I Dont Knowtheres Just Something About Shanks That Is Just Sosad. Hes Like If Roger And Luffy Veered

I don’t know…………there’s just something about Shanks that is just so……sad. He’s like if Roger and Luffy veered ever so slightly left.

Not to feed into my Mishanks obsession but it’s lowkey because he’s the only one that never convinced his swordsman to join his crew 👀

But seriously he was the keeper of this inherited will that was never really meant for him. It couldn’t be for him he’s too attached to the past, to weighed down by it. Roger’s death and the disbanding of the Roger pirates really weighed on him

I think it still does.

After all he only just decided that he might actually want the one piece, that he’d like to be the one to find it. Maybe the will of D wasn’t meant for him but who cares? He’s a pirate, if he doesn’t atleast try to take what isn’t his then what’s the point!

Au fucking revoir Mister Prince

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I like to think that on some level Shanks is just a little upset (Beckman knows the truth; that he is deeply, simmeringly, furious) at the unfairness and hypocrisy that is Mihawk still wanting to fight Zoro.

That he still thinks Zoro’s going to be his greatest challenger- the one to usurp his throne, that even though he’s down an eye, even though they are both “lacking”. Zoro is somehow still worthy of Mihawk’s attention when Shanks has been judged and found wanting.

Shanks lost an arm, and they still can’t talk about it, and Mihawk still won’t fight him, but he’ll fight Zoro. Trained Zoro. And he knows it’s not the same, he doesn’t even want the title, doesn’t want to be Mihawk’s “destiny”. He knows that he’s being childish but Mihawk started it and it’s not fair.

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every so often i’m taken over by these fig designs and am forced to draw them by something beyond my control