tbh although i do on instinct fear for trafalgar law’s death in the wano arc, i kind of doubt it?
law is oda’s arya – which is to say, law is his wife’s favorite character and the very reason we got to see so much of him. and while that may not be a super strong argument, it kind of makes sense? she’s p much the reason he even survived dressrosa.
i just don’t feel confident saying that he’s going to die. oda doesn’t even kill off characters that often, and with his arc over, i don’t see his death having that much of an impact on the story. law hasn’t said he wants to be the pirate king – if anything, he seems pretty interested in watching luffy cause chaos all the way to the top.
however, eustass kid has stated he wants to be the pirate king, iirc. it wouldn’t surprise me if he ends up getting mortally wounded or even dying in this arc, though i’m not sure he like… deserves it? or more accurately, i don’t think his story has reached the point where his death will matter to the narrative.
idk, i have no doubt that this arc will be painful (oda’s said it himself 😭), but i think at the very least, law is… probably safe?
– I… just love this cover? you have no idea how much I love Chopper and Law sharing like this.
– A new player? Kamazou? I don’t remember the names of the retainers is it one of them? (he looks a bit like Zoro but a murder’s been comitted and while Zoro doesn’t really care I dunno about it being him ‘cause the portrait’ s smiling and I doubt he’s smiling rn his sadistic smile is different)
-oh probably not but there’s a guy ‘called witching hour boy who has the crescent moon tatoo (I suppose that’s him since we see him when the guy’ s being talked about) who’s basically a local Robin Hood. (also, Usopp in the background).
– Everybody’s getting Kinemon signal so I suppose wenre seeing the new ‘important’ players distributed by Usopp and the Hearts (props for Bepo’s disguise :p)
-weapons are fobbiden, apparently (rather smart if obvious move. It makes Orochi’s objective obvious and will help anger the people but they can’t do a thing without weapons). Also, Usopp ❤️
-Looks like Nami’s become a kunoichi apprentice XD omg
– Anyway, they know the time and place a weapon shipment’s gonna arrive in Wano
-Sanji I love you but you better be baiting rebels at the same time
-They named their prisoner mine “Udon” wtf.
-omg leave the gramps alone! (I have a feeling about Luffy and kid…)
-yep… as I expected.
(btw this is why I wanted Law captured too, granted his own weakness is stamina)
-LEAVE THAT F****ING GRANPA ALONE YOU MONSTERS
– omg I get that Luffy can extand his body like that but how does Kidd fo it?
– does this guy remind you of someone? Because his face is familiar but I can’t remember why?
-Luffy’s face in the top part of this screenshot😊 you go son, keep on saving grandpa’s everywhere
things are moving and Luffy’s gotten better so I’m happy. I can’t wait for him to get back to the others though.
Izuku is that hero who is going to be in his late 20s on a forum site trying to debunk theories about himself when he gets bored and having an existential crisis when a thirteen-year-old throws links and photos into their response because he ends up questioning himself like “Did I do that? Am I wrong about what I did on February 7th at 8 pm?? That YouTube video seems pretty solid—”
fic I need but refuse to write, #226: Boris’s first year on Castle Wulfenbach, centered mostly on the dawning horrified realization that nobody up here, including – nay, particularly – the Baron himself, has any clue what they’re doing.
highlights:
Boris vs. the scheduling system, which doesn’t actually exist (Klaus keeps it in his head)
Boris vs. the filing system, which DOES exist – in five different languages at once, and no record of who has what papers at any given time
Boris vs. jägers, in general
Boris vs. the unexpected lack of discrimination against constructs
Boris vs. the fact that the Baron? doesn’t seem to sleep? ever??
the rapid realization of the rest of the crew that Boris is less nervous than they are to interrupt the Baron at any given task, so suddenly that’s his job, too
including in the middle of the night
the Baron might not be asleep but Boris was
the Baron isn’t even in his bedroom? where is he? are there secret tunnels in this place?
good lord there are secret tunnels. how are there secret tunnels on an airship.
Klaus is Mildly Pissed to run into him in a secret tunnel. Boris is daunted, until he reminds himself that he refuses to be daunted by sparks anymore.
Klaus noticing at some point that his days have become much more efficient recently, somehow
though there does seem to be more paperwor
Boris decides that the best way to do his job is obviously to know where the Baron is at any given time. This is eased by Boris taking over the scheduling, but it’s still not…the Baron keeps running off places and doing things himself. godsakes, doesn’t he know Boris is trying to run an Empire here?
and sometimes, seriously, Boris just cannot find him. There must be secret laboratories.
for maximum effect, the Records Vault Incident happens about here
and the first time the Baron is briefly wounded/unconscious, so for like one full hour, people are looking to Boris for orders. because they’ve gotten used to it? somehow? He has so little idea what he’s doing, oh god. Except, everything’s so urgent that he barely even notices to be terrified until it’s over.
more climactic, however, is Boris deciding it really isn’t his job to question certain things, but by god there’s half a continent to manage here, so this schedule is going to be efficient if he has to write in two hours between 10pm and midnight for the Baron to do…whatever. At least it’ll be planned.
and then everyone, Boris and the Baron included, will get six consecutive hours of sleep.
Klaus is a little taken aback when Boris all but shoves a meticulously typed, three-page schedule into his face and firmly explains all this.
he’s also surprised (impressed, a little amused) at his secretary’s priorities.
about a week later, Boris is up late writing letters, and a secret door in his office which he didn’t know was there opens, and the Baron walks in with an eight-year-old in tow. And is just like, “This is Gil. He’s my son. He got caught spying on one of the labs today, so for punishment, he’s going to sort through those Pruskia reports you were complaining about. Feel free to teach him the filing system, but don’t let him be seen.”
and just. leaves. Gil in shabby hand-me-downs looking around with way too much curiosity and excitement for this to really count as “punishment”, and Boris hovering somewhere between you’ve got to be kidding me and this explains a lot, and oh wow that’s a lot of trust and responsibility I’ve just been not-quite-casually handed
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