+ 5'6"

📏 + 5'6"

welcome home, new daughter! he is currently trying to figure out how to knit so he can knit you a commemorative sweater.

5'7" c:

he is petitioning bellemere for joint custody as we speak. he will plant tangerine trees in his cottage just for her!

looking forward to creating one of those "connections" pages one day and just having a row of 20 consecutive entries just saying "child (adopted)"

📏+ Sanji ( 5'11'' ! He grown tall :') )

*knocks over vinsmoke judge* you have lost your father privileges.

META + Baby 5

i'm sure he was horrified when he first saw her. not because she was a child, just... why is there a child here? an 8 year old child, at that.

he probably wanted to drop everything, scoop her up, and take her to the nearest orphanage right then & thereーbut couldn't do so without blowing his cover. so, he enacted a plan that he wasn't really that happy about: be as off-putting & nasty to her and the kids as he could in hopes they just gave up and ran away. ran away like he did.

she wasn't like him at all, though. she was resilient; he suspected part of that had to do with her (uncomfortably) strong desire to please people (and a fear of abandonment that he would not learn about until much later), but also because doflamingo had gifted her an incredibly strong devil fruit, the arms-arms fruit.

that made him a bit conflicted; for one, no child should have access to a power that destructiveーpeople could get hurt! they could get hurt! but there was also probably a... relief? there relief in knowing she'd have a way of defending herself if she needed to. like 'good, goodーkick their ass! don't let anyone walk all over you!'

(in that same sense, i feel like rosinante was also weirdly relieved that law didn't take his abuse lying down either; he'd mouth off at him, threaten him, try to fight him, and then we he actually stabbed himーhe was weirdly proud? he almost died, but hey, at least he knows this kiddo can hold his own in a pretty violent world.)

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i feel like in a verse where he lives, he would try & seek her out. especially after taking care of law really awakened his desire to care for the neglected, angry & abused, he'd want to know she was doing all right and open up his home to her (and her husband?) if she ever wanted a place to stay.

39ft anon here- Hi, I'm grinning ear to ear at each of these height comparisons. <3

i'm glad you guys are liking it because i am having a blast over here