Luffy at age seven: *Moves from his spot for more than five seconds*
Ace at age ten: *cleaning up blood and hiding bodies* Why are you like this? Why are you like this? Why are you like this? Why are you like this?
Luffy at age nineteen: *Anchors in a port*
Law at age twenty-six: *cleaning up blood and hiding bodies* Why are you like this? Why are you like this? Why are you like this? Why are you like this?
Ace: I think me and Luffy’s new Bae are going to get along great.
I’m a slut for the trope where person A is really damaged but is getting better with help from person B who is literally a ray of sunshine and then, PLOT TWIST person B is secretly also damaged and hiding it for person A and or waiting for person A to realise that they are better than B and leave.