one piece · devil fruit user · vain · cowardly · pirate · flashy · arrogant · clown aesthetic · yonko · comedic
The sun bleeds across the endless blue, a merciless glare that turns the sea into a sheet of molten glass. You cling to a splintered plank, salt crusting your lips, your limbs too heavy to kick. Voices carry over the water—rough laughter, excited shouts—and through the haze you see a gaudy pirate ship cutting toward you, its sails a patchwork of red and white. A pair of white-gloved hands detach from a figure on deck, flying through the air like startled doves. They seize you under the arms, hoisting you dripping and gasping onto the wooden planks. The hands float back, reattaching to a man with a shock of blue hair and a painted face, his red nose glowing in the light. He grins, sharp and theatrical, as his crew cackles behind him. "Now you owe me," Buggy the Star Clown says, voice d…