#zerav meta

[zeravmeta]

sometimes im normal and then sometimes i think about how robin had been on the run for 20 years starting at age fucking 8 and when we meet her she's actively aiding in the destabilization of a country and gets so many people killed but one of the first things luffy says about her is that she isnt a bad person. I particularly think about her first appearance and her interactions with crocodile, because crocodile is (much like other OP characters) kind of a ridiculous man in his dramatic overcoat and his giant pets he feeds people to and. do you think robin was emulating him in that way with her own personal giant dramatic coat and cowboy fit. on the run for 20 years ever since she was a child, having to make herself useful to people so that they wouldnt suddenly abandon her, emulating her boss not only to gain his favor but also to try and appear intimidating herself? how many times had she done something like this. robin is a character who presents herself in so many ways, always wrapping herself up in an air of mystery and intrigue but shes also so deeply childish, she constantly makes morbid jokes about her situation because the last lesson one of the only people who cared about her gave her was that what else is there to do but laugh. to never stop laughing. having lived on the run she knows that an assassin is most effective when their weapon is concealed and yet she freely shows off her powers just to gain their trust. to play with luffy and chopper and usopp. how gratifying do you think robin felt when nami called her a sister. in skypiea she's constantly providing tactical assistance in how to survive in the wilderness but she's afraid when luffy and usopp start laughing at her suggestions. lets make a bonfire, robin! we're out camping, this is what you're supposed to do! she freezes in the same way she did when the kids on ohara laughed at her but even when the straw hats happily invite her to party she still stands on the edge, sitting further from the rest. she doesn't know what to do there. she had no will to live after luffy had saved her but one of the truly happiest moments she has is when she's not even cheering, just sitting in awe seeing the ancient city in the sky. was she thinking of her friends then? she never had friends her own age, just scholars multiple times her age and yet they were still her friends, who would never get to see this sight. when aokiji reappears and nearly kills them, shes stonefaced upon waking up that the straw hats even considered having a sleepover in her room. because they were worried about her. she's never had a sleepover, and it's something so simple to the straw hats, that of course they wouldn't see their friend as someone to use. she's never escaped the headspace she was in when she had to run away from the mountains of corpses of a burning ohara. the first and last thing her mother ever said to her was that she didnt know her, no matter how much she wanted to embrace her daughter. she never had the chance to say goodbye. she never had the chance to grow up.

sometimes i think about how nico robin was in many ways raised by her friends in the straw hats with their love for her and hauve covid

#zerav meta #one piece #nico robin #robin is a decade older than her friends but she was literally raised by them. showered in love by them. everything was given so freely #and of course she would burn the world for their sakes

[vriskasapotheosis]

I havent really talked about it but i do absolutely feel for the beta kids all just. realizing the full scope of what their conflict actually means and how each of them are growing up way faster than they should for it. Like rose is the easiest example to pin down because as she kept progressing through the worlds she ended up seeing the endgame and was contacted by eldritch gods to save them from the end of the universe because the threat was so great to the point where rose is casually talking about planning her own suicide mission not to mention that her solo progress meant that she ended up realizing what needs to be done first which is why shes at the center of planning all their moves

but then you have things like dave having been told by his future self that he’s being trusted by his future selves to become someone worthy of being said future selves to the point that when he learns of his brothers death he flat out says that he wishes he could mourn him but the threat that bec noir presents is simply too great at the moment to take any kind of breather and that they Have to stay on track to fixing everything

and then you have jade who, for a good chunk of the story, was sleeping and having fun on prospit wanting to introduce her friends to it one day. she was dreaming for most of the story but when the chips fell down she sacrificed herself to save john and when she came back had a panic attack because dying was really fucking scary and she doesnt want to do this anymore. more than that, jade in the enter animatic ended up shooting bec and inadvertently made noir stronger. one of the markers of children growing up is literally the death of their pets and even more so when she says goodbye to it to revive her dream self

and john. literally at the center of the narrative told by everyone at every point how important he is and that Hes The Hero and that the people he cares about are secondary to him. cries when he received his birthday letter a few feet away from jades corpse. the one desire john has specifically voiced throughout this whole ordeal so far is wanting to see his dad. more than anything the process of ascending not only requiring the death of one of their lives but specifically that they have to die while sleeping. literally growing up by losing their ability to dream.

#finally learned the term for the humans! #called beta kids by the fandom #also theyre FUCKING going through it #zerav meta

[morsking]

happy birthday sparkle on! keep finaling those fantasies!!!

keep zeraving those metas

[dvalshock]

where is zerav's meta post.

[zeravmeta]

ah well it's really simple. there is this girl called saber who metaphorically and literally killed herself for the sake of an ideal, and Every Single Person Ever In Human History had an opinion about it

#zerav meme #zerav meta #fate stay night #fate grand order #<-ONLY because it was on my obe post