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This is crazy. I LOVE IT 😫
Buggy is the best Yonko
What if Buggy's power is a bit more... Organ-y
ISN'T THAT HIS BEANIE HE WORE AS A KID!!
unfinished
Sketchbook stuff if u don't mind
That's all😔😔
Fem shuggy in highschool au !!
I haven't watched this anime, but I really liked the girl with the dragon body
Shuggy yuri brainworms takeover
was planning for my next post to be another story but this is gold.
did he tho?
inspired by this post
One Piece Headcannon
We know Shanks was a baby celestial dragon left behind when Garp and Roger fought the Rocks pirates (making him being from the West Blue a lie) but all we know about Buggy is that he is from the Grand Line and was probably brought on at about the same age as Shanks. Pretty sure the implication is that they were both babies but that leaves several months difference not accounting for them being slightly different ages in general. So here’s my thought, I think there has to have been a reason Roger thought his ship was the only place a couple babies could go instead of somewhere safer. We know Shanks background so that one’s obvious, but what about Buggy. I think Buggy is from an island in the Grand Line where everyone has red noses like him but something happened and he ended up alone.
One idea I have is that his island was made up of entertainers that the celestial dragons liked to take as personal slaves but something caused them to revolt which lead to a Buster Call. Baby Buggy was hidden away and managed to survive until Roger found him. I just think there’s an interesting dynamic to have Shanks biological family be the reason Buggy lost his.
Buggy looks like a twink but that's ok
Huh. So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.
months ago, while mindlessly scrolling through twitter, i came across an analysis of this particular panel from chapter 434 (i can’t remember who wrote the thread, i’m so sorry </3), and i really want to talk about it too.
(EDIT: original author of the thread is @goingbuggy!!! go check out their metas, they're amazing)
the thread was focusing on the way the speech bubble covers shanks's scar completely, and how it can be seen as a sign of vulnerability. oda is using shanks’s own words to hide his suffering, letting his physical scars be representative of his emotional ones, even though the event he’s talking about is completely unrelated to the way he got his scar.
in fact, we know shanks is not ashamed of the scar, since just a couple of pages after this one he mentions it directly as a way to start the conversation about blackbeard:
he doesn’t have a problem with the marking itself, it’s just used as a narrative device, a tool to highlight (in an extradiegetic way) his emotional wounds and the pain he always tries so hard to hide, in an effort to keep his usual composure.
the original author of the thread compared the panel from chapter 434 to another, way older one, from the very first chapter:
this takes place right after shanks loses his left arm to save luffy’s life. it’s obviously a very emotionally charged moment, which means the best thing to do would be showing a close-up of shanks’s reaction to everything that’s unfolding in front of him at that moment (luffy’s cries, or even his own reaction to his sacrifice). oda, however, chooses not to do that; instead, he hides half of shanks’s face, just like he did in chapter 434. the way the moment is portrayed tells the reader shanks is willing to hide his pain in an even deeper way than what he’s showing by smiling at luffy right after getting his arm chopped off.
it’s a great way to explain an important characteristic without stating it right away. it's a focal point of shanks's character: it's his way of showing luffy he cares about him and would much rather hide his suffering than pass it onto him, but it's also oda's way of conveying that shanks is much more vulnerable than what he allows himself to show.
having said that, the reason oda chose to bring back this framing in chapter 434 appears obvious: shanks misses buggy.
it’s plain to see, especially if we look at the whole page.
shanks tries so hard to act collected when talking about buggy, but it’s obvious that he’s hurting. his wording makes it clear he’s trying to detach from him (“that’s the end of it” + “rumors have it”); he acts like buggy doesn’t exist in his thoughts anymore, when it’s obvious he still does. he feels remorse, he regrets letting buggy go. he’s scared he might have been in the wrong. he knows he hurt buggy, but he desperately wishes he didn’t.
all of this weighs on him in a way he isn’t used to, so he locks these feelings up, thinking of them only in relation to something that happened in the past, and as so, stays in the past. he smiles while talking about him and buggy, but it’s a remorseful smile. he cuts the conversation short even though he vividly remembers what happened between them, and as he does so, his words hide the scar. he desperately tries to patch things up in his mind by exclusively clinging onto the good memories they share, but the remorse always creeps up on him. he always smiles when talking about buggy, even when he’s talking directly to him. but his smile always ends up looking sour.
this is exactly why i hate it when people say shanks doesn’t care about buggy. oda wouldn’t have given these panels so much depth if he didn’t want to show just how much shanks actually cares. even just the fact the panel we are focusing on directly mirrors a panel from the first chapter, one so important and impactful, should tell you everything you need to know.
buggy will always be shanks’s weakness. caring so much about someone when you’re a pirate of that caliber is difficult in itself, even more so when that someone is so far away from you now.
Vague spoilers for One Piece ep 968
Shanks volunteered to stay behind with Buggy instead of go to the final island with Roger cause Buggy was sick? To take care of him but also because he knows Buggy really wanted to go and Shanks being able to see it and not him would break him a little. So he stays back and nurses him??
Mind you this is post Buggy eating his devil fruit and they seem hella close so I call bullshit on Buggy’s story for why he hates Shanks.
So I saw this and just drooled.
DAD BOD BUGGY!!~
So Sexy!!!
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❤️the sheer gentle expression❤️
thinking about sailing together with buggy in the future
You're telling me there's not an annual prom on the Big-Top, yeah okay, whatever
