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Sanji's incessant ribbing of Zoro in Egghead just had the best payoff

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After months of the fandom bemoaning the fact that Zoro hasn't taken care of Lucci yet, 3 words from Sanji is all it takes to get him to finish the job. Oda keeps upping his Zosan game and I'm living for it.

#one piece #zosan #roronoa zoro #sanji #op spoilers #one piece 1110 #nami #franky #nico robin #tony tony chopper #rob lucci #jinbe #zoro #egghead arc

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Trafalgar Law, the Don Quixote brothers, and why Doffy takes such personal offence to the existence of Lawlu (Part 2: Hope)

Part 1

1. It’s no use laying your hopes on him!

Doflamingo is an absolute master of emotional manipulation, and he’s a lot more interested in crushing your spirit than doing you bodily harm. To do that he needs to know your weak spots, know where you’re vulnerable, know where it hurts. With Law, the kid who’s been through a past horrific enough to impress Doffy, the kid who was once next in line to be his successor, there are only two weak spots that Doffy puts his entire focus on. Two people.

The man who saved him, and the man who allows him to hope.

Corazon and Luffy.

Doflamingo took care of Corazon 13 years ago, so the next step in getting Law to submit is to break his faith in Luffy.

Unfortunately for Doflamingo, Law's belief in Luffy is stronger than he can possibly imagine.

2. You can’t take down Straw Hat-ya!

Law is staring down the barrel of a gun and refusing to back down, and in “killing” him, Doflamingo is actually admitting defeat. Again, what he wants is to regain control of Law, not kill him. This entire arc he’s been goading Law, chastising him for going soft, for siding with his brother, siding with the idiot Straw Hat... telling him he used to have potential. He wants Law back. But that little speech about Luffy finally, finally rings it home: Law is well and truly out of his reach.

Seeing the full extent of Law’s faith in Luffy forces Doflamingo to admit defeat in his quest to regain his pawn. Now all he wants is to prove to Law (beyond the grave, for the next interaction, because Doffy is just that petty) how stupid and unfounded his faith was.

3. He said you can work miracles. Can you, Straw Hat?

Law’s relationship with Luffy isn’t one sided, and Doflamingo knows this. In fact, his go to point of attack against each of them has become the other: with Law, that Luffy will not live up to his hopes and dreams, and with Luffy, that he’s letting Law down.

He trusted you so much. He said you can work miracles. But there he is, dead on the ground. And it’s all your fault.

Had to include Doffy delivering the most romantically coded jibe in all of One Piece

4. If he loses, I need to be here and die along with him!

Luffy has saved a lot of people from their greatest demons. Nami from Arlong. Vivi from Crocodile. Robin from the World Government. Sanji from Judge.

That the character who tries to seem the most detached, the only one who will continue to refuse the label of ‘Nakama’... that it is Trafalgar Law who makes the most intense, gut-wrenching show of loyalty - even before the deed is done - will never cease to amaze me.

5. Watch closely as your hope gets crushed.

For each of Luffy’s final battles, there is a character that acts as the heart: the one that Luffy is mainly fighting for, the one that makes the fight personal to Luffy. A crew-member, a princess. Sometimes both, and most of the time, with the added weight of a country of suffering innocents. 

In Dressrosa, the role of the ‘heart’ is played by two characters: Law and Rebecca. Law is the one who brings Luffy here, the one who bears the responsibility of taking down this great evil - the Vivi, the Momo and Kinemon. Rebecca is the representative of the suffering innocents - the Toto, the Tama. Luffy fights for both.

The difference here is Law makes the fight personal not just for Luffy, but also for Doflamingo. No other villain has had the kind of connection to the ‘heart’ of the arc that Doflamingo has to Law. To him, defeating Luffy has the added meaning of crushing Law’s hope, of delivering a final punishment to the would-be heir that betrayed him all those years ago. 

And he can’t help but take his final opportunity to rub it in.

6. In some places, there are people who call the Family of D... “Sworn enemy of the gods”

The final attack cuts to reactions all over the country - the Strawhats, members of the soon to be Grand Fleet, Gatz and the citizens of Dressrosa, Riku, Kyros, Viola, and most of all - Rebecca and Law.

But when Luffy finally wins, as Doflamingo falls through the rubble of Dressrosa, we end out the episode entirely from Law's point of view, with the words that connect his first saviour to his current one: In some places, there are people who call the Family of D... "Sworn enemy of the gods".

For all his faith in Luffy, in this one moment, as he looks up at his saviour in the sky, Law can hardly believe it.

It's done.

He's gone.

Law is finally...

#lawlu #trafalgar law #luffy #doflamingo #corazon #one piece #trafalgar d. water law #monkey d. luffy #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote rosinante #dressrosa

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The civilians you're sworn to protect.

The civilians you're sworn to bloody protect???

Like these civilians?

These ones?

These ones?

These ones?

These ones?

These

Fucking

Civilians????

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#one piece #one piece 1082 #sengoku #sengoku the buddha #trafalgar law #trafalgar d. water law #nico robin #jaguar d. saul #aokiji #kuzan #professor clover #nami #nojiko #franky #spandam #ohara #the ohara incident #flevance #the white town #trafalgar lamy #water seven #arlong park #sabaody archipelago #celestial dragons #cross guild #lulusia kingdom

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One Piece Chapter 1081

Watcha got there Sanji ... Cooking? Coc-?

1. Huge huge emotions with this one, but gotta start with Law looking more babygirl than ever... even more than that time he got turned into an actual girl:

2. Tony Tony Chopper you are my absolute hero, now and forever

(Spoilers: it worked)

3. The boy bear Bepo CAME THROUGH and I owe him my firstborn for it

4. I am absolutely heartbroken about this :

5. But I'm also elated that Law got away. I knew Oda wouldn't kill him; didn't stop me from being stressed about it for months. It's a huge weight off seeing him survive this, and I'm gonna trust in what Bepo says, that the others will get out alive (at the very least because I don't see Oda off-screening characters like Penguin and Shachi, and Blackbeard has no use for them)

6. This is, without a doubt, the most wishful of thinking. But Law's just lost his ship, and lost his crew, same as Kid. Unlike Kid, he escaped with his life. More importantly, unlike Kid, he has a plot-relevant dream. He needs to be in the story. He needs to find the One Piece and learn the true history and uncover the secrets of the Will of D. So basically what I'm saying is...

Torao for Strawhat???

#op spoilers #one piece #trafalgar d. water law #bepo #tony tony chopper #one piece spoilers #one piece 1081 #heart pirates #blackbeard #op bepo #chopper #trafalgar law #zosan

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Trafalgar Law, the Don Quixote brothers, and why Doffy takes such personal offence to the existence of Lawlu (Part 1: Faith)

1. How can you trust Straw-hat so much?

Doflamingo kicks up a huge fuss about Law forming an alliance with Luffy from the get go, and continues to go on about it till literal moments before he gets put down by Luffy at the end of the arc. 

Up until this point we've seen Law act pretty casual about his relationship with Luffy – he saved him at Marinford on a whim, he's forming an alliance out of convenience, "this doesn't mean we’re friends". It isn't until we see Doflamingo's reaction to this development that we realize the importance it holds for Law's character, and stop to think about what it might represent, given the context of his past. To Doflamingo, who’s seen Law at his lowest – who’s seen the kid who’d stopped believing in anything, and wanted to destroy the world – Law’s faith in Luffy, who seems to stand in antithesis to all that Doflamingo stands for, is a huge fucking deal.  

Doflamingo already knows, of course, what changed his heart all those years ago. But he asks anyway, because Law showing up here with Luffy, even after all this time, feels like salt being rubbed in the wound; Doffy’s pride can’t take it. Law gives him the easy answer – the simple, surface level answer. He trusts Luffy because he believes in the will of D, because Cora-san believed in the will of D. 

But we all know there’s a lot more to it than that. 

2. Why did you choose him, Law?

13 years ago, Doflamingo lost Law, his chosen successor, to Rocinante. That’s what he’s seeing every time he’s faced with Law’s partnership with Luffy – that’s why he’s so hung up over it. Law being here with Luffy just serves as a reminder of him choosing Corazon, all those years ago. A reminder that even though it was Doflamingo who pulled the trigger to kill his own brother, in the end, Corazon won. They were both children of the same wretched circumstances, but where Doffy decided to destroy the world for what it had done to him, Cora chose instead to save it. Then along comes Law, another child ravaged by fate, and Doffy sees in him an exact mirror of his past. Sees a weapon, ripe for the taking  – one that might someday be used to destroy the world at his behest.

That is, until Corazon manages to save him, too.  And in trying to live up to the man Cora-san would want him to be, Law stumbles into becoming the sort of person who would stand side by side with the ‘fool’ that is Straw-hat Luffy.

3. Why do you want to die in vain ... alongside this dumbshit?

It isn’t about the Will of D, not really. The first time Law laid eyes on Luffy, he watched the guy punch a Celestial Dragon in the face without a second’s hesitation, because it was the right thing to do. If it weren’t for this moment, Law would never have been compelled to sail to Marineford, thus putting his entire crew in danger, to save the life of an almost-stranger bearing the initial of D. There’s a quality in Luffy that drew Law to him, and it’s the same sort of quality that incited Cora-san to ditch his mission and run off to save Law’s life. 

It’s the sort of quality that Doflamingo, for all his talk, could never hope to understand. 

#lawlu #trafalgar D. Water Law #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote rosinante #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar law #corazon #luffy #doflamingo #dressrosa #one piece #one piece analysis

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#polls #one piece polls #lawlu #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar d. water law #luffy #trafalgar law #one piece #marinford #dressrosa

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#polls #zosan #one piece #zoro #sanji #roronoa zoro #zosan polls #one piece polls #op poll

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One Piece Episode 1012 | 1046

Zoro and Sanji @ Chopper after Onigashima: Oh, Marco. Your new best friend Marco you think is cooler than us because he used his awesome phoenix powers to save us during the raid?

Chopper: Yeee- I never said that!

#chopper #marco #fuchichou marco #tony tony chopper #zosan #one piece #zoro #sanji #brook #marco the phoenix #one piece anime #watch out zoro sanji luffy usopp sogeking franky law #chopper has a new hero to worship

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One Piece Episode 1046

Sentence finishing and Luffy devotion aside - that smile from Sanji, the little quirk of the lip just from hearing Zoro say ‘hey, Twirly-brows’ - it’s kinda doing me in.

Bonus: Leave it to Zosan to be this domestic in a battlefield 

He thinks he’s talking to his husband, love. 

#zosan #zoro #sanji #luffy #one piece #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #wano arc #op anime spoilers

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Wonder what it’s like to live in Zoro’s mind rent free

Bonus: Luffy knows all

You’re the one who can’t seem to forget about him, baka Marimo. 

#i'll kick you he says #zosan #roronoa zoro #sanji #monkey d. luffy #one piece #zoro #luffy #usopp #franky #nico robin #zou arc #strawhats #look how happy luffy is about their relationship i mean #the way he beams at zoro's concern for his shit cook

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One Piece Episode 722

Imagine how thrilled Doffy was when he saw Law and Luffy's little odd-couple relationship, full with nicknames – he knew that all the ammunition he’d need against them was each other. I mean he goes from berating Law for his choice of ‘partner’ the entire arc to this?? Rubbing Law’s ‘death’ in Luffy’s face by acting like he just killed his lover?? That’s what he used to call you???

#lawlu #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar d. water law #luffy #trafalgar law #doflamingo #dressrosa #one piece #donquixote doflamingo

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Luffy in 1069 because the kid was on something this chapter and gear 5 is quickly becoming my favourite thing

1. Luffy being protective over people he barely knows

He remembers her name, even :'

Luffy being mad at Lucci, not because of a grudge – Luffy doesn't do grudges, no matter how messed up the situation was with Robin – but because Lucci hurt the kid who gave them food...

Again, Luffy doesn't do grudges, but he's been through some very traumatic experiences because of Sentomaru and the Pacifistas. Yet here he is screaming "Battle Axe" with the kind of emotion you'd have when witnessing a fallen comrade–

2. HIS GEAR 5 UPSIDE DOWN SMILE

Need I...

Need I say more

3. And of course, Luffy Tunes

What were you even surprised about here Luffy

Oda really went "I'm sorry to other shounen protags who get more badass with time, mine's just gonna get cuter".

Bonus:

#luffy #monkey d. luffy #one piece #one piece spoilers #op spoilers #one piece 1069 #gear 5 #chopper #rob lucci #jinbe #jewelry bonney #vegapunk atlas #sentomaru #sun god nika #sanji #vegapunk

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One Piece Episode 1018

I cannot overstate how much I love Law being the one to explain this to Kid. It’s a reminder that he knows Luffy better than anyone outside of his brothers, the Strawhats and Shanks. 

#lawlu #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar law #trafalgar d. water law #eustass kid #kidd #roronoa zoro #luffy #law #one piece #roof piece

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One Piece Episode 1029

If this isn’t peak ‘keeping your husband in line’ behaviour I don’t know what is. 

#zosan #roronoa zoro #sanji #one piece #usopp #luffy #uta

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One Piece 1066

Franky immediately turning on his literal hero, the guy he's been fanboying over all arc, the minute Robin tears up. The strawhats are all so protective of her, but to see him not even hesitate to threaten the guy he practically worships, no questions asked–

Bonus:

Kuzan, you beautiful bastard, I know you're behind this 😭😭😭

#one piece #frobin #nico robin #franky #aokiji #vegapunk #jaguar d saul #one piece spoilers #strawhats #ohara #sanji #nami #usopp #kuzan #op spoilers #one piece 1066

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One Piece Chapter 1060

Absolutely stoked about getting to see the og crew worrying about Vivi, feels like pre-timeskip all over again

Bless Sanji and his ever bleeding heart, look at how devastated he is

Give Nami her girlfriend back stat, Oda.

It feels a bit like they're just picking up where they left off two years ago, when they only stopped crying over Vivi because Robin turned up to distract them. (Shoutout to Zoro for always keeping them in line, but also boo, let us go save Vivi you damn Santoryu)

"No, an Onigashima" Luffy you're the fucking cutest

This has to be my favourite callback ever, though I wish Oda had the space to include Usopp in here. (Of course, number 4 is the only one important enough to deign with a response, isn't he, Zoro :)

Bonus: and the background fights keep on coming

Bonus+1: ODA YOU ABSOLUTE TEASE

#nefertari vivi #sanji #nami #monkey d. luffy #zosan #zoro #roronoa zoro #usopp #chopper #one piece #namivivi #nico robin #one piece spoilers #luffy

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One Piece Chapter 1059

1. Shanks continuing to simp for Marco, as he should

2. Marco honey you're like 5 years older than him calm down

we are not going to think about why he's too worn out, no siree

3. Thoughts and prayers for our guy Benn Beckers, unfortunately we can only imagine what you go through

LUFFY. KNOWS. AND USES. MARCO'S. ACTUAL. PROPER. NAME.

"There's a random ship nearby, no big, just some guy I know, wants me around enough that he'll sail me all the way back to my island." Okay Marco.

This is too cute. Get Law in on this conversation

Oda. Oda how could you do this to me. I was not prepared for any of this.

Of course he would, Luffy. Of course he fucking would.

#fushichou marco #shanks #luffy #marcoace #portgas d. ace #marco the phoenix #monkey d. luffy #benn beckman #lucky roo #jinbe #red hair pirates #one piece #one piece spoilers #op spoilers #one piece 1059