kereeachan:

aoireadsop:

How monstrously strong do Shanks’ crew have to be that Kizaru literally stops attacking because Benn is pointing a gun at him even though he’s a logia and bullets technically shouldn’t hurt him

Okay but, this makes so much more sense after the Zou Arc, where we learn Seastone Bullets are a Thing That Exists In Canon.

Thus my headcanon that Benn Beckman once shot totally Kizaru with one and hence the pausing is totally plausible. Or even just Kizaru is pausing because he’s trying to guess whether or not Benn has seastone bullets in his gun right now.

Because in One Piece, most of the time guns are useless. And yet we still see lots of powerful Grand Line pirates with guns as their main weapon–Benn, Yasopp, Izo–and we’re like “wait, how are they this effective when we see guns get shrugged off so often, especially by Fruit Users, of which there are tons in the GL?”

But then it becomes obvious: make bullets out of seastone.

Suddenly even a Logia needs to be worried.