I would love to see a hurt/comfort or angsty fic where Zoro's the one to fall in the water. I've seen lots of ones where the devilfruit users fall in, which of course, but what about one of the non devilfruit crew?
How devastating would that be if it was just Luffy and Zoro in that situation?
Zoro not moving quite right, dizzy with a combination of blood loss and a fall earlier that had him smacking his head against the concrete.
He's going down, Luffy's already moving to help catch him with his own battered and exhausted arms but Zoro just... falls back over the edge and into the water.
It takes Luffy a minute, looking blankly at the water with the sound of a splash still in his ears and some stray drops on his skin.
Zoro doesn't come up.
The blood that washed off him when he hit the water is being broken apart by the waves.
Zoro doesn't come up.
There's no bubbles or movement or any sign that Zoro wasn't passed the fuck out when he went down.
Zoro. Doesn't. Come. Up.
Luffy knows he won't be coming up on his own.
The helplessness of that moment would be unreal. I think that'd be a glimpse of serious Luffy, who stops to think just quickly enough that he can't jump in after Zoro because he can't help. If he jumps in then someone will have to try to get him and Zoro, and they need to focus on Zoro.
Pacing back and forth at the edge, eyes scanning for anything, please, anything to show Zoro can hold on just a little longer. Yelling for someone, anyone.
And Sanji gets there, never far from them in battle, his own injuries forgotten as he see Luffy stalking the ledge and no sign of the mosshead. The realization coming quick and cold, his heart up in his throat because Luffy's too wild eyed for Zoro to have simply fallen in like a moron.
Sanji disappearing into the water and Luffy waiting, each second taking too long, and Sanji comes up empty handed.
Luffy howling in anguish.
Something mean and wretched growing in his chest. If Zoro dies here, everyone who touched him will die at Luffy's hand.
He ignores the part of him that's remembering Ace and how close he was to saving him, but failed. How Zoro is so close and he failing him too, he's helpless again and god he's so fucking tired of this feeling
Sanji going under again and this time it's longer. This time he comes up with Zoro though.
Pale, the wounds nothing more than gaping red mouths on his skin, the only color left on him besides his hair.
He's not moving. He's not breathing.
It takes both of them to breathe life back into him, hands shaking but unrelenting against his chest.
Finally, Zoro coughs up salt water and pink foam. He manages to roll onto his side and the salt water drips from his gasping mouth- never really waking up but he's breathing, raspy and shallow as it is, and it's a wonderful sound.
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Soooo for the future AU with married Kim and Ramona, who do you think would take whose last name?? Or would they double barrel them?? Or not mess with their last names at all? Was literally lying awake thinking about this last night it means far too much to me
Oh man... much to consider...
Obviously, the funny/correct (/j) answer is they end up hyphenating it as Pine-Flowers.
But honestly like.. either of them taking the others name is also so cute? Kim Flowers, Ramona Pine.... they make me very 💞💞💞
(Flowers-Pine is also a fine order for the hyphenated take, and arguably more funny since Pine-Flowers is right there, but I think Pine-Flowers has better flow, ya know?)
Of course, this is taking at as a "legitimately married" au as I have taken you to posit here,, whenever I think about their future selves, personally, I've been thinking about it like "yeah Ramona's still married to Scott actually. This changes nothing for me" ahfduksfjdh
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do you have any hcs for barnacles and dashi ? I'm rewatching it and many episodes start with the two of them in the main area , oftentimes there's a third person involved but it's always the two of them so they must spend alot of time around each other :O 10 / 10 bonding
Had to think hard about this since Dashi's role in the main series is so small—but you're actually so right 👀 10/10 buddies 👍
You'll get my headcanons I promise but first you gotta listen to me infodump, okay? Deal:
I personally headcanon that Dashi was one of the first Octonauts, she hasn't been around a super long time- but at least long enough that she was probably around for the first Octopod, and that would give her and Barnacles (and the other OGs) plenty of time to get close.
We know Inkling canonically founded the Octonauts, but I imagine that it was actually Barnacles who picked out the crew—over various fateful encounters (Kwazii, Peso), or already knowing them (Tweak)—with the two exceptions of Dashi and Shellington.
Shellington heard about them through the kelp vine by pure chance, and got himself a job via determination. Then, at some point—he recommended Dashi to Barnacles or Inkling, and got her a position as an intern. (He knew her through her photography; she took pictures for him once or something like that.)
I also headcanon they weren't called The Octonauts yet at that point. I headcanon that Dashi came up with the "Octonauts" name during her first few days, and they kept it. (Coincidentally, the first Octopod crashed during those first few days. T'was completely unrelated, I promise 😅)
Fast forward: I've been thinking about Dashi in AnB a lot lately, and the one question that keeps coming up is: "Why did Barnacles make her the Captain of the Octoray?"
They haven't addressed it in the show yet, and it felt a little bit like the writers just wanted her to Do Something, y'know? So I went back to rewatch some of her main series episodes, and this scene from The Surfing Snails stuck out:
This scene shows how much he trusts her. He trusts her to make the right calls, and to be careful. He shows this trust in her again in the Wild Windstorms:
"...I'm ready for this!"
"I know you are, Dashi."
I REALLY wish they had spent more time giving her some kind of arc, showing this trust being built. She absolutely deserved an arc like Peso's, where we could've seen her growth and her bond with Barnacles getting stronger. It would've made the Octoray thing make much more sense, and I would've loved to actually SEE her evolution from "getting stuck in a whale shark" to "inventing stuff with Tweak" to the level of respect that Barnacles clearly has for her in S4 and Beyond, but instead it feels like all that stuff happened off-screen.
I also wanna point out real quick; that Dashi is one of the select few characters to ever call Barnacles by his first name only. This is something that the writers frequently use to emphasize closeness between Barnacles and someone else (Kwazii, Natquik, etc), and Dashi has done it twice. I'll admit I thought it was an error the first time, but then I caught her doing it again in Sac Actun. SO CLEARLY THEY ARE CLOSE. YES? WE AGREE. YES.
ok I'm done. pleasure doing business with you 🤝
*slams hands down on table* MISC. HEADCANON TIME ‼️ (which technically, could all totally be canon until the writers finally decide to give us real information ✨)
She has 100% read ALL of his books and journals, at least twice. Sometimes he gives them to her so she can beta read them, and she's also helped edit a few.
She has written her own journals, mostly in the form of scrapbooks, that she shares with him too. He has a first edition signed copy of one of them.
She made friendship bracelets for everyone on the ship after the Octopod was rebuilt, and he keeps his on his desk. It's still in mint condition.
I feel like at least ONE of the cameras in her collection was a gift from him.
She is trained on how to steer the Octopod manually. Considering the only two on board at the time who knew how to do it were Barnacles and Tweak—her showing slight interest was the only convincing he needed to teach her.
Sadly, she's never needed to use this skill. Yet.
She learned how to play harmonica when he decided to learn accordion, so they could duet together, but she got the hang of it much faster than he did.
They work out together sometimes. She's much stronger than she looks—and has won an arm wrestling match against him at LEAST once. She's also beat him in a foot race; it was almost a very close tie, and she needed to lay down for an hour after—but she did it. He will never live either of these down.
They definitely gossip in HQ sometimes, when it's just the two of them.
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