Marineford Isn’t Real It Can’t Hurt You 😁👍 (I Am Coping. On Ep.474)

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Inspired by these amazing fics I read, like, a year ago, but man, they are so nice!

- 'Time slips under our feet' by Shiraioki

- 'The Beginning of a Certain End' by codedredalert

- 'Renascence' by Von_Helheim

“Those two things can exist at the same time. Like you said, it's all—it's all tangled up together, you and me.”

double page spread for one of my favorite luzo fics of all time, poly philtatos (the most beloved by far) by my good friend - @swordsmans!

I knew I wanted to do a double page spread the second I finished this fic and I drafted abt a dozen ideas before landing on what would ultimately become this. There were so many snippets and moments I wanted to illustrate but I ended up doing more of an abstracted version of the fic as opposed to 1:1 drawings of scenes 

funnily enough while the fic itself is told in zoros pov this spread is framed mostly through luffy’s eyes - his tears literally frame comp for their reunion, the moment he loses zoro, and the centerpiece of the first page which is this weird abstraction of him on the beach seeing zoros corpse-not-a-corpse in the waves just beyond his reach. 

gyro put the crane wives’ never love an anchor on the playlist for this fic which i heavily used as inspiration in picking ornamental things for the spread (the anchor, the fleet of ships by luffy, and the nautical rope splitting the second page). also just like. overall really heartbreaking lyrics guys 

there are smaller elements throughout the spread that are 1:1 references though (all i will say for these is if you know, you know hehe) i wish i had more time to do a lengthier piece for fanart for this fic bc it's one of the few luzo fics that have been rattling around in my brain forever now - once again please please please read poly philtatos if you haven't. gyro is a masterful writer and they deserve all the love! ok byeee

Question! Are Tage's tear ducts on the scarred side damaged? I noticed that he's only crying from the "good" eye!

They are!!!! I’m glad you noticed, good eye hehehehe

I imagine in this au his scar is a lil more fucked up because he didn’t have Iva’s hormone powers to help with healing and because he was floating in seawater for a decent length of time before being found. To be fair I haven’t really done in depth research on what a thermal optical burn would do to the tear ducts but it seems reasonable to believe that if the impact to his eye was severe enough to leave him blind then it would also be enough to make his tear ducts malfunction.

This also works with why he would wear a mask- to prevent irritants from getting into his eye and further complicating things, since he probably has Insane Dry Eye.

Sir🦋

LATER

YES i know 9/11 was yesterday but i did all this and forgot to upload on time

(insert that family guy scene) 9...

this post is peak sukugo energy

plus a version with a bloody sukuna

I never know what's going on in this mfer's head