#slawbo

[thirteenth-sword]

SLAWBO TIME BABY (read the manifesto here)

why on earth is law stealing sabo's conditioner? that's a great question!!!! read about it in the fic "make me burn the candle right down", written by the fabulous @tfw-no-tennis !!!!!!!

there's plenty more slawbo fic and art coming out in the future, so stay tuned!!!!!

fun fact: these are actually redraws of some fanart i drew back in 2018. i put those under the cut too, they're super old but LJ insisted lol

#one piece #fanart #op fanart #sabo #sabo one piece #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law #sabolaw #slawbo #law one piece #sabo/law #my art #hope y'all enjoy law's skeleton vitiligo <3 i think it looks so fun #glad i learned how to draw vitiligo properly in the last 5 years lol

[miserable-something]

heart holding is a great bonding activity

wanted to draw a quick sketch of them for valentines and went a little overboard. been super busy w exams season thus the inactivity

#it isn't even valentines day anymore #it's valentines day somewhere in the world #sabolaw #slawbo #revolutionary sabo #one piece sabo #law x sabo #sabo x law #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law

[strawhatghost]

More cats from Twitter, I've been having a stressful week sorry for all the cat posting lmao

(Helmeppo is the most drowned looking cat ever, fugly lil dude I love him. Koby is a pinkish flame point Siamese, and absolutely TINY he has stunted growth, this is him not looking like an overgrown kitten for once. Law is a black cat that has vitiligo and will eventually turn completely white)

#one piece #op #one piece fanart #art #my art #one piece art #revolutionary sabo #fanart #op koby #koby one piece #koby #sabolaw #slawbo #lawbo #trafalgar d law #trafalgar law #op helmeppo #helmeppo one piece #helmeppo op #helmeppo

[tfw-no-tennis]

SLAWBO MANIFESTO

Have you considered Sabo/Law? Would You Like To? 👀

so. slawbo. which is the best possible ship name for Law x Sabo 

it all started in 2018 when Ruth drew Sabo and was like “hey his hair looks messed up here bc I didn’t look at a reference and drew it from memory… what if it’s because somebody stole his conditioner?” (see below - and note the date!)

then it popped into her head, “what if it was Law who stole his conditioner?”

rebloggable here!

and thus, slawbo was founded B)

we took the idea and ran with it, and now it’s become its own thing 

the more we thought about it, the more we were like, “this is actually a super funny and entertaining ship idea that would work well” 

but also we have a pretty weird take on it so we made it into our own, basically. 

because of its foundation on Law stealing Sabo’s conditioner (which remains an integral part of slawbo to this day), it’s pretty easily established that Law is The Annoying One and Sabo is The Annoyed One. 

which is kind of opposite of how you would imagine their dynamic, if you know them as separate characters in canon – Law is generally ‘the straight man,’ especially around the Straw Hats, and Sabo seems like a mix between the responsible one (w/his brothers, sometimes, and as a Revolutionary) and the not-so-serious one – so therefore it would be the most interesting for their made-up dynamic if their typical canon attitudes were swapped

now over to Ruth for a POKEMON METAPHOR: 

hey gang, Ruth here! as the resident Pokémon expert, I thought it might be fun to explain our slawbo dynamic using type effectiveness! per my illustration, Luffy’s personality is super-effective against Law, naturally (and unintentionally) irritating him. similarly, Law’s personality is super-effective against Sabo, who finds him super annoying (though Law exacerbates this on purpose, unlike Luffy towards Law). then, Luffy and Sabo don’t naturally annoy each other, because they’re brothers! when they annoy each other, it’s on purpose lol. hope this helped! alright, back to LJ

so in OUR slawbo dynamic, Law is the annoyer and Sabo is the annoyee. which is super fun! 

it also allows for deeper exploration of their characters – what is it about Law that makes Sabo so reactionary? what is it about Sabo that makes Law want to press him for reactions? there’s a lot of potential in two characters having a dynamic with each other that they don’t have with anybody else 

to be clear when we came up with slawbo, and this dynamic, we were NOT thinking deeply about it at all. we literally were just like “ok how funny would this be.”

so, to use an antiquated term: this is pretty much a crack ship 

also, Ruth wanted me to mention that this is NOT something we do a lot. we aren’t really “crack shippers” and pretty much stick to canon/fanon (when applicable – we can be picky). we share a single brain cell so we usually have similar taste 

so slawbo is special <3 

back in 2018 when slawbo first came to be, I started writing what I now refer to as my “pilot slawbo fic.” it’s called “make me burn the candle right down” and it is based on the original slawbo dynamic we came up with at this time

now it’s a bit out of date characterization-wise (also writing-wise bc I wrote it over 5 years ago) but it still holds a special place in my heart, and in our slawbo canon 

so then we have the series of fics I started writing in summer 2021. this is the “main verse” slawbo, the more polished version from the pilot version of 2018. the series is appropriately named slawboverse.

this verse chronicles them meeting and establishing a relationship. pretty straightforward.

it’s worth saying that this isn’t canon divergent or an AU – this takes place within the scope of canon, and we’re not changing any canon events (sorry Ace)

Ruth coined the term “canon enhancement”

there’s going to be a fic series written by both of us (mainly me, with a series of one-shots and a few supplementary fics by Ruth plus beta’ing), and art by Ruth posted to her art blog thirteenth-sword

currently slawbo can be divided into 3 major eras: pre-Marineford, post-Marineford/timeskip, and post-Dressrosa. 

these mark major character moments for both Law and Sabo, and would thus shake up their relationship (like Sabo having amnesia at the beginning vs getting his memory back after Marineford, and Law planning his suicide mission to take down Doflamingo vs after Dressrosa when Law’s mission is over and he didn’t die) 

so the series starts when Sabo is 18-19 and Law is 23-24 – pre-canon (and therefore pre-Marineford) 

so Sabo is not as high up in the Revolutionary Army as he ends up being later, and Law is not as notorious and well-known as a pirate 

this means Sabo has amnesia and an attitude problem, and Law has a plan for vengeance and also an attitude problem 

more specifically, Law, when we meet him in Sabaody in canon, is a smirky, rude bastard. he’s not as serious, and doesn’t have that “straight man” quality that we see post-timeskip. we view this change in character as a combination of him being closer to the zenith of his suicide mission and being around a bunch of insane idiots who defy all logic (the Straw Hats). 

put that together…BAM. magic. ultimate game of gay chicken

also we love and respect aroace relationships but these two fuck nasty. btw.

after Marineford, their dynamic definitely shifts. Sabo suddenly remembers his past, and also Law saved Luffy’s life, which adds a whole layer onto everything. and the fact that Law was THERE, and Sabo wasn’t… oof

a similar dynamic shift occurs after Dressrosa – Law basically planned to die taking Doflamingo down (not in an angsty way, just in a matter-of-fact sense – he essentially thinks he was supposed to die of Amber Lead when he was younger, but Corazon saved his life, so now he’s alive in order to avenge Corazon by killing Doflamingo – which is going to be so difficult that he’s just accounting for his inevitable demise to occur here. so when he survives, Law is like “oh damn this wasn’t really in the plan”) 

so a big part of their pre-Dressrosa dynamic is based on Law being like “fuck it we ball, who cares if I mess with this guy and flirt with him and stuff, I’m probably gonna die in the next few years, yolo.” which is an attitude he doesn’t have towards a lot of other things bc he has to Keep It Together in order to fulfil his vengeance mission, but his relationship with Sabo doesn’t really have any overlap w/said vengeance mission, sooo…

bonus note: Rule Of Cool may not apply to The Slawboverse, but Rule Of Funny absolutely does. if something if funny, regardless of whether or not it might be inaccurate, we will include it (within reason, obviously)

some small details to establish!!

Sabo is taller than Law. fuck canon. imo Law’s growth was stunted a bit from the Amber Lead and Sabo is a beanpole

Sabo has more extensive scarring than in canon, all on his left side (see art for details)

Law has skeleton-patterned vitiligo BUT it’s on purpose lmao. I like to think that he had extensive depigmentation from Amber Lead even after it was cured, so he used his Devil Fruit to move the affected patches of skin around so he’d have a cool skull pattern, because he’s a dweeb

Law also has Raynaud’s and Celiac disease

Sabo has blue eyes (left one is slightly paler from the explosion damage) and Law has golden eyes like in manga canon

Law wears black nail polish always because. gestures to him. also he wears Converse, despite the brand not existing in the One Piece universe. doesn’t matter, he’s so Converse-coded that somehow the multiverse warped and found a way to get them to him

they are both Schrodiner’s Transgendered: are they trans?? perhaps. both have dicks and could have transitioned via Iva (Sabo) or Ope-Ope surgery shenanigans (Law). we’re leaving it open/ambiguous bc it's not really a focus of the series

Sabo defs went through a phase when he was a younger teen where he was hyper aware of his amnesia and would often jump to conclusions about strangers like, looking at him slightly longer than socially acceptable bc he’d be like “do they know me? Did they know me?” He’d be overly fixated on what his life was beforehand and do a lot of research on Dawn Island and would spend hours imagining what it would be like to meet somebody from his past. This stops rather abruptly – after a while he comes to the sudden and stark realization that every time he thinks “hey, this person might know me, which would fill some unnameable void inside of me because they could tell me who I am so I don’t have to figure it out for myself!” it never ends up being the case, so he quickly forces himself to stop thinking like this at all, which results in him slingshotting the other way for a while – where he refuses to even acknowledge his amnesia or the possibility that he might have people out there who knew him or cared about him before. So that is something we plan to explore in his relationship w Law!

another aspect of him kinda ignoring his amnesia would be that he feels like he’s exactly where he needs to be with the Revolutionaries – so even if he did have a life before his amnesia, it can’t be something better than where he is now.

so, that’s it for now! we want to leave some of the ~mystery~ intact to encourage interest in the fics/art, but always feel free to message either of us to chat about slawbo lol. and ENJOY!

#one piece #sabo #trafalgar law #sabolaw #slawbo #sabo one piece #law one piece #trafalgar d water law #opfanfic #opfanfiction #one piece fanfic #sabo/law

[sabotheblondie]

— “i didn’t have it in myself to go with grace”

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: M/M

Relationship: Sabo/Trafalgar D. Water Law

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Post-Marineford, Grief/Mourning, Ace’s Death

Summary:

“How did you get over it?”

Law pulls him tighter, like the illusion of it might reassemble Sabo’s maimed heart back together.

“That’s the thing, love,” he says through the cloud of Sabo’s hair. “You don’t.”

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Grief takes more than it ever gives, and grief is the cruelest form of love yet. Who in the world that knows a thing or two, other than Trafalgar Law himself.

#sabo x law #law x sabo #slawbo #one piece #ao3 fanfic

[fullmetal-the-last-alchemist]

for the character bingo: law !

LAW MY FUCKED UP LITTLE FRIEND

my thoughts on law REALLY change depending on the day, moreso than any other op character. some days i think abt him nonstop and other days i could take him or leave him

overall i do like him a lot and think he's super interesting... but sometimes the fandom's obsession with him and the way he shows up All The Time in canon lately can grate on me lol. overall: great character, fantastic backstory and arc, would probably prefer him in moderation.

#hes so fucked up lol what's wrong w him (jk we all know) #i definitely appreciate him more now that i know his backstory (a recent development on my part) #.....but overall i still think hes a bit overhyped #but like also he IS that cool hes fucking epic adn i love him. the duality of man #also hes hilarious did i mention that??? hysterical character on multiple levels 1000/10 #oh and when i say every popular ship for him sucks??? i mean it. ship slawbo this is not a request #ask #one piece #trafalgar law #THANK YOUUU i love doing these so much <3 <3 <3

[thirteenth-sword]

time for MORE SLAWBO CONTENT, here's some doodles for this awesome fic written by LJ @tfw-no-tennis !!!!!!!!! it's SO fucking funny and just the tip of the slawbo iceberg to come, so keep an eye out for more!!! we have many plans for these two idiots >:)

also don't steal/repost my art etc. etc. play nice

#one piece #fanart #op fanart #sabo #sabo one piece #law one piece #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law #sabolaw #slawbo #sabo/law #my art #these were very fun ngl #i could honestly draw the whole fic out in comics/doodles it's HILARIOUS

[strawhatghost]

Cat/Dog Sabolaw I did on Twitter

Surprise rarepair be upon you

#one piece #op #one piece fanart #art #my art #one piece art #fanart #sabolaw #lawsabo #slawbo #revolutionary sabo #flame emperor sabo #trafalgar d law #trafalgar law

[tfw-no-tennis]

take one step and miss the whole first rung (5344 words) by sports_hell Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sabo/Trafalgar D. Water Law Characters: Sabo (One Piece), Trafalgar D. Water Law Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, First Meetings, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Mistaken Identity, Meet-Cute, Flirting, Banter, Bar fights, Humor Series: Part 1 of slawboverse Summary: “You were definitely up to something. I admit, I’m curious.” Law draws back, still looking at Sabo intently. “Also, are you single?”

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heyyyy check it out, I finally published the first fic in the slawboverse series - me and ruth's sabo/law verse :) enjoy, fellow slawbo connoisseurs!!

#one piece #slawbo #sabo/law #sabolaw #opfic #opfanfic #sabo #sabo one piece #law #trafalgar law #my writing #lotttts of tags lol. enjoy !!

[tfw-no-tennis]

slawbo 2 fic extended authors notes

hiii here are the fun extra notes for my latest slawbo (sabo/law) fic, which can be read here. Read that before checking out this post!

so to start out, warning that this will contain some frank and clinical discussions of medicine/anatomy/dissecting human bodies (which u probably already know if you came here from the fic). Also, there are pictures, but nothing gory or real. Onwards!

so this fic was a LOT of fun for me, as someone who has quite a bit of dissecting experience.

I will say, I've never done an actual autopsy before, which is technically what was in the fic, so some stuff might not be exactly accurate. The dissecting I've done has been for learning purposes only.

There is quite a bit handwaving/fantasy stuff in this fic, but I tried to keep as much of it as accurate as possible (without verging on boring, I hope).

one thing abt cadavers: SO much heavier than you think. If you've ever tried to lift/carry/move a (living) person who's completely limp, you know what I mean. Bodies are so much heavier when the person is just (literal) dead weight.

the story I referenced in the fic authors note is as follows: picture this. its like 7 am. my friend and I are preparing the cadavers for teaching and we realize that we need to flip one of them over (some are 'face up' while others are 'face down,' allowing us to visualize the different muscles/organs/etc of each side). had we ever done this before? no. not even once. but it was part of our job, and how hard could it be

Really hard as it turns out. we picked the smallest cadaver (a probably 5 foot 100 lb old lady. also all the cadavers have their skin and fat dissected off already so even lighter!). my friend is a buff dude and I'm a jock, even. but we underestimated it

when I tell you guys it was bad..............we were flipping the body from face-up to face-down. it was SO awkward and SO heavy, we weren't able to get leverage to just lift the body off the table, so we tried to roll the body instead. the problem here was that the abdomen and chest had been dissected open, so when we STRUGGLED to flip/roll the body, there was a lot of jostling, which resulted in. uh. all of the organs falling out.

now most of them were still internally attached, so all that meant was that the intestines were kinda spilling out and stuff. but a few things had been cut up into pieces so you could see the inside of them - namely the liver and I thiiiiink the spleen.

so there we are, struggling to even roll this cadaver over, and organs are getting everywhere, and a few chunks of the liver fall out and bounce across the floor...

oh it was so bad. we eventually got the poor cadaver situated and all of the organs in their proper place, and we certainly learned our lesson about attempting to flip a cadaver without a small army to assist you (at least once they had been dissected to that extent).

got covered in 'cadaver juice' (not Body Juice, but rather the preservative chemicals you spray fixed cadavers with) during this ordeal. thank god for lab coats.

In any case, would a fireman carry have been ideal for Sabo? Not really sure, I haven't ever tried to move a body by myself. He probably should've tried to put the body on a wheeled table and just wheeled it outta there, bc that is WAY easier (even tho those tables are usually janky as fuck and harder to wheel than they should be), but alas.

Also, positioning blocks are real and they're my best friend. they look like this, generally:

the ones i've used have been more rubber-y than foam-y, but yeah. they also come in other shapes - there are some kinda u-shaped ones for the neck/head that are very useful in getting things into the position you need.

It's actually pretty easy to move a body's limbs around and place them where they need to be - it can become difficult in preserved cadavers that have stayed in one position for a while (generally they'll get fixated there after a bit)

cut gloves! also a real thing. they come in lots of styles and can look like this:

they're cut resistant, so if you accidentally slice them w/your scalpel, you won't get cut. very VERY important if you don't know the communicable disease status of the body you're dissecting (which was the case in the fic)

I've never had cause to use cut gloves, really, since I have only worked with donated bodies that have been screened ahead of time for diseases. They're still around if people want to use them, though - dead people germs aren't great to have in an open wound, even if you aren't gonna get hepatitis or whatever.

I see people wear nitrile gloves (which are the thin blue gloves you see any medical/lab people wearing - the gloves aren't latex anymore! except when they are but whatever) over their cut gloves so that the cut gloves don't get all yucky, but there's no need to wear a pair under them too, like Sabo did (which is why law was laughing at him)

the way that Law cuts the chest open is a bit non-traditional, but I wanted to include a sternum saw AND rib shears - which look like this, respectively:

swear to god I saw someone using garden clippers as rib shears once. at least they LOOKED straight outta home depot. seriously....so I had to include that bit lmao

also, the sound that the rib shears make is...certainly distinct, so I had to shout that out as well. Also, clipping through ribs is shockingly easy, damn (then again, most cadavers I've worked with are pretty elderly, so that's a factor). no surprise that you often break ribs if you do CPR on a person!

I did skip over a lot of what would actually happen, which is the semi-tedious cutting away of SOOOO SO MUCH fat and fascia (connective tissue that overlies and connects EVERYTHING). I didn't want to bog the story down with that sort of detail that nobody else would really care abt lmao

the stomach IS actually all up in the thoracic cavity (the part of your chest covered by your ribs - technically the lower boundary is your diaphragm, and your stomach is below that in your abdominal cavity, but a lot of abdominal organs are tucked under the ribs, like the stomach and liver and spleen, especially if you lay down).

eye safety! also very important, especially if you don't know where the body's been. you reeeeeally don't want cadaver juice in your eyeball.

did I wear eye protection? no, I did not. I wore the following: gloves. sometimes a lab coat if I was cold. end of list. lmaooooo

some people will wear masks, gowns, caps, foot covers, and eye protection. all completely valid. I DID wear more stuff when working with 'fresh' (non-preserved) cadavers - they're much smellier and still have blood (fixed/preserved cadavers have all the blood removed and replaced w/chemicals like formaldehyde. they are also smelly but in a distinctly chemical way, which I personally don't really mind, vs 'fresh' cadavers that end up smelling like uh. dead meat).

Metz scissors aka Metzenbaum scissors (I used the shorter version bc I feel weird namedropping stuff that's clearly from 'our' world and named after an irl person in 'our' world in a one piece fic) are used for cutting delicate tissue like the fibrous pericardium (see below for more on that). They look like this:

aortic dissection is very real! and very bad - a chunk of patients die within about an hour. it's definitely an emergency! though the swiftness of death depends on how severe the dissection is (it's not necessarily a death sentence).

this can be preceded by an aortic aneurysm, which is when the aorta balloons and often THEN dissects.

Here's a basic pic of what an aortic dissection looks like, as described in the fic:

having a bicuspid aortic valve (which is a condition you're born with, not something that develops) IS a risk factor for aortic aneurysm, because a bicuspid aortic valve makes blood flow a bit less efficient. It looks like this:

I thought it would be funny to have the cause of death be something like this - something completely unrelated to the rest of the nonsense the guy & Sabo had going on, on Sabo's offscreen Revolutionary mission. Terrible timing --> fic premise.

atherosclerosis is very real too! it's as law described - plaque builds up in the artery, and the artery expands (and hardens as it naturally loses elasticity due to the expansion) to accommodate the flow of blood which has been impaired by the plaque.

I've seen some crazy atherosclerotic arteries mannnnn. you can feel and see the hard patches on a cadaver, it's fascinating! it's pretty common (arteries lose their elasticity as you age anyways, which usually leads to some enlargement, but there's quite a range of severity). very interesting imo

hemostatic forceps (AKA hemostats) are these grippy tools that you generally hold in your non-dominant hand to position tissue while you cut w/a scalpel in your dominant hand. you can use different types of tweezers (also called forceps) too but I prefer hemostats. my favored type, which is what I pictured for the fic, are these:

...this is technically an Allis Clamp, not forceps, but I didn't want to get too crazy technical.

some anatomy terms I used:

manubrium - the top portion of the sternum! you can feel the top bit of it at the bottom of the dip in your neck between your clavicles (collarbones).

mediastinal cavity (AKA the mediastinum) - the space in your chest between your two lungs, containing the heart & other important structures!

pericardium - the thin 'sack' surrounding the heart! It has layers, and the outermost layer is the fibrous pericardium. In order to see a cadaver's heart, you have to cut through it (plus a tonnnnn of fat)

adipose tissue is a fancy way of saying fat! it's yellow and blobby and very greasy. GREAT for cushioning organs, so there's plenty of it surrounding all your major organs.

the coronary arteries are the small arteries on the outside of the heart that bring blood to the heart itself. you've probably heard of them in the context of heart attacks, which is when one or more of them (there are 2 major branches, a right and left, and then those have quite a few branches) gets blocked by a clot and your heart muscle stops receiving blood. Uh oh!

the aorta is the biiiig main artery coming out of your heart. all of the other arteries can be traced back to this one. whoa!

so why did Law do All That? well, flirting, obviously, but also because I've injected a lot of myself into this fic's Law characterization, specifically his love of anatomy. As someone in school to become a medical practitioner myself, I love to explore Law's Doctor side (even tho it's wild to me that there seems to be no formal medical education system in place in the OP universe (understandably ig) - no boards!? no residency!? wild!). I like to think that Law plays up his affinity for dissecting in order to up his creepy factor (he's committed to the bit), but I also like to think that he genuinely does love that stuff, and have a fascination with it (a fascination that does come off as creepy, especially to outsiders - I experience this all the time! Something I do a lot is talk in detail about dissection, and then someone mentions 'hey uh we're all eating rn' and I realize that ohhh yeah most people don't want to hear a detailed description of a body being cut up while they try to eat dinner. doesn't even occur to me!)

so yeah, I projected a lot of my love of anatomy and dissecting and medicine onto Law for this fic, and had a blast doing it. I hope you all enjoyed (and maybe learned something too!) and I look forward to bringing y'all more fic soon* (*if grad school doesn't send me to an early grave first)!

#future fics will likely not get this technical haha but this was funnnnnn #one piece #sabo #law #slawbo #sabolaw #sabo/law #my writing #opfic #opfanfic

[tfw-no-tennis]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sabo/Trafalgar D. Water Law Characters: Trafalgar D. Water Law, Sabo (One Piece) Additional Tags: Flirting, medical ACCURACIES, Science, Dissection, Medical Procedures, Cadavers, Autopsy, Banter, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Chance Meetings, Mild Gore, Breaking and Entering, Minor Character Death, (OC who dies pre-fic and gets dissected), Blood, Romance, ~in the morgue~ Series: Part 2 of slawboverse Summary:

“I just told you, this is meant to be fun and relaxing. Organ-stealing doesn’t have to be a drag. Now, where did I put my sternum saw?” “Oh, you want to borrow mine?” Sabo asks brightly. Law perks up. “You have one?” Be still his heart. “No, of course the fuck I don’t!”

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New slawboverse fic!! this time, they go on a cute date in the morgue <3 romance at its peak

to find out what slawbo is all about, check out the manifesto. enjoy!!

#one piece #opfic #slawbo #sabo #law #trafalgar law #sabo/law #sabo one piece #opfanfic #my writing #sabolaw #yayyyyy i love getting to publish stuff