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Yall should totally let me know cause I’m fully prepped to set it up lmao

Would anyone be interested in a potential Helmeppo Week in July?

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I got the cult set up lmao. Keep an eye out cause I plan on maybe doing some events and stuff there too

Finally have this up and running. Unfortunately the header got cut off, so here it is in all its glory.

#gonna do an interest check for a meppo week real soon i think

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I want meppo neko🐈……

😭

#I would kill for kitty meppo……

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Sorry for jumping in like this but I just love Helmeppo’s hair and also find it extremely funny that I feel like most of us have gaslit ourselves into believing he had this super long, beautiful hair. And I bring pictures to prove it! Well, not that it isn’t beautiful. But it’s certainly not the longest.

This first one isn’t really proof of anything but somewhat recently we did get Helmeppo in that weird stage of growing out his shitty bob!

Like here of course is a baseline of his OG cut:

Now from chapter 1088 while rescuing Coby, Garp has a flashback to a time earlier on when he’s talking to Helmeppo, who looks like this in the flashback:

The text isn’t super important, but his bangs are far longer than they were and his hair now reaches to his jaw instead of above his ears. Which just in general I think is a rally neat detail cause of course depending on when the flashback is it would be growing out!

But the first time we do actually see him with longer hair is in Water 7, when they show up to talk to the Straw Hats.

It’s harder to tell since it seems his hair length is sorta approximated based on vibes and also his positioning, but I’d say it’s generally just a little past his shoulders. So while it may be a bit longer than you might be hoping for, I’d still consider this his sassy shoulder length hair! (Or it would be if he would do literally anything but the same hairstyle all the time)

Now post-timeskip was a little tricky. In the manga we don’t see him incredibly clearly just standing much, and most of the time he’s wearing his Marine coat that he does that weird thing where he has like. Half his hair IN THE COAT and the top half that’s in the clip thing outside of his coat. So we’re just gonna use Film Red for this cause we actually see him from behind with no coat.

It’s much longer than it was, sure, but it’s still only the length of his upper back. Maybe waist, but that depends what waist we’re talking about and I still think his waist is a little lower, like about where the higher part of his belt rests.

So yeah! We actually did get to see him growing his hair out. Maybe not all the in-between stages but certainly a few! But his post-timeskip hair length I think also opens up new things to think about because on one hand, given how fast his hair seems to grow the two year timeskip SHOULD have put it down to past his waist, maybe even reaching hip-length, which makes it feel like he’s choosing to keep it the length it is for whatever reason!

we don't talk about Helmeppo's various hair phases enough

#sorry for the rant lol i just love his hair #amd i find it funny that i think helmeppo fans kinda collectively decided his hair is longer than it is sometimes #he should have the marcille treatment of new nice hairstyle every time #me @ Helmeppo: where the FUCK is your waist man

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we don't talk about Helmeppo's various hair phases enough

#Ok i could go OFF about helmeppos hair cause we do get to see a funny stage of it at one point and also other reasons #bur that would have to wait for the morning if youre even interested in me rambling about it

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#d.gray-man……

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anyways helmeppo nation what are we even doing how was I not able to find anything with him and enemies to lovers when he’s PEAK enemies to lovers. Actually wait no he’s not post canceled he’s never been anyone’s enemy besides his own. To others he’s a mild annoyance at best. At least for the people he’d be ending up lovers with. Even despite the atrocities.

#helmeppo

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Ok so this is going to sound RIDICULOUS but I don’t actually know of any Helmeppo fics that are actually enemies to lovers. Most just imply the enemies to lovers happened lol.

Anyways, on to the fics. Keep in mind going forward you’ll need to look through at tags to make sure these fics are actually something you want to read. Everything in pink is a link.

In This Post Here I have a ton of Coby/Helmeppo fic recommendations with summaries. Don’t like Cobymeppo? No problem! I’ve got more where that came from! (Though be aware in my personal fic series there can be some Cobymeppo in there, just check tags)

From my own personal collections, first up there is my Oops All Helmeppo series. It’s basically all my Helmeppo-centered fics that don’t really fit anywhere else. Highly recommend taking a look. Then I have my Helmeppo’s No Good, Very Bad Luck series which is most of my Helmeppo whump fics. And they are set in the same general universe so the order of the fics is the order in which the injuries are acquired and they sometimes get referenced later on! I have other series that could be worth looking at but those two I think cover most of the fics and you can browse further at your leisure.

This next one I’m involved in, but is actually spearheaded by the wonderful @ensignsenna - the Coby: Ace Attorney series! The focus character is Coby, sure, but after case 1 Helmeppo becomes a key player and will only continue to be more involved as it goes! You should still read the first case though. Don’t know Ace Attoeney? That’s ok! You don’t need to for this series!

There are honestly a ton of good Helmeppo fics but some personal favorites (I will not pretend to be unbiased) are:

Kitchen Nightmares and Winning a Losing Fight by Senna once agin (Actually just go look at her whole AO3 its great)

Soup and Company by Pink_Paradox

people who can cook without a recipe book scare me by greatduwangs,

fight or flight by battybatzgirl (another person you should browse the full AO3 of)

Long Way Down by 2Farky2Furious (BIG content warning for this one, mind the tags)

There’s also a ton more but this should get you started!

so.. CAN SOMEONE MAKE HELMEPPO FANFICS?? HES SO UNDERRATED AND I LOVE HIM SM. I ACTUALLY DONT CARE IF ITS THE LIVE ACTION ONE HES HOT TOO 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

#enjoy!

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I love whoever looked at Koby and Helmeppo and went we need more of these two and they were correct.

#they were! #yknow its funny for the live action #at one point early on in casting i had this fear that theyd cut out helmeppo for some reason lol #but the fact we got MORE OF THEM? that was beyond my wildest dreams and prayers #shame we dont get the kind of stuff the anime did tho. parts of that imo are way better

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cringe below

#i dont know what your preference is #but in my heart Helmeppo would absolutely let Coby do all of that and more to him

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The latest One Piece in the Ace Attorney-verse fic is complete! Lawyer Coby has to try to prove Nami didn't steal a pile of documents from Buggy. In trying to get to the bottom of things in court though, he also finds himself set up against someone even scarier than the Clown Prince

#come get yalls juice

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My horrible angel

#i mean i can tell you why seeing him as helmeppo probably skyrocketed your attraction but i feel that was a rhetorical question #also the way you draw him makes me feral. i want to bite him and shake him

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#Unicorn BUT he kinda sucks at magic #its like a fluttershy situation

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NO WAY LMAO

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omg the boops…. I am boopable

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Hypothetically, if someone wrote a helmeppo-centric fic with some headcanon of his past, following him through his training up to just before Marineford... hypothetically, would it be ok to send it to you once it was done so other Helmeppo enjoyers could see it?

It will take a while, but I would like to share it eventually with my fellow Helmeppo enjoyers ❤️

Everyone should feel free to send me Helmeppo fics they write all the time. And also I throw a lot of random ideas around so if you ever see a silly post and are inspired, use it. We Helmeppo fans are strongest together. 🫡

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I forget if I’ve ever asked you this but if Koby and Helmeppo were to get Devil fruits (they probably won’t but still) what do you think would suit them best?

Maybe the Glare-Glare Fruit for Koby since he really doesn't need much help in physical combat, plus it would send his perception abilities through the roof on top of his observation haki.

As for Helmeppo, it would be cool if his blades were infused with an Arctic Wolf or Direwolf model of the Dog Dog Fruit as a reference to the pet wolf he had back in Shells Town. Helmeppo is a much better person than he was back then, so his new pet wolf would also be an improvement. Also there's irony in this wolf being a blade when the original wolf was killed by Zoro.

#not his blades but i love imagining helmeppo with like. a hellhound devil fruit. it could be a cool mythical zoan #and Coby not having one as a switch on the whole ‘captain with a devil fruit and second in command without one’ dynamic #plus itd add a layer that has Helmeppo from being a brat with a scary guard dog to BEING the guard dog