Tama: gives Luffy a bowl of rice when he needs it instead of eating herself Luffy: showers her starving town in literal mountains of fresh food and water in repayment me: Monkey D. Luffy operates like a fucking fey and for everyone he meets is the random supernatural encounter in a parable about karma starring them. In this essay I will—
look: once again: you just don’t pour thirteen years of your life and all of yourself down the drain for the sake of one single goal and then let it go. with all-consuming obsession you succeed or you die, because to expend everything, every last resource, every last part of your being, and fail—and be left, for your trouble, with the emptied shell of your life—is nothing short of unthinkable
so this is about law, and total personal annihilation, and being left alone after zou. certainly he walks aboard his ship and staggers into his cabin and spends the next n weeks utterly and intractably catatonic, right up until luffy needs him again (and really: “get up, your ally is doing something insane” is the most appropriate motivation)
There’s a dip in the bed to his right, and Luffy flops easily down
beside him, shoulder not quite touching his. After a while, he says, “We
don’t have to talk about this now, y’know.”
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