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taizi · 4 months

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in the mouth of the world

one piece word count: 1k written for @op-secret-santa 2023 and my giftee was @viktorclawthorne ! viktor, two of your favorite characters are zoro and sanji, and one of your favorite pairings is platonic zolu, so this is what i came up with. i really, really hope you like it !

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Sanji is in the kitchen, sleeves rolled up to his elbows, hair tied back with one of Usopp’s scrunchies, trying to remember if the raspberry or the pistachio macarons went over better last time. His friends inhaled them all in a matter of minutes, but Sanji can’t recall which ones went first.

In the end, he goes with mango. The fruits are ripe, cheerful orange, and their color pings as appropriate in his mind.

These pastries are finicky at best, and a punishment from god at worst, so leveling the battlefield by removing extra heat and moisture from his workstation is always step one. As a result, the room is very cool, the door propped open to let in the crisp winter air, a fan borrowed from Franky’s workshop whirring away in the corner.

Zoro and Luffy are in the galley, sitting around the scarred kitchen table—ostensibly to keep Sanji company while he works, but more likely just waiting around to see if they get tossed any scraps.

As Sanji whips meringue, he finds his attention wandering back to the two of them in time to pick up part of their conversation.

“—be anything,” Luffy is saying, spreading his arms out wide as if to encompass the full scope of just how big the concept is he’s talking about. “There are no rules and it can be as weird or funny as you want! What would you pick?”

Zoro hums, giving it some thought. A stranger might be surprised to learn it, Sanji thinks, given how severe and forbidding their first mate appears at a glance, but he is generally the first to fold when it comes to catering to their captain’s whims. This terror of a swordsman, this nightmare of a pirate, simply follows Luffy’s every step without even looking to see where it might lead, like a no-nonsense Belgian Shepherd plodding along behind a bouncy border collie.

That’s true for battle and danger as much as it’s true for shenanigans. Zoro is worth millions, is as much a killer and a criminal as any of those other Wanted men his posters are displayed beside, but he isn’t afraid to look silly. Not if it’s Luffy reaching back for him, sunny grin amped up to eleven, calling Zoro, you too! Come with me!

Zoro says, “Time, then.”

Luffy rocks up in his seat, eyes round and impressed, and says, “Time travel? Like the Fruit that Momonosuke’s mom ate, that sends you forward?”

“Mm. But mine would go backwards,” Zoro explains, leaning into the game of make-believe. “It would only work one time and it would start me back at the very beginning.”

Zoro’s birthday was a month ago, and Sanji made a dark chocolate truffle cake infused with enough liqueur that he guiltily baked a lighter version for the younger half of the crew. But Zoro had taken one bite of the boozy dessert and his eyebrows flew up to his hairline. He doesn’t usually go in for sweets, but the bitterness of the chocolate paired with the velvet smoothness of the liqueur seemed to win him over instantly.

It isn’t in their nature to thank each other openly. From as far back as Thriller Bark, the best things they know about each other are secrets kept from everyone else. But Zoro took a second piece when Robin’s extra hands offered him one, which said much more than any effusive praise would have anyway.

Just last week, it was Chopper’s birthday, and Sanji whipped up about a hundred triple-strawberry cupcakes, filled with ganache, topped with cloud-like icing and sugared fruit and sprinkles, and it was worth it for the way his little brother’s face went slack with awe when he took in the spread.

Until Robin and Vivi’s birthdays in February, there are no specialized desserts Sanji needs to prepare. His nakama will sometimes have a craving, and he tends to keep sweet things on deck for those nights when sleep is not forthcoming, for those cloudy days when it’s hard to see the sun waiting for them beyond the storm, but he rarely makes macarons just for fun.

The timing, the temperature, the moisture, all of it has to be exact, or the shells will crack, or the feet will spread, or they’ll come out hollow. It’s not a hard recipe, it’s just annoying. It’s the last thing he learned from Zeff, because he perfected every other dish on the menu well before he made a halfway decent batch of macarons.

No one asked for these. Sanji is well-aware that he doesn’t have to be standing here, sacrificing the bulk of his day to this thankless task, but he’s already in it now. The buttercream and mango curd are ready, and the shells are about to go in the oven.

“A one-time Fruit!” Luffy exclaims. Zoro could have said he would pick a Fruit that would turn his hair a different color every day and Luffy would have sounded equally as fascinated. “You would go all the way back? Do you want to change that much?”

“My Fruit wouldn’t work that way,” Zoro explains simply. “I wouldn’t be able to change anything or the future I was from where I used the Fruit wouldn’t exist, would it? It would have to stay exactly the same for me to get back there.”

Zoro doesn’t want a Fruit—neither does Sanji. They spend half their lives dragging their nakama who are already anchors out of the sea.

Besides that, Sanji wants to meet All Blue properly the day he finds her. He’s going to swim for hours and hours and barely remember to come up for air. A Fruit would only take from him more than it could ever give.

And Zoro has never cut corners when it comes to his own strength. But there’s something in his tone that makes Sanji wonder if he’s thought about this before.

“What if you wanted to, though?” Luffy asks. “Or what if you had the chance to stop something bad before it happened?”

“No changes,” Zoro says adamantly. “No diversions. I would have to live it all over again.”

Sanji remembers all the stories Luffy tells his crew about the trouble he and his brothers got into when they were children. He said there was a pâtisserie in High Town where chefs and bakers created decadent desserts catered only to the nobles. When they snuck around that part of the kingdom, a brightly-colored dessert in the display window there would always catch Ace’s eye.

Once, Sabo and Luffy broke into that pastry shop in the dead of night at the end of December, and made off with as many of those colorful macarons as they could carry.

“Ace was angry,” Luffy laughed through his retelling. “He told Sabo we were lucky we didn’t get caught and have our hands chopped off. But he hugged me for a long time after he yelled at me. The cookies were for him, you know? For his birthday! You have to have your favorite on your birthday.” Luffy had smiled as if it didn’t hurt at all when he added, “Even back then, Ace was bad at being loved. Sabo said he just needed more practice. He said that’s what Ace had us for.”

“And then at the end,” Zoro says, “when I catch up to the future, and I’m back where I started, I would have more time.”

“How much more time?” Luffy asks.

“Not much,” Zoro admits. “Maybe a few minutes. The time I took to use the Fruit before would be free for me to use differently.”

“You’d relive your whole adventure for a few extra minutes at the end?” their captain says, brow furrowing while he makes sense of it. “Would it be worth it?”

Zoro sits back in his chair, his dark eye fixed on his captain the same way sailors follow Polaris relentlessly across the fathomless sea, and says, “Yes.”

The final baking tray goes into the oven. The macarons will be ready for tomorrow night, for the party they’re going to throw at the close of the year. At midnight, Sanji will cart them out—bright orange, each of them painted with whimsical little whorls of red—and they’ll wish Ace a happy birthday, wherever he is. They’ll wish he was still here to scold his baby brother and eat stolen pastries at midnight with the people who loved him best. They’ll resolve to protect Luffy and enjoy sweets in his name.

It’ll be a good night. Luffy will be surrounded by his nakama and the open arms of the sea. If the macarons make him remember something sad, he won’t be alone. Luffy—unlike his brothers—is very good at being loved.

Sanji washes his hands, sets the timer, and then calls over, “Hey, idiots, what do you want for dinner?”

Luffy appears beside him as if summoned by a magic spell, hopping up to sit on the counter before Sanji has a chance to wipe it down, sending up a little cloud of almond flour.

“Beef!” he declares predictably.

“That stew you made with red wine that one time,” comes Zoro’s contribution from where he’s still lounging at the table.

Beef burgundy it is, Sanji thinks, hauling out his biggest soup pot. He nudges Luffy’s knee out of the way so he can close the cabinet door but otherwise leaves the young captain where he is.

“Sanji,” Luffy asks brightly, “if you could have any Devil’s Fruit in the whole world, what would you choose?”

“One that would make me a better swimmer,” Sanji replies without missing a beat, and turns his head to hide his smile when Luffy bursts into loud, ringing peals of laughter.

But that strange, tricky, highly specific Fruit that Zoro dreamed up—one that would make him relive his life and everything he’s ever done, everything he’s endured, all the pain and fear and joy and breathless wonder, all for the sake of an extra minute at the end—a minute he could use to look up at Polaris one last time and say thanks for taking me with you. You didn’t have to do that. I hope I was everything to you that you were to me—

That wouldn’t be so bad, either.

#op-secret-santa-2023 #op #opfic #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #monkey d luffy #my writing #viktorclawthorne #title borrowed from 'cold solace' by anna belle kaufman #just in case u needed a good cry lol

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glitterghost · 3 months

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Lord of the Rings is just so healing.

#lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #middle earth #the shire #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #tbe return of the king #listen to me #this is one piece of media that i hold so dear and so gently to myself #its a piece that always brings comfort and solace #there is a warmth to it the melts any coldness in myself and in my life #a breath of hope #a quiet calm just over takes everything dark #anyway i love it so dearly and have yet to ever let it go or lose importance to me

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kazucee · 10 months

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It's just me rambling at this point.

But if you will imagine.

Will and Nico cuddling, and being soft dorks for each other. Then Nico feeling the most healing, most comforting warmth ever from his totally-not-sun-powered boyfriend. You already know where I'm going with this, I'm thinking portable heater Will Solace. His hugs are the absolute best and I stand by that fact. His hugs definitely feel like laying in the soft grass, letting the sun softly carress your face as you hear you're favorite people laughing about something silly in the background.

Which also means, 10/10 best expirience to cry in his arms. Because it's like a warm blanket comforting you from the cruel outside world and your even crueler thoughts.

Nico 101% takes advantage of it!

#i want what they have.#will solace #solangelo #nico di angelo #pjo fandom #pjo hoo toa #pjo headcanon #i love will solace #solangelo hcs #percy jackson #will solace thats the tweet #everyone needs will solace as a boyfriend #or just a friend in general.#ok so if wills hugs are warm. nicos would be cold definitely but not cold in a uncomfortable way.#also will being the therapist friend that needs a therapist as well.#me coping because i still dont have my hands on the sun and star book and it's physically driving me to insanity.#my skrunklies 🤍

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solacebean · 3 months

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Making a four swords fox AU. Everything is the same, except they’re all foxes because I adore them

#solacespades art #solace fox swords au #loz au #fsa #fox swords green #fox swords red #fox swords blue #fox swords vio #fox swords shadow #green is a bat eared fox #red is a red fox (bc ofc?? obviously)#blue is a fennec fox (tiny with lots of rage)#vio is a corsac fox #and shadow is an arctic fox bc I thought it fit his character thematically really well #and also if I made him a silver fox it would’ve been a duplicate fox cause silver foxes are technically red foxes too #so shadow gets to be the fluffy cold fox that changes coat color in warmer months and climates to blend in to the shadows (or snow)#I love them <3

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fromiftowhen · 1 year

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Bradley's a real sunset bitch and Jake's a real sunrise ho, and nope, I won't elaborate any further.

#hangster #sereshaw #jake hangman seresin #bradley rooster bradshaw #jk sure I will #Jake loves a good sunset too especially with Bradley by his side and a cold beer and the waves hitting the shore #but the early morning is his time - he's up and halfway through a five mile run before Bradley is even conscious most days #because growing up that was almost the only time it wasn't unbearably hot for a run and it was his solace away from his loud family #and now it's just part of his routine (and Bradley being in bed all sleep rumpled and groggy and then following him into the shower doesn't #and Bradley loves a good sunset because his parents loved a good sunset #and growing up his mom would take him out to the ocean just in time for the sunset - no matter how long a day she'd had -#when she needed to feel close to his dad again #it was the last place she asked to go before she was too ill to leave the house (Bradley wrapped his arm around her waist and supported her #and now every sunset reminds him of her and his dad - but mostly the memories are happy now #and Jake helps make sure of that #Bradley has lost count of how many times Jake's sandy fingers have cupped his cheek for a sunset kiss

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n3arell-art · 11 months

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"Will had heard love described in so many dramatic, bizarre ways over the years, but no one had described it like this:

It's like drifting down a river of pain and knowing you're safe.

It's like holding a person in your arms and realizing they are an interlocking piece of a puzzle you hadn't known how to assemble.

It's like starring into a dark and treacherous expanse, unsure of what awaits you but finding comfort in the fact that you won't have to face it alone.

It was a son of Apollo falling for a son of Hades.

It was this."

The Sun And The Star, Chapter 47

#so i finished tsats a couple of days ago and i couldn't NOT draw them #i love these boys so much #when you fall into tartarus but can still smile because your bf is with you #if you look closely they both have hearts on their eyes #(it's because they're ridiculously in love)#also you can pry long-haired nico out of cold dead hands it is real to me #art #digital art #sketches #illustration #solangelo #the sun and the star #tsats spoilers #tsats fanart #nico di angelo #will solace #rrverse #fanart

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irafuwas · 5 months

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Utada Hikaru - 「Sakura Nagashi」

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開いたばかりの花が散るのを「今年も早いね」と残念そうに見ていたあなたはとてもきれいだった

When you stood there and watched Disappointed As the flower petals dropped to the ground You murmured "They fell early this year, too" You looked so beautiful then

もし今の私を見れたならどう思うでしょうあなた無しで生きてる私を

I wonder What would you think If you could see me now Going through life without you

Everybody finds love Everybody finds love In the end

あなたが守った街のどこかで今日も響く健やかな産声を聞けたならきっと喜ぶでしょう私たちの続きの足音

Today, too The healthy cries of a newborn baby echo in the streets Of the town you once protected If you could hear them now I'm sure you'd be so happy Their footsteps will carry on where ours left off

Everybody finds love In the end

もう二度と会えないなんて信じられないまだ何も伝えてないまだ何も伝えてない

I still can't believe I'm never going to see you again There's so many things I never got to tell you So many things I never got to say

開いたばかりの花が散るのを見ていた木立の遣る瀬無きかな

Maybe this is how the trees felt As they stood there Helpless Watching their flowers fall to the ground Right after they'd bloomed

どんなに怖くたって目を逸らさないよ全ての終わりに愛があるなら

No matter how scared I feel I won't look away As long as there's love in the end

#song tl #my tl #utada hikaru #them #silver's pov (after lilia dies)#i still dont know what would hurt more - lilia dying before silver or silver dying before lilia #but knowing silver i feel like he'd find the strength to keep pushing forward if only to honor what his father would want him to do #and i think that - like how utada conveys in this song - silver would continue to look for his father in the small moments of his life #i think that he would feel his father's love in the warmth of the candles and lanterns he and his countrymen light every halloween #feel his love in the cold embrace of the moonlight #and when he has his own children although a part of him would lament that they never got to meet their grandfather #another part of him would find solace in knowing how much lilia would have loved them #ahh i remember i first heard this song when it was used in an AMV for days #so i associate it a lot both with silver going through life without lilia and roxas having to say goodbye to xion

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your-stranger-halfblood-things · 1 year

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Nico: The ocean is a soup

Will: Okay, Shadow boy, sure

Nico: And so is cereal

Will: I don't like cold soup...

Nico: And soup...it's just an unblended smoothie

Will: Nico, you're full of great thoughts, but sometimes thoughts just stay in your head

Nico: Fiiiiiiiine

Nico: Ocean soup smoothie

Will: Nico! That's drinking fish! Gross

Nico: Hahahaha my daily tormenting is done

#nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #pjo hoo toa #riordanverse #rrverse #shower thoughts #drinking fish #is the ocean a soup #cold soup

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tinybitbatty · 2 years

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Will Solace is a denim jacket gay.

I don’t make the rules, he just is.

#Will Solace #pjo #PJOverse #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #Heroes of Olympus #Trials of Apollo #Solangelo #Will has at least 4 denim jackets but there's one he wears constantly #it's so beat up and worn he loves it #you can pry it from his cold dead hands #Nico steals it a lot

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katnissgirlsmakedo · 25 days

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if i had a bf who consistently wore cargo shorts every day his ass would not be my bf. god bless

#will solace you’re getting a pass with me rn because i knew you during a very difficult period of time. but that’s the only reason.#he for real just hit us with the ‘my legs don’t get cold’ bullshit men love to spout when they wear shorts in february.#🌟

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jankwritten · 1 year

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hi hello I saw hockey au in your tags and came as fast as I could. hand it over

OAIOSUdoiaSUDoiASUdoAISduAISODu Oh buddy it's my. PJO OMG Check Please crossover fic right. Consuming my life. The thing is it's like, over 600 pages but it's nowhere NEAR ready to see the light of day *i am hiding* but i will give a summary synopsis because oh my god i love it so fuCKING MUCH

Percy and Nico are on the Falcs alongside the canon OMGCP Falcs, and there are 2 sides to the story - Percy and Will's side, and Jason and Nico's side. Lately I've been focusing on Jason and Nico's side.

It's kind of just following them in their lives. Jason is the top prospect for the upcoming draft, Nico is the backup goalie for the Falcs who got drafted the year before (he's like, UNREALISTICALLY good because I wanted to make him Special oaiudsoaisudaoiuds) and they meet in a bar in Vegas after the Falcs get their asses kicked by the Aces. Jason, unsurprisingly, is friends with/mentored by Kent Parson, they met once after an Aces game and the rest is history. Jason and Nico are both like, trying to teach each other about hockey and falling in love but they're not boyfriends but they want to be but they can't and they're supporting each other even though Shit keeps Happening.

Will and Percy's side of the story is kind of similar, except Percy has been with the Falcs for a few years. I honestly need to rewrite their side because So Much has changed in my views of their characters and the characters involved with their side that it's just not accurate anymore. There are moments where it crosses over with Jason and Nico's side too which don't align anymore since I've edited it to death, but basically Will and Percy's side is like, meetcute moment turns into a weirdly coincidental second meeting which turns into an "are you stalking me?" third meeting kind of vibe (Will works for the Stars and Percy just doesn't pick up on the Stars being in town every time he bumps into Will LMAO). It deals a lot with Percy figuring some shit out about himself and his past and his emotional situation.

I'm half considering adding more of the actual demigods from PJO in as the other characters on the Falcs/Aces - right now I have OCs, because it seemed easier and gave me more room to play with, but also the idea of like. Frank being the Aces goalie is....very fun, even though I also HC that Swoops is the Aces goalie

All the ages are fucked with because I Wanted To - all the Falcs/Aces are like, as old as they would be in 2018/19, but then the PJO characters are ALL fucked up. Percy Annabeth and Will are all around the same age, Jason and Nico are 18, Hazel is 16ish, and then I haven't really used any other PJO characters (though Leo and Piper have made an appearance in a side story that is becoming more and more canon, they are also both 18-19 ish). Frank is also around Jason's age I think, but he was only ever mentioned in reference to Jason's backstory and never in the actual story (yet).

SO YEAH HOCKEY AU MY BIG PROJECT MY BABYGIRL MY EMOTIoNAL SUPPORT FIC I have written up a full Falcs roster of OCs and have made timelines of events and even created my own hockey team set in Maine specifically so if I ever wanted to make this into an original fiction piece one day I could.

#THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING ABOUT IT HONESTLY i love this story with my whole heart and I WANT to start sharing it #i just cannot stop editing it ioausdoiausiodu #hockey au #pjo #omgcp #pjo/omgcp crossover #percy jackson #jason grace #nico di angelo #will solace #i am going to post hockey au to tumblr/ao3 one day though i swear it #i also cannot claim that the characters are....enTIRELY in character because they're like absolutely not the same people they were in pjo #like Nico still has some of his original PJO personality but he's also quieter in a different way #like not in an emo way but in an analytical kind of way #also the autism is cranked way up to a 9 #Will is WAY more southern Texan pretty boy and he's also trans because i said so #Jason is also trans in this and he didn't start off that way he gained that along the journey (thank mars for that one)#it adds a little more Spice to his fears about joining the NHL and also I Said So #i have so many more thoughts but my fingers are too cold to type more SOIuOAISUDAODU

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