or just cringy sex scenes and DEFINATELY no mpreg if there’s a sequel. It will also be set in the modern world because I don’t know if I ever explained what verse Who’s This Person was written in. Probably didn’t think about it too much. Either way, I hope this is a lot better because I cringe whenever I read the original.
THIS STORY IS PRIMARY TOLD IN EITHER SANJI'S POV OR ZORO'S POV. Similarly to the original aha. But I will indicate it clearly in the story.
LOGGING ON; S POV
The idea of online dating had seemed abhorrent to Sanji. A self-proclaimed pristine gentleman who was interested in real romance and not the one behind a screen. Online dating, among his age group, seemed to kind of be the norm. When he had his weekly meetings with Nami and Robin (his gal pals), they (although, more Nami than anything) seemed to talk a lot about their online escapades.
It was time to consider the possibility of modernizing his dating pool. It is time he experimented a little in the modern age. It was about time that he considered trying a dating app.
It might have sounded very boomerish but it was more a case of not knowing what to expect online but maybe that was what was so exciting. Sanji rarely had any time to date as much as he liked. Being a chef at his father's restaurant was draining, and the hours were antisocial. Too many long nights and sleeping in to catch up with much needed sleep. He longed to date as he was a romantic person but there was never enough time in the day to date. So, here he was, finishing up a profile on a swiping dating app that Nami recommended.
It wasn’t long until after the account was live, he got a few swipes. Naturally, he swiped right on pretty much all of them. Afterall, he would give every woman a chance.
One in particular caught his eye, however. It made him stop before he swiped. A beautiful woman with dark brown hair, big blue eyes and a very soft feminine face. She looked like a model; someone who didn’t seem real. Her name was Zoey. It was even a question of whether or not to swipe for her. She seemed like she might be a joke. Either way,
Z: Hey. Thanks for the swipe. I hope we can talk soon.
That was how this worked then. Huh. Easy. Quickly and with much eagerness, Sanji typed out a message in return. He was unsure if the same tactics worked online as they would in person. It was hard to gauge a reaction from not being able to see someone’s face but maybe that was the excitement.
S: I’m here now, dear. I’d love to talk ♡.
The annoying thing about this was the waiting game that one had to endure with these types of conversations. Nothing was instant. It wasn’t like when you chatted to someone, and you had to wait for every calculated move. It certainly wasn’t like normal dating.
Z: Cool. What are you up to?
Well, wasn’t it obvious? He was spending his time being lonely talking to someone he had never met online. But, besides the point.
S: I’m talking to you, darling. Actually, I just made this profile two seconds ago. You are the first lucky lady I’ve spoken to.
S: What are you up to?
Z: Lucky me.
Z: I’ve just been to the gym. It was leg day today.
Z: So, I’m just going back to my apartment for a nice warm bath and a beer. Maybe a nap.
Z: I’ll be honest, this is my first time on an app like this. I don’t usually do the whole dating thing normally. But I was told I needed to loosen up and live a little by some friends.
Hmm. That was similar to him actually. Although it wasn’t so much that he was doing this because Robin and Nami encouraged him to. This was probably a good idea. Probably. Well, he was tired of his mundane life at Zeff’s restaurant anyway.
S: I understand, dear. I’ve never made a dating profile in my life.
S: I work at my father’s restaurant. Well, adoptive father. He practically raised me.
S: But he’s a piece of work. I have ambitions of being a chef, but he won’t let me in the kitchen. I wait tables. It’s not what I want to be doing. If I’m not waiting tables, I’m bartending.
S: I’m not sure if you’ve been to the Baratie?
Z: I have heard of it. Not really been in it. It’s too expensive for my taste… I prefer a shitty rundown bar.
S: Hmph. Baratie IS a shitty rundown restaurant in my opinion.
S: What do you do? I’ve told you I’m a waiter. Do you have some embarrassing day job then?
Z: I’m a personal trainer. I work at a gym.
Z: It’s not all that exciting.
Z: I’d pick being a waiter over being a personal trainer any day.
She seemed…down to earth. It reminded him of talking to Nami or Robin. Conversation felt incredibly natural. As he lay there looking around his surroundings, his room in his apartment that had cooking books strewn around the room that he had been looking into but everything else seemed very tame in comparison. Things were getting rather dull and predictable which made him what to spice things up and holding back in conversations such as these were not his style at all. It was time to be more… direct.
S: Hmmm. I don’t know… I’d kill to have a personal trainer like you ;)
Maybe a little too cheesy. He bites his lip and hopes it lands. There’s a minute or so with no message. Because it was a little bit of a gamble, the minute in between this message and the next one seemed significantly longer than any other message and to be honest, he was beginning to think he had down something wrong but that was all until the next message came through.
Z: Hm.
Z: If you want to play that game, I think you make a handsome waiter…
Z: A man like you serving my every need? I think that’s exactly what you’re supposed to do.
And…Sanji was not expecting that kind of response and it made him sit upright in the bed. It was…bold. Suspiciously bold actually. Normally his attempts at wooing women didn’t exactly earn that kind of response. It took him a few minutes to even think of what to say but before he could type something in return, she writes again.
Z: I have to go…run some errands.
Z: It was nice talking to you.
Z: I’m interested in getting to know you if you are interested in me too. I think we could have a very special relationship J
Z: See you later, Sanji.
Sanji almost at once replies back. The conversation is over quicker than it has begun but he doubts it will be the last.
S: Of course. I’ll talk to you later, starshine.
Zoey is now offline.
Sanji let himself fall back against the bed. It was a short conversation, but it left an impact on him. What kind of special relationship was she after? He thought about what she said for a minute but then disregarded it. After all, she was merely a stranger on the internet and perhaps she was only there to fill a need of her own but...
How does one conversation get you so invested?
-
He hadn’t forgotten about tonight. It may not have seemed interesting at first, but the start of the night from 6pm he had to go to work. Tonight, Zeff (his adoptive father) was working which meant that Sanji was front of house. He didn’t hate being front of house; it wasn’t a particularly hard job, but it meant he was as far away from the kitchen as possible.
See, Sanji had so much respect and admiration for Zeff. Zeff practically raised Sanji when no one else would. Zeff stepped up as a father to Sanji when his own father (who he doesn’t know or remember) abandoned him. Sanji had absolutely nothing to his name and not a roof over his head when Zeff found him.
So, it wasn’t as if Zeff and Sanji hated each other. There was a lot of love there but...not at work. Zeff kept Sanji as far away from the kitchen as possible, especially when he was working. If he wasn’t, he made sure Sanji wasn’t scheduled for kitchen duty. This brought a lot of frustration as Sanji wanted to be a chef and being a chef in Zeff’s restaurant seemed like the ideal choice for him but... There was a lot more to it than that.
To others, they never seemed like they got on. They are constantly bickering. Zeff telling Sanji that the reason he isn’t allowed to cook is because his cooking is shit, Sanji calling Zeff’s restaurant shitty and rundown...that kind of things.
However, he obviously didn’t mean it because nights like to tonight, Zeff would retire early and hand Sanji the keys to the restaurant telling him he’s on lock up duty.
Sanji didn’t mind. It was a moment of quiet for him. Once the staff were dismissed, Sanji would just do some admin out the back. Tonight was no different. However, he kept looking at his phone. Since Zoey, Sanji had managed to start conversations with other women. Some of them charming, some disinterested and some just looking for friendly conversation but none caught his eyes like Zoey did.
Sanji was in the middle of some paperwork in the office when he heard a bang on the door. It scared the shit out of him. He nearly fell off his chair but at once the voice that shouted out made Sanji annoyed more than anything.
“SANJI! I KNOW YOU ARE IN THERE! I’M HERE FOR THE FOOD IN THE KITCHEN”
God damnit Luffy.
Sanji almost ran from the office to the front door where, in the darkness of the night, his friend Luffy was standing with his face against the window. Sanji unlocked the door.
“Hey! Do you want me to lose my job?” Sanji opened the door to see Luffy standing there. Luffy was one of his best friends. He actually met Luffy here; because Luffy ate Zeff out of house and home and got forced to do the dishes for a week as payment. He got to know Luffy and his antics. He admired Luffy’s carefree nature so much. Luffy merely smiled and pushed his way to the door, following him was his other friend, Nami.
“Hey Sanji! Sorry he was so excited to be here,” Her sweet voice said throwing him a wink which at once lessoned his anger.
“He just needs to keep his fucking voice down. I could lose my job if Zeff finds out he’s helping himself to food from the kitchen,”
Sanji had an arrangement with Luffy. Luffy stopped turning up the Baratie and eating without paying the bill, and Sanji would let him into the kitchen on nights he’s closing up and he had free range of the food that’s going to be thrown out. Sanji disagrees with the idea that food should be thrown out like this; at least let someone who doesn’t have much eat it.
Or at least Luffy so Zeff stops popping blood vessels whenever he comes by.
Just as Sanji is about to close the door, a hand grabs onto the end of it and pushes it open. Sanji didn’t see that they had taken their other friend along.
Roronoa Zoro. Sanji and Zoro were not friends.
“Aren’t you going to let me in, shitty cook?”
Sanji was so close to slamming the door right in his stupid moss head face and break that stupid look on his face. Zoro was built like a brick house and had a hair full of moss like hair. He just looked so stupid in Sanji’s eyes. He hated when Zoro tagged along like a stupid mossy looking dog.
“Not with that damn attitude,”
Although Sanji looked smaller in comparison, he had just as much strength as Zoro so he tried to push the door back only for Nami to grab his shoulder gently.
“Come on you two. Can’t you two stop bickering for once in your life?” Immediately, because it was Nami, Sanji opened the door and let Zoro in who basically barged past him. Had Nami not been there to defuse the situation, there would have been a fight as Sanji clenched his jaw watching Zoro just barge into Zeff’s restaurant like this, the disrespect!
“Fine. I’ve got work to do in the back. Will you PLEASE make sure Luffy doesn’t get into the good fridge? And that Mosshead keeps to a one drink minimun. He’s lucky I let him even have one,”
They both look at Zoro, who has made his way over the beautiful looking bar off the corner. He’s in the fridge looking for a beer. God, just the look on his face makes Sanji want to punch his face.
“Fine. Don’t worry. I’ll look after him. Just do what you need to do...please!” Nami said with that sweet voice of hers. If Nami didn’t only like girls...
“Fine. Anything for you~!” Sanji turned to go for the back, giving Zoro one last glare before he did. Then he went back into the office and started doing the administration he was supposed to have done a while back. About 5 minutes into it, his phone buzzes. He assumes it’s going to be Nami sheepishly telling him that Luffy got into the fridge or that Zoro has opened a second beer but...
YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FROM: Zoey.
Quickly, Sanji opens his phone and opened the app only to read her message.
Z: Are you awake? I just got back from the gym.
S: Yes, yes, I’m awake. I’m just cashing up for the night
His reply came rather quickly. He didn’t realise but he had been hoping for all day that she would message him.
Z: Good.
Z: I know we’ve only started talking but I like talking to you, Sanji.
Z: There’s something about you that I really like.
S: I’m very flattered. I enjoyed our conversation this morning too.
Sanji continued to type away at the admin on his computer. He was half paying attention to the conversation. Normally he would have managed to get this done quicker but he would stop every now and then to speak to Zoey. The conversation was really casual until near the end, just when he was away to finish cashing up, a message caught his eye as it came from entirely out of nowhere.
Z: So, Sanji, I want to ask you something, but I don’t want to scare you away. I really like the connection we have already, but I want to ask, what do you think about... kinkier stuff?
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LOGGING ON: Z’s POV
“Hey Zoro...”
Zoro was barely paying attention to Luffy’s whining. Something about the good fridge being locked or something. Hell, if he knew. Luffy had currently found himself a bunch of plates of food that didn’t make the cut (but was fine otherwise) desserts, sweets and all that but he is still complaining about not being able to get into the fridge. However, it is not Luffy that is pestering this time.
He had lost track of time since Sanji had went into the back. He had been sitting at the bar, legs on the table on his phone. Not a habit Zoro often indulged in but recently, something rather interesting happened that made it more...so.
“Hey....Zoro!”
It seemed that Zoro was too invested in whatever was going on and that was annoying Nami. Since this morning, when she first seen Zoro, he’d been acting a little...bizarre. He was not one to be distracted by his phone unless it was for a reason. Sometimes, Zoro even forgot he had one but as of today, Zoro has been watching his phone like an absolute hawk.
So, Nami decided the next logical thing to do and while he wasn’t looking, Nami snatched it out of his hand.
“Wha-”
Zoro suddenly realised what had happened jumped to his feet and nearly tackled her, but Nami prepared herself for this and stood to the side.
“Oooh, you finally have a girlfriend? Is that why you keep looking at your phone?” So far, Nami didn’t look at the screen. She didn’t really feel the need to right now as she kept dodging Zoro who was increasingly getting more flustered with her.
“Nami, I swear... Give me it back or I will punch you across this room,” Zoro didn’t often threaten his friends. Not as a joke but Nami decided to push his buttons a little more as she then went to look at the phone.
“Hey, maybe I should introduce myself as one of your best-” Nami interrupted herself as she saw the contents of his screen. It was a dating app. It was a familiar dating app. It was a dating app that Nami frequented but... she never saw Zoro on it. Maybe he had blocked her, so they didn’t match. She seen the last message... that was sent by Zoro.
Z: So, Sanji, I want to ask you something, but I don’t want to scare you away. I really like the connection we have already, but I want to ask, what do you think about... kinkier stuff?
Sanji? No. Zoro and Sanji hated each other. They couldn’t stand each other. Why would they be...wait... Zoro’s name wasn’t Zoro. It was Zoey.
“Z-Zoro...what is...”
Just then, Luffy burst through from the kitchen just as Zoro had grabbed the phone from her hand and shoved it back into his pocket as if nothing happened. Luffy looked at the two of them and frowned.
“Hey. No fights without me! I thought Sanji would be finished by now,”
Nami didn’t know what to say. She felt like her head was spinning. What was going on between her two friends. She looked at Luffy and then Zoro before she took a step. “Should I go check on him?”
Although he never showed it, Zoro stepped forward with every intention of stopping her, “I don’t think dartboard brows will be long. Wasn’t there another case of food you didn’t seen near the door to the back? That’s normally where they keep the good beer as well,”
Luffy scoffed and shook his head, “You know I don’t like beer, but I guess I’ll go have a look. Thanks Zoro,” Luffy turned his heels to go back into the kitchen. That left Zoro and Nami alone again. Nami turned to look him before she started heading towards where she knew Sanji would be. That was until she heard Zoro’s voice.
“Don’t you want to know why before you storm off and make matters worse?”
Nami turned on her heels. She could barely look at Zoro right now. Zoro was, in clear view, catfishing Sanji on a dating website. She assumed it was because Zoro hated Sanji so much that he was going to make him miserable by doing something like this. To embarrass Sanji and humiliate him. Nami didn’t mind a bit of banter between friends. A little bit of bullying was fine, but this right here was taking it too far.
“I don’t care what reasons you have. I understand you hate Sanji, but this is really cruel Zoro. I thought you were above this,”
Zoro’s eyebrows knitted together as he watched her. He seemed calm enough. He sat down again, looking at her and shaking his head.
“You think I’m doing this because I hate him? Hm. Maybe it does seem that way...doesn’t it,” There was something about the way Zoro was acting that seemed very unreadable, but Nami could only assume that was the reason. Why else would you catfish someone other than...? Now it was Nami’s turn to be confused which Zoro seen and in the most casual way, he revealed a secret leaning back with a beer in hand.
“Did you know I’m gay, Nami?”
Nami now fully turned to Zoro. Nami took a breath. Something like this didn’t bother her. Nami was a lesbian and was happily in a relationship with another friend of theirs, Vivi. Their friendship group was pretty diverse. There was Luffy who was asexual and aromantic. Robin and Franky, despite being in a relationship, were both bisexual. Brook was an old gay man. Usopp was bisexual as well.
Sanji was the outlier. The one person who wasn’t like the rest of them...
“No, I didn’t know you were. Is this how you’re coming out to me? By catfishing one of my best friends? Because this is one hell of a coming out,” She breathed out.
“No, just listen Nami,” Zoro was clearly becoming a little impatient Nami could have laughed. She really could have. Zoro and Sanji hated each other. Or at least that’s what she thought.
“So, you’re...what... catfishing him. That’s pretty fucked up,”
“I didn’t intend on it being him. Listen, Luffy and Usopp made the profile on my phone as a joke. When I went to delete it, I got curious and started swiping through people. Sanji’s profile appeared. I only started talking to him today. It’s...nice to talk to him without him being annoying or antagonising me. It’s like we’re friends-”
“You know you could just talk to him too and not be a dick about it. This is a pretty extreme way of going about it. And what about that last message about kink-”
It was at that moment that Sanji appeared through the kitchen doors looking absolutely furious with Luffy who was covered in... chocolate. The two of them stopped looking angry at each other and looked at their friend.
“Zeff is going to be absolutely furious with me! A whole chocolate cake! Gone!” Sanji pushed Luffy who went and stood next to Zoro. Sanji looked at Nami and looked at Zoro.
“Who told him about the case next to the door? The one that’s clearly for cakes?”
“It’s just a cake,” Zoro replied casually, “I’m sure if Zeff lets you near the kitchen you can just make another one, waiter,”
If Sanji wasn’t already at 100, he was now with Zoro’s little comment. Sanji was ready to storm in that kitchen, but he took a moment to compose himself.
“I’m going to have to stay all night to replace that cake so whatever you three wanted me to do with you, I’m going to have to say no,” Sanji showed them to the door, “Now please, leave.”
“Fiiine I had my share. I wonder if Shanks has left me anything...” Luffy said as he headed towards the door. Zoro just looked at Sanji who scowled at him then Nami looked at Sanji. She wanted to say something about Zoro. About...Zoey...
“Sanji...”
“Nami... Dear, I’d love you to stay but I have a cake to make and Zeff will kill me,” Sanji never got mad at her, and he wasn’t mad at her. However, this was the politest way of saying please leave.
“Okay...” Maybe tomorrow, if he was free...she didn’t want to upset him more than he already was. She left and was left with Zoro because Luffy decided to go to Shanks house instead. It was awkward because Zoro probably knew what Nami wanted to do. They walked alongside each other and didn’t talk.
Until Zoro broke the silence. A deep almost regretful sigh left his lips as he stopped on the street. He looked at Nami before talking.
“I’ll delete the profile tonight. It was a stupid thing for me to do...”
Nami nodded in agreement. “Thank you Zoro. I won’t tell him if you do that...”
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I never got to meet myself before I was traumatized
I have no identity outside of the warped perception of who I should be
That was shoved down my throat
I don't know who I am
I don't know how I feel
I don't know what my feelings mean
I'm only now learning to label my feelings
If I can't understand a concept taught to us in preschool
How am I supposed to understand who I am
What am I made of?
Am I kind?
Am I mean?
Am I innocent?
Guilty?
Am I the victim really?
Or am I the abuser?
Have I gone long enough
To see myself become both?
If I had died at seventeen
When I wanted to
What did these past few years really add?
More pain?
More suffering?
More fucking lessons?
I cannot comprehend
My own personality
The image of myself
And the image others paint of me
Just
Don't
Connect
It's as if they're separate people
All residing in my poorly composed body
Left to rot
To decompose
To wither away
Without a second thought
How am I supposed to grow
To thrive
To truly live
When I can't shake this sadness
I drown in it
I dwell in it
The first time I thought of killing myself
I thought of drowning myself in the pool
I stopped swimming
My aunt's ex boyfriend had to pull me up
They asked if I was okay
I lied and said yes
I wrote my own suicide notes
Personalized
For all the people in my life
At the ripe age of twelve
I have danced with the grim reaper
Since I was a small child
Begging
Pleading
Crying
To be taken away
To be freed
What is the point?
What is the purpose?
What is the meaning of all of this?
Does it really amount to something?
Will anything I ever do really impact anything?
Do I even want it to?
Why do I care so much
About the impact I leave on others
Without second guessing the imprint
I've left upon myself?
I am tired
Of victimizing myself
I hate
That I cannot see myself
Without seeing the scars and bruises
Left by the others around me
I look at my arms
I see the bite marks forced into my skin
Relentlessly
I look at my hips
And see the scratch marks he left
I look at my legs
And remember him biting down so hard
It left marks for more than a week
I feel his hands around my neck
I remember the feeling of panic
When I thought he was going to kill me
Not even that it was on purpose
But because I truly thought he would bend me in half
Snap
Me
Break
Me
Over a bit of wrestling
He was stronger than me
He could've done anything to me
And I couldn't have stopped him
I was too scared to try
I am tired
Of
Always
Seeing
His
Fucking
Brown
Eyes
In
My
Nightmares
I
Cannot
Shake
The
Feeling
Of
His
Hands
Against
My
Skin
I
Don't
Know
How
To
Let
Anyone
Else
In
Without
Them
Seeing
You
First
You
Have
Completely
And
Utterly
Broken
All
Of
My
Sense
Of
Self
I
Was
Only
Fifteen
And
You
Fucking
Ruined
Me
And now
I don't know
Who I am
Anymore
What makes me happy?
What do I enjoy?
Why do I find certain things attractive?
Why do I look for you in every man I look for?
Why did you warp my entire sexuality?
Why did you warp my perception of the people I think are kind?
I cannot trust
Without seeing your shadow
Behind them
It's hard to say
That you were a kid then too
I know when I was eighteen
I never would have thought
Of sleeping
With a fifteen year old
Even if they were almost sixteen
It
Never
Would
Have
Crossed
My
Mind
I
Could
Never
Hit
Someone
The
Way
You
Hit
Me
I could never
I can't ever
How could you?
How could you?
How could you?
I can't escape you
Not in my dreams
Not in my waking hours
Not in my nightmares
Not in my daydreams
Not on my own
Not surrounded by others
I
Will
Always
Find
You
Because
The
Impact
You
Left
On
Me
Will
Stay
Forever
And
I
Hate
You
For
That.
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