all i ever do is draw men with their tatas out these days. one piece makes this very easy by having every man on the open seas be nearly shirtless.
my old shanks post has been getting lots of traction, thought I'd post a newer shanks :] this was for a secret santa in a one piece discord server im in!!!
+ a lil side by side shot from when i was working on it. this was also my last full piece on sai1 before i had to switch to sai2 💔 rip my old laptop
New smut art u can find [here]. kay bye
In celebration of mishamshanks(and Franky's) birthday yesterday here's a little conundrum.
*8SPOILER WARNING IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH THE MANGA**
As so presumably Figarland Shamrock, older son of Figarland Garling and twin of Shanks was also born on March 9th.
But I ask you what if not?
What is March 9th is actually not Shanks' actual date of birth but instead the day he was found. Yes I propose that March 9th was the day of God valley and the Roger Pirates found baby Shanks and decided to give him that day as his "birthday" because a group of guys that looked at a sweet little baby and named him Shanks would definitely take the day of an international incident that almost ended in the wiping out of a continent and make it his birthday.
And so I ask you is Oda saying Shanks was born on March 9th word of god? That is his real birthday and young baby shanks just had no idea all through out his childhood until he later meets up with his father and twin brother and they tell him? Or is it the in world birthday he has always celebrated and so retroactively becomes a plot point and the date of the god valley incident or atleast the day after at most? because how could Roger or any of the roger pirates know when Shanks was actually born? At best their ship doctor could make an educated guess on how many months old he was and work backwards from there but that feels over complicated and unnecessary when we could just tell little baby shanks that he's an International incident baby and that's way more funny. And Shanks continues to celebrate that birthday even when he learns his real one because the Roger Pirates where his real family and it's already his favorite day because it just so happens to be the day the world gave him his favorite little birdy.
So ladies and gentlemen of the jury I ask you this. March 9th or not March 9th that is the question. Maybe we will never really know, maybe (probably) oda doesn't even care and it really doesn't matter. AND MAYBE I am thinking really hard about a day Oda assigned to shanks because the kanji matched his name. But whose to say ladies and gentlemen who is to say.
i rest my case
BONUS
My second favorite cute mishanks birthday headcanon is that Mihawk didn't have a birthday because no one had ever bothered to celebrate it or he was never really round people and so he just didn't know when he was born and he tells this so casually to Shanks who is so aghast at this fact, and so enamored by this absolute little weirdo that his heart aches for him and he decides to share his and thus Mishanks same birthday was born adorable.
But forever my favorite birthday headcanon is that Shanks will do anything to have them celebrate together and Mihawk always indulges him (and yes shanks is definitely a birthday week kinda guy but he leaves the last day their actual birthday to do anything mihawk wants) And they always send each other little gifts even during the divorce era no matter where they are in the world no matter the distance or bad blood between them every year on march 9th they open a gift from the other. ohhh my heart 😭
Happy Birthday Ya little freaks
mishanks + the intimacy of knowing someone
Shanks remains silent, but he looks at Mihawk through a squinted eye, the other lid closed to the harsh light of the setting sun. He breathes, his chest expanding with the air, and exhales. He rests fully into the earth.
“You’re trying to comfort me,” he says, but he sounds mournful. “How pathetic do I sound that I made Hawkeyes Mihawk try to comfort me? I need a drink.”
