yes yes! that and also his original scenario was that he dies if he loses to joker and he still dies if he wins because disease will take him down shortly thereafter
the FULL star trek reference, though, is that law faces the kobayashi maru but luffy kirks his way through it because he doesn’t believe in no-win scenarios, just like with robin he does what’s needed to convince law to live and thereby cheats the test in its entirety
i was walking back to my car after work today and a med student in scrubs that also happened to remind me of law in terms of appearance walked past me, which made me wonder what characters law might actually tolerate as a flatmate if he existed in the modern day as a med student/intern
decided he’d totally houseshare with perona (and, like, bepo probably, but regardless i’m sure they’d all be perfect for each other because it would just be dead silent all the time, everyone would have headphones in), and gregory suggested that perona would be a design student and i totally agree that art is right up her alley because her sense of aesthetics is fucking impeccable
anyway tl;dr i absolutely adore perona and it’s fucking criminal i haven’t drawn her yet, here she is, feel free to delete my tangential comment if you wanna reblog
there are precious few certainties in this cruel and tempestuous universe but let me tell you one of those certainties is that these two had a one night stand in alabasta
(click through!) so we just reached dressrosa and anyone that knows me at all will be aware that i am 1701% about the history of spain and colonial mexico so here are some strawhats in historical spanish clothes
– he’s named Dracule and im p sure like half his personality is vampire aesthetic
– his name’s “hawk eyes” mihawk like he couldn’t emphasize HAWK enough
– sails all manner of dangerous seas in a coffin-shaped (and sized) boat to fit the vampire aesthetic
– the boats like literally just a chair in a coffin. there’s no oars or sails. how’s he steer? he just sit there and hope for the best? he’s got nowhere to store food for long journeys. how’s he even use that boat?
– lives alone on a scary island in a castle surrounded by blood thirsty monkeys, almost definitely to fit the vampire aesthetic
– i’m p sure it’s like eternally cloudy there or smth. whole place is surrounded by ruined towns and creepy forests and no other people. what’s he even do out there? i bet he’s reading cheesy vampire novels.
– leaves home for a while, returns to find two people he barely knows have taken up residence in his absence, barely cares
– one of the two people who took up residence in Mihawk’s castle is a guy who’s life mission is to beat Mihawk, he just lets the guy stay
– guy’s got like no friends. the closest he’s got to friends is like. Perona and Zoro who just kinda showed up at his house and Shanks who he mostly seems to like. tolerate
– he seems to find the concept of friendship scary as he’s got a quote where he says he finds Luffy’s ability to easily make friends to be terrifying. mihawk wtf
– chased down a pirate armada across two seas to destroy it just because he’s bored
– carries around two weapons, one being a big black sword the size of him and the other being a butterknife-sized version of that sword which he fights others with JUST bc he can to show off
– “you don’t need a canon to hunt rabbits” and you don’t need to be this over-the-top but here we are
– the butter knife is usually stored as a cross-shaped necklace, definitely to fit the vampire aesthetic
– fights a dude with the butter knife of death, and after deciding he likes the guy during the fight, does the guy the honor of finishing him off via cutting him the fuck in half with the giant sword
– i don’t have a way to end this list and im probably missing something but i’d like to say i love dracule mihawk
(thank you to @ayotofu for assistance on this list)
this post recently passed 1000 notes, so there’s some stuff i need to say
– i Slightly misremembered Mihawk’s boat. that’s okay, everyone makes mistakes, and not a single one of you corrected me. however, it’s actually worse than i remembered. here’s why:
1) i was wrong about it not having a sail. instead, Mihawk’s boat had a mast which was made to resemble the hilt of his big sword, because Mihawk can’t do anything without it being incredibly edgy and extra.
2) in every appearance the sails have been rolled up. does he even use them or are they just for show. how does he use that boat
3) i was informed via tags by many people that Mihawk’s ship ALSO has two candles at the front with green flames. GREEN FLAMES. i’ve lived four peaceful years of my life having read the manga, not knowing this extra-ass fucker has two green candles on the front of his ship but now i know and there’s nothing i can do about it. how the hell did he even MANAGE that. i’m literally so pissed off about this. how do they stay lit when he’s on the water? how do they not just burn away, does he have extra candles stored somewhere? why are they green?
4) did i mention the boat is named the Coffin Boat? that’s it’s name, apparently.
– according to official manga coloring, Mihawk has red eyes. RED EYES. please stop this man
– speaking of eyes, the guy’s got bulls-eye patterned irises? he’s lucky they aren’t red, honestly, or else he’d have two targets for eyes.
– his facial hair. just look at it.
– he’s only laughed like twice in the whole series and im pretty sure he was laughing at Zoro both times
– despite being a powerful and terrifying swordsman, most of the time when he appears on cover pages he’s doing shit like farming and hanging out with baby bears
– on one of the covers he’s enjoying a nice meal with Jinbei, and he eats it using his butter knife of death. he’s likely killed people with that thing and he uses it to eat his food
– his hat
– at Marineford, Mihawk cuts an iceberg in half. he was aiming for Luffy, missed, and cut the top off an iceberg bigger than an entire fleet of battleships
– Luffy was probably the shortest dude at marineford and he’s stick-thin, Mihawk had no reason to make a cut like THIS
what was that about not needing cannons to hunt rabbits again?
– he wears nice shirts around the house at Kurigana but always goes out shirtless and in a cloak. sailing on the Grand Line and East Blue? shirtless. going to the biggest war of the century? titties out and ready for manslaughter
– he agrees to train Zoro for two years despite knowing that Zoro will one day use all that training to come back and kick his ass. he really has nothing better to do out there at his castle i guess?
– i once again have no idea how to finish off this list and still probably missed stuff, but i want to say i still absolutely fucking love Dracule Mihawk
-Reminder that he’s training Zoro because he wants a good rival again. Every other swordsman in the series? Not a good enough rival. What’s his standard of a good enough rival? Shanks before Shanks lost his arm. Like, that was it, his one rival in the whole world…and then Shanks went and lost his arm to save a little kid and Mihawk got annoyed since now Shanks isn’t as good a swordsman (despite Oda stating Shanks is much stronger now than he was when he lost the arm in his twenties). tl;dr: Mihawk’s mad at his ex rival and is training up a new rival just to spite his ex. Probably because, as noted, he does not understand friendship.
So I was working on a bit of levity after the ASL in Red Kaido fight and aftermath, and ended up with a scene where an over-stressed Chopper yells at Eustass Kid and Law ends up laughing his ass off because of it.
One of my fav things in writing Kuzan for ASL in Red is how he justifies whole outlooks, habits, and traits based on his laziness, not just Lazy Justice letting him prioritize threats.
Hates gambling? He’s too lazy to put in effort for only a slim chance of a good outcome.
Isn’t into covering things up? It takes more energy and effort to dance around the point and deal with the fallout later instead of being brutally honest now and getting it over with. (in-universe, this is one Law absorbed)
Tends towards minimalism in regards to possessions? The more you have, the more energy you spend taking care of it (plus his past as a vagabond makes him liable to only keep what he can carry).
Excellent at delegation? No one has the energy to do that much alone, plus it’s rude to make your underlings waste their energy by not giving good instructions.
Ability to stay calm and observe a situation until the right time to act? He’s lazy, don’t want to expend energy unless he needs to.
Expert at analyzing opponents? Doesn’t want to waste energy on attacks that do nothing, so again, he waits until he’s sure his actions will have an effect.
The above two pretty much make him an endurance-monster in combat, since they allow him to conserve energy very well when fighting. So not only is he powerful, but traits based in his laziness give him the ability to outlast other powerful opponents in a lot of cases.
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