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
science and the human heart — 22500 words, monkey d. luffy/trafalgar law. alternate universe – the craft sequence.
Thank you, Luffy says firmly. Even if you did it just ‘cause, it still matters.
Law
inhales sharply. He has learned, in recent years, to let go the
question of action versus intent: whether what matters is the thought or
the consequence, the mind behind what his hands have done—did for
another, once—or the doing, so often final.
The little god cannot
know, Law reminds himself; has met him only in passing, has no access to
his well-warded mind. Couldn’t have anticipated the way the words would
snag against that old scabbed-over wound, fingernails scraped over a
scar.
His voice comes out stiff, anyway. “It was nothing. Leave me
alone, little god. What’s done is done, and we can go our separate
ways.”
In which the city of Dresediel Lex suffers a demonic disaster, and Trafalgar Law meets a small god.
there ain’t much new lawlu content so i took one for the team and made it myself ft. bakery au + disaster!law + love at first sight
(plus its ironic cause law hates bread so prompt: he’ll make sure to buy anything luffy recommends and forces himself to eat his most hated enemy (bread) because luffy never fails to ask him if his last recommendation was good while recommending him another one)
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