Latest Posts by thelaurelleafs - Page 5

shanks seems to of told luffy the straw hat represents/looks like the dawn, or at least the sun, as he seems to be directly comparing them here.

so when he gave him the hat and told him to return it, with that symbolism as context, i think he's asking luffy to bring him the dawn of the new age. and so i don't think they'll be meeting for a while..... 😔

but anyway this is cute as hell

btw when shanks is on screen i clap like a seal

We better get more scenes of Shanks messing with luffy when they reunite. or i riot

THAT'S HIS DAD

drawing them literally reduces my anxiety

Luffy has definitely swallowed hundreds of coins trying to master this and he still can’t do it

so refreshing to see Shanks thinking it’s okay to cry it out when all of Luffy’s childhood was spent being told not to be a crybaby

Shanks, entering an active war zone: wait my boy’s hat!!!

i know that from most of what we've seen of him currently Shanks acts all serious and stuff but i reaaallyy want him to act all goofy like he did in the first chapter when he and luffy finally reunite he was such a shithead in romance dawn and it was so funny like he was a 27 year old making fun of a little kid peak older sibling energy

Dad

Unexpected fan

Shanks realised too late he had in fact just been adopted by Luffy as his dad

father of the year

Memories.

🐢🎵

original + inspired by: X X

I fuckignnnn Love SHANKS SO MUCHHH

Official art from Oda 💖

I love how One Piece every now and then is like 'hey remember how much of a dad Shanks is' and it's true, he is

showing of my favourite character be like

i just know reuniting with shanks is gonna develop luffys character somehow and i am dying to know how.

i'm sure he will learn something from shanks....but what...

Garp, Fascism, and Parental Failure

Garp is truly one of the most interesting One Piece characters for me because of the extent to which his dogged, relentless devotion to a fascist system–and the supposed "order" it promises to uphold in the face of anarchy or rebellion–perseveres no matter how many times it fails him and his son and his grandsons. He's fully aware of the deep-seated corruption and atrocity, and feels some kind of moral obligation to bend its rules to protect the innocent (as we can see with his attempts to protect Rouge and Ace), but when faced with widespread femicide and infanticide, genocide, slavery and endless examples of egregious cruelty, he is unable to comprehend the notion that the system is indefensible, or that the only moral choice he can possibly make when faced with that level of atrocity is to leave and resist it. His son recognizing the inherent, inexcusable failures of the World Government and its armed enforcers changes nothing. The order to slaughter pregnant people and infants at Baterilla can't convince him otherwise. The countless instances of bribery, the tolerance of atrocity from state-sanctioned privateers, everything about the history of the Valley of the Gods are all things he's aware of, and takes issue with, but never comes to the conclusion that he cannot affect positive change within a system designed for oppression. The public execution of his grandson–a prime example of the marine's fundamentally irrational, arrogant, vindictive cruelty clearly bound to blow up in all of their faces even before their Pyrrhic victory at the summit war–makes him waver, but even when confronted with this obvious, indefensible injustice against a child he raised and rescued by people seeking to murder him on live TV and desecrate his corpse as a show of power, he cannot bring himself to act against it in any meaningful way no matter how much it hurts him to leave his grandson to die. If he can't veto it, he'll stay Vice Admiral and suffer through Ace being sacrificed on the altar of fascist state control, and functionally leave Luffy for dead in the process while he's at it. He fails every single person he wanted to love–Ace, Luffy, and almost certainly Dragon–and allows himself to be reluctantly complicit in countless crimes against humanity again and again and again because he's so deeply steeped in this notion of preservation of order through state control that he convinces himself that even this disgusting, atrocious, fundamentally flawed and untenable excuse for a government is better than abolition, better than revolution, or just the act of expecting accountability or literally anything better from the systems that issue false promises to protect you. Dadan beating the living shit out of him and calling him a failure as a grandfather, as a self proclaimed defender of the people, is one of the most important scenes in the Postwar Arc because a lesser series might frame Garp as a tragic, helpless figure suffering more than anyone else due to conflict of love and duty, but One Piece refuses to whitewash his actions or allow the grief caused by systems he's complicit in to take precedence over its real victims: the D brothers.

There's so much I could say about statism and anarchism and the ways people have internalized the supposed necessity of state violence to the extent they can't oppose that violence even when it ruins them or their loved ones, but that horrible indoctrination and its devastating consequences for both him and his family are what makes Garp so fascinating to watch and so thematically/politically important to One Piece as a whole.

this scene was cute but shanks swinging by, unleashing some ridiculously powerful haki on a marine admiral, making a dramatic declaration, and just leaving without saying anything is so funny

every time i think i'm depicting shanks as too much of a dad, i literally just look at any clip with him where luffy comes up and i start to think i'm downplaying it actually. he thinks about luffy with such fondness it'll kill me.

it was only a matter of time before i attempted to draw op characters in a sonic-y style

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why does the anime keep giving shanks the most dead looking eyes ever whatare they doing to him

why does the anime keep giving shanks the most dead looking eyes ever whatare they doing to him

their dad is kinda a loser actually (and they love him more for it)