Once upon a time, in a city buried under white ashes, a shinigami was born.
He had golden eyes and indigo hair, and he wore a black feathered coat. The shinigami’s name was Law, and he never separated from his trusted scythe, Kikoku.
The shinigami would travel the world to collect people’s hearts and bless them with death: saving people from the suffering of injuries and illness was his mission.
However, despite Law’s good intentions, his world was wrapped in darkness. Like in the ocean depths, sunlight couldn’t reach him. Loneliness was everything he felt, but Law was resigned to his fate: he was a “Death God”, after all.
One day, though, the shinigami would meet a boy as bright as the sun, and his life would forever change.
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Once upon a time, in a village blessed by a kind wind, Nika was born.
The boy had curious eyes and a radiant smile, and a straw hat with a red ribbon adorned his head like a crown.
“Nika” wasn’t the boy’s real name, though. His actual name was Luffy, and his dream was to become a pirate, free and unshackled.
Luffy’s adventures would be incredible, and he would meet several friends along the way—including an older boy with dark circles under his eyes.
Luffy felt immediately attracted to the gloomy youth and eventually got through to him. He learned that his name was “Law” and that he was a shinigami, but the solar boy didn’t mind that because he felt that, deep inside, Law was good-natured.
Soon, the affection between the two boys became a different feeling. Something warmer, deeper.
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Once upon a time, a shinigami met the reincarnation of the Sun God Nika, and love cleared the Death God’s world of its shadows.
@lawluevents My sixth contribution to the LawLu Week 2022 (DAY 6 - “gods” prompt) is a fairytale-style triple drabble! ^^
The signifier of a battle well-fought and survived (despite the odds) is a bandaid across the nose
whether the wearer is 19 or
or forty-seven or
just generally
cute.
Law,
despite having a bear, just might not be cute enough for a bandaid across his
nose.
OR those plasters on Law’s face are Bepo-sized, and Bepo
tried, oh yes he tried, to put one on the bridge of Law’s nose, but Captain’s such a spoilsport, and wouldn’t let him (furthermore, considering the size of the plasters, they might’ve asphyxiated him if placed across the proboscis).
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As an aside, can you imagine Daichi, the One Piece version of the Johnson & Johnson rep (or whoever’s most famous for Band-Aids in your country), trailing Luffy from island to island, battle to battle, war to war, trusty selection of bandaids at hand, because wherever the Straw Hats are there’s a need for cute plasters,. (Ace and Yamato were pre- these shenanigans), so, in general, like the News Coo and the bounty hunters, the bandaid sales rep has untapped, whole-universe potential).
Wano started on March 3rd (which is Otama’s birthday confirmed) and the whole fight with Kaido and the Beast Pirates took place on March 17th (since the fire festival takes place two weeks after the crew touched down on Wano) and with it being seven days that passed from all that, that means the current day in time is March 24th!
