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sillypiratelife · 4 months

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Not a meta but Sanji is the most similar to the straw hat women.

Idk why??? Kinda???

I'm barely in the Naval Fortress arc of the anime and most things I know about the crew's past are from spoilers, so I won't claim to have a perfect opinion on this matter. It's just that whenever I look at the crew, their backstories, the way they act, the way they see the world... Sanji stands apart with the girls.

Luffy, Zoro, Ussop, Chopper... They were never forced to join an evil pirate crew or organization when they were still children or teenagers. Not in the way Nami had to join Arlong or Vivi had to join the Baroques; not in the way Robin had to join all those organizations since she was barely 8 years old just to survive. There's something about those experiences and Sanji's past with Germa. I don't like you, I'm not like any of you, I actually hate you for hurting so many people, but I have to pretend, I have to try to be what you wanted, I have to do it to stay alive, a bit longer, just a bit longer.

I'm also talking about the political burden they all carried. Nami, Robin and Sanji had no one by their side to guide them. They were either fugitives or pieces of the geopolitical game. How scary it was for them, to know how little they were, how unfair their lives were...? To know they could never look back, there was no kindness waiting for them if they didn't take it for themselves.

You have the same narrative frame for the mother figures in their lives: the ideal woman who guides on who and how they want to be. Bell-Mere, Olvia and Sora sacrificed themselves for them, to offer them a future. There's the toughness and there's the kindness and there's the opposition to figures of power they disagree with. They'd not bend or break. Nami, Robin and Sanji inherited their will.

When Sanji scolds Luffy, Zoro and Ussop for their dumb ways, he does it similarly to Nami. They fill the same role in that sense. And yeah, they can be obsessed with money and women, but when push comes to shove they trust and admire their crew more than anyone else.

What about the self-sacrificing arcs? When Nami, Robin and Sanji knew their crew was threatened by their own affiliations with a shady organization, none of them doubted to turn their backs and go deal with it themselves. They "betrayed" the crew in the process, too scared to see their friends hurt or be the cause of their suffering. They'd fight for any of their nakamas, but somehow don't see how that applies to themselves. That was the big fight between Vivi and Luffy, after all. Why would they sacrifice themselves while denying their crew the chance to risk their lives for their nakamas? Why are they taking those decisions for everyone else? Why do they have to suffer alone?

Why do they think that the straw hats would ever stand aside and let that happen? It is an insult to what they believe in, to who they are. They don't abandon their friends, never. They are not those kind of pirates.

He can be strong like Zoro and Luffy, adventurous and a silly like them, always on the attack, excited to prove his worth and skills. After all, he's part of the monster trio. There's Ussop, too. There's the whole concept of "being a monster" that the devil fruit users, Zoro and Sanji share.

But if you ask me, there are so many experiences of Sanji's life that only the straw hat women can understand. It's no coincidence that womanhood and the desire (and obsession) with women is a main theme of Sanji as a character. What does it mean to be a woman, what does he desire from them, what does he admire, where does all that love come from. Even when the sexual aspects are used as a recurrent joke, One Piece says a lot through comedy.

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