HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF SNIPERS!!!
I'm sick of gender and monogamy and the same tired tropes and dynamics and the same young conventionally attractive people (mostly men) being put into them I WANT SOMETHING NEWWWW. Nami can have a Yuri romance dynamic with any other East Blue Strawhat and she is the- ok i actually don't know the yaoi term- but like- the one in the dynamic that's more confident. She is literally that powerful and gender dont real. GIVE ME SOMETHING NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess what I was trying to get at in my tag rant is that Nami is A Girl way more than any of them are Boys, to the point where her gender could easily single-handedly overpower all of theirs like Conqueror's Haki. As I've said before her whole character is informed by her experiences of being a girl in a male dominated world, meanwhile to the others gender is either: Something they actively struggle with, (Sanji), something they view as constrictive and non-defining, (Zoro), something to play perform with, (Usopp), or something they are barely aware of. (Luffy).
Obviously this means she could should and would be able to catch any and all of them in her Yuri Beam if she so chooses. Which as I said in the first post WOULD BE VERY FUN AND GOOD FOR ME, PERSONALLY, WHO IS SICK OF THE FANDOM NORMS AND WANTS SOMETHING NEW TO HAPPEN. WITH GIRLS NOW!!!!!!! WITH NAMI NOW!!!!!!! They are all girls now by power of Nami.
They !!!!!!!!
Can be ship or just friends idk how you want to interpret it but they're besties trust 🫶🫶🫶
prince Yamato sketches
I'm sick of gender and monogamy and the same tired tropes and dynamics and the same young conventionally attractive people (mostly men) being put into them I WANT SOMETHING NEWWWW. Nami can have a Yuri romance dynamic with any other East Blue Strawhat and she is the- ok i actually don't know the yaoi term- but like- the one in the dynamic that's more confident. She is literally that powerful and gender dont real. GIVE ME SOMETHING NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a beautiful polyamorous world LuffyNamiVivi would be just as popular as NamiVivi and Zolu. The THREE of them have such an incredible and intense dynamic together and it's so rarely featured in fanwork. I love how all three of them are bossy natural leaders who somehow get along and how their love for each other is expressed through silly bickering and tussling as much as it is insane acts of devotion. I mean the whole bit where Luffy and Vivi are working together to save Nami.... and then of course Luffy and Nami working together to save Vivi.... The way they have the exact same reactions when they find out about Vivi being missing.... and when they left Alabasta... THEY LOVE HER YOUR HONOR!!!!!!!
And It's so beautiful tragic how Nami and Luffy will never ever stop sailing and Vivi will never ever abandon Alabasta. So they can only all be together once in awhile but THEY WILL!!!!!! They will sail around the world to see her again... Pick her up for another adventure....
I don't know I just love how Luffy has such nonbinary weird i don't know what gender is can i eat it energy and is such an acearopoly icon and just always treats the female characters in a way that unfortunately really stands out in the shounen genre. They are just people to him!!!! Not Girls™️. Just People!!! And he brings out such a goofy side in Vivi. They're childish together in a way that I think is good for her as someone who had to grow up too fast. Nami too! I could write essays on Nami and Luffy's relationship.
I don't know I think we're held back by the instinctive repulsion from Making It Straight. They have such great dynamics that deserve to be explored. Of course their relationships with the main character are interesting and important!! He's the main character!!! Yet the fanwork doesn't reflect that... Since it's Gay Romance Or Nothing. Which, you know, I respect, but as a genderqueer trans acearospec poly person who loves women in fiction IM BOREDDDD IM BORED AND TIRED. LETS DO SOMETHING NEW!!!!!
Straight people don't own them.. We don't have to change their dynamics to fit Straight Romance Ideals in order to ship them... I think people don't imagine Weird Bisexual MF enough. Or Weird Entangled Undefined Relationships enough. Like Luffy is not the one who would have the upper hand in that relationship. He doesn't NOW. And it's fun!!! They're so weird and perfect the way they are it deserves to be explored!!!! Send post!!!!!
I think I saw you say that Robin’s post-TS hairstyle was part of her character development reflected in her design (if that wasn’t you, my bad!) and I’d love to hear your expanded thoughts on it, and how that ties in with her Elbaf haircut now! After my friend said that her post-ts was just Croc’s ‘do but longer I haven’t been able to unsee it lol
That almost definitely was me because I feel very strongly about Robin's design journey and how Oda landed on the design he did and the way misinterpretations of her character because people want her to be nothing more than a hottie baddie femme fatale and *takes a deep breath* I know it's not that serious, but it means a lot to me!
Disclaimer: This is my personal interpretation, and I'm very passionate about it so take it all with a grain of salt!
So! Without further ado!
We can infer a lot about her haircut when she's introduced. Her face is covered/often in shadow from the hat which is intended to lend to the mystery of just who this woman is. We then see her first bounty poster. She's been wanted since she was 8. That's really fucking strange! Not only that but her haircut is nearly identical.
When she joins, she explains that she's more or less been on her own since she was 8, so you can infer that she's been cutting her hair like this herself. She's holding onto that moment where she had one friend she could rely on. She's literally stuck in the past. It looks almost choppy too, which to me tells me it's a quick utilitarian thing. It does not go past her shoulders.
Until she's been with the crew!
You can tell as early as Skypiea and through Thriller Bark, but it's super noticable in Sabaody just how long it grows to me. It's gotten super long!! She's letting them in by this point, she's found her home!
So when she comes back after being separated...
That change has fully taken hold! She's no longer covering her face either with a hat or her hair! She's more relaxed, she's almost always smiling unless something requires her full attention and even then she's Most Likely to Giggle and Verbally Heart Emoji. Her face is more open, it's softer. She's. Happy. She's changed in every meaning of the word! And she did it for her friends and for herself.
It's the most apparent to me in Zou. Like look at that face. That's the embodiment of joy. She's comfortable, she's relaxed. She's not hiding anything!
Then we hit Wano!
Miss Demonio dons the same old bangs and embodies the moniker her pursuers gave her. It is. Quite literally. The best of her and the worst of her. It is what she will do for the people she loves and who she has accepted love her. That is. Incredibly complex and beautiful to me.
Then we get some huge news...
Saul is not dead. The person who saved her and gave her hope and gave her the chance to get to where she is now, safe and happy and chasing the dream she picked up from the people of Ohara, so close she can almost taste it. He didn't die. He didn't die saving her.
She has
Come full circle. She has accepted her past and she is healing! Her bangs are the same, but her hair is still different! It's still longer, but it has a connection to that little girl who was lost and lonely. She also let someone else cut it, and not just anyone, but BROOK. The man who has kept his afro safe for 52 years so HIS friend could recognize him. To me, her hair in Elbaf is incredible. I take issues with the notion that "she's back" as if she ever left. This is new, this is different, and this is beautiful.
Thank you for reading my mini essay about her hair, but I really do think that character design means something. I don't think she's supposed to be a cold, badass. That was always an act. She just wants to love and be loved and she always has, and I think that her journey is portrayed beautifully by her hairstyles throughout the years.
KOALA !!!!!
Je suis amoureux d’elle D’ACCORD
Sometimes you have a headcanon you can only communicate by visualizing. How do we feel about Silly Sora.
I'm obsessed with Nami in the realm of female character writing, because on the surface her arc is to be saved by a guy/group of guys, and generally with female characters that's used to take away their agency or power and/or support a romance. But with Nami...it does none of that. Her story is about learning to depend on others, but rather than reducing her power in any way, it increases it. The isolation she experienced before wasn't independence, but part of her oppression, so having a family to support her gives her infinitely more freedom.
Luffy is her captain, but the way Luffy does that is never to lord over people, it's to raise them up with him. And, importantly, he waits for it to be her choice. He stays supportively in reach until she asks for his help. The only time he intervenes without permission is to stop her from actively harming herself. And when he does intervene, it's not to whisk her away and keep her somewhere else safe where she's dependent on his security and protection, it's to literally beat the crap out of her oppressor so he's never a problem again and she's free to live her life either way. And although Sanji acts romantically toward her and the rescue follows his grand ideals of fighting for a beautiful lady, there's no expectation that she now owes him anything or has to give him a chance just because he helped her out of an abusive situation. He did it because he cared, not in exchange for anything. They were all willing to fight and bleed for her with next to nothing in return, and that's so vital.
Nami being a woman is definitely relevant to her story (using her beauty and pretend helplessness to steal without suspicion, the fact that she takes after her mom who was tough as nails in the male-dominated marines, the very real isolation and fear of being female surrounded by [fish]men with power over her), but it's important to note that she doesn't need saving because she's a woman, or due to any weakness on her part. She is shown as incredibly strong, brave, and clever, right from the beginning, but she was trapped in a situation with Arlong that would've been impossible for anyone to get out of alone. Now with a crew by her side, she no longer has to.
Luffy and the east blue crew 👒⚔️🍊🎯🚬
knuckle tattoos that say OKAY YAY❤️
