Maaaaybe?

Maaaaybe?

No they do not. But they love the others freak tho. Even though Mihawk pretends to be annoyed

I live in the hellscape of my brain realizing that Shanks and Mihawks freaks’ do not match each others. But that does have the natural affect of making them magnetized to each other.

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

@thehoardofthegreatdragon you'll never believe what I found.

Thank you @blackholesun321 for reblogging this because I have no idea where it went.

God my favorite kind of Mishanks is when they’ve known each other for yeaaars and I mean pre louge town years.

Like I knew you back when you were a weirdly intense brat with otherworldly eyes and exponential talent who was so bad at making anything other than enemies and I was nothing but the soon to be pirate king’s brat.

And look at us now! The captains dead, I don’t wear his hat anymore, my arms gone and there is a figure on the horizon.

I am so much more than just Roger’s brat now.

I knew you when we were young! And nothings the same anymore.

And you are still a weirdly intense brat with otherworldly eyes and exponential talent who is terrible at making anything other than enemies.

But you are also just a husk of that boy, you don’t have his passion, his fire. You have everything he wanted ! You sit at the top and you’ve buried yourself in the loneliness.

And you won’t even look at me.

But I knew you when you were young.

Never really noticed before that Rayleigh and Zoro have the same scar just that Ray’s is on the right side and didn’t take out his eyes.

I wonder if Mihawk gave him that scar too.

🎼🌸PlayList 🌸🎶

Thank you everyone that gave me Mishanks song recs!

They were so great and I got a lot of new music (which was the real goal) but yes Thank you so much for sharing! 😊🌸

I got very inspired and thought I'd share some of the songs that really started to feel very Mishanks to me.

Change “I don’t care that you’re a stoner” to serial killer and this is definetly Shanks about Mihawk vibes .

I don’t know very Mihawk about the whole situation and their falling out. He’ll never say it out loud tho.

Yes Hozier because again nobody does Longing and reminisce quiet as well. Mishanks “Young and Wanted” vibes. If there was ever a time it was just a time it was just the two of them wrecking havoc on the seas this would be the soundtrack.

Mihawk. I don’t even have to explain once you listen you’ll just know

Honestly. This is mostly because this would be a great sex scene song. I don’t even like sex scenes in shows but I’m suprised this song has never been used and this just proves that’s because they lack taste. Also slightly toxic devotion very them.

Very Mishanks break up vibes.

Again I don’t even need to explain how this is Mihawk.

Honestly thins feels very much like a companion piece to Too Sweet. Except this is more from Shanks POV. It’s just the same vibes

I don’t know why but it’s giving Mihawk

And

Again Shanks and Hozier both being obsessed with their babies.

Honorable mentions cause I hit the Audio limit 😭

Mama’s boy by Dominic Fike

Not to steal from satsuga which is where I first heard it. But again love to dig into Shanks’ parental abandonment trauma and this is a good song for that. Also his fear of Mihawk’s growing bored of him.

Wasted Summer by juju

Again not to steal from satsuga. But very young and wanted.

Nobody’s Soldier by Hozier

Thank you hozier for releasing this just in time to make this list. Very early Mihawk. Young and Ungovernable.

BONUS

some goth family ones.

Second Child restless child by the Oh hellos

Is very Zoro in the goth family AU. Very second child technically youngest but with strong middle child energy.

Seventeen by Sharon Van Etten

Very Mihawk looking at these children who still have dreams and feeling like an old man.

Seventeen Going Under by Sam Fender

I don’t know what to say You just need to listen to how Zoro this is.

I wish I had something for Perona but I think I just don’t listen to any music she’d be into 😭. The closest I can come up with is Ribs by Lorde

I didn’t mean for this to get this long 😭. But yeah was very inspired by all y’all lovely lists and recs. Was very fun to go through! Let me know if you give any of these a listen and what you think!